The second day of the lunar month, early in the morning.

Chu Tianxiu took Li Yu, Zuer and Di'er in a carriage and brought a carriage back to the door. All kinds of filial piety came to the Hunhou Mansion in Wanghou Lane and returned to the door.

Wanghou Lane has been very lively.

There are many residences of the royal family gathered here, and the royal family and family are married to each other. During the Spring Festival, there are many relatives who wish you New Year, women who return to the family, and old friends and students.

In the kings and princes alleys, all the powerful people are in and out, and there are no white people when they come and go.

The Hunhou Mansion is at the end of the alley, and the Pingwang Mansion is at the end of the alley. After the Wanghou Lane, there is the bustling and lively Changle Street.

With Di'er's support, Li Yu got off the carriage. She looked at the marquis' mansion in front of her and felt a little excited.

She had been waiting for too long this day.

The handle of the copper door of the Hunhou Mansion was shining with light. The door was a little old. It was obvious that it was very old. The two Pixiu at the door were majestic, and they still showed the afterglow of the bloodline of the previous dynasty.

In Wanghou Lane, Hunhou Mansion is undoubtedly a very special existence.

Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, all dynasties have believed in and worshipped ancestors, and worshipped ancestors is the top priority for the court and family.

No matter whether it is kings, princes, generals, ministers, nobles and gentry, when they want to use their qualifications to talk about their affairs, they will first compare the powerful figures that our ancestors once produced, and then compare their current family, and finally their own abilities.

The Hunhou Mansion inherited the bloodline of the Chu State for thousands of years and has not been cut off to this day. This is the only one in the entire Great Chu Dynasty, and no one dares to show off his ancestors' identity in front of Hunhou.

As the royal family of the Great Chu family, the Xiang family was once a general of the royal family of the Xiong family, and the ten major families in Jinling were even more difficult to match, and they could only admire them.

Even the Confucius clan in Shandong, which was passed down from Confucianism, and the Confucian clan in the world, would be willing to give up the disadvantage in front of the ancestors of the Hunhou Mansion.

There are powerful people who are Jinghuai of the Chu who will dismount and walk when they pass by the Hunhou Mansion.

Although he didn't say it, the kings and princes of the Great Chu and the Jinling clans all agreed that the Hunhou Mansion was the most respected family of blood.

Identity and status are inherently superior.

But the bloodline in the bones cannot be changed easily without temporary decline or prosperity.

The wealthy families in the world are proud to marry the ten families of Jinling. However, the ten families of Jinling respect the bloodline of the Hunhou Mansion.

Even the imperial family of the Great Chu had given birth to the precedent of marrying the imperial daughter in the Hunhou Mansion.

Of course, it is precisely because the Hunhou Mansion is the bloodline of the Chu family that its position in Da Chu is extremely awkward.

Emperor Taizu Xiang Yu, with his own strength, swept the princes of the world and unified the world.

After the death of Xiong Xin, the last king of Chu Huai, in order to show his emperor's magnanimity, Xiong Xin's descendants were named Hunhou and Chu was the surname.

The Hunhou Mansion has an admirable ancestral bloodline, but it also makes other meritorious princes and court officials dare not get too close to each other.

In addition to marriage, major families are willing to marry Hunhou Mansion. Other things are rarely accompanied by Hunhou Mansion.

There are very few foreign visitors in the Hunhou Mansion, only relatives.

Li Yu is now the wife of the Hunhou Mansion, so he is naturally full of curiosity about the Hunhou Mansion.

...

"Bang bang bang! ~ Dad, my son is back."

Chu Tianxiu knocked on the door vigorously.

An old housekeeper hurriedly opened the door and saw the little marquis bringing Princess Danyang back to the door, showing an excited look, "Old prince, old lady, the little marquis and the young lady are back!"

"Xiu'er is back!"

The old Hunhou ran out after hearing the sound, with a hint of panic in his expression, but when he saw Chu Tianxiu, Li Yu and others, he immediately showed a look of joy, "Dad, I miss you so much. The princess is here, come in quickly!"

"Yu'er has met Dad!"

Li Yu laughed.

"Have you met the Marquis!"

Zuer and Dier quickly saluted.

Lao Hunhou hurriedly asked Chu Tianxiu, Li Yu, Zuer, Di'er and others to come in.

Chu Tianxiu swaggered into the hall of the Hunhou Mansion to rest. The place where the "Little Hunhou" grew up, of course, he was very comfortable at home and did not need to be polite.

Li Yu curiously entered the Hunhou Mansion. This is the Hunhou Mansion, the number one playboy family in the Great Chu, and the Hunhou Mansion that inherited the bloodline of the Xiong clan in the thousand years of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The courtyard of the Hou Mansion is much smaller than that of the Ping Wang Mansion. In addition to the Lao Hunhou, Mrs. Chu, grandmother, there are also some servants, a total of twenty or thirty people.

"Xiu'er, Yu'er is here!"

But I saw a graceful and luxurious lady walking out with a spring breeze on her face.

Mrs. Chu Cui Tong, the sister of Queen Cui Rou, has a similar appearance. However, in the Hunhou Mansion, there is no need to worry about the palace, it is easier, and her appearance is much younger than Queen Cui Rou.

"Yu'er has met her mother!"

Li Yu gave a gift.

"Let's go, mom takes you to the mansion and stroll around."

Mrs. Chu obviously liked Li Yu very much, so she enthusiastically held Li Yu's hand and took her to the Hunhou Mansion for a walk, and met Hunhou Mansion.

Li Yu was born in the Pingwang Mansion and had seen all the style of the courtyard, but the ordinary mansion had no idea at all.

But the Hunhou Mansion is different.

Li Yu followed Mrs. Chu for a while and was shocked.

This Hunhou Mansion is simply an antique museum from previous dynasties.

The courtyards, halls, walls, tables, and corners are all antiques from all kinds of colors from Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period to Pre-Qin.

The incense that enters the courtyard is the Western Zhou Dynasty Taotie pattern tripod.

On the altar table in the hall, there is a 372-character inscription on the Western Zhou Dynasty, which boasts of the family history of the Lord, commemorates the canonization and rewards of King Xuan of Zhou, and also records the changes in the royal family, the war, and the princes and kings of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Li Yu was shocked.

The vast collection of bamboo slips from Deputy Prime Minister Wang Su's family is not as valuable as the Western Zhou Dynasty engraving in front of him.

This is a thousand-year-old treasure!

In the hall, the table holds rice with Western Zhou beast ear bronze cauldron and Western Zhou dragon, phoenix fish pattern double-eared plates with dishes.

Even an inconspicuous wine pot that holds wine, when you look closely, it turned out to be a bird-covered gourd pot in the Warring States Period. It was used by the princes and kings, and the names of princes were engraved on it.

If Mrs. Chu did not introduce it to her, Li Yu would not recognize her at all.

These antiques that are worth a thousand gold in antique shops are not decorations, but are used for use.

After entering the Hunhou Mansion, it was as if he had returned to the Zhou Dynasty, the old palace of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was extremely luxurious.

Zuer and Di'er followed Mrs. Chu and Li Yu, cautiously, fearing that an object would be broken by accident, which was a royal and ancient artifact that had been hundreds or thousands of years old.

I picked up a pair of chopsticks and realized that it was Western Zhou bronze-inlaid jade chopsticks. I was so scared that I put them down quickly.

"Mom...how much money does it cost?"

Li Yu was shocked.

She suddenly understood why the Hunhou Mansion was so able to spend money, and it was as deep as flowing water.

I borrowed 100,000 taels of silver from the Pingwang Mansion, but I didn't even hear the "Puchi" of the water, and it disappeared in a few years.

"It's not that much money it has been saved in the past dynasties. The old marquis likes to go to Jinling City for no reason and search for these things everywhere... Others don't know the goods, but he recognizes them and buys them cheaply... I remember that only the Western Zhou plaza cost ten thousand taels of silver, and the rest will not exceed a thousand taels."

Mrs. Chu smiled and took Li Yu into the inner house again.

There are a wide variety of bookshelves in the study, and there are ancient books of various bamboo slips, almost all of which are out of print in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period.

On weekdays, Lao Hunhou and Mrs. Chu were idle, so they looked through ancient books in the study and lived leisurely, making them feel uncomfortable.

Li Yu was shocked.

There are so many out-of-print books that can’t be seen in other places in Jinling City.

Not to mention the family members who passed on the martial arts family like the Pingwang Mansion, I am afraid that the scholarly family of Cui and Wang families will only be ashamed.

What is a thousand-year-old family heir?

Mrs. Chu did not mention the vulgar things like silver at all.

Without these Shang and Zhou antiques and out-of-print ancient books, it is obvious that I dare not say that my family has been passed down for thousands of years.

...

Mrs. Chu took Li Yu to introduce the various colors in the Hunhou Mansion to the future hostess. It was not until the evening that she simply said a small part.

The mansion of Hunhou is Xiao Hunhou, the male person. No matter how many objects there are, they will be passed on to Chu Tianxiu, Li Yu, and to the future King Xiaoping.

Mrs. Chu was considering Li Yu's possessions and knew how much stuff there was in the Hunhou Mansion.

It's evening.

Dinner.

The return banquet at the Hunhou Mansion was extremely rich. Although it was not as good as the palace banquet, there were 72 dishes, and it was difficult for ordinary royal and prince residences to have such a rich variety.

Bear, deer, donkey, shrimp, crab, frog, turtle, fish, chicken, duck, quail, pig, cow, sheep, rabbit... all in one go.
To be continued...