Seeing that it is Chinese New Year's Eve, this Chinese New Year's Eve of the Song Dynasty is actually a gift from relatives and friends before the Spring Festival, and the gifts received by the royal palace are actually gifts from one or two rooms. The king was very busy, but fortunately, he also had a helper under the moon. Shen Kuo delivered the medicine as promised, and the injuries on his face were healed in a few days.

But Wang Bian is even happier that there is no jade under the moon, although sometimes some things need to be explained, there is some interest between the two, and Wang Bian also seems to feel that it may not be very comfortable to be seen through by others all the time. For example, he didn't dare to look at beautiful women before, but now he occasionally peeks at it, and he doesn't know under the moon. Man, who doesn't have a little lust in his heart?

This is the first New Year of the king in the Song Dynasty, and the freshness naturally does not need to be said, it has not yet reached Chinese New Year's Eve inside and outside the Chaotian Gate, bidding for the sale of brocade new calendars, all kinds of large and small door gods, peach charms, Zhong Kui, Qiyi, tiger head and golden wisps of flowers, spring posts, Taosheng and the like, are very prosperous in the city. The above items sold in the market are all items of the Song Dynasty.

Chinese New Year's Eve is just around the corner; Paper horses are printed with Zhong Kui, Cai Ma, Hui Hui Ma, etc., and sent to customers; Some send atractylodes, mountain dates, and plague avoidance. It is full of the meaning of driving away plague and blessings.

Taoist priests, Taoist temples with immortal soup and so on to the donor's family. The healers also gave Tu Su bags, made of five-colored threads to form four goldfish, concentric knots or Pepsi knots, and gave them to customers with various decoctions. People are hung on their foreheads to ward off evil spirits, and the market buys spring flags made of tin, Pepsi auspicious Huer, (I guess couplets, hanging money and the like) to be hung at the door on New Year's Day, which is an auspicious omen for the new year.

On the street and in front of the shop, there is an endless sound of selling atractylodes and small dates, and there are also selling explosive sticks, fireworks and the like

The king watched everyone busy and finished, cleaning the inside and outside of the house, sticking the door gods, hanging peach charms to do their best to buy New Year's goods, women and children's clothes also to buy a new one, and the silver next to the king was like flowing water.

Chinese New Year's Eve firecrackers and candles were extremely popular in the Song Dynasty, and at night, the light of incense candles and braziers, red reflections, and the sound of firecrackers and drumming all night long.

There is also one of the most important activities on Chinese New Year's Eve: the palace holds a ceremony to expel the epidemic ghosts, and the imperial city officials, the accompanying guards wear masks, wear embroidered clothes, and hold the golden gun dragon flag. Meng Jingchu, the envoy of the Jiaofang (the official in charge of the Jiaofang Division), was a burly man, wearing a full set of gold-plated copper armor and pretending to be a general. With the two generals of the town hall, they also wear the stomach and pretend to be the god of the door. The staff of the workshop, Nan Hetan, is ugly, burly, and fat, pretending to be a judge. There are also Zhong Kui and his little sister and the earth god stove god, a total of more than 1,000 people.

The Imperial City Division Zhu Banzhi (accompanying soldiers), wearing masks, embroidered and painted variegated clothes, holding golden guns, silver halberds, painted wooden swords, five-color dragons and phoenixes, five-color flags, and teaching music to teach the music of the generals, Fu envoys, judges, Zhong Kui, Liuding, Liujia, divine soldiers, five ghost envoys, stove kings, land, portals, gods and other gods. Driven away from the ban, out of the Nanxun Gate to turn to Longwan, it is called - buried - and stopped. It was night, and the firecrackers were forbidden to shout, and the sound was heard outside.

New Year's Day, also known as the first day of the year, is the most important festival of the year, which is what modern people call the first day of the new year.

Kaifeng Mansion put Guan Pu (Guan Pu: gambling play, gambling with money, throwing property) for three days, Shishu congratulated each other since the morning, Fang Xiang with food, moving, fruit, charcoal and the like, singing called Guan Pu. Tie the color shed, pave the crown comb, pearl cui, head and face, clothing, flowers, collar wipe, boots and shoes, play well, etc., intermittent dance field, song hall, carriage and horse galloping.

In the evening, the women of your family indulge in watching and watching, and the women of your family watch gambling, and the king is overwhelmed to see the scenery.

The people and the people all congratulate each other, and the small people, even if they are poor, must also clean their clothes and pay each other for wine. Regardless of wealth or poverty, playing the Sanskrit characters of Lin Palace is endless. The family feasted, laughing and laughing.

Outside, the palace next to the king is even more lively, the house is full of lights, and the people who come to visit are endless.

The first king of the first year wants to go to Wang Anshi's mansion, and then he wants to go to the mansion of Lord Bao, these two ends are already busy, and when they come to the second king of the first year, they set up a banquet next to the second king on weekdays, invite the capital to be a kabuki, and invite a few little brothers who usually have good friends.

Wang Bian's romance is all friends who are slightly older or about the same age as Wang Bian, some of them are Yuan Ze and Zhongzhen who are together on weekdays, and then there are Wang Anshi's protégés like Li Gefei and others, and the heirs of other officials who have met at the same table since the Chrysanthemum Banquet are like Fan Chun. There are also small officials who have just blended into the imperial court, like Su Shi, Su Zhe, Zeng Bu, and Yue Li.

A dozen brothers in their twenties are so happy drinking and chatting. Those elders are also singing every night, and they have no time to take care of them when they drink and socialize.

These people also like this, so they don't have to go to visit each other again, and they also agreed with each other a year ago, so that they can get together here and give the king a new house by the way.

Some people asked that this new house should also have a name, so you said it as soon as you said it, some proposed to name it with the word next to the king, some proposed to name it after the official positions such as the cultivator next to the king, and some said that it should be called "fragrant cake" house.

Yuan Ze said: "It is not appropriate for this huge mansion to be called "Ruo Wu Mansion". ”

Zeng Bu, Su Shi, and Li Gefei objected to calling it "fragrant cake" and felt that it was not high-grade enough

Everyone, you say a word, the land bought in Jincheng County, there is a Tangjia Village, which is also a place name, and it is easy to find, this time let Yin Shijie and the others go back to get out of the mansion, and the king called "Jinxiang Mansion" has already thought about it.

Wang thought that there was still a "Longhu Villa" in Chenzhou, and after finding the moon, Wang wanted to change the name of the "Longhu Villa" to "Yuexia Villa", but there was a taboo under the moon that it was his father's hometown, and the name change was put aside.

As for the place, there should also be a name for the house, and it is convenient for people to find it on the name card. He thought that since this mansion was to find the land under the moon, it was good to use the name of the teacher, and remembered that Di Qing was called "General Mianni", so he said "Mianni".

That Li Gefei was far away from the position he was doing, and he was afraid that he didn't hear it clearly, so he asked, "What?" Meyer?. ”

It was not afraid of the dumb man to speak, but he was afraid of the deaf man interrupting, and as soon as he said this, everyone looked at the king, not knowing how to come out of the Gomayer Mansion.

Wang laughed, "Meyer, it just so happens that the first pot of gold that I got from making fragrant cakes is related to coal, and people in the future can call me Mr. Meyer." ”

The Mansion of the Crowd was named "Meyer's House"

Su Shi wanted to say that he would be punished, holding up the wine glass and saying: "Today I will punish the wine of the virtuous brother." ”

Everyone asked why he was punished for drinking: "Su Shi said, have you ever seen him snickering?" ”

The king is indeed smiling, this Meyer, called long, no matter how old or young, you have to call him Mei Ye. Seeing Su Shi say this, Wang said with a smile, the name of this mansion is called by outsiders, how can anyone call it by his own people, isn't it?

Jokes aside, the name of this "Mayer Mansion" has been decided. However, there is another layer of meaning to the king's name. Think of the Rothschild family, more than 700 years later, when one person created the so-called "Sixth Reich" in Europe. No, it's Meyer. Rothschild.

Everyone was laughing, Lu Shenyan ran in and asked the king to go to the front yard hall to receive the decree, everyone didn't know what was going on, what the emperor's will was on the second day of the new year.

The king hurriedly changed his clothes and went to receive the order, and when he returned, the people hurriedly inquired. The king said that the emperor has a decree, and the king will go to the South Imperial Garden tomorrow and I don't know what is going on.

Fan Chun said: "It's a good thing, if there is no brother, I will be rewarded again."

The king hurriedly asked, where is this?

Fan Chun said: "Yesterday was the New Year's Day court meeting, the hundred officials and the group of people, and the envoys of various countries congratulated, and tomorrow the envoys of the Liao State shot arrows in the South Imperial Garden. The Song Dynasty had to select military ministers who were good at shooting to accompany them. What if the companion wins back, there will be a reward. ”

When the king heard it, this tomorrow will be a test for archery, and he has not practiced archery for several days, let alone practicing archery, and he has not practiced martial arts for a few days, and it will be embarrassing if he loses

Na Fan Chun said again: "At the chrysanthemum banquet that year, we saw with our own eyes that the Ruowu brothers had superb archery skills. ”

The more he praised the king, the more bottomless he became, thinking that although he hadn't received Di Qing's gift of jade at that time, since he threw the jade into the dry well outside the privet temple, it really seemed that something was missing. He beckoned Lu Shenyan behind him and whispered a few words. Xiao Lu responded and went out to do the things that the king explained.

Turning around, he heard Su Zhe say: "Do you know where these foreign envoys live? ”

During the period, some people knew and some didn't know, for example, the king didn't know, and the king asked, "Ziyou (Su Zhe Zi You) said to listen"

Su Zhe said: "The Liao envoys lived in the Duting Station, the Western Xia lived in the Duting Xiyi, the Goryeo envoys lived in the Tongwen Hall in Anzhou Lane outside the Liangmen, the Hui and Khotanese envoys, the Jiaozhi envoys lived in the Protocol House, and the Zhufan envoys lived in the Zhanyun Pavilion or Huaiyuan Station. ”

Everyone listened to him, and the king seemed to be missing something, and suddenly Li Gefei asked, "Why don't there be Japanese slaves to worship?" ”

As soon as he said this, everyone noticed, and Fan Chun said: "This year, the Japanese slaves came to the envoy, and I don't know why they didn't come to the court to celebrate the New Year." ”

The king said: "The Japanese slaves in the land of projectiles, do they still have to rebel against the sky? And when they drank and laughed, they dispersed.

After the banquet was over, the king returned to his room and asked Lu Shenyan to come in. The king asked him if he had found it. It turned out that Lu Shenyan was going to retrieve the jade in the dry well.

Lu Shenyan said: "I found it, but it was broken in half, but there are still some things I will temporarily put in Childe's study, Childe should go over and take a look." ”

Seeing Lu Shenyan's strange expression and half of the jade, Wang came to the study with him, and three or four packages were sent on the table in the study. It doesn't look old. The brocade used for wrapping turned out to be brand new. Apparently someone deliberately put it inside.

When I opened the package, the gold and silver were soft and soft, and there was some porcelain. It's weird.

Wang asked Lu Shenyan if anyone else could see him, and Lu Shenyan said that he only took Liu Qi with him. Liu Qi is a child, only ** years old, but he is very shrewd, it is the child in Chenzhou brought by Zhang Yi. This time, Zhang Yi came to the capital and brought him with him. Thinking that Yuan Ze wanted a scholar, Wang asked Zhang Yi to leave the child behind. However, the little guy is smart and clever, and he is not willing to give it away, so he follows Lu Shenyan every day.

The king told him not to speak out about it for the time being. Ordered Lu Shenyan to put away the things, and thought about bringing them to Kaifeng Mansion for half a day to hand them over to Lord Bao for decision, thinking that it would be good if Brother He Libo was there. You can do an unannounced investigation around there.