[Red Chamber] Come for a hexagram?

The Qing emperor's New Year's banquet was a very cumbersome and troublesome affair.

New Year's Eve is the time for the emperor to hold a family banquet, and all the officials were not able to participate.But in the early morning of the first day of the new year, all princes and ministers must wait in the square of the Dazheng Hall before dawn, put on court clothes and stand according to their ranks, and wait to go to sacrifice to heaven with the emperor.Pray for blessings to the emperor and other subjects in the new year.

After the sacrifice to the sky, the emperor needs to return to Qingning Palace to hold an important sacrifice to the shamanism. If the sacrifice to the sky is a national sacrifice, then the sacrifice to the god should belong to the family sacrifice of the Aixinjueluo family. The target of the priest is the tribe. Gods and ancestor gods.Don't think that the ministers can go home when offering sacrifices to the gods, because there will be a series of ceremonies afterwards, so the ministers can only continue to wait outside the hall.After the completion of the two priests, the emperor came to the Dazheng Hall to sit on the throne, and the princes and ministers began to express their luggage and bow down. First, the kings Baylor and the Mongolian states, followed by the Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner, Bordered Yellow Banner, Zhenghong Banner and so on. The children of the army and the children of the Han army.Finally, all the officials saluted in turn.Not only is the New Year's greetings over, the ministers need to prepare a New Year's greeting list and submit it.Because the Manchu and Han officials who came to the pilgrimage to present gifts, the emperor will also reward the officials of the pilgrimage with gifts, and all these things need to be displayed. The hall is like an exhibition. Wang Ren's carbon alloy dog ​​eyes were blinded.

Then, after all the sad ceremonies were over, it was time for a large banquet where the monarch and his ministers had fun together.

Because the emperor is Manchu, so except for the emperor who can sit on the throne, other officials have to sit on the ground with a fur mat under the Manchu custom.

In the TV series, the situation where the queen and concubines appear together to hold a banquet with the emperor's officials will never happen at all. No matter which emperor is lenient enough to let his wife show up to accompany him.So look around, pure one-color old men.

When it's finally time to eat, it's almost time for the dinner party.

In fact, the emperor himself only had the concept of breakfast and dinner. At least during the Kangxi period, it was rare to eat lunch solemnly.Of course I won't let myself go hungry, I will prepare some snacks or something.But the ministers outside are not treated so well.I'm really glad that I only toss this once a year.

After the New Year banquet, it is still relatively loose.Especially after jugglers, singing and dancing girls came on stage, many ministers in the square began to let go, drink some wine, and chat with the officials around them.The two around Wang Ren were old officials who were at least forty years old, and they had nothing to talk about, so they ate vegetables and watched songs and dances.But an official next to him who had drunk too much was always pulling him to talk, which was very annoying.Wang Ren looked around and found that some of them had already left their seats, holding wine glasses to talk to familiar officials.Wang Ren looked at Thirteen in Kangxi's first brother's seat.He sighed helplessly, even if he could leave his seat to chat with acquaintances, he couldn't go directly to the position of his elder brothers.

Wang Ren stood up, and asked the little eunuch behind him, "Where is the place where Gong was born?"

The little eunuch nodded and said, "Please follow me."

The little eunuch led Wang Ren to a secluded place and said, "It's in front. The servant is waiting at the gate of the small courtyard. Don't walk around after you come out, my lord. The servant will take you to wash your hands and go back to the banquet."

He nodded to show that he understood, this is the palace, how dare he run around.After passing a bamboo forest in front, there is a hut.In ancient times, it was believed that toilets were dirty places that could not be taken out for people to see, so they were all built in places that were particularly secluded and far away from crowds.Without the eunuch leading the way, he really couldn't find it.

After solving his physical problems, he came out and saw a man by the side of the grove. The man was standing beside the bamboo grove in a boa robe, his waist was bent and his steps were a little frivolous, and he knew that he had drunk a lot.

He didn't see the person's face clearly, but Wang Ren recognized the person's identity just by his clothes, and said respectfully, "Prince."

The prince looked up at Wang Ren in a daze, and reached out to touch Wang Ren's face: "This skin is really fair and tender."

Wang Ren: ==

"Prince, you drank too much." Wang Ren took a step back and cupped his hands.

"Where are you from, the little eunuch?" the prince hiccupped and asked.

Wang Ren: You are the eunuch and the eunuch of your family!

Of course, he only dared to curse in his heart, but if he really said it, he would become a real eunuch.

"Prince, I'm the young master of Dali Temple..." Before Wang Ren finished speaking, the prince rushed forward, hugged Wang Ren's face, and took a bite, really...

Nima, definitely left tooth marks!

Wang Ren was startled, and immediately pushed the person away. Before the prince came to his senses and got angry, a hand grabbed his shoulder. He turned around suspiciously. He fell to the ground with an over-the-shoulder fall and passed out.

"...Thirteen." Wang Ren was surprised, and immediately lowered his voice after realizing it: "Why are you here?"

"Seeing that you haven't gone back, I wonder if you've lost your way. Let's take a look." Thirteen glanced coldly at Wang Ren's cheek.

Frightened by Shisan's terrifying eyes, Wang Ren took a step back, touched the marks on his face, and said with a sneer, "This is what the crown prince insists on..."

"Didn't hide?"

"Hiding!" Wang Ren said, "Who would have thought that the crown prince would attack suddenly?"

Shisan stepped forward, squeezed Wang Ren's chin and stared at the tooth marks at close range.Then he suddenly stuck out his tongue and licked it, and Wang Ren shivered.

There was a sudden chuckle from behind.Wang Ren left and knocked off Shisan's hand, Shisan frowned and looked back, the third elder brother Yinzhi was looking at them with a smile: "Look what I found." He glanced playfully and fell unconscious on the ground the prince.

What a love triangle.

Wang Ren: No!

"This..." Wang Rengang wanted to explain, but was interrupted by the third brother Yinzhi's words: "I see the end from the beginning."

Wang Ren: ...

Brothers, are you all so busy, and run to the toilet if you have nothing to do.

Thirteen stared at the third elder brother, Yinzhi smiled and said, "I won't say anything, don't worry. And...it's quite interesting to see the second brother suffer."

"Hurry up and go back, the emperor will become suspicious if you leave for too long." The third elder brother said.

"Well, wait, what should I do with my face?" Wang Ren said.Did he go back to the banquet with teeth marks on his face?

Thirteen was also a little tangled.The third elder brother smiled and said: "It's very simple, just cover it."

"Cover...cover it with your hands?" Wang Ren said.

"No, it's covered with other scars." The third elder brother walked to the side of the bamboo, broke off a relatively tender section of bamboo with his hands, and said, "Be gentle, and there will be no scars after the injury is healed."

Wang Ren: Σ(°△°|||)︴

"So, is there no other way!" Wang Ren said.

"Thirteenth brother, are you coming?" The third elder brother smiled like a fox: "Hurry up, the little eunuch waiting at the door is about to come over in a hurry."

Thirteen took the bamboo stick, looked at Wang Ren who looked terrified, but still couldn't do anything.

"It's all said that there is no time." The third elder brother said: "The prince is still lying on the ground, if I continue to dawdle, I will become the same crime as the one who committed the next crime." As he spoke, he squeezed Wang Ren's face, and quickly scratched the bamboo piece Twice, two curved paths were drawn at the place where the tooth marks were originally, and a few drops of blood oozed out. The third elder brother grabbed the back of Wang Ren's hand and wiped his face, the blood was smeared, and the tooth marks I can't see it.It just looks so pitiful.

"Unfortunately being scratched by bamboo, it's better than going out on a date with a man at Father's New Year's banquet." The third elder brother said with a smile.

Wang Ren: ==

"What about the prince?" Thirteen said.

"Thirteenth Brother, go back first." The third elder brother said: "Leave the crown prince to me and Lord Wang. Otherwise, if the father finds out that he appeared with you and Lord Wang, he will inevitably become suspicious."

Wang Ren nodded to Shisan, Shisan hesitated for a moment, but left.

"Why did the third brother help me?" Wang Ren asked suspiciously.

"Because I'm in a good mood." The third elder brother replied.It's better to show kindness to the courtiers that Kangxi valued than to make enemies.And they're old acquaintances, aren't they?No matter which way he counts, he won't suffer.

Wang Ren: ←←

After Shisan left, the third elder brother and Wang Ren raised the prince up, and the little eunuch who came to the gate of the courtyard saw it and almost fainted from fright.

After learning from the third elder brother that the prince was drunk and accidentally fell down, and that Wang Ren accidentally scratched his face by a bamboo next to him in order to help him, the little eunuch breathed a sigh of relief.It turned out to be just drunk.If the prince was attacked and had an accident inside while he was guarding the gate of the small courtyard, even if he lost his entire family, it might not be enough.

When Kangxi saw that the prince smelled heavily of alcohol, he believed in what San Age and Wang Ren said.Because Wang Ren's protection was meritorious, and because he hurt his face because of the crown prince, Kangxi also gave him a bottle of muscle-creating ointment in addition to rewarding him with a plate.

That's right, a plate was rewarded.

A reward that appeared from time to time when the emperor was eating, such as a dish or a bowl, and sometimes a pair of chopsticks.But no matter what the emperor rewarded, it was not an ordinary thing. What the emperor rewarded Wang Ren this time was a real white jade plate.

Wang Ren: Even if it's white jade, it's still a plate, and it's still a sacrifice at home. Can't he use it well?

This New Year's banquet is finally over, although there are many twists and turns.

But after the banquet was over, the prince woke up and began to be interested in the little eunuch, and he was very fond of a little eunuch who was taken away from the palace.It was on a certain day that the third elder brother told Wang Rendao after leaving the court hall that the little eunuch was the one who took Wang Ren to the toilet that day, and later sent the prince back with the two of them.It seems that the prince thought that the eunuch was the person he saw before he fell into a coma, but compared with the memory, the little eunuch was a little thinner and taller, and it didn’t feel as good as the memory, so that the prince felt that he had admitted his mistake, so I also asked the third elder brother several times if there was only that little eunuch...

Wang Ren: Third elder brother, you specifically told me what you want to do with these things!And why didn't I know that the original third elder brother was so... eight!

But no matter what, I am very glad that the third elder brother informed him that he plans to stay away from the prince in the future so as not to be recognized.

A few days after the Wang family and Wang Ziteng had the New Year's Eve dinner, Wang Ren still returned to his home.Wang Ziteng has his younger brother Wang Yi, so he is not alone.Now Wang Ziteng has put aside everything and devoted himself to teaching his youngest son, except for the second time, he has nothing to do and sends some aphrodisiac things to Wang Ren.

Wang Ren: If things go on like this, I will think that I am really useless. ==

Maybe it was really because of good luck in the new year, Wang Xifeng became pregnant shortly after the new year.However, good luck seems to no longer favor the Jia family.