Seeing that his mother and sister-in-law were busy in the small kitchen, Ye Xiaotian couldn't help but say, "Mother, today in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, what are you steaming so many steamed buns for?" This is the fifth drawer, doesn't it say that the steamed buns are steamed at twenty-six? ”

"Go, go, go, get out, you know what. There are too few steamed steamed buns on the 26th day of our family, this is not your return, our family is also rich, we have to make up for it, and ask for good luck! Ye Dou sprinkled his hands and shook Ye Xiaotian out of the kitchen while explaining.

Twenty-four, sweep the house. Twenty-five, paste the windows. Twenty-six, steamed steamed buns. At the end of the year, every household is like this, the Ye family is especially lively this year, usually the house is small, and the most afraid of people getting together, but when it comes to the New Year's Festival, if the house is empty, no one will feel good, that is, the more lively the better.

Running around the house inside and outside the tether, with the candy that the second uncle bought for him in his pocket, and from time to time he had to run to the table to secretly grab a handful of stove candy, in fact, the adults saw it, but they just pretended not to see it, so the tethered pillar who thought he had succeeded ran away.

The common people's family celebrates the New Year, and the emperor's family also celebrates the New Year. The emperor usually divides meals and accommodations, and is absolutely alone, no wonder everyone who is the emperor has to be called a lonely widow, but in the thirties of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he has to eat with the concubines.

The next day, the emperor had to sacrifice to the Temple of Heaven, to receive hundreds of officials to congratulate, to participate in various festive ceremonies, and to have dinner with the princes and grandchildren that night.

However, Emperor Wanli himself is still very young, there is no one emperor and grandson, but there are several princes and princesses, the eldest is only five or six years old, and they have to be accompanied by their mother and nurse to dine with their emperor father.

On the second night of the Lunar New Year, Ye Xiaotian, who had been running around with his father for two days, finally had enough reason to be relieved, and ran outside the palace gate early to wait for the Spring Festival Gala. These two days are New Year's greetings, and they are simply accompanying Old Man Ye to show off.

The son is so promising, he is indescribably happy to be a father, just taking advantage of the opportunity of the New Year, even the distant relatives and old friends who have not been in touch for more than ten years He wanted to take a walk, so he told the people that his son became an official, and he became a big official, and even the emperor saw it!

Ye Xiaotian rushed outside the palace gate and found that many ministers had arrived before him, which surprised him. In fact, when the emperor watched the play, only important ministers had arranged seats, and everyone else sat on a stool, and the seats were not fixed.

Therefore, experienced officials came to line up early, and watching the play was still second, just to get closer to the emperor and have more opportunities to show their faces. Ye Xiaotian was dressed in an official robe, standing in the pile of people with vermilion purple and looking particularly eye-catching, no one knew how such a small official came.

However, there were always some well-informed people in the crowd, and they quietly explained to others, and the identity of him quickly spread. Imperial relatives, state relatives, heroes, officials, foreign guests, the five major groups, Ye Xiaotian is not among them, he is the only one on the scene who "jumped out of the five elements" of the toast master.

He couldn't get into any of them, so he had to stand alone. Lin Shilang had actually seen him, but he didn't beckon him into his camp, the relationship between the two of them was still secretive, and there was no need to publicize it.

When the hour was almost up, a eunuch rushed out to lead the officials into the palace. When they arrived at the royal theater garden, they grabbed a seat and sat down, and they saw that they were dressed in red and hung with colors, the lights were like day, and there was a stage in front of them.

Ye Xiaotian didn't know anyone, and sat alone for half an hour, only to see thirty or forty little eunuchs hurrying into the pear orchard, and the garden immediately quieted down, everyone knew that this was the emperor was about to arrive. Immediately afterwards, the emperor's seat was laid out one by one with a screen brocade barrier, a bright yellow table circumference, and a chair draped in a tent.

At this time, the imperial driver really came, and the close attendants, the Han generals, and the brocade guards surrounded the emperor to ascend the main stand, and the palace lady stepped forward to serve tea and beat the hand towel of the handkerchief, so it was a busy time. Ye Xiaotian looked at it, and saw that there was only the emperor but no queen in the main stand, so he thought in his heart: "I'm afraid there is not much harmony between the emperor and the queen!" ”

On this occasion, in fact, the emperor should bring the queen to watch the play and have fun with the emperor's relatives and ministers, but Emperor Wanli has no feelings for this queen. The current queen's surname is Wang, and she was originally a palace lady in the palace of the Li family, the mother of the Wanli Emperor.

When Emperor Wanli was sixteen years old, he had sex for a while and gave her a fortune, when she was only thirteen years old. Emperor Wanli only temporarily used her to relieve his desires, and he was not merciful to her, and he didn't even give her a token after the incident.

Who would have expected that this palace was very competitive, and as soon as the golden wind and jade dew met, she was secretly married. After a few months, she gradually became pregnant, and was seen by the Empress Dowager Li and asked the reason. Empress Dowager Li was also born in Gong'e, so she naturally sympathized with the Wang family, and she wanted to hold her grandson, so she immediately found her son.

Wanli refused to admit it at first, but the Empress Dowager Li transferred the "Inner Living Note" to check, and it clearly recorded the time and place of his visit to the palace maid of the Wang family, Wanli really couldn't deny it, so he pinched his nose and recognized the Wang family and named her Concubine Gong.

After a few months, the very competitive Wang gave birth and gave birth to a big fat son, this is the eldest son of the emperor, with the support of the Empress Dowager Li, Concubine Gong ascended to the sky in one step and became the queen mother of the world. However, the relationship between the husband and wife was really average, and the ministers had also heard about it, so they were not surprised to see that only the emperor appeared.

As soon as the emperor arrived, he started singing the gong, Ye Xiaotian sat in the crowd and found that the emperor was watching the play with great interest, and he didn't pay attention to his meaning at all, and then he realized that he felt too good about himself before.

Because the last time he entered the palace, he left a good impression on the emperor, and then presented him with a carefully prepared gift, he also thought that the emperor would pay great attention to his attitude when he met this time, so he made some careful preparations and prepared a set of speeches.

Who would have expected that when he got here, he found that the emperor didn't take him to heart at all. The position he sat in was too far, and when he raised his eyes, the hall was full of vermilion and purple, and he brought out an official at random, and the high level of the official position could crush him to death, Ye Xiaotian couldn't help but despair, how could this leave a deep impression on the emperor.

Uncle Li Guo, as the uncle of the current emperor, sits very close to the Son of Heaven, and the people sitting on his left and right are all relatives of the emperor, Uncle Li Guo chatted casually with the people around him, occasionally glanced at Ye Xiaotian, and his eyes were very cloudy.

Ye Xiaotian didn't notice that Li Xuancheng was also there, but Li Xuancheng had been staring at him since he entered the city, and naturally knew that he was blessed by the Holy Grace and had the honor to participate in today's meeting. Leaning over a hand next to him, slowly filling his half-empty cup, Li Xuancheng glanced sideways slightly, met the eyes of the drinker, and exchanged a look without a trace.

The person who poured the wine was Xu Boyi, who had been transferred by Uncle Li Guo to the celebrant supervisor. Of course, in the celebrant eunuch, he is just a handyman who serves tea and water to the big eunuch, but he has the talent to learn, and once he can get into the eyes of the big eunuch, he will be able to soar immediately.

And in the celebrant supervisor, he also has many opportunities to contact the Son of Heaven, maybe he will be transferred to serve by his side if he plays the right sentence with the Son of Heaven's mind. Uncle Li Guo is tantamount to giving him countless opportunities to create zào, and if he throws in a peach, he has to repay him, not to mention that Ye Xiaotian is also a character he will want to get rid of.

The two tacitly touched each other's eyes, and Xu Boyi quietly retreated. The stage was babbling and singing, and Emperor Wanli was very happy to hear it, and after a play was finished, he said aloud: "Today, I am happy with all the secretaries, and you may as well show them on the spot what talents and learning, and help the wine to enjoy." ”

After all the ministers exchanged their heads, someone got up and arched and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers looked at today's grand occasion and felt something, and thought of a few lines of poetry, and I would like to present them to ......."

Emperor Wanli waved his hand with interest and said, "Hey! Should you make poems, forget it, poetry, calligraphy and painting, don't want to splash things today, if you want to help the wine, you have to be brisk and casual, I don't know which Aiqing is good at singing and dancing, how about showing it in public? ”

Emperor Wanli asked, so many people in the garden were silent. In fact, many ministers will hum small tunes and sing in their spare time, but in their hearts, this kind of thing is okay to entertain themselves, but it is not elegant. Only poetry, calligraphy and painting and other elegant things, take it out to look out of style, the dignified court officials, babbling in public singing? How to make!

Wanli saw that his words fell to the ground, and no one answered, so he couldn't help but be a little hanging. At this time, a white-haired and white-bearded civil official coughed lightly, relying on his age and respect, and stood up again to add fuel to the fire: "Your Majesty is precious, don't be frivolous!" ”

Emperor Wanli was furious, slapped the imperial case hard, and shouted: "What nonsense! Is there any difference between entertaining wine with poetry and songs, and entertaining the sea with songs, dances and operas, my moral gentlemen, huh? ”

This sentence was so heavy that the old civil official was stunned.

In fact, Wanli Tianzi was not a person who would be angry for such a trivial matter, but the matter of singing once left him a painful memory, that was when Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao were still in power, Emperor Wanli once drank some wine, and asked a little eunuch to sing to make him happy.

The little eunuch couldn't sing, so Wanli said that he was disobedient, and cut off a lock of his hair with a sword because of his drunkenness, saying that he was the head of the generation. There is nothing Zhang Juzheng doesn't know about the big and small things in the palace, and this matter naturally quickly spread to his ears.

If the little emperor doesn't learn well, where is this, Zhang Dashoufu, who has a strong sense of responsibility, immediately entered the palace and played a copy of him in front of the queen mother, and the queen mother obeyed Zhang Shoufu's words, and the little emperor was called to kneel for a long time, and reviewed it with tears in his eyes.

Now that Zhang Juzheng is dead, Feng Baofa has gone to Nanjing, the Empress Dowager Cisheng has also stepped aside, and Wanli has become pro-government, and he is no longer the little emperor he was at the beginning. He just wanted to make the festive atmosphere a little stronger, and he didn't want the officials to go online like this, which suddenly evoked the humiliating scene in his heart.

The depression is deep, and the backlash is strong, "Now that Zhang Juzheng is no longer alive, do you still want to hold me hostage?" Thinking of this, Emperor Wanli's eyes turned a little red. He sneered angrily: "If I want to have fun with all the kings, I am faint, and I am frivolous, right?" ”

Seeing that the emperor was angry, all the ministers were a little awe-inspiring in their hearts. Ye Xiaotian was overjoyed when he saw it, the opportunity finally came! He returned to Beijing this time to fight for the legal position of toast, and once the position of toast is in hand, he can show his skills when he goes back!

At that time, it is difficult to say that the slightest rumor will not reach the emperor's ears, and at this time, the emperor's perception of him will determine the emperor's attitude towards him in the future. How could he just use today's opportunity as a capital to accompany the emperor to watch a play.

A person like Lin Shilang can't be in a hurry to make friends, he has to take his time, get Lin Shilang done first, and then make more friends with Lin Shilang, and gradually build his network. But the opportunity to curry favor with the emperor is something that can be met but not sought, and the opportunity cannot be lost, and it will never come again!

As for the fact that the civil servants will despise him because ...... reason, there is a use! Ever since he was determined to become a member of the toast, and he wanted to pretend to be a harmless toast, he had already been despised by others, and with a little more contempt, he could resist it if he was psychologically strong.

Ye Xiaotian immediately left the table and got up, quickly rushed forward two steps, and shouted loudly: "The ministers are good at singing and singing songs on weekdays, today His Majesty is celebrating the New Year with all the ministers, the ministers are willing to sing a paragraph, and His Majesty will have a good time with all the adults!" ”

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