The Legend of the Long Room in the Red Mansion

After New Year's Day is the only day in a year where you can relax, especially before the new year, Ning Shan changed the annual holiday of this dynasty from the previous five-day rest to seven-day rest.

The customary Baiguan pilgrimage ended at noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the gates of the imperial city were closed. Jia She happily started planning to hold a family banquet in Ningshou Palace. He had wanted to do this early in the morning. Every year in the past They all want to flatter Jia Shishi and watch Erfang show off his might, so Jia Shen never liked Chinese New Year.But now it is different, he is the biggest in the whole world, he can do whatever he wants-to be too emperor, he can do whatever he wants!

But no matter how willful you are, you have to go to worship your ancestors first before starting the banquet.When Ning Shan went to offer sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple in the morning of New Year's Day, Jia She didn't have the nerve to follow him, because he didn't know whether he should stand on the east or west side.

The location of the family sacrifice was arranged in the Palace of Compassion and Ning - which was supposed to be the bedroom of Ning Shan's biological mother, the Empress Dowager Ning - after Ning Shan ascended the throne, he ordered people to move the Ning family's boudoir that had been kept in the Ning mansion as it was, and moved it to the palace. The portrait of the birth mother is hung in the main hall to express her heart.Therefore, Mrs. Xing can't come in this place - it's too embarrassing.

Entering the courtyard of Cining Palace, the road is paved with white marble, green pines and cypresses are on both sides, and bronze tripods and Yi are placed on the platform.The plaques and couplets hanging everywhere in the Compassionate Ning Palace are all written by Ning Shan. Needless to say, it is Jia She who wrote a eulogy for Mrs. Ning. It was written by herself, but the literary talent looks like someone else wrote it. Shan originally thought that it might be written by Yingchun, but when she asked, she found out that it was the first time she had met her.Later, Sister Feng figured it out. She said that the eulogy for Mrs. Xian must not be written by a concubine's children, and Daiyu was probably asked to write it.Because she had heard that Daiyu's mother, Jia Min, had a deep relationship with the first wife, Ning Shi, before she got married.

Ning Shan thought about it, and finally felt that it was enough for the silly father to have this kind of heart. If he really asked him to write an article, his mother might come to him to talk about life in the middle of the night after reading it, so she skipped this matter. Bring it up again.

After entering the hall for a while, I saw brilliant lights and candles, brocade curtains, and some gods and masters behind it, but they couldn't see clearly because of the light and shadow.

Because it was a family sacrifice, besides Yingchun and Jia Cong, even Daiyu and Xichun also came.The little princess was weak and didn't dare to carry her out of the inner room, so she and sister Qiao were handed over to Mrs. Xing to take care of her. Jia Amnesty personally hugged the big fat grandson, and refused to hold her for a moment, looking so beautiful.

Ning Shan took the lead, divided Zhaomu, and the shift was fixed.Since he is the ancestor of the Ning family, Ning Shan should naturally be the officiant, but Jia She has already entered the family and officially changed his name to Ning Jiashe on the jade certificate, so he got the name of accompanying sacrifice. Offer incense.The royal family in this dynasty was so sparsely populated that there was not enough manpower for the sacrifices, so in the end, Qiu Shi'an had to take a few eunuchs who were close to him to set up worship mats and guard the burning pond.

The girls were not eligible to enter the sacrificial hall, so they all stayed in the main hall outside to worship the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Ning and his wife.The old Hou Ye was riding on a tall horse with a golden helmet and gold armor, a longbow on his back, a quiver hanging on the horse, and a red-tasseled silver gun in his hand. He was majestic; The skirt is also the general's dress.This painting was drawn by Ning Shan herself. It was when she was in the border town that day, in order to encourage him to dance while hearing the rooster, the old lady specially ordered someone to make women's armor, and wanted to practice martial arts with her grandson.It's just that Ning Shan is a person of the second generation, so she is different from ordinary children, she works hard and does not need to be supervised.

After the ceremony in the inner room, Le Xing withdrew, and Ying Hua hurriedly led all the girls to meet him.This time it was the men's turn to go out and the women's relatives inside.The Imperial Dining Room carefully cooked the dishes, and all the young eunuchs with neat faces brought them to the gate of the Palace of Compassion. Jia Cong took them and handed them to Jia Lian. Jia Lian gave them to Jia She. Jia She handed them to Ning Shan. Go to Yingchun's hand inside the door, and Yingchun carries it to Yinghua, who puts it on the altar.Daiyu and Xichun both stood on the west side, bowing their heads solemnly.

The imperial dining room originally planned to have [-] dishes, but Ning Shan Jinkou Yuyan reduced it to [-] dishes. Firstly, it set an example of frugality for the subjects; , I'm afraid the year is over.

After the symbolic dishes, rice, soup, wine and tea were served, Ning Shan entered the room, shared the men and women with Ying Hua, and bowed down with incense sticks.All the members of the royal family knelt down together, and all the palace servants inside and outside the palace also prostrated themselves on the ground. This time, the scale was much larger, with inner and outer corridors, eaves, steps up and down, and inside the two danges, there were clusters of flowers, and there was no space left. However, although there are many people, they are unknown. They only hear the clang and jingle, the golden bell and jade are divided, and the sound of kneeling boots and shoes.

At the end of the ceremony, Jia Amnesty breathed a sigh of relief, tremblingly handed the good grandson who had never cried to Ning Shan, shook his sore arms and said happily: "Let's go, let's all go to Ningshou Gong, give my old man hello." After saying that, he strode down the steps with great strides, and simply jumped down the last two steps.

Entering Ningshou Palace, Mrs. Xing hugged the little princess, and Sister Qiao held her skirt to greet her with smiles.Jia She went into the inner room to change clothes, Ning Shan and Yinghua went to the east side hall, Hua Nanny had already put the emperor's clothes on the smoker cage to warm them; in the west side hall, Yue Nanny brought Baochai Welcome princesses.

Baochai's current status is a bit embarrassing, she is a courtesan in the empress's palace, logically she should serve the empress personally, but Nanny Hua stares at her like she is guarding against thieves, and does not give even the slightest chance to get close to Ning Shan.

Although Baochai still has the ambition of Qingyun in her heart, she can't stand being strictly guarded by others. She has gradually died down and planned to find another way, so she took the initiative to ask the queen to be transferred to serve the eldest princess. , to assist in handling palace affairs, the eldest princess Yingchun happens to rule the Sixth Palace, and she should go there to wait for orders.

As a result, I found out that Yingchun had already trained the maids around her. They were all brought into the palace by the Ning family, and they had already started to help her with housework. Now she is very familiar with taking over the palace affairs, and there is no Baochai who can intervene. place.

Moreover, Yingchun is still a little uncomfortable facing Baochai, and sometimes calls her "Sister Baochai" by mistake, how can Baochai dare to answer this?All the old mothers in the palace were staring at it, so they could only kneel down and beg to take it back.When she knelt down, Yingchun became even more uncomfortable.

Not only Yingchun, Siqi and Xiuju who followed from Jia's house were also full of embarrassment when facing Baochai, who used to be a coquettish guest and is now a slave. They are inexplicably guilty of doing things with Chai.In the end, he had no choice but to adopt Mu Xiang's suggestion, and always found various excuses to let Baochai take a vacation, except that he couldn't go out of the palace to go home, so he went there for whatever he wanted.

Baochai followed behind Mammy Yue and saluted the three Yingchun sisters. Yingchun didn't look up, waved her hands and said no, and went in.Daiyu glanced at Baochai, hesitated to speak, and went in too.Xichun sized her up generously, pouted her lips and shook her head, but said nothing.Baochai's face burned red, and she could feel the meaningful gazes of the surrounding maids without looking up.Once Baochai thought that she could "bear the burden of humiliation", as long as she could enter the palace, she could surrender her status as a maidservant to serve Yingchun and Daiyu.However, when she really became the court lady of the high-ranking eldest princess, she suddenly found that her psychological defense was not so strong. Any look from the little sisters who used to laugh and play together could shock her heart.

Siqi rushed ahead of Baochai to take over Yingchun's cloak, Baochai's outstretched hand froze for a moment, wanting to turn around to pick up Daiyu's, but she didn't want Daiyu to twist her waist and turn away up.Xichun was direct, without even looking at Baochai, she tore off her cloak and threw it into Ruhua's arms, shouting loudly, "Is there anything to eat? I've been hungry all morning. That imperial banquet was really difficult." Eat, you toast a glass of wine, she recites a poem, and she praises the queen's sister-in-law, but abruptly consumes all the good food on the table."

Seeing that Baochai wanted to serve some snacks, Mu Xiang hastily tugged at the hem of Yingchun's skirt, and raised her voice, "The princesses didn't eat enough at the imperial banquet, and I'm afraid the same is true for the Supreme Emperor. Do you want to remind me of this banquet?"

Yingchun hurriedly said: "Miss Xue, please... just go and have a look."

Baochai lowered her eyebrows and gave a blessing salute: "Yes, the servant girl takes the order." After speaking, she smiled wryly and withdrew.Going to Jia Amnesty's place will definitely not be ignored again, because she is too emperor to remember who she is at all.Mrs. Xing, on the other hand, remembers it well, but she was offended by the women of the Wang family a lot in the past, and she is lucky if she doesn't take her anger out on her.

Slowly moved to the inner room, before he could speak, he was stopped by Eunuch Qiu: "The Supreme Emperor doesn't like to be served by court ladies, he waits outside." Actually, it's not that Jia She doesn't like to be served by court ladies, it's all the court ladies who are eager for Jia She. She was sent out of the palace by the eldest princess, so now female creatures dare not get close to the Supreme Emperor.Of course, except Mrs. Xing.

As a special case, Mrs. Xing talked relatively casually with Jia She. When Jia She complained in a flamboyant tone that the posthumous titles of the ancestors of the Ning family jointly drafted by the Imperial Academy and the Ministry of Rites were long and awkward: "Tell me about those who read corruption." For those who have written the book, the posthumous title is so long and difficult to read, who will remember it? When my master and I are supposed to enter the imperial mausoleum in the future, I must ask them to draw up the posthumous title before then, and personally choose a good one. You can’t even close your eyelids. Tsk tsk, such a mouthful, how can future generations remember my specialness, master?”

Mrs. Xing blurted out: "Your characteristic is...? The king of the son-in-law?"