Chapter 132: Palace Banquet

"Daddy, but it doesn't hurt. Pen % fun % pavilion www.biquge.info "Xin Yi's eyebrows frowned slightly.

"Ziqing. Xin Qi let out a long call again, his tone a little unsteady, "I have never asked you, and I have thought about whether to ask you in this life." But since you mentioned it today, I have to ask if I don't ask. ”

"What the hell does Daddy want to ask?" Xin Yi became more and more confused.

"In the past ten years, have you hated me? Xin Qi took a deep breath before finishing the last half of the sentence.

After finishing speaking, he stared at Xin Yi tightly, watching her every change in expression a little nervously.

Xin Yi was stunned. For a moment, her mind went blank.

Hate, I can't talk about it. If you talk about the ordinary father-daughter relationship, let alone talk about it.

Xin Qi is more like a stranger with the name of a father. It's not too close, it's not too distant, it's okay to get along, and it's just a matter of spending this life.

After all, since she entered the house when she was three years old, only her little brother Xin Bai is the closest person, Xin Qi or others, most of them are the same.

Seeing Xin Yi's long silence, Xin Qi smiled bitterly and waved his hand: "Forget it." I shouldn't have asked. Go for it. ”

Xin Yi's eyes flashed, and he suddenly spoke: "After more than ten years, my father only calls my mother Dou, and the people in the house only call my mother Aunt Dou." The daughter only asked her father: Do you still remember my mother's name? The name that belongs only to my mother. ”

Xin Qi's eyes were a little trance-like, and he whispered like a dream-

"Tonight. Sinus evening. ”

Xin Yi turned around and smiled from an angle that Xin Qi couldn't see.

Then she pulled her skirt, stepped forward, pushed the door, and left without half a stagnant farewell.

The year is getting closer and closer.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month. Off. Send the gods to the New Year's hurried sacrifice stove. Every house sets up an altar to worship the god of the stove, and the door is pasted with a colorful painting of the god of the stove. Pray that when the god of the stove goes back to tell the Jade Emperor, he will bring some good luck to himself.

Twenty-fourth of the lunar month. Red lanterns are hung high everywhere in Guanzhong, the aroma of Tusu wine is floating all over the street, the gongs and drums of Chang'an City are noisy, the sound of firecrackers, and all kinds of temple fairs are so lively that the sky is lifted.

The twenty-fifth day of the lunar month. The twenty-eighth day of the lunar month. The emperor sacrificed to his ancestors. Officials above the fourth rank in the capital and the fifth rank in the prefecture and county were given gold and silver banners, and the quasi-Chang'an was not curfew from Chinese New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the first lunar month.

The thirty-first day of the lunar month. Chinese New Year's Eve. Feast of the Palace.

The emperor set up a banquet in the Lin De Palace, and invited more than 100 officials, meritorious ministers, foreign women and envoys from various countries to send Wei envoys. More than 300 people feasted in the palace, which became the gathering point of all the lively in Dawei.

On this day, unitary time.

The sky has just darkened, the Daming Palace is already a fire tree and silver flowers, the jade dragon is turning, and the red lanterns on the wall of the Ten Mile Palace reflect the night sky.

Three palaces and six courtyards, secluded palaces, burning giant candles, burning sandalwood, glowing as day. The sound of silk and bamboo is endless, and hundreds of lanterns are clustered in the ditch, like a silver man hanging to the ground.

In front of the Lin De Palace, the sheng drum is waiting to be enjoyed. On the front desk of the Mutton Fat Jade Palace, the royal golden dragon banquet was placed, surrounded by the peacock fan purple dragon, Emperor Li He wore twelve dragons and twelve chapters, and his pale face was also red at the moment.

On the wide square in front of the palace, dozens of large cases were placed, and more than 300 officials and envoys were seated, looking at the past. And near the emperor, there is a plan for each person and a case, and the people sitting are all five surnames and seven wangs, which has become the most eye-catching place in the entire banquet except for the imperial platform.

When the last sedan chair enters, the last official takes his seat. The eunuch set off the dragon and phoenix firecrackers, signaled the imperial dining room to put the pot down, and the banquet of the New Year's Palace kicked off.

Emperor Li He held the glazed golden dragon cup, poured tribute to Jiannan Burning Spring, and stood up to raise a glass to salute: "Descend to Er, but the sun is insufficient." Tianbaodinger, with no prosperity! Such as mountains, such as Fu, such as hills, such as tombs. If the river is so far, it will not increase!"

The ministers brushed and bowed to thanksgiving, and after three bows and nine knocks, they each raised their wine glasses and drank them all, and shouted again: "Like the longevity of Nanshan, it will not collapse!

Immediately, the voice of the great eunuch Zheng Zhong resounded like a rooster in the audience: "After the ceremony, the year is more handover!

The dragon-like palace maid held the vermilion flying dragon carved lacquer banquet box and came out, and the boiled dumplings that had just come out of the pot were steaming and were presented to everyone one by one.

However, when the fragrant dumplings were served to Xin Yi, she had no appetite at all.

The people around looked at her and pointed at her, and the sound of squirming kept crashing into her ears, making Xin Yi feel more and more like sitting on pins and needles.

Just because, she, a concubine of the Wupin Mansion, not only received an invitation to the palace banquet, but also the seats were arranged in the program area of the five surnames and seven hopes.

She still remembered that when she received the holy decree, Xin Qi specially confirmed it three times to the eunuch who had summoned her, and the person invited by the holy will was Xin Yi. There is only one Xinyi.

In the next few days, the threshold of Xinfu, which was originally stormy, was about to be broken. Congratulations on the New Year's greetings, and even Mao Sui recommended himself to buy clothes and decorations for Xin Yi's Yunshang Pavilion, which made Xinfu a red horn in Chang'an.

However, the layman looks at the excitement, and the insider looks at the doorway. Only those who are in the officialdom can understand how unusual this decree is, so unusual that it is thrilling.

The grand banquet of the palace attracted the attention of the whole country. This is by no means a whim of the emperor, let alone a heroic imperial grace. It's more like a well-premeditated one.

Therefore, from Xin Yi stepping into the Daming Palace alone, to entering the Lin De Palace, and using the boiled dumplings, the suspicions along the way are very loud, and the higher the cold white eyes roll, even if Xin Yi is a human being, he feels like a needle prick.

Xin Yi was in a stalemate, when he suddenly heard a voice from the front desk of the hall: "Huh?"

It was Emperor Li He. He had just taken a bite of the dumpling, and it seemed that he was biting something hard, making his eyebrows frown.

Immediately, when Li He spit out a golden coin from his mouth, the great eunuch Zheng Zhong suddenly knelt down and bowed down happily: "The emperor is eating the golden coins! I wish the emperor a blessed New Year! May the emperor be blessed with a long period of happiness!"

The ministers immediately knelt down in understanding, and the mountain shouted "Long live the heavens and the earth!"

At the Chinese New Year's Eve feast, the eight treasures of the dumplings are hidden, and the folk may hide a copper coin. Whoever eats the treasure will have good luck in the coming year, and then everyone will congratulate him. (Note 1)

The palace is no exception. However, this "auspiciousness" must be, and can only be, the emperor's. Therefore, the gold bills are deliberately put away, deliberately on the top of the dumplings, and the emperor can eat them in the first bite, which is called "the supreme son of heaven, the first blessing of the new year".

Li He stroked his beard, and his eyes after the twelve strings of Dongzhu crowned smiled into a slit: "Zhongqing doesn't have to be polite, flat body, flat body! Although I am the Son of Heaven, I feel ashamed to occupy the luck of the world alone." So this year, I also ordered the imperial dining room to hide gold bills in the dumplings of the kings, a total of six, and take an auspicious number. The person who eats the gold coin will not only get the New Year's blessing, but I will also reward him with the peach charm written by Zhang Zhen himself. What do you think?"

"My Emperor Shengming!" the ministers bowed down again, as if they didn't realize that they knelt down so frequently and bumped their knees miserably.

After a while, I heard Lu Huan exclaim in a small voice: "Huh?"

What followed was the sound of gold bills being spit out on the dish.

"Congratulations to General Lu! Congratulations to General Lu!" Almost at the same time, the voice of the great eunuch Zheng Zhong's rooster resounded through the hall.

The ministers saluted and congratulated again, and said some auspicious words to Lu Huan for the New Year. but each one is like a good one in the morning.

Exegesis:

1. Boiled dumplings: dumplings today. Dumplings originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, titles such as "boiled dumplings" appeared. The custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival was quite popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Take the meaning of "more age and make a child", "son" is "child", and "dumpling" is homophonic, with the meaning of "festive reunion" and "auspicious wishes". The relevant historical records of the Qing Dynasty said: "On New Year's Day, the feast is the same, such as eating flat food, and the name of the slot, taking the meaning of its new year." He also said: "On the first day of the new year every year, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, they all make dumplings with white flour, which is called boiled dumplings, and the whole country is the same, and there is no difference." The rich family, secretly hidden in the gold and silver small coars, to Bu smoothly, the family food, then the end of the year. (Source: Sogou Encyclopedia)