(29) Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet (1)
It has been several days since Lu Xun was discovered.
In the past few days, Song Mier is like not discovering Lu Xun, he should eat, drink, play, what was it before, what is still it now, the difference is that occasionally there is something very delicate to eat, or where to pay tribute to the wine to Song Mier, in the blink of an eye, it will be placed under a certain tree, or on a certain roof beam, a few people who come and go to the palace will not find it lightly, but after a while, I saw that the bottle or wine pot containing the wine was empty, the plate with exquisite food was also empty, and there was a slight movement on the tree, But the beam was empty, and at this time, Zhu Lu kept muttering in his mouth, went to the tree, or jumped to take away the wine jug and the saucer, and the next day, there was such a thing.
Lu Xun was uneasy in his heart for a few days, he used to meditate and sleep, and practiced his internal strength by the way, his eyes widened these days, looking at the food that appeared around him from time to time, and when he was gone, he saw Zhu Lu scolding and scolding to come to collect the dishes, Lu Xun had no heart and lungs, so after a few days, he really let go, and even knew that Song Mier really wouldn't go to find His Majesty, and acquiesced to jumping up and down in this courtyard, and after being so good to himself, there were several times, taking advantage of Song Mier's retreat from the palace people, When he was resting or playing in the courtyard, he ran to her with a big grin to ask for food, so angry that Zhu Lu scolded him for having a nose that was smarter than a dog, and he knew that good things were only presented ten miles away.
Song Mier has a childish heart, and he is also used to being pampered at home, and he is a person who does whatever he wants, knowing Lu Xun's four maids, Qinghe, Yu Lan, Zhu Lu, and Chu Kong, except for Qinghe and Yu Lan who are slightly more mature, the other two are younger than Song Mier, and the other is unbearable to care about the rules in this palace, besides, this Lu Xun is also a young man who has not reached the weak crown, and he is a secret guard sent by His Majesty, who is a person that His Majesty can trust, and only occasionally appears in front of people, Where would they take care of so many complicated rules, besides, Song Mier is their master, and the master has acquiesced, do they still want to shout and kill this young man?
But this matter was concealed from the falling snow and bamboo cultivation, as well as Shujie.
After all, it's just a harmless little thing, and no one has ever taken it to heart.
A few more days passed like this, but it was the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival palace banquet.
For this palace banquet, Song Mier can also be regarded as exhausting, sacrificing countless of his past leisure and comfortable rest time, and with the cooperation of Shujie, he built such a palace banquet step by step.
The palace banquet was selected on Penglai Island, the largest in Taiye Lake.
After the Qin Emperor unified the Central Plains, he created a magnificent palace room, containing countless garden architectural designs, the so-called "leading Weishui as a pool, building as a tent, Ying", this pond is now in the hands of countless generations of royal family to expand the Taiye Lake. There are Penglai, abbot, Yingzhou three islands on Taiye Lake, there is a garden on the island, the garden or raise a hundred beasts for the emperor to ride and shoot for fun, or distribute gorgeous palace rooms, for the emperor and queen concubines to rest, there are also countless pavilions and water pavilions on the side of Taiye Lake, corridor palaces, the building is exquisite and luxurious, the scenery is gorgeous.
Because since ancient times, the Taiye Pool is the beautiful scenery that is admired in countless words, and there are countless infatuated emperors and favorite concubines who have poured their hearts into each other, and the concubines who have entered the harem are proud of their ability to climb the Taiye Lake and enter the three islands, even if they live in the palace next to the Taiye Pool, the northernmost corner of the palace, a little far away from the emperor's palace, it is also worth rejoicing, after all, the scenery here can reach the hearts of the people.
However, Taiye Lake has always been used by the emperor, and there are guards patrolling everywhere, and not any concubine can casually go boating on the lake or stroll on the island, so when I heard that the Mid-Autumn Palace banquet was held on Penglai Island on Taiye Lake, no one in the harem was happy and happy.
Banquets are usually held in the evening.
On the day of the palace feast, the shore of Taiye Lake was covered with brocade early, and countless giant candles burned on the bronze candlestick, illuminating half of the sky and pond water of Taiye Lake. Countless light boats hung manli light yarn and waited on the shore of the lake.
Penglai Island, not far away, is brightly lit, faintly visible palace people come and go, dancing musicians sit melodiously under the slightly flying light vines, and from time to time there are scattered music sounds.
The largest palace on Penglai Island is majestic and gorgeous, a jade corridor pillar with a dragon and phoenix standing on both sides begins to extend into the temple from not far from the shore, between the corridor pillars every ten steps, there is a statue of a rui beast, the mouth is still spitting water, the water flows into the disc under the feet of the rui beast, and then flows into the lake by a special secret channel, and then circulates to the mouth of the rui beast.
The corridor leading to the main hall and the interior of the main hall are paved with colored glass, and the hall is painted with colorful ornaments and inlaid with precious stones.
Incense stacks, incense burners, incense balls can be seen everywhere on the island, the elegant fragrance is overflowing, on the shore of Penglai Island, there are also several wax cylinder balm, is slowly melting, and the rising aroma is full of the shore with the wetness of the Taiye Lake.
In the main hall of Penglai Island, the palace maids are wearing silk clothes embroidered with blue grass and passing on dishes in a soft manner, such as purple dragon cake, ivory delicacies, white bears, special noodles, Junziting, pickled chicken, and hundreds of foods such as the Four Seasons Ceremony and the Southern Seasons Feast, which are being stewed nervously by the Shangshi Bureau, and are slowly presented.
The palace people who are close to the Xuande Palace are all dispatched, Zuizhu and Yulan are standing at the door of the main hall with two young attendants, entering a palace maid with dishes, Zuizhu looked at her mouthpiece, nails, hair bun and behind her ears, touched her wrists, sleeves, waist and ankles, and saw that there were no hidden utensils or medicines, and then opened a few dishes with silver utensils on the silver plate she was holding, Yulan took out a special slender silver needle, and carefully poked it in the center around the dish and poked it out again. Then he took out a special small silver spoon, or brought a little dish or soup of the dish, dripped, tasted it in the palm of his hand, and saw that there was nothing abnormal, so he waved his hand and let the palace maid who presented the dish in, and then cleaned the silver spoon and silver needle, and then handed the water cup by the little young attendant to rinse his mouth slightly. People who don't know that Yu Lan can defend drugs think that Yu Lan is testing poison with her body, and there is more respect in the eyes that look at her, because if this is not done well, it may be poisoned, and it can be handed over to the little young attendant next to him to complete.
When the sun slowly moved to the west, and the sky began to be covered with gorgeous red glow little by little, the concubines boarded Penglai Island, which had appeared thousands of times in their minds. The grandest banquet since entering the palace began.
First of all, some of the concubines who had never been favored and low-ranking went ashore, only to see that some of them were dressed in palace clothes that were commensurate with the palace rituals, and a few were about to have a wide range of hands, and they also made all kinds of dresses of various colors that did not exceed the norms, and in an instant, there were blue, white, blue and pink figures on the shore of Penglai Island and the slightly excited discussion of women, they raised their necks and opened their mouths to look around the huge gorgeous palace in front of them, some people were already stupid unconsciously, and a warm wind with the fragrance came to their faces, they woke up and immediately shut up, glanced left and right and saw that no one noticed his gaffe, so he secretly exhaled, stroked the bun without a few hairpins, straightened his clothes, and walked forward without squinting.
After a while, some of the slightly higher ranks, or the family background is a little better, maybe there is a chance to be favored, or the concubines who have entered the eyes of which high-ranking concubines also came, they are either in groups of three or five, or one person sits alone in a boat, just ashore, the three or five groups of concubines are amazed, pointing to the east and west, and even more, boldly touching the carved beams and painted pillars, and stomping on the glazed ground on their feet, and shining their clothes with the light on the floor. There was also disdain for the lonely, two or three gathered around and whispered about something, from time to time they turned their heads to look at the single figures, pouted and turned their heads and giggled again, and the single one either entered the table early under the guidance of the young attendant and sat in his place, or stood on the shore and looked up at the sunset on the horizon, or hung his head and looked enviously at the people gathered together, regardless of their clothing and hairstyle, They are much better than the previous batch of concubines, and they are much bolder, and the incense on their towering buns and the corners of their skirts spread shallowly, and the incense on Penglai Island is very intoxicating.
The sun was about to sink in the west, and during this period, some concubines landed on the island in a scattered manner. They didn't come together about the same time, but one after another, one, two, three or four people, boated up to the island. Their clothes and ornaments are more complicated than the first two groups of people, very luxurious, they are all higher status, or have been favored concubines, seeing them arrived, the first two groups of concubines gathered to greet them, these late concubines also raised their heads slightly, let those concubines who saw the ceremony get up, slightly looked around the palace in front of them, with appreciation but not obvious, the wind on the lake with their soft hanging jade spikes, the sachet on their waists also with the wind emitted a more gentle and tactful fragrance, There were bold low-ranking concubines, who quietly moved over, blushing and starting with compliments on the unique taste of the sachet, and started the topic. These concubines also responded politely, either gently, shyly, or well-behaved, only a few little young attendants were distracted, or someone else quietly poked themselves with their elbows before they came back to their senses.
At this time, the sheng music was magnificent, only to see more than a dozen light boats sailing on the lake, and the light boats were covered with a thin layer of brocade, under the reflection of the red lanterns at the head of the boat, they were brilliant, and they also lined the concubines who were standing or sitting on the boat. When the light boat docked, some palace people hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down to help the concubines on the boat to go ashore. The first three concubines who had been waiting on the side for a long time lowered their heads, some were angry, some were envious, those concubines got off the boat, and they were immediately radiant and graceful, compared to the concubines in front, they had more pampered momentum, it was Concubine Zhuang, Concubine Xue, Rou Guiji, Lan Guiji and others arrived.
Their clothing is already an uncommon texture and style in the palace, such as Concubine Xue, who looks very cowardly with her head down, but she is also wearing a light hibiscus color cloud brocade floor skirt with silver wire hooks, covered with a violet color painting and the skirt of the same color of the hibiscus placket waist vibrating sleeves trailing Tianxiang silk gown, wearing a green flower and grass pattern Huasheng in front of the forehead, obliquely inserting a golden hairpin inlaid with jade step shake, a long step shake tassel hanging down on the shoulder, with Concubine Xue's cherry mouth, the cowardly face in the past, but added a shy style.
Concubine Xue, who was looked down upon by many status concubines on weekdays, and felt that she had won such a concubine by relying on her grandfather, the director of the hospital, was dressed up to attend today, and she had a different kind of charm, not to mention those Rou Guiji, who usually attracted countless eyes. There is also Lan Guiji, who is very low-key on weekdays and hardly goes out, recently, although she is not constantly favored, but her majesty will never forget her storage. In the same position of Guiji, Rou Guiji occupies a title and becomes the main position in the palace, but this Lan Guiji doesn't seem to have any movement, and she can still calmly go to Rou Guiji, who is the same generation as herself, to pay daily respects. On weekdays, there are a lot of people who talk about them, and they will always compare with each other, today, this Rou Gui Ji and Lan Gui Ji are in one place, only to see the Qianqiu, compared to the delicate and soft beauty of Rou Guiji, this Lan Gui Ji is as its name, there is a peaceful and gentle like an orchid, bowing her head and smiling, faintly revealing two pear vortices, and adding three points of the delicate girl to that gentle face, there have been many concubines who have secretly written down her posture and demeanor, and their hearts are silently calculated.
The two concubines are so attractive, not to mention Concubine Zhuang who is also beautiful now, her discord with the concubine is a well-known thing, and at the same time she doesn't seem to be on the side of the queen, sandwiched between the two forces, and can struggle out of an emperor's favor, at least two days in January, where will she go to rest, the queen doesn't say, she is a graceful and generous, and the arrogant and domineering Liu Shuxing Liu Guifei didn't really do anything with her, I have to say that Concubine Zhuang's internal means have been obtained. is favored by the emperor and has its own faction, Concubine Zhuang's dress is not something that ordinary concubines can afford to learn, just the bags she wears and the incense on her body smell like they are different.
Rou Guiji also noticed Concubine Zhuang's incense, her heart moved, and she was supported by the palace maid, and weakly moved to Concubine Zhuang's front to bless the blessing, and asked softly about the incense on Concubine Zhuang's body.
Although Concubine Zhuang has her own faction and must have means, but everyone watched, this Concubine Zhuang is a softer than Rou Guiji, she is a person who loves to cry and blush, and today she is wearing a white wide-sleeved long skirt with plain brocade and gauze, really like the Guanghan Chang'e who will fly away anytime and anywhere, and like the sick Xizi who added three points of sorrow, before she opened her mouth, her eyes contained a little fluorescence, as if she wanted to cry, and her eyes seemed to be disgusted and happy. If you step on an ant, you can't bear it, and you will be frightened for a long time, like the white lotus fairy. From this point of view, perhaps His Majesty just likes Concubine Zhuang like this, as if she were a fairy and a white lotus.
Concubine Zhuang saw that Rou Guiji personally asked her about incense, looked at Rou Guiji, untied her sachet and handed it to Rou Guiji, covered her lips with wide sleeves, and said with a smile at her, "This incense is the long-lost Lady Yaxiang." ”