Cui Mingde really helped me a big favor, this flower appreciation banquet, I put it very carefully, a dish arrangement, all out of my own choice, to be held in the palace, and according to the rules of the inner court to add to the example, originally only invited a small class of loose music, but now it is a sitting department, standing part, and there are swallowing knives and spitting fire, walking round and jumping rope of hundreds of opera artists on standby.

The table is set up in a small pavilion by the Taiye Pool. This pavilion was newly built this year and is designed for autumn appreciation. The pavilion is near the lake, the first floor goes out is a small courtyard, the inside is decorated with mountain stones, and many chrysanthemum species are planted high and low near the mountain stones. The windows on the second floor of this pavilion are much wider than those of the time, and they are not pushed up and down, but left and right, which is somewhat similar to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the previous life. We sit by this window, open the window, we can see the autumn water of the flat forest on the Taiye Pond in the distance, the rippling waves, and see the golden, red, white and green downstairs, compete for the strange and beautiful, the cool breeze is refreshing, the faint chrysanthemum incense is sent into the pavilion, and the incense brain burned in the copper furnace by the window is mixed together, it is both warm and sweet, so that people can smell it and know that the golden autumn has arrived.

I arrived at the place early, looking at people's furnishings and objects, and after a while, Ah Huan also arrived, wearing a narrow-sleeved white shirt, a light yellow skirt, a loose bun on his head, and brocade silk shoes under his feet, at first glance, not like a married woman, but like a cardamom girl. When I saw her from the window, I hurriedly greeted her and saluted: "I've seen my sister-in-law." ”

She glanced at me with slight disgust, stretched out her hand, helped my subordinates, and said: "Dugu Shao is on duty today, and he is on the East Stadium at the moment. ”

I smiled and said, "She already knew that she entered the palace today after someone changed her duty, and now she is afraid that she is already on the way." As he spoke, he saw Dugu Shaoxing coming over, took a few steps to the door, and saluted Ah Huan and me with a smile: "I have seen the princess and the princess of Luling." ”

I hurriedly went to help her: "Why did you suddenly see such a big gift?"

She said: "I am still on duty, and I have to meet each other with national etiquette." I bowed solemnly, and when I straightened up, I showed a big golden peony on a big red silk armor, and I asked her in surprise, "Where did you make this dress? ”

Dugu Shao showed a smile of self-promise, held down the ritual knife, and before he could speak, Ah Huan first explained to me: "The Queen Mother has an order, and in the future, Mulan will ride with a golden peony as a uniform, with a ritual knife like Jin Wu's example, Shuowang will ascend to the palace, and serve the Queen Mother." ”

I nodded and said with a smile: "It's cold outside, don't stand here, go upstairs." "Lead them into the seats, please Ah Huan on top, but Ah Huan resigned with the grade, let me sit first, and pushed Cui Mingde in the main seat, and she and Dugu Shao sat on the left and right.

We recounted a few words of gossip, Dugu Shao remembered Cui Mingde, and frequently looked up, I couldn't see her like this, and teased: "The appointment is not right, the afternoon has not passed, what are you anxious about?" After speaking, Fang came back to his senses, glanced at Ah Huan, she only couldn't see it, and drank tea there by herself, only Dugu Shao occasionally glanced back at us when he turned back to talk to us, and he looked a little ignorant.

I was amused in my heart, taking advantage of the unpreparedness, quietly went over, shook her hand from behind, and immediately let go, and smiled at Dugu Shao: "It's still early, ask them to take the pot, and we will throw the pot." ”

From the fact that people have already prepared a game such as color selection, canopy, Go, money, etc., and Dugu Shao nodded in agreement, so he brought a thin mouth gold pot and thirty-six colored feather arrows, Ah Huan turned his head to look at me when he saw the pot, his fingers scraped lightly on his face, and he stuck out his tongue and smiled at me. ”

Ah Huan said: "You said you want to throw the pot, and you don't play it, just the two of us, what's the point? Either you will vote together, or you won't vote at all, and the three of us will play money play." ”

In addition to Shuanglu, I am really proficient in none of these games, and I don't like to gamble money, so I have to say: "That's still a pitcher." When Dugu Shao heard this, he came to me: "You are the master, you first." "Choose all the arrows of the purple feather for me, and give the red ones to Ah Huan, and hold the cyan arrows by yourself.

The palace people put the pot ten steps away, I rolled up my sleeves, took an arrow, aimed at the mouth of the pot for a long time, and used force in my hand, the arrow fell crookedly to the ground in less than five steps, and I looked at Dugu Shao in amazement: "The skill is not fine." ”

She smiled: "The first shot doesn't count, do it again - don't think about the pot, just use your wrist strength to smash the pot." ”

As she said, I threw an arrow out, although I didn't go in, but hit the pot, giving birth to a little joy, and turned my head to look at Dugu Shao: "It's almost inseparable." ”

Dugu Shao smiled and pointed at me: "Use the right strength, do it again, just be accurate, I'll teach you, squint like this□□..." As he spoke, he took my wrist and threw it forward, and the arrow made a beautiful arc in the air, falling right into the pot.

Dugu Shao didn't pay attention to it, and only then did he take a deep look at her at this moment, and smiled at me: "I knew that Erniang and Siniang were good, but I didn't know that you were so compatible." ”

She and Cui Mingde knew my thoughts about Ah Huan before, but I don't know what situation we have reached. My heart tightened, and I glanced at Ah Huan with some reproach, but she smiled at Dugu Shao and said, "Isn't it a good thing that my sister-in-law gets along?"

Dugu Shao shook his head and smiled, picked up a feather arrow, and looked at me with a smile: "Erniang has someone to guide me, so I don't bother, I will be the second." He didn't turn his head to look at the pot, but threw it sideways, and the arrow fell into the pot with a low sound.

Ah Huan laughed and said: "Sixteen Niang is like this, I can only reflexively vote." Pick up the arrow, stand with the pot on his back, raise his wrist lightly, the arrow jumped into the mouth of the pot like a bird's nest, I was dumbfounded, and it took a while to applaud and sing, and when I saw Ah Huan still give me the arrow, I quickly shook my head: "You two compare, I won't be ugly." ”

Dugu Shao smiled lightly, took three arrows in a row, and threw a backhand, and the three arrows entered the pot at the same time, filling the mouth of the pot to the brim. Ah Huan didn't wait for me to come back to my senses, walked to the mouth of the pot by himself, poured out all the beans and arrows inside, turned around and came back, stood up with the pot again, held the arrow in one hand, threw it with his backhand, the arrow jumped into the pot, and bounced out, just fell into her hand, Ah Huan threw the pot with the arrow again, and the arrow bounced out again and fell into her hand.

Dugu Shao was compared to Ah Huan, and said with some resentment: "I'm not good at pitching pots, you are not capable of comparing to me, but comparing to her." ”

I was already dizzying, I forgot to applaud, and when I heard Dugu Shao talk about it, I exclaimed: "Is there anything more powerful than this?"

Ah Huan looked at me with a smile: "The skill of throwing pots, if Cui Erruo talks about the second, no one in the world dares to recognize the first." ”

I really can't think of a more powerful skill than this, and I want Cui Mingde to come over to perform, but it is not about time, according to which there is still more than half an hour, so I dragged Ah Huan's hand and asked her: "What is Cui Er's first method?

Ah Huan said with a smile: "I saw her cast once a few years ago, the mouth of the pot was flat with six rings, Cui held seven arrows second-hand, and threw it at one time, one in the pot, and the remaining six, each in its ring, and the branch was not bad." It can also open the bow left and right, and take turns to throw it at the narrow mouth that only allows one arrow, one arrow in, one arrow out, and it is not bad. ”

I just thought about that scene, and I felt admired, and said repeatedly: "She looked at Si Siwen and Xiu Xiu, I thought she was a lady from a family, only good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and I didn't want to even be so exquisite in the art of pitching pots." ”

Ah Huan looked at me with a smile: "Haven't you seen her playing? Dare to play on the court outside without a cover, let the men watch, how can it be those little ladies who twist and pinch and pretend to be in a posture?"

As soon as she said it, she remembered that she had indeed watched Cui Mingde play a game in the past, and the manipulation and control did not look like those twists and evasions. But for some reason, such a heroic little lady now seems to have completely changed a person, either playing the piano and drums, or reading and writing scriptures. It's not that it's bad, it's just that Cui Mingde in my impression seems to be always quiet, knows etiquette and observance, and is no different from the daughters of big families such as the Wang family and the Pei family - just like Ah Huan looked like in front of outsiders in the past.

I looked up at Ah Huan, she looked at me meaningfully, and then snorted at Dugu Shaonu.

I went to see Dugu Shao, and this guy suddenly became sad, poured himself a cup of tea, drank it all in one gulp, and sighed: "You think she and I are good, how do you want a good way? She also fought cocks and horses with me, fought with knives and swords, fought with Hu Er on the streets, instructed the servants to play tricks on scoundrels, and stole the clothes of her brothers to go to the temple to watch a hundred plays. The veteran of my family doesn't like to read, so she doesn't read the family heirloom book, and she doesn't ask the master to explain it for me, but she explains to me word by word. She also borrowed the art of war from her Ji father for me, but her family thought she was a little girl and refused to borrow it, so she recited it on the spot and copied it to me at night. ”

I was silent and looked at Ah Huan with both eyes. She smiled at me and said to Dugu Shao: "However, as she gets older, her parents ordered her to learn from the female red girl in order to come to life. Her sister and her little name, since the age of ten people seeking relatives have been in an endless stream, her father thought that strange goods can live, repeatedly should not, so to the age of fifteen, not yet a word, and then met the abolition of the prince, both of their relatives were delayed, her sister became a nun, she invited herself into the palace, both of them can only be lonely, alone. ”

Dugu Shao said lightly: "When she was twelve years old, her grandfather wanted her sister to marry the Lu family, but her father thought that the Lu family had a clear name and the family was not rich, and wanted to give her sister to the prime minister's family, but at that time, the reputation of the prime minister was not good, and her grandfather did not agree. ”

I lowered my eyes and said, "So from beginning to end, their sisters are just chess pieces in the family, who to marry and when to marry, they only think about the interests of the family, and never think about their own happiness." Raising her eyes to see Ah Huan, she was also looking at me, her eyes alternated, she knew that I understood what she meant, smiled at me, revealing that little wine vortex. (. Just Love)