Chapter 286: The Royal Mansion
King Xin’s Mansion was not within the Imperial City, but was built in the Southern District, and Han Li and the others traveled in the carriage for an hour before arriving at the street corner of the Southern District.
The style of the residences in the southern district and the eastern district such as the Qin Mansion were obviously different, and most of them were regular, formalized buildings.
People who lived here, their official size and status, as long as a look at the size of the residence, the style, can be clear.
The residence here is built by the government, strictly according to the rank and title of the high and low, distributed to the officials. Anyone would not dare to arbitrarily expand and repair, otherwise it would be guilty of overstepping the system.
And Xin Wang as a royal relative, but also the king’s title in the body, naturally its residence in the southern district is one of the best.
The area of his residence was even bigger than the Qin Residence by a small half, which could be called a giant house.
When the carriage stopped in front of the Xin Wang House, Han Li glanced at the residence, immediately felt the world only have the glory of the great noble atmosphere.
This mansion door is about five or six zhang high, three or four zhang wide, the whole body wrapped in thick brass skin, the door surface is also inlaid with dozens of huge door nails, making the door gorgeous and heavy.
And on both sides of the nearly ten feet high steps, there is also a hideous bronze lion statue placed on each side, the body was polished shiny and bright, very low eye-catching!
But the most people feel the majesty of the Xin Wang Fu, or standing in the House outside the door on the steps of the sixteen fully clothed forbidden soldiers, these people but the King of the Xin specially borrowed manpower from the imperial city guards camp, in case of any accidents happen to a lot of people.
The chief administrator of the Xin Wang Mansion was a thin little old man, who was replacing the master, Prince Xin, on the steps, greeting every new guest with a smile on his face, not daring to neglect any of the guests.
At this time, dozens of carriages of all sizes were parked in front of the mansion’s gate, almost filling up the entire open space in front of the mansion.
In front of the huge green stone steps, there are five or six guests who have not yet entered the mansion, exchanging pleasantries with each other, each with gorgeous clothes and elegant movements. It seemed that all of them were characters of not-so-low status.
Seeing all of this, Qin Yan straightened his clothes and got out of the car in all directions.
After Han Li glanced around vigilantly, he didn’t notice any Immortal Cultivators, so he went down as well with peace of mind.
As for the several young masters and young ladies of the Qin Clan, they had immediately gotten down as early as when the carriage had just stopped. They were now standing in front of the mansion, excitedly discussing something.
Han Li looked at those guests who were still on the steps, but realized that aside from the juniors of the Qin Mansion. All of the other guests had also more or less brought their sons and daughters, sons and nephews, and other youngsters to this place.
”Could it be that all of them were invited by that so-called young prince, or is it simply that the Xin Wangfu took this name to intentionally gather these young people here.” Han Li thought about it and felt that he didn’t have a clue, so he glanced at Qin Yan.
Only to see him similarly frowning, clearly also somewhat surprised by this.
”Grandpa, let’s enter the mansion! Little Prince and the others are waiting for us!”
A son of the Qin family aged 16 or 17 years old. Seeing that his old master had been standing near the carriage without moving a step, he couldn’t help but be encouraged by his other siblings. He boldly stepped forward and said this, still afraid of being reprimanded by Qin Yan.
”Uh, got it, everyone go inside!”
To this person’s surprise, Qin Yan casually nodded his head after hearing these words and agreed in a pleasant manner. This made this person really somewhat flattered! He couldn’t help but return to his peers in excitement.
However, without waiting for Qin Yan to bring a few people over, the steward of that royal residence had just finished dealing with a guest. Immediately, he saw the Qin family’s group. Immediately, he took the initiative to welcome them with a smile on his face. As soon as he arrived, he said enthusiastically, “Master Qin, you’re finally here! My prince has been talking about you for a few days now, saying that you haven’t come to the mansion for a few days. It’s better to hurry up and enter the mansion! His Majesty has seen Master Qin. He will definitely be overjoyed!”
”Hehe, this is not the most recent ……” This king’s chief steward really isn’t the usual articulate, just a few sentences, letting the people listening to it have a spring in their step and a warm heart!
Qin Yan couldn’t help but smile, so he chatted with this chief steward with a self-conscious demeanor for a few moments.
However, because there were still guests arriving at the Royal Mansion one after another, this person didn’t say a few words to Qin Yan before letting him and the others into the mansion. Then after saying a humble word, he hurriedly headed out of the mansion again.
Although Han Li had stayed by Qin Yan’s side the entire time, not saying a word. But at this moment, a trace of doubt flashed across his face as he glanced at the chief steward’s back.
For some reason, Han Li clearly didn’t sense any fluctuations in spiritual energy on this person, but when this chief steward came up, Han Li suddenly felt a hint of creepiness, as if he was being approached by some terrifying demonic beast. This made Han Li extremely uncomfortable!
Although Han Li didn’t know why this was the case, he, who had always been very confident in his senses, immediately rose this royal chief steward to the list of those who must be careful and suspicious.
”Xian Nephew Han, let’s go! I’ll introduce you to a few Shibeis that I haven’t met yet!” Seeing that the chief steward had left, Qin Yan said to Han Li with a smile.
This caused the several other Qin family members standing on the other side of Qin Yan to immediately sour in their hearts, thinking that this head of the family was a bit too biased.
However, Han Li only smiled in his heart, knowing that this was actually Qin Yan creating an opportunity for himself so that he could stay with him at all times, so he opened his mouth to agree without pushing.
Then he was led by Qin Yan into the hall where the Xin Wang Mansion treated its guests.
There were about a hundred people in the hall, although it looked like there were quite a lot of people, but in reality most of them were two or three people coming together, of course there were only two or three families like the Qin Mansion that came seven or eight people at a time.
At this time, Prince Xin, has not yet appeared in the hall, it seems that without waiting for the guests to arrive, will not show up.
As soon as Qin Yan appeared at the entrance of the hall, there were immediately a few very familiar family members who warmly greeted him.
Qin Yan naturally cupped his fists and dealt with them one by one, and after sweeping his eyes around, he apologized to the others, and headed towards an old man with a sickly face, beside whom sat a man and a woman, two young men.
The man’s thick eyebrows and big eyes, a face of steady color. Although the woman’s posture was normal, her eyes were fiery, and she nonchalantly turned a few times toward the juniors behind Qin Yan, with Han Li naturally within the scope of her scanning.
”Elder brother Hua, I didn’t expect you, the Great Divine Doctor, to appear here as well! I thought that according to your temperament, you would definitely excuse yourself from coming on such an occasion.” As soon as Qin Yan walked up to the old man, he nonchalantly sat down, and even teased in a low voice.
”Cough! Originally indeed did not want to come, but the strange disease of the king’s favorite concubine could be cured by someone, this makes my brother in law very curious ah, want to see in the end is that high person has this wonderful skill!” The old man who was addressed by Qin Yan as Elder Brother Hua was not the least bit outgoing and said softly after a slight smile.
”Oh! In that case, the fact that Prince Xin once asked Old Brother to treat this concubine of hers is not a rumor. Is it rare that with Old Brother Hua’s medical skills, he still can’t cure this disease?”
Han Li was extremely surprised to see Qin Yan, so it seemed that this old man’s medical skills should be very famous in Yuejing.
”Hehe, there are thousands of strange diseases in this world, and it’s purely a fluke that this bit of Hua’s medical skills can make it to today’s fame! What’s so rare about some incurable and difficult diseases!” The old man laughed unconcernedly, his heart seemed to be very open.
”But I still don’t believe that there is a doctor in Yuejing who has higher medical skills than old brother?” Qin Yan shook his head and said, seeming to have great faith in the old man’s medical skills.
But when the old man surnamed Hua heard this, he smiled faintly and didn’t answer, but pointed to the man and woman beside him and said, “Hua Nan, Hua Fang, you’ve seen them before. Come over here and greet your Grandpa Qin!”
The old man surnamed Hua was obviously extremely majestic in the minds of these two, and once this man and woman heard this, they didn’t hesitate at all and hurriedly came over to give Qin Yan a salute.
”Hehe, I didn’t expect that these two grandchildren of yours who haven’t seen each other for a few years would be so big. I don’t have any good things on me, so this pair of emerald-encrusted jade pendants will be given to you as a meet-and-greet gift!” Qin Yan said kindly while touching his body, pulling out a pair of white jade pendants inlaid with green emerald, which seemed to be of great value.
That man was okay although a trace of color flashed in his eyes, but it quickly disappeared. The woman, on the other hand, was filled with joy, staring at the pair of jade pendants with a fiery gaze!
”No talent, since you want it, just take it! Elder brother Qin and our family are not outsiders!” Seeing this, the old man surnamed Hua couldn’t help but laugh and scold.
Hearing this, the pair only dared to take the jade pendant in Qin Yan’s hand, the woman’s expression excited.
”Other than this one, the other few juniors behind you I to have seen several times, could this be your newly arrived nephew in the capital?” The old man finally placed his gaze on Han Li, and looked up and down with some interest.
”Yes, this is Han Li! A descendant of one of my elders.”
”Xian Nephew Han, this is your Uncle Hua, one of the two divine doctors of Yuejing. It’s on par with Doctor Ye, the imperial physician who specializes in treating the Emperor!” Qin Yan then remembered that he hadn’t introduced Han Li to this old brother yet.
”Good day, Uncle Hua!” Han Li honestly shouted to the other party.
”Well, not bad, not bad!” The old man surnamed Hua really didn’t see anything outstanding about Han Li, so he just casually praised him twice.
But when he thought of the rumors that had recently circulated in relation to this youth, he hesitated for a moment before reaching out with his dry, thin, withered hand and pulling out a small white bottle from within his bosom and handing it to Han Li.
”This is a bottle of heart-protecting pills that I carefully concocted! Although I don’t dare to say it’s a cure for all illnesses, but general minor illnesses and injuries are no big deal, so I’ll give it to Xian Nephew Han for self-defense!”
As soon as the old man said this, Han Li immediately felt the envy and jealousy of several Qin Family children behind him, while Hua Nan and Hua Fang also showed a bit of surprise, obviously this “Heart Protecting Pill” is not a small reputation ah!