In a blink of an eye, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and from the beginning of Maozheng, Ah Xiu took Cheng Huan to gather the people of the whole house in the hall, and the arrangements had already been assigned to stop before the hour. At three o'clock, all the furnishings needed in the garden have been counted out of the warehouse; At noon, the last batch of banquet ingredients was sent to the backyard; In a matter of seconds, the kitchen began to make time-consuming dishes; Around the time of Shen, the tables and chairs in the palace garden, including colored silk and flowers, were arranged; Before the unitary arrived, the stage sang a pre-selected lively and pleasing drama.

Zhu Yuanzhang has never been to other people's yards these days, and as for Huilan, he has never even seen Zhu Yuanzhang's face. Therefore, Hui Lan asked Bi Jin to dress herself up early, and deliberately used silk flowers to replace the decorations such as the golden silk Di Bun and the Golden Phoenix Bu Shao, and the clothes were also selected turquoise and azure. The ears are also plain green jade pendants. After dressing, I picked up the makeup mirror and looked at the bronze mirror again and again, and just heard the stage open, and I didn't wait for the girls to invite, so I came to the courtyard first.

There are 12 tables of banquets in the garden here, the men are in front of the stage in the courtyard, and the women's tables are under the corridor, and the men's banquet is separated by a piece of fresh flowers and large bonsai, which is also elegant and chic. Ah Xiu took Lian'er to greet guests at the gate of the garden, and all the people invited on this day were Zhu Yuanzhang's close ministers, so Ah Xiu did not wear extra makeup, but just wore the princess's regular clothes: the upper body is purple pine branch pattern through the shoulder persimmon-shaped short shirt, the lower body wears a smoked green inlaid onion green flower edge Xiangfeng peony yarn python skirt, and the feet wear flat-bottomed smoked gray bullet ink bow shoes. He wore a bun on his head, a pair of golden phoenixes, a flower arrangement hair ornament of a lotus sitting Buddha, and a lotus hairpin inlaid with mutton fat jade. Lian'er's clothes and accessories were selected by Ah Xiu with the help of Ah Xiu, which is roughly the same as Ah Xiu's, except that Feng Hai and Bu Shao are silver and gilt.

When Huilan entered the courtyard, she saw Ah Xiu Lian'er and the two pulling Cheng Huan, who was talking and laughing with Tang He's wife, and saw that Ah Xiu didn't pay attention to her when she came, so she endured her anger and walked to the bottom of the porch, and saw Mrs. Xu Da eating grapes and watching a play in that room, and she was not familiar with her on weekdays, so she asked the girls who were waiting, and sat directly at the table of her relatives. Seeing that the master was in a bad mood, Bichen didn't say much, so he personally poured tea for the master, moved the dried fruit plate, took out his own handkerchief, and peeled peanuts for Huilan.

After a while, there were more and more people, and Hui Lan saw Zhu Yuanzhang entering the garden from a distance, but he was wearing a military uniform, and as soon as he got up and wanted to meet him, Ah Xiu had already pulled Zhu Yuanzhang to change his clothes. Hui Lan sat down with a sneering face, and threw a few of the nuts into her mouth with a huff, chewing hatefully. Ah Xiu and the prince went, looked around, and when they saw Huilan, they asked Ying'er to take Chenghuan and come over to talk to her with a smile: "When did my sister come?" Why didn't you see it? Bijin poured tea for Lian'er, moved the grapes in front of her eyes, and lowered her hands to the side.

"My sister only cares about accompanying the princess to greet the distinguished guests, where will she see me? But today's drama and tea are good, sister try it. Hui Lan remembered the situation of robbing Bai Lian'er with words a few days ago, and her tone was softer at the moment, but she was not very enthusiastic. Lian'er saw that she was dressed very plainly today, knowing that she had a pimple in her heart, and it was not easy to mention it, so she took a sip of the tea bowl, put a grape into her mouth, nodded and smiled: "Yes, this fruit is good, it looks like it has been soaked in salt water, and it is very sweet!" This tea is also as my sister said, it is very clear. Looking around, he saw that Huilan was staring intently at the stage and listening to the play, so he asked Bijin: "You will serve today?" ”

Bi Jin looked at Lian'er, secretly nodded at his master, and nodded: "Cui Wei seemed to have a cold at the vigil yesterday, and she nested in the room today." Lian'er knew that Huilan was unhappy again, so the girl in the room couldn't bear the vigil, and she didn't ask: "Wait a minute, let the mother in the kitchen decorate her with fruit mooncakes, and you can bring them back for her." He took another sip of tea, and when he saw another man coming, he got up and went to the door to greet him.

"Now the girl in our room, thanks to her extra effort!" Hui Lan muttered coldly, Bi Zhen's heart sank, knowing that the master thought she was talking too much, Hui Lan took a sip of tea: "Peel me a few more peanuts, what are you still lazy when she leaves." Bi Jin hurriedly agreed, added tea to Huilan, and continued to peel it with his hands. Huilan saw that her face was a little frightened, and she was very unhappy, so she threw out another sentence: "I am your master, with how patient she is with you, you must be more careful with me!" Bi Jin complained bitterly in his heart, but he bowed his head and agreed with a humble look on his face.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Ah Xiu entered the room, and Ah Xiu dressed himself. Ah Xiu thought about it, put on a red twelve-chapter gown for him, and put on a jade belt of Qingyun landscape carved with a total of sixteen pieces of Hetian green jade, and changed into leather boots. After thinking about it, he took out the jade pendant of "Nafu Yingxiang" and "Must Be Ruyi" two pieces of Hetian mutton fat jade, hung it on the silk around his waist, finished wearing, and finally put on a wing crown with black ribbons and horns for him, looked at it repeatedly, and added a sugar jade wrench and a string of sandalwood hand beads, before nodding and saying with a smile: "Okay, the prince takes a look, are you satisfied?" ”

Looking back and forth in the mirror, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Madame dressed me up, it was really the best." Looking at Ah Xiu, he took her hand, stared at Ah Xiu's eyes, and said in a tone with a little distress: "Madam has worked hard, she got up early today, and she is busy until now, and her eyes are a little dark!" It's not that Huilan is not angry, she can't handle this, why bother to work my family Ah Xiu so sadly. After speaking, Laa Xiu entered his arms and sighed: "Zhang Shicheng has not yet been laid, and I don't know when he will be able to swallow the whole world as Mrs. said!" Now there are so many things to be distracted that I don't even have time to talk with my wife at night, and I lie down every day and close my eyes until the next day. Recently, I have seen that you are becoming more and more clear, I can't bear it, and sometimes I think, even if I can't go to this world, wouldn't it be a beautiful thing for me to be a herdsman couple with you? I'm really afraid that one day the world will be mine, but you won't have the strength to talk to me about those private things anymore. ”

Ah Xiu heard that he had a helpless meaning, and his heart was very sweet: a king who sits on one side, willing to say such delicate and considerate words to himself, even in modern times, is a rare good husband, not to mention the fact that men are inferior to women now. So he also wrapped his hand around Yuan Zhang, and his eyes tightened wetly: "The prince said he was laughing!" Not to mention what kind of character the prince is, just to say that my husband who Ah Xiu fancies, is it the material of the herdsmen? You also know that I am the most high-spirited, and I have calculated that the prince will inevitably sit in the world one day, facing the south and the north to prosper the temple, why bother to say these words to coax Ah Xiu's tears! ”

"That's it" Zhu Yuanzhang heard Ah Xiu's muffled voice, although he couldn't see it, he also knew that she had tears, and hurriedly diverted the words, "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival." After the moon festival, I'll talk to you all night, okay?! Ah Xiu burst into tears and laughed, pushed Zhu Yuanzhang away and said, "I don't care, is it possible that I won't go to the army tomorrow?" It's a joke for outsiders! Let's go, go to the garden, you, the master, have been changing clothes for a long time, and I have to wait for the marshal of the prime minister to pour you wine! ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, Zhu Yuanzhang wiped away a trace of tears from the corner of Ah Xiu's eyes with his hand, like a young couple, scraped Ah Xiu's nose, smiled and took her hand and walked out. "People say that our prince and princess are very affectionate, Mr. Berwyn, you give us a comment, is that right?" Xu Da saw the couple entering the garden hand in hand from a distance, and when they approached, he couldn't help but laugh and joke with Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen straightened his beard and nodded with a smile: "This is true, the prince and his wife have been so loving for more than ten years, and they have always been so loving. Now there are countless beautiful wives and concubines in the palace, and the prince is so envious of his wife, he can really be called a respectful and loving couple! The princess and princess are really our example! The two sang and harmonized, which made Ah Xiu blush, hurriedly pulled his hand back, and said to the two with a smile: "Mr. Xiangguo and Mr. are really joking, Ah Xiu is just more familiar than others because he has been with the prince for a long time." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded disapprovingly: "What you two said is really deep in the heart of this king!" This king is now considered to have many wives and concubines, but this king can only trust his wife. Saying that, regardless of Ah Xiu's shyness, he took her hand and looked at her with a look: "To this day, this king still can't forget what Ah Xiu treated me at the beginning." The story of hot cakes, you must have heard of it, today's women are only committed to me because of my power, and only my wife really loves me, a poor boy. Last year, on top of Peng Ze, Chen Youliang released a cold arrow with the intention of hurting the king, but it was his wife who stopped the arrow in the chest. In the past, people said that there were women on the boat who were easy to capsize, but you say, without Ah Xiu, how could there be today's king? As the saying goes, the grace of a drop of water is repaid, the grace of my wife treats me, the emperor and the queen of heaven learn from the earth, and teach the king how to repay it! ”

The words were impassioned, and the people around him sighed again and again. Zhu Yuanzhang looked around at everyone: "Tell me later, what more can you ask for if you have a wife like this?!" Ah Xiu blushed to the base of her neck and pulled Zhu Yuanzhang: "Just let the gentlemen stand?" Or is it that the prince of today's feast is reluctant to give everyone to eat? Let's go in together. Seeing that Ah Xiu was so ashamed that his head was pierced, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "Yes, yes!" I'm too stingy as a host, everyone, please! Today's banquet, no matter how big or small, return with joy! As he spoke, he led the crowd to the table and sat down.

Ah Xiu greeted the people at the table at the main table and wanted to retreat to the female dependents, but was stopped by Zhu Yuanzhang: "Today I said that no matter how big or small the dignity is, how can the lady sneak and play tricks and want to slip away?!" After speaking, everyone also nodded and stayed, but Ah Xiu couldn't, so he had to thank Zhu Yuanzhang with a smile and sit down beside him. A house slave handed over the play list, Zhu Yuanzhang took it, and handed it directly to Ah Xiu: "Madame, I like what Madame likes!" ”