Early in the morning of July 11, Jiang Qingchen and Yun Xiangrong sent Mrs. Yun back to Jiangnan, and Yun Xiangrong was not worried about things on the road, because she knew that Jiang Qingchen would arrange it properly.

Sent to the farewell pavilion outside the capital, Yun Xiangrong didn't cry, because she understood that she had her own responsibilities as a princess, and her mother, as the mother of the Yun family, also had responsibilities that she had to face, and everyone had to do things well under their own identity.

When the two returned to Beijing, Jiang Qingchen directly sent Yun Xiangrong to Wankelou, because it was time to read the account books every week.

Jiang Xi'an has almost cleaned up the Accord that he has recently put on the plate, and the tailors of the Yun family have been moving one after another recently, and the plan is that on the eighth day of August next month, the Accord and the Yunjia clothing shop in Wankelou will open at the same time.

Jiang Xinxin has been very busy recently, first in the name of sending Daifang dressing boxes, visiting various prefectures, and then taking his good sisters to patronize under the pretext that the Yunjia clothing shop has not opened and there is little business. As a result, business is booming now.

Yunjia Clothing Factory received orders from the masters to work overtime.

Yun Xiangrong and Jiang Xinxin have negotiated, this Accord belongs to Jiang Xi'an, Jiang Xinxin went to talk to his second brother, anyway, in the end, Jiang Xinxin became a shareholder as a landlord, and Jiang Xinxin shared half of the income from the Yun family's clothing workshop.

Jiang Xi'an and Ye Haihua both think that Jiang Xinxin is very good like this, every day when he is in the Hou Mansion, the whole person will be suffocated, and when he comes out to see more knowledge, people's thoughts will be different, not to mention that it is under his nose, nothing will happen.

Everyone understands that it is difficult to have Jiang Xinxin's Yun family clothing shop, because Yun Xiangrong is a princess, and her identity is limited, so there is no way to find customers, but Jiang Xinxin's identity is very suitable.

July 15, Obon.

It is a Buddhist festival and every year the temple holds a puja. The people would worship their ancestors.

In order to show that the royal family is close to the people, in recent years, led by the crown prince, the royal family members will gather to hold a morning meeting in the royal temple Wanguo Temple, and then open the temple, and the people will worship again.

The members of the royal family must arrive at the Wanguo Temple at the end of the day, which is really too early.

The Wanguo Temple was built on the Xiaoqin Mountain on the outskirts of the city, and the temple was located halfway up the mountain, and everyone had to get up early in the morning to set off. in order not to delay the business.

Yun Xiangrong was also a maid early in the morning and set off in advance, this time it was Jiang Qingchen and Li Yanfei who were in charge of the safety of the Bon Festival at the same time, after all, this is a festival that the people of the whole capital will celebrate, and there can be no mistakes.

Li Yanfei led the forbidden army to enter the Wanguo Temple in the afternoon of the day before, and had already done several rounds of security inspections, but did not return home at night, and lived directly in the temple.

Yun Xiangrong also arrived at the Wanguo Temple before the time of the main day in order to cooperate with Jiang Qingchen, but soon everyone also arrived, the seven princes plus the five imperial sisters-in-law, and the three princesses, the eldest princess and the second princess have already started a family, so they don't need to participate in this event.

Although the fifth princess is young, she also came this year, and such a young child still doesn't understand anything, so she follows the practice, which is also helpless and due to her identity. If the concubine is strong, she will not plead with the emperor and avoid the five princesses to do the meeting.

Yun Xiangrong has never participated, but it doesn't matter, what others do, just follow it yourself.

The Bon Festival is composed of three ceremonies, the altar is purified, the altar is circumambulated, the orchid basin is offered, and the monks are eaten.

The pure altar circumambulation is to first go around the altar by the abbot, chant the scriptures, sprinkle the ceremony, the royal family members accompany the circumambulation, recite the "Bon Sutra" three times, and then kneel, with the abbot to recite the blessing, wishing the world so the injustice of the relatives to be exceeded, the congratulatory speech, the public stands. After kneeling and disbanding.

The Shanglan Bon offering is that all the monks and members of the royal family enter the altar at the same time, worship the Buddha three times, preside over the incense, recite the dedication, and the ceremony of the Shanglan Bon is over.

When the monks are fed, they eat fasting.

It is impossible for the members of the royal family to eat in the same place as the monks, but they all eat the same thing, they all go to the same room to get porridge, but the princes will go to a separate room to eat porridge, and the royal sisters-in-law and princesses will also go to another separate room to eat porridge.

Yun Xiangrong took the hand of the fifth princess and walked at the back of the royal family, the fourth princess deliberately walked a few steps slower, and stuffed something into Yun Xiangrong's hand, which felt like a small wooden box.

Ning Muying said to Yun Xiangrong's ear: "Third sister, this is a pickle, put it in a bowl before you serve the porridge, don't let others see it, that porridge is particularly unpalatable." ”

Yun Xiangrong knew that it was not the first time for Ning Muying to participate in the Bon Festival, this was experienced.

Everyone is lining up to serve vegetable porridge, the prince came out, Yun Xiangrong is still standing at the door of the meal, the prince's porridge is basically nine points full, it seems that the porridge is okay, and there are some green leafy vegetables floating in the rice porridge.

But when the princes saw the prince's adoring expression, Yun Xiangrong understood that this porridge must be particularly unpalatable.

The second prince came out, and the porridge was full of eight points, and then the princes were basically seven or eight points full. The royal sisters-in-law are almost, basically six or seven points full. The four princesses came out with seven points.

Next is Yun Xiangrong, there is no one in the meal, everyone is waiting outside the door.

When taking the bowl, you can put the pickles in the bowl, and then go to serve the vegetable porridge, no one will see it, Yun Xiangrong originally planned to fill seven points, but the result was not estimated, and one spoonful was already eight points full.

You can't go back, so be it.

The last is the fifth princess, she is too small, her height is the same as the porridge bucket, Yun Xiangrong helped her fill half a bowl, and she was sent to the palace of the Hou Mansion to raise her grandmother before, and she must hold at least half a bowl of porridge when she participates in the Bon Festival.

Walking into the room, the royal sisters-in-law saw Yun Xiangrong's eight-point full porridge, and said that this was the consequence of no one to point out, although the fifth and sixth sisters-in-law also participated for the first time, but the princes had told the princess before that this porridge could not be filled with much, because it had to be eaten up, but it was really difficult to drink.

The fourth princess has a ghost in her heart, although this behavior is not cheating, but it is always bad to be seen, so she took Yun Xiangrong and the fifth princess to eat porridge on the table in the corner of the room.

Everyone eats very quietly, knowing that the porridge ceremony will be over after eating, and they will return to the capital after a rest, and at noon, the Wanguo Temple will be officially open to the public.

"Third sister, this porridge is so bitter, what should I do if I can't finish it?" The fifth princess whispered. Before she came, she had been taught by her grandmother in the palace that the vegetable porridge that the monks were given must be drunk, otherwise it would be disrespectful.

But the room was really too quiet, even though the fifth princess was very quiet, everyone heard it.

In fact, Yun Xiangrong also just understood what was going on, the ingredients of this porridge are no problem, the green vegetables should be spinach, spinach can be used, but can you blanch the water first, cooking porridge directly under spinach is very bitter, maybe the temple monks have a light taste, and there is very little salt in the porridge, and the bitterness is particularly heavy when drinking.

The pickles of the fourth princess are really life-saving, and they don't feel so bitter when eaten with porridge.

"Can you eat half of it? I'll help you eat the rest. Yun Xiangrong said.

This porridge is not delicious, but you can't let children break the rules, everyone is ugly. Yun Xiangrong knew that the fifth princess was only seven years old after all, and she was still raised by the palace with brocade clothes and jade food, and she had tried her best to drink a few sips.

"Xiangxiang, I'll help you eat some." After Ning Muying finished speaking, she directly poured the porridge in the bowl of the fifth princess into her own bowl.

Yun Xiangrong didn't say anything more, and took the bowl and arrived.

The fifth princess was so happy, and hurriedly said thank you to the third sister and the fourth sister, and then it was like taking Chinese medicine, without tasting the taste, and cleaning the porridge in the bowl in a few bites.

As a result, there were eight members of the royal family in the room, and the fifth princess became the first to finish eating, taking the empty bowl to make an errand.

Yun Xiangrong and Ning Muying also felt that the fifth princess's approach was very right, there was no need for eating etiquette to eat this porridge, it was to find abuse by themselves, and the two of them also picked up the bowl and took the spoon, and ate all the porridge in a few bites. Go out on a business trip.

The royal sisters-in-law suddenly felt that this princess was too strong, and she was too squeamish to eat slowly, so they all ended the battle quickly, and the empty bowls were handed over.

After handing over the bowls, today's ceremony ended, very successful, and everyone was relaxed.

The five sisters-in-law gossip together, and the three princesses play rope flipping together.

Cai Jindan wanted to talk about the market again, but directly asked the fourth imperial concubine Gu Lingwei to take over the topic, saying that July was a ghost month, and there were no happy events such as getting married, and when she waited until August, there would be more happy events, and she knew that many families were going to get married.

Cai Jindan was very surprised, obviously the four imperial concubines didn't want to cooperate with themselves like last time, but they didn't know what the other party meant, so they could only say that there were many families, and they knew who they were.

Everyone was resting, and suddenly they heard some panicked voices. Soon there were a few more Praetorian guards at the door. Do you think something is going on?

The third princess held her stomach and walked to the door to ask what was going on? The forbidden army said that they didn't know, and that it was Commander Li who asked them to come.

It didn't take long for Li Yanfei and Jiang Qingchen to appear at the same time. The expression was very serious, and he came directly at the fifth princess.

Li Yanfei gave a salute first and said, "Princess, may I ask your maid, has the magpie had something unpleasant recently?" ”

"Huh? Not really. Cai Jindan said.

"Just now I found a woman who fell from the top of the mountain in the backyard, dead, wearing a palace maid's costume, her face has been blurred, I have checked all the entourage, we suspect that it is the princess, your maid magpie." Jiang Qingchen said.

"If nothing special has happened to her recently, then the possibility of suicide has been ruled out, and we should let Jing Zhaoyin take over the matter." Li Yanfei said.

Cai Jindan understands that Jing Zhaoyin's takeover means that the death of the palace maid will become a well-known thing in the city, and he must tell the truth for the sake of face, otherwise he will lose face.

"That, that's right, the magpie may have committed suicide, she was martyred." Cai Jindan said.

Jiang Qingchen understood that it was embarrassing to say so much in public if something happened to his maid, so he took the initiative to say, "Princess, let's talk outside." ”

The fifth princess couldn't ask for it, she understood that the Admiral of Jiumen was in charge of the household registration matter, although the magpie sold the deed in his own hands, but he also had a record in the government, and he could only explain the matter to Jiang Qingchen clearly, and he could directly cancel the person.

Otherwise, it will be more troublesome for those who have a heart to investigate in the future, if she dies in the palace, it is impossible for the palace to be exempt from responsibility.

The fifth princess went out, everyone just felt embarrassed, it was okay for the maid to commit suicide, how to choose here, or the Bon Festival, how ugly it would be for your master, the sixth princess said, there is a saying among the people that dying in the temple can be overtaken and go to the Western Heaven Elysium.

Everyone was reciting the "Obon Sutra" just now, and the maid may think that she will have a good birth in the next life.