Chapter 42: Chinese New Year

Compared with the grand and grand Chinese New Year's Eve in the Taiji Palace in Chang'an City, the Chinese New Year's Eve of Li Mo, Shang Shang and Wu Meiniang under Jiu Shan is relatively simple. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After going to Zhaoling to worship the first emperor and succession, the three of them returned to the house and performed their duties.

Li Mo entered the house, opened the fine pine smoke ink, spread out the red paper, wrote new couplets, and drew peach charms, and the merchant brought a small bowl of beaten paste from the kitchen, and helped Li Mo paste the Spring Festival couplets at the door of each house, and even the kitchen door did not leak.

The house with the wooden tree as the roof, the door frame of the one-color log, also shows a bit of the joy of the New Year against the backdrop of the red couplet.

Wu Meiniang had already changed out of a gray monk's robe, put on a plain cotton skirt of a merchant, sat in front of the stove in the kitchen to help the merchant clean up the soaked dried vegetables, and selected the dry and hard vegetable roots to throw aside.

The merchant who rolled up his sleeves stood by the pot and fished out the fried fruits that were fried to a golden brown, picked one out from time to time, and handed it to Wu Meiniang's mouth while it was hot, watching her open her mouth uncomfortably to eat, but she squinted and smiled.

On Chinese New Year's Eve last year, only she and Li Mo lived, and the Li family Shouling Zhuangzi just sent Li Da to send some food and went back.

The two are together, although they are also warm and calm, but the New Year Festival is not as good as the usual festival, it is a lively time, there are only two people, how can it be a little colder.

There is more Wu Meiniang this year, although her mind is a little complicated and not very easy to approach, but the businessman is still a little happy.

Li Da hurriedly stopped outside the gate of the courtyard with a large cart of things, and Li Mo, who was leisurely feeding the chickens in the yard, stepped forward with a familiar car, helped him take down the supplies sent from Zhuangzi, and took over a large bag of snacks from the aunts.

"Childe! Happy Chinese New Year! Li Da smiled innocently and patted the dust on his hands.

The ladies on the Zhuangzi are very fond of businessmen, and this time they asked him to bring a big bag of snacks, and there is also a bag of sunflower seeds fried by themselves, which is fragrant.

"Hehehe! Oh, yes! Happy Chinese New Year! Li Mo smiled and pulled Li Da over, grabbed a handful of fried fruits that the merchant had just fished out of the pot, put them on a plate, put them in front of Li Da, and poured a bowl of tea for him.

"Sit down and try my handiwork! See if this fried fruit is delicious as Aunt Li's cooking? The merchant smiled and rushed to Li Dao.

The craft of frying fruit is still learned from Mrs. Li when the merchant went to Li Zhuang, grinding the flour with glutinous rice, mixing the honey and frying it in the oil pot, round and fragrant, it is the best to make snacks to eat during the New Year, and the merchant is in love with it as soon as he eats it, and he has to fry it for two years in a row.

"What the girl did, it must be good, I won't sit anymore, my father is still waiting for me to go back!" Li laughed and stuffed a fruit into his mouth, and said goodbye to the two.

Li Mo kept sending Li Da out of the courtyard gate, then he turned around, looked at the round and yellow fruits on the table, smiled and put one in his mouth, and a sweet aroma suddenly spread on the tip of his tongue, and it was sweet to his heart.

By the time the three of them had packed up what they should have packed, it was already dark.

The merchant took the last plate of dumplings out of the pot, put them on a plate and brought them to the table, and put them in the middle of a table full of dishes, Wu Meiniang walked in behind her with a small half dish of vinegar.

Li Mo naturally placed the dishes and chopsticks in front of everyone, and the three of them closed the door and sat down around the round table, and the five red candles burning in the room illuminated the whole room.

Feeling the roasting of the dragon under their feet, the bodies of the three of them were warm, and a lazy and comfortable feeling flowed between the three of them, and even Wu Meiniang, who had never been in a good mood, comfortably leaned on the back of the chair behind her and didn't want to move anymore.

The merchant looked left and right, and picked up the wine jug in front of him funny. Since neither of them wanted to move anymore, it was up to her to serve.

Who made one of them a royal family and the other a future female emperor? Only she, a little woman, is the weakest, so let's be wronged!

"Come on! It's all full! The merchant poured a full cup into the cup in front of Li Mo, and said: "It's vegetarian wine, let's drink less for the New Year today!" ”

Wu Meiniang picked up the cup and caught the wine poured by the merchant, the liquid in the cup was golden and turbid, with a faint aroma of wine, obviously an undistilled vegetarian wine.

The dishes on the table exude an attractive fragrance, although Li Mo still refuses to eat vegetarian food during the filial piety period, but because of Wu Meiniang's presence, the merchant still made a few meat dishes, a bowl of whole chicken soup, a plate of more than every year and a plate of boiled beef that looks spicy and strong.

In addition to these things, the rest of the merchants still took into account Li Mo's taste and used vegan.

"After tonight, it will be the third year of Yonghui, come! For the smooth and smooth coming year, let's have a toast! Shang Shang sat down, picked up his wine glass, and smiled at Li Mo and Wu Meiniang.

She really didn't expect such a situation, but looking at Wu Meiniang's appearance, I'm afraid she didn't expect it either.

Although Li Mo accepted Wu Meiniang because of Li Zhi, he was afraid that he had to put a question mark on what he thought in his heart.

However, in any case, on this Chinese New Year's Eve, the three of them can sit together for this year, which is a kind of fate! As someone who has traveled a long time and space to get here, no one appreciates this hard-won opportunity more than a businessman.

Li Mo held the cup, but his eyes looked at the merchants, the merchants under the candle flame looked extraordinarily gentle and charming, and their soft eyes seemed to drip water, slowly rippling in this warm candlelight, making Li Mo's heart trance.

Wu Meiniang watched the tacit interaction between the two, but she couldn't help but feel gloomy in her heart.

This kind of emotion is what all women dream of, but she does not have this blessing.

"It's really not easy for us to sit together, let's be happy today, don't think about anything!" Wu Meiniang simply drank the wine in the cup, blinked the moisture from the corners of her eyes vigorously, and smiled and lit up the bottom of the glass.

"Merchant! You tell me? Wu Meiniang turned her face to look at the merchants, and the smile in her eyes was obviously a little deliberate. With Li Mo, Wu Meiniang really didn't know what to say.

She is now a person who is difficult to protect herself, if Li Zhi does not come to pick her up, with her identity, it is difficult to move an inch in Datang, and she can only try her best to have a good relationship with businessmen and businessmen, and ask for a place to live.

Shang Shang was slightly stunned, then smiled clearly, and drank all the wine in the cup, Li Mo watched the two of them simply drink the wine in the cup, and did not say anything, and slowly drank a glass of wine.

The Taiji Palace, which was leaking through the night, was already silent at this time.

The banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve was over, and the concubines had returned to their palaces, leaving Li Zhi and Empress Wang Yuyan sitting on the main seat.

In the hall with high red candles, the palace people who cleaned up the mess shuttled lightly in the hall, as if they were deeply afraid of disturbing the emperor and empress sitting on the upper throne.

Wang Yuyan looked at the emperor sitting on the high seat beside her with one hand and slightly closed his eyes with a complicated expression, this person was her husband, but looking at him made her feel so strange.

From her father's reply to herself years ago, she already knew that the idea of pinching the lifeline of the man in front of her had failed, as early as the moment before her father sent someone to Ganye Temple to arrest people, this man had taken the woman away from that place, and her father sent a large number of people to search in the city, but they could not find the woman.

"Your Majesty! It's late at night, let's go back to the palace and rest! Forcing herself to suppress the sullen breath in her chest, Queen Wang called out loudly.

Peach Branch stretched out her hand to pick up Queen Wang from the phoenix seat, but she couldn't help but snort in the next moment, Queen Wang's nails were deeply pinched into her arms, and the blue and white hands tightly grasped Peach Branch's arm, as if she was suppressing something.

As if he had just come back to his senses, Li Zhi raised his face, opened his eyes and looked at the woman in front of him with slightly pale lips, and his blurred eyes swept over the inner servants who were shuttling all over the hall with some dazedness.

"You go back first! I want to walk around and drink alone. Li Zhi shook his head, seemed to be a little unconscious, waved away Queen Wang casually, stood up directly, and Xiao Chengzi on the side hurriedly stretched out his hand to support it.

Queen Wang's face turned a little paler, her hand holding the peach branch shook, and she slowly lowered her body: "The concubine retired." ”

Li Zhi stood on the throne, with a cold expression and watched as the queen slowly walked out of her sight holding the hand of the palace maid, her figure became more and more erect as she walked away, and a mocking smile line appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Xiao Chengzi lowered his head slightly, caught a glimpse of that smile in a flash, and couldn't help but shiver.

The cause and effect of the whole thing, no one will know better than Wang Qi and Xiao Chengzi, two people who have been by Li Zhi's side for many years. That day, when he learned that Wang Renyou's soldiers were besieging Ganye Temple, Li Zhi's anger made him a little scared when he thought about it now.

Queen Wang really made the wrong choice this time!

Looking at the disappearing back of the queen, Xiao Chengzi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

If a woman can't figure out her position, then what awaits her must be the most tragic fate! And a queen, if she gets her position wrong, it is not just a tragic fate, maybe what awaits her is the destruction of an entire family!

"Let's go! Go to Concubine Shu's palace. Li Zhi raised his feet and stepped down the steps, lazily said.

"Yes!" Xiao Chengzi respectfully agreed, raised his hand and beckoned a little yellow door, and ordered him to run to the front, go to the palace of the concubine to spread the word, and let her prepare to take over, Xiao Huangmen agreed, turned around and ran away.

"Your Majesty, today is thirty, do you want to go to the queen's palace and sit down ......for a while" Although he understood Li Zhi's unhappiness, Xiao Chengzi still made some efforts, Enke is imminent, and it is not the time to turn his face with the family!

"No need, let's go!" Li Zhi looked at Xiao Chengzi's somewhat worried face and couldn't help laughing.

This little adult! Too much caution! At this juncture, those people of the Wang family did not dare to openly confront the royal family at this time, that is, he did not go to the queen's palace on Chinese New Year's Eve, and those people did not dare to complain.

On this night, Li Mo, Shang Shang, and Wu Meiniang drank three jars of vegetarian wine and dispersed happily.

On this night, Li Zhi had a spring supper in Concubine Xiao's palace, and the scenery was beautiful.

This night, the red candle in the bedroom of the queen of the Tang Dynasty had a high fever, and it was not extinguished all night, and the queen in the bedroom smashed the broken porcelain and jade on the ground. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )