Chapter 309 The number one Spring Festival couplets
When Queen Ma saw Nannan, she smiled and said to others: "It's strange to say that when I see this child, I feel kind of kind, as if I've seen him somewhere before."
Others were busy flattering: "The Queen is kind-hearted."
"Isn't that right? It's because the empress is kind-hearted that I think she looks familiar."
Xiangyun took a look outside Kunning Palace and hurriedly ran back to tell Concubine Hu Shun: "Oh my, our prince has brought back a little beauty this time."
Concubine Hu Shun glanced at her angrily: "You girl, you are talking nonsense again. Your Highness is so young, you don't know those things. You just pity the child."
Zhu Ju sighed: "She is quite pitiful, even more pitiful than me."
Her mother died when she was young, but at least she still has a biological father, and she doesn't have to worry in this palace.
Concubine Hu Shun was amused by her plaintive tone and held her in her arms: "Ah, how can my Ju'er be pitiful? You have mother, brother and father who love you."
Zhu Ju grinned, revealing her missing mouth: "No."
Xiangyun held back her laughter and turned around, but Zhu Ju still saw her.
Zhu Ju got into Concubine Hu Shun's arms: "I hate it, you all laugh at me because I have missing teeth."
Concubine Hu Shun patted her back gently: "Everyone at this age needs to have their teeth replaced. They will grow out in two years. Your brother's teeth have not been replaced yet."
Zhu Bai was writing the Spring Festival couplets at the entrance of the palace. He sneezed several times and spit out a tooth that was about to fall out. His mouth was full of blood and the two words he had just written on the Spring Festival couplets were stained.
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He immediately threw away the pen and lay down: "I won't write anymore. I am writing so hard that I vomit blood."
Fugui didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Your Highness, the emperor asked each prince to write the Spring Festival couplets outside the palace gate, but the servants dare not do it for them. If we don't have them in the palace by then, it will be bad if the emperor blames them."
Lao Zhu's original words were: Whichever boy writes well and attracts the most people to stop and watch, we will reward him with a golden Ruyi.
Zhu Bai could only sit up again and said angrily: "Father clearly knows that my calligraphy is not good, so he is deliberately humiliating me."
Fugui picked up the pen and put it into his hand: "What's the matter? Your Highness' handwriting is now comparable to that of Youjun Mi Fu. Just write."
Just coax Zhu Bai to write one for submission.
It doesn't matter whether it's ugly or not, anyway, he won't be the one who is embarrassed when the time comes.
What Lao Zhu meant was because Zhu Bai received a lot of praises and rewards on weekdays, so he deliberately chose Zhu Bai's weakest item to compete in order to boost the self-confidence of other princes.
Zhu Bai was not short of money, and he didn't want to compete for Jin Ruyi. In the end, he drew a random picture and asked Fugui to take it and paste it up.
The other princes all worked hard and wrote a couplets and hung them outside the door.
Among the princes who still stay in the palace and have not gone out to build a palace, except for Zhu Biao of the East Palace, Zhu Zi is the oldest and has the most mature and imposing strokes.
However, most of the palace guests stopped in front of Zhu Bai's palace.
And it was passed on to hundreds of people, and everyone came to see it.
When Lao Zhu heard what Erhu said, he was also very surprised. He went to Zhu Bai's palace to see what kind of masterpiece Zhu Bai had written.
As a result, when he saw it, he laughed angrily: What's so special is that it's not that the calligraphy is exquisite, nor that the couplet has a good meaning, but that the writing is so sloppy that you can't even recognize what's written.
This is the peach charms painted by ghosts. No, Zhang Zhenren’s peach charms to drive away ghosts are not as messy as Zhu Bai’s.
A crooked and wavy line came down. It was said that it was a snake and it had no head or tail. It was said that the rope seemed to have made a few more bends.
Probably the more unrecognizable it is, the more people want to recognize it.
Lao Zhu kept shouting: "You traitor, get out of here."
Zhu Bai was basking in the sun, eating melon seeds and reading a book when he suddenly heard Lao Zhu's thunderous roar outside. He jumped up in fright and stretched his head out to take a look.
Lao Zhu pointed to the couplet and asked Zhu Bai: "What are you writing?"
Zhu Bai blinked: "The first couplet is 'one two three four five' and the second couplet is 'six seven eight ninety'."
Not to mention, Ping Ling actually matched up.
Lao Zhu couldn't laugh or cry: "What about Hengpi?"
Zhu Bai said: "Perfect."
Lao Zhu: "Fart, this is perfect, is it one, two, three, four, five?"
Zhu Bai said: "Yes. Arabic numerals. 1010."
He felt that all characters had more strokes, so he wrote "1, 2, 3...10", and the strokes were continuous.
Lao Zhu frowned: "What the hell? Uncle Numbers? Even Uncle Numbers."
Zhu Bai: "It's nothing, it was just scrawled by my son."
Lao Zhu: "Nonsense!"
The emperor kept his word, and the key was to follow the rules, and Zhu Bai still won.
For writing like this, we have to reward him.
I'm so angry that my liver hurts.
This guy definitely did it on purpose!!
Zhu Bai came back with Jin Ruyi and threw it into the room where gold and silver were piled in the palace: "Tsk, it doesn't weigh more than two kilograms. Why do you need so much effort?"
Wealthy and the others sighed secretly: Your Highness, this piece of gold is enough for ordinary people to feed and clothe their families for two years. You are the only one who doesn't care about it.
The family banquet in the palace during the Chinese New Year this year was not less crowded than in previous years, it was even more crowded.
The main reason is that Lao Zhu has a new concubine, as well as a new prince and princess.
In addition, this year Zhu Xi also brought several concubines and concubines with him.
Empress Ma specifically asked Nannan to follow her so as not to leave her alone in Kunning Palace, which failed Zhu Bai's painstaking efforts to get her into the palace.
Queen Ma and Lao Zhu rewarded each prince, princess and concubine with a pair of gold ingots before the banquet started.
The concubine and the concubine have nothing.
It's not that Lao Zhu and Queen Ma are stingy, but that they are deliberately raising the hierarchy between the principal concubine and the side concubine, telling the side concubine: In our place, only the prince and the principal concubine are relatives, and you are just slaves.
This made Li Shufei and the others feel uncomfortable.
Everyone is very lively, but Li Shufei's place is cold.
Now Concubine Guo Hui has taken up the position of Concubine Sun and assisted Concubine Li Shu in managing the harem.
Because of Concubine Guo's relationship with Queen Ma and Lao Zhu, Concubine Li had to be careful and restrained a lot in order to prevent her from going to Queen Ma to say something.
The servants in the palace saw the situation clearly. Sooner or later, Concubine Guo Hui would take over Concubine Li Shu, so on the surface they were very respectful to Concubine Li Shu. In fact, they were more flattering to Concubine Guo Hui in private.
Concubine Li Shu looked at the liveliness and desolation with cold eyes, feeling sad from it.
Thinking about how long it had been since Concubine Sun died, a newly favored concubine had already moved into the palace.
All jewelry and other items were taken back, and clothes were burned.
In short, all traces of her existence were wiped away.
Naturally, Concubine Sun's daughters would not mention her "inappropriately" at this time and ruin everyone's fun.
The more Concubine Li Shu thought about it, the colder her heart became.
The old man dies and the new man laughs.
Only the palace walls remain as high as ever.
After dinner, Zhu Rui sat there in a daze.
In previous years, Zhu Di took him out to escape.
Zhu Di is not here this year, and he doesn't know whether to leave or stay.
Feng Qingqing whispered: "Your Majesty, it's time for us to go back."
