Chapter 603: National Day
December 16th. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
National day.
Today's court meeting is earlier than usual, because after today's court meeting, the emperor will lead hundreds of civil and military officials to the Temple of Heaven to worship, asking God to bless Yue Liang with smooth wind and rain, and the country rich and the people strong.
After the festival is over, the palace will open on time, and the emperor will lead the members of the royal family and important officials of the court to ascend the tower to deliver a message of prayer for the National Day to the people who have been waiting in line at the palace since last night.
Guang'an Street outside the palace will also distribute free refreshments specially made for the National Day in the dim sum room in the palace to the people after the emperor finishes his congratulatory speech, one bag per person. Although it is not a precious thing, but this is the dim sum room in the palace specially made for the National Day, only on the day of the National Day, and it is also distributed for a limited time, these dim sum is made exquisitely and preciously, chic and beautiful, and it is very rare for ordinary people.
Every year on the National Day, the people in Liangdu City are looking forward to the distribution of dim sum on Guang'an Street. The shape of the dim sum varies from year to year, and although it is just for the national holiday, it is a fun event for many people. The reason why such an interesting event is arranged in the palace is mainly to have fun with the people, create a pro-people image of the royal family, and also make the atmosphere of the National Day more lively.
After the emperor finished his congratulatory speech in the Spiegel Tower, it was probably almost noon, and at that time a grand and grand luncheon would be held in the Spiegel Tower, and the three-in-two palace competition of the King of Chef competition was held at this luncheon.
The luncheon was attended not only by the princes and ministers, but also by representatives of the common people. This is a banquet with many participants and is very lively, although only the emperor can participate in the rating at such a banquet, which makes Su Miao feel a little stingy, but when it comes to eating, the honorable ones plus the representatives of the people can eat, in this way, if you count it carefully, there are a lot of people. Therefore, although only the emperor is the judge, there are still a lot of dishes that need to be made in the competition, and today's competition is also a hard work, physical work.
Earlier, Lord Jiang ordered Su Miao to enter the palace today.
Kechen is the time when the emperor begins his sacrifice at the Temple of Heaven.
So Su Miao entered the palace very wittily and walked slowly towards the Spiegel Tower with a yawn.
She came from Xueyizhuang, and the night before Huiwei lived in Huixiang Building, the two of them were not together, Su Miao entered the palace at this hour, and Huiwei and Tong Ran should have arrived.
Su Miao was led to the side hall behind the Spiegel Building by the little eunuch who led the way, and while yawning, she thought, Lord Jiang would definitely be verbose again when she saw that she had only come over at this hour, and it was estimated that she would scold her angrily for being casual, and her ears would be calloused.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked to the side hall, he saw Lord Jiang in cotton clothes standing at the door trembling alone, walking around to ward off the cold, hearing footsteps, turning his head, and seeing that it was her coming, he was so happy that he almost jumped up. He was so excited that he was about to burst into tears, and walked over in three steps and two steps, his trembling voice overflowing with enthusiasm:
"Miss Su, you're here!"
Su Miao was taken aback by his excessive enthusiasm, took half a step back in surprise, and asked wryly:
"Master Jiang, are you alright?"
He didn't even scold her for being late!
"Miss Su, come in! Let's go inside! Let's go inside! Master Jiang smiled so hard that his old face seemed to be blooming, and even the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were stretched, urging Su Miao one after another.
Su Miao was inexplicable and looked at him with suspicious eyes.
Lady Jiang kept urging her to hurry in behind her, smiling dryly as if he was using her as a shield.
Su Miao was confused, climbed the steps suspiciously, pushed open the door of the side hall, and walked in.
The side hall was much warmer than the outside, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers.
Aftertaste and Tong Ran really arrived a long time ago, one of these two people sat in the east, one sat in the west, the one sitting in the east was drinking tea carelessly, and the one sitting in the west was shaking a fan in the light breeze of the clouds, and the distance between the two spanned a palace. It was supposed to be a picturesque and dazzling picture of beauty, but it looked a little weird, tight, stiff, cold, and the solidified air made everyone who just came in feel suffocated, and it was no wonder that Lord Jiang would rather freeze outside the door than come in to warm up.
The sound of the temple door opening alarmed the people sitting inside, and the previously stagnant atmosphere was broken, and new air was injected, driving away many gray shadows.
Aftertaste and Tong Ran looked at it at the same time.
"You're here so early!" Su Miao said that she walked into the side hall, went straight forward, sat on a soft couch under the window in the middle of the palace, took out a meat bun from her arms, peeled off the oil paper, took a big bite, and then looked to the left, then to the right, and laughed, "Why did you two sit under the wall?" The corner of the house beast town in the school town? ”
As soon as she finished speaking, Aftertaste stood up.
At the same time, Tong Ran, who had been sitting crookedly in the chair, put away the folding fan and stood up.
"Didn't eat in the morning?" Aftertaste walked over, sat next to Su Miao, asked gently, straightened the hairpin on her head in the right direction, and then glanced coldly at Tong Ran, who was also walking over.
"I didn't have time." Su Miao replied while munching on the meat sandwich.
Tong Ran received the aftertaste of the gaze, and his eyes were slightly dark. He sneered, slowly walked to a chaise longue not far from the soft couch, stroked the hem of the gorgeous purple robe, leaned lazily on the chaise longue, shook the folding fan gently, looked at Su Miao, and asked with a smile:
"Miss Su, your eyes are so swollen, did you have insomnia last night?"
"Nope." Su Miao heard him say that her eyes were swollen, and she subconsciously rubbed her eyelids and said.
The tip of the aftertaste of the nose moved, frowned, and suddenly leaned over and sniffed at her lips, and the brow furrowed even tighter:
"You've been drinking?"
"I drank two glasses with my eldest sister and Chan'er last night, and I drank two glasses, and I didn't get drunk." Su Miao said that the day before the competition, no matter how casual she was, she would not let herself get drunk.
"I forgot to congratulate Miss Su," Tong Ran squinted at a pair of narrow willow eyes, shook the folding fan, and said with a smile, "Congratulations to the girl's family for actually producing a phoenix egg, Miss Su San is actually the daughter of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, a veritable golden branch and jade leaf, and the future concubine of the martial king, this time the Su family is really amazing!" ”
Su Miao looked straight at him with indifferent eyes, but the corners of her lips were slightly hooked, and she said with a smile:
"That incident was a mistake by Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, Chan'er is my sister, and it has nothing to do with Her Royal Highness the eldest princess."
Tong Ran was stunned, the news he heard was real and accurate, he didn't expect Su Miao to simply deny it.
"Spread the rumors about my sister again, be careful that I kill you." Su Miaopi said with a smile.
Tong Ran looked at her face, her expression when she threatened him seemed a little playful to him, he slowly shook the folding fan in his hand, looked at her, and after a while, smiled.