The lord's stunning concubine

Chapter 1720 1745 Folk New Year Customs (5)

Lan Qing listened to the thorn in the Empress Dowager's words, she was mocking her for being just an ordinary business girl, and the corner of her mouth slightly curled up and said: "The Empress Mother is right, I understand the difference naturally better than ordinary people It’s much deeper, the festive atmosphere of ordinary people’s New Year’s Eve, but it’s hard to have in the palace anyway, to put it bluntly, it’s also the feeling of freedom in the middle of it!”

The Empress Dowager's complexion changed slightly when she heard Lan Qingqing's words, but Lan Qingqing didn't seem to feel the thorn in her words, and continued: "This folk, this melon seed also has something to say, because melon seeds are common. The common people can afford food, so those rich families laughed at the common people for being poor. After the common people knew this kind of saying, they would prepare more melon seeds during the Chinese New Year, and then the whole family would eat them on the third day of the new year. Knock together on ten nights."

"Why?" Jing Junying interjected curiously.

Lan Qingqing replied with a smile: "Because it's poverty. If you knock melon seeds at this time, that's poverty. The common people want to knock out all the things that don't go well in a year."

It was the first time Jing Junying heard this statement, so she couldn't help but said curiously: "Really? There is such a saying, so I can make more melon seeds today. I hope that next year, Taifu Ren will not If you ask me to do such difficult questions again, in the end, you won’t have to practice martial arts and study anymore!”

Everyone couldn't help laughing at his childish words.

Jing Ye also laughed, but said in a low voice: "I'm afraid that the emperor's wish will not come true. Today, when the king met Ren Taifu, he kept boasting that the emperor is the smartest in the world. For those who want to, next year, you can choose some more difficult books that have the principles of governing the country from the collection of classics and history, and read them to the emperor, and then the emperor can read them seriously."

Jing Junying slammed his head on the table and said, "Uncle Wang, you are an out-and-out villain!"

Everyone laughed again when they heard the words.

But Jing Ye picked up another handful of peanuts and said, "Qingqing just said that melon seeds have such an interesting saying, so what about these peanuts?"

"The meaning of this peanut is better than that of melon seeds." Lan Qingqing said with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth: "Peanuts have another name in the mouths of the people, and that is Changle Fruit. When ordinary people get married, , will sprinkle some peanuts and longan red dates under the tent, implying the early birth of a precious son. But in the Chinese New Year, peanuts imply Changle Ankang, embodying ordinary people's yearning for a better life. Therefore, peanuts and melon seeds are in the eyes of the common people. Here, they are all necessary things for the year of the earth, one is to get rid of the bad luck of last year, and the other is to entrust a better future."

As soon as her words fell, Jing Junying reached out and grabbed a handful of peanuts, and said while eating, "I want to be happy and healthy."

Lan Qingqing smiled and said: "The emperor is already the happiest person in the world. The emperor may not know that in the eyes of ordinary people, the emperor is like a god. They sometimes ask the emperor to bless them."

Jing Junying's mouth twitched, and there was a touch of disdain in his eyes: "If I really have that ability, I will be the first to send Taifu Ren home to have a good rest."

Jing Ye glared at him and said, "Your Majesty, is it so difficult to study hard?"

(End of this chapter)