Chapter 21 - New Year\\\'s Eve dinner
“Come on.” Xia Chu called out and waved to them.
Su Qian’an and Bingwen bowed to the three of them. Hou Ye nodded, and Xia Chu motioned them to sit down.
Bingwen and Li Xinlan sat together, and the two exchanged some news about the capital. Su Qianan sat next to Xia Chu, and Xia Chu told him that he had been to Qianle’s side, reassuring him. Hou Ye was a little empty when he was on the main seat…
Finally, all the food and wine were ready, Hou Ye coughed and said, “The dishes are all ready.”
The two or two teams stopped whispering and sat upright.
Xia Chu looked at Hou Ye Tian with a smile and said, “Father, today is New Year’s Eve. I don’t want any New Year’s Eve money either. If you have something practical, I just want to ask you for two.”
“People? Who?”
Hou Ye didn’t react, and the others were also surprised.
“The people in the house, why don’t you give it to me?”
Xia Chu held her cheeks with her hands and blinked a pair of smart eyes.
“You can use the people in the house as you like, what is there to give or not.”
Hou Ye smiled, thinking it was a big deal.
“I don’t use it, I want it.” Xia Chu emphasized.
“Is there a difference?” Hou Ye raised his eyebrows.
“That’s for sure. I’m using them, but they still listen to you. If I want to come over, they can only listen to me.” Xia Chu plausibly said.
“So clearly divided?”
Lord Hou was a little unhappy.
“It’s not to be divided with the father. Some things, I have to be their only master to order.”
Xia Chu flattened his mouth and looked aggrieved.
Hou Ye felt that there was nothing wrong with what Xia Chu said, but Yu Guang glanced at his handsome appearance and waved his hand.
“Give it.”
“Then ask Father to pick two dark guards for me.”
Xia Chu smiled happily.
Hou Ye’s hand waving his sleeves froze. He thought that Xia Chu only wanted Mo Xiang, or a capable attendant like Cong Ting beside him. I really didn’t expect him to have a dark guard.
“How do you know there are dark guards in the mansion?”
“Which prince and nobleman didn’t order his own secret guard.” Xia Chu didn’t care.
Hou Ye nodded, feeling that his words made sense.
Xia Chu went on to say: “The one who has been following me this time is called Bian Ding, right? I want him, you are picking one for Bingwen. One is to protect his safety, and the other is to wait for me to leave Beijing. The two can also facilitate our message delivery.”
Hou Ye’s face became more and more solemn in his words. It is not difficult to say that there is a dark guard. However, I am afraid that even the current emperor will not know the name of the Houfu dark guard.
Hou Ye asked with a stern expression: “How do you know, his name is Bian Ding.”
“Now we know that our son Bingwen has great powers.” Xia Chu threw the pot to Bingwen without changing his face.
He had two critical moments in his last life.
Once, Xiao Yanjun was assassinated and took her with him. It was only when Bian Ding appeared to save them that she knew that there was always such a person by her side. The second and last time. She was placed under house arrest by Xiao Yanjun, breaking the tendons in her hands and feet. Bian Ding showed up, but never showed up again…
“Prince Bingwen really lived up to the rumors.”
Hou Ye’s eyes fell on Yi Rong’s Bingwen, and he couldn’t help but glance up.
When Bingwen suddenly heard such a big event, his brain was buzzing. Suddenly he was put on a tall hat again, and he could feel the hot gaze from Lord Hou all over his body. He looked at his nose and heart, and didn’t know how to respond for a while.
“Isn’t it your credit for this fame?” Xia Chu looked at Bingwen and made a statement out of discomfort.
“Hurry up and call the two secret guards in.”
“Bian Ding, Bian Hao.” Hou Ye called out to the door.
A knock was heard in the blink of an eye.
“Come in.” Hou Ye Yun said.
With a “squeak”, the door was pushed open, and two men in black suits came in.
“Master Hou.” The two knelt down and saluted at the same time.
“Get up. From now on, you will belong to the young master.” Hou Ye ordered.
The two looked at each other and said yes at the same time.
“Bian Ding, you will continue to follow me in the future. Bian Hao, you will follow Bingwen in the future.”
The two faced Xia Chu and said yes again.
“I know you have doubts in your heart. As a secret guard, you shouldn’t appear in front of people other than your master. However, the people in this room today are all people close to me. I hope, including the two of you. In the future, everyone will inevitably meet. It is also convenient to get to know each other.”
“I understand.” The two replied.
Xia Chu nodded.
“Now that you understand, let’s sit down and have a New Year’s Eve dinner together.”
Both of them were shocked when they heard this, and looked up at Lord Hou.
“Who is your master?” Xia Chu rested his cheek with his left hand and tapped the table with his right index finger. His face was lazy, but his tone was solemn and sullen.
The two of them looked away, knelt down at the same time, and replied, “It’s the young master.”
“Then what I said, what do you do when you look at Lord Hou?”
The two were oppressed by the sudden burst of Ling Lie’s aura at the beginning of Xia, and hurriedly replied: “This subordinate knows it’s wrong.”
“Sit.” Xia Chu ordered.
The two got up immediately after hearing the words and sat down obediently.
Hou Ye gave Xia Chu a deep look, with three points of dissatisfaction and seven points of appreciation.
Xia Chu knew that he was not very happy that he had not informed Hou Ye in advance, but he had no choice. When people are coming, they always have to be kind and powerful, and let them know who they should listen to in the future. Xia Chu poured a glass of wine for Lord Hou.
“Father, are you coming to the table?”
Hou Ye understood Xia Chu’s intention in his heart, but he was not really angry. Hearing him speak, he raised his glass and opened the feast.
“I hope everyone here will drink this cup of Tusu wine and everything will go well in the future.”
The fireworks and firecrackers in the yard were also set off, and everyone raised their glasses and stood up, thanking Lord Hou.
“I guess you won’t prepare it yourself, so I bought you a few sets.” Xia Chu finished drinking and handed over the new clothes he bought for Bingwen.
Bingwen got up, took it respectfully, and thanked him for the reward.
Before that, Bingwen didn’t know what Xia Chu called him to come. He asked Su Qianan, but Su Qianan didn’t know. Both of them thought that there were some important orders that required him to come here.
Unexpectedly, he was afraid that he would be alone and sad today. Bingwen was moved in his heart, and now, he saw that Xia Chu had even prepared new clothes for him. Excited look, some can not help but beyond words.
Xia Chu smiled when he saw Su Qianan’s envious eyes, and patted his shoulder.
“Don’t look at it, your Xinyihou mansion will be prepared, and your share has already been delivered to the house.”
When Su Qianan heard the words, she looked back embarrassedly. Everyone got up and toasted, and they respected Hou Ye and Xia Chu together, thanking them all.
Xia Chu took out the sachet again, and each handed one.
Bian Ding asked in amazement, “We have them too?”
“Naturally, I didn’t say it before. Those present are all people close to me, including the two of you.”
Bian Ding Bian Hao was flattered and took it. Everyone toasted again and toasted the beginning of Xia.
“Hey, Bingwen’s sachets are also different.” Hou Ye noticed that everyone’s sachets were red, embroidered with wishful charms. In Bingwen’s hands, however, was a blue sachet embroidered with pink flowers. Hou Ye turned his head and looked at Xia Chu inquiringly. Could it be that Xia Chu treated Bingwen…
Xia Chu didn’t notice Hou Ye’s thoughts, and said disapprovingly, “What you guys bought was bought by the Hou Mansion, and the one in Bingwen was brought down from the mountain by me.”
“Young master is partial.” Su Qianan muttered.
Xia Chu rewarded him with a shudder.
“Let others see that Young Master Bingwen is wearing the sachet of my Houfu, you might as well go out and call him my man.”
Everyone laughed, and the atmosphere suddenly warmed up. Even Marquis laughed a little dumbly, he smelled the scent of the sachet.
“The scent is unique.”
Xia Chu was immediately complacent.
“This sachet itself is nothing rare, but the incense inside…” Xia Chu stretched out the ending to sate everyone’s appetite and then said, “Looking at the capital, you can’t buy it.”
Xia Chu thought to himself, this is the incense made by Blue Feather Cherry. Not to mention looking at the capital, there is no such thing in the world.
When everyone heard the words, they raised them in front of them, sniffed carefully, and put them away properly. I thought the young master gave this sachet to ward off evil spirits and to make the New Year auspicious, but it turned out to be such a precious thing.
At the beginning of Xia, I couldn’t help but miss Zilan Mountain. In previous years, New Year’s Eve was spent in the mountains. Although Bai Ruofei didn’t even prepare the necessary items for the Chinese New Year, it was still on this day. Gathering four people to keep the year old together, drinking Tusu wine, writing poems and paintings with Lan Xilin, and playing the qin. And he and Lan Yuying were forced to cheer for them…
Xia Chu’s eyes swept across the faces of everyone. The people in these houses, including Hou Ye. In the past, in this reunion day, they were all alone.
With this in mind, he stood up to raise his glass and said to everyone: “You may be alone in the past. But I hope that in the future, we can all get together for a New Year’s Eve dinner like today. Remember, from now on. You are no longer alone…”
Everyone just heard the first two sentences and couldn’t help but feel a little sad, but they could wait until the beginning of Xia to finish. A thin layer of mist was brewing in their eyes, their faces were moved, and their hearts were agitated. The eyes they looked at each other softened a bit.
“When are you going to let me raise my glass?” Xia Chu asked with an eyebrow raised.
Everyone just came back to their senses and hurriedly raised their glasses.
“Hurry up and eat. After talking for a long time, the dishes are getting cold.” Xia Chu said while preparing the dishes for Hou Ye.
Su Qian’an watched Xia Chu serve Lord Hou, and raised his hand to serve Xia Chu, and everyone finally started to use chopsticks.
Bingwen looked at Xia Chu’s warm smile. At this time, I really wanted to change seats with Su Qianan. He also wanted to… serve the young master.
At the beginning of Xia, he suggested that everyone play wine-making, poetry, riddles, singing and other entertainment programs. For a while, the vegetables and meat in the pot were tumbling, and the lively atmosphere on the table spread out. The gongs are staggered, the cups are overflowing…
Xia Chu always paid attention to Hou Ye, added wine and vegetables, and occasionally whispered a few words.
Hou Ye looked at the Hou Mansion, which had not been lively for a long time, and suddenly felt that it would be good for so many people to have a meal together.
This New Year’s Eve dinner ends from Youshi to Kuaihai.
Li Xinlan told her to retire first, and she had to go back to Yixianglou to do some work.
At the beginning of Xia, everyone dispersed, and he stayed with Hou Ye to keep the year old.