The Legend of the Long Room in the Red Mansion

The Taishanghuang’s imperial driver entered the palace gate and went straight to Ningshou Palace. Immediately, Mrs. Xing was kicked out, and the gate of Ningshou Palace was closed. Talk at night by candlelight, let everyone not bother you if you have nothing to do.

Ning Shan followed the good example and ordered all the palaces to walk around the Ningshou Palace, and all the palaces obeyed the orders. Therefore, the poor little death expert His Majesty the Supreme Emperor did not appear in front of people again until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with a slightly bruised nose and a swollen face.

When Xichun heard that her father had entered the palace, she wanted to pay her respects by adhering to the etiquette. Yingchun held her back and said, "Uncle Jing and Emperor Father haven't seen each other for many years, so there must be many important things to say, just wait a moment, Uncle Jing It's better to go there after I call you." Xichun didn't have much idea about this father, and she wanted to pay her respects in the past just to avoid being picked on. Now that Yingchun didn't ask her to go, she just pretended that it didn't matter. up.

After the eighth day of the eighth day, Baoqin returned to the palace to return to her life, and Baochai went out of the palace to return home.

Seeing that all the sisters have parents and elders, Daiyu can talk about the family relationship together, but she is alone, and she can't help but cry secretly again. In the winter, the exhausted spirit of hurting the spring and autumn, the fragile Princess Kangping does not care. Unexpectedly, he fell down again, and the imperial doctors had to give up the New Year's Eve and took turns to guard the palace.

It will be the fifteenth day, Jia Amnesty can see people's face, Daiyu can sit up, and even Yinghua and the little princess are stronger. People set up wine in the warm pavilion, which can be regarded as a return to Jia She's ceremony of holding a family banquet on the first day of the new year.

Jia Jing refused to come over, claiming to be an outsider, never a drinker, so it was not easy to sit in the table, in fact, it was because he had a head-to-head fight with Jia She, and he was not easy to see - after all, he was able to avoid Jia She with a sense of propriety. He opened his face, but Jia Amnesty fought back with a fistful of fists, no matter where he hit.

Jia Shen's face looked fine, but he complained that his butt hurts when he sat on the chair. Yingchun changed the seat cushion for him three or four times, but it didn't help. A short couch with backrests, pillows and leather mattresses. On one end of the couch, there is a very light and gilded small table with foreign lacquer. On the table are tea hangers, tea bowls, rinsing bowls, foreign towels, etc., and there are also fruit plates. Jia She is right there. Watching the play tilted on the couch, Qiu Shi'an waited around him from left to right, like master and servant.

After a while, another handsome young eunuch was called over, asked to sit on the couch, and beat his legs with a beauty's fist.The little eunuch didn't dare to sit, and knelt on the edge, Ning Shan's eyelids twitched when she saw it. The postures of the two together looked like a dutiful son of a dead father in the mourning hall.However, Jia Amnesty didn't realize it at all, and was enjoying herself very much, so Ning Shan stopped expressing her opinions, and turned her head to watch the little show on the stage, out of sight and out of mind.

The theatrical troupe that is performing hard at Changyin Pavilion is a popular troupe that has been born out of famous actors in Beijing. It was proposed by the left servant of the Ministry of Industry. He used to have a good relationship with Jia She. The team selected the best one and recommended it to Jia She.This is the first civilian troupe to perform in the palace since the palace was built. In the previous dynasty, the Shengping Department was in charge of court opera rehearsals, performances and other activities.

However, after Ning Shan ascended the throne, the Shengping Administration was disbanded. Except for those eunuchs who voluntarily stayed in the palace to serve, the rest were also given money back home.But he neglected that court banquets need dance and music to add to the fun, and the court drum music in the first day of junior high school was called temporarily by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Nowadays, family banquets don’t need such a grand scene, and even if you want to find a small troupe to listen to the opera, you have to go outside and call one.When this troupe was called to perform in the palace for the first time, they were both excited and terrified, fearing that they would be thought of as ineffective, so they spent twelve minutes singing, reciting, doing and beating all the time.Ning Shan actually doesn't know much about operas, but since New Year's Eve has no other fun, she can only listen to operas.

Jia Amnesty shook his head when he heard it, and played the beat and the tune from time to time, with a look of great interest.Yinghua also didn't understand the opera, so she sat down with Madam Xing and chatted in a low voice.Yingchun and Xichun also looked at each other casually, most of the time they gathered together and whispered together, Daiyu looked at the corner with a lonely face, thinking of something sad again, Ning Shan looked around and felt that The bad atmosphere almost surpassed Jia Amnesty's family banquet, and he sighed suddenly: "How did you pass this year? Why is everyone not very interested? If I knew this, why don't I change the rules and just rest for five days?" Just go to court."

Jia Amnesty hurriedly half-sat up: "Don't, Jinkou Yuyan, how can the changed rules be changed back immediately? Besides, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty are grateful to you for a few more days of vacation, aren't they?"

Ning Shan pointed to a table of absent-minded people and said, "Look at the atmosphere, what's the point?"

Jia Amnesty slapped the table in a hurry: "What are you talking about? Watching a play!" Everyone hurriedly sat up straight and began to applaud: "Good show, let's enjoy it!" Shouting for rewards, everyone had already picked up a dustpan, ran up to scoop up a dustpan from the pile of loose money on the table, walked out and said to the stage: "The Supreme Emperor and the Emperor and Queen announce the rewards." Throwing his foot on the stage, he only heard the sound of money clattering all over the stage.

This movement brought back everyone's energy, and then everyone ordered the plays very carefully, because Jia She likes lively plays, with Mrs. Xing as the leader, Wang Xifeng, Yingchun, and Daiyu all ordered jokes. Among them, "Journey to the West" and "Water Margin" are indispensable. Sister Feng also ordered "Liu Er Dang Yi", which became more and more lively.Instead, Jia She clicked on "Order of the General", and it seemed that he was flattering the eldest son. Everyone laughed and didn't speak.

When it was Ning Shan's turn to order plays, he casually pointed out "The Romance of the West Chamber", and everyone was secretly amazed. Yinghua originally pushed the play excerpts and refused to order them, but seeing that Ning Shan had ordered them, she also took them and read them carefully. Once, I ordered a set of "Lantern and Full Moon", which coincided with the festive season.This time, the atmosphere became active.

Seeing this, Daiyu became very interested, and offered to make lantern riddles to guess. Ning Shan smiled and agreed. Even if Daiyu made an excellent five-character poem, no one could guess it. Only Ning Shan thought for a while and said When she got the answer, Daiyu smiled and toasted him a glass of wine, and what was even more rare was that she accompanied him.

Jia She also joined in the fun and made a doggerel. Everyone knew the answer immediately after hearing it, but in order to protect his face, he pretended to guess wrong, which made Jia She very proud. He couldn't even guess such a simple riddle, so he hurriedly stomped his feet and interrupted Jia Shen's inexplicable pride.During this period, Ning Shan developed a strong interest in the dramas she had selected, and she held Yinghua in her arms and explained the content of "The Romance of the West Chamber" to her.

Afterwards, everyone made riddles one by one, most of which were in line with the solar terms, seasons or auspicious things, some were easy to guess, and some were a lot of brainstorming. After one night's calculations, Jia She and Daiyu guessed the most, and they were evenly matched. Shan secretly said to Yinghua: "Fortunately, we didn't mix it up, otherwise, I don't know how much brains it would take to let the silly father and Yu'er keep pace with each other." One inattentively, she uttered the "love name" for Jia She , Yinghua laughed to herself, hurriedly pretended to wipe her mouth with a handkerchief, and held back.

It is well known that Daiyu is talented. Jia Shehu robbed the right to speak all night, but unexpectedly he was on the same level as Daiyu, and immediately got carried away with joy. Yingchun pulled his sleeve and urged: "Father, you didn't reward my sister?" " Jia She said casually: "I am also the number one scholar, who gave it to me?" Ning Shan turned her head and pretended not to hear, this "number one scholar" is too much water, if he really rewarded him, he would definitely feel sorry for Enke's selection of Sanding Jia.

At the beginning of the Dugu Dynasty, Amnesty to the World and Enke Enke were two must-have activities. Those who should be pardoned before last autumn were all pardoned, and those who should be tested have also entered the examination room. Now that the New Year is over, it is time to prepare for the Spring Festival He Dian tried.

Ning Shan had already thought about the topic of the palace exam, so he used the autumn war as an introduction to investigate the views of students from various places. He hoped to find one or a few who had the same idea as himself—that is, to open up trade between the two places and weaken the barbarian invasion. Think about it—the students, and then use this as a starting point to realize your highest ideal of "surrendering the enemy without fighting".But how Chunwei should take the test, he left it to the three divisions and the official department to decide.

Generally, Chunwei is in charge of the academicians of the Hanlin Academy, and it is the first time for the Ministry of Officials to take part in the imperial examination, and everyone is very honored and extremely hardworking.The exam questions were quickly drawn up and presented. The three sets of exam papers are respectfully invited to be read by His Majesty. Ning Shan was a little disappointed after reading them. He instructed the Ministry of Officials to write questions in the hope that they could further improve the official review system, and based on this, develop Appropriate standards for the selection of officials, but when the Ministry of Officials took over the imperial examination for the first time, they were too cautious. They just imitated the practice of the Imperial Academy in the past, and the questions they asked did not exceed the scope of stereotyped essays. It's just a matter of civil and military status, but in Ning Shan's view, it doesn't have much practical significance other than triggering a dispute of words.

In the end, Chunwei's test questions were decided by Jia She. After guessing the lantern riddles and winning the championship that night, Jia She kept arguing for Ning Shan to give him a prize. Throw all the test questions to him, let him choose one, and then award this class of students to the Supreme Emperor to become a disciple of the emperor—the imperial examination supervised by the emperor himself, and those who are selected are called disciples of the emperor. He is a disciple of the Supreme Emperor. Jia She felt that the old emperor was ugly, and his words could easily cause riots, so he chose the title of the Great Emperor. Ning Shan said that he was too lazy to argue with him.