What the Mid-Autumn Festival moon looked like in ancient times is just fragments of memory.

In September Chongyang, the chrysanthemum appreciation party that started on time at two o'clock in the afternoon, she caught up seriously.

Early in the morning, everyone wore dogwood according to the custom, intending to drive away evil spirits.

Qianlong Palace, staggered, flowing water, handsome and beautiful, wine pond meat forest.

Such magnificence, such wealth, such luxury, except for the palace, who can afford it? Who would dare to swing?

The concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards are all present, and the concubines of the fourth and above in Beijing are all listed.

The head of the imperial case, the emperor is above, and all of them surrender.

The queen is on the left, the imperial concubine is on the right, and the scenery is infinite.

The four concubines on both sides are virtuous and virtuous, each with its own merits.

There are six concubines, who dares to say which one is not bright and moving?

The crown prince Long Lang is gentle and polite, the third prince Long Wen is cold and arrogant, the fifth prince Long Cong is handsome and unparalleled although he is disabled, and the ninth prince Long Lang has the smallest number of years, so he can't help but show a slight cowardice in his calmness.

As for the princesses, except for Concubine Lin Xian, the rest of the three concubines of Liang Shude have all come out, and four of the six concubines have four princesses of appropriate age, for a total of seven princesses.

All of them are elegant, beautiful and beautiful, and the young ladies in the families of the ministers present are all compared.

At the beginning of the banquet, Bai Qingting led the palace maids to take the rice brocade cakes she had worked so hard to make one by one to the low cases present.

Between the gluttonous feasts of the jade plate delicacies, the simple and elegant rice brocade cake is a little green among the flowers, which is very conspicuous and very foiling, and it is even more insignificant.

Just as Bai Qingting brought the plates of rice brocade cakes to the desk with his own hands, and secretly stretched a few fingers that were still sore to make her toothache, everyone was studying and hearing that it was the rice brocade cake made by the female official of the Bai Dynasty.

There are many royalties and magnates who have heard about the imperial kitchen, and they have revealed the mentality that they can only watch from a distance and cannot taste it in person.

Long Xuan also stared at the nine pieces of rice brocade cakes on the dark dragon pattern gold plate for a long time, there are nine pieces on each plate on the table, each piece has the length of the woman's index finger, like a full moon, and the pattern of a golden dragon in the middle of the nine auspicious clouds around the top of the head, which means that the dragon is soaring auspicious clouds.

Nine pieces, nine flowers, and take the meaning of Chongyang ninety-nine, long and long.

He studied it, this meant good, so he nodded with satisfaction and looked at Bai Qingting in surprise, "Yes, Bai Daizhao, in less than a month, he has done a decent job." ”

Except for the emperor's plate, the queen's pattern is the phoenix dance for nine days, and the rest are all chrysanthemum patterns.

After hearing this, the queen glanced at Bai Qingting a few more times, and her eyes were full of praise.

Although the imperial concubine smiled like a bright flower, the gaze of Bai Qingting intentionally or unintentionally revealed her anger.

In this regard, Bai Qingting turned a blind eye.

She bowed down and said seriously: "Back to Your Majesty, the slave maid is not only decent, but also decent. ”

Inadvertently receiving Long Xuan's questioning eyes, Bai Qingting took a few steps back, knelt down on his knees and said loudly: "Please Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, the Imperial Concubine and all the mothers, Your Highness, the princess, and the adults to taste the rice brocade cake and give Qingting some advice." ”

Everyone was headed by the emperor, and there was no room for others to speak, just smiled at her kneeling in the center of the banquet.

It's not uncomfortable to kneel on the soft red carpet, but it's not bad to kneel for a long time.

She waited for a moment, the banquet was still silent, and she sneaked a glance at the emperor, who was holding the rice cake and struggling with whether to enter it.

She moved to Liu Dehai and Lu Siji, and the two of them were also very worried, what if His Majesty spit it out in one gulp?

She didn't have to look at the others to know that the emperor didn't eat them, and they wouldn't be the first people to eat crabs.

Her craft is so scary?

"Thanks to Bai Daizhao for making this rice brocade cake to entertain the official, the official thanked him first." Jun Zhiheng smiled like a spring breeze, and turned to Long Xuan to ask: "Your Majesty, the minister is welcome, the first to taste it first?" ”

Bai Qingting hadn't finished introspecting yet, a gentle voice came from behind her, very familiar, so that she had to look back, a fairy-looking man, about twenty years old, quite a sense of male and female appearance, he was wearing a red civil official robe, and his demeanor was peerless and independent.

At this time, he was already standing in the middle of the banquet, and asked below her if he could try the rice cake she had made first.

Bai Qingting stared at him excitedly, young man, you are too promising!

Of course, such a move was accepted by everyone, and Long Xuan naturally agreed down the steps, otherwise he would be very embarrassed when he thought about the situation where he couldn't swallow it and couldn't spit it out.

Jun Ziheng took a bite, chewed and chewed, and his expression seemed to be quite enjoyable, but he always didn't feel very good, and he was the typical representative of being gentle on the outside and black on the inside.

This was the idea of Si Jingming, who was sitting not far from him.

So when he received Jun Ziheng's signal that he would also try it, he hesitated again and again, but when Bai Qingting also looked at it for some reason, he wanted to swallow it at most!

So he picked up the rice brocade cake in front of him, Si Jingming bit off most of it and swallowed it, and after half of it came to his senses, he said with a lot of anger: "It's delicious!" ”

"Your Majesty, it tastes really good." Jun Ziheng smiled and echoed Si Jingming's words, "There is an edict from Lao Bai." ”

"There is an edict on behalf of Lao Bai." Si Jingming also said.

Looking at Si Jingming's unhappy appearance, after Bai Qingting returned the salute to the two, she was really funny and angry, she had tasted her rice brocade cake, although it was not the best delicacy, but it was also an ordinary delicacy, it was not so scary, right?

"Get up, it's hard for you to do it for so long and so much." Long Xuan finally opened the royal mouth, "Si Dutong and Jun Qing have tasted it first, and they have already said that it is really good, let's try it!" ”

The royal family and officials of the same rank above her or the same rank were all accepted safely, and the officials below her paid tribute to her, among which these two young officials who were both literate and martial were particularly eye-catching.

Bai Qingting was called by the emperor, and then thought about it carefully, Wu was Si Jing Mingsi Dutong, and Wen was Dali Temple Qing Gentleman Hengjun.

One of these two was above her, and the other was on the same level as her.

Even if she can't compare with a serious official of the same level, she is still on an errand in front of the emperor, and she is more useful than any other rank.

As the saying goes, there are seven officials in front of the prime minister.

They must have helped her in the face of the emperor.

Bai Qingting smiled in return.

As soon as the rice brocade cake turmoil passed, it was first a faction of singing and dancing, and then proposed by the queen and the imperial concubine, the ladies of the family performed to add color, and the formal blind date meeting finally began.

Lu Siji also led the palace maids to serve chrysanthemum wine at the queen's signal.

It was during the Chongyang Festival last year, the original owner and Lu Siji and others led the palace maids to pick the first blooming chrysanthemums and verdant branches and leaves, and made wine with millet and rice, and then made chrysanthemum wine that was kept until the second year of Chongyang.

After the halfway tour of the wine, everyone became more and more excited, and the emperor and the mainstay of the court talked about the wine very happily, and the things involved inevitably involved the court.

Seeing this, the queen also proposed that she and the imperial concubine lead the ladies and concubines to the imperial garden to enjoy the chrysanthemums, and the prince, the prince, the princess and the young lady of the prince should find another place, or fly kites or discuss talents, or throw pots and flower arrangements or poetry and paintings, all let them play by themselves, and do not have to be confined to one place.

When the emperor heard this, he quickly agreed, and only ordered that the jokes should be played and that they should pay attention to safety.

So they divided into several roads and went away for fun.