In the morning, Keshi ordered him a bowl of longevity noodles, a bowl of noodles only has one noodle, eggs and vegetable juice are added to the noodles, the noodle soup is a hen soup that has been boiled all night, the taste is excellent, Zhu Xiaoqi is sweating from eating. Ke kept persuading him to eat slowly, but the smile on her face revealed the pride and satisfaction in her heart.

Zhu Xiaoqi put down the chopsticks, she hurriedly took the hot towel on the tray of the palace maid next to her, and carefully wiped his face: "My brother has eaten longevity noodles, and a hundred years old is a small section, our brother has a long life, a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren!" Zhu Xiaoqi smiled: "Borrow the good words of the nurse, the longevity noodles you made are too delicious!" Ke smiled so much that he couldn't see his eyebrows: "My brother will make longevity noodles on every birthday in the future, and I will still make it when my brother is a hundred years old." ”

After breakfast, I was about to take a walk to eliminate my appetite first, and Li Jinzhong sent another letter. The letter was written by Xu Guangqi, and the matter that Zhu Xiaoqi asked him to ask last time had eyebrows. He first asked his missionary friend in Beijing, but this friend was not very clear, so this friend wrote to Macao to ask, and it happened that in June this year, a group of more than 20 missionaries came to Macao from Europe, two of whom happened to be proficient in the manufacture of telescopes, and two of whom were proficient in the art of cannon smelting. As for the minting machine, some people know that it exists, but there are no corresponding drawings, so it can't be manufactured, but they have promised to send a letter back to Europe to ask for drawings and manufacturing craftsmen, and they will bring it with them next time they come to Daming.

Although this birthday gift will not be more important in his heart than his purse and longevity noodles, it is too timely for Zhu Xiaoqi's ideal of changing the world. He was so grateful to Xu Guangqi, he knew that Xu Guangqi was in urgent need of firearms training now, although there were a large number of arquebuses and even flintlock firearms in the military battle bureau, but he had no way to give them to him. No one will care about him when he is engaged in weapon improvement in the War Bureau, just as a child for fun, but if he wants to take out a weapon and give it to others, it will be a big event, from his emperor grandfather to the prince's father to the ministers will ask: "What do you want?" So he can only say sorry to Xu Guangqi in his heart, of course, in fact, he is skeptical about whether Xu Guangqi can train a strong army as a scientist, in his mind, people like Xu Guangqi are only a bit weaponistic. However, with the current level of technology, firearms do not have an absolute advantage over cold weapons.

On the first day of the first month of the forty-eighth year of Wanli, it was sunny.

This is Zhu Xiaoqi's first New Year in this world. The New Year in the palace of the Ming Dynasty is very lively, since the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month of the previous year, after the stove, everyone began to wear the gourd Jing complement and python clothes, each palace is steamed on the delicious dim sum, the meat is done some initial processing, so as to concentrate on eating and playing in the following days. Last night, everyone began to worship each other, called "farewell to the old year", hanging the peach charm board next to the door, the general charcoal, sticking the door god, hanging the god of fortune, ghost judgment, Zhong Kui and other paintings in the room. On the bed hang the eight treasures of gold and silver, and the prayer wheel of the West Passion. The turret is planted with sesame stalks, and the cypress branches and firewood are burned in the courtyard, which is called "the year of the year".

Everyone wears a "moth" cut out of black gold paper and painted with various colors, or a hairpin of grass insects and butterflies on the head to cope with the festival scene, and some wear small gourds, the size of peas. She forced Zhu Youzhen to wear a moth like a caterpillar, and kept making fun of him, Zhu Youzhen could only laugh helplessly and didn't take it off.

During the fifth watch, Zhu Xiaoqi and Zhu Youzhen burned incense and set off paper cannons together, and Yuan Yuan hid behind the door and poked her head out to look. After the cannon was fired, Zhu Xiaoqi threw the door bolt on the ground of the yard three times, which was called "falling dry gold". Everyone drinks pepper and cypress wine, the wine is a little bitter and spicy, which means auspicious. Then everyone eats flat food together, which is now dumplings, and the Hakka secretly wraps three silver coins in the flat food when they wrap it, and it is said that what they eat will be auspicious and good luck for a year. She secretly told Zhu Xiaoqi about the characteristics of the flat food with silver money, so when dividing the flat food, Zhu Xiaoqi sandwiched the three flat foods to Zhu Youzhen, Yuan Yuan and Keshi respectively. The Ke family didn't dare to give Zhu Xiaoqi directly, and was worried that he wouldn't get good luck, at this time, Yuan Yuan ate the flat food with silver money, shouted happily, and showed off to Zhu Youzhen, not wanting Zhu Youzhen to eat it too. Zhu Xiaoqi didn't eat after eating, Yuan Yuan wanted to give his silver money to his brother, Zhu Xiaoqi said: "My younger brothers and sisters have good luck, and of course my brother will have it." At this time, the Ke family ate flat food with silver money, and Zhu Xiaoqi said: "The nurse is auspicious and good luck this year, and she is going to be a big official!" Hearing his nonsense, the Hakka family smiled on his face, but he was still worried in his heart, if he knew this, he would just share the flat food by himself.

After eating flat food, everyone began to greet each other again, which was different from last night, called "Greeting the New Year". When Zhu Youzhen and Yuan Yuan congratulated their brother on their good luck in the New Year, Zhu Xiaoqi took out two red envelopes and handed them to his younger brothers and sisters. Yuan Yuan was excited, but Zhu Youzhen accepted it calmly and thanked his brother. At this time, the general New Year's money is strung with a red rope, and it is generally given by the elders to the younger generations, and there are few brothers of similar age to the younger siblings, so he changed the way and wrapped them in red cloth. He took out another red envelope and handed it to Keshi and said, "Hold down the age, and the nurse will live a long life." Hakka smiled and accepted it.

Then the three siblings went together to celebrate the New Year with their father and mother, and the father rewarded each of the three people with a string of silver coins, five silver coins each, and Li Xuanzhi also gave the same New Year's money. Then the father took them to congratulate the emperor and the empress on the New Year, and the emperor's grandfather gave each of them a bunch of silver coins and asked them to go to the empress.

The queen's health has not been very good, she only gave birth to a princess, and she is very good to the crown prince Zhu Changluo on weekdays, it can be said that Zhu Changluo can sit firmly on the throne of the prince has a great relationship with her. So they were warmly welcomed by the queen, and the queen rewarded the three children with a string of silver coins for each person, but Zhu Xiaoqi was sixteen silver coins, and Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Huiyuan were ten silver coins, which came according to their age, one for one year. The palace maid brought out a lot of snacks, and her eyes lit up when she saw it, and the queen ordered them to eat slowly, so she went to the side with Zhu Changluo to talk.

After a while, the queen asked Zhu Xiaoqi to go over, it turned out that the emperor was going to find him a teacher, the queen asked Zhu Changluo what he wanted, Zhu Changluo had nothing to do, and said that he would definitely listen to the emperor Laozi, so the queen personally asked Zhu Xiaoqi what kind of master he wanted, in fact, this matter should not have been asked to him, but the queen loved this eldest grandson, so she wanted to ask about the situation first, and then ask the emperor according to his wishes. Zhu Xiaoqi thought that this was an opportunity, and it happened that Xu Guangqi's training was not going well, so he said: "The child heard that Shao Zhan was once a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and it should be excellent to come to learn." The queen looked at Zhu Changluo, and Zhu Changluo said: "Shao Zhan Shi and Xu Guangqi, the imperial history of Henan Province, is now training troops in Tongzhou." The queen nodded.