Rebirth of the first courtier

On the day of New Year's Eve, Xiao Qi'ao got up early, not only because Hu Li had been in the yard early in the morning and persevered in making Chiji learn to speak on the last day of this year, but also because today was an impossible day. Sleep in according to your temperament.

As the ancestor was going to be worshiped today, as the eldest son of the Xiao family, Xiao Qi'ao followed his father to the ancestral hall early in the morning.Hu Li, who still couldn't teach Chiji to speak, went to the kitchen in discouragement, followed the master chef back and forth in the kitchen, and his gluttonous hala was about to flow down.

The master's hair and eyebrows were about to fall out, and the young man followed behind him. He was afraid that he would bump into the small young man by accident, so he had to be more careful when walking.

It was a nun in the kitchen who gave Hu Li a few plates of snacks from the hot cage and asked him to help deliver them to the old lady, so Hu Li reluctantly left the fragrant kitchen.

After Hu Li delivered the snacks to the old lady, he stayed there, eating with the old lady while nestling beside the old lady and talking.

Xiao Qi'ao and Xiao's father were in the study writing the Spring Festival couplets that were about to be used. Although Xiao's father was a bit rigid, his handwriting was good.Xiao Qi'ao finished writing the last stroke, put down the pen, and rubbed his tired wrist.

"Father, the child has finished writing."

Father Xiao put down his pen, looked over his head, and said with a smile, "Not bad."

Xiao Qi'ao smiled and shook his head, thinking of Hu Li's expression of being in pain every time he practiced calligraphy, he laughed directly.

Father Xiao looked at Xiao Qi'ao suspiciously, and Xiao Qi'ao pointed to the Spring Festival couplets that were still drying, "I asked Xiaoli to practice calligraphy before, but you didn't know that Xiaoli's calligraphy really made people... As a result, he three Fishing every day and posting on the net for two days, this word has not improved so far.”

Father Xiao thought of the young boy in Xiao Qi'ao's yard, and also laughed, "A few days ago, I met him in Tianxiang Tower, and he was still a young boy."

Xiao Qi'ao nodded, "My boy wants him to be so simple, after all, it's rare. In this Xiao's mansion, my boy has never seen anyone else who can make him talk so effortlessly."

Xiao's father didn't know what he thought of, he remained silent and put away the smile on his face.

"Okay, let's go to your grandmother's. I heard that the child is there too." Father Xiao called his servants to come in, took out the spring couplets that had been hung out and pasted them up, and then took Xiao Qi'ao to the old lady's place. .

Coincidentally, I met Mother Xiao and Mrs. An on the way, and Xiao Qiao greeted Mother Xiao, "Mother is better, I will go to greet you this morning, Nanny Liu said that you are not feeling well."

Mother Xiao waved her hand, "It's okay, it's just that you can't sleep at night. Master, are you going to mother's place?"

"Exactly, you should come together." Father Xiao nodded, "In the past two years, you were taking care of the New Year's affairs. This year, you were in poor health, so you worked hard on your mother. Now that you have nothing to do, you can also help Mother to do something."

"Yes."

Xiao's father and Xiao's mother were talking, while An Shi was joking aside, while Xiao Qi'ao walked aside and listened silently.

In fact, ever since Xiao Jingshu was married to the Qi family, he had nothing to do with revenge on Mother Xiao.If Xiao's mother knew that Xiao Qi'ao had a bad time at Qi's house today and that he let Ying'e secretly tease her, she would definitely want to kill herself.

Oh, no, he already wanted to kill himself.

If it wasn't for Xia Yi who was good at poisoning, if it wasn't for the sudden poisoning of Xiaoli last time that made the chronic diarrhoea appear in front of others, I am afraid that Mother Xiao would still give him those "good things" without interruption.

When the four of them arrived, they heard Hu Li and Xiao Jinghao laughing happily with the old lady. The maid at the door saw them coming, and hurriedly opened the curtain, "Old lady, master and wife, eldest young master and Aunt An coming."

Nanny Yu walked quickly to the door, welcomed the four of them in, squinted her eyes and smiled: "The master and the young master are here. The old lady just said that the master and the young master wrote so many words. My hand hurts, so I specially ordered my servants to find some moxa and soak it in water, so as to unblock the tendons and relieve the pain."

The old lady's voice came from the inner room, "You are the only one who keeps talking, and you don't let people in, what are you doing blocking the door."

Nanny Yu chuckled, "Look at me, who is short-sighted, master, please write it in quickly, young master."

Mother Xiao almost gritted her teeth when she saw Nanny Yu smiling. Every time the old woman saw him, she wished her eyes would grow to the sky. She really thought she was the person next to that old man, so she couldn't help it?

Thinking of Xiao Jingshu who was still in the Qi family, Mother Xiao managed to suppress her anger. At this time, the old lady was still a deterrent to the Qi family.Although she didn't know what the Qi family was afraid of that old thing from the day she married to Xiao's mansion, did her father and elder brother have any reason to be in the hands of that old thing?

Whether the Qi family has something in the hands of the old lady, Mammy Yu can tell Mother Xiao responsibly, there really is.But even so, the Qi family never thought about daring to trouble the old lady.

Of course, Nanny Yu would not tell Mother Xiao about these things. She really wanted to see what this poisonous woman, Mrs. Qi, dared to do.

There are a lot of things to do on New Year's Eve. After lunch, the kitchen starts to cook New Year's Eve dinner, including flat food.Originally Hu Li didn't know about it from the old lady, but Chiji kept running out, even the old lady looked at Chiji in surprise.

In the end, Hu Li tied the wristbands on his arms, let the red halberd stand on it, and took it majesticly...to the kitchen.

Red Halberd Black Bean's eyes were full of coveting for meat, and he stood eagerly at the door of the kitchen with his master, with the same expression, worthy of being the main pet.

The two of them here are almost becoming a big worry for the chef, while Xiao Qi'ao followed Father Xiao and others to open the ancestral hall and prepare for ancestor worship.

Worshiping ancestors is not that complicated for the Xiao family. The Xiao family started in the generation of Xiao Qi'ao's great-grandfather. Xiao's great-grandfather was born as an orphan, so he didn't have any ancestors to worship.Although Xiao Qi'ao's grandfather reached the level of a first-rank official in the end, the Xiao family at that time was considered a first-class family in the imperial city.

But Grandfather Xiao's affection for the old lady was something that all the wives in the imperial city envied, because Grandfather Xiao only had the old lady as his companion from the beginning to the end, no matter whether it was a concubine or a housemate.And the old lady only had one child from Xiao's father, so now the Xiao family's ancestor worship is really very simple.

Of course simplicity does not mean disrespect, at least the Xiao family can live better than most people in the world today, it is the efforts of the ancestors.

Xiao Qi'ao knelt on the cushion, looking down at the tablets of the ancestors of the Xiao family.After his death in the last life, he didn't know how the Xiao family was doing, but in this life, even if he ended up with the higher-ups, he would protect everyone in the Xiao family.

After offering sacrifices to the ancestors, Xiao Qi'ao was led by Hu Li to the roof, but how did he get on it?Xia Yi who was on the other roof silently rolled his eyes, and continued to nibble on the roast chicken in his hand.

Xiao Qi'ao felt the tingling pain on his face from the chilly wind on the roof, and didn't understand why he agreed to Hu Li's wonderful request to go to the roof to watch the fireworks.Because Xiao's father was going to the palace to attend the palace banquet in the evening, so Xiao's mansion had dinner early, after all, the palace banquet could not fill his stomach.

The consequence of eating dinner early was sitting on the roof with Hu Li blowing the cold wind, Xiao Qiao rolled up his sleeves, looked at Hu Li and Chi Ji who looked excited, "You can see it even if you stand below, why bother?" to the roof?"

Hu Li held the red halberd and was dishonest on the roof, "How could it be? Didn't you say that you stand tall and look far away? There are so many palaces and buildings in the imperial city, I won't be able to see the fireworks if they are farther away .”

Xiao Qi'ao was taken aback when he heard Hu Li's words, there were indeed many palaces and buildings in the imperial city, and the many made one feel a little depressing.

"Take you to another place, where you can see farther. Go?"

Hu Li's eyes lit up, "Go, go."

In the end Xiao Qi'ao took Hu Li to a restaurant that was just opened in the imperial city years ago, and it is still open today.When this restaurant first opened years ago, it caused a lot of discussion in the imperial city, because this restaurant is the tallest building in the imperial city except for the palace, with a height of five floors.

The highest floor of the restaurant is a place where guests are not received, of course Hu Li doesn't know this, he only knows that Xiao Qi'ao took him up to the fifth floor of this restaurant called Gluttonous Banquet.

There are only three rooms on the fifth floor of the Gluttonous Banquet, and the one that Xiao Qiao brought Hu Li over was one of them. Standing at the window, he could just see the direction of the imperial palace.If you want to watch fireworks, it is natural to watch the fireworks in the palace, and ordinary people cannot afford the expensive fireworks.

Hu Li was sitting by the window, talking to Xiao Qiao, "I used to live on the mountain with my grandpa, and there were not many people there. Every time it was Chinese New Year, I asked my grandpa to take me to nearby villages and Town, sometimes you can see fireworks, but most of the time you can only see firecrackers."

Hu Li remembered that there was a small village at the foot of the mountain, and it was very cold there. The small village became smaller and smaller, until there were only a dozen or so families left.

When he first took shape, he met a child in the village. That child was the head of the village at that time. When he first went with his grandfather, he was almost bullied by him.But later, when he went down the mountain and was bullied by others, that child would always come out and beat those people until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen.

Xiao Qiao listened to Hu Li rambling about the past, looked at his more delicate cheeks under the reflection of the fireworks, "You will be able to see the fireworks every year from now on."

Hu Li suddenly turned his head to look at Xiao Qi'ao, and suddenly laughed, "Grandpa said he would come back to find me, and then I will buy a yard here and live with grandpa. So, brother Xiao, you know I can live here Where did you get the money?"

When Xiao Qiao heard this, the feeling of discomfort flashed through her heart, and Hu Li laughed at her next sentence, "Now you eat mine, live in mine, and drink mine. Shouldn't the first thing you do when you earn money be?" Give me your room and board during this time first?"

Hu Li was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he stayed in Xiao's mansion because he smashed Brother Xiao, so he wanted to stay and see how he could make up for it.Hu Li thought about his daily routine for the past six months, and suddenly he couldn't help himself with shame.

In addition to eating, he is playing, and teaching Chiji to speak, except for the last thing, he is almost wasting his time.

With a stiff expression, Hu Li looked at Xiao Qi'ao embarrassingly, "Brother Xiao, how much should I compensate you?"

Xiao Qi'ao smiled softly, looked at the rosy glow on Hu Li's face, "I don't need money, so how about you stay by my side and be my servant for a year, and I'll treat you Cleared, how?"