Chapter Seventy-Eight: Remembering the Dead
In Zichen Palace, Jiang Yu was lying on a rocking chair, holding a palace fan in his hand, looking weak, holding the palace fan from time to time, and then putting it down in a depressed mood. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Mo Yu walked in with a snack, looked at Jiang Yu lying on the recliner, and asked, "Niangniang, can you use some dim sum, it's your favorite taro cake, and the slave doesn't eat much at night." ”
It should be said that Niangniang pulled a few grains of rice for dinner today, which is really not like Niangniang - Niangniang clearly said that she would take care of her body and conceive a little prince before, so her appetite was very good some time ago.
Jiang Yu said weakly: "I can't eat it." ”
Mo Yu sighed, put down the snack, and asked Jiang Yu: "Niangniang, what's wrong with you today? Didn't the Queen Mother talk to you in the afternoon?" and persuaded her: "Niangniang, don't pay attention to Jing'an Palace, that's not the emperor's mother." Speaking of which, it is right for you to rely on the emperor, if the queen mother embarrasses you, you will tell the emperor to go up and let the emperor stand up for you. ”
Although a trip in the afternoon made Jiang Yu feel unhappy, it was not worth Jiang Yu's low mood for so long.
She turned around and turned her back on Moyu, a little unconcerned.
After a while, the palace fan fell from her hand and fell to the ground, and Jiang Yu didn't bother to pick it up.
Mo Yu walked over, squatted down and picked up the palace fan, and put it on the small table next to him.
Jiang Yu closed his eyes, suddenly felt a little tired, and said in a low voice: "This palace just turned over the yellow calendar and found out that the day after tomorrow is Qingming, and today is the second day of the fourth month." ”
Mo Yu replied to her: "Yes, today is the second day of the fourth month, and the day after tomorrow will be Qingming." However, the sacrifices and sacrifices offered by Qingming have already been arranged, and Niangniang has nothing to worry about. ”
Jiang Yu suddenly muttered: "During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls, it's really not a happy festival." ”
It is easy for her to think of some old people who have passed away, especially when she heard the names of those people again in Jing'an Palace today.
Moyu is a little strange, Qingming is a festival of tomb sweeping sacrifices, although it is not an exciting festival, but it is not worth the loss of Niangniang, and there was no such thing at this time in previous years.
Mo Yu quietly looked over, but saw that Jiang Yu had closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, but his eyelids and eyelashes kept trembling, as if he was enduring something, and there was even a faint moist light at the corners of his eyes.
The stunning face was slightly pale, as if there was some painful matter, and it looked a little like ashes.
Mo Yu seemed to see Niangniang who had just lost her child again, and was slightly startled, and hurriedly shouted: "Niangniang......"
Jiang Yu suddenly opened her eyes, and the tears that she had been hiding in her eyes slipped down like this, dripping on the bluestone-paved floor, and then fainted.
Jiang Yu sat up from the rocking chair all of a sudden, wiped the corners of his eyes with his thumb, knowing that his current mood was easy to make Mo Yu suspicious, so he casually found an excuse and said perfunctorily: "You don't have to worry about this palace, this palace just thought of seeing my mother tomorrow, and I thought that my mother had been snubbed in the Guogong Mansion for so many years, and I was wronged by my mother for a while, and I couldn't help myself from being sad." ”
Mo Yu also felt sad when she heard it, thinking that Mrs. had been oppressed by Aunt Xia for the New Year, and Mrs. Tai and Grandpa Guo were partial, and they were also a little wronged by Mrs.
However, Mo Yu still persuaded: "Niangniang, Madame is just your daughter, you can only be good if you are good in the palace, and only when you are good will Madame feel good." ”
Jiang Yu said: "This palace knows. As he spoke, he asked Moyu again: "Where is Gu Yu?"
Mo Yu was a little surprised, she didn't expect Niangniang to mention Gu Yu at this time, but she still answered honestly: "Gu Yu is in her room, saying that she is a little uncomfortable today." ”
Jiang Yu didn't ask her how Gu Yu was uncomfortable, but stood up directly and said, "This palace is going to see her." He deliberately instructed Moyu away: "You go and help the palace prepare some lotus seed soup for supper, maybe the palace will be hungry after a while." ”
Mo Yu said yes.
Jiang Yu turned around and went to the room where Gu Yu lived, and directly pushed the door open and went in.
Gu Yu was holding a pair of scissors to cut paper and fold paper ship lamps, and when she heard Jiang Yu push the door in, she was so frightened that she hurriedly stood up, and called out in a panic: "Niangniang......" Then she saw the messy things on the table, and hurriedly covered it with a handkerchief.
Jiang Yu glanced at the things on the table, didn't ask anything, walked over and used the white oil paper she had cut, and folded a lotus-shaped paper boat in three clicks.
After folding it, he put it on the table, and then looked up and asked Gu Yu, "Do you want to go with me to the Jing River in Shanglin Yuan to put paper boat lanterns?"
Gu Yu was very surprised and looked at Jiang Yu.
Jiang Yu didn't care about her reaction, and said to her: "Put all the paper boat lamps you have folded in baskets, find some candles, and don't forget to bring fire folds......
Gu Yu came back to her senses at this time, let out an "oh", and hurriedly said, "The slave will do it." ”
As he spoke, he took out the basket that had been prepared long ago, put all the things that should be used in it, and was afraid that others would see these things, so he covered the basket with a blue and white cloth and carried it in his hand.
When Jiang Yu came out with Gu Yu, Mo Yu happened to come out of the small kitchen, and when she saw their appearance, she asked in surprise, "Niangniang, do you still want to go out so late?"
Jiang Yu said "um", and said: "Let Gu Yu accompany the palace to go out for a walk, you stay in Zichen Palace, the palace is afraid that the emperor will come over after a while and see that there is no one in the palace." ”
Mo Yu said: "That lady will bring a few more palace people to hold the lamp for you." ”
Jiang Yu said: "No need, the palace will come back after a while, and let Gu Yu accompany the palace for a walk." ”
As he spoke, he took Gu Yu out of Zichen Palace.
At night, there were no people in Shanglin Yuan, and there were not many palace people who patrolled the night.
The water on the Jing River is flowing in a hurry, and the sound of gentle water flow is particularly loud in the quiet night.
Gu Wei squatted by the river, put the basket down, took out a paper boat from it, put a candle on it, and lit the candle on it with a fire fold, then picked up the paper boat lamp, looked at Jiang Yu, who was standing in front of her and looking at the Jing River in a daze, and called softly: "Niangniang." ”
Jiang Yu turned around, looked at the paper boat lamp in her hand, and took the paper boat lamp in her hand and held it in her hand.
The candle on the paper boat lamp was slightly hot on her hands, Jiang Yu turned around, walked down two steps, squatted on the river and gently placed the paper boat lamp on the river, and then watched the lotus-shaped paper boat lamp drift farther and farther away with the flowing water.
Gu Yu also looked at the paper boat lantern that was slowly drifting away in a daze, and suddenly said: "There is a folk saying, put the paper boat lantern in Qingming or the death of the deceased, and the paper boat lantern can float along with the flowing water to the Lechuan River in the underworld, so that the deceased can see the nostalgia of the living for him." ”
As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Yu again and asked, "Niangniang, you put the paper boat lantern today, I don't know which old man you are missing?"