The end of the year has arrived, and the situation in Beijing and Central China is very calm.

Only Emperor Liang issued an edict after the court meeting, saying that the queen was ill, and the year-end ceremony was performed by Concubine Xu Shu.

According to rumors in the palace, the emperor originally wanted to make the Yue clan come to perform this year's etiquette, but Concubine Yue herself wrote to the emperor, saying that her position was after Concubine Xu Shu, and the salute was disrespectful, and suggested that His Majesty should choose the sacrificial candidates according to the year and position of entering the palace.

Concubine Yue was undoubtedly influenced by the last court debate.

On that day, the great Confucians had already explained many etiquettes, especially the year-end ceremony, clearly.

If the Yue clan makes another mistake, I am afraid that the entire court will have objections to this.

At this point, Emperor Liang didn't see this clearly.

His Majesty the Emperor was also appreciative of Yue's reasonableness and generosity, and even gave him a new pearl hairpin as a reward.

"Concubine Yue is just a reasoned excuse, and His Majesty actually rewarded her."

"The argument in front of the emperor has just passed, has Your Majesty forgotten everything?"

Mu Qing was indignant.

Seeing his brother's reaction, the Nihuang County Lord smiled helplessly.

I just thought to myself that the time for Mu Qing to follow Lu Ze to the Western Realm to experience and polish might have to be hurried.

The Muwang Mansion also needs to walk back and forth between the various mansions that are familiar with Jinling, of course, the Marquis of Wuwei Mansion must come and go, plus the eldest princess of Liyang reminded her to be careful about the things in the palace before, and the Marquis of Ningguo's Mansion is also indispensable to walk around.

Lu Zhai's side, of course, is also preparing for the New Year.

But this is not something that Lu Ze needs to worry about, Liu Qiushuang was born in the Liu family, and she is a good hand at handling housekeeping.

Such as Mu Wangfu, East Palace, Yuwang Mansion, Yan Mansion, Xie Mansion and other mansions that have dealings, the New Year's gifts are all sent to the door in advance, and even Mei Changsu and King Jing sent people to send New Year's gifts.

Lu Ze mostly just looked at the gift list, and all the things in return were handed over to Liu Qiushuang.

This appearance of shaking off the shopkeeper made Mrs. Hou Futai particularly dissatisfied.

"After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, you have to get up and go back to Ganzhou, and after returning to Beijing for so long, the biggest thing has not been done for me!"

When you go home for the Chinese New Year, the most escapable thing is, of course, a blind date.

Liu Qiushuang thought in her heart that she wanted Lu Ze to spread the branches and spread the leaves for the Hou Mansion and reproduce heirs, but unexpectedly, it was completely thunderous and rainy with the Nihuang County Lord, and the Beijing was rumored that the affairs of the Hou Ye in the red sleeves caused Liu Qiushuang to be extremely dissatisfied.

Of course, Lu Ze relieved his mother.

"Let's pick and choose."

"Maybe I will be rewarded again next time I return to Beijing, so change the lintel for our family, and when the time comes, won't my face be brighter?"

Lu Ze's joke caused Liu Qiushuang's heart to shake.

Changing the lintel at home?

Is it possible that you kid still want to be crowned a king with a different surname?

The most honorable thing in Jinling City is undoubtedly the opening of the country at the beginning of the founding of the Great Liang, such as the Yingchuan Liu family, and for the king with a different surname, there is only the Mu Wangfu of the southern border of the king who led the troops in the whole Liang country.

So Liu Qiushuang didn't dare to think deeply.

In the blink of an eye, it came to Chinese New Year's Eve.

At the end of the year, this much-anticipated festival caused a lot of fights and turmoil in the palace in advance, but on the day it was held smoothly and peacefully, without any accidents, except for the queen's absence from the year-end ceremony, there was no big difference from the festival in previous years.

The explosion did not occur.

Lu Ze had already explored the palace in advance, and did not find traces of gunpowder in the altar where the emperor sprinkled paper at the ceremony, thinking that Mei Changsu had seen through Yan Que's explosion plan and successfully prevented this artistic explosion.

After the ceremony, the emperor returned to the palace, and the ceremony of giving gifts and dividing candles began in the palace.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, every family needs to observe the New Year.

The Liang Emperor would distribute the imperial candles in the palace every Chinese New Year's Eve, and the royal family and relatives and important ministers received their rewards outside An Yimen.

According to the practice of previous years, the rank of the royal gift should be respected by the crown prince, followed by the honorary king, and the rest of the princes again.

The ministers of the clan will distribute rewards in turn according to their official positions and the emperor's holy family.

This year's rule has not changed much, even if His Royal Highness the Prince has a faint tendency to fall down in the battle with the Yu Wang Party, but judging from the many rewards that the Emperor has given to the East Palace on Chinese New Year's Eve this year, His Majesty at least still has a sense of favor for the Prince, and King Yu has no extra thoughts about this.

Emperor Liang's reward for King Jing was also more than in previous years.

The most eye-catching thing is, of course, the emperor's reward for the Marquis of Wuwei, many of the most innovative things have been taken away by Lu Ze, including even the special 'full city' fireworks made by the Ministry of Industry this year, which alone looks like a small square table.

Although these gadgets are not treasures, they are novel, and the ministers and princes deeply feel the importance that His Majesty the Emperor attaches to Lu Hou.

New Year's night in the capital.

Firecrackers are noisy, flowers and paper are all over the ground, the city is full of lights, and every family keeps the New Year.

Although it is lively, after all, it is different from the Lantern Festival, everyone stays at home to reunite with their relatives, and there are not many pedestrians on the streets of Jinling City.

At the turn of the new year, brilliant fireworks take off into the sky.

And the most eye-catching is undoubtedly the imperial fireworks that bloomed from the Wuwei Marquis's Mansion, only to see the light bullets that rose to the sky cut a flame mark in the black curtain, and went straight into the depths of the night, bursting open, turning into a flowing cloud waterfall that almost dazzled half of the sky.

- Wow!

Most of the people in Jinling City were attracted by the fireworks of the waterfall that shimmered and made the sun as black as day.

"Wow!"

"What beautiful fireworks!"

The powerful in Kyoto know that this must be the fireworks of the Wuwei Marquis Mansion.

On the night of the reunion, the Great Liang Palace also lined up the New Year's banquet, the emperor first went to the Ci'an Palace to greet the Empress Dowager, and then returned to the palace, and the concubines, princes, and relatives surnamed Liang drank and celebrated the New Year.

Of course, Prince Ji also came to the palace today, and went with the emperor to greet the emperor's grandmother.

The two brothers walked slowly in the palace of Mingzhou, one after the other.

Emperor Liang looked up at the daytime fireworks in the night, and said with a smile: "This New Year's gift, I gave it well, right?" ”

I saw King Ji laughing: "Brother Huang, my brother also wants such a gift." ”

After a few intimate words, Emperor Liang's face softened even more, remembering his brother and brother Gong back then, he turned his head and gently patted his brother's shoulder: "Let's have a few more drinks with the imperial brother this year, keep watch for the old year on Chinese New Year's Eve, and hope that next year my Liang can be smooth." ”