Chapter 8: The Great Pilgrimage

Yang Yi's pen and ink were swaying, and the traditional Chinese characters he had just learned were twisted and twisted by him, but he wrote the whole article in one go.

Put down the pen, handed the paper to the maid, and left a sentence: "Miss Li guessed as much as she could." Before everyone could react, he turned and burrowed into the crowd.

Yang Yi was afraid of being beaten, and he could think of what Li Yu would look like after reading it.

Yang Yi wrote not so much a lantern riddle, a word fan, but a brain teaser, of course, the ancients did not have this concept, they did not know that in the modern riddle game, the greatest person is not a famous poet or lyricist, but Xiao Ming.

"Why do Xiao Ming's dogs give birth to fleas?"

"If there is a house with two rooms, Xiao Ming sleeps one and Xiao Hua sleeps one, whose house is it?"

"When you stand with a pig and guess an animal?"

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When Li Yu saw the answer written by Yang Yi on the back of the paper, her face was very embarrassed, because she only guessed the last one of the three questions, and she didn't dare to say the answer!

"Shameless!"

Li Yu's soft scolding was covered by the roaring fireworks in the sky, Yang Su looked at the long paper with riddles written on it a little crying and laughing, feeling that this seemingly simple child's play fan contained a deep charm, looking up to look for it, under the fireworks in the sky, but where was Yang Yi's figure.

Yang Yi didn't have time to guess any riddles with Li Yu at this time, carrying a copycat version of the "Qingming Riverside Embroidery Map" weighing dozens of pounds, Yang Yi decided to study a bicycle if he had time, at least a scooter, the huge palace was comparable to a small and medium-sized city in the previous life, and every time he went out of the palace, it was like learning from the scriptures.

"Maybe you can open a courier company?" In the ancient times when transportation and communication were extremely inconvenient, logistics was difficult to circulate, although there was a dart board, but the dart board was to receive a long order, a large order, I have not heard of which to take a bath tub or something to run to find the dart board.

"Before the end of the ceremony, Fu Ke bowed, sent the ministers, congratulated the sacrifices, and only told the court, but the emperor was honored. Feast! …”

When Yang Yi arrived at the venue with the idea of traveling into space, the sacrifice to the heavens was almost over, and he looked at the emperor surrounded by hundreds of civil and military officials from a distance on the altar of the sacrifice.

Since ancient times, the Han people have had the tradition of respecting heaven and ancestors, which is the most solemn and solemn sacrificial ceremony of the Chinese nation, which originated in ancient times. It is a form of "communication" between man and heaven. The ritual of worshipping the heavens is usually presided over by the "Son of Heaven, Emperor". Through the worship of the heavens, people express their gratitude for the nourishment and nourishment of all things, and pray for the emperor to bless the people of China.

In Yang Yi's view, in addition to some traditional cultural performances, this ceremony of sacrificing to the sky is a show of the emperor, a show for the whole day, showing that he cares about the people very much, and the people who may believe in it are very limited, but there are things that you have to do whether you think it is meaningful or not, even if you are looked at like a fool at times, you have to stand on this ridiculous truth.

In fact, whether it is in the past life or now, there have always been many people who are doing what they feel is very meaningless, some of them understand, some are confused, but it is these countless meaningless things that are stacked up to create one or two meaningful things that can make our lives continue.

After a large passage of classical Chinese that made Yang Yi want to sleep, the emperor walked down the altar and came to the throne where the altar was started.

Yang Yi stood at the end of the crowd, and he couldn't hear what was said, but he knew with his ass that he was saying a bunch of sycophants such as "everything is prosperous, long live my emperor", and no matter how honest and strong an official is, he will not play anything like a man-made disaster at this time, which is something that only mentally ill people do.

After a fart, it's finally time to get to the point, and the officials congratulate him.

A duck-voiced eunuch holds a fold and reads the names one by one, it is hard to imagine that in the era when there was no audio equipment, the sharp voice was high-pitched and soared into the sky.

In Yang Yi's opinion, this is naked and blatant bribery, to be reasonable, shouldn't your emperor reward everyone when he is happy? Why should we give you a gift?

Yang Yi vowed that if there was a procuratorate and an anti-corruption bureau now, he would definitely kill his relatives and report it in his real name.

Thinking about it, it seems that there was an anti-corruption department in ancient times, and weren't the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Imperial Embassy investigating corruption? However, when Yang Yi saw the head of their department, the Imperial Envoy Doctor Zuo was holding a jade artifact on it and shouting Long live, so he could only pout and curse in his heart.

After listening to it for a while, there are all kinds of gifts from hundreds of officials, but they are all in place, this kind of congratulatory gift is not what Yang Yi said is really a bribe, but it is for the emperor, you have to send a cart of gold and silver treasures, and the imperial envoy will come to your house as a guest tomorrow. Therefore, various collections of names and paintings have become the mainstream, and some generals and princes who are officials in other places, and envoys of vassal states have also sent people to send congratulatory gifts.

"It's good that the painting is embroidered, otherwise with the works of Liu Wenzheng and a group of down-and-out scholars, no matter how good the painting is, it will be difficult to enter the eyes of everyone."

"Yang Yi, the Ninth Emperor Prince, presents a copy of "Daguang Shangjing"!"

When the eunuch read Yang Yi, the Nine Emperor Princes, nearly 10,000 people in the audience looked around looking for this fool, and some people were even asking if they remembered wrongly, how could there be the name of the Nine Nerds?

"Wait! I'm here!! Borrowed, borrowed! Hey aunt, please put your ass away! ”

Yang Yi was almost squeezed into a patty, and he was very glad that he had rich experience in squeezing the subway and bus during rush hour in his previous life.

"Hey, who's this! Squeeze what squeeze! ”

"My shoes! My shoes are off! ”

"Ahh Stinky rascal, do you dare to touch the old lady? ”

All the way to the horse, bloody wind and rain, Yang Yi to the saint in front of the sage, chic finishing the Jinshan, there is a feeling of going to the west of the sky, in the complex eyes of the Buddhas, bow their heads and hand the embroidery to the eunuch, to the emperor.

Yang Yiyu glanced at it a few times, and the approximate image of the emperor and the hundred officials was there.

Yang Yi's cheap emperor Lao Tzu is a standard middle-aged image.

The customs of Daguang are still the same as those of the Han dynasties in previous generations, and the emperor needs to wear a formal dragon robe to attend formal large-scale events such as worshipping the heavens.

Because of the poison of film and television dramas, many people think that the emperor's official dress is a noble golden dragon scale robe, but they don't know that before the Qing Dynasty, the emperor's formal dress was a black and russet crown dress.

The crown dress is made of black blouse, vermilion bottom, and the upper and lower coats are painted with crests. It forms a complete set of red and black costumes with knee covering, scarves, and barekan (shoes and belts, etc.), with a jade crown on the head, and a rectangular crown plate with a circle in front and a back at the top, and a crown comb is dragged before and after, that is, the curtain that covers the face before and after in our impression.

I couldn't see the emperor's face clearly, but the appearance of the hundreds of officials around me was unobstructed, some were sitting and chatting, some were watching the night sky and watching the fireworks, some were clasping their hands in their sleeves and closing their eyes, and more were staring straight at themselves.

The people standing in the front row are all bigwigs, these people are well-educated, and the city is deep, but no one shows obvious contempt for themselves, but Yang Yi feels that their curious eyes are like watching their dogs suddenly speak human words.

As for how many contemptuous eyes there were behind his buttocks, Yang Yi couldn't care about it at this time, listening to the movement on the steps with his whole body, waiting for the emperor to speak. The first time he saw the emperor, it was bragging to say that he was not nervous, if he didn't kneel on the ground, Yang Yi was very doubtful that his feet would tremble.

"Where did Yi'er get this embroidery?"

Yang Yi snorted.

"Back to my father, the name of this painting is called "Daguang Shangjing Tu", which is presided over by my mother, and called on folk painters, a pair of custom embroidery paintings made by show girls. ”

"Where is Concubine Ning?" The Emperor asked.

"My father atoned for my sins, my mother and concubine have been in poor health recently, and the doctor said that it was not appropriate to move around too much, and he specially instructed his sons and ministers to come and be sure to present congratulatory gifts to their father."

Of course, Yang Yi would not let his mother come to this kind of place to suffer, and he had already thought about what to say.

But I saw the emperor hand the embroidery to the old eunuch beside him: "Everyone, appreciate this folk embroidery." ”

The old eunuch bowed down and held the embroidered painting with both hands, although the emperor did not say much, but with decades of experience in serving the master, he could feel that the emperor liked this embroidery very much, and carefully held the embroidery painting and sent it to Gu Changlian, the head of the Chinese book.

Gu Changlian took the embroidered painting and looked at it carefully, the sky was dark, the old man looked at it with false eyes, and the palace maid who was holding the lantern on the side saw this and lifted the lantern closer.

Gu Chang Lian Gui is the leader, although he is old, he acts modestly, and he is sleek in politics, but he can be called a contemporary master in terms of literary and painting attainments. Today's congratulations, dare to send their pen calligraphy and paintings as congratulatory gifts, among which Gu Changlian is the head, a piece of "100 greetings" won the full house,

I didn't expect Yang Yi to be more daring, since he dared to offer works in the market? Is this crazy or stupid? Everyone suddenly thought about it, isn't Yang Yi just a fool?

"Good, good embroidery! Good drawing! ”

The officials were shocked when they heard this, there are almost no works that can get Gu Changlian's three good words.

Several bigwigs on the side leaned sideways, and although the low-ranking officials were full of curiosity, they didn't dare to leave their seats.

Gu Changlian's eyes lit up, stroked his flowing white beard and said: "Look at the shouting of this vendor, the acrobatic juggling and dancing, and the leisure and elegance of passers-by, it is really lifelike." What looks like a street in Kyoto? ”

A middle-aged scribe on the side said, "This should be near the entrance gate of Diqingdong." As he spoke, he looked at Yang Yi, who was bowing his head, with a smile.

Yang Yiying said: "Yes, this is the main street market that enters the east gate. ”

"Although the brush is average and a little messy, it can be seen that it was made by many people, but the embroidery technique is very novel. In the market, all kinds of life are displayed in this embroidery small pair. It not only shows the humanistic style, customs and culture of Kyoto, but also highlights the prosperity of my Great Light Dynasty! This is a masterpiece mascot. ”