Great Zhou Empress

Xiao Liege practiced for a long time, and said that he would participate in the court Nuo opera on New Year's Eve, Xue Zhijing naturally followed her.

It's just that it's a pain for the officials in charge of the Nuo opera. Not only do they have to adjust the performance process of the Nuo opera that day, but they also have to specially assign roles to Her Royal Highness and cooperate with Her Royal Highness to practice. Which thing is easy to do?

He felt that the round belly he had cultivated with great difficulty over the years had completely worn off.

Nuo opera, in simple terms, is a large-scale New Year’s carnival with classical mysticism. It inherits the witchcraft tradition of ancient times, and uses complicated costumes and dance rituals to drive away evil spirits and pray for good luck in the new year.

One of the most special performance forms of Nuo opera is masks and costumes. The performers have to wear masks of various exorcism characters, most of which look hideous and terrifying, in order to drive away "xie chong" with more frightening costumes than "xie chong". .

Court Nuo opera has formed a tradition since the former dynasty. In its heyday, there were thousands of imperial city guards and generals who dressed up as various characters and performed grandiose performances.

The general form is to start from the depths of the palace, beat gongs and perform dances all the way, which is called chasing "Song", and then go all the way to a certain place outside the city to "bury Sui".

In addition to the court Nuo opera, there will also be corresponding folk performances, but the scale of the performances is not so large, and there will be different performances according to the customs of each place.

But the same thing, the Nuo operas in the local area are all interesting performances chased by children.

A few years ago, Xiao Liege hadn't thought about it. I don't know why this year he suddenly had the idea of ​​participating in a performance, but she likes to be lively and fun, so she probably wants to play this year.

Since the two of them came back from vacation in summer, Prime Minister Li Jing, who is so boring, was probably afraid that Xue Zhijing would go out on vacation so capriciously, and pushed her a lot of work. In fact, Xue Zhijing thought that the cabinet could handle some jobs, but Li Jing wanted to send it over to ask her for instructions.

Every time Xue Zhijing wanted to send the document back to the cabinet, he saw Li Jing standing in front of her with her hands down, as motionless as a mountain, and would hold back her breath.

Government affairs are things like as much as you want to do by yourself, and you can have as much as you want.That's why there are only emperors who ruled by arches in history, and there are also emperors who were model workers in the Ming Dynasty. Within eight days, they reviewed 660 memorials from internal and external departments and handled 390 state affairs.

But Xue Zhijing had no choice but to get busy when he faced his friend who was silent and had learned to be lazy, so he got busy until New Year's Eve.

On the first day of New Year's Eve, Xue Zhijing was still dealing with government affairs, not only government affairs, but also New Year memorials and gifts from senior officials from all over the country who could not come to the capital to celebrate the New Year.

What are the wine night pearls sent by officials in the western regions, giant pandas and bamboo sent by officials in the southwest, a set of porcelain sent by officials in the southeast, and so on.

The country is getting bigger, and there is no video phone. The officials from all over the country are afraid that the emperor will forget about themselves, so they will write an article or two from time to time, asking your majesty how are you, how is your health, and whether you are eating well? .

Although most of the officials are older than Xue Zhijing, but in this era, "heaven, earth, ruler, parent, teacher" is emphasized, and "jun" comes after heaven and earth. No matter how old or young, they all worship the emperor as their parents.

Generally speaking, Xue Zhijing had to reply to such greetings one by one. While feeling tired, he had to resign himself to write a few sentences, "I'm fine." "What did you send me last time? Eat it, so you don’t need to send it away.” “A few days ago, I felt a little chilly, but it’s been fine these few days, so don’t worry about it.”

The key is that there are many officials in various places, and everyone is working hard to gain a sense of presence, so it seems that Xue Zhijing has accumulated a lot here.

This state made her feel like a certain social platform in later generations. Every morning when a big leader wakes up, he will see a bunch of red on his phone, filled with purely emotional greetings, but you still have to move your hands one by one. Reply, you can't copy and paste, or you will hurt your feelings, how tiring.

This kind of greeting is fine, Xue Zhijing is young and has good physical strength, so it is enough to reply a few words, just afraid that there will be mistakes occasionally, which will be annoying.Once, an official stationed in Nanyang brought her several baskets of mangoes, saying that they were Nanyang specialties, very sweet, and asked His Majesty to taste them.

But Xue Zhijing doesn't like to eat mangoes, and it's a pity that some of them are spoiled during the journey.So she replied, "I don't like to eat mangoes, so don't give them away in the future." In the end, within two days, the official sent another memorial that was exactly the same except for the signing time. After a long time, he didn't get Xue Zhijing's reply? He sent another letter. At that time, Xue Zhijing was not well.

This is still normal, and at the end of the year, especially on the days when such memorials are gathered, Xue Zhijing recovered so much that his wrists and wrists ached.

Sighing in my heart, there is a high probability that I will not be able to attack recently.

"Ah! View!"

A voice suddenly came from behind, startling Xue Zhijing.

Xiao Liege behind him also seemed to be frightened by Xue Zhijing's trembling appearance, he took off the ghost exorcism mask on his face in a daze, and asked with some concern, "Jing, what's wrong with you, you were scared by me?" Reached?"

Xue Zhijing stroked his chest, suspecting that he might be too tired to have a nervous breakdown, and that he would be startled by Xiao Liege's little joke.

"It's okay, I? I'm just too tired. I didn't even hear your footsteps."

While talking, Xue Zhijing pushed those greetings to the New Year aside, calmed his beating heart, and asked Xiao Liege with a smile, "What's the matter, still not sleeping?"

Xiao Liege played with the mask in his hand, leaned closer and said, "I just saw that you haven't returned to the house yet, so I came here to take a look. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Why are there so many things to deal with today? Ah, what is the cabinet doing?" ?”

Xue Zhijing grabbed her wrist and said with a smile, "These are memorials from officials from all over the country to greet them. It's not easy for the cabinet to deal with them. I have to reply one by one. That's why I'm busy until now."

Xiao Liege picked up a book and opened it, and said with disgust, "You wrote so many words so eloquently."

Xue Zhijing also had a playful expression, "They are all great writers."

No, officials from all over the world are worst offspring. The memorial to greet the emperor should not only reflect his yearning and respect for the emperor, but also show his literary talent to the fullest. It would be embarrassing to ask just one sentence.

It’s just that they don’t know that their empress has read too many of these articles, wishing they could just ask one by one, “How are you doing, Your Majesty?”

"Do you want me to help you answer a little bit?" Xiao Liege asked suddenly, with a smile in his eyes.

"My handwriting is notoriously ugly." Xue Zhijing asked her with a smile, "Are you sure you can reply me? All the officials from all over the world know me? It's not good to change the handwriting for this unique handwriting. "

Xiao Liege: "..."

Xiao Liege, who had just picked up the pen, stuffed it back into Xue Zhijing's hand, "I don't have that skill, I can't imitate your handwriting."

Xue Zhijing, who was holding a pen, couldn't laugh or cry, "You really made me happy for nothing."

After finishing speaking, he sighed and touched Xiao Liege's face, "Little darling, let's go to bed first, I'll be here after I've finished replying to these courtiers' memorials."

Xiao Liege originally wanted to show her the results of his last Nuo opera, and he was still wearing the mask she was going to use tomorrow, but he didn't expect Xue Zhijing to be so busy, he felt very uncomfortable immediately, and It's distressing and a bit sad that I can't help.

"Then I will accompany you."

Hearing Xiao Liege say this, Xue Zhijing's tired eyes lit up, "Then sit down."

"Where do you sit?"

Xue Zhijing patted his leg, and said with a smile, "Of course I'm sitting here."

Xiao Liege gave her a blank look, feeling that she is sometimes serious and sometimes not, but her body movements are very fast. She has already sat on Xue Zhijing's lap, but instead of holding her neck like usual, she is facing On one side of the table, it seemed that Xue Zhijing's thigh was really used as a chair.

On the contrary, after Xue Zhijing hugged her waist, he took a deep breath on the back of her neck, which made Xiao Liege itch and wanted to hide, "Don't make trouble!"

"I feel like holding Xiaoguai, and I won't be sleepy in an instant!"

"..."

Xiao Liege patted Xue Zhijing's mischievous hand on her waist, put the mask on the table, and helped her open a memorandum, "Stop making trouble, my dear, hurry up and finish it, we can go sleep."

Xue Zhijing hugged Xiao Liege's waist while moving his nearly broken wrist to continue recovering.

After finally replying at random, Xiao Liege fell asleep lying on the table at some point.

Xue Zhijing also didn't care about his legs that seemed to be numb, and carefully took the mask she put on the table, and placed it in front of Xiao Liege.

The mask was painted with blue and red paints, and the image itself was rough and hideous enough, which immediately changed Xiao Liege's temperament.

"Xie Chong, leave quickly!"

Suddenly, Xiao Liege woke up, and a muffled and low-pitched voice came out from the mask. With this mask, it really had the texture of a Nuo opera.

Xue Zhijing took a deep breath, seeing Xiao Liege's face emerging from behind the mask, she put down the mask in a daze.

Xiao Liege's eyes showed some fierceness in the show, but they suddenly became soft, then she rushed over, hugged Xue Zhijing's neck, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Are you done with your work?"

"I'm done." Xue Zhijing held Xiao Liege's waist tighter and tighter, with some agitation coming from deep inside his body.

"Then you hug me back? Go to bed."

Xue Zhijing thought about it, and finally coughed twice, "Well, my legs are a little numb."

"..."

Xiao Liege let go of the hand holding her neck with a chuckle, got up from her lap, squatted down and pinched her leg, the leg that had just bled was numb and itchy, Xue Zhijing really cried again Laugh again.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Liege laughed, "I really should let the artist draw down your current appearance, and then hang it up for you to see every day, how interesting it is."

Finally, when the numb feeling passed, Xue Zhijing bent down, pinched one of Xiao Liege's cheeks with both hands, and said "viciously", "I still want to draw my ugly face, isn't it itchy? "

"Yeah, my skin is itchy, are you coming to hit me?"

After saying that, Xiao Liege got up from the ground, ran outside, and teased her while running, "Come here."

Xue Zhijing looked at her teasing and mean, took a deep breath, "Okay, just wait."