Time flies, and it’s New Year’s Eve in a blink of an eye.
Although I have experience in previous lives and the female official Wu sent by the Queen Mother to help, it is still very busy to hold a big feast such as New Year's Eve banquet. Yao Yanyan is greedy for the dark these days, so busy that she can’t touch her feet, she hates to have a few heads , Good to direct different errands at the same time.
The place where banquets are held in the palace is always located in the Linde Hall, with a hill behind and a lake in front. Whether you want to go to the mountain during the banquet to play songs and poems, or if you feel tired after the banquet, go to the small lake in front. It is very pleasant to walk around.
However, Yao Yanyan felt that her Majesty didn’t like to read books. He couldn’t even understand the imperial concubine reading love poems in front of him. It would be no good for your Majesty to freeze outside, so he simply cancelled this link that the Emperor Xian liked very much during his time.
What's left are all kinds of trivial arrangements, how should the civil and military officials sit, what dishes should be placed on each table, which dish should be served first, which dish should be served last, what wine should be used for wine, and what standard of wine glass should be used … Even the material used for the red cloth hanging around in the palace, the style of the flower ball made from the silk cloth, etc., all made Yao Yanyan look over her eyes, and she had a headache.
Looking at the booklet handed over again by the people below, Yao Yanyan had a headache and almost wanted to hit someone.
No, no, no, my palace must be patient, the queen mother must still be paying attention to the actions of my palace now, and when my palace is full of favorability and get the power of the Habayashi army, there is no need to look at the empress dowager's face!
Thinking of a bright and beautiful future, Yao Yanyan is full of fighting spirit again.
She glanced down at the booklet and found that it was a gift list to reward the officials of the DPRK. The first one was naturally the old fox, Prime Minister Zhang. She saw that the new year gift list for his family was good. There are 100 pieces of silk cloth, and other fine medicinal materials such as pearl gold and silver, ginseng and ganoderma.
In Yao Yanyan's eyes, the national treasury belongs to her and your majesty. She felt distressed when she took out a copper coin from the national treasury to others, not to mention that it was given to the old man, the prime minister, for nothing!
Before she knew it, Yao Yanyan's address to Prime Minister Zhang also followed her Majesty into an old man.
She asked: "Who made this list?"
It was the female officer Wu who replied: "This list was drawn up by the empress dowager when her majesty became the throne in the first year. The rewards to courtiers in the following years will be added according to this list as appropriate."
That's not enough, even add it? Yao Yanyan raised her brows and said without hesitation: "All cut by 20%!"
The female officer Wu hesitated and said, "Is it too much to cut 20% directly?"
Yao Yanyan said: "Didn't Prime Minister Zhang say that the treasury is empty? I think they will understand your majesty's difficulties." According to her idea, of course it would be a direct reduction of 70%, but after all, this gift list is related to your majesty's face. The son was too ruthless to avoid dissatisfaction among the courtiers.
Having been busy until noon, Yao Yanyan was finally able to rest for a while. Although the New Year's Eve banquet started at three quarters after Shenshi, there were almost two hours left, but at this time, the Linde Hall had already begun to decorate. In more than an hour, courtiers will bring their families into the palace, and then they will be busy again.
After drinking her saliva, Yao Yanyan thought: If our palace becomes a queen in the future, she must bring out a few female officials to take care of these trivial matters. It's really tiring. I can't imagine how the Queen Mother was supporting that old bone in the past few years. If she deals with these things by herself, she won't enjoy it.
At this moment, Qinghu hurriedly stepped into the Linde Hall, looked around and found Yao Yanyan sitting in a corner of the hall, and walked over immediately.
Yao Yanyan was flipping through the menu of dishes handed over from the Imperial Dining Room. After hearing the green pot saluting, she did not lift her head and said, "What is your Majesty doing?"
Qing Hu said: "Hui Niang Niang, your Majesty got up early and went to Nuanquan Pavilion. He hasn't come out yet."
Yao Yanyan:? ?
She couldn't help but raise her head, looking at the green pot in a word, "You mean, your Majesty stayed in Nuanquan Pavilion for most of the day?"
Qinghu nodded, his expression was so difficult to say, "Hui Niangniang, that is, your Majesty has not left for a moment since entering the Nuanquan Pavilion, and even lunch is sent in."
There is the only hot spring pool in the palace in the Nuanquan Pavilion. It is said that when Tai Zu built the capital here, he took a look at this natural hot spring. Yao Yanyan also likes to go there in winter to bubble, but these days are too busy to go, and every Chinese New Year, the court will have a few days off. When the emperor was there, it was a total of eight days from New Year’s Eve to the seventh day of the day. Since your Majesty After he became the throne, it was changed to the fifteenth day of New Year's Eve, a total of 16 days.
Yao Yanyan originally thought that her Majesty had a half-month holiday, and how much she would share some work for her. Of course, even if her Majesty didn’t know how to do anything, it’s good to stand by her side and stay with her. Your Majesty's figure, Yao Yanyan thought that your Majesty stayed in the Imperial Study Room and read a book diligently, but who knew she had stayed in Nuanquan Pavilion for a long time.
Yao Yanyan asked: "Just your majesty, no one else?"
Qinghu replied: "Yes, there are two other servants who serve your Majesty's daily life."
Yao Yanyan is really weird, even if you wash it from head to toe, that hour is enough! What can your Majesty do in the Nuanquan Pavilion
The female official Wu said at this time: "Niang Niang, here is a list of gifts presented to your majesty by a hundred officials for your majesty."
It was too busy, Yao Yanyan didn't bother to care about what her Majesty was doing, and immediately took the order and looked at it.
Before the time of application arrived, many dignitaries had already entered the palace in carriages.
The Yuan family’s carriage was also in this line. After entering the first palace gate, a palace man carried a sedan chair to carry the nobles who entered the palace to the banquet to the vicinity of Linde Hall.
General Protector Yuan Wang took his family to the palace to the banquet, except for his wife, only his only son, Yuan Hao.
Yuan Hao had a weak crown after the new year. In the past few years, he had been following his master’s experience abroad, so he kept missing the New Year’s Eve banquet in the palace. He called back. Therefore, this was Yuan Hao's first time to enter the palace to have a banquet. Sitting in the sedan chair, he couldn't help but open the curtain to see the scene outside.
I saw lights and festoons everywhere in the palace, and there were palace ladies holding various objects going back and forth. The sedan chair carried him through several arches in the palace, and those glorious palaces were shining in the sunset, one after another. .
Yuan Hao secretly said: It is indeed an imperial city, really magnificent.
When you arrive at the Linde Hall, you don't need to mention how luxurious the decoration should be, and how the dignitaries and dignitaries can talk and laugh.
After all, Yuan Hao was young and a warrior, impatiently staying in the Linde Hall and the officials imaginary and conspiring, so he ignored the weather and walked to the lake in front of Linde Hall for a walk.
At this moment, most people gathered in the Linde Hall, and the lake outside seemed extremely deserted.
When Yuan Hao walked to the lake, he saw a lotus lantern floating from the upper reaches. He casually glanced at it and saw a line of charming but vigorous small characters written in the lantern.
Different from the children of other military commanders, Yuan Hao, besides practicing martial arts, his favorite is the characters. Just his collection of famous posts, he put up a whole big house. At this moment, seeing such beautiful characters, he naturally couldn't help it. Squat down and watch.
The words written in the lotus lamp are: May the country enjoy peace and prosperity in the coming year, and ask for some knowledge...
Before Yuan Hao could see clearly, a gust of wind blew in front of him. Seeing that the lotus lantern was about to be blown away, Yuan Hao quickly reached out to intercept it and fished the lotus lantern out of the river.
I don't know who put the light on. It would be nice if I could get acquainted with the owner of this character. He thought so, just about to read the words in the lamp, a cold female voice suddenly came from the upper reaches of the lake, "What are you doing with my lamp?"
Yuan Hao only felt as if there was a cold frost close to his eyebrows, making him so cold. He immediately got up and raised his head, and saw a dozen steps away, standing a woman holding a snowy white fox fur. She was extremely pale in complexion, with picturesque eyebrows, like a plum blossom face on a branch; three-pointed haggard, hard to hide her beauty, she walked slowly, The small steps are slender, as if the moon is covered by light clouds.
Yuan Hao stared at her blankly, waiting for the person to come closer and looking at him with that pair of suspicious beautiful eyes, he came back to his senses, flushed his face and lowered his head.
This bowed his head, but it happened to see the line at the back: Seek someone with a heart.
Yuan Hao looked at this line of words, his heart beating inexplicably, as if beating his chest pain in a trance.
"Can you give it back to me."
Yuan Hao quickly returned the lotus lamp to the other party. Seeing her leaned over and put the lotus lamp into the lake, she shook when she got up, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to help, but he stopped half of that hand out of courtesy.
Fortunately, the woman stabilized her figure, and after putting on the lotus lantern, she turned and left without even looking at him.
Seeing her about to disappear in front of her, Yuan Hao summoned up the courage to shout, "Girl, what's your name?" Yuan Hao wanted to slap himself as soon as he spoke. How could he be so abrupt and reckless.
The beautiful lady looked back at him, with a smile on her lips.
Yuan Hao looked obsessively, until the beautiful woman disappeared at the corner of the palace corridor, he reluctantly retracted his gaze.
The man really refused to tell him his identity.
Thinking of this, Yuan Hao lost his soul, and even the banquet in the Linde Palace did not go over. He stood by the lake and waited, hoping that the beautiful lady would come out again to set off the lotus lantern.
It wasn't until a friend who also came to the banquet found him that he was full of sorrow and told his troubles.
After talking about the encounter just now, Yuan Hao sighed: "I don't know which lady that girl is?"
Being able to enter the palace for a banquet, his friend's identity is naturally rich and wealthy. Hearing his friends' thoughts, he smiled and said: "How difficult is this? All the female family members of all the palaces are going to the banquet in the inner hall tonight. You only need to inquire. Don’t you know? Nothing..." A friend secretly gave him an idea, "You avoid people, sneak into the inner hall and take a look, don’t you know?"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Hao's eyes lit up.
The Linde Hall is divided into an inner hall and an outer hall. There is only a wall between them, and there are small doors on both sides to communicate.
The outer hall is the place where your majesty entertains the ministers, singing, dancing, feasting and drinking, and it is very lively.
Nowadays, there is no queen in the palace, and it is naturally the queen mother who entertains the female family members. Yao Yanyan, the highest ranked concubine in the harem, naturally sits under the queen mother.
At this time in Linde Hall, the dinner party had already begun.
Yao Yanyan just glanced at the female relatives sitting below, and heard Qinghu coming over and saying: "Mother, your Majesty has come out of the Nuanquan Pavilion and is already sitting in the outer hall."
Yao Yanyan breathed a sigh of relief, and she was fine when she came out. She was still worried that her Majesty would be fainted in the hot spring in the afternoon.
"It's just..." Qinghu stopped talking.
Yao Yanyan said impatiently: "Say something straight."
The green pot whispered: "The outer hall called the dancers to cheer up, Your Majesty... seems to like the one leading the dancer very much and keeps watching."
Yao Yanyan looked at her suspiciously.
Qing Hu said again: "The dancer seems to be a wicked person, and she is so beautiful."
Yao Yanyan couldn't sit still now.
She didn't believe her majesty either, she just felt that her majesty was innocent and worried that he was deceived.
So she found an excuse, came out of the inner hall, and secretly glanced at the outer hall, which was incredible.
I saw today, wearing a white gold-rimmed and embroidered five-claw golden dragon robe, wearing a gold crown with jade, hanging a blue jade pendant, wearing emerald fingers, and the emperor, who is particularly dressed up, is sitting in the first place, staring with squinting eyes. Look at the middle of the dance floor, and in the middle of the dance floor, a beautiful dancer dressed in cool clothes, showing her belly and arms, is scratching her head.
Yao Yanyan was furious. If it weren't for being held by the green pot, she would have rushed up and kicked the dancer over, and then dragged her majesty's ears back to Feiluan Palace.
The green pot pulled her and whispered: "Manny, don't be impulsive, go back first!"
Yao Yanyan glanced at the powerful courtiers who sat all over the hall, and the palace servants who served inside and out, thinking about not letting your Majesty lose face. After enduring forbearance, she stomped her foot and turned away angrily.
At this moment, in the outer hall of the Linde Hall, Prime Minister Zhang smiled and stroked his beard. He glanced with satisfaction at the center of the dance floor, the exotic dancer, and then at the little emperor who was staring at the dancer. I am proud of my heart: I am a lecherous dude, just a dancer, so you will be exposed.
Prime Minister Zhang secretly planned: When the little emperor is tired of this, he will send the selected beauties, and when he is tired of the beauties, he will send the exquisite folk gadgets, so that the little emperor will not have a chance to get involved in politics. In the future, this court will not be under his control
His Majesty, the Emperor, didn't know the plan in the prime minister's heart, let alone the pissed off his wife.
He stared at the dancer's... clothes without blinking.
This dress is really good-looking, if Concubine Ai wears this...
His Majesty the emperor imagined the scene of Concubine Ai wearing this dress and dancing in front of him, only felt that there was a rush of heat rushing to the lower abdomen.
His heart was filled with irritation, and he immediately ordered Grandpa Li next to him to quickly get a piece of clothing that was the same as that of the dancer and send it to him as soon as it was done.
After giving the order, His Majesty stared at the dancer's clothes again, but in his heart he had already begun to imagine how sweet and affection he would be with his concubine in the evening.
For tonight, he went to Nuanquan Pavilion to clean up early, washing his toenails all over his body.
After midnight tonight, I will be eighteen years old. You can be with your concubine...
"Hehehe..." His Majesty the Emperor thought, couldn't help but smile.
Thirty red envelopes will be drawn in this chapter~~