On the day of Bao's first birthday, the group of officials came to congratulate, and Pei Gai immediately set up a banquet to entertain the guests. During the banquet, in response to Liu Zhuo's request for the issuance of the "Prohibition of Alcohol" the day before yesterday, Guo Pu was ordered to read aloud the newly drafted "Order on Officials Not to Lose Virtue with Alcohol" and listen to the opinions of his subordinates.

There was a lot of discussion, and most of them agreed - because there is no strict prohibition on drinking, but the big guys are just asked not to drink casually during working hours, or to work with drunkenness, and the words and intentions are dignified and upright, and there is nothing wrong with it. Pei Gai immediately said:

According to the calculations of the Ministry of Degrees, the valley of Yongzhou may be difficult to support the autumn harvest, and it must be transported from Qinzhou, but the treasury of Qinzhou is not very rich...... In times of crisis, we should be frugal and save grain, even if we don't want to drink privately, we must be in moderation. ”

Everyone gave their hands: "Respect the king's order." ”

Pei Gai smiled and said that since this is the case-"Today's feast, everyone should measure their own appetite, and they can stop when they are full, so as not to take more, so as not to waste it." If you are careless and have a lot of savings, you can go to your own house and share food with your wife and children...... "Let's also have a "disc operation", remember to pack the leftovers.

Of course, with the technical level of these years, it is inconvenient to store meals for a long time, and you nobles are probably not used to eating overnight meals. However, no one is a kitten, and most of the subordinates who are qualified to go to the banquet of Da Sima have brought their families to Chang'an City, plus servants and slaves, these back-to-the-pot meals can always be solved. I don't supervise either, but see that everyone is conscious.

“…… As for wine, three rounds are less, ten rounds are more, but it is limited to seven, and there is no need to overdo it. "The big guys respect each other, and it's enough for each person to drink a maximum of seven glasses of wine, and I'm afraid that I'll get drunk no matter how much I am.

Wen Lang was the governor of Pei Gai's guard battalion, and he was relatively close, so he asked with a shy face: "I know that among the scribes, there are many people who are not good at drinking, and the lord can be willing to be accommodating, and how about dividing the excess wine into the end?" "He's always been a good drinker, and seven glasses is not enough.

Pei Gai smiled: "After a while, Qing Zizi asked for it at each table, but not drunk, I don't blame." ”

Talking and laughing, the servants began to set up in the hall - spread out a large table in the center, put all kinds of fine things, and wait for a while to bring Bao Da over to "catch Zhou".

In fact, at the beginning, Xun Guanniang prepared three things, one is a pen, the second is a small wooden knife, and the third is a jade seal. ”

This is Xun Guanniang is a northerner, at that time, only the Jiangnan region was just beginning to prevail the custom of "catching Zhou", and she herself did not know the process; Second, she is also afraid of putting too many things, what if the little guy catches it badly? For Pei Gai, it is just a game, but for Xun Guanniang, it really has the intention of divining the child's future future.

In fact, Pei Gai doesn't know the rules very well, but when he was a teenager (before the crossing), he watched the neighbor's house do it, and he was very interested, since he had a son, he planned to take the opportunity to have fun. In fact, the folk often treat boys and girls differently, and the utensils used to catch the week are not the same, for example, although the boys also put jewelry and even rouge in front of them, they will never put needles and threads and cooking utensils - grasping jewelry and rouge, indicating that they will grow into gentlemen, but in the era when urban life and commerce are not yet developed, how can there be men who sew clothes and cook?

Pei Cai didn't care about these, and ordered people to find all the things he could think of, such as: auspicious money, medicinal herbs, flowers and plants, rice bowls, wine cups, abacus, rulers, chopsticks, etc., and also deliberately put the little wooden cow and small wooden horse that Baoda usually played with also put on it. Xun Guanniang saw that the situation was not good, and there were too many sundries, so she quickly stuffed another scripture, a piece of colored ink, and a small bow...... Pei Gai shook his head again and again: "What is the difference between pen and ink, knife and bow?" But it was inconvenient to disobey his wife's wishes, so he set up a whole table.

When he brought Bao Da over and placed him on the seat, the little guy didn't look at the fancy things in front of him, but just stared at them and searched left and right—he rarely saw so many people. Pei Tong will come to something, get up from the table, come to Baoda, bend down and tease him: "I'm uncle, do you remember?" All these things are interesting, and you can take them yourself. ”

Pei Gai smiled: "Little man, I can't speak yet, how can I understand what I do?" ”

Pei Tong shook his head and said: "Even if you can't speak, you may not know how to listen, I also have a son, so I naturally know." ”

But as soon as he took the lead, many guests also stood up and gathered around to tease Bao Da, especially a few martial artists, Pei should be afraid that their hideous faces would scare the children...... So he also walked down, played with everything on the table with the bamboo cane in his hand, and said to Baoda, "Whatever you like, you can take it for yourself, and give it to you." ”

He suspected that the boy belonged to a frog, and the thing in front of him was still there, not paying attention at all, and as soon as he was moved by the bamboo cane, the little one was immediately attracted to his gaze. But there are too many things, and it is estimated that it is difficult for children to choose, and they can't make up their minds when they look left and right.

Pei Shu lowered his body and deliberately pushed the jade seal in front of the child, causing Pei Gai to scold him repeatedly: "Brother retreat, just to see the ambition here, Brother is cheating!" ”

Finally, Bao Da stood up, crookedly, stepped over the jade seal, flashed the bow and knife, ignored the scriptures and calligraphy, abandoned the pen and ink, and copied the small rice bowl as soon as he bent over. After Pei Caixin finished speaking, it turned out to be a rice bucket......

Guo Pu raised his voice and said: "Yes, the people take food as the sky, Gongzi Fang knows this principle when he is one year old, and there is indeed Su Hui!" ”

Pei Tong also said: "There must be a talent to control the people!" ”

Pei Caixin said that your brains are turning really fast...... I saw Xiao Baoda pick up the bowl, leaned close to his mouth and gestured, then skimmed it again, bent down again, and picked up the curved ruler.

"If you don't follow the rules, it is difficult to make a circle, and it is the general knowledge of children."

Pei Caixin said don't, Uncle Wen Ji, you also come to have fun? Then I saw Bao Da skimming the ruler and putting up a box of rouge......

No one can think of good words at this moment, so they can't help but look at each other. I saw the child holding the rouge, turned around, stumbled a few steps, plunged into the nanny's arms, and then handed the rouge to the nanny.

Xun Guanniang also attended the banquet, sitting next to Pei Cai, she didn't dare to get up, just looked at her son from afar, a heart hung in her throat, seeing this situation, she hurriedly raised her voice and asked her son: "You know that the nanny often uses this thing to take it from her, but is it?" ”

Pei Tong hurriedly said: "Childe is honest and filial!" ”

Pei Cai couldn't hold back any longer, "haha" laughed and said: "But how can you not talk to Ru Niang?" Sure enough, the child is ignorant, and if he has milk, he is a mother! "Tell the servant, it's enough, put the things away—he estimates that if he continues to play, the kid may touch everything, and Pei Tong, Guo Pu and the others will have a lot of headaches.

The nanny took Bao Da back to the inner hall, and after the servants cleaned up all the sundries, Pei Gai immediately picked up the wine cup and saluted and feasted the guests. Xun Guanniang also took a drink, and then said goodbye and left the table, leaving the men at the banquet.

Pei Caiming borrowed the trick from Pei Tong to sing and dance, and drank two rounds of wine, and the atmosphere became more and more relaxed.

was talking and laughing, when someone suddenly approached Pei Xu, whispered a few words, and then Pei Xu's excuse left the table. Pei Gai didn't care, but after a short time, Pei Ziyu came back again, didn't sit down, waved his hand to signal the dance and music to pause, and then picked up the wine cup on the table, and looked around at everyone: "Today's son's first birthday, it is a pleasure to hold this banquet of Zhou." You can drink this cup, and I have another happy event to inform you. Then he turned to Pegai and raised the cup in the air with both hands.

Pei Caixin said something happy, do you also have a son? As far as the current situation is concerned, Pei Xu only has two daughters, and they are both concubines, and there are no men under his knees.

So he picked up the wine cup and faced Pei Xu, and everyone also filled the cup and drank bitterly. After Pei Xu put down the wine glass, he arched his hand to Pei Gai and said: "Chen Shi only heard the news from Pingyang, talking about the three things before the month......

As soon as they heard that it was news from Binh Duong last month, Pei Gai and below, everyone couldn't help but prick up their ears. I heard Pei Tong say word by word: "First, Pingyang Mantis was burned in Baitang, and one of the twenty people under the pseudo-Huiji King was burned to death, Liu Cong heard the news, and he was full of grief, and Fang Su ...... for a long time."

"The Book of Songs: Zhou Nan" has the chapter "Mantis", cloud: "Mantis Yu, Xuxi, Yier descendants, Zhen Zhenxi; "The feathers of the mantises, the descendants of Yier, the rope and the rope ......" are all descriptions of the mantis, that is, the grasshopper, this insect lays eggs on the grass stems, one by one, extremely numerous. Therefore, later generations will take the mantis as a symbol of the prosperity of the descendants, and the court of the past dynasties has built a "mantis is a hundred" hall to take its auspicious meaning and protect the holy heirs.

In the palace of the Hu Han Dynasty in Pingyang, there are naturally hundreds of halls, but last month, there was a sudden fire, and it was burned into ashes in an instant, and the young son of Liu Cong, who was raised in it, led by Liu Zhen, the king of Huiji, was burned to death twenty-one in one go!

Then you say that when Liu Cong heard the news, can he not "mourn and be angry for a long time"?

The ancients believed that the heavens and the earth were different, and they should be in harmony, so the princes of the Huhan and Liu clans were burned on the same day, and the mantis were burned down in Baitang, which is not the omen of the fall of Pingyang and the demise of the Liu family? Therefore, when everyone heard this, they were all overjoyed.

However, the matter is not just this one, Pei Xu went on to report again: "Second, Pingyang Ximingmen Mu died by himself; Third, the Huo landslide. ”

"Gate Mu" is the iron bolt of the city gate, and "self-destruction" means that it is inexplicably missing...... The ancients believed that this was a sign of great evil. There is a record in the "Hanshu Five Elements Chronicles": "In the first month of the first year of Emperor Cheng's Yuanyan, Chang'an Zhangchengmen Mumen died by himself, and Hangu Guancimen Mumu also died by himself. Then he quoted the scriptures and explained: "Guan moved Mu Fei, blamed the dead ministers for wrongdoing, and blamed the chaotic ministers for usurpation." "This is a sign that the rebels and thieves are about to rebel!

As for Huo Mountain, also known as Huo Da Mountain and Taiyue Mountain, it is in the northeast of Pingyang City and is the boundary mountain of Pingyang County and Xihe County. The ancients believed that the landslide in the territory was also a great omen, especially Huoshan was the highest and magnificent mountain range around Pingyang City, and from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the ancestral temple was built, and there were state-level sacrificial activities from time to time.

What a joy!

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