The five islands in the Taiye Pond are the largest in area, with the small square pot and the small Yingzhou being the largest, but the scenery of the former is exquisite and strange, and it is inevitably extraordinarily undulating and rugged, and there is almost no open space, which is not too suitable for large-scale feasting.

In contrast, Xiaoyingzhou has a natural flat land, which is enough to accommodate everyone participating in the summer feast.

The group followed the Empress Dowager to the pier not far in front of Yanfu Palace, several painting boats have been waiting for a long time, these painting boats can be seen to be useless for a long time, temporarily picked up, the paint is bright, in order to cover up the smell, have to smoke a lot of spices. At this time, before people approached, they could already smell a strong aroma.

The Empress Dowager is getting old, and she frowned slightly when she saw this.

Empress Dowager Ji also covered her nose with a handkerchief, looked at the queen reproachfully, and said: "Even if the summer banquet is abrupt, since it has been decided to be on the island a long time ago, why don't you pack up the painting boat in advance. ”

"After returning to my mother, my daughter-in-law asked people to prepare the painting boat from the time she took over the errand." Empress Ji hurriedly excused herself and explained, "It's just that the palace hasn't been swimming in the lake for a long time, and the people below have also slacked off, so that except for a small boat that Minghui and the others used to play, there is nothing in the painting boat that needs to be repaired...... Why don't your daughter-in-law ask someone to get that boat? ”

"Nonsense!" Empress Dowager Ji said unhappily, "How many people can be carried in the small boat that Minghui and their sisters usually use?" They are young and can withstand the bumps, and these people in the mourning family can't bear it. ”

The Empress Dowager sighed and said, "That's it, the mourning family is on a whim, and it is difficult to be the queen." Then let them extinguish the incense from the ship, open the curtain to breathe, and let us go up again. ”

Empress Ji breathed a sigh of relief and was blessed: "Grandmother Xie, my daughter-in-law will order someone to do it." ”

So after a delay on the dock, the group landed on Xiaoyingzhou one after another.

This small Yingzhou is full of grass and trees, and only a soil slope is set up in the northeast corner, because it is planted with green pines, it is called Pine Ridge.

Although the rest of the place is not as flat as a horse, the terrain is also flat, as far as the eye can see, the flowers are strange, the branches and leaves are green, the stream from nowhere is meandering, the murmuring sound is endless, the path is wide and low, and it is only occasionally necessary to go up and down a few steps. Probably because the royal family has not visited for a long time, this place is inhabited by many birds and small beasts, and they are not afraid to see people coming, they look curiously, and from time to time they also come to the nearby branches to observe.

When the Empress Dowager looked at it, she was a little emotional, holding the hands of the palace people, and turned her head sideways to the Empress Dowager Ji, who was half a step behind her, and said: "When the first emperor was still there, he liked Xiaoyingzhou the most, and often brought his mourning family here to rest...... In a blink of an eye, so many years have passed. ”

The first emperor she said was not Xiaozong, but His Majesty Emperor Shenzong.

When Empress Dowager Ji listened, she was also embarrassed: "My daughter-in-law still remembers that you liked Shicuixuan the most at that time, and this time the queen set up a banquet and placed it in front of Shicuixuan for us." ”

"Really?" The Empress Dowager bowed slightly, saying that the Empress Dowager had a heart, and asked, "Has Hengyun Pavilion been cleaned?" ”

"That is the place that the first emperor went to most often when he came to Xiaoyingzhou, where can I miss it?" Kita

Later, he said, "It's all packed, are you going to go?" Daughter-in-law with you? ”

The Empress Dowager was stunned for a while, and said, "Besides, there is something serious about me today." ”

While speaking, I arrived at Shicuixuan, a small courtyard at the foot of Songling, surrounded by different shades of emerald green, without a trace of purple and red. There is a small waterfall hanging on the side of the Xuan, the drop is only two people high, the water color is clear, the heat of hope is eliminated, in the small waterhole under the waterfall, there are many deep and shallow green leaves, and there are more than a dozen koi fish floating and swimming.

The view of red, green, and green is very good-looking.

The carp were not surprised to see people coming, but gathered on the shore with their heads probed, as if begging for food.

The Empress Dowager stood by the waterhole for a while, and personally leaned over to pick up a pebble that was washed clean and round by the waterfall, saying that when she was young, she came to the island with Emperor Shenzong, and she loved to choose all kinds of stones here...... The smile in the corner of her eyes faded as she spoke: "Later, there were more and more beautiful ones, and I had to pick out the eyes, only to know that it was the palace people who wanted to please me, and quietly changed the stones that were selected from outside, and I felt bored." ”

Seeing this, the Empress Dowager Ji hurriedly diverted the topic, coaxed the Empress Dowager to say some side words, and then hugged her into Shicuixuan.

…… Well, entering Shicuixuan means that the Empress Dowager and the three queen mothers, the queen, the lords, the three princesses, the county lord, and their attendants all entered.

Everyone else was waiting outside.

For fear of making noise to the bigwigs inside, although the palace concubines who stayed at the door did not line up neatly and said nothing, they did not dare to be too presumptuous, but they walked around a little and occasionally talked in a whisper.

Yun Fenghuang looked around, and went to find Yun Qingman, who knew that Yun Qingman, who was still not far away just now, was nowhere to be seen, or Xue Xiaoge looked at her and asked, and informed: "I saw Sister Qingman just now, she doesn't seem to be feeling well, let the palace maid help her, and go over there, probably to find a place where no one is there to relax." ”

"What's going on?" Yun Fenghuang thanked her, chased in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, he didn't go far, and he saw Yun Qingman behind a tall camphor tree, most of his body was hanging on the palace maid, covering his chest, vomiting repeatedly.

There was a sour smell around the master and servant, and when I looked at the ground again, I had vomited a lot of filth that had not yet been completely digested. Thing.

Yun Fenghuang hurriedly stepped forward to help the palace maid support the person, and asked in surprise, "Eat something bad?" ”

“…… It's not so good on a ship. Yun Qingman raised a miserable white face, his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and he said weakly, "The palace people in front of my sister have been pinching the tiger's mouth for me until I go ashore...... It seems to be seasickness. ”

Although she was born tall, as a concubine destined to marry, she was raised in the deep boudoir and never took a boat before, so she didn't know that she had such a problem.

At this time, I was dying, but I regretted it, "I knew that I wouldn't be able to ask my sister to help me take leave, and I didn't know."

I can't hold up for the rest of the trip. ”

"Who would have thought of that?" Yun Fenghuang and the palace maid helped her to sit down on the clean grass nearby, and comforted, "Don't worry, there are so many people in the palace, maybe the queen has an arrangement, and she is resting here, I will ask people to ask, first clean up the things you vomit, in case others wander around and see it." Look again for any medicine for seasickness...... If you really can't do it, I'll send you back quietly. ”

Yun Qingman asked worriedly, "Is it done?" It's so lively today, the Queen Mother and the three Queen Mothers are here......"

"It's just that there are more people to get it, and there is not so much effort to pay attention to us." Yun Fenghuan doesn't think this is a difficult thing to do, after all, whether it is her or Yun Qingman, they are not indispensable characters for the summer banquet, who cares if they are absent or not?

So he sent Xile to run errands, and sure enough, it didn't take long to bring two small servants with brooms and dustpans to clean up, and brought the queen's words back, saying that the queen didn't expect that someone would be seasick, the key is that the liquid pool is so big that Yun Qingman is so dizzy, so there is no seasickness medicine on the island, if Yun Qingman feels that it is really unbearable, you can send her back to Tongxia Palace to rest first.

Yun Qingman hesitated for a while and decided not to go back first, firstly, she relieved herself a lot after vomiting, and secondly, today was an opportunity to get together with her mother's family, and she didn't want to miss it.

So Yun Fenghuang sat under the tree with her for a while, until Xile came over to remind her that in the open space in front of Shicuixuan, the furnishings of the banquet such as tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks had been placed, and the palace concubines who had spread out had gathered over, I was afraid that the Empress Dowager and others would come out soon, so they would go over and meet together.

After they passed, they saw that the open space, which had just been empty and could accommodate the Empress Dowager and other ceremonial guards, had been paved with colorful canopies, and the seats were spread out one after another, and the screens were lined up, dividing the entire banquet venue into two parts.

Judging from the style and color of the tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks, they are arranged according to the left of the man and the right of the woman, while on the side of the female dependents, the inner woman is on the left and the outer woman is on the right.

In the center of the feast, there is a small open space, and a one-person high platform is set up, which is thought to be used for silk and bamboo singing and dancing.

At this time, the foreign ministers should have landed on the island, but they have not yet appeared, and they are detained and waiting elsewhere in order to avoid suspicion.

Not long after, a waiter holding a dust whisk walked out of Shicuixuan, hurried away, and soon another person came out, beckoning the palace concubines to line up and silence them.

Soon, the chamberlain who had left before also walked out of the forest with a large group of foreign women who were ringing and dingling, and sat down in the table in turn.

The two sides hurriedly finished saluting, and before they could say a few words, the housekeeper coughed and reminded everyone not to be silent.

Immediately, from the thin gauze of the screen and the carved gaps, I could see that the courtiers invited to the summer banquet lined up according to their status, and walked slowly from the path behind the cuixuan.

The position where they sat was just blocked by the screen, and only the silhouette of the shadow building could be seen on the women's seat. Yun Fenghuang glanced at it a few times and was not interested

Interestingly picked up the glass cup in front of him and took a small sip of rose dew.

Yun Qingman watched without blinking, and suddenly leaned into her ear and whispered, "I saw Daddy and them." ”

Yun Fenghuang said "um" without raising his head: "There should be a chance to meet later." ”

Yun Qingman was about to speak, and he caught a glimpse of his mother-in-law making a "shhh" gesture towards him, and hurriedly sat upright, pretending that he was very demure and ladylike.

Waiting for the ministers to whisper to each other and sit down, someone entered Shicuixuan to inform, and after a while, everyone gathered around the empress dowager to come out, and the people sitting together got up from their seats and knelt down to welcome the phoenix.

After the Empress Dowager entered the banquet, she called up, asked everyone to sit back, and had to say a few words of greeting with the relatives and important ministers, and condoled a few elderly and loyal courtiers, and saw that the time was about the same, and ordered a banquet.

The dishes of the banquet came in at the same time as the singing and dancing, and the originally quiet forest suddenly became lively.

After three rounds of drinking, the Empress Dowager and others left the venue under the pretext of changing their clothes, leaving the place to the juniors.

Seeing this, Wei Hengyan immediately walked over, pulled Yun Fenghuang and Yun Qingman, and said why don't you go for a walk together?

When she said this, she gave Yun Fenghuan a wink.

Yun Fenghuan comprehended and said, "Qingman just saw her father and brother, do you want to find someone from your family?" There are so many people here, and I don't know if we can get together later, so why don't we look for them together? ”

Wei Hengyan immediately agreed, she didn't want to go directly to Deng Chengzhai, who was not a relative, but Yun Qike, the brother of the Yun sisters, was the same as Deng Chengzhai and read with the Son of Heaven, and he had been a classmate for eight years, whether it was to introduce Deng Chengzhai's personality in private, or to help introduce him to contact Deng Chengzhai in person, he was an excellent candidate.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have seen the Empress Dowager and those people leave, so she hurried over to find Yun Feng Huang Yun Qingman.

However, at this moment, a maid came from the opposite side, saluted them, looked at Yun Qingman and said, "Fourth Miss, Madame, please come over and talk." ”

(End of chapter)

Lewen