Chapter 69: Birthday Greetings in Dialects

So taking advantage of the lunch break, Fu Xuechen accompanied Yu Zuo to play double mahjong - the rules are the same, and two less people will not prevent Yu Zuo from understanding and being familiar with the rules of mahjong.

"It was really fun! It is suitable for the elderly as a pastime to pass the time. Yu Zuo gave Fu Xuechen an appreciative look, and immediately decided to take this set of rosewood mahjong tiles to the mother concubine as a reference, and imitate the precious jade mahjong tiles or ivory mahjong tiles, and then return this pair of rosewood to Fu Xuechen.

"It is not advisable for the elderly to sit for a long time, this is something to be aware of." Fu Xuechen reminded again, but there are imperial doctors in the palace, and for elderly nobles, especially those with a respected status like the Queen Mother, they have to ask for a pulse every day, even if there is no reminder from her, the imperial doctors will be heartbroken for the Queen Mother's health.

With mahjong, then Xie Guifei's birthday celebration this year will be settled, and with some other gifts that have been prepared, there is really nothing to worry about.

Yu Zuo was happy, but still a little worried: "The problem of the mother concubine has been solved, but I don't know what I should give yet!" Our juniors congratulate the elderly on their birthdays, which is nothing more than kowtowing and offering greetings, and I can't write well. ”

Fu Xuechen was puzzled: "Is there anything that can't be written?" The congratulatory speech is first and foremost sincere, and it is not for people to take the imperial examination, but to show their literary brilliance and style, and they don't even need to hand in the papers, just recite a few words orally, right? ”

Yu Zuo was helpless: "Although you don't have to hand in the papers, the historian will record it, if you can't write it well......"

He didn't continue, but Fu Xuechen sounded like it was probably a matter of idol baggage, the princes will grow up slowly, and they can be childlike when they are young, it doesn't matter, but when they reach a certain age, they should have some writing skills, if they don't learn and have no skills, they will make some crude things out and laugh at them, and they will become princes in the future, these will become their black history, and it is inevitable that they will be made fun of all the time.

"In my opinion, sincerity is the most important, literary style or something, it is all for outsiders to see, what the Queen Mother wants most should be His Royal Highness's sincere blessing, and nothing else is the point." Fu Xuechen remembered the story of Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty in his fifties who sang to his stepmother, the Queen Mother, and felt a little emotional.

Yu Zuo admired Fu Xuechen's brain hole very much, and when he heard this, he asked, "Do you have an idea?" ”

Fu Xuechen thought about it seriously: "I seem to remember that my father mentioned that the Queen Mother's ancestral home is Lingnan?" ”

"Yes." Yu Zuo nodded: "The imperial grandmother followed my imperial grandfather to the north to settle down in Jinling after she got married, until my father and the emperor settled here, and then moved here again with us." ”

"So, the Queen Mother hasn't heard her young native accent for many years?" Fu Xuechen's eyes couldn't help but light up, her mother in her previous life was also from Lingnan, and she could also speak Cantonese.

"Not really." Yu Zuo said: "The imperial grandmother married many people back then, and there are two or three old grandmothers who still follow the left and right, serving each other closely, and they often speak hometown dialect among themselves, but we don't understand it." ”

It's a bit of a surprise, I forgot that the nobles of this era always marry with their children, unlike later women, who marry by themselves, and the rich are no exception, what nannies and housekeepers and the like, and they don't say that they are born and raised by the family to marry, after marrying, most of these service personnel are hired by the husband's family.

But it doesn't matter, Fu Xuechen still said: "Although the Queen Mother has an old mother who can talk to her old man in a native accent, but it is not her old man's blood relatives after all." ”

"I think Your Highness, if you can learn a few words of her old man's native dialect to send her old man's birthday message, her old man will be very happy and be able to experience your filial piety and sincerity!"

Yu Zuo thoughtfully: "Really? ”

Fu Xuechen just made a suggestion, whether to adopt this plan in the end, and he had to make up his own mind.

Obviously, Yu Zuo was tempted, and he began to think about where to learn the language, and what words to learn: "If you want to learn Lingnan Cantonese, it is not difficult to find people from the Liangguang Guild Hall, but Cantonese is not easy to learn, and the Holy Birthday is approaching, so the time left for me is so short, can I learn it well?" ”

"Oops! It's easy to learn just a few words! Fu Xuechen smiled: "I don't need to find anyone else, I will!" Not only can I sing, but I can also sing! ”

"Sing?" Yu Zuo was shocked.

"That's right! I'll sing you ......" Fu Xuechen clasped his fists and sang with a smile: "I wish you a blessed life and Tianqi, I wish you a happy birthday, every year has today, every year has today, I wish you all the time, I wish you!" ”

After translating the lyrics to Yu Zuo, Fu Xuechen asked with a smile: "How is it?" It's simple! When the time comes, you can also let the musicians on the field accompany you, and the drums will be lively and festive. ”

This greeting is indeed quite straightforward and simple, and it is not difficult to learn, Yu Zuo was amused by Fu Xuechen's festive expression, and couldn't help asking: "How do you understand so many messy things, who did you learn from this?" ”

Fu Xuechen's eyes rolled and said, "Is this difficult?" There are people from anywhere in Guozi School, Cantonese! It's not difficult to learn a few words casually, and if you sing it into a song, you can sing it casually. ”

"Do you remember how you sang it?" Yu Zuo smiled.

"Remember! Just two or three sentences, how can you not remember! "Fu Xuechen is not afraid of Jue Zuo getting to the bottom of it, Fu Yuchen will also teach him when she goes back, because it is too simple, and she is not afraid that no one will be able to learn it.

Yu Zuo immediately learned from Fu Xuechen, it was indeed very simple, Yu Zuo quickly learned, because the words were festive and the tunes were also cheerful, the two of them felt happy and wonderful as soon as they sang it.

Caiyi entertainment belongs to one of the twenty-four filial piety, there is in the Spring and Autumn Period, in the Chinese that advocates filial piety, even if he is respected as the emperor, he can also sing in person, and the drama belongs to the lower ninth rate, lowly, but as long as the purpose of the emperor's singing is to make his mother happy, he can be regarded as a good story by the world's scholars, and it is highly respected.

Therefore, Yu Zuo finally decided that on the day of the Holy Birthday Day, a group of underage princes and princesses kowtowed to celebrate their birthdays, and when everyone recited the birthday greetings in order, he sang this to the imperial grandmother, and he would quietly go to greet the court musicians who were in charge of the live ritual music that day, and let them play music to cooperate with him.

Yu Zuo has solved a matter of concern here, Fu Xuechen went back and told Fu Yuchen, Fu Yuchen sweated profusely.

"I'm going to learn too?" Fu Yuchen doesn't think that this kind of Holy Birthday Festival, which is basically only celebrated once in ten years, will still have the opportunity for him to appear in Cantonese after being celebrated by Fu Xuechen for him this year.

"Be prepared! It's not hard to learn! Fu Xuechen insisted that Fu Yuchen would too.

Fu Yuchen was helpless, so he had to obediently follow and learn a few times, but fortunately, he learned it quickly after just a few sentences, and then he spread out a few thin books and pushed them in front of Fu Xuechen.