Chapter 25 New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is Ye Qinghuai's busiest day of the year. She has to get up just after midnight. According to the itinerary arranged by the Ministry of Rituals, from the front hall to the back palace, all the major palaces have to pay homage. Taking the mighty clan brigade to the Taimiao to worship the ancestors, after a set of complicated procedures, it was already dark.

As usual, the emperor's New Year's Eve dinner was to be eaten with concubines and princes in the Zhaoyang Palace.But now the harem is empty, there are only a few concubines and concubines left by Emperor Shunde, so this year's New Year's Eve dinner Ye Qinghuai is also used in Zhaoyang Hall with his clan.

Dajing has been in existence for 200 years, and there are countless royal family members.Some of the clansmen at the banquet were from Shengjing City or from other places, but most of them Ye Qinghuai didn't know each other, so eating this New Year's Eve dinner was very exhausting.

Ye Qinghuai returned to Jingshou Palace accompanied by Li Baoquan after tossing and tossing until near the end of the day.

Ye Qinghuai sat on the ride, propped her head and closed her eyes, she suddenly felt a coolness falling on her face, she opened her eyes slightly, and saw the sparse snow particles falling slowly from the sky.

In a trance, she remembered the day she died.

It seemed to be such a day too, the snow was falling silently all over the sky, it was so cold that no amount of thick jacket could stop it.

She suddenly had a headache, so she closed her eyes again.

Chengyu got off the sedan chair, and Ye Qinghuai heard Li Baoquan say to Aunt Fanghua who was guarding outside the Jingshou Palace: "Your Majesty has drunk some wine, please ask Auntie to take care of you. Tomorrow, I will congratulate you at the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Come to welcome His Majesty."

"Father-in-law has worked hard today, and I will leave this place to the servant girl. Father-in-law don't worry. Father-in-law should also rest earlier." Aunt Fanghua saluted Li Baoquan, and went to Chengyu to help Ye Qinghuai down.

Half of Ye Qinghuai's body was on Aunt Fanghua's body, making it difficult for her to walk.

Seeing this, Li Baoquan wanted to come up to help, but Aunt Fanghua separated him with her body.

"It's okay, my servant helped His Majesty go in to rest. Eunuch should go back earlier." Aunt Fanghua said, half-supporting and half-supporting Ye Qinghuai to the palace gate.

"Then our family will go first." Li Baoquan also bowed to Aunt Fanghua. Although he was several ranks higher than Aunt Fanghua in rank, Aunt Fanghua was the emperor's only personal court lady after all. All of them are courteous to her.

Chengyu's team left quickly, and Aunt Fanghua finally helped Ye Qinghuai into Jingshou Palace.

At this time, Ye Qinghuai suddenly woke up as if drunk, she broke away from Aunt Fanghua's arm, opened her arms and turned her head to the sky.In an instant, the snow had started to fall heavily. Ye Qinghuai faced the snowflakes all over the sky, stood for a while, and suddenly smiled.

"Auspicious snow heralds a good year. The auspiciousness comes from the sky, it is a good year. Suihe Sanan, it should have been a good year." She said to the sky, her voice could not tell whether she was crying or laughing.

"Your Majesty, it's windy outside, let's go in and talk about it." Aunt Fanghua saw her drunken and dragged her into the house.

However, Ye Qinghuai seemed to be ruthless, and she just shook off Aunt Fanghua's hand.

Aunt Fanghua turned her head to look at her, and was about to utter harsh words to suppress her drunken madness, but saw Ye Qinghuai looking at her with clear eyes, and there was no sign of drunkenness in her eyes.

"Auntie, do you think I'm a fool?"

Aunt Fanghua was taken aback by her endless question, but seeing Ye Qinghuai's serious expression, she couldn't help feeling sour.

She watched this child grow up, and she knew how much he had suffered since he was a child, and she was also the one who cared the most.Whenever she thinks that she is just a 16-year-old girl who has never had a moment of joy in her daughter's home since she was a child, Aunt Fanghua always wipes her tears secretly.

"My servant is a woman, I don't have much knowledge, and I can't tell the difference between a wise ruler and a foolish ruler. But I have lived a long time and have met many people. I feel that if I were replaced by those people, I would definitely not be as good as your majesty."

"why?"

"The maidservant can't tell why. That's how I feel."

Ye Qinghuai looked at Aunt Fanghua for a while, then suddenly smiled and said: "Auntie, you are used to spoiling me, spoiling me even more."

As she spoke, she walked towards the house and asked as she walked, "Is Grandpa Zhou here?"

"Here we are, inside. Your Majesty, you go in first, and the slaves will go get the hangover soup and dumplings." Seeing that Ye Qinghuai was conscious, Aunt Fanghua felt relieved and stopped supporting her, and walked towards the small kitchen of Jingshou Palace .

Zhou Shouyi was sitting in the room, and when he saw Ye Qinghuai's face turned red, his face immediately turned cold, and he asked, "How much did you drink?"

Ye Qinghuai was taken aback by his glance, and quickly laughed along with him, "Not too much, not too much, just a few cups."

As she said that, she made it at the table. There were several stacks of melon and fruit snacks on the table, and the room was also carefully arranged by Aunt Fanghua, embellished with some just-right flavors of the New Year.Ye Qinghuai picked up a citrus and peeled it. She tried to change the subject and said, "I heard that the production of citrus in Yingzhou is good this year. Has Grandpa Zhou tried it?"

Zhou Shouyi still stared at her seriously, and asked relentlessly, "Have you drank half a catty?"

Ye Qinghuai knew that he couldn't hold him back, sighed, and said distressedly: "There are so many people today, especially the clans in Zhongzhou and Yingzhou, it's the first time I've come to Beijing after I ascended the throne, so it's inevitable that I have to drink more."

"How much did you drink?"

"I can't remember clearly, maybe twenty or thirty cups." Ye Qinghuai said.

"That's almost a catty."

As soon as Zhou Shouyi finished speaking, the door was pushed open by Aunt Fanghua.On the tray she was carrying were two large plates of dumplings and a bowl of hangover soup, steaming hot, in stark contrast to the snowy night behind her.

Aunt Fanghua's nose was slightly red, and she closed the door immediately after entering.

"It's snowing so much." Aunt Fanghua put the things on the tray on the table one by one with joy on her face, and said, "Your Majesty, I'm going to fetch you a hand stove. You should eat it while it's hot."

Zhou Shouyi brought the bowl of hangover soup to Ye Qinghuai, and said, "Drink this first."

Seeing Ye Qinghuai obediently picked up the bowl to drink, he left his seat again and went to search in his medicine box.

After a while, Zhou Shouyi took out a small paper bag from the medicine box, handed it to Aunt Fanghua, and said, "Wash the medicine powder inside with hot water and bring it to her to drink."

Ye Qinghuai looked at the small paper bag with some vigilance, took the half-drunk hangover soup away from his mouth, and asked, "Grandpa Zhou, what is this?"

"For liver nourishment, drink this after drinking what you have in hand." After finishing speaking, he added, "Don't try to bargain."

Ye Qinghuai took a sneak look at Zhou Shouyi's expression out of the corner of his eyes. Seeing his stern and serious look, he looked at the package of medicine powder and had a bad feeling.

According to Ye Qinghuai's experience, Zhou Shouyi's medicines have always been difficult to drink.

(End of this chapter)

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