Compete for the Song Dynasty

Seeing that it was New Year's Eve, this Song Dynasty New Year's Eve was actually a New Year's gift between relatives and friends before the Spring Festival, and the gifts received in Wang's mansion were actually filled with gifts for one or two rooms.Wang Pang was very busy, but fortunately, he also had Yuexia to help.Shen Kuo delivered the medicine as promised, and the wound on Yuexia's face healed up in a few days.

On the contrary, Wang Pang was even happier that there was no more jade under the moon. Although sometimes there were some things that needed to be explained, the relationship between the two had added some interest, and Wang Pang also seemed to feel that they were always being slapped by others. It may not be a comfortable thing to see through.For example, he didn't dare to look at beautiful women before, but now he peeps at them occasionally, and Yuexia doesn't know.Men, who doesn't have a little lust in their hearts?

This is Wang Pang's first New Year in the Song Dynasty. Needless to say, it's fresh. It's not yet New Year's Eve. Inside and outside Chaotianmen, there is a auction of brocade costumes and new calendars. Picking thread flowers, spring posts, Taosheng and the like, which are sold in the market and above, are all items for the Song Dynasty.

Now the New Year’s Eve is just around the corner; paper horses are printed with Zhongkui, Caima, Huihuima, etc. to give to customers;

Taoist priests and Taoist temples gave the benefactors home with fairy soup and so on.Physicians also give Tusu bags to form four goldfishes with five-color threads, concentric knots or Pepsi knots, and give them to customers with various decoctions.People hang it on their foreheads to ward off evil spirits, and they buy spring banners made of tin in the market, and Pepsi Jihuer, (I guess they are couplets, hanging money and the like) are hung on the door for New Year's Day, to celebrate the new year. Auspicious year. [

On the street and in front of the shops, there are endless calls to sell herb and jujube, and there are also people selling explosive sticks and fireworks.

Wang Pang watched everyone finish their work, cleaning the inside and outside of the house, posting door gods, hanging peach charms, and buying new year's goods as much as possible, as well as buying new clothes for women and children. Wang Pang's money was wasted like running water.

Setting off firecrackers and lighting candles on New Year's Eve were very popular in the Song Dynasty. At night, the lights of incense candles and large braziers glowed red, and the sound of firecrackers was loud all night long.

There is also one of the most important activities on New Year's Eve: the ceremony of expelling the plague ghosts is held in the palace, and the imperial city marriage officials are used, the accompanying guards wear masks, wear embroidered and painted clothes, and hold golden guns and dragon flags. An official of the Division) Meng Jingchu, a burly figure, wearing a full set of gold-plated copper armor, pretending to be a general.The two generals who use the town hall also wear the stomach and pretend to be the door god.Nan Hetan, a member of the Jiaofang, is ugly, burly and obese, pretending to be a judge.There are also more than a thousand people pretending to be Zhong Kui and his younger sister, and the god of the earth and the kitchen god.

Imperial City Division Zhu Banzhi (soldiers accompanying the driver), wearing a mask, wearing embroidered and painted variegated clothes, holding a golden gun, silver halberd, painted wooden sword, five-color dragon and phoenix, and five-color flags. , Judge, Zhongkui, Liuding, Liujia, Shenbing, Wufang ghost messenger, Zaojun, land, portal, Shenwei and other gods.Drive away the evil spirits in self-restraint, go out of Nanxun Gate and turn to Longwan, which is called "burying evil spirits".It was night, and the firecrackers in the forbidden mountain shouted, and the sound was heard outside.

New Year's Day, also known as the first day of the year, is the most important festival of the year, which is what modern people call New Year's Day.

Kaifeng Mansion releases Guanpu (Guanpu: gambling games, betting with money, throwing property) for three days.The colorful shed is laid out with crowns, combs, jewels, heads, clothes, flowers, collars, boots and shoes, etc. There are dance halls and song halls in between, with cars and horses galloping.

In the evening, the women of the noble family watched and went in to watch. The women of the noble family watched the gambling, and the king was overwhelmed to see the scenery.

All the common people and common people congratulate each other, even if the common people are poor, they must have new and clean clothes, and they will pay each other with wine.Regardless of rich or poor, playing with Sanskrit characters in Lingong is endless.Every family feasted and laughed loudly.

It was like this outside, and the Wang's mansion was even more lively. There were lanterns and festoons hanging in the mansion, and there was an endless stream of people who came to visit.

The king of the first day of the junior high school is going to Wang Anshi's mansion, and then he is going to Mr. Bao's mansion. The two ends are already very busy. On weekdays, the king of the second day of the junior high school will hold a banquet next to the king of the second day. several.

Wang Pang's romances are all friends who are slightly older or about the same age as Wang Pang, some are together on weekdays, Yuan Ze, Zhong Zhen, and Wang Anshi's disciples like Li Gefei and others, and the Chrysanthemum Banquet. The heirs of other officials who met at the same table are like Fan Chun.There are also small officials who have just mixed into the court, such as Su Shi, Su Zhe, Zeng Bu, and Yue Li.

A dozen or so brothers in their 20s were having a good time drinking and chatting.Those elders also sang songs every night, and only took care of them when they were drinking and socializing.

These people also like this, and they avoid visiting each other again, and they made an agreement with each other years ago, so they can get together in this place and live in Wang's new house by the way.

Then someone asked that this new house should also have a name, so you talked about it one by one. Some suggested naming it after Wang Pang's name, some suggested naming it after Wang Pang's official position as a repairman, and others. Some say that it is called "Xiangbing" House.

Yuan Ze said: "The name of this huge mansion "Ruofu" is not appropriate."

Zeng Bu, Su Shi, and Li Gefei objected to calling it "Xiangbing" and thought it was not good enough.

Everyone, you say what you said, the land bought in Jincheng County, there is Tangjia Village, which can be regarded as a place name, and it is easy to find it. This time, let Yin Shijie and his two go back to get a mansion, which is called "Jinxiang Mansion" "The king has already thought about it.

Wang thought that there was also a "Longhu Villa" in Chenzhou. After finding Yuexia, Wang Bang wanted to change the name of "Longhu Villa" to "Yuexia Villa", but Yuexia was jealous that it was his father's old place, and the name change was rejected. Put it aside. [

As for this place, at any rate, there should be a name of the prefecture, and it will be convenient for people to find it if it is used as a name post.He thought that since this mansion was to recover the land under the moon, it would be better to use the name of his mentor, and remembered that Di Qing was called "General Mian Nie", so he said "Mian Nie".

Li Gefei was far away from where he was doing it, so he might not have heard clearly, so he asked, "What? Meyer?"

It was precisely because he was not afraid of the dumb talking, but afraid of the interruption of the deaf. When he said this, everyone looked at the king, not knowing how they came out of the Gomeyer mansion.

Wang Pang laughed loudly, "Meyer, it just so happens that the first pot of gold that I made from making fragrant cakes was related to coal. From now on, everyone in the world can call me Mr. Meyer."

Everyone congratulates the mansion on the name of "Mayer Mansion"

But Su Shi wanted to say that he would be fined. He raised his wine glass and said, "Today I will punish you for drinking like a good brother."

Everyone asked why he was punished for drinking: "Su Shi said, have you ever seen him laughing?"

Wang Pang was indeed smiling, this Meyer, whose name is long, no matter young or old, they have to call him Master Mei.Seeing Su Shi say this, Wang Pang said with a smile, the name of this mansion is called by outsiders, how can anyone call it by their own, right?

All joking aside, the name of "Mayer's Mansion" has been settled.However, Wang Pang's name has a deeper meaning.Think about it, more than 700 years later, there was once a person who created the Rothschild family known as the "Sixth Empire" in Europe.Isn't it Meyer Rothschild?

Everyone was chatting and laughing, Lu Shenyan ran in and asked Wang Bang to go to the front hall to receive the order, everyone didn't know what was going on, what was the order of the second emperor on this new year's day.

Wang Pang hurriedly changed his clothes to receive the order, and when he came back, everyone hurriedly asked.Wang Pang said that the emperor has a decree, and Wang Pang Xuan will go to Nanyuyuan tomorrow.

Fan Chunchun said: "Good thing, Brother Ruo is going to receive the reward again."

Wang Pang hurriedly asked, where did this come from?

Fan Chunchun said: "Yesterday was the New Year's Day meeting. Hundreds of officials gathered at the court and envoys from various countries congratulated them. Tomorrow, the envoys from the Liao Kingdom will shoot arrows in the Nanyu Garden. The Song Dynasty will select military officials who are good at archery to accompany them. If the accompanying archer wins and returns There is a reward."

When Wang Pang heard it, it was an archery competition tomorrow, and he hadn't practiced archery for a long time, not to mention archery, he hadn't practiced martial arts for a long time, if he lost, it would be embarrassing

Na Fan Chunchun said again: "That year at the Chrysanthemum Banquet, we saw with our own eyes that Brother Ruo was superb at archery."

The more he boasted about the king, the more confused he became. He thought that even though he hadn't received any jade from Di Qing at that time, since he threw the jade into the dry well outside the Privet Temple, something seemed missing.He beckoned to Lu Shenyan who was behind him, and whispered a few words.Xiao Lu responded and went out to do what Wang Pang had asked him to do.

Turning around, I heard Su Che say, "Do you know where these foreign envoys live?"

During the period, some knew and some didn’t. For example, Wang Pang didn’t know. Wang Pang asked, “Ziyou (Su Zhe Ziyou) tell me.”

Su Zhe said: "The envoys of the Liao lived in the Duting post, the Western Xia lived in the west post of the Duting, the envoys of Goryeo lived in Tongwenguan, Anzhou Lane outside the Liangmen, the envoys of Huihe and Khotan, the envoys of Jiaozhi lived in the Libinyuan, and the envoys of various countries lived in the Libinyuan. Zhanyun Hall or Huaiyuan Station.”

Everyone listened to him, Wang Pang seemed to be missing something, and suddenly Li Gefei asked, "Why didn't the Japanese slaves come to worship?"

When he said this, everyone noticed that Fan Chunchun said: "This year, the Japanese envoys came, and I don't know why they didn't come to the court to celebrate the New Year."

Wang Pang said: "The Japanese slaves in the land of Maru, can they go against the sky?" Everyone was drinking, talking and laughing before they dispersed.

After the banquet was over, Wang Pang went back to his room and asked Lu Shenyan to come in.Wang Pang asked him if he found it?It turned out that Lu Shenyan was going to retrieve the jade in the dry well.

Lu Shenyan said: "I found it, but it was broken into two halves, but there are still some things I put in the son's study for the time being, so you should go and have a look."

Seeing Lu Shenyan's strange expression, Wang Pang came to the study with him after half a piece of jade was knotted, and three or four parcels were distributed on the table in the study.It doesn't look old.The brocade used as the wrapping was still brand new.Apparently someone put it in there on purpose.

Open the package, which contains soft gold and silver, and some porcelain.This is so strange.

Wang Pang asked Lu Shenyan if anyone else saw him, and Lu Shenyan said that he only brought Liu Qi there.Liu Qi is a child, only ** years old, but he is extremely shrewd. It is the child from Chenzhou brought by Zhang Yi.This time Zhang Yi came to Beijing with him.Thinking that Yuan Ze wanted a book boy, Wang Pang asked Zhang Yi to keep the child.But the little guy is smart, he is not willing to send it out yet, and follows Lu Shenyan around every day.

Wang Pang told him not to say anything about it for the time being.Ordering Lu Shenyan to put away the things, he thought about bringing them to Kaifeng mansion for half a day and handing them over to Mr. Bao to decide, thinking that it would be all right if Brother He Libo was here.You can check around there secretly.