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83. It's the Spring Festival again

Seeing is eyesight, being able to see is mind strength. Eyes are easy to practice, but mind strength is hard to learn. Wang Yangming stated in his theory "Study on the Heart" that any source of distress is lack of wisdom. To understand it from a certain level and perspective, I think he is right.

Because I am a very open-minded person, it is not that I am extremely wise, but that I always think that thinking about things is useless and helpless, so there is no need to think about them.

Otherwise, my father died early when I was young, my mother separated, grew up alone all the way, and was betrayed to death. The ups and downs along the way were enough to torture me more than ten times! But I was still very happy, this is the power of my heart.

So when Zhang Siwei and others were obviously protected, Hai Rui was so angry that he cursed the court. Zhang Juzheng was very depressed, but I didn't care about these things at all - it wasn't my turn to care, right?

On the day after the judgment, I returned to Juyongguan as always, and supervised the military and civilians to continue to build and improve the Great Wall Pass. This is what I can decide.

It was soon the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. According to the Ming Dynasty, New Year's Eve is the last day of the year to go to work. Starting from the first day of the New Year, the entire first month is winter vacation. This is really a very exciting thing. This month I can do my own things well and prepare for the future.

However, it is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, the holidays for this month did not exist at all. Officials usually had to take a break for three or five days before they had to come back to work hard. These officials survived until after Zhu Yuanzhang's death that the holiday system of the Ming Dynasty gradually relaxed, and until today, it became a holiday in the first lunar month.

However, according to the regulations, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet still have to go to work every day, and each department has to arrange personnel to be on duty. However, according to Zhang Juzheng's current situation, in recent years, he has moved winter vacation shifts to his home. Whoever has the right to report to everyone is right, and Zhang Juzheng will approve it on the spot. Anyway, he has the final say, and there is nothing wrong with it.

He turned around again, watched, practiced the eagle feather style and wandered around for two days. These two days were indeed peaceful, and no one dared to make trouble anymore, otherwise the dozen corpses hanging over the pole and floating in the wind were role models! The villagers all responded, and they were very at ease when they saw those evil people being executed, and they were particularly energetic when they were doing their work!

No matter how energetic it is, on New Year's Eve, I drove them all home, including Ye Sizhong's troops. I also told him that I could still catch up with the New Year's Eve dinner when I returned earlier. So they set off early to see if they could return to Jizhou before sunset!

Of course, I wished him a New Year in advance and agreed that after the fifth day, I would go to Jizhou to wish him and Governor Qi a New Year!

It's time for me to leave too! Standing on the rough wall of Badaling Great Wall, I felt particularly touched. It's another year! It's been two years since I've been here! It's said that I'm alone in a foreign land and miss my relatives more during festivals. Is this a world of another world? But then again, I don't seem to have anyone to miss.

With a slight melancholy, we rode back to the capital. The entire capital was decorated with lights and even the city gates were hung with red flowers! The streets were filled with children running around and playing, and most shops closed for the festival today, but red lanterns were hung to celebrate.

Buhui and Jiugui Zhengxiao were particularly happy all the way. They had never celebrated festivals in big cities like the capital, so everything was fresh. For me, after experiencing the infinitely open festivals in the new era, how could these old folk customs impress me?

I slowly walked on the street, looking at the celebratory crowd and the laughing children, I suddenly felt a little alienated, as if I was looking at the world through a layer of glass. It was clearly in front of me, but I couldn't touch it. Suddenly, there was a loud "bang" sound in my ear, and I suddenly turned around, but several children were setting off their kicks!

The sound was so loud! I was shocked! Seeing the children laughing so happily because of a firecracker, I envied them from the bottom of my heart.

Okay, there is no need to be so low and negative! I suddenly straightened my body, shouted with a "drive" sound, and my legs were clamped with a horse's belly, and the horse screamed "sparkly", and instantly ran forward like an arrow away from the string! When everyone behind saw me speeding up, they also accelerated! In a short while, they saw the familiar door sign: "Wenhai Pavilion".

When we arrived at the door, we slid the stirrups off the horse. The disciples at the door came to pick up the horses, greeted me and congratulated me on holidays. They called me "Young Master" in unison, which was also my rule, because at the beginning, Qiao Hansheng and others called me Master, and the maids at home called me Master. After thinking about it, I asked them to call me Master, after all, I still hoped that I would be younger!

Of course, Jiugui Zhengxiao, Yuan, Qinglian, Yuhe and others call me Mr., that's another matter, because these people are people who support the external small system for me. Those who call me Young Master should be considered family members.

I entered the gate, walked around the screen and entered the yard. When I heard the sound of horse hooves, a woman ran out first. I rode a horse for a long time and was a little dizzy. When I looked closely, it turned out to be Yuan! She was wearing a gorgeous costume of a man's woman today, dressed in a particularly cute and cute way!

And more importantly, in the past two years, I have been thinking about how to be stronger, better and safer. I have always regarded Yuan as a staff officer in the team, and I have not paid any attention at all. This girl has become a big girl after the past two years. She is really a girl who has changed a lot, and she is getting better and better. The mountains and hills are becoming more and more obvious!

Seeing me looking at her steadily, Yuan smiled like a little fox. She raised her hands slightly in front of me, turned around, and asked with a smile: "Does it look good? Sir!"

I suddenly realized that I cleared my throat continuously, covering up the embarrassment in my heart, and smiled and said, "It looks good! Where did I buy it?"

Yuan leaned over, hugged my left arm and said, "It was given to me by Sister Qinglian!" I said oh, but my mind was not here at all. Instead, I gathered on the chest of my arm when she hugged me! Wow! Haven't cared about it for the past two years, so have you been ac-like?

In order not to make a fool of myself in public, I gently shook Yuan's arm and said, "Okay, go and find me some water! I'm almost thirsty!"

Yuan squinted his eyes and replied, "Yes!" He giggled and ran into the inner hall. While I stood there, pretending to look around and looking at the decorations of the yard, it actually made the physiological reaction slightly relieved, and then walked towards the inner hall. This girl, tsk tsk!

Qiao Hansheng knew that I was back and was welcoming me. We met at the door of the main hall. He bowed to me, asked about the holiday ceremony and said with a smile that he asked the mansion to prepare a sumptuous family dinner for the New Year, and he could start when I came back.

I nodded in agreement, and Qiao Hansheng immediately ordered the follower to go into the back hall to prepare.

When I walked into the hall, wow! There were three tables, one big and two small. This was also what I had arranged with my thoughts. I was very satisfied.

At around 7 o'clock in the evening, all of us sat in the main hall. The way to divide seats was actually very simple - asked my husband to sit on the big table and the young master to sit on the small table. Of course, the butler Qiao Hansheng is an exception. He sat on the big table with us.

The cold dishes have already started, and there are ten cold dishes. The wine I drink is the wine that Murong Qin brought back from Europe last time. What I can’t get used to is the white wine delivered by Guanjiao according to the title. Looking at the seal, it is the tribute wine from Xinghua Village outside Xiushanmen, Chizhou.

At this moment, everyone in the room looked at me eagerly, waiting for me to say a toast. I stood up and picked up the wine glass - a seven-cent cup for drinking white wine, but it was filled with red wine. A strange feeling suddenly arose.

I held the cup and looked at Murong Qin and Chen Kui awkwardly. Before I could speak to my toast, I collapsed first: "Next time I go to Europe, remember to bring a set of glass goblets back first!"

Murong Qin and Chen Kui looked at each other, not knowing that the goblet was a god-like horse, but they still responded.

I thought to myself, they don’t know the regular way to drink this red wine anyway, so let it go!

Looking around at everyone, I said aloud: "Everyone here comes from *! No, it's * plus Fusang!"

This is the first time everyone has heard such an opening remark, and a burst of laughter suddenly erupts in the hall!

I waited for everyone to laugh for a while, gently lifted the cup, and the room gradually became quiet. I smiled and continued, "Going together is fate! No matter what you are doing before, where you are, or any happy and unhappy experiences, coming here is back home! You don't need to wander anymore!"

Applause was everywhere, I glanced at it, some people were laughing, and some people were crying silently.

I sighed slightly in my heart and continued, "Here, I want to thank you again for your hard work in the past year! The upcoming year is the Year of the Horse. I wish you all the spirit of the dragon and horse in the New Year and the success of the horse!"

Everyone stood up together, raised their glasses and said in unison: "The spirit of the dragon horse! The horse is successful!"

I raised my wine glass and shouted, "It's done!"

After saying that, I took the lead in drinking the wine in my glass! Everyone present held the cups and saw the bottom, and the room became lively for a moment!

The servant in the courtyard took the opportunity to set off fireworks and firecrackers! The deafening sound of firecrackers suddenly rose up! In an instant, I seemed to remember the Spring Festival in my previous life, and the sound of firecrackers did not change at all!

Next, I toasted circles and was toasted. The hot dishes also started, and the atmosphere became more and more lively. I tried to integrate myself into this joyful environment and wanted my heart to warm up too.

After three hours of meal, everyone was already half drunk. Qiao Hansheng came over and bowed and asked me to move to the backyard, saying that he had arranged a opera troupe to sing for everyone on New Year's Eve.

To be honest, Peking Opera, Henan Opera, Huangmei Opera and other performance forms are all very culturally profound and have made great contributions to cultural heritage. However, as a modern person, I prefer cultural carriers such as movies and games, and I am really not interested in this elegant art form.

The opera troupe sang "Dingjun Mountain" first. After singing, the applause was everywhere, but I became sleepy. Then I sang another paragraph "Dragon Robe". I was almost asleep, so I turned my head and asked Qiao Hansheng behind me: "Old Qiao, do you have mahjong? Take a pair of them."

Qiao Hansheng looked at me with a confused look on his face and said, "Young Master, what is mahjong?"

This time I was confused and suddenly remembered that mahjong was only available in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. I'm afraid that it hasn't been released yet! Who would have promised him to teach him? It seems... it seems like Governor Qi and Ye Sizhong.

My heart suddenly got a lot of fun and I smiled and said, "Call Yuhe here!"

Qiao Hansheng didn't know what I was going to do, but when he saw that my face was full of smiles and knew it was a good thing, he immediately called Yuhe.

Yuhe looked at me with a puzzled face and asked, "Does sir miss me?"

I smiled and said, "I miss you. So what, how many of the cheapest jade tablets are there in our Qingyu Pavilion?"

Yu He smiled and said, "It's this matter! That's a lot, it's not a valuable thing. How much does sir want?"

I thought about it and found that there are 136 mahjong in the north and 144 or 108 in the south. Some mahjong still has 84, 112, 116, 120, 148, and the most are 152.

What I am most familiar with is the mahjong method of playing 136 main cards, so I laughed and said, "Get 150 first!"

Yuhe immediately sent someone to the store to get it, and soon she got two large jade bags.

I sat in front of the small table, took out Lishuang, and started carving with great interest.

After a while, I had a cart of ten thousand! Seeing that I was playing handicrafts, everyone was very interesting. Many people came over. Yuancui was closest and his face was on the cards. I simply handed her the cards.

Yuan stared at the card for a long time and asked, "Sir, what's the use of this thousand?"

But I didn't answer, and pointed to the onlookers around me and said, "Don't watch whatever you want, do it! Go! From 10,000 to 90,000, each requires four pictures!"

After thinking about it, he said, "Go and find some of your rouge, and take some of the paint to paint it. After carving one, use the paint to paint the middle words! Ten thousand words are red, the tube, I said, you can paint it!"
Chapter completed!
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