Chapter 88 Changle Weiyang
Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloomed.

The cold winter month arrived unknowingly, accompanied by biting cold winds, and countless trees were covered with white snowflakes.

It is as if all the trees have turned into pear trees, adding a different style to the Qianqing Palace.

As the end of the year approaches, the palace and Baiyujing have become much more lively, and people have begun to get busy preparing for the New Year.

Starting from the twelfth lunar month, Lu Changjing had a lot more things to do, the first of which was to write the word "Fu" and give out plaques.

When the royal family celebrated the New Year, Lu Changjing would be busy "blessing the people" on the first day of the twelfth lunar month. He would first write a "Fu" character on dragon paper and paste it on the Qianqing Palace, and then he would write dozens of more "Fu" characters and paste them in other palaces.

During this period, some ministers would come to ask Lu Changjing or the empress dowager to give them a blessing character to take back to their own residences, and he would also take the initiative to give his ministers a blessing character or a plaque as a New Year greeting.

The writing of the Spring Festival couplets was contracted by the Hanlin Academy, and Lu Changjing could write them himself if he felt like it, either to keep for his own enjoyment or to give as rewards to his ministers.

During the Chinese New Year, the environment must be decorated. The new year brings a new atmosphere. It is the same inside and outside the palace. People of all stripes and common people can enjoy celebrating the new year. The people here also have beautiful visions for the new year.

The New Year of the Da Ning Dynasty was not called the Spring Festival, but the Ning Shijie, and the New Year’s Eve was called Ning Xiye, which had many similarities with the ancient Spring Festival in the previous life.

This made Lu Changjing occasionally wonder that perhaps this world and his previous life were parallel worlds, otherwise how could there be so many similarities.

Because of the New Year, Lu Changjing had less time for practice.

However, most of the matters were handled by Cao Wenzhen to prevent the fake emperor Lu Changjing from causing any trouble and arousing suspicion from others.

Therefore, Lu Changjing still has plenty of time to practice, and his cultivation, realm, combat power... are constantly improving.

From time to time, he could also exchange imported delicacies with several concubines, and their relationship became increasingly harmonious.

Not long after, people in the palace also started to put up door gods and light palace lanterns.

The imperial palace has many gates and large courtyards, and each door must be pasted with appropriate door stickers.

The Noon Gate represents a common image of a general among the people, while the other large and small doors in the palace are pasted with various rare folk New Year pictures of civil officials, children, fairies, etc.

The palace lanterns are hung in rows. Various lanterns made by skilled craftsmen are hung on the eaves and corridors. There is also a tall longevity lantern at the entrance of the Qianqing Palace.

The gorgeous light strips are embroidered with exquisite dragon patterns and inscribed with verses praying for blessings and good fortune. Lighting sky lanterns to pray for the common people is even more majestic and spectacular.

"The sun is bright, the moon is shining, wealth and prosperity, longevity and health, the new year is peaceful and long-lasting."

"A year of sorrow and joy is over tonight, and the hair will be gray tomorrow."

"There will be a year next year, but I am afraid that I will waste my time. Try your best tonight, and you can still be proud of your youth."

"The grass is green along the three paths, and the scenery is beautiful. I wish it could stay like this forever, with new scenery every year."

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Various poems praying for blessings and good fortune were hung all over the palace, making it look quite spectacular.

Lu Changjing couldn't help but stroll around the Qianqing Palace, accompanying Imperial Noble Consort Rong Xiyao and Noble Consort Tang Qingyi to see the magnificent scenery in the palace.

By the way, although it is the Chinese New Year period, Manager Cao is still quite busy. He is being attacked by a group of demons and monsters, and he is on the verge of collapse.

He almost searched the entire Jinyiwei and mobilized a lot of people to look for spies, but unfortunately he didn't find any. Instead, he leaked more secrets, allowing the Demon Suppression Division and many other forces to severely punish the demons and monsters in Daning, causing the Peace Party to sever ties with many demons and monsters, and even become enemies.

Even if it was later discovered that Cao Wenzhen was also a victim, the losses to those demons and monsters had already been done, and even casualties were inevitable.

It is not easy to make them trade with the peacemakers as before.

This also prevented many tragedies from happening in the Da Ning Dynasty. In just a few months, at least one million common people were spared.

The rescue operation in Donghai Prefecture alone allowed hundreds of thousands of people in the entire county to survive.

It is no exaggeration to say that the peace faction is traitors.

By the time Ning Xiye arrived, Cao Wen Zheng originally wanted Lu Changjing to continue practicing in seclusion and not participate in various New Year activities, in order to avoid too many people noticing any flaws.

However, he could not resist the high calls from both inside and outside the palace, and thinking that Lu Changjing had also been pretending to be the emperor for several months, he decided to participate. After all, Ning Zhongyu would also participate in many activities during the New Year in the past.

This was also the time when Ning Zhongyu could best demonstrate his presence in the past. He also took this opportunity to win over the ministers and maintain his majesty as an emperor.

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the palace would set up a New Year's Eve dinner and gather relatives and friends.

Lu Changjing was going to sit together with clan members and concubines to have the New Year's Eve dinner, and the scene was very spectacular.

Looking at the hundreds of relatives, concubines, etc., he was a little impressed. He did not expect the royal New Year's Eve dinner to be so grand.

During this time, clan members came up to greet him from time to time, and Lu Changjing responded carefully. The information of these clan members kept appearing in his mind. He had written it down in advance to avoid any trouble.

Fortunately, the banquet started soon and there was less small talk.

The family banquets in the palace were naturally more luxurious and sumptuous than those in the common people. There was one dish of yellow rice, one dish each of bird's nest hanging oven duck, hanging oven meat, and wild hot pot, one dish of duck stewed in evergreen wine hot pot, one dish of fat chicken stewed with bird's nest and apple in Eight Immortals bowl, and one dish of duck soup in a blue and white jade bowl... a total of twenty-one dishes.

There are rules for sitting and eating, such as what tableware to use, what dishes to eat and the order in which to eat.

Dumplings are also eaten at the New Year’s Eve dinner in the palace, and a copper coin will be placed in the dumpling. Whoever eats the dumpling with the copper coin will have good luck, and Lu Changjing will also give rewards.

Ning Xiye's imperial kitchen was extremely busy. They had to prepare a buffet and also make sure the dishes didn't get cold when they were served.

There were many delicious foods that Lu Changjing had eaten for the first time. They were far better than any delicacies he had eaten in his previous life, and no harmful substances were added.

There was no shortage of spiritual meat, spiritual fruits, spiritual wine and the like, which were very helpful for spiritual practice. This allowed many clan members and beautiful girls from limited family backgrounds to enjoy them until their bodies could no longer bear it.

If he hadn't had to consider the emperor's status, Lu Changjing would have had a good meal.

It was a pity that there were too many people around, otherwise he would have liked to enjoy the imported delicacies from several concubines.

Cao Wen Zheng had been watching nearby to make sure nothing went wrong. When he saw that Lu Changjing handled the situation appropriately and hadn't aroused suspicion from others, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, his expression darkened slightly again as he thought about what had happened recently.

Not long after returning to the imperial study, Cao Wen Zheng received another piece of bad news, saying that the deal with a group of monsters around Baiyujing had failed again.

Before leaving, he did not forget to hit Lu Changjing a few more times to remind him to be careful.

(End of this chapter)