Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 741 New Year (Part )
The royal family of the Song Dynasty would also hold family banquets on New Year's Day.

Among all the royal families in history, the royal family of the Song Dynasty was considered to be the most humane.

The royal family's family banquets, from the New Year's Day banquet in the first month, to the birthday banquet in March, the Qiqiao banquet in July, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in August, the Double Ninth Festival banquet in September, the opening banquet in October, the Winter Solstice banquet in November, and the New Year's Eve banquet in December...

Holding eight family banquets a year is quite frequent for a royal family.

This year's New Year's Eve family dinner was held in the Zongyang Palace because the Forbidden City was too crowded.

Even the palaces used for office work had to have several plaques in each palace, and they would be replaced according to the occasion. There was no space left for the royal family to hold family banquets.

Several palaces and gardens in Zongyang Palace, including Zaixin, Juyuan and Yuetai, were all turned into venues for family banquets.

The Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and other royal ladies were in the Yuetai Palace.

The emperor, princes, dukes and others were in Zaixin Palace.

The royal family is all in the Juyuan Palace.

Of course, they also visit each other to greet each other during the New Year, but this is just their main activity area.

After these two years, Zhao Ning'er has become more beautiful with brighter eyes and whiter teeth, and has begun to show a bit of the pretty temperament of a young girl.

Since her health improved, her complexion has been getting better and better, with rosy lips and white teeth, and she has become the apple of the eye of the Empress Dowager.

Zaixin Palace was where the emperor, princes and other male royal relatives gathered.

But the royal family of the Song Dynasty was in decline, and there were really few relatives left.

Apart from Zhao Yuan and Zhao Yu, and their respective sons, there were only a few princes from the lineage of Prince Pu.

Because only the line of Prince Pu was responsible for succession, the throne of his family was hereditary.

Prince Yongjia was also present. His favorite princess Tang Wan went to the Yuetai Palace to pay New Year's greetings to the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, and the Queen.

The official was in poor health, and even though his condition was kept strictly confidential, the outside world knew nothing about it.

But when these princes saw the emperor's pale and thin face today, they all realized that the emperor... might have a very serious illness.

Because he was not feeling well, Zhao Yuan only stayed for a short while and asked Zhao Yu, the only prince, to greet these royal princes on his behalf, while he retreated to the back hall to rest.

Not long after, a Taoist priest in green was brought into the place where Zhao Yuan was resting.

There was a table on the table, on which were four exquisite dishes and a pot of fine wine.

Zhao Yuan leaned lazily against the wall and sat lazily on one side. When he saw the Taoist priest in green clothes come in and waved his hand to let the eunuchs leave, he smiled slightly and said, "Royal brother, sit down."

Zhao Chen sat down silently across from the desk and looked at him deeply.

Zhao Yuan said: "My brother should naturally attend today's family dinner."

Zhao Chen still stared at Zhao Yuan.

Both of them are descendants of the Zhao family, but if it were not for the involvement of the throne, they would be like two children of a large family that had long since separated, and might never have any intersection.

Looking at Zhao Yuan's face, Zhao Chen frowned and said, "Are you not feeling well?"

Zhao Yuan smiled faintly and said, "Qian'er, Kai'er and Dun'er came to the Gansheng Palace to pray for me. Didn't my brother see it all?"

Zhao Chen was silent. He knew that the Taoist priests in the palaces and temples around him must be the government's spies.

No one can be completely defenseless against someone of his status.

Zhao Chen was silent for a long time before he slowly said, "Yes, but I didn't expect you to be so seriously ill."

He looked at Zhao Yuan, whose face was very thin.

Zhao Yuan did not answer this question. The person who hurt him was not Zhao Chen, nor was the person who made the assassination plan.

In the whole plan, Zhao Chen was just a pawn at the mercy of the Jin people.

However, Zhao Chen is happy to be this chess piece.

Moreover, without Zhao Chen, the Jin people would not have been able to formulate their subversion plan that day.

Zhao Yuan raised his cup to Zhao Chen and said, "Qian'er's calligraphy has improved greatly recently. This is all thanks to my brother."

Zhao Chen knew that the emperor was reminding him to just teach the prince calligraphy in his capacity as a Taoist priest in Zongyang Palace and not to do anything tricky.

In fact, he really didn't do anything tricky, not even saying a single inappropriate word.

However, after hearing these words which clearly contained a warning, he couldn't help but feel angry.

If the Jingkang Incident had not occurred, their positions would be reversed now.

Do not!
wrong!

It should be him who sits on the throne, and Zhao Yuan's family has long been a commoner because of the decline of titles from generation to generation, and will not have any intersection with him.

But Zhao Yuan was so arrogant at this moment and humiliated him so much!
You didn't kill me to show your kindness and your appreciation for family ties.

But you despise me so much!

For a moment, the veins on Zhao Chen's forehead tensed up.

However, he took a deep breath and suppressed the strong sense of humiliation and anger.

He had been the crown prince and also the regent, so he knew about the existence of the Baolong Palace of the Song Dynasty royal family.

They were not the only cousins ​​in the hall.

Among those fake Taoist priests around him, there might be people from Baolong Temple.

He couldn't do anything, even if he just wanted to vent his anger.

After a long time, Zhao Chen picked up the cup and drank the bitter wine.

……

The Dali Kingdom did not celebrate New Year's Day, they did not have the New Year festival.

However, as they headed south, building roads through mountains and repairing bridges over rivers, Yang Liangao and Dao Feifei felt as if it were New Year's Day.

When Dao Feifei was clear about her emotional belonging, all her thoughts and ideas were placed on Yang Yuan.

As she recalled her experiences with Yang Yuan, she always found his excellence that she had overlooked before.

The more she thought about it, the sweeter she felt.

This girl is somewhat love-minded.

Moreover, the feeling she had when she missed Yang Yuan was different from her previous feelings towards her cousin Yang Liangao.

Now this relationship has feedback, reaction, and results, and it is not just her wishful thinking.

Therefore, her heart became sweeter.

The sweetness and nourishment of love makes her radiant every day.

Yang Liangao was also very happy.

He has already set foot on the land of Dali Kingdom.

He was overjoyed when he thought that every inch of land he was walking on would soon be his.

As he walked through the mountains and rivers, he saw every bamboo house, every fence, and every citizen, and he thought to himself that they would soon become his subjects.

As a result, he became more and more excited.

The Dali Kingdom was a multi-ethnic and multi-tribal alliance imperial state, with administrative divisions of one capital, nine prefectures, four counties and thirty-six tribes. The Duan Emperor directly governed only the area around the capital Dali near Erhai Lake.

Among the nine prefectures under it, eight were controlled by the hereditary prime minister Gao family.

There is also one prefecture and four counties, each headed by the leader of the largest local tribe.

There are thirty-six tribes in the southern part of Dali Kingdom, and only a symbolic number of troops from Dali Kingdom are stationed there.

The leaders of the thirty-six tribes only paid tribute to the Dali Emperor from time to time, and that was all.

The Yang family clearly owned only one prefecture.

However, the Yang family is one of the only two special families in the Dali Kingdom.

The other one is the Duan family.

The Dali Kingdom was founded by the Duan family. Although the area directly under the Duan family's jurisdiction was small, he was the leader jointly supported by all the tribes in Dali.

With Dali's loose rule, such a family was needed to balance the interests of all parties and carry out unified management.

This family does not need to be the most powerful in order to be in the interests of all parties.

Therefore, although the territory directly under the Duan family is small, they can still become the leader.

The other family is the Yang family.

Through its huge influence in the Buddhist community, the Yang family has great potential power in this Buddhist country.

Each tribe has a large number of devout believers in its ruling area, who can be used by the Yang family.

This has always been the state of the Dali Kingdom.

On this day, their caravan arrived at the territory of the Qu tribe of Dali Kingdom.

The Qu tribe was in an area that was one of the eight prefectures directly governed by the Gao family and was controlled by the Gao family.

There is a very magnificent large temple called Puji Temple built in the tribal area, and the owner of the temple is Yang Liangao's uncle.

Since he was passing by here, Yang Liangao would naturally go to pay a visit.

Moreover, the leader of the Qu tribe, Wei Cangling, is also related to the Yang family and has always been a target of Yang Liangao's efforts to win over.

Yang Liangao explained to Han Qianchen that he wanted to rest here for two days, pay a visit to the leader of the Qu tribe, and go to Puji Temple to burn incense.

Han Qianchen was more than happy to do so, as it would make it easier for him to find out more about the geography, customs, and power distribution along the way.

Seeing that Han Qianchen agreed, Yang Liangao placed him and the Song Dynasty soldiers who escorted him back in the village at the foot of the mountain, and he took Dao Feifei up the mountain to meet the leader of the Qu tribe, Wei Cangling.

In fact, when she first returned to Dali, Dao Feifei was still paying attention to whether anyone was doing anything bad to her cousin Yang Liangao.

Although she had already noticed many things in her heart and had been reminded by Fan Qing, she at least didn't want her cousin to be someone who would do anything to achieve his goals, or even take advantage of her.

But what she had seen and heard along the way, coupled with the fact that Yang Liangao went up the mountain to visit Qu's tribe with ease and was not worried at all that someone would attack and kill him, was there anything that Dao Feifei didn't understand?
Following behind Yang Liangao and looking at Yang Liangao's back, Dao Feifei's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness.

If she was not really grateful for the result of Yang Liangao's plot against her, she would never let this shameless villain go.

Upon learning that Young Master Liangao of the Yang family was coming to visit, the people in the village immediately welcomed Yang Liangao and Dao Feifei in.

The residence of Wei Cangling, the leader of the Qu tribe, was a spacious bamboo building with a separate bamboo building in front of it, which was equivalent to the front yamen of the government office in the Central Plains.

Dao Feifei's family also has a complicated relationship with the Qu tribe.

Moreover, she only felt disgust when she saw Yang Liangao at this moment, so naturally she would not stick to him anymore.

Dao Feifei also knew that Yang Liangao's visit must be to win over Wei Cangling and gain his support.

Dao Feifei is now extremely tired of the great achievements that these men are busy with.

However, she forgot that now when she saw Yang Yuan busy processing official documents, something even more boring than talking to people like Yang Liangao, she would just watch with relish and never get tired of it.

She was standing there staring blankly, her heart feeling sweet.

Well... this amorous Baiyi girl is indeed a little love-minded.

"Cousin, you go see Chief Wei. I'll go see my aunt."

If we really talk about the relationship between the Dao family and the Wei family, we have to trace it back several layers.

But in the end, Wei Cangling's wife is Dao Feifei's aunt in terms of seniority.

Yang Liangao nodded and quickly went up to the bamboo building.

Dao Feifei walked around this bamboo building and went to another bamboo building where Chief Wei lived by the stream in the bamboo forest.

She had been here before, so she was very familiar with it.

Dao Feifei walked slowly, with bamboo leaves swaying above her head and a stream gurgling under her feet.

Walking lightly along the bamboo path, you will see stone scripture pillars hidden among the bamboo trees, covered with mottled moss.

Suddenly, Dao Feifei saw a person in the bamboo forest.

She sat cross-legged on the grass by the stream, with a moss-covered prayer pillar beside her.

She was barefoot, with her right leg raised, and she even put one of her feet on her left shoulder easily while sitting.

A slender white foot with a gold and silver anklet on the ankle.

At first glance, the snow-capped feet seem to be a feast for the eyes.

She held a lotus seal in each of her hands, one above and one below, at her sides.

When Dao Feifei saw it was her, she subconsciously curled her lips.

Why do I see her everywhere? She's so annoying!

Gao Shuyao was practicing the Mingfei Six Phases Divine Art using the Mingfei Wheel Seat Method in the bamboo forest when she suddenly noticed someone standing in front of her.

When she opened her eyes, she saw a little cutie frowning and looking at her with disdain.

Gao Shuyao couldn't help but smile and greeted her, "Xiao Daodao, long time no see."

Hate it, so hate it.

Dao Feifei frowned even more tightly.

She is seventeen and Gao Shuyao is sixteen, so who should I call Xiao Daodao?
Dao Feifei snorted coldly, picked up her skirt and was about to leave.

Gao Shuyao smiled helplessly, slid her slender jade feet from her shoulders, loosened the lotus seal she was holding, and stood up gracefully like a jade Guanyin emerging from water.

"Weren't we good friends when we were kids? I've already told you that I'm not interested in your cousin Lian Gao. Why are you so angry with me?"

Dao Feifei took two steps and suddenly stopped.

Yes, I hated her because I found out that my cousin Lian Gao liked her.

But now I don’t like cousin Lian Gao anymore, so why should I still hate her?

It's just a habit.

Thinking of this, Dao Feifei's inexplicable resentment suddenly disappeared.

I used to hate her no matter how I looked at her, but after I stopped taking that cousin seriously, when I saw her again, it seemed... I couldn't hate her anymore.

So, Dao Feifei turned her face away, coughed lightly, and raised her chin proudly: "Well, I'm unilaterally informing you now that I don't hate you anymore."

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