She got up and took the copper kettle from the small red clay stove, took the soup woman, poured two new ones, and put them all on the gums, while she herself got up and went to the warm couch by the window.

She thought: Yu Wenyan is not in the mood to linger with her this year.

He has a heart, and she respects him.

Yu Wenyan came out from behind the screen and saw Su Yan lying on the warm couch at a glance.

"I don't mean anything else, I just think you're too tired and need a good night's sleep," she said. If you think we should lie on a gum tomorrow night, I'll be with you. She smiled at the corner of her lips, as bright as ever, and then she closed her eyes, and her face was always smiling.

Yu Wenyan was in a very bad mood, and after looking at her for a while, he turned back to his teeth, and as soon as he stretched out his legs, he touched the warm quilt and the soup woman. "Just ......now," he said, "you're warming my bed?" ”

"Yes. I think I should give you a warm bed. She rolled over and went back to sleep.

Only stayed, with a warm tide rolling in his heart.

All the bad things were warmed by her.

Weak water ......

He called this name thousands of times in his heart, she was close, but she had to sleep separately, it was not good.

He got out of bed and walked over to the warm couch, "Why don't you I'll accompany you?" ”

Before she could speak, he had to squeeze into the couch that could only accommodate one person lying on his side.

Su Yan hurriedly said: "I see that you are very tired and in a bad mood, so I want to sleep on a warm couch." ”

"Who said I'm tired, I'm not tired, I don't know how good it is when I see it." He bent down and hugged the quilt sideways, "The beauty is on the side, and you can't hold it to sleep, it's really a torture." He lifted her up like a cherished baby, carefully placed her in the gums, and then went up to the gums himself.

Su Yan said: "I just came to the dehydration water, and it is not clean yet." ”

"Tomorrow night?"

"Tomorrow night, maybe it'll be clean." She didn't know what to say, "Maybe it's the night after tomorrow, and it will take six days each time, and it's only four days even today." ”

He whispered and reached out to wrap his arms around his waist. "I'll wait two days." Kissing her on the forehead, they stopped talking, and soon she heard his well-proportioned breathing.

Night, back to tranquility.

*

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, all families in the imperial city do not visit relatives and friends, but for temples and Taoist temples, this day is the most lively day.

Tianlong Temple, Huangjue Temple, Demon Suppression Temple, and Five Grain Temple, these places are full of cigarette smoke.

Su Yan called the county lord of Qingxia early in the morning to go to Tianlong Temple and Wuguguan to burn incense.

When I approached Tianlong Temple, I saw that there were too many people, so I went to the Five Grains Temple first.

Di Cui is now temporarily serving as the master of the five grains of the imperial city. He took a few young female Taoist priests as apprentices.

Su Yan and Qingxia County Lord had lunch at Wuguguan. Only then did he transfer to Tenryuji Temple. In the afternoon, there were fewer pilgrims in Tianlong Temple, but there was still an endless stream.

The aunt and sister-in-law saluted the incense, added the sesame oil money, and then took the carriage back to the city.

The second day of the Lunar New Year. The old prince led Su Yan, Concubine Yao and Yu Wenyan brothers and sisters to the royal clan to worship and have a reunion dinner. The newly married royal wives of the previous year are worshiped in the ancestral hall, and the wives and descendants of the royal clan can also find their peers here.

Su Yan didn't know what to say earlier, and she couldn't help but be startled when she saw that the entire Imperial Ancestral Street was full of royal descendants, and most of them only had no official position, and the family couldn't live anymore. moved to the Imperial Ancestral Street, relying on the identity of the royal family, here to eat and dress warmly.

Huangci Street is a long street and alley, there are shops, pawnshops, tea shops, cloth villages...... Everything but the kitchen sink. Located in the eastern part of the imperial city near the imperial palace, it is usually attended by either the royal family or the royal family.

In the depths of the alley, there is a huge courtyard, a large house of "royal ancestral hall" has been built, and there is an outer courtyard outside the big house, and there are houses without walls on both sides of the outer courtyard.

The ancestral hall is built like a palatial palace with a statue of a god three times taller than a human being.

Although Su Yan has never seen it, she knows that this is the Emperor Taizu of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Empress Shengwencheng and his wife, this emperor is the only one-wife emperor in the history of the Northern Qi Dynasty so far, and Empress Shengwencheng has two daughters and a son for Emperor Taizu, and this son is naturally the second emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty after the domination of the world, Emperor Gaozu.

All the clan relatives who came today are the descendants of the couple in this ancestral hall.

In front of the statue of Emperor Taizu and his wife, there is a pair of life-size men and women, one dressed as a prince, and the other is a princess, it seems that they are Emperor Gaozu and his wife.

The county lord of Qingxia told Su Yan: "The ancestral hall is nineteen zhang wide and nine zhang deep. ”

There are nine dragons stationed in the ancestral hall, nine doors, and there are inner and outer ancestral halls in the center, and the inner ancestral hall has a carved wooden wall, and the wall is carved with human patterns.

Su Yan looked at it for a while, and could tell that it was all the moving stories of emperors and concubines of various generations recorded in history, either those who bravely resisted the enemy or those who actively rescued disasters.

In the inner shrine, women are not allowed to enter.

When a woman enters the ancestral hall, she can only stand in the outer ancestral hall, which is a rule handed down by the ancestors.

In other ancestral halls, women are not allowed to enter at all.

The empress of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Qi Dynasty is a strange woman who has accompanied Emperor Taizu to fight the world, and she is admired by future generations, so the royal ancestral hall allows women to enter the ancestral hall, but they cannot cross the threshold of the inner ancestral hall.

At the end of the day, all the royal men entered the inner shrine.

All the brides who passed the door in the first year stood in two rows, standing in the outer shrine, offering incense and candles to worship their ancestors, and the patriarch of the royal family took the genealogy of each family and filled in the name of the bride.

The patriarch was a white-bearded prince, Su Yan had never seen this person, and looked at Yu Wenyan with a confused expression.

The county lord of Qingxia said in a low voice: "He is the younger brother of Emperor Dezu, and he is named King Shou, everyone says that his title is good, and he is really a long-lived man, and he is eighty-four years old this year." ”

The first emperor was Emperor Huizu, and Emperor Dezu was Emperor Huizu's father.

Even Yu Wenyan had to call him the emperor's uncle, and the old prince called the emperor's uncle.

Lao Shouwang held a piece of paper and squinted his eyes to identify the words on it, "When the royal clan woman enters the ancestral hall, she does not talk about dignity and inferiority, but only about seniority." The first one, Jiang Suyan, the wife of Yu Wenyan, the bride of the palace on the left shoulder! ”

So-yeon didn't understand what was going on.

Yu Wenyan said in a low voice: "You are like before, take the incense candle and bow down." ”

Su Yan understood, lit incense and candles, and knelt down three times and bowed nine times.

She was worshipping her ancestors, and Yu Wenyan ran to the patriarch Lao Shou Wang to speak, although her voice was low, Su Yan could see that it was all words to please Lao Shou Wang.

Lao Shou Wang said to the man holding the pen on the side: "Remember! After a pause, Yu Wenyan smiled, "Your old man has to write a little better, and we will donate 50,000 taels of silver to the palace when we go back." "The old man is holding his beard, "The left shoulder of the palace is always generous." Well, you kid has a good conscience, the land price in Weizhou has appreciated, and you haven't forgotten to tell your clansmen, okay, remember it better for her. ”

Lao Shouwang shouted "remember" again, and thought for a moment, "Jiang Suyan, the eldest daughter of Jiang Shuncheng, the prime minister of the dynasty and Wen Zhonghou. ”

Su Yan's heart sank, she was not mistaken, just this sentence, she would ask for 50,000 taels of silver, which was worth more than her calligraphy danqing.

When she finished worshipping, she called a few more people, all of whom she had never heard.

The county lord of Qingxia stood aside and said in a low voice: "These are the brides of the feudal kings and royal families from all over the world who married last year. Those who came to worship their ancestors before the New Year Festival could not enter the ancestral hall of the royal clan, and even if they had a holy decree to marry, they could not be regarded as real royal women. ”

Soon it was the turn of the tenth princess, she was pregnant, and was helped up by two girls. Yu Wenxian's wife Fu Shi Yihui. ”

Su Yan asked in a low voice: "Why didn't you write that her maiden family is Fu Youxiang?" ”

The lord of Qingxia County said: "Fu Youxiang is not as prestigious and famous as Prime Minister Jiang Da, not to mention that my brother can give 50,000 taels of silver for that sentence." ”

"Isn't it supposed to be Aunt Yao?"

"The front is the new wife, and then the side wife. All concubines are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall, and if they have the eldest son, they only write the words 'biological mother Wang's family, biological mother Li family' in small letters next to the name of the eldest son. The eldest son can enter the ancestral hall on the second day of the first month of the following year, and the other sons and eldest sons enter the ancestral hall at the age of three, and the general concubines enter the ancestral hall at the age of five. ”

The lord of Qingxia County said in a low voice: "After the side wife worships, it is the name of the sect woman who was abolished and abandoned the year before, and then the new wife and side wife worship again." The royal family who live in the imperial city gather here every year on the second day of the first lunar month. The vassal kings and princes who lived in the fiefdom came back after adding children and marrying wives, and there were also children who entered the ancestral hall in their teens, but if the specified time was missed, the patriarchs and clan relatives would be unhappy, and the few people who wanted to add their names to the family tree would take the silver out to repair the houses and ancestral halls on the Imperial Ancestral Street. ”

After the ceremony of the main wife and bride to worship the ancestors is completed, the new side wife is married.

Concubine Yao only now figured out what was going on, knowing that the old prince brought her here to worship the ancestors and enter the ancestral hall, and even recognized her identity and status, she was happy in her heart, and looked at the old prince gratefully.

The old prince said in a low voice: "You don't have to be nervous, just watch what they do, you just do it again." He frowned slightly, "Come out tightly, I forgot to bring the silver ticket, I have to ask them to write it for you." ”

He passed through the other royal clansmen and squeezed to the side of Lao Shou Wang, and before he could speak, a young man begged: "Lao Shou Wang Ancestor, can you write something better for her?" She's wronged enough, I beg you, I'll write her name all down......"

The old longevity king narrowed his eyes slightly.

The young man took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, "Thirty thousand taels can be done?" ”

Lao Shouwang stretched out his hand to take it and handed it to the man who was recording on the side, and the man turned around and handed it to the person in charge of the cashier behind him, and counted it, but he didn't recognize who the young man was.

Lao Shou Wang said: "Emperor Renzu's fourth son, the grandson of King Chang'an, Yuwen talks, and his wife ......" He didn't know what to say, took a piece of paper and looked at it, "Is it Li?" ”

The young man hurriedly said, "Li Qing'er! ”

Lao Shouwang shouted "Remember", "Yuwen talks about his wife Li Qing'er." ”

Su Yan exclaimed, "A few words cost tens of thousands of taels?" ”

The lord of Qingxia said: "The more humble the status, the more difficult it is to enter the genealogy and ancestral hall. Back then, my mother wanted to enter the family tree, and my father spent a sum of money. She glanced at Concubine Yao on the side and said, "Aunt Yao's name has to be written in today, I'm afraid that I will get at least 100,000 taels of silver." ”

So Yeon sighs!