By the time the city gate was about to be locked at night, Ding Nie was no longer human, and he couldn't know how many things he had been thrown all over his body.

Wang Huaien also searched for a long time before finding someone willing to help him clean up, and Wang Huaien himself immediately went back to the palace to report.

When Zhao Jun learned the news, he was not surprised at all, as far as what Ding Nie did, if it wasn't for someone from the imperial court to stop him, it would be possible for him Ding Nie to be eaten alive today.

The people of Bianjing hated him to the extreme.

After thinking about it, Zhao Jun ordered: "Continue to tie it out tomorrow, but don't let people throw things anymore, dry him for two days first." ”

"No!"

In this way, Ding Nie was thrown out to dry at dawn every day, and brought back as soon as the city gate was closed.

It's not that Zhao Jun didn't think about letting him hang outside all the time, but if he really did it, those angry people would have someone secretly dismembering him at night.

He was so for a few days, and finally put him in prison on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Early in the morning, before dawn, the whole palace was lively.

The palace maids and eunuchs began the final cleaning work before Chinese New Year's Eve.

The ground shall be swept clean, and the windows and doors of every palace shall be cleaned.

It can be said that the palace has been cleaned most thoroughly in a year.

After the sweep, the workers can stay and start to replace last year's door god painting and the old peach talisman, which is called the replacement of the door god and the nail peach talisman.

The paintings are all portraits of Zhong Kui, while the peach charms are made of thin wooden boards, and the palace is generally made of golden silk nanmu.

The whole peach charm is two or three feet long, four or five inches large, and the upper part is painted like a god of the gods, the genus of Bai Ze, and the left Yu Lei and the right gods are painted in the next book.

On it, spring words are written, or books are written to pray for prayers, and they are even more pronounced on New Year's Day. ”

Hang it next to the door to have the effect of warding evil spirits.

This is what every family in the Great Song Dynasty will do on Chinese New Year's Eve.

As the so-called:

In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu.

Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one.

After the Song people were busy for half a morning, it was mainly men who handed over the washing and cooking affairs to the female dependents and made an appointment to go out to play "pounding pills", which is an activity similar to modern golf.

Naturally, the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace continued to be busy, and Zhao Jun, the emperor, gave New Year's gifts to each other with hundreds of officials, and the main thing in the palace was the portrait of Zhong Kui, and the hundred officials were different, mainly to ask for a lottery.

Then he took the hundred officials out of the palace to beat the pills.

After playing until noon, a group of people simply set up a banquet directly on the court and began to eat normally after drinking the open soup, and a burst of light was staggered.

When the meal is finished, Baiguan will start to fight tea again.

That is, similar to the drinking order of punching when drinking, the tea fight also has its own tea order.

Each minister took out the good tea he brought, boiled it on the spot, and evaluated each other's tea.

Tea buckets are expensive to tea "new", and tea buckets are water-based to "live".

Generally, Bianjing fights to test, and green and white win yellow and white.

First of all, look at whether the color of the tea soup is bright white, pure white is the winner, green and white, gray and white, yellow and white are negative.

The color of the soup can reflect the harvesting skills of the tea, and the tea soup is pure white, indicating that the tea is tender and the production is just right;

The color is greenish, indicating that the steaming tea is not enough

The color is gray, indicating that the steaming tea has passed

The color is yellow, indicating that the harvest is not timely;

If the color is red, it means that the roast has been overheated.

Secondly, look at the duration of the soup flower.

There's a lot to look out for.

This link is called tea fighting, and the comparison is whose tea is better.

This link opened the eyes of Zhao Jun, the emperor who came back from the vassal king, but he didn't expect that the Great Song Dynasty actually had so many good teas that he didn't know, as a tea lover, he immediately asked Wang Huaien to write down all the good teas that appeared during this period, and then he went to the palace to purchase more for his own use.

After the tea fight, the tea fight will begin.

Hundreds of officials took the initiative to come out, or listed tea-related stories, or chanted a tea-related poem or Fu to compete with each other, like a wine order to add fun.

Then there is the Tea Hundred Opera, also known as Tang Opera or Dividing Tea, which is a popular tea ceremony in the Great Song Dynasty, that is, the technique of pouring boiled tea into a tea bowl.

Those who are good at this can make the soup flowers of the tea soup instantly show a magnificent and changeable scene.

If the mountains and rivers are cloudy, like flowers, birds, fish and insects, such as ink paintings, and this requires a high level of tea-making skills.

After a short rest after the tea fight, Zhao Jun took the hundred officials to worship the Taimiao.

By the time the sacrifice was completed, it was already dark, and a grand Chinese New Year's Eve feast began to be held in the palace.

At this time, not only the hundred officials, but also the family members of the hundred officials were allowed to be brought into the palace.

Colorful palace lanterns are hung high, illuminating the entire palace.

The guards can wear new armor and maintain order in every main road of the palace, and the Jiying Hall as the banquet hall is three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, this is not to monitor the officials, but tonight there are many people, and strict management can ensure that everything goes smoothly.

The palace banquet began at four o'clock in the Shen hour, and the palace attendants served a bowl of steaming dumplings to each table, in addition to the special snacks of the Great Song Dynasty, the special snack 馣飣 (i.e., noodle soup).

Then, a variety of food was presented on the tables of the ministers for them to enjoy with their families.

As the emperor and as the landlord, Zhao Jun gave a message to the Chinese New Year's Eve, after which the hundred officials drank it, and then everyone began to eat and drink at will, staggered each other, toasted each other's Tusu wine, and tasted delicious food.

From time to time, some people even chant a masterpiece on Chinese New Year's Eve to set off the atmosphere of the banquet.

Happy times are always short-lived, and in the midst of the jubilation, the dinner is coming to an end, and the time has come to the fourth quarter of the unitary hour.

With the first crackling explosion, the entire palace was instantly reduced to a sea of firecrackers, and the crackling explosions continued one after another.

And outside the palace, the sound of firecrackers sounded as if answered.

Then there are a puff of fireworks rising into the sky, exploding brilliant colorful fireworks.

At this moment, the sky over the entire Bianjing City was lit up by fireworks.

Zhao Jun also got up with a smile at this time and stretched out his hand to Ye Yin beside him.

Ye Yin raised his hand to hold it, and the husband and wife walked down from the throne hand in hand, and walked out of the palace along the aisle in the center of the Jiying Hall and looked up at the sky.

Brilliant fireworks continue to rise into the sky, one after another.

The colorful light sets off the pretty faces of the people, and it is very beautiful.

The watery eyes of the beautiful woman next to her were smiling and shining.

The black eyes are like the most beautiful black pearls in the world, which makes people intoxicated.

Zhao Jun suddenly said involuntarily:

"Yin'er, I know today, looking back and smiling, what does it mean that the six palaces have no color?"

Ye Yin's face turned red with shame for a moment.

"Your Majesty, we have been married for many years, why did you suddenly say this today?"

Looking at his wife's delicate appearance, Zhao Jun's heart throbbed even more, and he raised his hand to help him gently pin the green silk hanging down from his ears behind his ears, and Zhao Jun immediately took him directly in his arms.

Looking up at the sky, looking at the fireworks that were still blooming in the sky, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and he said slowly:

"Yin'er, for the rest of your life, I still look forward to the present dynasty."

"Hmm!"

With a flushed face and rippling eyes, Ye Yin nodded lightly and responded.

Bang! Bang! Bang! ……

Another bouquet of flowers lifted into the air and exploded!

The lights shine through, and the night is as bright as day,

Seven fireworks, like flowers blooming.

…… (End of chapter)