Article 16. Chapter 4 Autumn Harvest Ling

Tianbao cloth comes to tea. When she was drinking tea, she suddenly remembered Fan Jiang in Zhaotai Palace, and pictures appeared in front of her: her confident smile, the old Spring and Autumn Sutra, and the Buddhist beads that she had coiled on her wrist all year round. When she left Zitai this time, she had a very unpleasant quarrel with Fan Jiang, just for a woman with no name...... She also habitually resisted, or sympathized with Ponzi, she thought so seriously, and the light singing voice wafting from Bai Pingdu nearby interrupted her thoughts.

Two **-year-old girls walked quickly from the opposite courtyard, their colorful clothes fluttering, like two butterflies fluttering.

......They put the bamboo baskets under the stone steps, took off their shoes and socks, and ran in barefoot.

One of the girls was the first to kneel down and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, they are fishing in the lake, what a fat and big autumn fish, the chef saw it, and said that he would cook fish tonight." As she spoke, she made exaggerated gestures, shaking her head with a flower top, which was very attractive.

The other also caught up and hurriedly said: "Lu Shaofu is also there, the palace maid can't stay idle, and the ladies of the fisherman Cailing went on a boat to Cailing, just now Cailing Lady also gave me a water chestnut cake, but it is fragrant." As he spoke, his throat rolled for a moment, and then he asked, "Is Your Majesty going?" ”

These children are all the daughters of eunuchs, and when they enter the palace to serve girls, they are all at the age of playfulness, and they usually face Fan Jiang with good rules, and they dare not come out, but they are not so restrained in front of Yuan Lingjun. Because she loves to play, she doesn't discipline others very much.

"What, you guys sneaked out to play again, didn't tell Aunt Kunjiao."

The girls lowered their heads, and their attitude of admitting their mistakes was very sincere, "My son's family is wrong, please punish him." ”

Yuan Lingjun sat up, rubbed his calves, looked up at the two children with immature facial features, and knocked the soft flower tops on his head with his palms, "Is it really that fun?" ”

"Uh-huh!" The two children nodded in unison.

Tempo glared at them. The two little ghosts dare to pinch your majesty, believe it or not, they will beat you later.

The two little boys grimaced at him fearlessly, turned their heads and looked at Yuan Lingjun expectantly with bright eyes, their eyes blinking, as if they were trying to invite: Go, go, it's really fun, if you don't come, you will regret it.

Yuan Lingjun finally stood up, stepped on the clogs to the side of the door, grabbed the door frame, and looked in silently. Kunjiao was seriously studying the ink, and Qu Yi was still writing hard in front of the case.

She quickly turned around, "Then let's go." Let me change my clothes. ”

Under Tianbao's incredulous gaze, Yuan Lingjun ran out quickly. 陛xià was actually ...... was coaxed away by two children.

Make lotus as clothing. September is the season when the water chestnut is ripe.

It was hot outside, Yuan Lingjun, who wore a hat, sat in a small boat, leaned over to pick up the floating leaves, and picked off the water chestnut at the root.

Cai Ling's female surname Fang, is a person with a little knowledge, and Yuan Ling is slowly familiar, so he talked to her about the types of water chestnut, "Our water chestnut here is green, there are two horns, a few years ago a Chen country vendor bought my water chestnut, said that the water chestnut over there in Nanchen has red and purple, there are no horns and four corners, the types are different, the taste is also different, I have not tasted Chen Guo's water chestnut, but the vendor said that the best taste is Qingling." The simple and industrious fisherwoman smiled proudly and sweetly. Yuan Lingjun was also infected by her laughter, and a pair of pear vortices swirled on his red cheeks.

Seeing that the boat was full, Fang Niangzi said to Yuan Lingjun: "Lady, it's all full, let's not pick it up first, go ashore and rest for a while." ”

Yuan Lingjun lifted the brim of his hat with his fingers and looked not far away. "Okay, there's a grass pavilion over there."

"You can't just go there, the emperor's line is here, and the commoners will lose their heads if they go." Fang Niangzi said with a smile, and then propped up the boat and shook the boat out.

There is a row of small thatched huts on the shore, and many people come in and out under the sheds, and they are busy.

Yuan Lingjun followed behind Fang Niangzi, while observing carefully. Most of the people in the sheds are old people and children, who are peeling water chestnuts at a rapid pace, young women go to the rafting to collect water chestnuts, and men go to the lake to catch autumn fish.

Looking closer, some of the sheds set up iron woks, firewood burning below crackling, an old woman at this time to open the lid of the pot, a burst of green smoke "poof" out, curling up to the sky, but also accompanied by the refreshing sweet fragrance of leaves.

"What is steamed, it is so fragrant and fragrant, like the smell of steamed lotus leaves." She sniffed vigorously and swallowed.

The old woman smiled and narrowed her eyes, took the lotus leaf and wrapped a black and strangely shaped thing, and handed it to her tremblingly.

Yuan Lingjun froze, holding the lotus leaf at a loss.

"It's a steamed water chestnut, so let's break it open and taste it." Fang Niangzi broke the black-brown shell in two, revealing the pink and white diamond meat inside.

Yuan Lingjun bit down, a slight sweetness spread in the mouth, after eating, the mouth still left a fragrance.

"Fresh water chestnuts are only delicious when they are steamed in time, so peel them immediately after picking them, and cook them in the pot after peeling some of them."

said that it was a rest, and the Cai Ling girl was not idle, sitting on the stone slab and began to peel the water chestnut. Yuan Lingjun has always been curious about new things, and she also tried to peel it, first she had to bite it with her teeth, she bit it according to the skin, but she didn't bite it, "It's a hard skin." "There are rows of tooth marks on the outer skin. She looked at a bunch of fishermen and women who were peeling the lings, and always felt that they were very light and bit them open.

"The skin is very hard, you have to master the method to bite it, and it is not so difficult to peel it after you are familiar with it." Fang Niangzi showed her again. Yuan Lingjun has a high level of comprehension, and he learned it in two strokes.

"The lady has never picked the water chestnut, and I don't know that the one that has just come out of the water is the most tender and fragrant and delicious." Fang Niangzi gave her the one she had just peeled.

There is a big difference between raw and cooked, raw is crisp, juicy, and sweet. With such a good food, Yuan Lingjun was happy to enjoy it, and couldn't stop, Fang Niangzi said that it was necessary to stop in moderation, and it was not good to eat too much, so she stopped it.

Peeling off a basket, Yuan Lingjun suddenly remembered that it had been a long time, and 90,000 was still on the shore, so he hurriedly said goodbye to Fang Niangzi and rushed to the direction of the palace. Thinking about it on the way, the two little ghosts led her here, but she didn't know where to run and play crazy, and she dared to run around if she was not familiar with life, which was really unreassuring, and when she returned to the palace, she must let Kunjiao discipline her well, and she couldn't let them be too casual.

Passing through the upper lake, several fishermen were collecting their nets, and huge fat fish were struggling and fluttering in the nets.

She stroked her dress and was about to jump over the puddle, when a big fish suddenly popped up in front of her, bluffing her and almost falling down.

"Oops! Lu Shiyi, you scared me to death, why did you jump out all of a sudden. She stared, patted her chest angrily, and looked at Lu Yaoxue, who was dressed in cloth, incredulously. (To be continued.) )