Chapter 16: The New Year is Coming
But soon, there was news that came back, the first batch of five BMW cars, the first day of listing in Luoyang was robbed, many rich sons who could not buy a car are still begging each other in the store, Jian Jia and others kept assuring that the next batch of carriages will be notified to you first, so that the sons will be persuaded to go back. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
When the good news came back to Chengzhou, it did not cause much of a sensation, because at this time the whole royal family was busy, and in a few days it was the most important festival of this time, the New Year.
When Jian Jia and the others returned to Chengzhou, they not only brought back the timber used to build the car, but also carried a load of grain and a few pigs and sheep with their entourage. In fact, after the supervisor returned to Chengzhou, the Dazhou depot stopped working, and after the workers happily received their wages, they had to shout a few times Long live the king, and then went home for the New Year.
And Zhou Bian naturally couldn't hear the grateful voices of the workers, he was having a big head at this time. Sitting opposite Zhou Bian is Lord Tsukazai, at this time is tirelessly telling Zhou Bian all kinds of precautions, it turns out that the royal family pays attention to so much, the New Year is more troublesome than ascending the throne, the 28th of the month dances, Chinese New Year's Eve to worship the ancestors, the first day of the first day to worship Sheji, the second group of ministers to congratulate, the third day of the first year to worship the heavens. In fact, the Zhou family is declining, and several previous kings do not pay much attention to it, and Lord Tsukasa is good at this, seeing that Zhou Bian is young, he wants to deeply instill the idea of respecting the sky, so the requirements are very strict, and even every detail must be remembered by Zhou Bian, and Zhou Bian is drowsy when he listens to it, and formalism is harmful.
Fortunately, a few days of hard work passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, on this day Zhou Bian put on the royal costume again, and the Queen Mother and Ji Zhu and others also wore extraordinarily grand, and welcomed the arrival of the dance together in Zhou Bian's courtyard. This dance has a long history, and there are records of the sacrifice in the oracle bone inscription of Yinxu. According to the Analects of the Township Party, when Confucius saw the arrival of the Wu dance procession, he stood on the steps in a ceremonial dress and greeted him respectfully. The dance is held after the Chinese New Year to celebrate the New Year, and between Chinese New Year's Eve to exorcise demons and use primitive dancing to drive away the bad luck of the whole year.
Since it is an exorcism, it is naturally a matter for the young master. Sure enough, after a while, he heard the sound of gongs and drums outside the courtyard, Ji Zhu couldn't help clapping his palms and exclaimed excitedly, "It's coming, it's coming." The Queen Mother was busy grabbing it, and Zhou Bian touched Ji Zhu's little head lovingly, how can children in this era have any entertainment projects, it's really pitiful.
Sure enough, someone came in soon, but the first few people who came in startled Ji Zhu, and Zhou Bian hurriedly hugged him tightly. I saw that these people were all naked, with only a skirt around their lower bodies, jumping around barefoot, with colorful ghost images painted on their chests, wearing ghost masks made of animal skins on their heads, and their dyed red hair looked particularly hideous. After carefully counting the number of twelve people, after coming in, they stood in their seats, six on the left and right, and began to dance the primitive dance of opening teeth and claws, shouting nonsense in their mouths, and from time to time making forward movements, which frightened Ji Zhu to scream, but he still couldn't help but stretch out his little head from behind Zhou Bian to look.
Then eight more samurai people came in, wearing bronze ghost masks, holding a ghost face shield in their left hand and a short sword in their right hand. Zhou Bian sneered, if he went into battle to kill the enemy, it would be good.
Just thinking about it, there were four more people surrounding one person Today, all four of them were dressed as the same samurai as before, but one of them was different, he was dressed in a white robe, wearing a larger ghost mask on his face, and the long sword in his hand was brandished after entering the courtyard. Zhou Bian knew at a glance that it was the old god stick of the young master.
Everyone laughed, only to see that the previous twelve little ghosts in the fight finally failed, and gradually fell to the ground, the young master had words in his mouth, and suddenly the long sword suddenly dripped red blood, which surprised everyone, and heard a woman's scream, but Zhou Bian knew that this must be some trick played by the young master, which was not surprising. I saw that the young master dripped the blood on the sword one by one on the previous twelve imps, who were still struggling on the ground, but after the blood dripped in, they straightened up and did not move, and the shield bearers around the young master cheered in unison.
This dance ended here, but I saw the young master take off his mask, and the little ghost also got up from the ground, and more than 20 people rushed up at one time and came towards Zhou Bian, so frightened that Ji Zhu retreated again and again. Zhou Bian smiled, calmly took a handful of copper coins from the attendants beside him, and sent them to everyone. This is naturally what Tsukasa has taught a long time ago.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, he worshiped the ancestral temple again, but fortunately, he participated once when he ascended the throne, so Zhou Bian didn't have much novelty this time, and he sat on the ground and fell asleep until the end. Taishi didn't have any opinions, but Tsukasa sighed deeply, and was disappointed in his heart.
After worshipping the ancestors, it is customary to distribute the meat. Naturally, there was a decision on who should be sent, and the largest of them was to be distributed to the Duke of Zhou according to the practice of previous years, and the doctor Wang Sunman drove to Luoyang.
An hour passed in a blink of an eye, and when Zhou Bian and the others were talking auspicious words to the Queen Mother in the palace, a guard ran in in a panic, and Zhou Bian suddenly had an ominous premonition.
Sure enough, the guard saluted and said, "Soon after the man came out of Chengzhou, he was stopped by the Gongyi soldiers who came from the detour, grabbed the gizzard and went north, Luoyang knew about it, and immediately sent a light car and fast horse to chase after it, and now the two families fought not far north of Chengzhou, and the man went with the men and horses of Zhou Gong, and ordered the small one to come back to report to the king." "Ji Ban has always had the title of doctor, and after the royal family unified its foreign strategy, he no longer called him the Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty but called Ban Dafu.
When Zhou Bian heard this, he immediately stood up, "How did Gongyi's men and horses get to Chengzhou West Gate, why didn't anyone find out here?" "Gongyi was originally in the east of Chengzhou.
"Doctor Man said that the Gongyi soldiers must have gone north from Gongyi to Mengjin first, and then turned south, so they bypassed Chengzhou."
From this point of view, Ji Ban, this kid is still a little scheming, the last time he scolded back, he knew the severity, and he didn't dare to go against the royal family again, so he continued to get along with Ji Chao, Ji Ban must be thinking in his heart, I can't afford to provoke the king, I can always afford to provoke Zhou Gong, I will rob and fight, what can you do? Thinking of this, Zhou Bian was indignant in his heart, and the royal family dared to snatch the meat of the ancestors, do you really think that if you snatch the meat, you can also snatch the blessing of the ancestors, after all, it was snatched from the hands of the royal family, and in the end he still didn't take the royal family too seriously, so Zhou Bian got up and wanted to walk out, but he was stopped by the guard who knelt down in front of him.
"The king, the king can't go, when he came, the doctor said, I want to tell the king, the king's status is precious, don't go, just have the doctor here."
At this time, the Taishi also heard the news and rushed over. "The king, the old man also thinks that the king doesn't have to go, let the two of them fight, maybe the king can still profit from it." The royal family is in such a predicament that even the important ministers of the court have opened their mouths to make profits.
"What the Taishi said, this king naturally knows, but the two families who fight each other are my people of the Great Zhou, this king can't bear it in his heart, isn't it just a piece of meat, if it doesn't work, I will also give Ji Ban a piece." Some time ago, when he saw these two families kill each other, Zhou Bian couldn't bear it, but there was nothing he could do.
Taishi shook his head, but said, "The old man knows that the king is merciful, but since we have already made a plan to join Luoyang to deal with Gongyi, then the king does not need to make a different posture at this time." ”
Zhou Bian thought about it, but he was still impulsive, so he forcibly suppressed the thoughts in his heart and sat down again.
The waiting time was always long, and it was only after a long wait that the guards came to report. "King, the Gongyi soldiers have retreated to Mengjin, and the Duke of Zhou has also led his troops back to Luoyang. After Dr. Man followed Zhou Gong to catch up with the people of Gongyi, he squeezed with words, and Dr. Ban was not excited, so he pulled out his sword to divide the gizzard into two, and threw a piece to Zhou Gong, Zhou Gong was furious and wanted to start a big battle, but was persuaded by Dr. Man's kind words, and the two families left their own troops. ”
It seems that Wang Sunman is really capable and can always bring good news to people, Zhou Bian nodded secretly, thanks to Wang Sunman, this conflict not only stopped the conflict between the two families, but also made the hatred of the two families rise again. It seems that gizzard meat is still a good thing, if you look at who and who are not pleasing to the eye in the future, can you also just give a piece of gizzard meat for them to kill each other, think about Zhou Bian and shook his head again, two peaches kill three soldiers, how can it be so easy, now that the etiquette is broken, it is estimated that not every prince attaches so much importance to the gauntlet.
In the end, the matter was successfully resolved, and everyone went their separate ways.
At dinner, the Queen Mother, Zhou Bian, and Ji Zhu's family sat together and had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. During the banquet, Zhou Bian personally served a dish to the Queen Mother, and regarded it as a piece of disc, smelling it, there was a smell of meat, and it was suitable for eating it, which was soft and delicious, fat and thin, and the Queen Mother couldn't help but praise it again and again after tasting it, and couldn't help but ask out loud What is this?
Zhou Bian smiled implicitly, this is a sausage. This is Zhou Bian in order to please the queen mother, so many days in advance of the specially pickled, sausage this thing is too simple, there is no technical content, so Zhou Bian is handy. The queen mother was very happy, so she rewarded a circle of maids with the remaining sausage slices on the plate, all of which were delicious. Ji Zhu was naturally very happy. So Zhou Bian's first Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in ancient times came to an end with laughter, which made Zhou Bian, who had been a man for two lifetimes, feel warm in his heart, and it was good to have a home.
In the blink of an eye, the New Year passed, but fortunately, nothing unexpected happened, and Gongyi and Luoyang were very quiet. If you want to ask Zhou Bian how he feels about the New Year, Zhou Bian must answer, sleepy. Just because there are too many Chinese New Year ceremonies, and they are all in the early morning, it is really painful to torture an eight-year-old child to get up early every day.
After the year is the first month, at this time and later generations are different, read the four sounds of the positive, not a sound of the sign, only because of this Qin Shi Huang was not born at that time, the later generations are just to avoid the name of the government, so called more than 2,000 years of positive (read Pingsheng) month, until today.