Chapter 157: Mid-Autumn Festival
"Ma'am."
A grandmother dressed in a blue satin armor walked into the room and respectfully saluted the woman sitting on the Luohan bed. The woman sitting on the Luohan bed looked less than thirty years old, with delicate facial features, fair skin, no wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, wearing a big red gown embroidered with yellow hibiscus flowers, wearing a white jade inlaid red coral beads on her head, and a ruyi hairpin with a white jade inlaid red coral beads, and her eyes looked at this grandmother coldly.
"The young master is back?!"
The woman has a white cat under her hand, the whole body is snow-white, without a trace of variegation, and both eyes are blue.
"Madame Hui, the young master has sent Miss Biao back to the room."
This lady is Xiao Yuqiang, the wife of the prince of Yuwangfu, Jing Yunxing's biological mother, and Xiao Yiyi's aunt. And the grandmother standing opposite is Xiao Yuqiang's personal service Mama Zhang, who had listened to Xiao Yuqiang's instructions to eavesdrop on the conversation between Jing Yunxing and Xiao Yiyi.
"What did they say?"
Xiao Yuqiang asked casually, but Mama Zhang was shocked, but she didn't dare to hide it, so she could only tell the matter from the beginning.
After listening, Xiao Yuqiang didn't say a word, but Mama Zhang knew that this was a manifestation of Xiao Yuqiang's anger, and no one knew better than her how narrow-minded and vicious this seemingly gentle and generous lady of the prince was.
Sure enough, after a while, I saw Xiao Yuqiang smile coldly, "I don't know what to lift, I will train it well when I marry in the future." ”
After hearing this, Mama Zhang broke out in a cold sweat. This is the aunt who keeps saying that she loves her niece, and it seems that if Miss Biao really marries the Jing family, she will definitely not have a good time in the future.
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Time flies, and before you know it, it has reached August 15, and the rules left by the emperor during the Mid-Autumn Festival are that the civil and military ministers who are up to the level have to go to the palace to worship the moon and admire the moon to celebrate the harvest of the year.
It wasn't until yesterday that Bai Zhi and Zhuang Jie rummaged through the cabinets to find the county lord's dress, and Fang Yage realized that August 15 was really coming. Fang Yage's memory of the Mid-Autumn Festival night is not good, because after the overboard incident that year, Fang Yage did not go to all the activities that everyone attended. Therefore, every year because her mother and younger brother have never entered the palace, they are all in the house to accompany her.
And the father, because the mother does not go. Naturally, it is not good to go to the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet alone, so she can only stay in the General's Mansion, but her grandmother Yuan always leaves her father in the General's Mansion in the name of the Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival of reunion, while her mother is unwilling to go to the General's Mansion to compete with a concubine for the limelight.
So, Fang Yage's memory. The Mid-Autumn Festival after the age of thirteen was spent by the three of them in the princess's mansion, and whenever it was, Fang Yage felt guilty.
"Ge'er, are you hungry?"
In the spacious carriage, Fang Yage recalled the past, a little drowsy by the window, and next to Jin Rou sat Fang Yaol, wearing a silver robe today, and he was already very handsome at a young age.
"Mother brought some small pastries, if you are hungry you can eat some first."
Jin Rou opened a small four-story cabinet in the carriage. He took out a plate of exquisite pastries and handed it to his daughter. Seeing his mother's concerned eyes, Fang Yage didn't want to disappoint his mother, so he pinched up a piece of osmanthus cake and a piece of plum cake, put it in his mouth and ate it carefully.
Fang Yaol, who was watching the scenery on the side, immediately shifted his spirit when he saw the food, and quickly grabbed his favorite pastry with a small hand, and bit off half of it in one bite.
Jin Rou saw that her son and daughter ate a lot, and she was also very happy, and took out the tea cup from the cabinet. Two cups of tea were given to the two children and placed on the small square table in the carriage.
"Take a sip of tea, don't choke. Eat slowly, there's a lot more in the cabinet. ”
As he spoke, he wiped the pastry dregs on the corner of Fang Yaol's mouth with the silk handkerchief in his hand.
Today is a feast. But before Shen Shi, everyone had already set off from the palace, and the princess's mansion was relatively close to the palace, so they left late, and if they were farther away, they would have to be half an hour earlier.
The dishes at this night's banquet were exquisite, but they were more suitable for drinking. And the banquet was held late, so Jin Rou would always prepare some snacks for the children, for fear that they would be hungry. And the meals and pastries in the palace...... Jin Rou was not at ease.
Jin Rou saw that the children were eating happily, and she was also happy, as if she had thought of something, Jin Rou herself pinched up a piece of osmanthus cake and sent it to her mouth, the more she ate, the more hungry she felt, so she simply ate two more pieces.
Fang Yage was a little suspicious when she saw this, she remembered that her mother didn't like osmanthus cakes, why did she eat several pieces of it today, and she seemed to like it very much? I couldn't think of a reason for it for a long time.
Fang Zhengyun rode a pure black horse, and walked in front with the guards of the princess's mansion, looking at the laughter from time to time in the luxurious princess car behind him, Fang Zhengyun felt very bitter in his heart.
He still doesn't know how to face Jin Rou, so he always uses the excuse of being busy with official business to arrest the anti-thieves and not let him go to Qifengyuan. However, a few days ago, his daughter Fang Yaxin went to Qifengyuan to talk nonsense, and the concubine had already sent someone to tell him, so should he go and explain it to the princess? It's still like this, the two of them go their separate ways.
Fang Zhengyun still can't accept the fact that his concubine wants to assassinate Jin Rou, and it is his own repeated pampering and protection that has led to such a result, he feels that he has no face to see Jin Rou. However, what he wanted to do didn't happen, so he hid Jin Rou for the rest of his life, and just thinking about Fang Zhengyun made him feel uneasy.
Therefore, Fang Zhengyun has been oscillating between telling Jin Rou the truth or hiding the matter, and this time, he has not been to Qifeng Yuan for a month. And since Jin Rou knew about Aunt Min, she thought that Fang Zhengyun was doing this to express his dissatisfaction and anger, so she was even more disappointed with her, and the misunderstanding between the two became deeper and deeper.
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Half an hour later, the convoy of the princess's mansion finally arrived at the gate of the palace, and when an old eunuch saw that it was the carriage of the eldest princess's mansion, he immediately shouted at the top of his voice: "The eldest princess has arrived!" ”
After that, the little eunuchs shouted inside one after another, so when Jin Rou and Fang Zhengyun appeared in the square outside the palace with their daughter and son, everyone had already stood up and paid homage to Jin Rou and Fang Zhengyun.
Jin Rou smiled kindly at everyone, she was really not good at dealing with such a scene, so she could only say: "Ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to be polite. After that, he walked to his seat under the guidance of the palace maid.
Jin Rou's seat is closest to the emperor's dragon case, after all, there is only one member of the royal family who came to participate, so she is sitting down and holding the first one, and this year next to her is Ye Qingyun. Although Ye Qingyun is not a child of the royal family, he has a special status, so he is also arranged on this side.
The three tables opposite Jin Rou are the seats of the three kings, followed by the four marquis, the three dukes, the nine qing, and several ministers of Shangshu, Dali Temple, Guanglu Temple, and so on.
Because of the limited space in the council hall and the moon viewing in the Mid-Autumn Festival, this dinner was arranged on the square. Although it was not dark at the moment, the red lanterns were hung high, from the palace gate to the front of the council hall, and two rows of eighteen red lanterns were hung on each wooden stake, illuminating the whole square very brightly.
Fang Yage often thought that it was fortunate that the weather had begun to cool down in August, and the night banquet was also held in the square, otherwise these hundreds of people were wearing fancy clothes and formal clothes, and it was estimated that they would be a few hot and dizzy.
Fang Yage even thought, fortunately, this council hall is not big enough...... Of course, this royal family will never admit that it is a small council hall, and only say that it is for the convenience of everyone to enjoy the moon, which is more interesting. (To be continued.) )