Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 86 New Year's Eve
The last day of the first year of Wude is also New Year's Eve in the traditional sense.According to the tradition, the imperial court was suspended six days ago, and the emperor Li Yuan ordered that everyone go home to celebrate the New Year.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the procedures for celebrating the New Year were somewhat similar to those of later generations, with vigils on New Year's Eve and visits to relatives on Yuanzheng Day.However, there is no fixed order of visits at this time. Usually, relatives and neighbors walk around each other to have fun.

Because of Li Yuan's previous order, the prince who founded the mansion does not have to go to the palace to watch the new year together, so Li Zhiyun can also stay in the mansion to spend the first New Year with his wife.

However, the procedures that should be followed are indispensable.

Some rules seemed quite ridiculous to Li Zhiyun. For example, Princess Chu ordered the servants early in the morning on New Year's Eve that the garbage on New Year's Eve and Yuanzheng two days was not allowed to be thrown out, saying that this would cause loss of family property.Also, Princess Chu buried some unworn shoes in the yard with her own hands, saying that in this way, the heirs of the palace will become high officials in the future.That is, the so-called son of Yinshou.

Li Zhiyun didn't believe this, but he found it very interesting to see Princess Chu's serious expression.

"My husband, please don't make trouble. If there is nothing wrong, you might as well take my concubine's place to see how the grand Nuo is doing." Seeing her husband clumsily breaking the colorful banner, Goddess Yang said helplessly.

Today she was wearing a water-blue dress with a big cloak on top, jade hairpins on her head, and the jade rings under her ears were shining even brighter. She had delicate red lips and a plain face like jade.

As expected of my sixteen-beautiful little wife, she looks good in everything she wears.

"Uncle Zhao is watching the grand Nuo, so it's fine."

"Then how about asking your husband to go back to the study to read? Didn't Father ask you to read more?"

Concubine Chu disliked him a little bit, she didn't care if she didn't do anything, and she also liked to comment and ask some weird questions.

For example, why don't colorful flags use the shape of carp?

How does she know this.

"New Year's Eve, lady, do you let your husband read books on New Year's Eve?"

Princess Chu also found it funny, she pursed her red lips, and said, "Then husband just watch, don't interfere, don't ask too many questions."

"That's too bad, I'll help you."

She was helpless, and could only say: "Then help me pass the things."

"Good good."

Yu'er, Huan'er, Huaiyang, the three daughters all laughed secretly when they saw King Chu's obedience.

Goddess Yang is very skillful, and Li Zhiyun's handicraft in knotting colorful banners is a few blocks away. Without Li Zhiyun's help, she made the colorful banners smoothly.

"Li Zhen, once the waiting time is over, you will put up the colored flags." Princess Chu ordered.

"Yes."

Li Zhiyun asked a lot, "Is there any use?"

"I don't know." Princess Chu's face darkened, why didn't she realize that her husband was so curious before.

Subsequently, the Chu Palace held another grand Nuo ceremony.This is a ritual to exorcise the plague. The specific form of expression is that the children wear masks of evil spirits, and then the wizard "drives" them away, which means that the plague has been exorcised.

Well, it looks like a stage play to Li Zhiyun.

"Has the plague gone?" Li Zhiyun asked quietly in the princess' ear.

Concubine Chu felt very tired. How could this question be asked by a child, "Husband, I don't know."

After teasing with Goddess Yang for a while, the concierge came to report, and the people of Prince Qin's mansion were already waiting.

"Miss, the second sister-in-law and the others are here, and it's time for us to set off."

"Yes."

On New Year's Eve, we have to worship our ancestors.As a member of the royal family, Li Zhiyun naturally had to go to the Taimiao to burn incense.For this ancestor worship, almost all members of the clan in the capital were present.

In the past, Li Zhiyun complained about the chaos and complexity of the houses in the families of Webster, Dugu, and Dou, but today he found that the houses in the clan were also extremely chaotic.

There is no way, Li Hu is too capable to give birth, and he gave birth to eight sons!

Li Zhiyun once wondered if Li Hu wanted to create an 'Eight Pillar Kingdom'.

Think about it, how many sons Li Hu's eight sons can have, and how many great-grandchildren these grandsons can have.

When offering sacrifices to the ancestors, there was a huge swath of black people, and even the little kids who didn't even have full hair came over and kowtowed.

But Li Zhiyun found it very interesting, because he had never seen so many relatives gather together to worship the ancestors in later generations.

Although, the blood relationship of some brothers of the same generation has begun to alienate.

For example, the relationship between Li Zhiyun, Li Daoxuan and Li Daozong.Li Zhiyun is a descendant of Li Zong, Li Daoxuan is a descendant of Li Hui, and Li Daozong is a descendant of Li Zhang.In other words, the grandfathers of the three of them are brothers and their fathers are cousins, so they can only be regarded as 'cousin brothers'.

There is a saying that goes well, one generation is a relative, the second is a representative, and the third and fourth generations cannot leave.

This means that in ancient times, the cohesion between clans was strong, and for future generations, everyone would greet each other at most when they met.As for celebrating the new year together, tsk, I'm afraid it will be difficult.

After another two generations of their descendants, five servers will be released, and basically everyone will be strangers.

When the royal family worshiped their ancestors, other families also worshiped their ancestors one after another.

The members of the Dugu clan, who are also big families, gathered in the Dugu clan's ancestral hall, and Dugu Zhen was naturally the leader.

Li Hu was able to give birth, and Dugu Xin, a professional householder of the emperor's father-in-law, did not give up.

That's right, eight sons!
Dugu Zhen is the youngest one, and also the one who lived the longest.He survived several brothers to death, took over the position of head of the family from his nephew, and became the Duke of Zhao in the Tang Dynasty.

The clansmen of the Dugu clan are relatively scattered, some of them are in Luoyang, but not all of them are in Chang'an.

After the ancestor worship, Dugu Zhen called several Dugu disciples to the dark room.

Apart from Dugu Huai'en, Dugu Xiude, Dugu Sheng and Dugu Yanshou, the members of the Dugu clan present were also present.

"Wynn, how's the injury?" Dugu Zhen asked.

After Li Mi was wiped out, Dugu Huai'en managed to escape with his life.But when he escaped, he was injured by a arrow in his body, and was sent back to Chang'an by Sheng Yanshi.

"It's okay." Speaking of the injury, Dugu Wynn thought of the unbearable humiliation, which made his whole face darken.

Dugu Zhen naturally saw his changes, so he taught him a lesson: "A man can walk in the world, who can go smoothly? You have this difficulty, it is reasonable."

Dugu Huai'en refused to accept it and said: "Li Mi's wolf ambition, it's impossible for Li Yuan not to know, he is avenging the concealment last time!"

"Did Li Yuan ask you to go?" Dugu Zhen asked.

Dugu Huai'en was silent for a moment, it really wasn't Li Yuan who asked him to go.

Dugu Sheng, who is now the prisoner in the palace, knows some inside stories, and said: "No matter what, it is true that Li Yuan used Li's conspiracy to implicate Wynn this time."

Dugu Zhen asked: "Do you think Li Yuan's goal is Wynn?"

"What does Patriarch mean?" Dugu Yanshou asked.

Duguzhen didn't speak, just looked at them, the meaning was very clear, you all guess for me.

Everyone was silent for a while, and it was Dugu Sheng who thought it through first, whether he was imprisoned in the palace of the third rank, and his wisdom was a little bit higher than the other brothers.

"The Patriarch means that Li Yuan wants to do something to us?"

"what!"

Except for Dugu Zhen and Dugu Sheng, the others were all furious.

"How dare he!"

"Why didn't he dare?" Dugu Zhen asked back.

(End of this chapter)