126. See Junhua's New Year's Eve

From the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the mansion's manager Gao led the mansion staff to start sweeping the house, hanging lanterns, and pasting Spring Festival couplets.The whole palace was in a hurry, but it showed a festive atmosphere.

At the same time, the days of slaughtering chickens and sheep began in the big kitchen, and dozens of livestock were turned into various bacon and meat dishes every day.The large pots set up in the kitchen yard keep rolling lamb soup, pork ribs or stewed chicken all day long, and there are fresh mountain pots beside them.Whether it is government officials or shadow guards, they can take it at any time.

Pei Nianyu has also been busy arranging the distribution of reward money and yearly silver to various departments in the mansion at the end of the year, and everyone is naturally happy.

Some of the servants in the mansion do not live in the palace, some have another residence in Capital City, and some have family members in the countryside on the outskirts of Beijing.Therefore, after finishing the New Year's work, he took the reward silver from the mansion, chicken, duck, rice, new clothes and other things and went home to reunite with his family.

However, the shadow guards don't have any family members to get together, and this palace is their home.Therefore, on New Year's Eve, apart from a few maids and cooks who stayed behind, most of the people coming and going in the King Yu Palace were shadow guards.

Seeing this scene, Pei Nianyu didn't follow the usual festival rules, and simply agreed to celebrate the new year with the shadow guards in the whole mansion.It's just that he couldn't set up a table in front of the main hall of Yin'an Hall, so he directly set up long table seats in several courtyards around Hanqiu Pavilion.

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It's New Year's Eve.

Early this morning, Pei Nianyu got up to wash up, and was about to instruct the big kitchen to prepare today's New Year's Eve dinner.

This kind of banquet is not a political task, so naturally there is no need to require so many specifications and style levels, nor does it need to require exquisite and noble dishes.Anyway, it was prepared for the shadow guards, so Pei Nianyu planned to cook whatever was delicious, such as stewed pork knuckles in a big pot, roasted leg of lamb on a iron plate, Jiugongge hot pot...all arranged.

However, just as Pei Nianyu got up excitedly, he got stuck at the first step.

"...where are my clothes?"

The clothes he was talking about were auspicious clothes for festivals. A few days ago, the weaving and embroidery room just sent two sets of this year's new ones, but he didn't know where to throw them away.

"Jiang Xue! Did you see the two sets of auspicious clothes a few days ago?"

Seeing a gust of wind blowing by, Jiang Xue flashed into the room with an innocent face:

"My lord, you don't let us enter your room to tidy up easily, so naturally the subordinates have never seen it."

Pei Nianyu has attached great importance to personal privacy since he traveled here, and he has spared the maids from accompanying him.He didn't even let them in with his own bedroom, so naturally no one dared to touch his things.

If it disappeared like this, he could only lose it by himself.

Pei Nianyu was depressed for a while, and buried her head in her closet to rummage through it.But since he is a prince, he makes clothes of different materials and different occasions every season.There were so many clothes, he couldn't find them after searching for a long time, and finally just threw them out of the cabinet one by one to search for them.

At this moment, Xia Yao, the maidservant of the mansion and the nanny of the prince, female servant Xia Yao, heard the noise from here, and stepped into the door.

As soon as she turned around the screen in the hall, she was covered in a piece of clothing thrown by the prince.

Xia Yao: "..."

She let out a long sigh:

"My ancestor... What are you doing, my lord?"

Pei Nianyu's voice was buried in the piles of clothes, and his voice was muffled:

"I can't find the two newly sent auspicious clothes..."

"Didn't you put it on the shelf over here yourself?"

Pei Nianyu looked back suddenly, and sure enough, he saw two new clothes hidden under the cloak on the shelf.

Pei Nianyu: "..."

Xia Yao shook her head helplessly, stepped forward and pushed Pei Nianyu aside, knelt down and began to give him the clothes he threw out one by one before taking them back.

Pei Nianyu was a little embarrassed, Xia Yao was much older than him, how could he have the nerve to let her clean up a man's clothes like him.Before the time travel, got used to it, but after the time travel, always feel that something is weird.

"Sister Xia, go and have some snacks with them, I'll clean up by myself..."

"Let me clean up for the master."

A deep voice sounded, Lou Yefeng entered the door, and drove Xia Yao and Jiang Xue out without any explanation.

"Speaking of which, it's the subordinate's fault. He actually forgot to prepare the clothes for the master in advance yesterday."

Lou Yefeng was picking up his clothes while talking, although he is a man, his movements are extremely neat when doing such a thing.After a while, they were all picked up, and by the way, they were folded and put into the cabinet.

"Ye Feng, you...cough, thank you."

Pei Nianyu was a little ashamed, just about to say something, but suddenly saw Lou Yefeng continue to reach out his hand, as if to clean up the ball of white underwear he had taken off at the end of the bed.

"Master, I will take these clothes to the laundry room by the way..."

Pei Nianyu was stunned for a second before realizing that there was still... last night...

He suddenly turned pale with shock:

"Don't stop, stop!!"

Then Pei Nianyu snatched the ball of clothes and hugged her in his arms, hiding it tightly so that Lou Yefeng would not see any clues.

This clothes, this clothes, heck, he planned to wash them secretly today, but he almost let Lou Yefeng see this invisible thing.

Lou Yefeng was puzzled, the master snatched the clothes quickly, he didn't see anything at all.However, when he looked up, he saw that his master's face was red to the ears, as transparent as Lou Yefeng, how could he not guess what was going on with the clothes?

However, the master reacted so strongly that he didn't want him to see it.

Lou Yefeng immediately stayed on the spot.

In fact, for Pei Nianyu, he just felt that such an indecent thing was not easy for outsiders to see, especially if it was seen by his beloved.However, he forgot that in his current era, it is very common to clean up each other's traces.

So Lou Yefeng suddenly changed his mind, thinking that the master was unwilling to show him the desire in his heart, maybe it was... afraid that he would take the initiative to bring up the matter of serving the bed again?

Could it be that he has made things difficult for the master by taking the initiative to ask for servants several times before?

Thinking of this, Lou Yefeng suddenly felt uncomfortable in his heart.Afterwards, he quickly forcibly covered up his gaffe, took three steps back, bowed his head and said:

"This subordinate offended me, so I will leave now."

Seeing him leave, Pei Nianyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly threw the ball of clothes into the washbasin.

Destroying the corpse and destroying the traces is the first priority, so let's not use this pot.

It's just that Pei Nianyu still murmured in his heart, why did Lou Yefeng's expression look so strange when he left the door just now?Could it be that he saw something?

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In the early morning of New Year's Eve, Pei Nianyu got into a big embarrassment, and he himself was a little embarrassed.Fortunately, Lou Yefeng went somewhere during the day and was not by his side.

He didn't meet the person responsible for the embarrassing incident for a long time, and then he became obsessed with making the New Year's Eve dinner at night, and gradually forgot about it.

In the evening, the big kitchen prepared all the New Year's Eve dinners for the entire mansion, and when Pei Nianyu was preparing to cook his own side dishes, Lou Yefeng finally appeared again.

Pei Nianyu asked him where he had been, but he only said that he was about to make a breakthrough in his practice and had been retreating in his room for half a day.After hearing this, Pei Nianyu didn't take it any further, and just worked out with him what to eat for dinner.

Once everything was ready, the shadow guards in the mansion and the few government officials who stayed in the mansion lived around the long table, and the table was filled with meat bowls, waiting for Pei Nianyu's order to eat this big meal.

Naturally, Pei Nianyu would not be the leader who gave a long speech, so he just said a few casual words to encourage everyone's hard work this year and continue in the coming year.Then he waved his hand and let them eat.

He watched for a while, only to feel that he was their master after all, and he couldn't enjoy watching them here.So I don't plan to stay here any longer.

Pei Nianyu looked around, but he didn't see He Qi among them. With a thought, he raised his hand and made a gesture.Seeing it from the dark, He Qi flew down to greet his master,

"Old He, why don't you go with them?"

He Qi's expression was calm, but his eyes flashed vaguely and vigilantly:

"Master, you have given us the opportunity to have fun with the shadow guards during the festive season, but it is the time when the mansion's defense is weakest. Your subordinates will guard near you first, and when they return to work after eating, it will not be too late for your subordinates to eat."

Pei Nianyu's heart warmed, he shook his head and said:

"I'm going back to Hanqiu Pavilion right now. I have Ye Feng by my side, and Jiang Xue is also cooking hot pot with Yun Shao and the others in the small kitchen. Go and have fun with them."

"This……"

"Be good, Ye Feng and I just..."

When He Qi heard this, he could only curl his lips:

"Understood, master!"

After Pei Nianyu sent He Qiyi to dinner, he pulled Lou Yefeng out of their sight.It's just that he didn't go back to Hanqiu Pavilion right away, but went up to the roof lightly, sat on the roof and found a hidden corner, watching the shadow guards in the yard suddenly exchange cups and become lively.

After a while, the restless shadow guards used firecrackers as hidden weapons to compete with each other secretly and start trouble.Suddenly the sound of firecrackers came and went.

Looking at this scene, Pei Nianyu felt a little emotional:

"This year's Chinese New Year... finally let them liven up. It's not easy."

A few years ago, because Pei Nianyu hadn't solved the Peach Blossom Gu, he had to suppress his temper and was forced to "quiet temperament".The entire mansion followed in a deadpan state, afraid that something might happen somewhere that would arouse the prince's emotions and cause the poisonous poison in his body to break out.

This year, Pei Nianyu let go of their shadow guards to play, which also meant to make up for it.

"Ye Feng, thank you for saving me... Otherwise, I really don't know when such a painful day will end."

Lou Yefeng's expression was calm:

"Master, this is the responsibility of the subordinates."

Pei Nianyu said in his heart, it is your duty as a shadow leader to protect me with all your heart.But in order to understand my poison, you went to the southern border alone to find the solution, and you almost risked your own life... Is this just a duty?

Taking advantage of his slightly drunkenness, his heart was like a mirror, he turned his head to look at Lou Yefeng, smiled without saying a word.

Lou Yefeng's heart moved slightly when he was watched by the master's gentle eyes.Subconsciously, he wanted to reach out and hold the master's palm, but suddenly remembered what happened this morning, and was afraid that the master would find him offensive, so he moved his fingers and then retracted them.

Seeing him like this, Pei Nianyu couldn't help being amused, and held his wide and warm palm generously.

"Go, go back to the house and eat the New Year's Eve dinner I made."

Lou Yefeng held his master's fingers that were as cold as jade, his heartbeat gradually became a little messy.

"……yes."

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The two floated down from the roof hand in hand, and quietly returned to Hanqiu Pavilion.

After they watched the shadow guards have a good time, Pei Nianyu was going to have a two-person New Year's Eve dinner with Ye Feng.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the door, he saw a figure running around in his room, accompanied by the sound of clinking porcelain plates.

And another black figure stood in the corner of the room, motionless as a mountain.

But not who are Pei Niancheng and Li Han?

Seeing that Pei Nianyu had returned to the house, Pei Niancheng jumped up immediately:

"Brother!! Brother!! Why are all the dishes in your house empty! Where's the rice! Where's the rice??"

Pei Nianyu:????

"Brother, I haven't eaten all day!! Hurry up and do some charity!"

Pei Nianyu turned pale with shock:

"Didn't you come here after eating the New Year's Day banquet in the palace?"

"The New Year's Day banquet, what kind of New Year's Day banquet, has been cancelled. The people in the imperial dining room were deliberately teased yesterday, and they dared to make trouble. Do you think I dare not deal with them? I just sent them all to prison, so there is really no one today.After cooking, there is no one in the imperial dining room..."

Pei Nianyu: "..."

"Not only today, but I may also have to eat in your house for the next few days, until the new batch of personnel arrives...Brother! Please!"

Pei Nianyu: "..."