The Empress Dowager sighed, put down the fold in her hand, and her gaze crossed Yang Feng and fell on the bead curtain behind him.

In this palace, only her Chaoyang Palace is made of bead curtains.

In Chaoyang Palace, from her bedroom to the room of the maid in the palace, all of them are hung with beaded curtains.

There are no curtains, no embroidered tents, and dozens of rooms of all sizes are hung with beaded curtains, beaded curtains strung with countless large and small pearls.

When she was a child, she followed her aunt to visit relatives, and the cousin of the relatives' family married into the city and wore a pearl necklace when she returned to her parents' house.

The countrymen only know that gold and silver are good things, but they do not know pearls. The cousin took off the necklace for them to see, and somehow, as soon as she took the necklace, the necklace broke, and the beads fell all over the ground.

For that pearl, Daddy sold an acre of land, but my cousin said that an acre of land could not be exchanged for a pearl......

Later, Daddy said a lot of good things, and my cousin said, "Forget it, they are all relatives." ”

My cousin took the money they had sold, and went back to the city.

Daddy returned home and sat alone in the yard until midnight.

The family only has three acres of land, and if there is one acre less, the family's rations will be reduced by thirty percent.

Later, she remembered the events of that day, and gradually understood that her cousin should have found the pearl, so she stopped pursuing it, after all, the pearl fell on the ground of their house.

Later, she became the most noble woman in the world, with rare treasures for her to choose, and she hung bead curtains in her Chaoyang Palace, which was crystal moist like a fairy cave.

Emperor Taizu didn't understand why she, who had always been simple and thrifty, suddenly became extravagant, and even her younger brother Yang Feng didn't understand.

Only she knows that when she sees and touches these pearls every day, she doesn't dare to relax in the slightest.

Everything she has is not given by God, let alone by her parents, she has earned it by herself, she can't lose it, let alone let anyone snatch it, she can't!

She has lived in Chaoyang Palace for thirty-five years, and the women in the harem have changed batch after batch like this bead curtain, only she is still sitting on the phoenix seat, unattainable, looking down on all beings.

"Come on, draw up a decree for the mourning family!"

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Empress Dowager will personally preside over the ceremony of worshiping the heavens in Baoxiang Temple, worship heaven and earth, and pray for the peace of the country and the people in the coming year, and the wind and rain will be smooth. In addition to the emperor's relatives, nobles and officials above the fourth rank in Beijing, ordinary people who are over 60 years old can observe the ceremony and be rewarded with Laba porridge.

Since the death of Emperor Taizu, this is the first time that the royal family has sacrificed to the heavens on the Laba Festival, and it is also the first time that ordinary people have been allowed to participate in the sacrifice ceremony since the establishment of the Great Qi Dynasty.

The Empress Dowager's edict was transcribed and posted all over the capital, and people who were worried about the robbery of congratulatory gifts yesterday are now excitedly talking about how many elders in their homes can go to watch the ceremony.

This is a matter of honoring the ancestors, and it is a blessing accumulated over several lifetimes.

"Miss, Miss, is the Laba porridge given by the Empress Dowager delicious?" Fang Fei licked her lips with her little tongue, and she almost drooled.

"It's not all porridge, how delicious it can be, it's not all rice, beans, and dried fruits." Shen Tong said with a smile.

"Miss, maybe the rice in the Empress Dowager's Laba porridge is made of gold, it must be delicious." Fang Fei imagined that she had never drunk porridge made of gold.

"Poof", a chuckle came from behind them, Shen Tong and Fang Fei turned to look, only to see a little beggar sitting not far from them, the little beggar was in tattered clothes, it was a cold day, under the half-cut cownose pants, a dirty calf was exposed, and the little beggar's face was also dirty, at first glance, he couldn't see his original appearance at all, and he could only estimate from his size, about twelve or thirteen years old.

This is an alley, and the little beggars are sitting at the mouth of the alley basking in the sun, and there is no one else behind them, and the laughter is made by the little beggars.

"Hey, what are you laughing at, the Queen Mother's Laba porridge is made of gold." Fang Fei was a child after all, and when she heard someone laughing, she thought she was laughing at her.

Shen Tong also saw the little beggar, and she said to Fang Fei, "Let's go buy meat buns to eat." ”

Fang Fei became happy when she heard this, and jumped to the front: "I saw the meat buns sold just now, and I don't know if the meat buns in the capital are delicious." ”

Shen Tong looked back at the little beggar again, and the little beggar also looked at her, and she saw a pair of black and white eyes.

The little beggar shouted, "Kind ladies and ladies, give you a meat bun to eat." ”

The corners of Shen Tong's mouth curved, and he followed Fang Fei away.

The meat buns in the capital are not as delicious as expected, because they are too salty.

Finding a stall selling big bowls of tea, Fang Fei drank the tea soup in a big gulp and asked Shen Tong: "Miss, don't you need money for salt in the capital?" Why put so much. ”

Shen Tong smiled, her attention had been attracted by the two people sitting next to her.

"Last night, a lot of Flying Fish Guards went out of the city, and there were hundreds of them."

"It must be to arrest the rebels, by the way, you have heard, the emperor's congratulatory gift was robbed."

"What kind of rebellion, it's all nonsense, if you think it's a Jiangyang thief, if someone really rebels, will the Empress Dowager personally preside over the ceremony? There are so many people, what if someone assassinates? ”

"That's right, in this way, it really doesn't look like a rebellion, by the way, Ling Zun just celebrated his sixtieth birthday last year, and this time he was able to go to the ceremony, congratulations."

......

After drinking a bowl of tea and soup, Shen Tong said to Fang Fei: "Let's go, let's go back to the inn." ”

The inn they live in is not big or small, and the guests are not more, not less, when they stayed yesterday, they told the shopkeeper to wait for the adults at home here, and originally thought that the shopkeeper would ask a few more words, but they didn't expect to let them live without saying a word.

To this day, Fang Fei is still sighing: "The people in the capital are really good, if it is in Shangqiao Town, if there are children who come to the inn by themselves, they will definitely be interrogated, and maybe they will invite the chief over." ”

Yes, Shangqiao Town is a small place, a little thing will be regarded as a big thing, people used to talk about the east and the west of the family, but when it comes to the capital, even the big event such as the robbery of the congratulatory gift has only been talked about for a day, and now people are thinking about how lively it will be on the day of the Laba Festival, and how beautiful the parents will be.

Returning to the house and sitting down, after a while, Fang Fei opened the door, kicked in and out of the door, and shouted at the staircase: "Man, send a pot of hot water." ”

The guy with the white towel quickly brought the hot water over, and Shen Tong asked him: "I heard that the Huguo Mansion is on this street, why didn't we see it when we went out for a walk today?" ”

"Where, who did the little eldest sister listen to, they said nonsense, the Huguo Mansion is in Dongfu Hutong, and the entire alley is theirs, and it takes half an hour to get there from us. But you can't get close to the front, because whether it's windy or rainy, there are carriages and sedan chairs in front of the house. ”