Soon it was the Dragon Boat Festival, and Zhang's morning Zhang Luo inserted mugwort leaf cattails on the doors of various places, and ordered the sewing room to make many sachets, which were filled with cinnabar, realgar, spices and other things, and distributed them one by one, and even the subordinates got all the furniture.

The kitchen was wrapped in all kinds of rice dumplings, added to the dining room, and even showed that he drank the realgar wine every day, humming a few songs from time to time, and the atmosphere of the festival was very good.

In the first two days of the day, Cheng Ai kept saying how lively and interesting the dragon boat race in Jinling was, and Ling Yun had been detained for a long time and was very yearning.

Zhang and the others settled down for a few months, and they also had the heart to join in the fun, so Lian agreed to go and see it.

One night earlier, he sent a carriage and horse to pick up Ling Chunniang's family, and they all lived in the Wisteria Pavilion where Cheng Ai lived.

At dawn the next day, the servants prepared water and food in the carriage, and the brothers Cheng Run and Cheng Ze led the way to Mochou Lake.

This Mochou Lake is a royal forbidden garden on weekdays, and there is a yellow book library of the imperial court built on the periphery, and people are absolutely not allowed to set foot on weekdays. However, the annual Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Chongyang Festival are exceptions, especially the Dragon Boat Festival, so the lake is vast and stable, and the dragon boat race held by the government picks this treasure land every year, and the palace will issue a ban on it, and the people will flock to it.

The people of the royal annex palace are naturally unable to enter, and there are many official eunuchs who have already set up pergola stands, and today they do not avoid suspicion, men and women are mixed together, colorful flags are displayed everywhere, and there are crowds of people.

Although it came early, but the carriage and horse arrived outside Longpan Road has been difficult to walk, the government in front of the sentry post, whether you ride a car or a horse, you can only walk here.

There were a few spacious places to park and rely on horses nearby, and even Chengxian sent Ah Long and others who were driving the car to wait there.

Mama Zeng and Caifan helped Lian's family, Pindi and Feizheng hugged Ling makeup, and Cheng Ai also sandwiched two maids left and right, but her complexion was not at all more excited than Caifan and others, but she was wilted.

Zhang's cold eyes squinted at Cheng Ai, and he couldn't help but talk to Lian Chengxian: "Brother-in-law, this nephew's daughter, is really crooked, everything is drawn, the maid who has just been issued by Wisteria Xuan has been asked to accept it, what do you say that there is food and shelter, and you don't have to spend money at all, what is this called!"

The surroundings were noisy, but they were not afraid that the Cheng family would hear it, but even Chengxian did not answer, the Zhang family was bored, and walked away two steps to accompany his son and Lingyun.

The closer to the lake, the denser the flow of people, the sun hung high in the sky, emitting a scorching heat, and many women with hats could not bear it, and from time to time wiped their sweat with handkerchiefs.

The lakeside is planted with lotus flowers, it is not yet the flowering season at this time, but it is also a lotus leaf field, a piece of green, the breeze blows, there are layers of ripples, there are many tall camphor trees and willow trees on the side of the embankment bridge, people go together to grab the shade under the trees, they go around, but can not find a spacious place to stay.

Xuanwu Lake Wuzhou only opened the waters near Cuizhou and Liangzhou, and from a distance, there were dozens of dragon boat teams spreading out the water, and the children participating in the competition were all dressed in short coats of different colors and wearing headscarves.

The Cheng Ze brothers went to Zhang Luo for a while, and even Chengxian wanted to try to use the silver to make a shady place, but he sent wave after wave to squeeze over, and it was impossible to be happy.

The female dependents were rubbed by people from time to time, and they were worried, but they heard a clear voice greeting: "Mr. Lian, Mr. Lian!"

As the voice sounded, Jianping, who was beside Su Jinhong, brought two small servants to open up the flow of people and appeared in front of everyone in the Ling family.

Without waiting for even to show his greetings, he said enthusiastically: "The prince just saw you, today the prince of Yuyang found a small building in the Yellow Book Library, the game is excellent, the concubine dialed a room for the prince to entertain friends, it is a coincidence, if the gentleman's family has no good place to go, it is better to go upstairs to watch." ”

Lian Chengxian and the others were overjoyed when they heard this, what was polite in such an embarrassing situation, and before they could take a look at Lian's family, he was full of promises: "Su Gongzi is really a charcoal in the snow, if I don't meet it, I don't know how to settle this family." ”

So the group followed Jianping, and it was easy to walk out of a section of the embankment bridge, but they saw that there was a royal forbidden army in front of the dragon city guard, and the people of Pingtou stopped here, Jianping showed the waist card of the passage and led the people in.

Walking on the embankment like this, I suddenly feel happy, but I feel that the breeze is blowing, the distant mountains are bright, and the water is colored and the sky is bright, which is refreshing.

Xue sighed: "Alas, the flat-headed people are different from the princes and nobles after all, even the breath they inhale is not the same piece. ”

I walked a short distance, but I saw a three-storey gorgeous building by the lake, painted and hooked, and it was very magnificent. After Jianping led everyone around the building, there was still a lawn and bamboo, and there were young and strong guards who looked like the king's house.

Su Jinhong greeted the stone path downstairs and gave the Lian family a salute.

Today he is wearing a lead red color armor, which is blue and straight, although the weather is hot, he is calm and relaxed, and his bones are clear and sweatless.

Lian looked joyful and kept praising and thanking.

Su Jinhong smiled softly and didn't say much, even Ling Xiang felt that this person was really just right to deal with people.

The building is located on the second floor, not small, the size of the Ling family is just right, and there is also tea and melon fruits, and after Lian sat down, he specially asked Ling Chunniang and others Su Jinhong.

Cheng Ai was born in spring, and Lingyun, Lian Tao and others went up to pester, Su Jinhong asked east and west.

Cheng Ze heard that he was the son of the county lord, and the nobles of the Yuyang Mansion were also in this building today, grinding his fists, racking his brains to show his face, and he couldn't think of a plan for a while, except for laughing hard, he didn't squeak, but when he saw his sister's look of wanting to stick to others, he snorted slightly, quite disdainful.

Except for Su Jinhong, the rest of the people couldn't help but look at the railing of the building.

Cheng Shaomei sighed to her mother-in-law: "My brother-in-law's family is different, but with us, don't want to stand here in this life." ”

While talking, I saw that the top horses parted ways on the embankment bridge outside the building, and the guard of honor was forested, and there were obviously nobles walking on the street.

Ling Yunyin pointed and asked, "Brother Su, is the car of the nobles of the palace here?"

Su Jinhong came out to take a look, and nodded yes.

It just so happened that Jianping also entered the inner hall and said: "The concubine is almost here, and the officials are all going to the front of the building to greet her, and the prince is going quickly." ”

Needless to say, the ordinary people rubbed the watchtower of the palace, so they naturally had to go down to kneel to greet them.

So a large group of people knelt outside the courtyard wall of the small building and knelt beside the road.

Ling Xiang knelt beside her mother, feeling a little disapproving, she knew that it was so troublesome, so she might as well not come to see this dragon boat race.

After kneeling for a while, the guard of honor arrived, but saw that there was a parrot sedan chair with a red cover and red curtain in front of him, Ling Makeup cared about the etiquette laws of the imperial court, and knew that the king of the county had arrived, so he couldn't help but raise his eyes and peek.

But I saw the first two large sedan chairs stopped, and there was a round round rumbling lady who walked a few steps quickly, and supported the old woman in the middle with the county king who got off the sedan chair in front.

Su Jinhong hurriedly stepped forward to salute and said, "Grandmother, uncle, aunt." ”

Obviously, it is the king of Yuyang and others.

The king of Nayang is a virtuous king who is famous all over the world, and now he has the actual position of the prime minister of Shangshu Zuo, and he has the potential to lead the six departments, and he is a real real power figure, who should be forty years old, but he is light and healthy, white and beautiful, and he is only thirty people. The mediocre-looking and chubby princess of Yuyang is side by side with her, which is not a good match.

The princess of Yuyang is kind and kind-eyed, wearing a stone blue embroidered tuanhua cardigan coat, four wishful cloud shoulders, a complete set of jade carved heads and faces on the gray hair, with a graceful attitude, it can be seen that she must be a beauty when she is young, Su Jinhong followed the appearance of her mother's family, and she is five or six points similar to the princess.

And the concubine obviously loved her grandson very much, and when she saw Su Jinhong, she pushed her son's hand away, took her grandson's hand and said, "Why do you come early or late? It's hot outside, don't smoke it." ”

The first girl walked up a few steps, but snatched the princess's hand and said coquettishly: "Grandmother forgets me every time she sees my cousin, I don't follow!"

The concubine looked at her granddaughter dotingly, and actually defended herself.

Su Jinhong immediately took two steps back and followed the side of King Yuyang, and pointed to the people of the Ling family to him and explained.

The king of Yuyang was also humble and said, "Let's be exempt from courtesy." ”

It just so happened that when Ling Makeup stood up, he was about to come to the front, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and a woman who was brighter than spring came into view, and he couldn't tell what kind of attitude she was, but she felt that she was peerless, and even the deep and light greens around her had faded away, leaving only the spirit of jasper.

The king of Yuyang was obviously stunned, and Su Jinhong clearly saw it in his eyes.

The two of them slowed down in unison, and the King of Yuyang asked in a low voice, "Who is she?"

There is no need to explain, Su Jinhong also knows who she is referring to, and said with a smile: "It's my nephew's neighbor, Miss Ling's family, and my name is a makeup word." ”

"New makeup should be under Zhu Lou's makeup?"

"Exactly. ”

The King of Yuyang looked at him suspiciously: "How did you know the name of the girl?"

Su Jinhong's heart moved, Princess Yuyang is the daughter of Qiu Lei, the first favorite minister of Dingguo, who was born noble, but she has not been able to raise a son for many years, she is jealous, her methods are vicious, and there are only a few concubines in the house who are not on the stage as decorations. Erotic sex, a man will love beautiful women, not to mention that his uncle is also a high authority, and he will not be willing to be controlled by women for a long time.

When he was young, in order to get ahead and earn a good identity for his mother, King Yuyang endured humiliation and served the country diligently, and there was no extra energy to waste on women. But now that I'm older, I'm more lazy, and I think about that aspect from time to time. The king of the county could have accepted one concubine and two concubines, countless concubines, how could the princess watch it closely, it was easy to get close to a woman, but it was very boring to hurt that woman, so he was always empty around him, but for the sake of the heir, he was also sad with gray hair.

Seeing that his uncle rarely asked, Su Jinhong lowered his eyebrows and replied: "Her younger brother is naughty, and he doesn't know some taboos, but he only knows about it by his nephew." ”

The king of Yuyang sighed, but he didn't say anything else, but Su Jinhong kept this matter in his heart.

The nobles of the palace watched on the third floor, Su Jinhong was mostly upstairs to accompany him, Cheng Ze couldn't find a chance to talk, so he asked Lian Tao and others, and learned that he had a close relationship with them, so he immediately smiled and said: "My brother works in the Ministry of Industry, and there is a royal family who takes care of him and is less affected by Shangguan's bird's spirit. ”

Lian Tao thought that he was a relative in the end, so he agreed.

Cheng Ze bowed and thanked him, Cheng Ai looked at his brother's servile face, and suddenly felt disgusted, thinking of Su Jinhong's handsomeness, one sky, one earth, leisurely, it doesn't matter if you don't watch the dragon boat race.

The large-scale dragon boat race in Kyoto is naturally lively and beautiful, and those that can be placed on Xuanwu Lake are all funded and supported by the princes and princes of various palaces, the shape is gorgeous, the drum beats are shocking, Lingyun and Xiao Tingting are the most excited, and their voices are hoarse. It is said that the last winner was the ship of the current prince Wei Wangfu, and the old emperor did not come in person, but the king of Yuyang and others went to the forbidden garden to congratulate him.

After watching the game, the princess and princess set off, and knelt down to thank you, Su Jinhong returned to the concubine, and borrowed several generals from the palace to escort the Ling family.

So far, the Lian family has regarded Su Jinhong as a first-class bodhisattva, and people have praised him without words.

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