Xingdeok Palace, in the courtyard of the eighth prince.
Zhao Yao, Tong Xi, and Yu Hai build snowmen together. The Eighth Prince held a hot water bottle in his hands and stood on the porch watching the three of them building a snowman.
They used two stones to make the snowman's eyes, a piece of wood to make the nose, and two branches to make the snowman's hands.
Zhao Yao felt that the snowman was missing something, so he asked Yu Hai to get a rag.
Yu Hai didn't know why, but he still went to get a rag.
"Your Highness, what do you want with this rag?"
"You'll know soon." Zhao Yao took the rag and wrapped it around the snowman's neck, "This is right... No, there is still one more hat left. Yu Hai, please get another hat."
"Your Highness, what kind of hat is it?"
"Do you have a straw hat?"
"Straw Hat, I have to look for that slave."
The eighth prince standing in the corridor saw Zhao Yao's little face turned red from the cold, and his little nose was also turned red from the cold. He hurriedly waved to Zhao Yao: "Tenth brother, come here."
Zhao Yao sniffed coldly. As he ran towards the Eighth Prince, he asked, "Brother, what's wrong?"
The Eighth Prince picked up the hot water bottle and put it on Zhao Yao's face. He said with some distress: "Look, your face is red from the cold. Is it very cold?"
"It's not cold." Zhao Yao said, reaching out to hold the eighth prince's hands, "Look, my hands are warm."
"It's still snowing today, so you'd better not play anymore."
"Bago, I'm not cold." Zhao Yao returned the hot water bottle to the eighth prince, "Bago, you'd better go back to the house, don't freeze."
"Your Highness, your servant has found the straw hat." Yu Hai walked over with the straw hat.
Zhao Yao said: "Put it on the snowman."
"Okay." After Yu Hai put the straw hat on the snowman's head, he found that the snowman instantly became very cute.
"Doesn't it look cute after putting on the hat and scarf?" Zhao Yao reached out and patted the snowman's big belly and said with a smile, "This is the correct way to build a snowman."
Zhao Yao stood next to the snowman, put his arm around the snowman's shoulders, and said with a smile to the eighth prince standing in the corridor: "Brother, please draw me and the snowman."
The Eighth Prince raised the corners of his mouth, his brows filled with gentleness: "Okay, I'll draw it."
Zhao Yao suddenly squatted down, rolled a snowball, and then threw it towards Tongxi.
Tongxi, who was suddenly hit, was a little confused: "Your Highness?"
"Tongxi, Yu Hai, let's have a snowball fight." Last winter, Zhao Yao had been lying in bed because of illness. I haven't been out all winter. This winter, he is active and active, and of course he has to make up for all the things he didn't do last winter, such as building snowmen and having snowball fights.
"Your Highness, please show mercy."
The Eighth Prince stood in the corridor, watching Zhao Yao and the three of them having a snowball fight with amusement.
Tong Xi and Yu Hai didn't dare to hit Zhao Yao, so they showed mercy. However, Zhao Yao showed no mercy to them, and they were hit with snow all over their faces by Zhao Yao.
After fighting for a while, my head and body were covered with snow. The eighth prince was afraid that Zhao Yao would catch a cold, so he hurriedly asked Zhao Yao to come in and asked Yu Hai to prepare hot water.
Zhao Yao took a hot bath comfortably and then drank a bowl of ginger soup with a wrinkled face.
In the eighth prince's study, Zhao Yao and the eighth prince sat in front of the brazier to warm themselves up.
Rice cakes and chestnuts were roasting beside the brazier. From time to time I heard the sound of chestnuts exploding.
Yu Hai brought milk tea and snacks.
While drinking tea and milk tea, Zhao Yao ate snacks and chestnuts and let out a comfortable sigh: "This is how people live."
The Eighth Prince was amused by Zhao Yao's exclamation, and raised his hand to gently tap Zhao Yao's little head.
"Why, the life you lived before was not a human life."
"That's right, the days that people don't study are the days that people live."
With a bang, another chestnut exploded. Zhao Yao hurriedly picked it up, peeled the chestnut shell, and immediately handed the chestnut to the eighth prince's hand.
"The freshly roasted chestnuts are fragrant, sweet and delicious. Eat them quickly, myna."
The eighth prince was not polite, took the chestnut and stuffed it into his mouth.
It's snowing outside and the wind is blowing. There was a fire in the house and it was warm.
Zhao Yao picked up the freshly baked rice cake and ate it. He had just taken two bites when he screamed.
The eighth prince was startled when he saw blood suddenly flowing from Zhao Yao's mouth. He asked nervously, "Tenth brother, what's wrong with you?" Then he hurriedly said to Yu Hai, "Call the imperial doctor."
Zhao Yao grabbed the eighth prince and shook his head at him: "No need to call the imperial doctor." After saying that, he spit out the rice cake in his mouth along with his teeth. He cried and said, "Myna, my tooth has fallen out."
The Eighth Prince was frightened by Zhao Yao's mouth full of blood. He didn't expect that he had lost a tooth. The heart that was so frightened that it was in my throat just now can safely fall back to where it was.
"It's okay, I lost my teeth when I was your age."
At this time, Yu Hai brought some water and asked Zhao Yao to rinse his mouth.
After rinsing for a long time, the blood in my mouth was finally gone.
The Eighth Prince put Zhao Yao's fallen tooth in and cleaned it, then put it in a small box and immediately put it under his bed.
"The upper teeth should be placed under the bed, and the lower teeth should be thrown on the roof."
Tong Xi held the mirror, and Zhao Yao looked at the mirror and saw that there was a tooth missing next to his front teeth. He wrinkled his little nose and said with an unhappy face: "It's so ugly."
"It's okay, the teeth will grow back soon if they fall out." The eighth prince comforted Zhao Yao in a warm voice.
"How long will it take for it to grow back?" Zhao Yao said with a look of horror on his face, "Myna, am I going to lose my teeth again?"
"Yes, a lot more will fall out." Seeing the frightened look on Zhao Yao's little face, the Eighth Prince reached out and patted his shoulder gently, comforting him and saying, "Everyone loses their teeth when they are young."
"Your Highness, don't be afraid, your new teeth will grow out soon."
The eighth prince warned Zhao Yao: "Don't stick out your tongue to lick the place where the tooth was lost, otherwise the new tooth will be crooked."
When Zhao Yao heard this, he was so scared that he quickly covered his mouth.
"Tenth brother, you don't want to grow a mouth full of crooked teeth, right?" The Eighth Prince deliberately frightened Zhao Yao, "You will be very ugly."
Zhao Yao shook his head after hearing this: "No, I will never lick."
The eighth prince picked up the newly baked rice cake and asked Zhao Yao deliberately: "Do you want to eat rice cake again?"
Zhao Yao shook his head quickly: "I won't eat it, and I won't eat it again." He just lost a tooth after eating rice cake, and he didn't want to see rice cake anymore for the time being.
The Eighth Prince asked with concern: "Does it hurt?"
Zhao Yao shook his head and said, "It hurt a little when I dropped it just now, but it doesn't hurt anymore."
"Eat less snacks from now on." The Eighth Prince said, "Eating too much sugar is bad for your teeth."
"Ah, can't we have some snacks?" Zhao Yao suddenly felt hopeless, with a look of grievance on his face.
"You can eat it, but you can't eat too much." The Eighth Prince said, "You will keep losing your teeth from now on, so you have to be careful."
"Myna, why did you lose your teeth?"
"Because you need new teeth. Everyone does it. You are not alone, so don't be afraid." The eighth prince was also frightened when he lost his teeth for the first time as a child. At that time, he thought he was going to die. He hid alone, cried secretly, and then met Liang Zhaoyi.
At that time, Liang Zhaoyi saw that the eighth prince was crying very sadly, and she hurriedly asked him what happened. The Eighth Prince choked and said that he was vomiting blood and was going to die.
Liang Zhaoyi was frightened by the eighth prince's words and hurriedly wanted to call the imperial doctor for him. Only then did she realize that the eighth prince was missing a few teeth, and quickly asked him if he had lost his teeth.
The eighth prince cried and said that he had lost several teeth, and asked Liang Zhaoyi if he was crying to death.
Liang Zhaoyi was pregnant at that time, squatting in front of the eighth prince with a big belly, patting his arm gently, and comforting him gently, saying that children will lose their teeth at this age, and they will lose a lot, and asked him not to I'm afraid because it will grow back again.
[The upper teeth were thrown under the bed, and the lower teeth were thrown on the roof. 】This sentence was told by Liang Zhaoyi to the Eighth Prince.
Zhao Yao did not expect that the eighth prince knew that his mother-in-law had told him about the tooth loss.
In addition to telling the Eighth Prince about losing his teeth, Liang Zhaoyi also told him many other things.
These things were originally told to the Eighth Prince by his mother and concubine, but her mother and concubine disappeared when the Eighth Prince was three or four years old.
Zhao Yao did not stay with the Eighth Prince for long. He sat with the Eighth Prince for a while and then returned to Kunde Hall.
As soon as he returned to Kunde Hall, Zhao Yao cried to Liang Zhaoyi that his tooth had fallen out.
After hearing this, Liang Zhaoyi felt happy for her son. She told Zhao Yao that losing teeth meant that he was growing up, which was a good thing.
After hearing what Liang Zhaoyi said, Zhao Yao no longer rejected the issue of tooth loss.
The emperor soon found out about Zhao Yao's tooth loss. The emperor also specially called Zhao Yao to the imperial study room to see how many teeth he had lost.
When the emperor saw that Zhao Yao was missing a tooth next to his front teeth, he laughed very loudly and said he was disgustingly ugly. Angry, Zhao Yao opened his mouth and bit his face, resulting in a tooth being bitten off. His own mouth was filled with blood, and the emperor's face was covered with blood.
This time it was the front teeth that were bitten off, which made it even uglier.
The emperor laughed very loudly, and Zhao Yao was so angry that he wanted to bite him to death, but he had lost his teeth just now, so he did not dare to bite the emperor again.
The day after the biting emperor lost one of his front teeth, Zhao Yao lost another front tooth.
It's really ugly without front teeth.
The good mood I felt because I didn't have to study suddenly disappeared.
Zhao Yao decided that he would talk less until his new teeth grew out. However, the fourth prince, eighth prince, and the emperor became particularly fond of teasing him and making him laugh.
The Fifth Prince and the Ninth Prince saw Zhao Yao missing two front teeth and laughed at him unkindly.
Even He Lianfang laughed at him.
Zhao Yao was numbed by the laughter, so he simply broke the jar and ignored it.
In Zhao Yao's depression, New Year's Eve arrived.
There are many rules for celebrating the New Year in the palace. Last year, Zhao Yao was ill and did not participate in the palace's New Year's celebrations.
On New Year's Eve, when the sky was slightly bright, Zhao Yao was woken up by Tongxi. After freshening up, Zhao Yao followed Liang Zhaoyi to Chonghua Palace to offer sacrifices.
On weekdays, except for the queen who can go to Chonghua Palace to worship, other concubines are not allowed to go. Only on the Chinese New Year day, other concubines can have the honor to come to Chonghua Palace to worship.
The emperor led his sons and concubines to worship the late emperor, the late queen mother, and their ancestors.
After the sacrifice, the emperor took his sons to the main hall of Chengguang Hall. The ministers were already waiting in the main hall.
Every New Year's Eve luncheon, the emperor would eat with his sons and ministers. The New Year's Eve dinner is the family banquet of the emperor's family.
Although there is no need to go to court this morning, the ministers still have to report to the emperor what happened last year, such as last year's harvest, last year's population changes, last year's land changes, etc. .
It was not the first time that Zhao Yao came to the main hall of Chengguang Hall, but this was his first time to "go to court". Although I am not in Shang Dynasty now, I feel like I am in Shang Dynasty.
The first time I went to court I felt very majestic. It was obviously the same place, but the feeling was different.
He felt like something was pressing on his shoulders while standing in this team, and he couldn't help but feel nervous.
Those who usually stand here to attend morning court have the heavy responsibility of the common people on their shoulders. Every word they say here is related to the lives of the people, and it can even be said to be related to the life and death of the people.
Zhao Yao glanced at the ministers on the side and thought in his heart: There are so many ministers, how many of them really care about the lives of the people. Most of the ministers are standing here for their own glory.
Not every minister reported to the emperor what happened throughout the past year, but the most important ministers reported.
Zhao Yao observed the ministers curiously while listening to their reports.
Zheng Rang noticed Zhao Yao's gaze and smiled slightly at him. Zhao Yao immediately gave him a smile back.
The emperor sat on the dragon chair, listening to the reports of the ministers and staring down. Seeing his youngest son winking at the ministers, he laughed and cursed in his heart, "This brat is not honest at all in the main hall of Chengguang Hall."
The ministers reported all morning and then went to Qionglin Garden for lunch at noon.
Before the luncheon started, the emperor first said something, which was also a summary of the entire last year. He then praised the performance of the ministers in the past year, and then criticized the ministers for what they did not do well last year. There were several The minister was called upon to teach him a lesson, and finally expressed his expectations for next year.
After the emperor finished speaking, the luncheon officially began.
His Royal Highness was the first to stand up and toast the emperor. When toasting, first wish the emperor good health, and then wish the emperor better and better.
After His Highness the Crown Prince finished toasting, it was the other princes' turn to toast.
After the princes toasted, it was the ministers' turn to toast.
Zhao Yao listened to the ministers' toasts and exclaimed in his heart: These ministers are still good at flattering, and each one of them blew his father to the sky. My father is really thick-skinned. Hearing the explicit compliments of these ministers, he was not shy at all.
After the ministers toasted to the emperor, they began to toast to the princes.
When the ministers who supported the prince toasted to his highness, they almost praised him to the sky. They said that the prince was the most merciful prince in the world. Even the famous Prince Wenhui of the previous dynasty was not as good as his highness.
His Highness the Crown Prince was obviously not as thick-skinned as the Emperor. After hearing the compliments from the ministers, his face turned red.
When the ministers who supported King Dai toasted to His Highness, they were even louder than the ministers who supported His Highness the Crown Prince. They praised His Highness Dai Wang as the greatest war god in the Zhou Dynasty, and even said that His Highness Dai Wang was the reincarnation of the god of war in the sky.
Today is New Year's Eve. You can only say good or auspicious words, but not bad words, so the ministers try their best to say good things.
Zhao Yao couldn't listen anymore and sighed in his heart: This is not a Chinese New Year, this is a bragging convention.
The fourth prince picked up a piece of beef and found that there were bones in it. He carefully picked out the bones with chopsticks, and then put the beef into Zhao Yao's bowl.
"Thank you, fourth brother." Zhao Yao grinned at the fourth prince, showing his teeth with several holes. During this time, he lost both his upper and lower front teeth.
The fourth prince suppressed his laughter and warned Zhao Yao in a gentle voice: "Be careful and eat slowly."
"Fourth brother, it's okay. I have experience now." During this period of time, Zhao Yao has become accustomed to the sudden loss of teeth while eating.
There was a smile in the eyes of the fourth prince: "I was worried that you would eat the tooth. Didn't you almost swallow the tooth last time?" Last time, Zhao Yao and the fourth prince had dinner together and accidentally ate a tooth. He almost bit his teeth without paying attention.
Zhao Yao raised his head from the bowl and looked at the fourth prince dissatisfied: "Fourth brother, can you not mention such a disappointing thing, which will affect your appetite?"
"Okay, okay, no more talking, you eat."
After Zhao Yao finished eating the beef in the bowl, there was more shredded pork in the bowl. The eighth prince used chopsticks to tear a piece of beef into strips, so that Zhao Yao could eat it effortlessly.
"Thank you, Brother Bah." Zhao Yao gave the Eighth Prince a smile that was brighter than the sunshine today.
The fourth prince and the eighth prince not only ignored each other, but did not even look at each other. However, the two of them had a tacit understanding and continued to serve Zhao Yao with vegetables, and for each dish, they would carefully remove the bones or cut the meat into pieces. Break into small pieces or strips.
At the New Year's Eve lunch, Zhao Yao was very satisfied with the meal under the care of his two brothers. Thanks to the careful care of his two brothers, he didn't eat his teeth during lunch.
During the Chinese New Year, it is not good to eat your teeth and bleed from your mouth, as it will be said to be unlucky.
After lunch, the emperor took his sons and ministers to watch dramas and acrobatics for a while.
When watching drama and acrobatic performances, there will be a break in the middle. The emperor, princes, and ministers would scatter some money to the people on the stage.
The emperor would also spend some money on ministers at this time. Not every minister can pick up the money scattered by the emperor. Only officials of fifth rank and above can pick it up.
These money are actually the copper coins used in daily life, but the material is changed to gold. Gold and copper coins cannot be used among the people. These coins are awarded to ministers by the emperor.
The ministers who picked up the money laughed from ear to ear. For them, it is their honor and their blessing to receive the money rewarded by the emperor on the New Year's Day.
After the ministers finished picking up the money, the drama and acrobatic performances on the stage continued.
At the beginning of Shenshi, the drama and acrobatic performances ended and the ministers went home.
At Youshi, the New Year's Eve family dinner begins.
Tonight's family banquet can be attended by all concubines and princes.
The emperor and empress sat on it and received toasts from the princes and concubines.
Of course, during dinner, the emperor would give vegetables and blessing words to the ministers. The emperor would also give vegetables to his sons and concubines.
During dinner, the concubines and princes not only toasted, but also performed performances to the emperor.
The princes enthusiastically showed off their talents to the emperor in an effort to make him smile and win rewards from him.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wrote an article and read it to the emperor in public.
Although the emperor often disliked His Highness the Prince for being bad at this and that, he never disliked the Prince for not being good at studying. On the contrary, the Prince was so good at studying that his brain was damaged.
The prince was familiar with the classics and history. Although he did not reach the level of profound knowledge, he did so by reading poetry and books. Among the princes, his literary talent is the best. Of course, in order to hide his own strength, the fourth prince deliberately behaved worse than the prince.
His Highness the King performed a spear performance. The third prince performed a sword dance. The fourth prince wrote a poem.
Zhao Yao did not prepare to perform, so he said auspicious words to the emperor in a perfunctory manner.
The emperor was very generous and rewarded every prince.
At this year's New Year's Eve dinner, the emperor favored the imperial concubine the most and would reward the imperial concubine with the dishes in front of him from time to time. In the past, she was the concubine Rong.
After the dinner, the emperor led his concubines and princes to watch the fireworks on the city wall.
While watching the fireworks, the emperor held Concubine Ying's hand. Queen Xie and Concubine Rong stood aside.
After the fireworks ended, the emperor took Concubine Ying directly and left.
Queen Xie and Concubine Rong looked very ugly when they saw this scene.
According to the rules, the emperor should stay vigil with Empress Xie tonight, which is the case every New Year's Eve, but the emperor seemed to have forgotten about it tonight.
Zhao Yao took the eighth prince and followed Liang Zhaoyi back to Kunde Hall. On New Year's Eve in the past few years, the Eighth Prince always stayed vigil with Zhao Yao and the others.
The grown-up princes like the Eighth Prince are not allowed to spend the night in the harem on weekdays, but there is an exception on New Year's Eve. The princes can stay vigil with their mothers and concubines.
Zhao Yao took the eighth prince to fight with Liang Zhaoyi and Yu Meiren.
Pan Cairen sat next to Zhao Yao and acted as his military advisor.
The fifth princess sat next to the eighth prince and blindly directed him to play his cards.
At Haishi, Zhao Yao was sleepy. Liang Zhaoyi asked the eighth prince and Zhao Yao to go back to the house to rest, and they continued to keep vigil.
Zhao Yao's small body was like a stove, hugging the eighth prince tightly.
Thanks to Zhao Yao's small stove, the eighth prince slept very warmly.
The next day was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and I was still called up at dawn.
Liang Zhaoyi and Yu Meiren got up early and made a pot of dumplings for Zhao Yao and the others.
From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, you must eat dumplings every morning.
After eating the dumplings, Zhao Yao and the Eighth Prince followed Liang Zhaoyi and the others to pay New Year greetings. The two brothers had to go to Chengguang Palace to pay New Year's greetings to the Emperor, and then go to Zhaoyang Palace to pay New Year's greetings to Queen Xie.
Last year, Zhao Yao fell ill, so he avoided paying New Year greetings. This year we can’t hide, we can only pray one after another.
In addition to paying New Year's greetings to the emperor and Queen Xie, he also wanted to pay New Year's greetings to other concubines. After all, they were also their elders.
The first day of the Lunar New Year is spent paying New Year greetings.
On the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Yao left the palace and went to pay New Year's greetings to Liang Run and He Lianfang. As for Song Jicai and his family, Zhao Yao was too embarrassed to pay New Year's greetings.
He went to pay New Year's greetings to Mr. Xiao again, and then took Mr. Xiao to the Dahua Village Villa and played with the children there for a few days.
After the Ghost Festival, Zhao Yao and the others went to the Wende Hall to study. However, there was one less person studying this year, and that was the third prince. After the New Year, the third prince will come of age, although it has not yet reached his birthday.
One year older, Zhao Yao found that he read more books and his second uncle taught him more.
He suddenly felt that growing up was not a good thing.
This chapter is a transitional chapter, the male protagonist will grow up in the next chapter.
Zhao Yao: I have no front teeth, and air leaks when I open my mouth, ┭┮﹏┭┮
Emperor: Come here, brat, let me see your teeth, hahahahaha, they are so ugly and so funny.
Zhao Yao: Why am I such a bad father?
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