I live in Beihai Jun Nanhai [Rebirth]

It was a middle-aged man in his prime, and the reason why he was brought back to the mansion by Mr. Ji was because of his skill of one against a hundred.

The two servants who traveled with Master Ji came back and rushed to talk about the man's astonishing deed. During the narration of the two, Ji Qinglin probably understood what happened.

It turned out that Ji's family met a group of robbers in an old forest deep in the mountains during their cloud tour. When they were panicking, this man seemed to descend from the sky, bent his bow and set an arrow, and the arrows were shot without fail. Take down all the hundred or so fierce thieves.

All the people present were dumbfounded and worshiped, and Master Ji even thought to himself: With such skill, it is more than enough even if you want to get a military officer in the court, right?

But after asking, he found out that this person was just a loafer, and he happened to pass by here when he was traveling around.

Master Ji asked for his name, and he called himself Huo, but there was only one surname that was never named.

Master Ji wanted to thank him and asked him if he needed to be recommended as an official. The man refused without even thinking about it. Master Ji wanted to give him some money as a reward, but he waved his hand and said: "It is fate that you and I meet by chance. If you don't give up, maybe you can take me into your residence and let me look after the house, which can be regarded as helping me to support myself and ensure that I have no worries about food and clothing."

Master Ji was deeply surprised, but also very happy. He thought in his heart that if he could make Master Qinglin become a better person, even if he couldn't defeat a hundred like him, it would be enough to learn the skill of self-protection.

Thinking about it this way, Master Ji naturally readily agreed and brought him back to the mansion to be a housekeeper.

This person is rigorous, mature and prudent, he manages the affairs of the mansion in an orderly manner, and whether his punishments are justified or not, so soon after he arrived in the Ji mansion, he convinced everyone in the mansion.

Because of his unique surname, he was never given a name, so Ji Qinglin and the servants in the mansion respectfully called him "Uncle Huo".

In Uncle Huo's first year in the mansion, when the year was approaching, Master Ji took Mrs. Ji out of Beijing again.

It was the first New Year's Eve when Ji Qinglin was unattended since he was a grown-up. It is said that there are no tigers and monkeys in the mountains to call themselves kings. If Master Ji is not around, Ji Qinglin's words in the mansion are the most important, and everyone dare not disobey.

Except for one thing - leaving the house.

Before leaving, Master Ji told Uncle Huo and everyone in the mansion to be optimistic about Ji Qinglin, and he can do anything according to his temper, but he is absolutely not allowed to take half a step out of the mansion.

Ji Qinglin has always wondered why his father has not let him leave the house for so many years. It was easy to say when he was young, but now that he has grown up a bit, the urge to fly into the forest in a cage is just a "no". Can it be suppressed?

It's just... impulsiveness is impulsiveness, and when Ji Qinglin turned this impulse into action, he only got a handful of bitter tears.

For the first time, just after going through untold hardships, he climbed from the crooked tree in the backyard to the top of the wall, when he was frightened by the big wolf dog in the alley outside and fell back into the yard, breaking his arm.

The second time, in the middle of the night, we tiptoed to unbolt the door. As soon as we opened the door, we heard a loud gong. Where did he get the "Night Travel Clothes", his eyebrows were raised and his eyes were straightened, Lu Jianbu let out a roar, and threw a clapper at Ji Qinglin's forehead in a dignified manner.

The third time... Tsk, there is no third time. The bang on the second time almost knocked him into a fool. He lay on the bed for more than a month, feeling very vicissitudes.

Of course, Ji Qinglin would not give up on this, but during the time lying on the bed, he figured out one thing, that is, the right time, place and people are indispensable, and it needs to be considered in the long run.

This New Year's Eve is the time of day, and if the father is not around, people will be harmonious. As for the location, Ji Qinglin knows that there is no such thing as a location in the front door and backyard of the Ji Mansion, at least the location has never been on his side.Therefore, this geographical advantage can only be replaced by outsmarting.

After dinner on New Year's Eve, Ji Qinglin handed out money to everyone on behalf of his parents, and let everyone go about their own affairs with a smile.

Unexpectedly, if you look at me and I look at you, you all chose to watch the new year in the main hall of the mansion as in previous years.

Ji Qinglin looked up to the sky and sighed, wanting to cry but not crying.

In previous years, when parents were at home, after the New Year's dinner, everyone would watch the New Year together in the main hall. At midnight, they would go to the ancestral hall to offer incense to ancestors, and then set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

Most of the servants of Ji's mansion are people without relatives and no reason, and it is more like a kind of shelter for Master Ji to place them in Ji's mansion.For them, Ji Mansion is their home, and now Ji Qinglin asked them to take care of their own affairs, so they were naturally busy with "watching the year at home".

As a result, Ji Qinglin's desire to take advantage of this god-given opportunity to sneak out of the house to play is about to fail.

Although he was depressed, he couldn't directly force everyone to go out, so he could only look at the people sitting in a room in front of him, propping his chin and racking his brains for ideas.

Just as Ji Qinglin was scratching his head, Uncle Huo got up suddenly and left the room, and after a while he came back with a cup of tea, handed it to Ji Qinglin and said, "My lord, have a cup of tea."

Ji Qinglin was a little surprised, these trivial matters are usually done by the servants and maids at home, Uncle Huo has never poured tea for anyone, even his parents have not given such treatment.

Ji Qinglin glanced at Uncle Huo, although it was an accident, he didn't refuse, took the teacup with a smile and thanked him, and put it on the table.

Unexpectedly, Uncle Huo stood aside, showing no intention of leaving. He clenched his empty fist and coughed, reminding him very deliberately: "Master, the tea won't taste good when it's cold."

When Ji Qinglin heard this, he looked at Uncle Huo suspiciously, then glanced at the steaming cup of tea and said, "It's still hot, drink it later."

Uncle Huo frowned, reached out and took an empty cup beside him, poured out half of the cup of tea, picked it up and drank it in one gulp, put down the cup and said firmly, "It's not hot."

Ji Qinglin couldn't figure it out, but he could only nod with a dry smile, picked up the cup and drank the half cup of tea.

When Uncle Huo saw him drink it, he nodded in satisfaction and said no more, turned around and walked slowly around the house, added some charcoal to the braziers at the four corners of the house, and then returned to his seat.

After a while, Ji Qinglin smelled a vague fragrance, and then he watched the group of people in the room who were still chatting and laughing and closed their eyes unsteadily.

Ji Qinglin was startled, turned to look at Uncle Huo, but Uncle Huo just looked around indifferently, got up and said: "If you want to do something, you can do it now."

Ji Qinglin stood up and walked to the nearest servant, stretched out his hand to check his breath, but he was still calm, turned his head and asked, "What's wrong with them?"

Uncle Huo said calmly: "Sleeping."

Ji Qinglin looked around, recalled for a while and asked, "Did you put drugs in the brazier?"

Uncle Huo shook his head and said, "It's just a little incense for sleeping."

Incense?

Ji Qinglin thought for a while, he had smelled the fragrance himself, but he didn't fall asleep like them, so he immediately understood: "Is there an antidote in the tea?"

Uncle Huo nodded.

Ji Qinglin pursed his lips, but was still a little puzzled: "Why did you do this?"

Uncle Huo said frankly: "Young master wants to do something, and so do I. It's inconvenient to have so many eyes staring at me."

Seeing him speak so bluntly, Ji Qinglin didn't seem to intend to hide it at all, so he couldn't help but smile, but raised his eyebrows and said: "Then why don't you just stun me too, so no one will know about it?"

Uncle Huo's face was still as calm as water: "Young master is my servant, that's not right."

Ji Qinglin was noncommittal, he didn't think that Uncle Huo was a person who would take "the distinction between master and servant" seriously, but after thinking about it, his actions could be regarded as helping himself, if he still asked the bottom line of many suspicions, it would seem a little bit I don't know what's good or bad.

Thinking about it, Ji Qinglin stopped worrying about it, and instead asked, "When will they wake up?"

Uncle Huo said: "Tomorrow morning."

Ji Qinglin nodded and smiled, cupped his hands at Uncle Huo and said, "Then I will thank you in advance."

After finishing speaking, he bypassed Uncle Huo and walked out the door. After taking two steps, he turned around and waved his hands and said with a smile, "See you tomorrow morning!"

After leaving the gate of the mansion, the surrounding houses were brightly lit. They must have set off fireworks and firecrackers after watching the night to wait for the ancestor worship. Ji Qinglin walked briskly and leisurely towards a high platform in the city.

Looking up in the Jifu on weekdays, there are only two buildings in the capital that are not covered by buildings. One is the Bell Tower in the palace, and the other is the place called Star Observation Platform that Ji Qinglin is heading towards. high tower.

Generally speaking, all buildings have their functions, but the two towering buildings do not seem to be fully utilized.

As far as Ji Qinglin knows, the Bell Tower rings the bell only once a year in Lichun, and the rest of the year is idle, and this observatory is even more strange. I don't know when it was built, who built it, and what it was built for. Although it is called "" Stargazing", but few people have the pleasure of climbing high and looking at the sky.

Ji Qinglin walked and thought, and soon arrived at the stargazing platform. After walking to the edge of the platform and sitting on the ground, he immediately took in the lights of the Wanjia in Beijing. The warm and peaceful atmosphere of the fire made people very comfortable and comfortable. .

After sitting quietly like this for an unknown amount of time, when the sound of a watch was heard in the distance, Ji Qinglin realized in his heart that the ancestor worship was about to begin.

Sure enough, shortly after the beating sound passed, a beam of flames shot up in the direction of the palace.

"Big-bang!"

The beam of fire burst in the air, it was the fireworks after the royal family worshiped the ancestors, and this beam together symbolized the arrival of the new year.Immediately afterwards, fireworks burst into the sky from all over the city, the whole capital city was as bright as day, the sound of fireworks bursting one after another, clusters of gorgeous and bright flowers bloomed in the sky, making Ji Qing dazzled.

He had never seen such a scene in his previous life, and he couldn't see it all the time in this life.

Previously, when his parents were at home, he could only look at it in the garden of Fuzhong with Yinluo, at most he climbed up the rockery, and his view was blocked by rows of buildings, so he couldn't enjoy it all.

But now on this observatory, you can have a panoramic view of the fireworks in the whole city. This feeling is really shocking like never before.

Ji Qinglin's smile grew stronger, and out of the corner of his eye he glanced at the ringing bell tower in the palace city. The bell tower was not lit, but it seemed less dark because of the densely blooming fireworks in the surrounding sky.

In this flickering, Ji Qinglin seemed to see a figure flashing past the bell tower.

Ji Qinglin was startled, there were still people on the clock tower in the middle of the night?Are you watching fireworks like yourself?