Chapter Thirty-Nine: Entering the Palace to Greet the New Year
Coming out of the East Palace, Chen Guang felt that he was floating when he walked. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Perfect, just too perfect. not only dispelled Chen Yong's suspicion of himself, but even pointed the finger at Emperor Chen Ang.
It's bold, but it works when it works.
Because Chen Yong couldn't go to Chen Ang to confront him, he didn't even dare to think about it.
Secondly, it is mahjong. Although mahjong is a puzzle game, it is a gambling behavior in many cases, and compared with its puzzle function, the effect of consuming the mind and draining the mind is more obvious.
How many people have various family conflicts because of playing mahjong.
Chen Guang thinks that mahjong is a poison, a drug that can make people addicted invisibly.
Therefore, although mahjong was made, except for teaching Deng Pan when necessary, no one else in the Jin Palace's mansion had never seen what mahjong looked like, let alone be able to play.
Chen Guang didn't plan to let them learn at all.
From another world, at the beginning of the invention of mahjong, this thing was only popular in the upper class, and ordinary people playing mahjong are estimated to have gone to the end of the twentieth century.
Of course, the reason for the slow popularity of that world is that the rules of the game are too complicated, and it is very difficult for a society where 90% of the people are illiterate. But mahjong in this world is the most popular and standardized way to play, which is the so-called national standard mahjong.
This mahjong must be popularized much faster than in that world.
But Chen Guang doesn't care about these, a thing naturally has its reasons to be popular, and there is no way to stop it with manpower. But at least for now, Chen Guang can still do it if he can make this thing not appear in the Jin Palace.
Chen Guang can also be regarded as a double-sided attack, first, at least Chen Yong is not so hostile to himself, which gives Chen Guang room for development and growth. Second, if Chen Yong is addicted to this mahjong, it will be the best thing, as long as Chen Yong is addicted to mahjong, then he will have no time to care about Chen Guang.
As long as one of these points works, Chen Guang's situation will be much better, there is no doubt about it.
In the live broadcast room, Chen Guang's hand also attracted widespread praise.
"Very good, very good, I actually thought of such a high-end thing as mahjong, in ancient times when there was no entertainment, mahjong would definitely be popular in the upper class."
Why the upper class? Because only people who don't have to do things have time to play mahjong.
"Actually, it's a good choice, and compared to poker, I feel that mahjong is the easiest. The most cheating thing is that the anchor also teaches people to gamble money, which is really wilting. ”
Chen Guang said in the live broadcast room: "Actually, I don't want to take these things out at all, but there is really no way, my time is too short, only one year, as long as I don't use it one day, it's a waste." ”
"I believe that mahjong is still not popular at the level of the people, under the feudal social system, the common people get up early and work late and can't fill their stomachs, where is the time to play mahjong? If you look at history, these things became popular after filling your stomach. Again, the people take food as the sky, and all the rules are just a pastime after eating and drinking. Before you can't eat enough, the rules are all on the side, not to mention entertainment. ”
When she returned to the Jin Palace, she saw Min'er waiting as soon as she entered the door, and when Chen Guang got out of the carriage, Min'er hurriedly greeted her, with an anxious look on her face, and finally relieved after seeing that Chen Guang was fine.
"Why did you go for so long? I'm scared to death. Min'er seemed to be coquettish, came over and put her arms around Chen Guang's arm, pouted and said.
Chen Guang habitually pinched her face and said, "Didn't I tell you that it's okay?" At the feet of the Son of Heaven, I am still a prince, even if he is the crown prince, he doesn't have the courage to do anything to me. ”
"People are just worried about you."
Since following Chen Guang, Min'er has spoken more modernly.
"Okay, okay, I know you care about me, don't you see I'm back now? Is the meal ready? I'm hungry. ”
"It's already ready, just wait for you to come back and eat, but after a while, I'll ask the people below to heat up the food."
"No need, let's eat." Chen Guang is not picky about what he eats, plus the things made by the chefs in the palace are naturally delicious, and after playing mahjong for a while, he is really hungry, so he doesn't care if he is cold or not, just eat it.
"Oh yes, someone came to the palace just now, tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve, you have to enter the palace early." Min'er said.
Chen Guangdao: "Got it, then go to bed early tonight." ”
After dinner and about half an hour of rest, Chen Guang went to sleep with Min'er. In this age of no electricity, there are basically no entertainment facilities.
Some people may want to say, what about the restaurant teahouse Qinglou? Chen Guang told you very seriously as a traverser that these places will basically not be open until late at night, and it is estimated that they will close at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and then there will be a curfew, and those who have not returned home at this point will be sorry, you should rest somewhere in the Qinglou first, and then go home the next day. If you sneak down the street and go back to your house, and you are caught by the patrolling soldiers, no matter what the reason, you will first serve with 50 boards, and then you will be locked up in the detention center -- well, you will be locked up in the yamen for 15 days.
When I got up the next morning, in fact, the New Year began to be counted seven days from thirty to seven days forward, which is the twenty-ninth day of the New Year, and the dust removal and so on have already been completed. In fact, this is also an early period, if it is in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the New Year basically starts from Laba.
Before dawn, there was not a single pedestrian on the street, the door of the Jin Wang's Mansion opened, and the candlelight was cast from the doorway, with a slight yellowish hue, reflecting the snow on the ground. The snow hasn't stopped these days, but not as hard as the previous days, and it's only snowing, not windy, which is good news for the refugees.
After a while, two big red lanterns were carried by the subordinates, and came out from the gate to the left and right, and four people came out in a row, followed by a carriage, in which Chen Guang and Min'er sat in the carriage. The carriage was followed by sixteen guards with knives, responsible for protecting the safety of Chen Guang and Min'er, and the two behind them also carried lanterns.
The procession came out of the Jin Palace, and went to the palace. When I got out of the alley, I met a team coming out from another direction, but the distance was too far away to see the light, which was also in the direction of the palace.
It's a truly amazing feeling.
When I arrived at the gate of Miyagi, it was so dark that I couldn't see my fingers, and when I saw a light coming over, there was a person in the darkness who said in a long voice; "Woo ......" then creaked, and the closed gate opened a crack to allow the procession to pass through, and then closed again.
This is really a very novel experience, Chen Guang listened to all kinds of movements in the sedan chair, and then the carriage creaked and went to the palace, this set of procedures, but only once a year.
After entering the city gate, he came to the square and waited, and he had to wait for the eunuch inside to come out and let him in, so that he could set off again and go to the Wenhua Palace.
"His Royal Highness the King of Jin has come down."
"His Royal Highness King Jin is good, Madame is good."
When Chen Guang arrived, there were already ministers who arrived earlier, and when they saw Chen Guang, these ministers saluted and greeted each other, and Chen Guang and Min'er returned salutes with them one by one.
After about half an hour, dozens of people had gathered in the square, lighting lanterns to illuminate this area, and the sky was already a little gray and about to light up.
Standing in the snow, Chen Guang felt a little cold, and got into the carriage again, which was covered with thick blankets and burned charcoal, which was very warm.
At this moment, the prince's carriage came by in a hurry.
Chen Guang had to get out of the carriage to greet him again, which was a courtesy.
Chen Yong got off the carriage, his face seemed a little haggard, and when he saw Chen Guang, he smiled and said, "The second brother has also arrived." ”
The ministers were very puzzled, don't you have a tense relationship with King Jin? Why did you take the initiative to say hello today?
Chen Guang naturally did not slack off, arched his hand, and said, "Big brother is here." Why does it look like my eldest brother didn't sleep well last night? ”
Chen Yong yawned and said, "I played late last night, but I lost a few taels of silver." ”
Lose? Silver? How many taels?
The ministers were suddenly a little confused, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so Yaxing, and he still gambles with others for the New Year - but it's only a few taels of silver, which is too small, and it is completely inconsistent with your identity as the prince.
Chen Guang said with a smile: "Money is just a trivial matter, but this work and rest can be regular, after all, a small gamble is pleasant, and a big gamble hurts the body." ”
"Haha, what a little bet on pleasure, yes, pleasure, pleasure." Chen Yong laughed.
The minister continued to be confused.
After talking to Chen Guang implicitly, the prince took the initiative to greet these ministers again, and the ministers responded flatteredly, but they muttered in their hearts, what is wrong with this prince today? Is good things coming? No, didn't you just be fined for a year and couldn't participate in politics? Where did the good things come from?
The ministers began to speculate in their hearts, and in the end, they did not come up with any reason to make the prince so happy, so they had to do it.
Then, from the prince's carriage, two more people walked down, one of them was Mrs. Yuan, Chen Guang had already seen it, but the other one, Chen Guang had seen it for the first time.
This is a little boy, five or six years old, who looks like a tiger, but he looks very cute. Yuan patted his head and said to Chen Guang: "Yan'er, I've seen the second uncle." ”
"Second uncle is good."
It turned out that this was Chen Yong's son, whose name was Chen Yan. Chen Guang replied with a good hello and praised: "It's so cute." ”
After saying a few words, Chen Jun, the king of Qin, Chen Xiu, the king of Shu, and Chen Liang, the king of Han, also arrived. Chen Liang is only seven years old, and he looks about the same age as his eldest nephew, standing together like two brothers.
It was already dawn, and a eunuch came to spread the word, telling everyone to go into the palace and wait, so the princes and officials followed behind and went into the main hall one after another.