Quanfu led everyone to the bank of the Huimin River.

A group of palace maids held a splendid canopy to shade everyone. The emperor is a tender yellow boxwood handle and umbrella bones of 18 bright yellow brocade umbrella canopy umbrellas, each two umbrella surfaces are embroidered with seven-color silk threads with a pair of double dragon beads pattern, the umbrella feet with big red silk threads strung with beads to make beads.

The umbrellas of the imperial concubine and the queen are all green sandalwood umbrella handles and umbrella bones, the umbrella surface is goose-yellow brocade, weaving a pair of five-colored luan phoenixes, and only yellow is used for falling feet. The diameter of the emperor's big umbrella is almost a zhang, and the canopy of the imperial concubine is slightly smaller than the emperor's big umbrella.

The imperial concubine sat in a soft chair carried by four people, following the emperor. Qin Meiren was inconvenient to be pregnant, and she also sat on a soft chair carried by two people, following the queen.

The umbrellas of the rest of the concubines are about four feet apart, and the colors are mostly soft and bright colors such as pink, water blue, and bean green, and the silk surface is mostly embroidered with flowers, birds, landscapes and other scenery, or outlined cloud patterns.

As soon as everyone reached the side of the cross-wave bridge, they saw a small canopy boat rowing out from under the bridge.

In the bow of the boat sat a woman, dressed as a fisherwoman. A big hat on his head covered his face, but the slender body and the white hands of the paddler were obvious.

The queen smiled: "The emperor said that he had a gift for us Ruyue, did he put it on this fishing boat?" Ruyue listened to the queen's words, and kept looking at the fishing boat, wanting to find out.

The emperor shook his head and smiled slightly, took Ruyue from the arms of the nurse who followed him, and said to Ruyue: "The fishing boat is so small, how can it bear the gifts of my father and mother?" ”

In the Song Dynasty, the prince and the princess called the emperor in private, and like ordinary people, they all used their father, and the queen who was the mother was the mother. Because the queen mother and the imperial concubine raised the emperor together, in order to show the emperor's respect for the imperial concubine, he called the queen mother the eldest lady and the imperial concubine as the little lady.

Ruyue stretched out her hand to pounce on the queen, and said with a smile: "Niangniang hugs ......"

The queen was stunned, her expression changed slightly under the shadow covered by the canopy, and when she was about to stretch out her hand, Quan Fu hurriedly smiled and said, "Your Majesty, please look!" ”

The concubines standing behind them made a sound of surprise early in the morning, and Mu Xiaoxia's crisp laughter was even more distinct.

The emperor and the queen hurriedly looked into the river, only to see two goldfish floating on the water, one on the port side of the boat, and the other on the starboard side of the boat.

Ruyue had already seen it in the emperor's arms and clapped her hands and screamed, and she completely forgot that she wanted the queen to hug her. Ruyue struggled to stand by the river, and the emperor handed Ruyue over to the nurse.

The imperial concubine hurriedly asked Xianluo and Chunhua to follow the nurse, and said, "You follow closely, don't pay attention to the railing too close." ”

The water of the Huimin River is brought in from the northwest corner of Yujin Garden and flows out due east.

Qin Meiren smiled: "Sure enough, there is a bit of Jiangnan fishing boat style." It's just that these koi fish can travel with the boat, which is really interesting! ”

The group talked and laughed, and gradually the river had widened, and the leaves of water lilies and rhodoids were floating on the water, and the boats meandered along the waterway, and the two goldfish still followed left and right.

The queen smiled: "I actually arrived at the lotus flower." ”

This lotus flower is a flat lake formed by widening the river channel after the Huimin River is led to Yujin Garden, the lake surface is wide and calm, and it is more beautiful to plant lotus flowers in the lake, it is called lotus flower ripple.

More and more fish followed the boat into the lotus flower, and by the time they arrived at the lotus flower, there were already hundreds of fish. Quanfu led everyone into a small hall in the middle of the lotus flowers, and the plaque in the small hall carried four big characters: Binuma lotus incense.

The small hall is surrounded by windows, and all the windows are open at the moment, and the window is even more unique. A palace maid had already prepared lotus tea, and the lotus petal bowl was poured for everyone.

The outer wall of these lotus petal bowls is carved with ten long lotus petals, and the central petal is high, and the color is relatively light, making it blue and white. There is another petal in the middle of every two petals, and there is a circle of shorter lotus petals near the foot. The whole vessel is covered with a shallow pink and blue glaze, reflecting the light white petals of the three layers of lotus petals, like a lotus flower that blooms quietly.

Dong Qingning was admiring the flowers next to the window next to the Qin beauty, and when she saw this tea bowl, she smiled at the Qin beauty: "It's such a delicate tea bowl, it's hard to make it." ”

Qin Meiren didn't look back to admire the flowers, just sat quietly, brushed the white mist rising on the tea surface with the handkerchief in her hand, and said with a faint smile: "Sister Qing hasn't seen such a tea bowl?" ”

Dong Qingning smiled: "I've never seen it." ”

Mu Xiao Xia was next to Princess Ruyue and clapped and laughed with Ruyue, and when she heard Dong Qingning speak, she also turned her head and said, "Sister Qing, why did you forget, the goldfish bowl that Sister Qin gave us last time was also lotus-shaped." ”

Before Dong Qingning could speak, Qin Meiren smiled and said, "Such a stupid guy, you remember it so clearly." Saying that, he looked at the emperor and smiled gently: "That is a pair of fish tanks that the emperor rewarded me, because I was lazy and couldn't get rid of these things, so I gave them one by one." The emperor doesn't blame me for giving it away privately. ”

The emperor smiled: "No wonder I saw a fish tank on the shelf in the cloister of Baishaoyuan, and there was a bowl of lotus in it. It turned out that you gave them them. ”

Kotomito's face changed, but she soon changed to her usual look. But the handkerchief in his hand was tightly struggling.

Mu Xiaoxia didn't notice the look of the Qin beauty, and after listening to the emperor's words, he hurriedly clapped his hands and said: "That bowl of lotus just grew leaves when it left, and now I don't know if the Lu Dao has bloomed." I knew that Lu Dao brought it with me. ”

The foundation embroidered handkerchief in the hand of the Qin Meiren was pulled hard, but she said with a smile on her face: "It's not a rare thing, if you like it, let people come here to raise a few water lilies and go back to raise them." ”

Mu Xiaoxia poked out the window, then turned around and said: "That's the seed that Sister Qing gave me, the same is 'Yellow Oriole Singing Willow', the same is 'Acacia', Sister Qing made a painting, it is really very beautiful." As he spoke, he looked out the window again: "The water lilies in the lotus flowers are not of that color." ”

Qin Meiren smiled: "Sister Qing also raised a bowl of lotus, but it is not a loss for you to live in Qinghe Garden." I remember that Sister Qing's lotus petal fish tank was placed under the batch tree in the yard. If it was intentional, if it was unintentional, Qin Meiren looked at Mu Xiaoxia who was looking out the window.

Qin Meiren suddenly smiled, stretched out her finger and gently touched the petals on the lotus petal bowl, as if talking to herself, and as if she was talking to Dong Qingning: "Sister Qing only said that this is exquisite, but I heard that the most exquisite lotus petal porcelain is in Yong'an Hall." ”