The Chao New Year Festival is a big day, it is more grand and grand than the later generations, it is a very important festival, even if the upper class of the Northern Qi Dynasty is basically Xianbei, but also have to follow such customs.

The Spring Festival can be traced back to the early Zhou period at the earliest, and in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the customs have basically set the most important prototype for the New Year in later generations.

According to the "Records of the Wind and Soil" written by the Zhou Department of the Jin Dynasty, it is recorded that on Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone gives gifts to each other, which is called "giving the year", and the old and young gather together to celebrate the completion of the blessings, which is called "dividing the year"; Sleepless all year round, waiting for the dawn, called "keeping the year". On this day, it is a good day to worship ancestors and reunite with families.

Of course, the court is naturally more particular, after the emperor keeps the New Year, the ministers also wear solemn and bright court clothes to the pilgrimage, which is called the Great Dynasty Meeting.

The princes and princes of the clans who have heavy troops and shepherd one side must personally or send their princes to meet the emperor, and the feudal officials and princes of all parties must select the most precious gifts to pay tribute to the emperor, and at the court meeting, make a "report on their work" to the emperor on their local governance in the past year, which is necessary.

"Mencius" contains: "The princes report to the Son of Heaven, one does not go to the court, he will degrade his lordship, the second will cut his land, and the third will not move the six armies." It can be seen that the "Great Dynasty Meeting" is not only a kind of etiquette, but also a kind of constraint on the princes.

In particular, there were many princes in the Northern Qi at that time, and there were many vassal kings, and even many kings with different surnames, such as Hu Luguang was named the king of Xianyang, and even the traitor Lou Dingyuan could be named the king of Linhuai County by nepotism, it can be seen that the princes of the Northern Qi and the Northern Zhou Dynasty (the Northern Zhou and the Northern Qi are similar in this regard) do not seem to be so valuable, but even so, there are also some vassal kings who go out to the vassal and hold part of the power, which is even more difficult to control.

Whether it is on Gao Wei's side, or for the princes and nobles, the court meeting cannot be ignored.

Therefore, in recent days, cars from all over the country have filled the streets of Yecheng, and the vassal kings have driven back from all over the country, and the scene can be imagined how grand and grand it is.

Gao Wei slept until late today and got up, it was already three poles in the morning, Yuanyuan had already trotted over and waited to listen to the story, and when she heard Wan'er say that Gao Wei was still sleeping, she pursed her mouth and muttered, which probably means that Gao Wei is really lazy, and he can't get up at this time......

Yuan Yun smiled helplessly at Wan'er, Wan'er didn't care too much about these, Gao Wei was really tired for more than a month, today was a festival, so it was no ...... for him to sleep a little longer, Wan'er ordered someone to bring out some new fruits and pastries to cushion Yuanyuan's stomach.

"Your royal brother is still sleeping, and when we wake up, we will have breakfast."

"Okay......" Yuanyuan rolled her big black eyes, reached out to grab the pastries on the fruit plate to eat, Yuan Yun gently patted the back of her fleshy hand, so Yuanyuan was a little aggrieved: "I washed my hands......" stretched out her hand to show her, "I don't believe you, it's all clean......"

"Ha, child, it's okay if you let her eat more." Gao Wei turned out of the dormitory, and Hu Lu Wan'er followed him to sort out his clothes.

"Today is an important day, Your Majesty should wear it solemnly!" Wan'er helplessly followed behind.

"Afraid of what? Is it not at night to feast kings and keep the New Year? When the time comes, I have to change my clothes again, how troublesome is it? Cushman and Wakefield pouted.

"Let's go to breakfast......" Gao Wei sat down in front of his seat, at that time, the meals were divided into meals, and everyone did not sit together to eat, but yesterday Gao Wei specially explained, replaced with a big round table, everyone sat down to eat, and the kneeling couch and futon were also removed, and replaced with a chair designed by Gao Wei.

"Huh?" Yuanyuan's face was full of surprise, and it was quite interesting to see Gao Wei sitting on it steadily, so she also stood on tiptoe and put her ass on the same way as Gao Wei.

"Huh?" Yuanyuan felt that sitting like this was much more comfortable than kneeling, and her two little short legs were dangling.

Cushman smiled and pinched her nose, "Isn't it so comfortable than before?" ”

Yuanyuan nodded her little head and said, "It's much better than kneeling like before!" ”

"Hmph," Gao Wei nodded her forehead and said with a smile: "Dinner, don't dangle it." ”

"What did the queen mother say?" Cushman asked suddenly.

Hu Lu Wan'er understood that he was asking himself, so he said: "I went to the Jade Buddha Hall early this morning to say goodbye, and the queen mother accepted the year, but still refused to see me......" The words revealed a little grievance, Gao Wei then comforted: "It's okay, just know that the queen mother is in good health, and you can still see the queen mother at the banquet tonight." ”

Yuanyuan is very active, maybe she saw that her sister-in-law was in a bad mood, so she twittered all kinds of "interesting" stories to her, and many things were recounted upside down, without a beginning or an end, but Yuanyuan said very happily, Wan'er was very cooperative, and her mood was better.

Gao Wei silently drank the millet porridge in the dry bowl, listening to Yuanyuan and Wan'er with a smile on his face, but there was no emotion in his eyes, he knew that the reason why the Queen Mother didn't see them was not because she still had opinions about Wan'er and Gao Wei, but because she felt guilty about Gao Wei, so she didn't want to see Gao Wei.

Many people are actually like this, feeling guilty, what should they do? It's better not to see, or simply step on the object of guilt again, and destroy him with your own hands, so that you won't feel guilty anymore, this is the best choice...... people generally have an escape mentality.

[Mother, Mother, Mother, are you so sure that you are betting on the right treasure? 】

Gao Wei looked outside the hall, the sky was full of thick clouds, and the scene was bleak and gloomy.

Gao Wei took a light breath and lifted his chopsticks to pick up a few slices of beef and put them into Yuanyuan's bowl.

[The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the good weather for killing people ......]

Yecheng is shrouded in snow, and the atmosphere of the New Year adds a lot of life to Yecheng, and the streets are very lively, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going.

The flow of people converges at the beginning of the street and disperses at the fork in the road, which is probably the case with life.

The street vendors selling cakes (similar to steamed buns) are shouting and shouting, shouting in the words of Wen Zou Zou that I don't know where they heard it, mixed with all kinds of words to express blessings, which sounds quite funny. When a noble person passed by, he smiled and asked his subordinates to sell a few catties of cakes back, and criticized him for his nondescript ......, and the stall owner grinned honestly with a toothless mouth.

It was slowly getting dark, the wind was howling, and the city was lit with warm candlelight, enjoying this quiet and warm moment.

Inside the palace, the palace maids and eunuchs decorate and renovate the entire palace like a tide, and eye-catching red can be seen everywhere.

In the east of the imperial city, the princes and ministers have already prepared entertainment programs at home, playing chess, throwing pots, holding guns, laughing and laughing, everyone temporarily forgot their troubles and enjoyed this rare and quiet reunion moment with peace of mind. At this time, even if there were one or two houses around with an eerily calm atmosphere, they probably wouldn't notice it.

Everything seems normal and beautiful.

They didn't know what a huge conspiracy had begun to sprout.

Later, the Qianqiu Gate slowly opened, and the frames of the long-awaited clan vassal kings were inspected, and one by one they entered the palace gate.

In the palace of King Langya, King Langya put on a suit of armor, turned to look at a group of heavily armed and flushed subordinates behind him, and said, "After three quarters of an hour, we will enter the Qianqiu Gate!" ”