In Gu Qingwan's eyes, the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet is an alternative blind date, and when the concubines are twelve years old, as long as they have not yet decided on a marriage, most of them will accompany their elders to come.

As for whether it is a concubine or a concubine, it still depends on their respective circumstances. Gu San is a concubine, but Mrs. Dingyuan Marquis thinks she is a troublemaker, so she gave her up and only took Gu Qingyan after one time, and the concubine of Dingyuan Marquis Mansion never came to the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace banquet. And Jinxiang Hou Fu only has Ke Yahe, a girl, even if she is a concubine, she still accompanies Mrs. Jinxiang Hou every year before the marriage.

And there are fighting poems every year in Yongheyuan, and the poems will be copied and sent to Heqing Garden.

If the poem is in line with Empress Chen's heart, she will inevitably have to reward something, and the person who gets the reward will naturally come to thank the Qing Garden in person, so he will open a waterway on the lake separated by the two gardens.

The ladies of various provinces took advantage of this opportunity to look at those outstanding young talents, and those girls who were not out of the cabinet would also sneak a few glances. There are countless marriages promoted in the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace banquet, and if the girl of any family gets the blue eyes of the concubines, it is another honor, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the tide is rising.

There have always been countless examples of this, which is why the provinces value the Mid-Autumn Festival palace banquet.

It's just that these are not Gu Qingwan's concerns, so the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet is really boring for her, no matter how good the song and dance performance is, no matter how wonderful the new rehearsal is, Gu Qingwan doesn't have much interest, except for saying a few words to Yu in a coping style, she only lowered her head to reduce her sense of existence.

During this period, Empress Chen and Concubine Xian invited a few little girls to the front, Gu Qingwan listened to Princess Chengjun tell the princess of Chengjun one by one about where the girl came from, how old she was, but she had a little understanding of Princess Chengjun. Although the princess of Chengjun had a very cold look on her face, she didn't expect that she was a person who was secretly observant on weekdays.

Gu Qingwan entered the palace after dinner at home, generally speaking, the palace banquet is just to taste one or two bites of each dish to suit the occasion, so as not to be embarrassed if you eat too much~ The table is already full, and the last snack is also served, but it is a plate of moon cakes and moon fruits.

I tried a bite of each dish, and after dinner, Gu Qingwan was already half full. She tasted the fruit wine very sweet before, but she greedily ate two more glasses, but she didn't expect the fruit wine to have such a strong stamina, and it was a little smoky at this time. When the mooncakes and moonfruits were put on the table, she was taking a few sips of the hangover tea.

After drinking this hangover tea, there was a coolness, Gu Qingwan didn't want to eat anything sweet, so she pushed it aside, and she was holding the hangover tea and sipping it slowly.

Gu Qingwan listened to Princess Chengjun say what the girl who was called up now came out of the mansion, so she heard Cui Di come to her side and pushed the plate with moon cakes: "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet, the plate of moon cakes and moon fruits on the princess's table has not moved, I'm afraid it's not good." In any case, the princess should eat a bite or two to suit the occasion. ”

Xu saw that Gu Qingwan was still good at talking, so Cui Di boldly stepped forward to persuade her.

Gu Qingwan glanced back at Cui Di, and said with a smile: "How can you manage it so finely, I'm afraid I will get tired of eating this moon cake, if you help me use a piece, you must have not used dinner yet." ”

Before Gu Qingwan could take out the moon cakes from the plate and hand them to Cui Di, Cui Di suddenly knelt down: "Thank you for the princess's love, if it is a good slave to serve Aunt Liu Yi will reward me with a piece of fresh food tomorrow." ”

Gu Qingwan knew in her heart that Cui Di didn't dare to eat it, so she just smiled and revealed it, and Cui Di no longer persuaded Cui Di to take two steps back silently and hide in the dark.

It's just that after a while, Gu Qingwan heard a "huh" from the right, and then heard Yu's somewhat exaggerated laughter: "I see that the moon cakes at this year's palace banquet are sweet but not greasy, but they are very good, why didn't Princess Rui even taste her face?" Ah, the dishes on this table have never moved, but they are not to the princess's appetite? ”

Gu Qingwan secretly rolled her eyes, how can this Yu clan have to intervene in everything!

"There's still an hour, I'm not in a hurry, what is Madame anxious?" Gu Qingwan frowned and glanced at Yu, and then stabbed lightly.

Yu didn't think it was a pestle, but there was a little flattering smile on his face: "I'm not thinking about Princess Yu, it's nothing else, it's just that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet, and the princess of moon cakes wants to taste a bite to suit the occasion." Although this palace banquet was organized by the queen's mother, Kehui and the princess also contributed to it. ”

After saying that, the Yu family winked at Gu Qingwan: "What kind of character the princess is, the princess also knows, the princess is like this······ If it reaches the ears of the princess, it will not sound very good. ”

Gu Qingwan glanced at the Yu family coldly, if the Yu family didn't have a big mouth everywhere, how could such a trivial little thing reach the ears of Princess Huihe?

If Gu Qingwan had to compete with the Yu family in the past, but today she only wanted to keep a low profile, so she scooped up the top mooncake and ate two bites. Sure enough, as Yu said, it was sweet but not greasy, and the moon cake was very small, Gu Qingwan simply ate the whole whole, and then picked up the hangover tea and drank it.

The palace banquet is like a flowing water, and there are so many links every year, singing? p>

Wanton squid s p>

Gu Qingwan was only glad that she didn't have to be in front of the concubines and concubines, and after listening to Liu Yi's recitation of the poems that came over for the twentieth choice, everyone was guessing who the top three were today, but Gu Qingwan was bored picking her palms with her fingernails.

Empress Chen and Concubine Xian hand-picked a few girls in the palace to comment on the poems as usual, and if these people guessed the leader correctly, they would naturally get some colorful heads.

"Reward some gold, silver, yellow and white things every year, it is too sweeping Yaxing, so it is better to change the reward this time to 'Bu Zhuangyuan, let's do it.'" As he spoke, he instructed Liu Yi to take out a piece of moon cake the size of two palms, and stacked it in three parts of different sizes.

This "Bu Zhuangyuan" is a folk custom in the south, which divides the moon cakes into three parts, large, medium and small, and stacks them together. Then there is the roll of the dice, the big ones eat the big pieces, and the small points eat the small pieces. It is usually fun between family members, but Queen Chen exchanged the reward for palm-sized moon cakes, which is really not cost-effective in Gu Qingwan's opinion.

But everyone in the audience was unanimously good, and said that this was a little less coppery and cheesy, which really made Gu Qingwan smile bitterly.

There has been no news from the other side of the Lama Garden, and in the Qinghe Garden, the poetry review and guessing are in full swing, but Gu Qingwan felt a little cramping in her stomach at this time. She arched her body slightly and endured it for a while, only to feel more uncomfortable, and her face became more and more pale.

She ate very lightly in the house, and there was nothing in the dishes of the palace banquet that she needed to avoid.

Gu Qingwan turned her head and glanced at Princess Chengjun again, she remembered that Princess Chengjun had also drunk hangover tea, that is, she had eaten two more mooncakes, and her face was as usual at this time. And the Yu family on the right is talking to the lady at the adjacent table, and it is also good to see.

It seems that it is really a problem with her own physique, Gu Qingwan can only sigh unlucky.

Xu is face was too ugly, and Cui Di, who was standing beside Gu Qingwan, asked softly, "Princess?" ”

Gu Qingwan only felt that her vest was sweating, so she took a breath and said, "There is an adjacent palace near Qinghe Garden, and I feel a little sick to my stomach, so I want to go out of the palace." ”

Cui Di frowned and thought for a while, and then said: "Qinghe Garden is surrounded by pavilions and water pavilions, and it takes a quarter of an hour to walk to Zhongyang Palace. ”

Gu Qingwan gritted her teeth, and seeing that everyone's eyes were attracted by the poems on the stage, she said to Cui Di: "You go and talk to Mama Huang first, and then come and take me to Zhongyang Palace." ”

Cui Di nodded, trotted all the way forward, and came back quickly after a while: "Mama Huang told the princess to be careful, go and come back quickly." ”

Gu Qingwan nodded silently, and then said to Princess Chengjun and Yu Shi beside her that she was going to go outside to sober up. Yu only spoke to the lady at the next table, and only responded casually, while Princess Chengjun just told Gu Qingwan not to go too far, just walk around the lake.

The Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet should sit in Qinghe Garden for nearly two hours, if the concentration is not good, how can you sit still, most of the people will go outside to walk around in the middle, as long as they wander around, it doesn't matter. Therefore, Gu Qingwan didn't pay attention when she came out of Qinghe Garden, and besides, she still hid in the dark all the way, and lowered her head, but not many people could see clearly that it was Princess Rui who went out.

Out of Qinghe Garden, Gu Qingwan's steps became bigger, and she arrived at Zhongyang Palace after a while.

Zhongyang Palace was originally a palace where a concubine lived, and later the concubine passed away, because the location was a little secluded, but there was no concubine willing to live, so it was vacant.

In fact, before arriving at Zhongyang Palace, Gu Qingwan felt that the stomach colic was much better.

Coming out of Zhongyang Palace, Gu Qingwan saw the full moon hanging in the air at a glance, and when she looked at it from a distance, it seemed that she could reach out on the surface of the lake. The moonlight flowed quietly, spreading the coolness all over the ground, Gu Qingwan felt that the hustle and bustle in the palace banquet was very noisy, and the pace of going back was not as fast as that.

Cui Di led the way in front, and as soon as she turned a corner, Gu Qingwan saw a person hurriedly walking in front of her, and her back looked like the female official Hao Yue beside Queen Chen.

Hearing Cui Di whisper "Aunt Haoyue", Gu Qingwan was sure that the person was Haoyue. The surroundings were very quiet, even though Cuidi's voice was very low, Haoyue, who was walking in front, heard someone calling her name, and suddenly turned her head.

Haoyue saw Cui Di first, her mouth moved, and she was about to turn around and leave, but she saw Gu Qingwan standing behind Cui Di unexpectedly, and a trace of joy suddenly appeared on her face.