Qing Dynasty Chronicle

Throughout the ages, Chinese New Year can be summed up with nothing more than eating, drinking and drinking—this is the conclusion drawn by Yinti.

Of course, as far as the royal family is concerned, there are also other different programs, such as the popular Ice Play.From Master Kong’s point of view, this program also has a military meaning, because the Eight Banners are going to be inspected by their Majesty on the ice at this time, and Yinti only thinks that this is a skating pastime for everyone to have fun together .

So Yinti was actually very excited when he heard that he was going to run on the ice. He followed Master Kang and watched with great interest the selected soldiers of the Eight Banners running on the frozen ice. At first, he turned his eyes around Going around here, at the back, Yinti's eyeballs are almost stuck on the ice and can't move, because he is so handsome!

The creativity and action ability of the ancients far exceeded our imagination. Compared with the figure skating moves of later generations, it is another kind of visual stimulation and shock.In front of the ice skating performance by the soldiers of the Eight Banners, every time Yinzhen watched the soldier jump up and do a few tricks, and then his heart rose to his throat, thinking that the man would lose his balance and fall on the ice, but the next second he He just stood firmly on the ice, with a calm and resolute expression, as if he had done nothing.

Of course, all the soldiers who can be pulled in front of the emperor are selected one in a million, and they all show their own unique skills, so the whole ice running process is full of climaxes, and the princes and ministers around are all applauding. They were all smiling all the time, obviously very satisfied with his Eight Banners disciples.

Yinti and Yinti, who had reconciled on the night of New Year's Eve, stood together without any surprises this time. In fact, Yinti still wanted to pull Yinxiang to stand together, but Yinxiang went to find him first. His fourth brother went, and Yinti looked at his elder brother who was still cold in the cold winter, and shivered all over, thinking that his inner strength was not deep enough, so he didn't want to go there to catch the cold, so he stood obediently in Yintang side.

Yinti, who was standing with Yinti, naturally did not miss Yinti's amazed look when he rounded his eyes and widened his mouth during the whole ice play. Said, "It's not the first time I've seen you, why do you still act like you haven't seen it?"

Yinti looked away from the ice rink, and replied, "Isn't it true that I can't remember anything from the past?"

Hearing what Yinzhen said, Yinzhen's eyes darkened, and then he returned to his previous expression after a while, "Does it look interesting?"

Yinti poked his head like a chicken pecking at the rice, "It's so powerful, you can tell that everyone has real kung fu."

Yinzhen looked at Yinzhen's face full of admiration, and the corners of his mouth curled up, "Before, you were one of the best ice runners among our brothers, do you want to go down and try?"

"I can't remember a lot of things before, but the ice running thing looks a little familiar now, I will try it when my brother is off, but maybe he will not be at the same level as before." Hearing what Yintang said, There was an eager expression on his face.

Yinbi listened and leaned forward, "Hey, Shisi, let's go together, I feel a little itchy in my heart, let's go down for a couple of laps together?"

"Success." Yinhu nodded with a smile, then looked at Yinhu, "Ninth brother, too, go down and play together for a while? How lively are the people!" At this time, Yinhu had already been pulled down by Bafujin Yinzhen stood there.

When Yinzhen heard Yinti's invitation, the expression on his white jade-like face became unnatural for a moment, he coughed lightly and said, "Look at the people in the venue, it's like making dumplings, I don't want to join in the fun. "

Yinzhen followed Yinzhen's words and looked at the ice rink, and was taken aback for a moment - although there were not two or three kittens, the number of people was not so large as to make dumplings, right?

Just as Yinti opened his mouth to say something, Yinti gave Yinti a hand, "Don't dawdle, let's go."

Yinzhen had no choice but to give up, nodded at Yinzhen, and followed Yinzhen to change the slide and wipe away.

On the way, Yinyu said, "I think you just can't remember, Brother Nine doesn't know how to run ice at all!"

"No?" Yinti was surprised.

"Yes, no." Yinbi nodded without any surprises, "In the past years, we played on the ice rink and Brother Jiu watched from the sidelines."

"Why not? Ice running is so interesting!" Yinti felt strange.

Yinti heard Yinti's question, looked around, and said in a low voice, "I'll tell you this quietly, you are not allowed to talk nonsense in front of Brother Jiu."

"Definitely." Hearing that there were gossips to listen to, Yinti's whole body suddenly cheered up, nodding his head like pounding garlic.

"That's right, when I was playing on the ice when I was young, Brother Nine went down to the ice rink to play with us, but one of us didn't pay attention, slipped on the ice, fell face down on the ice, and was helped up by the eunuch The face was covered with blood, it scared us brothers enough!" When Yinti recalled this incident, her expression was very subtle, half fearful and half holding back a smile.

Yinti was engrossed in listening, and didn't notice Yinti's expression, "Ah? Why is it so serious? Where did you fall?"

"I knocked out my teeth when I touched my nose!" Yinyu still couldn't help laughing, "When I got up, half of my big teeth were still stuck to Brother Jiu's mouth. But fortunately, when I changed my teeth, I always returned them. It will grow out. Because of this, brother Jiu has been talking with his mouth shut for half a year, and he will never run on the ice rink again."

Yinti put on the chicken wings he had imagined to make up for Yinzhen's sad and bloody face at the beginning, and suddenly felt that the picture was very impactful, thinking of a child carved with jade with half of his mouth covered with blood. The teeth are crying in a mess, and thinking that if the teeth are knocked out after the tooth replacement period, then Yumianjiu elder brother has a missing tooth in his mouth, and his speech is still leaking, oops, I can’t think about it, I want to laugh when I think of Yinqi , but I felt that it was not kind to be so imaginative, so I could only endure it for a long time. After a long time, I just got the expression on my face, coughed twice and said, "This matter...is really unlucky."

Yinti knew what was going on in Yinti's mind when he saw Yinti's almost distorted expression of suppressing his emotions, so he echoed a sentence and warned Yinti again, "Don't, don't mention this in front of Brother Jiu. Otherwise, you should tighten your skin!"

"I know, I know, Brother Ten, don't you feel relieved!" Yinyu patted his chest to reassure, and Yinyu just let the matter go and never mentioned it again.

Probably human beings have a desire and pursuit of speed by nature, and men seem to show it more obviously.In modern times, those who have the conditions go racing to satisfy the desire for speed in their blood. In ancient times, those who had the conditions would race horses.But there is no doubt that skating is a more ordinary and lower-threshold pursuit of speed. The sharp blades slide across the smooth ice surface, the cool wind blows head-on, and the fast-moving scenery on both sides makes people feel like flying. illusion.

The skates of 400 years ago are naturally not as fine and ergonomic as those made in modern times, but the ones used by princes and nobles are naturally the best in this era.Yinti put on the slipper at the beginning, and after a few minutes of getting used to it, he was also very slippery. After getting familiar with it, the speed was brought out. He stopped beside him, "Brother Ten, shall we play a game?"

At this time Yinqi also finished the warm-up exercise, looked at Yinqi whose eyes were smiling like crescent moons, nodded and agreed without thinking, "Success, how can we compete?"

"Let's start there, and then cross those obstacles. The end point is there. Whoever gets there first wins." Yinti said, pointing to the obstacles that hadn't been removed after the Eight Banners Soldiers finished their skating run.

Yinyu looked in the direction Yinti was pointing at, nodded and was about to say something when Yinxiang's voice cut in, "What are the tenth and fourteenth brothers talking about?"

Yinti and Yinti both turned their heads to look at Yinxiang who slipped to the side of the two of them at some point, Yinti spoke first, "Just now I was talking to brother ten that I want to have a match with him."

"Oh, how can I be missing in this kind of thing, add me." Yinxiang also asked to join when he heard that he was interested.

"Sure, it's more lively with more people." Yinzhen looked at Yinzhen, saw that he had no objection, and nodded in agreement with a smile.

Yinxiang got permission, and said again, "Since it's a competition, it would be embarrassing to ask for some prizes. On Fourteenth, what kind of prizes should you say?"

Seeing that Yinxiang and Yinji's eyes were all on him, Yinyu didn't hesitate, he just smiled and said, "We don't mention the vulgar gold, gold, silver and silver in the competition between us brothers, it's better to clean up a table of banquets at the end." How about the brothers get together?" After finishing speaking, Yinti explained, "Nowadays everyone has their own busy schedules, and we can't always get together if we want to get together on weekdays, so it's better to use this party to get close close."

Yinyu Yinxiang didn't object after hearing this, but nodded in agreement.

At first it was said that it was a three-person competition, but later all the older brothers on the field participated in it, and finally Kangxi also joined in the fun.Of course, Master Kong's dragon body is precious and he is old. Naturally, it is impossible to be a chasing boy with a group of young people, but after hearing the lottery proposed by Yinti, he also added weight. He gave money and won the first prize. My elder brother took the money as a host and treated the brothers to a meal.Master Kong doesn't like his sons forming small groups, but he likes to see this kind of closeness like a big unity.

Because of Kangxi's intervention, the original small competition became like that, and the surrounding princes and ministers also got together with various purposes to cheer for the elder brothers who participated in the competition.

The competition followed the principle of voluntary participation. In the end, except for the crown prince for identity reasons, the third elder brother who was not interested in it, the seventh elder brother for physical reasons, and the ninth elder brother for psychological reasons, the rest of the elder brothers from fourteen and above all came. Join in the fun.

Although the crown prince didn't participate in the competition, Master Kang still asked Yinfeng to be the leader and referee based on the principle of not letting his son with a special status be too divorced from the masses.

Perhaps because of the festive atmosphere of the New Year, Yinreng, who used to have a somewhat haughty and gloomy expression, now had a smile on his face, and slightly bent his mouth to watch his brothers and sisters line up and prepare to start.

When everyone stood up, Yinfeng waved the flag and shouted "Start". In an instant, the elder brothers on the ice rink slid out like an arrow off the string.

At the beginning, Yinti was still walking with Yinxiang, but after a few breaths, Yinxiang left Yinti behind. When Yinti saw it, he became competitive and began to speed up. On the back of the person in front, only the whistling wind is left in my ears.

Regardless of how the elder brothers on the field are fighting each other, the people watching from the sidelines will cheer up with each other.However, compared to modern people's clear-cut cheering, this off-court cheering must be skillful. You can't show your special preference for his son in front of the ultimate big boss, Master Kong, and you have to treat him equally.

Therefore, the cheering voices of the elite princes and nobles have a tacit meaning. If the elder brother is at the end of the crane, he should shout quickly, and if the elder brother is overtaken, he should also shout quickly. As for who takes the lead , then it is even more necessary to shout loudly.

The flowery intestines here are nothing in front of the generous empress dowager. The old lady's thoughts are simple and consistent, and she clapped her hands when she saw that the fifth elder brother whom she brought up with one hand was about to be overtaken by others, "Oh, old man Hurry up, Hurry up, Twelve is about to overtake!" If the fifth brother is about to overtake the person in front, he will be even more excited, "Hold your breath, you will catch up with the fourth in two steps!"

Everyone in the harem knew that the old lady was a person with no heart, and everyone was accustomed to her unabashed eccentricity, and even Kangxi, the son, followed him blindly to make the old lady happy.

For a time, both inside and outside the arena were very lively.

Since Yinti came here, he has gradually picked up riding and shooting martial arts. Perhaps it is because of the original memory of this body. Up to now, he is not far behind the original Fourteenth Elder Brother.Therefore, in this skating competition, although Yinti failed to win the first prize, his ranking was quite high.

At the end of the competition, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. The elder brother Yinyi won the first place, Yinxiang Yincai won the second and third place, and Yinzhen, Yinqi and Yinhu, who are not well developed in sports, won the first place. The last three.

But it was originally a game to participate in the first place, and everyone didn't care too much about winning or losing. They were all joking and joking for fun, and Yin Yin, who was always reluctant to get together with his younger brothers, also accepted the reward from Kangxi with a smile Said to set a date to invite the younger brothers to have dinner together.

After the game, everyone was free to move around again. Yinyu said that it was due to negligence that he lost to Yinxiang just now, so he pulled him to compete again. Ba Fujin saw that the men were having fun, so he also took Yinhu to the side to try. He went, leaving Yinzhen to look around, and still skating to Yinzhen who was wearing a cloak and standing on the sidelines, he raised his head and said narcissistically, "Ninth brother, did I skate very well just now? "

"I've never seen anyone with a thicker skin than you!" Yinzhen looked at Yinzhen who was exercising around with white gas from the top of his head, and said mercilessly, "Brother, none of them are better than you, but it's just you." You're in trouble here."

"Hey, my name is safety first." Yinqi has developed a heart of steel and was not hit at all. "In this competition, the important thing is not the result, but the process. When I first skated, I felt It's like flying." After talking, Yinzhen became interested again, and stretched out his hand to pull Yinzhen, "Ninth Brother, why don't you try it too, it's very interesting."

Yinzhen refused without even thinking about it, "I won't go."

"Come on!" Yinzhen didn't know which muscle was wrong, so he wanted to help Yinzhen overcome this psychological obstacle.

"Go and play by yourself."

"Come on!"

"Why do you have to drag me, old Shisan is still there, you go to find them."

"Come on!"

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