"It's Chinese New Year! It's Chinese New Year!"
The Forbidden City, where the guards usually perform martial arts, bursts of light bloomed in the night sky.
Jin and Xiao Fu'er, wearing fur coats, stood beside the old man, clapping their hands and cheering, their pupils filled with the reflection of the fireworks.
The various fireworks carefully crafted by the craftsmen of the Construction Bureau were put to use in the Forbidden City on New Year's Eve. The night sky was rendered full of crystal milky way, full of fireworks, and full of excitement.
Bang! Bang!
Fireworks kept blooming, and the fireworks inside the Forbidden City flew into the sky, illuminating the Ming Dynasty. They were intertwined with the fireworks set off by civilians outside the Forbidden City, making it difficult to distinguish them from each other.
"Ancestor, Ancestor, that one looks good!"
Jin stood there, his legs stretched out with excitement, pointing at the fireworks that had just burst into the sky and shouting.
Not to mention that he was a child who saw it strangely. Even Zhu Yunxi, a well-informed modern soul, had never seen such fireworks.
Fireworks bloom in the sky, like thousands of butterflies, flapping their wings lifelike.
"Ancestor, let them come again!" Jin shouted excitedly.
Hearing his great-grandson speak, the old man who had been watching the fireworks with a smile immediately said, "Here comes the person just now, let our great-grandson die!"
"Grandpa Huang!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile from the side, "I am thirty today, so I can't say that word!"
"Yes, it's our fault!" The old man clapped his forehead with his big hand and shouted to the people around him, "Who is that? Those fireworks just now, go strong, don't stop!"
"According to the decree!" A guard nearby, after hearing the imperial decree, left in a hurry.
"Father, no one looks good!"
Xiao Fu'er pulled the old man's shirt, pointed at the fireworks blooming in the sky like flowers, and said coquettishly, "My daughter can't get enough!"
"Daddy is going to give you a good time today!" the old man shouted from a distance again, "Who is that?"
The guard who had just ran out a few steps stopped suddenly, turned around, and came back in a swoosh.
"Go, our eldest daughter looked good just now, so please let us go!"
"According to the order!"
As soon as the guard finished speaking, he cheered and a group of brats surrounded him.
"Father, I want that!"
"Father, I want to fly to the Sky Monkey!"
"Father, I want to kick you twice!"
"Hahaha!" The fireworks in full bloom made half of the old man's face red. He smiled brightly and said loudly, "We have it, we have it. It's the New Year, and you guys are having fun today. What the hell are the rules and etiquette?
, go and have a good time today!"
The little princes who received Chrysostom's promise ended up in a mess. Watching fireworks could not be more exciting than setting off the fireworks themselves. Although they are still young, what children of this age want most is to grow up.
They rushed forward with howls and screams, and the guards and eunuchs beside them were sweating nervously.
The twentieth prince, Zhu Nan, held up a flying monkey and ran to Jin as if offering a treasure.
"My dear grandnephew, look at my uncle letting you fly up to the sky and howling!"
"You stinky boy!" Hearing this title, Zhu Yunxi couldn't laugh or cry, and gave Zhu Nan a light kick on the butt.
"Why did you kick him?" The old man immediately looked over, "What did he say wrong? Huh, if we don't let you be the grandson of the Eastern Palace, now when you see them, you have to kowtow and call them uncle!"
Zhu Yunxi, "..."
"Congratulations, Your Majesty!" Li Jinglong appeared out of nowhere and said with a smile.
The old man smiled and asked, "Why are you congratulating us?"
"I don't know how many emperors there have been throughout the ages. Some have lived a long life, and some have many descendants." Li Jinglong said, "But I have read all the history books since I was a child, and I have never seen an emperor who lived a long life, had four generations living under the same roof, and had prosperous descendants!"
After saying that, he kowtowed again and said loudly, "The emperor is rich all over the world, and has the happiness of a family in the world. None of the ancient emperors can match it!"
At this point, he raised his face and said loudly, "The prosperity of the Ming Dynasty royal family is a blessing from God. My emperor is wise and powerful, and he should be enshrined in Mount Tai to tell the world!"
Fengchan?
This is a good thing!
Hearing this, Zhu Yunxi felt happy.
If the country is peaceful and the people are safe this year, you might as well take the old man out for a walk, and the Taishan Zen ceremony will also make the old man happy.
To be fair, the value of the old man's Feng Chan is much higher than that of other people.
He expelled the Tartars, recovered the ten states of Yanyun, and gave the people a rest with light corvee and low taxes, and was diligent and simple in government.
Unexpectedly, the old man suddenly raised his foot and kicked Li Jinglong over with a smile, "Go away, you are still reading history books. The history books you are talking about are the books you read when you are shitting, you are just a talker! Feng Chan
Taishan, are you telling the world that you are wasting people and wasting money? That damn thing stinks so much that you have to expose it!"
These words, if he said them with a bluff, would definitely be scary. But now he said them with a smile, which was a bit of a joke.
"You, you photographed the horse's hoof, right?" Zhu Yunxi said to Li Jinglong with a smile, "You guys are full of bad ideas!"
"I really feel that the emperor does not grant Zen status, which is a bit..." Li Jinglong came closer and whispered, "it is too low-key! What are the achievements of the emperor? All the people in the world can see it, and all the subjects in the world can see it.
Here, even those foreign countries see it."
"Your Majesty has been in power for thirty years, the country has been stable, and Hongwu has prospered." Li Jinglong continued, "With my nose, if I can see your Majesty conferred Zen on Mount Tai, I will die without regrets. If I can see His Highness in the future, I will be consecrated to Zen again.
I will die without regrets..."
"If you keep talking, I will let you go to Mount Tai now!"
As soon as Zhu Yunxi opened his mouth, Li Jinglong immediately fell silent.
Prosperity?
Zhu Yunxi raised his head and looked at the moonlight and stars in the sky that were made brighter by the fireworks, and thought to himself, "There is a long way to go!"
What is a prosperous age? At least, everyone must have enough to eat!
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I spent this year in the old man’s new residence.
There were many tables in the palace, for the princes, concubines, princesses and consorts, and for the emperors and grandchildren. There were no square tables for sharing meals like the previous New Years, but round tables.
When a family gathers together and eats from the same pot, it is considered a reunion.
It’s New Year’s Eve to do it together.
The palace people were all driven out of the door. The feudal prince and his consort arranged tables and chairs. The emperor, grandson, grandson, etc. passed around the table to distribute bowls and chopsticks, and poured wine at the table.
In the kitchen, there was constant laughter.
The old man's daughters-in-law and daughters showed off their cooking skills like a competition. The underage granddaughters and granddaughters of the emperor were obediently beside their mother and helped in a decent way.
The naughty boys who had just watched the fireworks couldn't stop standing at the door of the kitchen, sniffing and smelling the smell. When the adults weren't paying attention, they grabbed a few pieces of fried fruit and stuffed them into their mouths, then grinned from the heat.
They don't lack the food, what they lack is the New Year atmosphere.
"Are the dumplings good?"
The old man took off his cloak, kowtowed to the feudal lord and his consorts collectively, and sat on the main seat with his weight in his arms.
The eldest princess of Lin'an looked out of the kitchen and said with a smile, "Father, we just finished cooking, you still have to wait a while!"
"Well!" The old man nodded, "Remember, we..."
Princess Ning Guo poked her head out from the other side of the kitchen and said with a smile, "Father, my daughter knows that you like to eat hot dumplings! Don't worry, you will definitely get your mouth hot!"
"Haha!" The old man smiled, "It's better to be a daughter!" As he said this, he glanced at the vassal princes standing in front of him, "These brats, my brain hurts when I look at you!"
Then, with a big wave of his hand, he said, "Take your seat first, eat and drink, and wait for the dumplings!"
"Grandpa Huang, the aunts are still busy in the kitchen and haven't served the table yet!" Zhu Yunxi sat next to the old man and said with a smile.
The old man curled his lips, "What does it have to do with whether a woman comes to the table or not when a man eats? Let's eat first, and they will eat alone later!"
This is the tradition in this era. Men eat and drink in the front, while women are busy in the kitchen. They have to watch which dish is missing on the table and add more at any time.
"Grandpa Huang, wait a minute, today is the Chinese New Year, our whole family is going to use chopsticks together!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
"I've told you all the rules!" the old man scolded with a smile, "Okay, wait!" He said to everyone, "Don't be restrained during the Chinese New Year, everyone sit down!"
Not long after, the princesses came up with plates of hot dumplings.
"What kind of stuffing?" The old man asked as he ate steaming soup dumplings.
"I used a crop of leeks grown by my daughter at home. They are so tender!" Princess Ningguo said with a smile.
"Let's have one!" The old man twitched his index finger and couldn't help it.
"Grandpa Huang!" Zhu Yunxi said.
"What?" The old man raised his head in surprise, feeling a little stunned.
He saw all his children, grandchildren, daughters, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, headed by Zhu Yunxi, standing in front of him.
"This is........?"
"Grandpa Huang!" Zhu Yunxi was in front and said with a smile, "My grandson kowtows to you during the Chinese New Year!"
"Dad! It's Chinese New Year, and my son (daughter) kowtows to you!"
After the shouting, everyone bowed down in unison and kowtowed solemnly.
The old man still held the dumplings with his chopsticks. Looking at the dark figure in front of him, the heat from the dumpling soup seemed to have entered his eyes, which made him feel a little itchy.
"Okay!" The old man looked at them again, "Okay! This one is good at kowtow!" He said loudly, "Get up!"
Everyone stood up, and Zhu Yunxi stepped forward with a smile.
But the next second his face turned a little ugly. When he was leading others to kowtow, this brat Jin was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai in the old man's arms without moving. He was looking straight at his father, and his uncles were giving him
I also kowtowed a few times.
Seeing Zhu Yunxi looking at him, his big eyes swayed for a moment, and he thought for a moment, "Dad, happy New Year!"
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Today I sent my mother to Guangzhou Medical University for hospitalization. She had a urinary tract infection a few days ago, and she had a lot of stools checked inside and outside, which she kept repeating. I found a specialist and suspected diabetes. After a checkup, it was true. My fasting blood sugar was over 7 points, so I was admitted to the hospital.
Treatment lasts for several days.
Hey, God bless my mother, may she be safe!
This chapter has been completed!