Chapter 30: The New Year

"Liufu! What are you doing in the study?! Feng Qing didn't expect that the maid who had followed her since she was a child would have such a thought, it was really impossible to prevent it!

"Miss, slave maid, slave maid is here to send pen and ink to the prince!" Liu Fu replied in a chilling voice, and moved a step farther away from Duan Yingjin.

"Is the skinny monkey dead? It's your turn to deliver pen and ink? Don't get here yet! Feng Qing was so angry that she almost forgot her original intention of coming to the study, and Liu Fu's account will be calculated when she goes back! So she glared at Liu Fu fiercely and scolded: "Get out!" Liu Fu withdrew from the study in a gloomy manner, and Duan Yingjin watched coldly without saying a word during the whole process. Only Feng Qing and Duan Yingjin were left in the study, Feng Qing sneered and walked to the desk, swept all the pen, ink, paper and inkstones in front of Duan Yingjin to the ground, and the crackling sound resounded throughout the space.

"Why is the princess so angry?" Duan Yingjin looked like she was completely fine.

"You...... Are you too embarrassed to ask me? The dignified prince actually hit the idea on his princess and maid, what kind of system! Seeing Duan Yingjin's indifferent appearance that had nothing to do with herself, Feng Qing couldn't cry or laugh.

"The princess is wrong with this, when did this king beat your maid's idea? It was you, Liufu, who was greedy for wealth and wealth, and who willingly did this deceitful and immoral thing. She suddenly came to the study without making a report, and when she sat on the lap of this king and said that she was willing to sacrifice everything for this king, she also startled this king! Just when I wanted to push her away, it happened that you came in, princess. Duan Yingjin's innocent behavior of shirking responsibility made Feng Qing laugh angrily, and she stretched out her angry and trembling finger to the scoundrel's husband: "You...... How shameless are you! Duan Yingjin smiled, grabbed Feng Qing's hand and put it to her mouth and kissed it: "My good princess, don't be angry, this king is just teasing Liu Fu, how can this king look down on Liu Fu's slave if he has such a beautiful and generous wife?" The princess must have something important to discuss with the king, so come quickly. Duan Yingjin's ability to please women is first-class and clever, Feng Qing was coaxed by him in a few words, and she didn't entangle Liu Fu with him. So she relayed Feng Wu's plan to him one by one, Duan Yingjin's eyes lit up after hearing it, and she asked her in surprise: "Really?" Did the queen really say that? ”

"Of course, could my sister lie to me? My sister is clearly here to help you, you have to fight hard, don't disappoint her. Feng Qing coquettishly pushed Duan Yingjin's forehead with her fingers.

"Don't worry, princess, as long as the Feng clan is willing to support this king, this king will naturally not disappoint the queen!" Duan Yingjin turned his head to look at Feng Qing beside him, how to look at it, how pleasing to the eye, the arrogance and arrogance he was most tired of in the past didn't look so annoying at this time, he couldn't help but kiss Feng Qing's face and said: "I am really lucky to be able to marry you!" And Feng Qing scolded a sentence of "flamboyant tongue" and snuggled into Duan Yingjin's arms.

Because it was a family banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve, the guests invited to the banquet were all royal relatives, so the banquet venue was set in the Anchang Hall, and all high chairs were used to serve food, one table for every two people, so that poetry and drinking could be done during the banquet. At the beginning of the banquet, 10,000 firecrackers were lit outside the Anchang Hall before the banquet, and after listening to the sound of firecrackers that heralded the prosperity of the New Year, everyone entered the table in turn to congratulate each other and said auspicious words. When the time comes, the emperor, the queen, and the queen mother enter the chairman to announce the opening of the banquet, and the emperor leads the close branch clan, the princes and the harem concubines to the queen mother to give a farewell gift, and the queen mother each rewards a pair of purses; After that, everyone congratulated the emperor and queen on the new year, and the emperor returned with a family gift to express the meaning of "blood is thicker than water" and unite close relatives.

Every Chinese New Year's Eve banquet is the most complete gathering of royal family relatives, and almost all the families of Lintoe Palace, King Xiang Mansion, King Jing Mansion, King Min Mansion, King Ning Mansion, King Tai Mansion, King Jin Mansion, and Princess Chang Mansion are all present, and even the horse Qin Yan is also invited.

Duan Yulin is in the right position, the emperor has the queen mother's seat on the left, and the right is the seat of the phoenix dance, starting from the head of the phoenix dance, the entire right hall is the seat of the female dependents, and the left hall on the opposite side is set up with the seat of the male emperor's relatives. During the banquet, Duan Yulin and the prince and the royal brothers drank and wrote poems, which was lively and elegant; The ladies also greeted and laughed with each other, and talked happily.

After three rounds of drinking, Miao Qing slapped twice at the suggestion of the queen, and as soon as the applause fell, more than a dozen man dancers dressed in red rushed in. They danced to the accompaniment of the musicians of the Palace Music Bureau, the girls' bright red skirts bloomed like fireworks, and they gradually formed a formation of flowers with enthusiastic dance steps, and the five girls in the center of the flowers were the most outstanding dancers of the Man Dance Division - the flower core is the most gorgeously dressed lead dancer Nangong Fei, and the other four leading dancers around Nangong Fei are Changying, Hongyang, Yuyan, and Rouge, and the beautiful and exquisite dance skills of the five people are amazing, and the applause is endless!

After the dance, Duan Yulin looked at the reward, especially the five leading dancers, and all the dancers knelt down to thank the reward. Duan Yulin was very interested in this dance, so he asked Feng Wu: "This dance is very wonderful, I don't know what the name is?" ”

"Although the concubine arranged a banquet song and dance, this dance was presented by the Man Dance Division after all, and the mystery of the dance must be explained to His Majesty by the Man Dance Master himself." After finishing speaking, he summoned the man dancer to dance Bai Youhan to the palace to meet him.

"Slave Bai Youhan knocks on the emperor, long live my emperor!" Bai Youhan deliberately wore a colorful dark flower cloud brocade palace costume that he rarely wears today, to show his grandeur. Duan Yingjin couldn't help but upturn the corners of her mouth when she looked at this aunt she hadn't met for a long time from a distance, it seemed that the queen really wanted to entrap him, not only wanted to marry the most trusted maid to his uncle, but also tried every means to make the aunt show her face, and it was not in vain that he had always tolerated Feng Qing's bad temper in a low voice.

"Flat. The dance is well choreographed, what's the name? Duan Yulin asked concisely, not remembering that it was the sister of King Jin's biological mother who was kneeling below. Also, the white and green calyx is just a singer, if it weren't for the luck of being pregnant with a dragon seed overnight, Duan Yulin would not have given her a name. The white and green calyx was only sealed after Duan Yingjin was born, and only after his death did he become a nobleman. The emperor didn't pay attention to the white and green calyx, how could he remember her younger siblings?

"Back to Your Majesty, this dance has not yet been named. This dance was originally prepared for this year's Wanchao Festival, but it is only a preliminary rehearsal, so it has not been named. Tonight, I dared to perform in the Anchang Palace, in fact, I also wanted to invite all the emperor's relatives to appreciate it first, so as not to lose Dahan's face at the Ten Thousand Dynasty Meeting. Bai Youhan replied respectfully.

"You've got a heart! Reward! Duan Yulin waved his hand, and immediately a little eunuch came up with gold and silver cloth to reward him. Feng Wu saw that Duan Yulin couldn't remember Bai Youhan at all, and she needed to remind her in time: "Has the emperor ever remembered that Bai Zhangwu was the sister of Bai Guiren back then, and she was the aunt of King Jin." Duan Yulin suddenly realized: "No wonder I feel familiar, it turns out to be a relative of Yingjin's mother's family." ”

"Don't hide it from Your Majesty, or the King of Jin proposed to dedicate this dance to the emperor, the King of Jin said that His Majesty likes lively and festive songs and dances the most, and this dance is not both enthusiastic and festive? It can be seen that the child of King Jin is filial. Feng Wu pushed out King Jin without a trace.

"Sure enough, even if you are so Jin, you should also be rewarded!" Saying that, he took off the green jade panlong he was wearing and admired the King of Jin, Duan Yingjin was overjoyed, and thanked him again and again. Feng Wu also suggested that it would be better to ask the emperor to personally give this dance a name, firstly, to fulfill the filial piety of the King of Jin, and secondly, to give the Man Dance Division dignity and encouragement, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds? Duan Yulin felt that it was not indispensable, so he named this dance "Red Flame Sun", which means that the Dahan Dynasty is like a blazing sun and a fire hanging high in the air, and the light is eternal!

Duan Yingting looked at the queen and the king of Jin singing and harmonizing coldly, and wanted to exchange opinions with the younger brother beside her, but turned her head and saw Duan Yingbi smiling flatteringly and dog-legged at Yang Yiqing in the opposite direction, and Yang Yiqing obviously felt that Duan Yingbi's smirk was very embarrassing, and he didn't look at him with disgust. Duan Yingting looked at his wife Xia Yunxi gently stroking her bulging lower abdomen, and suddenly understood her younger brother in her heart, so she could only drink helplessly.

At this time, in the right hall stood up a woman dressed in a gorgeous flower-dragging long skirt, combed a pair of narrow phoenix eyes with a pair of ruyi high buns, and the most eye-catching thing on her body was a pair of cloisonne hairpins that fell into the blue field jade beads, although this pair of steps was not very special, but it was given by Gaozu when Emperor Gaozu's wife was pregnant with her first child. That's right, this woman is the first child of Gaozu and Empress Shun Yiren - the eldest princess Duanyu. At the age of seventeen, Duanyu married Du Wei, who was only one of the household at the time, and later Duanru was called the emperor, she was named the princess of Hongluan, and the Du family was ascended to heaven. Duanyu and Du Wei have two daughters, the eldest daughter Du Honglian is nineteen years old, her appearance and personality are similar to her father, and she married the son of Guanglu Siqing last year; The second daughter Du Xuexian is seventeen years old, and she looks like Du Wei, but her personality is arrogant and domineering with Duanyu, and now she is still in the boudoir. Duanyu just celebrated her thirty-seventh birthday on the day of her childhood, probably too nourishing these years, and she still looks charming when she is middle-aged. Duanyu brought the snow lotus to the queen mother and the emperor to greet the New Year, and then looked at the prince and said: "This is different with a family, the prince is becoming more and more mature and stable!" It's a pity that your aunt was sick and couldn't attend the ceremony when you got married. Today, seeing that the princess's character and appearance are all first-class, the palace is relieved. ”

"My aunt has won the award, and my nephew has given my aunt a New Year's greeting." Duan Yingting wore a dark color printed gold Jiao pattern brocade robe covered with a red cherry blossom pattern robe today, and he was noble and dignified, and even Du Xuexian behind Duan Yu couldn't help but look at it twice.

Duan Yu smiled warmly, pulled the snow fairy behind him to his side, and asked Duan Yingting: "Does the prince remember the snow fairy?" When you were kids, you brothers always loved to hang out with my sisters. Du Xuexian smiled at Duan Yingting: "Xuexian wishes the prince's cousin a healthy New Year." "I haven't seen him for many years, the prince is already a handsome man, and the snow fairy has faded away from her youth and grown into a fair lady.

"Cousin is polite." Duan Yingting didn't remember much about what happened when she was a child, and she also behaved lightly to this cousin, but after nodding her head from afar, she continued to toast and laugh with the imperial uncles around her. Seeing that the prince was so arrogant and didn't take their mother and daughter in his eyes, Duan Yu was holding her breath in her heart, and suddenly Duan Yingjin took the initiative to toast Duan Yu's mother and daughter, and Duan Yu also hypocritically greeted Duan Yingjin in order to hide her embarrassment. Du Xuexian had seen too many children of the clan who were eager for her, but she felt that the prince's coldness was very charming, but she was slightly disgusted by Duan Yingjin's slight attachment.