After surviving the chaos of Xuantong for three years, a pot of spring in a famous restaurant in Beijing has finally regained its former vitality, especially in the past few days, the Senate and the House of Representatives have held re-elections, and they are full of friends.

At noon, a brand-new bright GM car stopped at the gate of a pot of spring. Nowadays, cars are not rare in the capital, but those who can afford to use this thing are either rich or expensive, so the sharp-eyed guy immediately greeted him and opened the car door respectfully: "This lord, are you planning to eat in a small shop?" ”

The first to get off the bus was a middle-aged literati wearing a half-new cotton robe, who looked at it with a shabby breath, and asked with a straight face, "Do you still have a seat here?" ”

cosplay？ A private interview with Weifu? Although the guy couldn't figure out why the man in front of him was wearing a tattered cotton robe in a car worth thousands of gold, his attitude was still respectful: "You are always a distinguished customer, even if you don't have a seat, the small shop has to make room for you!" ”

As he spoke, a middle-aged man came out of the car, both in terms of clothing and bearing, which was completely different from the previous one, and looked like a wealthy and noble high-roller. He rubbed his hands together and asked, "Xiao Er, I remember that you have a box called 'Spring Willow Windy' here, have you booked it out today?" ”

It turned out that these two people were Wu Tongjia and Yang Jiesan, who drank and listened to music here three years ago and drank and listened to music here a year ago.

The guy was a little hesitant: "If you don't have a reservation at this point, I'm just afraid of the box-"

The middle-aged man in brocade clothes waved his hand: "I have eaten with Brother Shaoquan in that box a few times before, and it feels very good. Today I came here to revisit the old place, and I also asked the store to make it convenient. The price or something, everything is easy to say! After speaking, he threw out two Sun Datou.

The guy was suddenly so happy that he didn't see his eyebrows: "The two old men are in the house, please." The small ones will make room for you! "The man was very skillful, and in a few moments he was able to vacate the box.

Yang Jiesan entered the box and took a few looks, then shook his head and sighed: "Although it is still the same old place, it has completely changed its taste. I remember that the windows in the room used to be finely carved Soviet-style stained windows, but now they have been replaced by large pieces of glass, and the elegant atmosphere has disappeared. There are also calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls. In the past, it was the handwriting of famous artists in Beijing, and after drinking wine and tea, I appreciated the pen and ink of famous artists, how charming! Now I have a Western painting that I don't know. There is also a copper horn that I don't know what it means? ”

The guy explained carelessly: "That copper horn is a new gramophone from the Japan Accumulator Chamber of Commerce, and it is worth dozens of oceans!" ”

Yang Jiesan glared at him: "Where to drink and eat, what do you do with such things!" ”

Wu Tongjia interjected with a smile at this time: "Then the signature dishes of your store are still crab roe lion head, pine crane drunken cream crab, Xiangyou eel paste, and squirrel mandarin fish?" Hurry up and pick up a few good ones and serve them as soon as possible. And the charcoal brazier will also be thriving! I didn't feel cold when I stayed in a guest house the other day. When I went out today, I felt that the capital was wickedly cold in winter. ”

The man asked again, "Second master." Xiaodian has hired several chefs from Shanghai and Guangzhou, who are good at making dishes from Britain, France, Italy and Germany, especially iron chicken, ham and eggs, sago pudding, banana sandwich cakes, chicken down abalone soup, onion beef soup, and the taste is the best in Beijing. Many old men come to the shop just to taste these dishes, do you want to try them too? ”

Seeing that Yang Jiesan was showing signs of madness, Wu Tongjia hurriedly said: "We are only here for nostalgia, so we only order old dishes from the past." If we want to eat fancai, then go directly to the New China Party guest house outside the city. The food there is truly authentic. I think that you don't always think about what new dishes to serve in a pot of spring, and the key is to consider the feelings of customers first. For example, if the box is heated on this cold day, wouldn't it be more attractive than those dishes? ”

Xiao Er smiled and said, "The master taught me a lesson." It's just that the small shop has a small profit, how can you afford something as expensive as heating? Therefore, we can only retreat and work the dishes. Please forgive me! ”

When Xiao Er retreated to prepare the wine and food, Wu Tongjia asked in a low voice: "Brother Shaoquan, Brother Fool remembers that you used to have a deep kung fu of Qi cultivation, although it may not have reached the point where Mount Tai collapsed in front and the color remained unchanged, and the elk was happy and unhappy in the left and not instantaneous, but most of the time it was still moody, why is it so angry today?" Did you encounter something that didn't go your way? ”

Yang Jiesan's face was even more gloomy, and he said after a while: "Since the Sunguo, the Queen Mother has been sad and depressed all day long, and then she became ill. It is expected that the tenth day of the first month coincides with the Queen Mother's Birthday Festival (birthday), and she is congratulated in the palace according to the rules, and sees the traitor Yuan Weiting's special envoy Liang Yansun congratulating him with the gift of foreign envoys, and he can't help but feel sad from it, which aggravates his condition, and now he is bedridden, and the treatment of all prescriptions is ineffective. ”

Wu Tongjia was also silent.

No matter what you say, they and the Empress Dowager Longyu are the same after all, and when they hear that her time is short, they will inevitably feel a little sad in their hearts. After a long time, Wu Tongjia sighed: "The Queen Mother has been too bitter in the past few decades!" ”

"Yes," Yang Jiesan also sighed, "The Queen Mother has been so bitter in the past few decades!" ”

Indeed, as Wu Tongjia and Yang Jiesan said, the Empress Dowager Longyu has indeed had a very hard time over the years. If you compile a ranking of tragic characters in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, the Empress Dowager Longyu must be on the list.

As the niece of the Empress Dowager Cixi and the cousin of the Guangxu Emperor, the Empress Dowager Longyu had a very good childhood, and her tragedy began when she was appointed by the Empress Dowager Cixi as the empress of the Guangxu Emperor. All this seems to have been foreshadowed before the Empress Dowager Longyu entered the palace.

The wedding celebration of Longyu and Guangxu was scheduled for the 27th day of the first month of the 15th year of Guangxu (1889), just when the harem was busy with the emperor's wedding, an unexpected thing happened: the 14th year of Guangxu (1889) December 15 late at night, when the snowflakes were falling into ice, who knew that the Forbidden City actually burst into a fire, and the Taihe Gate in front of the Taihe Palace turned into ruins.

If there is a quarrel or damage to utensils within three days, it is still considered ominous, let alone such a major event as burning down the Taihe Gate in the Forbidden City? Therefore, Weng Tonggong, who was at the scene of the fire, sighed: "This disaster is also thrilling, but what can I do!" But the Empress Dowager Cixi insisted on going her own way and decided that the wedding would be held as scheduled, and the queen must pass through the Taihe Gate to enter the harem. In the end, the craftsmen of Caizha rushed to work day and night to build a Taihe gate at the scene of the fire, which was enough to fake the real Taihe Gate, and finally solved the problem.

To tell the truth, the Empress Dowager Longyu's appearance is not outstanding, and she did not get the favor of Emperor Guangxu when selecting the concubine, and after being forcibly married by the Empress Dowager Cixi, it aroused the disgust of Emperor Guangxu. Moreover, the Empress Dowager Longyu has a soft and cowardly personality, as the queen supported by Cixi, she is unable to control the Six Palaces and let Concubine Zhen and others be powerful. Therefore, she was not favored by Emperor Guangxu in the palace, nor was she favored by the Empress Dowager Cixi, and even in front of the concubines of the six palaces and the princesses of the palace, she did not have much prestige.

After Longyu entered the palace, the days of the Qing Dynasty were worse day by day, first losing the underpants in the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War; This was followed by the Wuxu coup, in which the aunt and her husband completely turned against each other, and the husband was imprisoned in Yingtai, which was surrounded by water; This was followed by the Gengzi State Change, when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing, and she had to flee to Xi'an with the Empress Dowager Cixi, Emperor Guangxu and the rest of the palace dependents. After returning to Beijing, although Concubine Zhen has died, and Longyu and Guangxu can be regarded as a couple in distress, they still cannot be favored.

After a few more years of a little peace, my aunt and husband passed away one after another, leaving her as a lonely widow and her nephew barely living in the palace. Who knows that God doesn't give him a way to live, and even this kind of hard life is not stable! First, the revolutionary party was in turmoil, and fifteen provinces in the north and south became independent from the government; Later, the dog thief Yuan Shikai counterattacked, forcing her to sign an edict of abdication.

Now, although Longyu and Xuantong mother and son still live in the Forbidden City, the Qing Emperor's honor is still alive, and the guards are retained as usual, but the country that the ancestors worked hard to build has been lost. Whenever she thinks of this, the Empress Dowager Longyu feels ashamed of the ancestors who started the business, and she is also sorry for entrusting the country to her aunt and husband, so she often sighs to herself, "Orphans and widows, sad through the ages, every time they see the desolation of the palace, they don't know where the soul goes."

Just as the two of them sighed at each other, the guy brought the dishes and drinks at a low price. Yang Jiesan drank a few glasses of wine, barely cheered up and asked, "Brother Di Xuan, you have been in charge of academic politics in Hubei Province in recent years, and what happened to you suddenly going north this time?" ”

Wu Tongjia's things are not confidential, so he didn't hide it from his friends: "Brother Shaoquan has recently hyped up the election of members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, right?" ”

Although Yang Jiesan is a bachelor in the small court, he often ignores things outside the window, but he still knows about this matter. I couldn't help but ask with some surprise: "Brother Di Xuan is here to participate in the re-election of members of the Senate and House of Representatives?" ”

Wu Tongjia shook his head: "That's not it." Brother Xian may not know that Brother Yu is not only the director of the Hubei Education Department, but also the vice chairman of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the New China Party. This time, our New China Party is preparing to convene the second party congress after the re-election of the members of the two houses, and the standing committees of the provincial party committees of all provinces are all candidates for the meeting, and Brother Yu is also among them, so he and the members of the New China Party of this province go north together to prepare to attend the meeting. ”

Yang Jiesan is a little unfamiliar with the friend in front of him who likes to catch up with fashion: he hasn't seen him for a year, he actually joined the New China Party, and he still mixed up with the position of vice chairman of the provincial party committee. However, he did not show it, but continued to ask: "New China Party? Is that the party that Sun Yuan started? When did Brother Di Xuan participate? ”

Wu Tongjia was a little complacent: "Our New China Party was founded by Mr. Sun Baixi. Our party is very strict about the review of members joining the party, and Brother Yu applied to join at the beginning of last year, and it was only approved in July and August last year. However, it is precisely because of the strict review that it can perform so well in the re-election of members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Brother Shaoquan should know, right? Our New China Party now occupies 262 seats in the National Assembly, only 34 fewer than the Kuomintang. (To be continued.) )