The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

Mrs. Jia is now one of the most comfortable women in the palace.

Empress Bo left the palace, Li Ji passed away, Cheng Ji lost her imaginary enemy, and because Mrs. Wang was named queen, she is now being as quiet as a chicken and keeping a low profile.Queen Wang had a good relationship with her at first, but now that her best friend has been promoted, the relationship between the two has changed slightly, but Queen Wang is concerned about Emperor Jing and wants to keep her image from collapsing.

The sons have grown up and become kings again, and Mrs. Jia has nothing else to worry about except for the marriage of the youngest son.

Regarding Sheng'er's marriage, she also mentioned it to His Majesty, and His Majesty only told her not to worry too much, and she thought about it, so Mrs. Jia now spends her days reading books, planting flowers, weaving and weaving. Empress Dowager Dou chatted with the eldest princess.

Her two sons, one is capable, the other is rich, and they are both filial. They often send delicious and fun things, and they are not too topical among the female relatives. Compared with being busy with palace affairs every day, they have to take care of their sons and daughters. Queen Wang doesn't know how much it moisturizes.

But sending the theater troupe is not a trivial matter. It is clearly written in the son's letter, and the dolls are made of puppets. Mrs. Jia simply went to the Queen's side and passed the Ming Road. She passed the inspection through the regular road and took him away. Come in.

Originally, she thought she was just playing ventriloquism and juggling, but it turned out that these people were making a lot of noise. So, the original plan to find a few good friends to watch a show and then find a way to push it to the sister-in-law fell through. .When things get serious, it's not easy to favor one over another, so small group sports have become collective activities.

All idlers in the palace were invited, even Queen Mother Dou, who was blind and could not actually "watch" the show, was not left behind.When Empress Dowager Dou comes, Liu whoring will naturally accompany her.

In fact, on the one hand, the women's family members are giving Madam Jia face, and on the other hand, they are also looking for an excuse to relax.Some time ago, there was a lot of commotion outside the palace, and there was no peace in the palace.Everyone has family members outside, and there is no power in the palace, and all the information is cut off. In addition, Liu Qi also cleaned the palace one by one before, many concubines lost face, and they dared to rest for a long time. To see people.

Now that the dust has finally settled, everyone is looking for a chance to have fun and re-establish social relationships.

Before the opera started, Mrs. Jia said with a smile: "This is my son's first rehearsal, if the performance is boring, don't laugh at him."

This is really not Mrs. Jia's false modesty, her son knows it himself.Her two sons have not had much appreciation for art since they were young. When they were young, they could say that they couldn't appreciate or sit still. Everyone was the same.But when they grow up, the two brothers will hide from the theater if they can, and if they can't hide, they will keep their eyes open. If they sit next to each other, they will pull the brothers to talk together, so as not to spoil other people's interest.

There were so many times that no one invited them even if they went to Beijing for an audience.Unexpectedly, the two brothers were not ashamed but proud, happy and quiet.

What kind of drama can such a young son come up with?Mrs. Jia had no expectations at all.

Unexpectedly, when the curtain was opened, the female relatives were first amazed by the exquisite and beautiful miniature three-dimensional small stage. In the Western Han Dynasty, where there were no plastic products and chemical pigments, these three-dimensional buildings were all hand-ground by craftsmen, and then mixed with paint. The coloring is [-]% similar to the school of Zhongshan University, and anyone who has been to Zhongshan can see it at a glance.

Then when the doll came out, I found it even more novel and interesting.Before, Xia Anran made porcelain dolls for her younger siblings to play with. The porcelain dolls were fair and beautiful and could be dressed up, and they were popular all over the capital at that time.

The downside is that they are heavy and brittle, which makes them less fun for kids to play with when they grow up.In comparison, this doll is much more beautiful, and it is flexible and light at first glance.If it weren't for the children who are past the age of playing with dolls, they would have to go to the Emperor Jiuzi to ask for some.

... But when they took a closer look at the doll's makeup and clothing, they couldn't help pinching the sleeves.The doll's skin is fat and fat, and her eyebrows are picturesque. On her black hair, there are exquisite filigree mother-of-pearl cornice hairpins and pearl and gemstone tassels, plus a little flower in between her eyebrows. She is also wearing pea-green silk clothes, which are layered and longer than her ankles. The figure is extremely slender and exquisite.

If this appearance is placed on an ordinary girl, it will definitely make people feel too fancy, but it is a kind of exquisite beauty when placed on a doll.

The women exclaimed, their eyes instinctively swept over the girl's hair accessory, costume and makeup, their eyes were frighteningly bright.

The puppet show adopts the mode of talking, singing and narration. In the place covered by the curtain, a large group of behind-the-scenes staff sits playing, playing and singing, dubbing and singing.

The two dolls "change their clothes with one click", and Yingtai made a lot of jokes when she first entered the school. The various activities in the Zhongshan National Academy made these girls stunned, and their emotions changed with the drama. , He didn't even bother to eat the melon that was served, and would only drink tea during the intermission, all his mind was still in the play.

In order to highlight the final tragic effect, the first half of the play focuses on the many happy events of the two before, the relationship between the three years of classmates gradually deepened, and also added scenes such as Xinda Market and Yuexia Competition Poetry and Fu.The most beautiful relationship is ambiguity. From the time the two met each other, Mo Ni told a thousand women in the palace to drink tea, and they all felt sweetness in their mouths.

Unexpectedly, after a scene change, the plot turns straight down, from his father calling his daughter because of his illness, to the husband and wife's separation, and another farewell to each other. The timbre, the brisk top note sounded quite inappropriate in such a tragic plot. This music was also thought of when the two of them were playing before. Who knew that it was only one paragraph at that time, and there was another section after it.

Sheng and Piba are intertwined and lingering, and Yu's voice is slightly lowered, as if to indicate fate.It is precisely because of knowing the ending of the future that it is even more heartbreaking when hearing the sweet past.

The tears of these ladies just flowed down, one person cried out, the others couldn't bear it, the sobs stretched into one piece.

In this deep palace, tears are the least valuable thing.These women don't know how long it has been since they cried so heartbrokenly.

This play was just an introduction, but it touched their hearts.How can a woman in the palace be free from grievances and tears?It's just that you have to endure it at ordinary times, and when the first tear falls, the dam in your heart can't stop like a leak in an instant.

They burst into tears like rain.

At the end of the song, none of the advocates came out from behind the scenes, they stayed quietly behind to pack their things.Listening to the movement outside, now is not a good time to go out.

And it is.Mrs. Jia was also touched by this drama, but she is the host after all, and this situation is really unexpected for her.

The female relatives who were invited to watch the play suddenly cried like this, so it is better to let others watch it?And when they leave her with red eye circles one by one, others will think that something big happened when they see it.

Mrs. Jia hurriedly asked the female officer to pour warm water and prepare handkerchiefs for everyone to redress. Now she can't wait to pull her youngest son out to give him a slap in the face.I just know that this show is good-looking, is this the way of "good-looking"?

She wasn't prepared at all, she just comforted this one and that one was crying again.Even the normally steady Queen Wang was crying. She cried very quietly, sitting upright with no expression on her face, and the tears just flowed down on her own.

Madam Jia was taken aback by this appearance, she leaned over to shake Wang Zhi, and reminded in a low voice: "My good sister, the Queen Mother is still here."

Wang Yan's eyelashes trembled slightly, she took a deep breath and quickly shook off the tears that were about to fall, she put away her scattered thoughts and forced a smile: "Sister, Sheng'er's play is not well-rehearsed? You It's too modest."

"I didn't expect that either." Mrs. Jia raised her voice slightly to call back the attention of the female relatives, "Sister, you don't know that Sheng'er and Peng Zu don't like to go to the theater, every time someone invites them Eyelids are closed when I watch an opera, it’s useless for me to talk about operas with them. Peng Zu is not bad, he still has some interest in watching miscellaneous operas, Sheng’er is the same for everything.”

Cheng Ji smiled from the side: "Sister, look, Sheng'er can play such a show, is it no wonder he has no interest in others?"

The other wives also agreed, and Mrs. Jia waved her hand and said, "Do you really think it was written by Sheng'er? Sheng'er said that this is a story he heard from a group of tourists, and because I went to Some days ago, I warned him not to doze off while watching a play, so he came up with this. You are a narrow-minded man."

"Hey, don't talk about my grandson." Empress Dowager Dou waved her hand, she put down the hot handkerchief, and spoke with a bit of a nasal voice, "Everyone has their own preferences. , forcing him to do something."

"Mother, I don't think so." Liu Xun's exquisite makeup was already worn out at this time, and she took over Queen Dowager Dou's handkerchief and changed it to wipe the old man's hands, and said, "If it wasn't for Sister Jia who forced me to Let’s talk about Sheng’er, we don’t have such good plays. If you want me to say, sister, you can write to Sheng’er quickly, just say that you are not satisfied with this play, and ask him to change it.”

"You narrow-minded ghost." Empress Dowager Dou patted her daughter's hand lightly, "Don't be embarrassing and advocating others, but it will make them scolded."

"It's okay, let's just leave the advocates in Chang'an." After Liu prostitutes served the queen mother, she began to take care of herself. While she was carefully applying makeup on herself, she came up with bad ideas.

"You're so attention-grabbing." Empress Dowager Dou patted her again, and waited for Liu Xing to finish her makeup before saying, "Call people to come out, the old woman is very satisfied, show them a reward."

Until this time, several advocates behind the scenes came out with musical instruments and puppets.The dolls came close to the wives before they looked at them carefully, and they were all amazed, especially Liu Xing: "Oh, this doll is so beautiful, no, I have to ask for one with my nephew Sheng'er, it's so beautiful, I'm also happy to have it at home."

Liu Xing usually exaggerated her words in order to take care of the invisible Queen Dou, but this time she really did it wholeheartedly.

Empress Dowager Dou asked curiously, "Aren't all the dolls the same? What's so special about it?"

Several dolls bowed down in front of Empress Dowager Dou, and the voices of "Liang Shanbo" and "Zhu Yingtai" sang in unison, "Greetings to the Empress Dowager, the empress dowager is always happy."

"Ouch!" Liu Xing hurriedly leaned into Empress Dowager Dou's ear and told her that several dolls were saluting her.The old lady was happy when she heard the words, she raised her hand, "You're so flexible, don't be polite, get up."

Knowing what she was thinking, Liu Xing hurried forward to make fun of her, and she and the advocator sang and sang to cover the situation of the play.When they heard that the play was performed during Chinese New Year, all the women fell silent.

Mrs. Jia couldn't help covering her face and turning her head. Sometimes she really couldn't understand what her son was thinking, really couldn't understand.

"Then this year..." Cheng Ji murmured, but she swallowed the rest of the words. She reluctantly asked in a tactful way, "Then how many shows did you perform?"

Did you really not get hit by someone?

The advocator coughed dryly, hiding the reason why they developed the habit of not rushing out to ask for rewards after the performance, and tried to choose the best one, and said, "Thanks to your highness, there will be one show every day until the end of the New Year's Eve." Full."

...No one was beaten, the people in Zhongshan have a good temper.

How is it possible... After all, the pure men in the north are very angry, especially when they see their wives and children crying together, and many men are also hurt in their hearts. Isn't the combination of these two angers surging?It's just that the Zhongshan Kingdom's Lieutenant's Mansion sent soldiers to protect... Well, I don't need to talk about this,

Empress Dowager Dou asked a few more words, but she didn't start touching the dolls, she is always a little bit apprehensive as she gets older.

On the contrary, Liu Xun looked at the doll's clothes out of curiosity, and said in surprise: "Oh, this clothes are also exquisite enough. I have never seen this type of material before, and the hairpin is also pretty. Which of your craftsmen made this? Can you make a big one? no?"

In order to prevent the people sitting behind from seeing the dolls, the clothes of each doll are not the same color, Xia Anran can make people flamboyant.A single baby is good-looking, and several of them are put together, not to mention the rustic color.

As for the costumes, the name is "overhead", which is actually the style of studio outfits, and the hair accessories are the same, with gold and silver beads strung all over the head.What Liu Xun thinks looks good is the butterfly hairpin on Zhu Yingtai's head when she wore her wedding dress.This butterfly hairpin is framed in copper, and the color of the wings increases from the inside to the outside. The inside is white, and the outermost part is a full and transparent dark blue. The middle color transitions naturally, and there is a faint green awn at the junction.

Different from the current habit of making it thinner, this is obviously thicker on purpose, but the thickness is too beautiful. Under the sun, this butterfly seems to be able to be penetrated by the sun, which is more or less like a dream.

"Uh... His Highness brought it. The craftsman just put it on the hairpin and added tassels."

Hearing this, the ladies exchanged a glance.

What Xia Anran never imagined was that before Chang'an City relied on the plot to win, Nymphie first relied on jewelry and clothing to gain a wave of fashion value, which was completely different from what he thought!

I finally received a reply from my mother, but the content in it was asking him for clothing fabrics, headwear and makeup, and the little king was stunned.

No, are your women's concerns so weird?

By the way, at that time, Chen Jiaojiao seemed to pay more attention to the doll's clothes and accessories after crying a lot, and studied it for a long time... The poor pseudo-straight man Xia Anran may have forgotten that every year after the Spring Festival Gala is broadcast, The first to be popular is usually a certain lipstick number or a certain clothing brand. At the same time, Taobao, which was still on vacation at that time, was the first to follow, and it was also the same style of clothing for the Spring Festival Gala.

After all, if you can make it in time, and if SF Express is strong enough, you can still be the most beautiful and fashionable boy during the Spring Festival.Only after this requirement is met, will everyone feel at ease to study and speculate on the plot.

The poor little king doesn't know women's thoughts and concerns. He just feels that he is being tortured by the souls of his own mothers—boy, first hand over the fabric, then hand over the jewelry, and finally hand over the makeup lady, and the rest Yes, they didn't say a word.

Xia Anran indifferently put aside the letter from her mother, hugged Duoduo Goose who happened to be enjoying the cool indoors, and hugged her full.This development situation is completely different from what he thought, and his heart is chilling, only the soft belly hair of Duoduo can soothe his wounded heart.

Duoduo didn't know why, but he still comforted the little king with his mouth.

Empress Bo was reading a book on the sidelines, and seeing Xia Anran's reaction felt a little strange, so she picked up the letter written by Madam Jia, read only three or four lines, and laughed.

After reading the whole thing, she couldn't help laughing even more.

The little king complained silently, "Are you going to send yourself back?"

That's right, the make-up and color matching of the dolls were created by Empress Bo. Xia Anran, a straight man, can only provide raw materials, and matching female dolls is beyond his aesthetic limit.Chen Jiaojiao couldn't bear the Yingtai that her elder brother matched at all, and the one she matched was not good enough. The siblings quarreled for a long time, and finally Chen Jiao went to Empress Bo to reason.

Empress Bo had recuperated for a long time before, and her foundation was exhausted, that is to say, her family was well off and her life was undeserved, so she came back to recuperate little by little. Now when she heard that the two brothers and sisters were arguing, she intervened.

Before she got married, Empress Bo was also a female celebrity at home. After she got married, she became a queen in the most magnificent place in the world. Got it.Almost the most exquisite things in the world have passed through her eyes.

Naturally, the design of a mere doll can't trouble her, but she didn't come to the palace because of this.

Although Empress Bo has arrived in Zhongshan, in order to avoid her existence from bringing pressure to the management of the little king, she usually stays in the other garden.The purpose of coming to Lunu County this time is to decipher the code sent by Princess Nangong.

Half a month ago, people from Chang'an brought a message from the Han envoy to the south and a letter written by Nangong. Because time was urgent, Chang'an meant to crack both sides together to save time.

There are no professional crackers here in Zhongshan, but there are farmers here who can provide inspiration and accurate sources of information.This matter was extremely confidential, and Xia Anran couldn't do it alone, so she invited Empress Bo to help.

Mrs. Jia's letter was temporarily put down, and now he really can't take care of it for a while.Since the first letter data collection from Nangong has begun, these are common crops, not difficult, and now just need a little sorting.

It was Xia Anran himself who wrote the pen. This matter needs to be kept secret. He has no way to ensure that his side must be monolithic. If such a way of news transmission is leaked, Nangong will definitely be in danger.Data collection is fine, but the last step can only be done by him.

Xia Anran's memory is very good, he can memorize most of the data at one time and draw it on the dot matrix, but even so, the drawing is still slow to take shape, because there are too many data that a plant can produce, They even included the number of seeds a plant might produce as a reference item.

Only by making a chart of each of these data, and finally exploring and filtering, and comparing with the previous chart, the other party can determine the approximate location.

However, he has a huge advantage over the professionals in Chang'an, that is, he knows the rough topographic map of the grassland, and he also probably knows the approximate migration direction of the Huns. In other words, he is verifying with reference answers.

But now, all this has finally reached the most critical time, that is to compare different road maps composed of different data, and find out the most likely one.

After resting for a while to relieve eye fatigue, he put down the goose and quickly flipped through the dot matrix diagrams that have been successfully drawn. Check the terrain map one by one.

The key points are Longcheng and Langjuxu Mountain, which must be passed by every year. These two places are the places where the Huns sacrificed. Because he has traveled there before, he has a vague impression, but Xia Anran is really not sure that Nangong will pass this place. Two key points are drawn on it.

Fortunately, his smart sister did.

Xia Anran extracted six diagrams from dozens of drawings, and then screened out four of them after careful comparison. The positions of the remaining two diagrams are somewhat different in the northwest, but the east and central are roughly the same.It seems that the correct data should be one of these two.

As for how to judge which one is correct, it still has to be left to a professional.

Xia Anran took a closer look at the drawing, and recorded the lines and divisions on it in his mind. He believed in his own memory more than copying it down.Then, the two drawings were rolled up and put into a pipe made of bamboo joints, and then sealed with white wax. Xia Anran wrote a letter to his father to explain his judgment, and then explained the error The drawings were burned.

The indoor smoke was lingering, Xia Anran breathed a sigh of relief, and the next thing was to wait for the news from Chang'an.

Not long after the letter was sent, he received a reply from Chang'an. He didn't say anything else, but just confirmed with him the time to go abroad. Last year, Emperor Jing didn't have an audience because of his health, so it was postponed to this year.

Previously, a group of talents re-selected by Zhongshan Kingdom, and low-level officials who had passed the assessment and were willing to leave their hometowns all underwent a general assessment. The top ten in this examination were sent to Chang'an City. Zhang Tang was Walked in this team with the No.1 result.

In the next month, Chen Jiao will return to Beijing by car with Xia Anran as planned.

When the princes and vassal kings from all over the country were about to enter the capital, something unexpected happened.

——At this time, Emperor Jing promulgated the funeral etiquette standards for princes and vassal kings after their death, and how the central government should treat and deal with the death of princes, kings and lieutenants.

Among them, what is eye-catching is that Emperor Jing clearly stated that after the death of princes and kings, their families have no right to handle funerals on their own.Among them, there are also clear regulations on the construction time of the tomb, that is, it should not exceed [-] working days.

Xia Anran smacked her mouth, inexplicably feeling the smell of a storm coming.The old father is... intending to confiscate the rights of princes and feudal kings.

It doesn't matter to him, he has no pursuit of the mausoleum, but judging from Zhidu's complicated expression, it should still be influential.

Xia Anran tilted her head to look at him, and then sighed, "His Royal Highness, if there are only three hundred days, you can't build the tomb of the princess together."

Xia Anran was shocked. Did his prime minister plan to build his wife's tomb together?Prime Minister, you are too much in one step. His wife... the daughter-in-law is really not easy to handle.

"Your Highness!" Just as the two masters and ministers were making eye contact, a soldier suddenly came to report, "Mr. Yuyang County, please see me."

... Marquis of Yuyang County?Dou Wan?

Xia Anran was surprised and delighted, he quickly walked out the door to meet him, and called out "Awan!" before stepping out of the room.

Dou Wan, who was standing at the entrance of the corridor in military uniform and was handing over the sword to the soldiers for safekeeping, raised his head in response, and then he put his hands forward and hugged the little highness who rushed over.

In fact, Xia Anran, who just wanted to shake hands with someone, silently turned her outstretched hand around Dou Wan's slender waist, and couldn't help touching it up and down twice.

The author has something to say:

Xia Miao: (stretched out his hand, wanting to stage a scene of holding hands and watching tears)

Wan Rabbit: Don't want a small hand, but a whole person

Xia Miao:? ? ? ?

PS: The policy in the article is true, but the original words are that there are no more than 300 people in the grave.

I can't find a translation. According to the original words, there are 300 people...but this is impossible.Some translators also said that it was [-] working days. I found the supplementary notes on the Han Shu and no one paid attention here.

So is it 300 people or [-] people?

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Cough cough, if you make a mistake, you are wrong, the author is uneducated =w=