The 30th day of the lunar month was Chinese New Year's Eve, and the people of Rimchuan Beseye had to return to Chang'an, Kyoto.

Dugu Xinci led a group of people to start changing peach charms early.

Originally, it was the left god and the right Yu Lei, and Dugu Xinci ingeniously lengthened the peach board and wrote words on it.

The left link at the gate of the other industry is Heshun a door with a hundred blessings, and the right link is the word peace is worth a thousand gold.

The lobby of the front yard is: smooth sailing, good luck, good luck.

The second entry into the hospital is: good luck all year round, and treasures from all directions enter the house.

Other courtyards are also different,

The pine and bamboo behind the house add beautiful colors; In front of the door, Mei Lan spit out a faint fragrance.

The window contains green mountains and birds; The door hangs down and the willow swallow branches.

Spring to the door to increase the Rui Qi; The sun is approaching, and the windowsill is auspicious.

Chunfa Nanzhi New Building; Minggao Dongli gate.

The spring breeze is warm as jade; A good day is carved like gold in the window.

Chunhan Rui Haze Lang Renli; The sun embraces the auspicious clouds and protects the door.

The king of Dugu County must calculate, there are actually eight courtyards in Mengcheng'ao Mansion, and he does not comment on these festive sayings, but praises his calligraphy.

After eating early, Dugu Xinci explained, everyone got on the horse, and set off with the queen mother's luan.

Dugu Xinci calculated that he would be able to come back in a day or two, but the Queen Mother Dugu was afraid that it would be difficult to come back.

Dugu Xinci prepared more than ten carriages, except for two to Liaoyang County Wangfu to eat, the rest were all given to the Dugu Queen Mother, all kinds of pastries loaded with two carriages, all kinds of mountain goods, fresh pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese, as well as all kinds of clothes and satin, wine and drinks, jewelry and playthings, mahjong have four pairs, jade, bamboo, horns, glass, I really don't know where Dugu Xinci found.

The Queen Mother Dugu ate very little early, a little sad, and hid in the carriage too lazy to move.

The carriage was also renovated by Dugu Xinci, much more stable and spacious than in the palace, with a stove burning smokeless ice charcoal, and two small hand warmers wrapped in flannel.

But Yu Zhi, Stalin, and Fujiwara Mayang also had to participate in the imperial meeting, so they returned to Beijing together to eat Chinese New Year's Eve at the palace of Liaoyang County, and Chinese New Year's Eve the New Year.

The group crossed the Baqiao along Lantian County and went straight to Chang'an Chunming Gate.

It was sent to the intersection of Pingkangfang and Wubenfang, and the Empress Dowager Dugu asked the king of Liaoyang County to return to the palace of Liaoyang County with three friends from Fanbang, but asked Dugu Xinci to send her to Yiqiu Palace.

In front of the Chengtian Gate of Taiji Palace, Dugu Xinci saw Wang Yanran, the queen of Yantang who came to greet her.

The Empress Dowager Dugu went out of the palace to return to Ning, and she avoided this daughter-in-law and had no good face for her.

The queen did not pick up the queen mother alone, and came with the four concubines of the saint. There is also a young man who is his adopted son, the fourth prince, Zhongwang Yanjun, and the other two young women are Princess Yuzhen and Princess Jinxian.

Today's saints have four concubines, Queen Wang Yanran's childhood sweetheart, Zhao Life, Concubine Liu Hua, and Concubine Qian De are all princesses when the saint was still the king of Linzi, only Concubine Wu Hui is the new favorite concubine, and she is also the niece and granddaughter of Emperor Wutang, and has given birth to two sons and two daughters.

Concubine Qian De, the biological mother of His Royal Highness King Wu, who was deposed by the Great Dynasty on the winter solstice, had no good face for Dugu Xinci, the culprit, and the queen smiled and said that there was Lao Yuandonghou.

After Dugu Xinci would not face a country with a cold face, he also smiled at the queen's hard work.

The first and third concubines are nearly forty years old, but Concubine Wu Hui should not be more than thirty, she is as beautiful as a flower, and she also asked with a smile, but is it the Marquis of Far East?

Dugu is kind and slanderous, didn't the queen already claim to have Lao Yuandonghou just now? But he still respectfully returned the salute "It's exactly so, Concubine Hui is auspicious"

"Far Eastern Hou is really good at talking," Concubine Qian Defei sneered.

"Tianxing, send someone back to the palace" The Queen Mother Dugu was impatient and called Dugu Xinci.

So Dugu Xinci came to the queen mother's car, accompanied the queen mother into the Chengtian Gate, and then passed through the Jiade Gate, Taiji Gate, bypassed the Taiji Palace, and then passed the Zhuming Gate Liangyi Gate, turned left in front of the Liangyi Palace, and came to the Yiqiu Palace.

The Queen of Dugu entered the palace with the support of Princess Yuzhen and Princess Jinxian, and Dugu Xinci commanded the remaining nearly ten carriages to unload.

After a while, the four concubines led dozens of palace maids to watch Dugu Xinci unload the whole sheep with raw pork from the carriage, and they were also dumbfounded, and then they saw that there was actually a basket of okra with weed, and it was like seeing a fairy Buddha, and finally unloaded the silk and satin, playing with things, and was numb and speechless.

Dugu Xinci helped Da Xiong unload a big iron furnace, and ran to ask Queen Wang, "Queen, I made a furnace and the queen mother, I need to install it, I don't know if it can be combined with the palace system?" ”

The queen looked at it, it was a big iron furnace, half a person high, with an iron lid on it, but the vent also stretched out an iron cylinder on the side, a little puzzled, but still smiled and said, "This is your filial piety, how can it have anything to do with the palace system?" ”

Dugu Xinci then instructed Daxiong to move the big iron furnace in, and unloaded many cylinders from the carriage, all of which were made of thin iron sheets, Dugu Xinci and A Dog carried them to the palace, Yan Jun wanted to come over to help but was also blocked, "The body of the loyal king's daughter, don't get your hands dirty"

A group of people came to the warm pavilion on the left side of the lobby of Yiqiu Palace, Dugu Xinci instructed the big bear to put down the big iron furnace, and touched it, and saw that there was a vent in the south-facing house, but it was blocked by a thick cloth in order to keep warm, and quickly ordered the big bear to carry a dog to open it, and handed over a section of iron cylinder to stretch out of the house, and then connected it one by one with an iron cylinder, fixed it with an iron hoop along the girder, until the center of the warm pavilion was connected with a bent pipe to hang down the vent.

The first queen, the four concubines, and the two princesses silently watched the three of them busy, and the Queen Mother Dugu also changed her clothes and came back to sit on the Luohan bed and watched with a smile.

Waiting for the vent hanging down from the beam to connect to the reserved iron furnace cylinder, Dugu Xinci clapped his hands and said with a smile, It's done, and let Da Xiong pour the red charcoal from the stove that the queen mother has been using in the carriage into the big iron furnace.

There is a fence around the waist of the large iron furnace, and a charcoal fire is placed on the top, and soot is left below.

Dugu Xinci asked the eunuchs in the palace to bring charcoal and threw it in, covered the upper furnace lid, closed the lower furnace door, clapped his hands, and said to the queen mother, "It's done, there is no smoke and dust in the Yiqiu palace of the queen mother."

"Still not as comfortable as you?" The Dugu Empress Dowager muttered.

"The Queen Mother, this is the palace of the Imperial Palace, how can you compare to a barren mountain and a remote village?" Dugu Xinci smiled.

"Is the Liaoyang County Royal Mansion so embarrassed that it only sends some okra and the queen mother?" Concubine Qian De was yin and yang.

"Ouch, if Concubine De thinks that okra is not good, it is better to give this month's share to a certain person" Concubine Wu Hui answered.

Concubine Qian De stopped talking, the green vegetables on this snowy day are much rarer than meat dishes, and tens of thousands of people in the entire palace rely on the green vegetables in the small warm soup garden in the forbidden garden, and she Qian Defei often has no green vegetables to eat for three or five days.

"Queen, I brought back a lot of vegetables, give them some points," the Queen Mother Dugu proudly ordered.

"This green vegetable is a rare thing in Layue, the queen mother should keep it for her own use," Queen Wang hurriedly excused.

"The queen herself doesn't want it, it's rare, the two princes and princesses in the palace are clamoring to eat stew with vegetables every day these days" Concubine Wu Hui said with a smile, Queen Wang is childless, and her adopted son Yan Jun has also left the palace to open the mansion.

"Well, take more, can Mao'er grow taller?" The Queen Mother Dugu licks the calves deeply, and Yan Mao is the eldest son of Concubine Wu Hui.

"I've grown a lot taller, I'm almost up to a certain waist," Concubine Wu Hui continued to laugh.

Dugu Xinci pondered, so-and-so is not here to be an eyesore, and the words in this palace are all yin and yang, so he said, "Queen Mother, you just rest, so-and-so is going to leave"

"Well, the king of Liaoyang County is also waiting for you,... Wait, help someone change the peach charm too"

So Dugu Xinci changed the big bear and a dog to replace the peach charm in front of the main hall of Yiqiu Palace, the new peach charm adopts the style of the Rim River Beiye, the first on the left has the word Shendi, but the following is a sentence in Dugu Xinci's handwriting: Cathay Thousand Autumn Sheng, the words under the Yu Lei on the right are home and everything is prosperous.

Dugu Xinci's calligraphy was unanimously recognized by several ministers and saints at that time, and Concubine Qian Defei was still muttering, "So the calligraphy is also taken out to show your eyes?" ”

Zhongwang Yanjun knew Dugu Xinci's ability, he was also present that day Hanyuan Hall reading papers, a four-font poem test paper provoked the public to fight, and the feudal theory of the positive block was considered by Zhang Shuoxiang to be the first today.

"The Hou of the Far East is upright and upright, worthy of everyone's work," he ignored Concubine Qian's muttering and praised directly.

Dugu Xinci smiled and humbled, at that time, the sage of Hanyuan Hall asked him to take off his purple robe and Dugu Xinci to cover the cold, this kindness still had to be returned early.

The Empress Dowager Dugu asked her to finish writing the Journey to the West and send her to the palace as soon as possible, and nagged a few words to come to see her often, so she was released from the palace.

The queen ordered Yan Jun to send Dugu Xinci out of the palace, Dugu Xinci couldn't help but drive a few carriages back to the palace of Liaoyang County, and when he came out of the Yiqiu Palace, he actually met an acquaintance, who turned out to be Yan Junluan, the general of the right Weiyun Army.

"The Marquis of the Far East has always been good," Yan Junluan actually greeted first.

"Greetings from the three princesses, it's very good" Dugu Xinci hurriedly replied.

"You sent the Queen Mother back to the palace, right? Xie Yuandonghou"

"No thanks, it's a responsibility"

After some unnutritious words, the two said goodbye, one entered Yiqiu Palace, and the other returned home like a bird out of the cage.

The palace of Liaoyang County has been repaired, the natural weather is new, two rows of fourteen halberds are majestic, and the new ones are proudly fluttering over the palace.

Dugu Xinci dismounted, and saw that the palace was replaced with a new peach charm, which is still Dugu Xinci's handwriting: Haiyan River Qingying Song is prosperous; The clouds are steaming, the clouds are rising, and the swallows are dancing and leveling.

Entering the door of the house, there was laughter and laughter inside, and Wang Wulang of Shengdaofang and Wu Qilang of Qinglongfang came to congratulate. Wen Yulangjun is also impressively listed, Wen Dalang also needs to participate in the big pilgrimage meeting tomorrow, today at noon in the Lantian ancestral house to worship ancestors, originally several clan uncles and brothers invited him to their Kyoto mansion to spend Chinese New Year's Eve, but when they thought that Dugu San Lang was at ease here, he politely declined.

Wen Dalang is still annoyed with the king of Dugu County, Dugu Xinci smiled and said, "Dalang doesn't know how happy the king of the county knows how happy you are, a certain rude eater, there are you to accompany him to talk about the text, I'm afraid I will drink a few more drinks tonight"

King Dugu nodded yes, and everyone laughed.

Although Qinglong Bookstore is assigned to the inner library, Wu Qilang is not a person who forgets his roots, and he knows that the Marquis of Yuandong came to visit him when he returned to his home today.

"Ru waits not to keep Chinese New Year's Eve in the house, but he comes to rub rice?" Although Dugu Xinci likes it, there are no good words in his mouth.

"The banquet in the palace of Liaoyang County is richer" Wang Wulang laughed, he is now proud of the spring breeze, and the saint has given him a plaque, who dares to fight the autumn breeze again?

"A certain person is alone, it is better to come to rub the banquet of the Marquis of Far East" Wu Qilang opened his eyes and said nonsense, his fourth brother Wu Xunke lives in Qinrenfang, and the eldest brother Wu Zhen is also the city gate.

"That's it, two more pairs of chopsticks and still eat the poor county king's mansion" Dugu Xinci was too lazy to pay attention, and went straight to arrange the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet.

Yesterday there was a queen mother to spend a little Chinese New Year's Eve together, and today without this big Buddha, there will not be so much exquisiteness, anyway, how to come richly.

When you arrived, the lobby of the Liaoyang County Palace's Mansion was full of dishes.

The king of Dugu led everyone to worship his ancestors first, and eight high bowls were also placed in the Buddhist hall of the county king's mansion, full of fish and meat, and chopsticks were placed in front of the spiritual seat.

Dugu Zhen and Dugu Xinci, the two main families, entered the hall and bowed one by one, and the rest of the people lined up outside the hall to bow and salute.

After that, return to the lobby and prepare for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

According to the Lü Shi Chunqiu Ji Dong Ji, the ancients used the method of drumming to expel the ghosts of the plague on the day before the New Year, which is the origin of the Chinese New Year's Eve festival. It is said that the earliest mention of the name Chinese New Year's Eve was in historical books such as the "Fengtu Ji" written by the Zhou Department of the Western Jin Dynasty.

"The universe is empty, and the years go to the hall". As for the origin of "Chinese New Year's Eve", there is such a legend that in ancient times there was a monster called Xi, with long tentacles on its head, fierce and abnormal, often devouring livestock and harming human life. The people of the villages and villages helped the old and the young to flee to the mountains to escape the harm of the night beasts. On Chinese New Year's Eve this year, the people of Peach Blossom Village are helping the old and the young to take refuge in the mountains. At this time, a half-grown child came from outside the village, and I saw that this child had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was beautiful and lovely. The child came to the east of the village and saw an old woman who asked why everyone was alarmed. The old woman had no choice but to tell the child that Xi would make trouble again, and the child smiled and said: "Mother-in-law, the name of a certain is called Nian, let a certain stay in your house for one night, and a certain will definitely drive away the 'Xi' beast." The old woman agreed and went up the mountain to take refuge.

?? In the middle of the night, "Xi" broke into the village. I found the old woman's house in the east of the village, the door was pasted with big red paper, and the candles in the house were bright. The "Xi" beast trembled and screamed. He glared at the master's house for a moment, then screamed and pounced. When approaching the door, there was a sudden explosion sound of "bang bang" in the courtyard, and "Xi" trembled all over, and he didn't dare to move forward anymore. It turned out that "Xi" was most afraid of red, fire, and explosions. At this time, the door of the mother-in-law's house was wide open, and I saw a young man in a red robe laughing in the courtyard. "Xi" was shocked and fled in embarrassment.

?? The next day, the people who had returned from evacuation were amazed to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and hurriedly told the villagers about the promise of the year. The news soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people knew how to drive away the "Xi" beasts. For this reason, everyone went to visit the New Year, which is now the "New Year", and posted the picture of the New Year at the door or window, called the New Year painting, the big fat boy on the New Year painting is the New Year, and the day of the New Year's Eve is called Chinese New Year's Eve. Since then, every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, families have pasted red paper paintings and set off firecrackers; Candles are lit up in every household, and the watch is waiting for the year. This is the grand traditional festival "New Year".

Dugu Xinci took the lead in popularizing the reason for the Chinese New Year's Eve to everyone, and Dugu Zhen didn't bother to pay attention to his nonsense and beckoned everyone to start the banquet.

There are no delicacies of the mountains and seas as usual, they are all ordinary dishes, chicken, duck and fish, mountain goods and river fresh, pasta and pastries, and the wine is full, but it is also steamed, boiled, fried, stewed, sauced, marinated, baked, salted, braised, cold salad, boiled, fried, boiled, simmered, simmered, boiled, and simmered, all kinds of things are available, and the techniques are diverse.

They are all fighting men, and there are no female guests, drinking fierce burning knives, eating fiery copper pots, gnawing greasy bone sticks, blowing big cowhides, and rowing wild fists.

Dugu Xinci naturally rolled up his sleeves and killed the Quartet, and Wen Yulangjun and Dugu County King talked about the past and the present quite complacently.

At that time, the banquet of the saints of the palace arrived, and the officials above the third grade in Kyoto all had a banquet, and there were actually two copies of the Dugu County Palace.

Dugu Xinci put the banquet on the copper stove in the hall and called everyone to taste it.

There are a lot of dishes for the banquet, there are eight kinds of dishes, but the amount of dishes is very small, each person is finished with one chopstick, and everyone has not felt any taste.

But after all, it was a saint's banquet, the three Fanbang people were in tears, Wang Wulang and Wu Qilang were also excited, and Dugu Xinci drank a sip of wine and called "Wait for a certain continuation"

Until the time of the child, a few people in the house were lying down crookedly, and Dugu Xinci beckoned everyone to set off fireworks in the courtyard.

Chang'an City has been shrouded in fire trees and silver flowers, the three major are all brilliant, and the Qunxian Fang on the edge of the west city of the city is even more blazing, which is the residence of Wang Yuanbao, the richest man in Chang'an.

A few rude men in the Dugu County Palace's mansion didn't have any fun appreciating the fire trees and silver flowers that never sleeped, and each of them hastily put a few tubes and went back to drink.

It is a tradition to observe the New Year's Eve on Chinese New Year's Eve, but tomorrow Yin continued to go out of the fang to attend the Great Dynasty Meeting, Dugu Zhen and Wen Yu lay down and rested for two hours, Dugu Xinci ordered to throw the three already drunk Fanbang people into the box room to sober up, and he and Qiu Bin and other guards drank wine all night, but Dugu Xinci only drank wine in the second half of the night, under the pretext that tomorrow's Great Dynasty would not be able to drink alcohol.

At the end of the day, the king of Dugu County woke up and beckoned everyone to attend the Yuanri court meeting in the second year of Kaiyuan.

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

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

(End of chapter)