Chapter 21: Duanyang
Changlu was wearing a crimson palace robe, with a black gauze four-cornered crown on his head, and two black trims on the cuffs and collar. Holding a jade box in his hand, he stood south and recited loudly:
"The sage has an edict, knowing that the puppet is sick with summer heat, and gives a bottle of jade dew pills to relieve the heat, and a box of spring snow runjin dan, the sage also said—
I am uproaring, and I naturally remember you. Be sure to recuperate, if the body is well, the talented people will attend the Dragon Boat Festival Day Yilan Hall Five Poisons Banquet and enjoy it. ”
Waiting for Zangjiao to say thank you softly, Changlu smiled and handed the jade box in his hand to Qin Ge and held it, bowed to Zangjiao and made a palace salute: "Slave please have a healthy jade body, and I wish you a speedy recovery." The ministry did not dare to stay for a long time, so the slave went back to the palace to resume his life. ”
"There is a labor official, and I also annoyed the middle official to return to the court, saying that the concubine thanked the saint for his reward, and I wish my emperor long live and be blessed. Chang'an, Qin Ge, you and I will send the lieutenant official. ”
He'er smiled and stepped forward to stuff the purse in his hand into Changlu's hand, Changlu pinched it quietly, the smile on his face became more and more like a spring breeze, and he thanked the talent for the reward, bowed his head and retreated.
Mo Lanyi grabbed Zangjiao's hand, and couldn't help but look overjoyed: "Although my sister is sick, she also depends on each other, and she has won the mercy of the official family." Although I have never slept in bed, I listen to the meaning of the official family, and I want to see my sister during the Dragon Boat Festival.
My sister must have a good life to recuperate, if she sees the Dragon Boat Festival, she is afraid that grace will be a matter of an eye. There are many people in this palace, and my sister must not despise her grace.
Zang Jiaofeng's eyes fluttered, and he nodded with a smile: "I know, I know everything." It's just that the uproar is a joke between you and me, and I don't know how the official family knows, but it makes me very worried.
Now it seems that the official family is not displeased, and it is necessary to be cautious in speaking in the future. My sister is okay in Hanzhu Palace recently? How does Song Zhaoyi treat you? ”
Mo Lanyi sighed: "Song Zhaoyi is a high-ranking person, and his temperament is naturally a little arrogant. I'm just careful to serve and don't provoke her, I promised to sleep last night, and she didn't say anything when I went back today, and she rewarded me with something, and I thought it was not in the way. The people in the palace are also much more polite to me. ”
"That's good, since the palace was moved, I haven't seen Sister Yuzhen and Sister Mei, if my sister has time to go for a walk, she will also greet me. The separation of the palace is becoming more and more lonely, and the love of the sisters is about to be divided. ”
Mo Lanyi also said that she had long wanted to go to see Lin Yuzhen, Mei Caiping and others, and the two of them joined hands and talked a lot of words, and then Mo Lanyi took Liu Si and tassels to say goodbye and leave.
The sun and moon fly by in the palace, and in a blink of an eye it is the Duanyang Festival. The inside and outside of the Zhiting Palace are also cleaned up, the main hall hangs the Golem of Zhong Kuifu, and the calamus leaves are planted at the door.
Zangjiao's spirit gradually recovered, and her complexion became more and more radiant. For lunch, I also ate two bamboo leaf red bean glutinous rice dumplings, a few pieces of mycoolein flat tips and half a bowl of bird's nest porridge presented by the small kitchen.
He Er smiled and brought a five-color thread knotted bracelet with her, lined with snow-white wrists, and nodded her forehead with realgar wine and cinnabar. Qiulan and Qiuzhi made two red satin embroidered five-bat small purses, with built-in incense medicine, and the fragrance was striking by their side.
The five poisonous banquets in the palace began with Youzheng, Zhao Jing first feasted the ministers in the Jun'en Hall of the outer palace at noon to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, and only returned to the inner palace to rest after the banquet was dispersed, and Youzheng set up a banquet in the Yilan Palace, and enjoyed with the harem.
Fang Wanyi's attitude suddenly improved after fighting Zangjiao's illness, and occasionally sent Lu Qi to enjoy some things, and when she got up after the lunch break, she passed Zangjiao to give a few instructions in person.
Although it is lukewarm, the words are inseparable from the bitterness. also told her that since she was in better health, she would go to the Five Poisons Banquet with her.
"You follow me according to the rules, teach you to sit wherever you want, and don't move around. Don't eat and drink easily, eat in your own garden before you go, so as not to starve to death at the banquet.
Except for saints and mothers, no one else needs to be flattered. Don't think that flattering people can lift you up, and falling into shame and laughter is secondary, in case you eat something that shouldn't be used and you are sick with me, wouldn't it be unlucky! ”
Qiulan said in the room with the words she heard in Fang Wanyi's tone, and smiled Qiu Zhi back and forth. was slapped a few times on the body by Qin Ge coming in:
"I am dead, and after a few days of good life, I forgot all the rules, and I dared to learn from my mother. Be heard if you are dead or alive. He'er served the people who went to the front hall to see that the grapes were boring for a while, so why don't you pick them up quickly, and be naughty here! This must not be the case again! ”
Qiulan smiled and went out for a while to pick up Zangjiao back, and after resting for a while, Qin Qing in the Fang Wanyi Hall came to pass the word and told the people to freshen up and change their clothes earlier, so that they could go to the Five Poisons Banquet with Niangniang.
Zangjiao hurriedly changed her clothes and finished washing, and only took He'er to the main hall of Zhiting Palace to wait for Fang Wanyi.
Fang Wanyi wore a crown of silver silk dotted emerald lotus beads, wore a pale cyan silver thread embroidered hibiscus straight collar and large-sleeved wide robe, and walked out of the hall, and glanced at the light ice plum silk lotus lotus color short undergarment on Zangjiao's body and a moon-white morning mist gauze long skirt slightly embroidered with a few weeping silk begonias.
swept the plain makeup on her face, and snorted: "It's a person who doesn't like to be public, just keep up." The palace attendants hugged the two of them out of the hall and got on their shoulders, and walked towards the Yilan Palace.
The Yilan Hall is behind the Wanhua Palace, the first major hall in the palace, next to the Wind Lotus Garden. Although it is not as wide and magnificent as the Hall of Ten Thousand Flowers, it is exquisitely constructed, surrounded by flowers and trees, and faces the water on one side. There are cornices in front of the roller blinds, carved beams and painted buildings. The inner sanctum is exquisitely ornate and splendid with gold and greenery.
Because Zhao Jing did not have many concubines in the harem, and the royal family only had two married princesses, the Wanhua Palace was not used, and the summer banquets in the harem were mostly set up in the Yilan Palace. Take it cool and comfortable, and the place is appropriate.
At this time, the Yilan Hall has been planted with calamus wormwood inside and outside, and all kinds of incense ball yarn lamps are hung high. The brocade screen furnishings in the hall open the hibiscus, and the strange fragrance flutters and the veil is light. The palace people hold the long plate of vermilion carved lacquer food box and shuttle back and forth, putting on all kinds of new fruits and delicacies.
On the left side of the front head, the golden silk nanmu arhat couch and the ebony carved lacquer pine crane long case are the sitting places of the old queen mother of Ning'an, and the sitting places of several concubines are slightly lower. The Queen Mother has always liked to be quiet, and at such a time of time, she just came out to sit down for a while, and left after a few words with a few concubines.
In the center is the table seat of Zhao Jing and the queen, two golden silk nanmu dragon and phoenix Chengxiang short couches, and four carved luodian inlaid feet and short feet. Place the official kiln plum vase flowers, incense burner silver box, tea utensils and various fruit meals.
At the bottom of the right side is the table of the two married princesses, and the remaining two sides are arranged according to the grades of the concubines. Because the Queen Mother is coming, all the concubines have arrived early. Concubine Shu and Concubine Xian sat in the first place on the left and right, and Chang Tai, the prince born by Concubine Shu, was still young, so he sat with Concubine Shu.
On both sides of the bottom are Song Zhaoyi and Shen Xiurong, Huang Xiuyi and other concubines are in the first row, followed by Jieyu, beauty, etc., and finally is the position of the talented Baolin. It is that the harem of the Great Chu Dynasty is not prosperous, and it is also full of flowers.
Zang Jiao was startled when she followed Fang Wanyi into the main hall, except for the Queen Mother and the Saint and his wife, almost all of them had already arrived, and he came so late, wouldn't it be very disrespectful.