After the Ren Hu family finished the New Year’s Eve dinner, they did not play mahjong like Li You’s family. They followed the New Year’s Eve. They were friends and went out to the streets. Today’s Dunhua House is a never-night shop... By 10 o’clock, there will be a ceremony called "Da Nuo"!

This "Da Nuo" is a more traditional "exorcist" ritual.

A boy was asked to put on a mask with fangs and claws, put on red and black clothes and dance. Then there were twenty "dance-accompaniment" people behind the boy.

Their dancing with the boy means to drive away evil spirits and achieve the purpose of praying for blessings.

You should know that the "Da Nuo" ceremony at the Tang Dynasty Palace was even more spectacular last year.

After reading it once, a poet wrote a poem like this: "The lanterns in the palace compete for the fire, and the Nuozi in the palace drive away the demons." At first glance, it looks like these people who "expel the plague" are like demons dancing around.

Unfortunately, this behavior is no longer the case, and this kind of "extinguishing the plague" is a unique activity for the people of the Tang Dynasty during the Spring Festival.

The ceremony ended, and other performances began one after another, such as circles, juggling, magic, opera... they would appear one by one, not only in Dunhuafang, but also in other workshops in Chang'an. However, Dunhuafang should be the most lively. After all, Dunhuafang has the strongest purchasing power, and of course the best performance will be done in Dunhuafang, so there will be more things to sell for rewards.

Such a night will last for three days, and those vendors will squeeze out all the spare money from Dunhuafang.

Because of this, the nights in Dunhuafang are really the most fun. Ren Hu took his mother and sister to walk on the streets of Dunhuafang. The laughter and joy around him also made Ren Hu's family very happy.

Unfortunately, Li You did not appear on the streets of Dunhuafang. Because Li You was worried that his appearance would disturb this night, Li You did not appear, but Li You would appear tomorrow morning. He brought Li Zhi and Li Mingda to thank all the people together.

Just when all the people in Qinglongfang and Dunhuafang were having fun in the Spring Festival, in Shengyefang, Li Ke and Li Yan also left the palace together to return to their palace, because they could not stay overnight in the palace, and they did not have the face of Li You and Li Zhi to pick up their mothers.

Li Ke actually went to find Fang Xuanling, but Fang Xuanling refused directly, because of the ancestral system, but later Yin Fei could leave the palace. Li Ke did not ask, but Li Yan asked angrily, and Fang Xuanling's answer was guaranteed by the prince.

To be honest, Li Yan was so angry that Li Ke could only sigh.

At this time, the two of them were sitting in front of the window of a restaurant, looking at the scene of people coming and going outside Shengyefang. For some reason, the two brothers were very melancholy and drank their stomachs with a sip of wine.

Li Yan took the lead and said, "Brother, are we two a little too cowardly? Why can Yin Fei leave the palace? But our mother cannot leave the palace when we go there. Our mother is really too miserable... Both of them are noble princesses of the Sui Dynasty, but now this Sui Dynasty princess can't even get out of that palace.

Once upon a time, now...!"

As Li Yan spoke, his eyes turned red. You should know that although Li Yan was a bastard, he still respected his family very much, especially Concubine Yang and Li Ke.

People in the world say that Concubine Yang Gao Gao was the daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui and the imperial concubine of Emperor Tang, which was extremely precious, but her family knew her family's affairs, and Li Yan knew very well that his mother was actually a pitiful person.

Although Concubine Yang was the daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui, she was the most unpopular. How could she say that, during the fourteen years of Yang Guang's reign, she only stayed in Chang'an for 186 days. Most of the time she was either on the way to visit or preparing for the tour, if Concubine Yang was the favored princess.

Then it should be like her elder sister, Princess Nanyang, who is with Emperor Yang of Sui, far away from Chang'an.

But the fact is exactly the opposite. According to Li Ke's birth in the second year of Wude, Princess Yang should have entered the palace in the first year of Wude. In other words, as soon as Li Yuan ascended the throne in Chang'an, Princess Yang became a member of the backyard of the Qin Prince's Mansion. It is obvious that although Princess Yang was also the daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui, she did not receive the attention and favor of her father at all, so she was forgotten in Chang'an and accepted by the newly established Li Tang Dynasty.

Here you may want to say that the Li family respects this princess enough to make her a concubine. In fact, that is even more false. Li Yuan and Yang Guang's mothers are both Dugu and sisters. Empress Dugu once took good care of Li Yuan. The Tang Dynasty established by Li Yuan was at least nominally abdicated from Emperor Gong of Sui, but Li Yuan threw his cousin's daughter who had forgotten in Chang'an and left it to his son as a concubine.

If Li Yuan still valued the words of this princess of the previous dynasty who had some blood relationship with him, he would marry him as a wife rather than a concubine - whether he was a prince or a minister. And even if he was a concubine, he should be given to the crown prince Li Jiancheng, not to the Qin King Li Shimin, who seemed to have no connection with the throne at that time.

After all, Li Jiancheng was still the crown prince nine years ago. If nothing unexpected happened, Princess Yang, as Li Jiancheng's concubine, could become a concubine of the fifth rank or above after the crown prince ascended the throne, and as a concubine of the prince, he would be only a fifth rank or above at most a fifth rank.

This is not care at all, but actually humiliating Yang Fei in disguise. In addition, Li Shimin doesn't like Yang Fei either. Why do you say that? According to the situation where Yang Guang died in March of the second year of Yining (618), Li Ke was born in the second year of Wude in the Li Tang Dynasty (619), it is obvious that Princess Yang was pregnant during the period of filial piety, and she could not even be filial to her biological father for 27 months.

This shows what kind of existence this so-called "Emperor Yang of Sui" is in the eyes of the Li Tang Dynasty, let alone what kind of courtesy he can get. If Princess Yang's identity is still noble, how could he be so dismissed by others so casually, and he would not even have the opportunity to be filial to his father.

Of course, it is normal for Concubine Yang to be treated like this. Since ancient times, the status of a king who has succeeded and defeated, and a king who has lost his country has been placed there, let alone a princess who has lost his country.

Think about the miserable appearance of the six kingdoms after Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, "the concubines and concubines, princes and grandsons, left the hall and came to Qin in chariots." Think about the few sisters of Chen Houzhu after the demise of the Chen Dynasty. Princess Lechang was awarded to Yang Su as a concubine, Mrs. Xuan Hua, Mrs. Hongzheng were conquered in the Sui Yeting Court, and several were awarded to ministers and princes in the court. Think about the daughter of Emperor Huizong of Song, the princess Roufu, who was also a princess, and what life she lived in the Jin Dynasty, we can see that these princesses in the eyes of the new dynasty were just trophy.

This is actually the real life of the princess of the devastated country, and it is also the real situation of the sons of Li Ke and Li Yan, two princesses of the devastated country. Li Ke went to the fiefdom in 7 years of Zhenguan, and Li Tai, who was the same age as Li Ke, did not have to go to the fiefdom at all. Li Zhi has been raised by Li Shimin himself since Empress Changsun’s death. Even after being named the crown prince, Li Shimin still asked Li Shimin to openly violate the etiquette system and continue to stay by his side. This led to Chu Suiliang and Liu Shi and others in 18 years of Zhenguan to ask the emperor not to leave the crown prince around and spoil him back to the East Palace.

When Li Ke took office as the governor of Qizhou in the seventh year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin said to Li Ke: "Doesn't the relationship between father and son want to meet each other often? But the family and country affairs are different, and they must be used as a vassal screen." It can be seen that the vassal of the kings was because of the "family and country affairs are different" and even more to eliminate the "coveting" of the princes.

The above shows that Li Shimin is very partial, and there are Concubine Yang, Li Ke, and Li Yan not as high as they imagined. Each person has a glass of wine, thinking that his mother was lonely in the cold palace. The two brothers Li Ke and Li Yan were also timid.

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Chapter completed!