The real begging melons and fruits are served. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Some of these melons and fruits are carved into exotic flowers and birds, and some are embossed on the surface of the melon skin. It is called "flower melon".

Qiaoguo and flower melon are the standard configuration of Tanabata food.

And all this is just the foreplay of the Qixi show. The real climax "Needle Throwing Beggar" begins.

This session was presided over by Hu Shanggong.

At this time, Hu Shanggong ordered the little maid to prepare a basin and put it in the patio of the canopy hall, and then shouted: "Please pour in the 'mandarin duck water'." ”

"What is 'Mandarin Duck Water'?" Erhong has never heard of this name.

"It's a mixture of water taken during the day and water taken at night. You can also mix river water and well water together and pour it into the basin, and the basin and water should be left in the open air overnight, and then the sun will bask during the day on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month, and you can 'test the skill' at noon or afternoon. Sun Lingwei told her softly.

"So what is a 'trick test?' Erhong felt that a new problem had come again.

"I won't tell you this, but you'll know after you see how others play." Sun Lingwei also sold Guanzi.

When the mandarin duck water was put in the sun, at this time, Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor who was very interested, began to tell his two concubines Han Xian and Huang Jieyu about other customs of the Qixi Festival.

According to reports, Sima Yi was quite suspicious of Cao Cao because of his high position, and in view of the darkness of politics at that time, in order to protect himself, he pretended to be crazy and hid at home. Emperor Wu of Wei was still not very relieved, so he sent a confidant Ling Shi to secretly investigate the truth. It was July 7, and Sima Yi, who was pretending to be crazy, was also drying books at home. Therefore, during the Qixi Festival in later generations, people had the custom of drying books. During the Tang Dynasty, the seventh day of July was simply called the 'Book Festival'. ”

"Your Majesty, on July 7th, do you really want to take out the books and dry them?"

"There are also those who don't post books." Zhu Di touched his belly and said with a smile,

"In the twenty-fifth volume of Liu Yiqing's "The World Speaks New Words" of the Southern Dynasty, it is said that on July 7, everyone was drying books, and there was a man named Hao Long, who ran to the sun and lay on his back to dry his belly, and when people asked him why, he replied: 'I am also drying books'.

"Why is that?" Han Xianfei was puzzled.

"Fool, this man is boasting about his talents in disguise. Drying your belly is also drying your book. Zhu Di said dotingly.

"This guy is so naughty. Your Majesty, you know a lot. ”

The laughter of the two little ladies was as crisp as a silver bell, attracting the sideways glances of a group of concubines, and even the fat prince Zhu Gaochi, who had never been smiling, was attracted by this laughter.

He looked at the two "concubines" who were more than 20 years younger than him, and the expressions on their faces were a little strange.

Before you know it, the sun is on the third pole, and noon has passed. Hu Shanggong announced: "Start 'testing skills'!"

The referee, Emperor Yongle, sat on top of the basin.

First of all, Zhang Guifei led several concubines to "beg for skill." ”

Zhang Linglong, who has been snubbed by the emperor for a long time, is only in her 30s, but she already has a kind of old twilight.

But today, she is dressed up extraordinarily brightly, after all, nominally, she is still the head of the harem.

Erhong has always felt that this Linglong is pitiful, but thinking about the fact that she had so many things because of jealousy and murder of Concubine Xian, she felt that it was really reasonable for poor people to have something to hate.

Zhang Guifei picked out a begging needle from the little maid's hand and gently placed the needle flat on the water.

It is strange that this thin iron needle does not sink. At this time, Hu Shanggong looked at the bottom of the pelvis and announced loudly: "It's not a coincidence! ”

Zhang Guifei resigned to the emperor in a huff. The ones who came up behind were Wang Guifei and other concubines, Jieyu. Hu Shanggong shouted: It's not a coincidence!

They retired in front of the emperor with no interest.

The last to come up were Han Xianfei and Huang Jieyu.

That Han Xian Concubine didn't understand it originally, but she just took an embroidery needle casually, and gently placed it on the water like the person in front of her, Hu Shanggong looked at it and said: "Your Majesty, the virtuous concubine Niang Niang Hui has a blue heart, and she begs to come by chance!" ”

So, Zhu Di on the dragon chair hurriedly ran to the basin, squinted his eyes and looked at the bottom of the basin for a while, and said happily: "It's really a coincidence!" Is my Yan'er the beggar fairy today? ”

"Your Majesty, don't worry, there will be the wife, the lady, and the unmarried ladies next." Hu Shanggong calmly reminded Zhu Di.

Erhong has long been on pins and needles below. She didn't know what the people above were looking at the pelvic floor, and she didn't know what "coincidence" and "uncoincidental" was. Fortunately, she also signed up for this event, and when those ladies and ladies are finished, it will be Sun Lingwei's turn to be the ladies.

Erhong and Sun Lingwei are in a group.

Who is "skillful" and who is "not skillful" between the two of us, and who will win the crown of today's "begging fairy"? She was full of anticipation.

Most of the people in front of them were "not coincidental", and many were announced to be "coincidental", however, Emperor Yongle did not step down from the throne to watch, and he may know from the voice of Hu Shanggong that "deqiao", but it was not clever enough.

"Now please wait for the ladies to line up and come up and beg." Hu Shanggong announced loudly.

Erhong, Sun Lingwei and a few other strange ladies stood in front of the basin.

Erhong couldn't wait to grab the same embroidery needle and threw it into the water, "poof," the needle actually fell into the water.

Hu Shanggong was shocked, and said in a depressed voice: "The girl is really unlucky. ”

Emperor Yongle's face also changed. Erhong hurriedly stepped aside, feeling very confused, she didn't know where she died.

Why do other people's needles float, but your own needles fall into the water?

This gameplay is really high-tech, and even Erhong, a scholar, can't figure out the way for a while.

Sun Lingwei next to him, seeing that the emperor's face was a little ugly, quickly took another embroidery needle, and carefully put the needle on the basin from another direction. ”

The unwilling Erhong also learned from Hu Shanggong's appearance, turned his head to look at the bottom of the water, oh, I saw a needle shadow appear at the bottom of the water, one thick and one thin, oh, it turns out that this is a coincidence?

Next, after Yang Shangshu's young lady threw the needle, a pattern of scissors appeared under the water, and Hu Shanggong also announced loudly: "It's a coincidence." ”

In the team of begging young ladies, the last one to come to the stage was a very plainly dressed little girl, who looked two or three years younger than Erhongdu.

She was wearing a moon-white woven flower Yangxia cloth gown, with a plain white gauze coat, a pleated skirt of fine white yarn, a mutton fat jade hairpin on her head, and a Canaan incense string on her hand.

The extremely elegant outfit, when the wind blows, it is a little thin, and it also contains a trace of sadness.

Erhong has been in this Ming Palace for almost 8 years, and she has seen most of the princesses, princes, county lords, and Miss Houmen in this palace when they gave banquets in the palace.

Looking at this young lady, she doesn't look like she is dressed as a wealthy nobleman, she looks very fresh, and Erhong feels that she has never seen it. I don't know which lady she is? (To be continued.) )