Sunday, April 20, 1879, Easter, the first Sunday after the full moon of the vernal equinox.

Sunday is a good day with sunny weather, a lucky Easter holiday, why say lucky?

Because Easter does not have a fixed date every year, the weather is also unpredictable. From March 22 to April 25 at the latest, the weather can be very summer, winter, rain, snow, and even hail.

So in a wayward spring, it is not easy to have a good weather for Easter.

The long table on the green lawn outside the palace was filled with a large number of Easter eggs for relatives and friends, which were painted by Joey's whole family, no matter how big or small, all the family members sat together and painted in the most brilliant colors of spring on the day before Easter.

Easter eggs are usually hard-boiled eggs or eggs with the yolk removed. For dyed pigments, it is not the paint or paint we imagined, but a pure natural color.

There is yellow from turmeric root, green from spinach, red beet from red beets, and the more vegetables, the more intense the color. And Joey's grandmother, Queen Augusta, also has a trick, which is to add an appropriate amount of vinegar when cooking vegetables, so that the boiled vegetable juice is thicker and brighter.

Generally speaking, if you want to participate in the Easter "Fuck Out" game, you need to cook it for more than half an hour. The competitive Joey, on the other hand, secretly boiled an egg over low heat for a long time after mixing a pot with salt, for the purpose of preparing to cheat in the Easter "Fuck Out" game.

As soon as the eggs are boiled, they are dyed, and the best eggs to dye are the ones that have only been out for a week. At this time, a layer of air will be generated between the egg white and the eggshell, so that the color will not be dyed too much on the egg white, otherwise the Easter egg egg will not taste good.

Colored eggs also need to have a good appearance, that is to say, the eggs must be shiny and become a shiny easter egg. To do this, wipe the stained eggs with fatty meat, preferably several times.

After some careful dressing, the old egg that Joey used to cheat can finally sparkle in the sun.

In addition to Easter eggs for children, there are also sacred rabbits and fluffy chicks

First of all, the Easter Rabbit is not a hare, the Easter Rabbit looks very much like a rabbit, but there is still a great difference between them, the most important point is the weight, the difference between the two is relatively easy to distinguish, the Easter Rabbit is only half the size of a rabbit, it is a small rabbit.

Secondly, the Easter Rabbit is a very homely rabbit, as long as it settles, it will live in one area and will not move, and it is a pet rabbit that can live for seven years.

Finally, in the Easter Bunny Fairy Tale, all the Easter eggs are laid by this Easter Bunny, who is also the pet rabbit of Ostara, the goddess of harvest in Germanic mythology.

Fluffy chicks are also a traditional gift for children at Easter, but in modern times, considering that children do not raise chicks, this custom has become a custom in today's Germany, where parents take their children to children's museums to see chicks come out of their shells.

The three main events of Easter: Easter egg painting, Easter egg game and Easter Bunny, the womb is ready, but a fun Easter for children is not only about playing, but also about eating.

On the long table on the green lawn, there are also sweet chocolate bunnies that children love, and chocolate eggs with cream fillings.

In addition, Chef Franzken has prepared a variety of desserts, starting with a sponge cake followed by a long list of cheesecakes, Bonaparte fruit cakes, Easter croissants with chocolate fillings, Easter butter bread with a whole egg, chocolate puffs with cream, cupcakes with eggs, and a large plate of hard-boiled eggs with a variety of sweet, sour and salty salad dressings.

The crown princess was not idle, and for this family gathering, she baked a hot cross bread with British flavors and a strong cinnamon aroma, and a heavy oil fruit cake with 11 marzipan balls, representing the disciples of Jesus.

In the evening, Chef Franzken will also serve a carefully grilled lamb steak.

Easter is not only a holiday for children, but also for adults.

Compared with children's gifts, the gifts for adults at Easter are much simpler, usually a bouquet of white, fragrant iron cannon lilies.

In Germany and England, people like to use the lilies that bloom in spring and before Easter to represent the holiness of Jesus Christ in their hearts, especially the white iron cannon lily, which is regarded as their "resurrection flower" in Protestantism, representing the purity and holiness of the heart, and is an indispensable flower in Easter.

Today, Joey's and the whole family have to change into brand new clothes and shoes to go to church for Easter prayers, especially Princess Victoria and Joey's two young sisters, Sophie and Margaret, to bring "Easter hats" decorated with fresh flowers and plants, and wear bright "Easter women's clothes" to go out.

In short, Easter is an important traditional holiday in the West and in Germany after Christmas.

Easter is always about bunnies, eggs, chocolates, lamb, flowers, new clothes, games and fun. Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are two days of holiday time for children and adults to go on a spring outing.

Today the Potsdam Palace is a festival for a large group of children, in addition to the children of the Crown Prince Frederick's family, including the son of the Prussian prince Karl, that is, the same as Joey, from the surname to the first name, Joey because he is more than a year younger, so he can only be called Joachim the little by the relatives of the Hohenzollern family.

and Cousin Joey, Sophie Marie Victoria, the youngest daughter of the Grand Duke of Baden. Because it was a family reunion, Wilhelm I's good son-in-law, the family of the Grand Duke of Baden also came to the palace, in addition to the young daughter, there was also an adult son, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leopold August, Prince August has been Wilhelm's best friend since he was a child and is also an alumnus of the University of Bonn.

Grandma Joy, Empress Augusta's favorite cousin and heir to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prince Karl August brought her cousin and wife, Princess Paulinne of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and their three-year-old son, Wilhelm Ernst, to this year's Easter in the Queen's Palace.

Inviting Grandma Joy's cousin was, on the one hand, a gesture of goodwill from Crown Princess Victoria to the Empress, and on the other hand, because the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach has always been a staunch supporter of the Hohenzollern family, from the organization of the German Customs Union to the Anti-French League, until the establishment of the German Empire, they have firmly stood behind the Hohenzollern family, and two queens in a row are from the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach.

The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is a collection of scattered territories scattered throughout the Prussian province of Saxony, including Eisenach, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and the most important industrial city in central Germany, where Liebknecht's German Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) was founded in 1869.

Therefore, there is also a hidden implication of inviting Prince Karl August, that is, Crown Princess Victoria wants to hint or warn Prince Carl August in private, pay more attention to the labor movement in Eisenach, and Crown Prince Victoria does not want his disagreement with Liebknecht to lead to the destruction of Germany's famous "Weimar Silver Age" due to a possible strike.

Then there was the arrival of Sir Grusson's family, who came to Berlin on Saturday, including his daughter and son-in-law and 10-year-old grandson, Thomas William Stolling. Sir Gruson's grandson, Thomas William Stoling, was happy to see everyone, but he was disgusted to see Joey, for he was the one who called him uncle less than a year older than Joey.

Joey, on the other hand, has nothing to do and always likes to talk to this nephew.

Joey's Aunt Anna, also known as the Babbage family, is also invited by Crown Princess Victoria to attend the holiday party of the Crown Princess, and naturally Joey's new friend Dreyll Babbage also appears.

Following the Babbage family is an irrelevant follower, and it can't be said to be irrelevant, after all, he is Joey's physics teacher, Mr. Charles Parsons, and he is also the son of Earl Rose, an acquaintance of the crown princess, since he is uninvited, he can only be invited into the palace, as for whether he came to celebrate Easter with everyone, or for some other reason, everyone naturally knows.

But the discerning people, when they saw the unkind look on the face of Joey's stern beautiful math teacher, Miss Ada Elizabeth Babbage, stopped talking.

Joey knew how strict his math teacher was, and in addition to teaching him, Elizabeth was also teaching his best friend Raeder, the beautiful math teacher's own brother.

But if Van Reddell dares to be naughty, in a daze, and inattentive, he will definitely be hit by his sister's board, Joey is shocked every time he watches it, and Teacher Elizabeth directly admits that if Joey does not do well in the math test she organized, he will also end up with Raeder.

Raeder also entered the Berlin School of Arts and Sciences with Joey as a classmate with the help of the crown princess, and in less than two weeks of the same class, Joey thoroughly saw the high level of Raeder's mathematical talent, but Raeder told Joey that he often couldn't answer his sister's math problems at this level of math, and sternly warned Joey that whoever his sister wanted to beat, then he couldn't dodge being beaten.

Now the math test has become a nightmare for Joey.

And Joey looked at his physics teacher who dared to come to the palace to die, and there were only two words left in his heart.

When the people were almost there, the adults and friends of the Hohenzollern family led the children to the church next to the palace in the early spring morning sunshine to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ with Easter Mass.

The Easter Mass, or early morning prayer, in the church, is the same as in Joey's previous life, and the rituals and rules have not changed in the slightest.

Easter morning prayer is not only sacred but also joyful for the children, and Joey and the other children lined up around the church altar with glass jars that had been prepared, lit candles, and held them in both hands, singing happily as they walked.

The song sung by Joey is a traditional German Easter song, "Mache dich auf und werde Licht" (I am bathed in your light)

Mache auf dich auf， und werde Licht，

I have set you on fire and turned into light,

Mache auf dich auf， und werde Licht，

I have set you on fire and turned into light,

Mache auf dich auf， und werde Licht，

I have set you on fire and turned into light,

denn dein Licht kommt.

for thy light comes slowly, and drenches me.

The simple lyrics are accompanied by melodious melodies, and everything seems so sacred and solemn against the backdrop of the dancing candlelight in the hands of the children.