Everyone is busy

Author: dark clouds without rain

However, Emperor Kangxi said he was very relaxed, but he had only slept for an hour and a half when he was woken up by Liang Jiugong. There was still arrangements to be made at Yaksa's place, and he heard that there was another military service coming, so he could not delay for a moment.

Emperor Kangxi hurried back to Yuanjianzhai, where Yuqian still took the children to play, and kept company with Tong Jia from time to time.

This busy time has come to the Chinese New Year again. I originally wanted to go back to the palace to celebrate the New Year. However, the health of the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager became worse and worse, and she could no longer bear the fatigue of traveling and traveling. The environment in the garden was somewhat better than that in the palace. Emperor Kangxi wanted to

The Empress Dowager also gave up her intention of returning to the palace, and made preparations for celebrating the New Year in Changchun Garden.

Tong Jia's body couldn't stand the fatigue, and Emperor Kangxi didn't want Concubine Xi to take charge of the Sixth Palace, so he simply handed over all the general affairs to Yu Yan, and appointed concubines Hui and Duan to help.

In the past years, Yu Lian had been helping the Tong Jia family. There was never a time when she had to make the decision herself. Now that it was already the twelfth lunar month, Emperor Kangxi gave her this power. This really embarrassed Yu Lian.

The garden is different from the palace. You can't follow the old rules in the palace. Everything has to be carefully planned. I won't go into the details. Just the small New Year sacrifice to the stove is very cumbersome.

In previous years, the Kitchen God would be worshiped in front of the large stove where sacrificial meat was cooked in Kunning Palace. This time he was not in the palace, so the place had to be decided separately. You don’t have to worry about the rules, but the thirty-two sacrifices require Yu Pian.

Just keep an eye on the people below and make sure you don't make any mistakes.

Yu Lian was busy talking about her children all day long and could not take care of her children. Fortunately, the fourth elder brother and the sixth elder brother got the first grade in the year-end study exam. Emperor Kangxi was so happy that he gave the children an extra half month's leave.

The fourth elder brother and the sixth elder brother coaxed Zhao Ning to play, which made the children miss E Niang a little less.

When Yu Lian was too busy to move around, she often complained about Emperor Kangxi. She was not greedy for power. During the Chinese New Year, she would have no time to do anything but attend to matters in her own palace, yet why was he given such heavy responsibility?

's burden.

Apart from her, there are many people in the harem who want to share the worries of the Long Live Lord and are vying to take charge of things. Isn’t it possible that Concubine Xi also has concubines Hui and Concubine Rong? Even if they are not successful, it is extremely important to leave it to the sister of the Empress Yuan, Concubine Ping.

Okay, after all, she is a woman from a high family, and those who have been in elementary school are the ones who are in charge of the house. If you want to Yu Lian, they are all better than her.

Of all the people in the palace, she was the only one who didn't want to get into trouble. Emperor Kangxi was really good at choosing people.

But when she really met Emperor Kangxi, Yu Lian could no longer express her complaints. In order to have a good year, Emperor Kangxi also worked overtime and was busy approving papers and handling official duties.

The New Year's Day was a bit different from usual. In order to show his divine grace and compassion, Emperor Kangxi had to choose the albums of local officials who had meritorious service and hard work throughout the year, and put the blessing characters from the emperor in them and asked people to send them to the families of some princes and nobles.

They were also blessed, and the Spring Festival couplets in front of some important palace doors in the garden also had to be written by Emperor Kangxi.

Even though Emperor Kangxi always cherished pen and ink and didn't give many blessings, adding all these blessings to one place is a lot.

Although they were only busy with official duties, they had to give banquets and follow the rules on the New Year's Day. Yu Guan arranged the arrangements and Emperor Kangxi supported them. The two were so busy that they didn't even have time to lie down together and talk.

After the banquet, Emperor Kangxi felt that he was still drunk from the previous day. The next day, he had to sacrifice the stove again. There were many rules on this day and he had to work hard for the imperial concubine.

When offering sacrifices, officials from the Ministry of Rites first invited Emperor Kangxi and Tong Jia to go to the Buddha, hold incense in front of the God and Lord Kitchen, and salute them.

Already.

Following this rule, Liang Jiugong set up a drum board on the kang. Tong Jia's family arrived first. When Emperor Kangxi arrived, he sat on the kang, played the drum board himself, and sang "Visiting the Worthy" to pray to the Jade Emperor to send virtuous ministers to earth.

To assist in government affairs.

The deacons and officials were waiting to listen, burning money and food. The ministers of various clans, the female relatives in the harem, and the elder brothers and princesses listened quietly.

At the end of the year, this is the only time I can hear Emperor Kangxi show off his singing voice.

Emperor Kangxi's singing was not very good. It wasn't that the timbre was bad, but it was probably a little off-key. Yuqian had been listening to it for several years and still didn't know what tune Emperor Kangxi used. It seemed to be a little different every year.

Although Emperor Kangxi was the only one singing and accompanying himself, the drum beat loudly, and Emperor Kangxi's voice was also deep and muffled. Sitting cross-legged on the kang, wearing gorgeous auspicious clothes, he was quite imposing.

After Emperor Kangxi finished singing, Yu Yan raised her eyes and glanced at him. She saw Emperor Kangxi slowly exhaling. Yu Yan couldn't help but smile, only to realize that this was not an easy time for Emperor Kangxi.

thing.

Finally, the statue of the Kitchen God was burned, and the flying smoke symbolized "the Kitchen God's ascension to heaven." Emperor Kangxi, the imperial concubine and everyone knelt down to wait for the fire to burn out, and then returned to their respective residences. When it got dark, all the princes and ministers who were on duty that day also had a holiday, so that they could

They went home to worship the stove.

At the end of the day, it was at this time that everyone could breathe a sigh of relief. Emperor Kangxi changed out of his auspicious clothes and headed to Ruizhuyuan.

Before entering the courtyard, Emperor Kangxi heard the laughter of the children in the courtyard. He quickly walked in and took a look. The entire courtyard was brightly lit with colorful lanterns hanging. It seemed as if the Lantern Festival had passed ahead of schedule.

The fourth elder brother and the sixth elder brother stood far away on the east and west ends, coaxing Zhao Ning in the middle to make a choice.

The fourth elder brother held Zhao Ning's favorite fruit sticks in his hand, and the sixth elder brother held Zhao Ning's favorite toy in his hand. The two elder brothers called Zhao Ning's name repeatedly, which made Xiao Zhao Ning very confused.

, I don’t know whether she jumped into the arms of the fourth brother or the sixth brother first. Later, the little girl gnawed her fingers and simply turned her head and stumbled towards her mother-in-law.

Thinking that E Niang would reach out and hold her in her arms, E Niang's words were the most effective. With one command, no matter if it was the fourth brother or the sixth brother, she had to bring the ones she liked to her. There was no need to worry about anything.

, but who knew that Zhaoning had already grabbed E Niang's hand and didn't see E Niang hugging her.

When I looked up, I saw that my mother was sitting on a chair, taking a nap with the stove in her arms.

"Eh,,,,"

Zhao Ning could only scream like this, but before she could finish her words, someone suddenly picked her up from behind, and a pair of big hands gently covered her small mouth. Zhao Ning hurriedly turned around with her big eyes wide open.

I went to take a look, and when I saw the person clearly, he immediately curled up his eyebrows and smiled.

It’s Amma here!

Emperor Kangxi shushed the child, fearing to disturb Yu Lian's sleep. However, Yu Lian was really tired, otherwise she would not have been able to fall asleep while sitting outside on such a cold day watching the children playing noisily.

Emperor Kangxi didn't know when he took her to the inner room where Yu Lian was lying. He only woke up thirsty in the middle of the night and asked for tea and groped around before he realized that there was someone else on the bed. Yu Lian was so frightened that he woke up. After a closer look, he found out who it was.
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