With the efforts of Bai Qi and Sun Simiao, the eldest grandson's illness finally stopped attacking as usual this winter, which made Li Shimin's family breathe a sigh of relief, and Li Shimin also specially passed the two into the palace to praise them. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Tai finally walked down Longshou Mountain on the day of the court minister's holiday, and the first thing he did was to take the white chess pieces with him, and at night, he quietly ran to a remote place outside Chang'an City to do experiments. Then the excited white chess finally took a part of the finished product from Li Tai's hands.

From the 27th to the 3rd day of the Lunar New Year, it is the vacation time of Datang officials. At this time, the Ministry of Rites also began to prepare for the grand Yuanzheng celebration, Li Shimin was already too busy to touch the ground, and Prince Kawad had been abandoned by everyone in a corner, so he was left alone to draw circles.

Early in the morning, Bai Qi got up and prepared all kinds of food, such as fried meatballs, wrinkled sand fish balls, roast duck, braised large intestines, etc., made several large portions of each food, put them into delicate small boxes, and then instructed his subordinates to use horse-drawn carriages to send these foods to Chengfu, Qinfu, Weichifu and Lifu, which had close contacts on weekdays.

In the past few days in Chang'an City, the vassal kings from all over the country have returned one after another, and the carriages of many ethnic minority leaders and envoys of vassal countries have also driven into Chang'an City. Li Shimin's family has been by Li Yuan's side during this time, welcoming those uncles and brothers who have returned from other places. White didn't want to care about how many undercurrents there were, so he was happy to hide himself in the Hou Mansion, not caring about anything, not thinking about anything, and studying all kinds of recipes with great interest.

Seeing that the subordinates of the family wrote the words "Shen Tu and Yu Lei" on the peach board, Bai Qi stopped their intention to hang the peach board outside the door, took out the red paper from the room, lowered his head and thought for a while, and wrote down a poem by Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty as a Spring Festival couplet:

"In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu.

Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. ”

Bai looked left and right, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he became, and then called the next person: "You paste this pair of Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the gate, and our Hou Mansion will not use peach planks in the future." Then, under the admiring gaze of the subordinate, he coughed lightly, turned around, pretended to be cold, and left with his hands behind his back.

After turning around the house, Bai Qi was pushed out by the housekeeper Uncle Wang, because he had to meddle in everything, and he made jokes in everything. Uncle Wang, the housekeeper, smiled bitterly and pushed his little Hou Ye out of the door: "Hou Ye, if you really don't have anything to do, go out for a walk!" ”

"Hehe, Fengqu, you just go out for a walk, you haven't been idle for a long time." The old ancestor said with a smile next to him, this godgrandson of his can do the kitchen or something, but this is the one who does this housework with carelessness, but this is not what he did in the first place, and it doesn't matter if it will be or not.

Bai Qi looked at the busy people in his house with a depressed expression, blinked his eyes, covered his mouth and yawned, stretched his waist, turned around and began to wander around the village.

Before dawn, although the streets outside the Hou Mansion had been closed, the people of the village had begun to be lively, and every household had opened their doors, and women in thick woolen clothes with tightly wrapped little ones were sweeping the snow at the door and on the streets early in the morning with a broom.

"Aunt Xue, it's early!" Bai Qi walked down the street, greeting the neighbors from time to time, and when he saw the children, he stepped forward, took out the candy in his pocket, squatted down and handed it over, causing the children in the village to cry out with joy.

"Uncle Chen, how are the preparations for the Nu dance in our village?"

The honest Uncle Chen grinned and said: "You can rest assured that you will leave this matter to me, you have already beaten these little guys in the morning, there is absolutely no problem!" ”

Bai Qi held a few ghost masks and looked at the cloth banner leaning against the edge of the room with great interest, chatting with Uncle Chen about family life.

The sky was gray, the chickens in the village were crowing one after another, and the big black dog with a shiny body ran out of nowhere, barking loudly, and when he saw the white chess, he immediately rushed to his feet in a low voice, and his tail kept wagging around the white chess.

White walked around the village with a cheerful step, and the big black dog shook his head and followed him. When he saw the old rooster at the head of the village, he hid behind the white chess, stuck out his head and barked at the rooster twice, and then retracted his head again.

The big rooster, who was looking for something to eat, stopped, glanced at the big black dog, looked away with disdain, took small steps, and walked to the other side of the field, where there was only a thin layer of snow, and continued to search for food with its beak.

Bai Qi walked the village along the road, returned home, and asked people to send another copy of the food to the fenced house where the guards lived at the entrance of the village, and he carried another food and personally sent it to Sun Simiao.

"I have a heart!" Sun Simiao smiled and asked the little Taoist boy who was swallowing saliva over there to take the food and invite Bai Qi to sit down.

Bai Qi glanced up at the Taoist temple, then scratched his head and said: "Daochang Sun, the surroundings of this Taoist temple are so desolate, why don't you come to my house tonight, our village will hold a bonfire party, it will be very lively!" ”

Sun Simiao glanced at his little apprentice Qingfeng, and saw that his big eyes were full of longing, remembering that every time the New Year was celebrated coldly by the two masters and apprentices in the past, it was really a little bad for Qingfeng, so he kindly touched the little apprentice's head, and replied with a smile: "Then bother you!" ”

Qingfeng's face was red, and he happily threw himself into Sun Simiao's arms, and shouted happily: "Thank you, master!" ”

Sun Simiao hugged his breeze, and saw that his apprentice was so happy, and he felt very happy in his heart.

"Then I'll pick you up tonight!" White only tried to mention it, but was not very sure, and now he was very excited to hear that he had promised to come to participate in the New Year's Eve in the village, and immediately stood up and said, and then hurried back to get ready.

At night, in the open space in front of the ancestral hall of Taoyuan Village, several big cloth flags stood on the ground, fluttering with the night breeze. The banquet prepared by the Hou Mansion and the villagers has been removed, and a huge bonfire is burning in the center of the venue. The villagers, including the servants and guards of the Hou Mansion, formed a circle around the bonfire, and the bright light of the fire reflected everyone's face.

"Knock knock"! Three drums suddenly sounded, followed by the shaking of bells.

Twelve children dressed in red and black clothes and pants wearing ghost masks, led by the lead dancer Fang Xiangji, walked with strange steps, each wearing a string of small bells on their arms and holding a small drum in their hands, rhythmically beating the small drum while dancing the ancient dance. They spread their feet apart in a semi-squatting position, sometimes raising their hands to ask the sky, sometimes reaching out to the ground, sometimes shouting loudly, not angry but mighty inside, the hideous masks reflected the blazing fire, an ancient mysterious feeling that made white fall into it at once.

After the dance, the subordinates of the Hou Mansion immediately put a few pigs and sheep that had been roasted on the table, took out a knife, cut it and put it in a plate one by one, and put it on another huge round table. A servant brought a few jars of wine from the house, poured wine into the bowls on the table, sprinkled some peppercorns in each bowl of wine, and then smiled and asked everyone in Jan to eat meat and drink wine!

Children and women were drinking the fruit wine that Bai Qi had recently made at home on vacation, while eating pastries on the table.

The bonfire was blazing, and the only restraint that the villagers who had drunk the pepper wine was completely released, and some people beat the drums, and immediately a group of people went out and danced. Or on the other side, Lao Zhang and Uncle Wang in the escort group have taken off their thick coats, and the two of them are engaged in a fierce wrestling match under the cheers of a group of onlookers next to them.

Sun Simiao and the ancestor sat together, and the two looked at the villagers and subordinates who were holding various activities on the venue, smiling.

The dog took off the ghost mask on his face, beads of sweat broke out on his forehead, and he was happily dragging Qingfeng's hand and walking around the crowd. Both of them had a piece of pastry in their hands, looking around as they ate.

"Qingfeng, Teacher Bai is over there, let's go over and see what they're doing!" The sharp-eyed dog saw that Bai Qi was busy squatting in a corner with a few people, so he rolled his eyes and said to Qingfeng.

Qingfeng ate the pastry in his mouth, his little face was full of excitement reflected by the firelight, his eyes were wide open, he nodded, and the two villains immediately rushed over.

"Teacher, what are you doing?" The two of them looked at the white chess pieces curiously, and they were fiddling with a dozen objects tied together from bamboo tubes, and asked curiously.

White Chess whispered to the others about the precautions, turned around, squatted down, looked at the two little people, and said with a smile: "Did you have fun tonight?" ”

"Well, I'm so happy, I used to live with my master! However, the master said that cultivators should cultivate themselves and have few desires, and I will not be confused by these voices! Qingfeng's little face looked serious, which made Bai Qi laugh.

The dog clapped his palms and said, "Of course I'm happy, the dog dances for the first time, has new clothes to wear for the first time, has such delicious pastries and fruit wine for the first time, and, also, for the first time to celebrate the New Year with so many people......

As he spoke, the dog counted his fingers, counted a dozen firsts at once, and sighed when he finished counting, his red face was full of excited expressions, and he blinked his big cute eyes and looked at the white chess.

Seeing that the fireworks over there had been arranged, Bai Qi stretched out his hand to lead the two of them, returned to the bonfire, and shouted: "Folks, in order to celebrate this New Year's Eve, I specially got some gadgets!" ”

The subordinate next to the fireworks heard his Hou Ye finish speaking, lit the fuse with anticipation, and then quickly stepped back.

The crowd fell silent, looking at the few fires that flickered in the darkness over there.

"Boom"!

Suddenly, a sound like thunder sounded, and then a silver snake jumped into the night sky, and the silver snake exploded in the sky, like a blooming flower, and in an instant it lit up the night.

Immediately afterwards, the position where the silver snake jumped up shot out more than a dozen bright arcs, these arcs are white, purple and red, the arc rose into the sky, and then found the sound of "boom boom boom ......", like a peacock opening the screen, and like a goddess scattering flowers, and like a colorful flower umbrella.

More than a dozen huge fireworks, each with a number of more than thirty rounds, were ignited and launched together, instantly turning the sky over the village into a sea of fireworks.

At this time, in Chang'an City, not far away, there was also a faint sound of "boom", some people turned their heads to look over, only to see hundreds of flowers blooming warmly in the sky above Chang'an. The fireworks in both places echo each other, turning the night into day.

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