The days fly by, the beginning of summer has passed in a blink of an eye, and another year's Dragon Boat Festival is coming.

The Duanyang Festival is second only to the Spring Festival in Daxia, so it is very lively every year, whether it is the folk or the court, it is a festival scene.

Folk have the customs of driving away the five poisons, inserting mugwort, eating zongzi for a few years, Qu Yuan, etc., on this day, there will be temple fairs, paper kite fairs, dragon boat meetings and other government-run activities in various places, and there are more places on this day every household drinks realgar wine to dispel poisonous gas and evil spirits and other customs.

In the palace of Daxia, the Duanyang Festival is an annual festival, which is more exquisite.

Before the festival arrived, all parts of the palace had already begun to sprinkle and sweep the courtyard, wipe all the furniture and items again, paste the five poison maps, smoke the house with wormwood calamus, and then hang the wormwood on the door, window, and bedside, implying to dispel the five poisons and prevent the five poisons from entering the house.

And, Pear Flower Garden also prepared the "Five Poison Play", in which there is a small scene pretending to be the appearance of Master Zhong Kui, chasing those small scenes dressed as the five poisonous insects, starting from the palace gate, running all over the palace to drive away drugs and evil spirits, and every palace must make a fuss, without exception, including those cells of the Cold Palace and the Shen Punishment Division, and even the sentry posts on the city wall are also in it.

The palace people will also go to worship the tablet of the Dragon King and the Emperor God, one is to pray for blessings, and the other is the Dragon Boat Festival is the most prosperous time of the year.

In addition to those ceremonial exquisiteness, the most exquisite in the palace are the women.

Women, not only like men, to wear a sachet filled with five poisonous herbs, but also to tie the five-color thread on the hand, the most interesting, is to give each other incense fans, and the female elders in the palace will be on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, to the younger generation on the forehead of the realgar to ward off evil spirits.

Although Duanyang Day has not yet arrived, the palace has already taken action, and you can see the palace people with five-color lines everywhere, just like a festive scene.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, and the Queen Mother's unpleasant problems are slowly gone, and the imperial doctor did not diagnose any major problems with the Queen Mother, in fact, she is just okay to take some supplements, and drink a dose of stasis medicine every three or five times, just hang it, and slowly get better.

In the afternoon of this day, Xing'er, Wang Zhen'er, and Chen Yiqing were playing colorful bracelets in the Queen Mother's study, and the Queen Mother came to join them in the fun after taking a nap.

The Queen Mother saw that the patterns they made up were too ordinary, so she called Gui Chun and Su Chun to teach the three girls.

"If you want to say that this handrope and the pattern of knotting the rope, the two girls of Chunyue and Qiuyue are the most ingenious." The Queen Mother was busy chatting over and over again.

"No, but now the two sisters are not showing you the garden." Gui Chun answered, and his hands were also busy.

"Queen Mother, do you dislike the minions and Gui Chun, think we are old, and we can't compare to the juniors?" Su Chun said half-jokingly.

Xing'er and the others were busy with the work, but they were still busy with their hands, and they had to learn new tricks from the two grandmothers from time to time. It's not busy.

"Gui Chun, give me a slap on her mouth, the mourning family has just been refreshed, and she is coming to disgrace us again." The Queen Mother said with a smile.

"Where do you dare to work Gui Chun's grandmother, I will punish myself first, old slave." Su Chun gently patted his face.

"It's too light! You're a slippery head, it's so effortless to hit yourself?! The Queen Mother continued to be unrelenting.

In Wang Zhen'er's opinion, today's Queen Mother and the two grandmothers are just like children playing at home, teasing each other, teasing each other, but seeing the Queen Mother happy, she is also happy, after all, they are all elders.

And Chen Yiqing only cares about the work in her hands, and she is extremely serious about learning from the two grandmothers.

And Xing'er, when I heard the Queen Mother say that Su Chun Mama saves effort, what I thought of was the scene I saw in the Shen Punishment Division when I first entered the palace, and I shrank my body when I thought about it.

"Girl, why are you playing so thick with your five-color bracelet?" The Queen Mother asked suddenly.

Chen Yiqing's ability to learn and do it quietly was suddenly said by the Queen Mother, as if a thief had stolen something and someone had discovered it, her hand trembled, and the flowers she had just twisted were in vain. The Queen Mother looked at it and laughed.

"Look, these little girls, where are we so clever when we were young."

"The Queen Mother Lafayette...... Qing girl is originally a clumsy girl, where can she compare with the Queen Mother when she was young, when she was at home, I often heard the family say, the most skillful thing in our Guan Long hand is the Queen Mother, you are the first child, you are the first child, Qing girl is originally rough and stupid, but she is an ordinary girl, how can she compare with you. "Chen Yiqing's sycophants are loud.

"Don't come to coax me, which of you is not smart, the bracelet in your hand, so thick, must be made for men, so that you are like stealing a fishy kitten, retract your hand, when the mourner didn't see it? Rummage through what is in her sleeve, and dare to hide it? The Queen Mother smiled as she spoke, looking at Chen Yiqing, it was the eyes of a proper granddaughter-in-law.

Chen Yiqing can't hide her spring love, her heart is all on the prince, and all she thinks about is the prince, and anyone can see eight or nine points. Now that the Queen Mother said this, she blushed with shame and hurriedly turned her back. The Queen Mother and the two grandmothers both laughed.

"What is this doing, girl?" The Queen Mother looked hard at Wang Zhen'er's hand.

"Queen Mother, Zhen'er made the tassels and tassels that fell under the sachet." Wang Zhen'er responded calmly.

The Queen Mother stretched out her hand and took a look at one that had already been done. I don't think it's good workmanship, but it's all five colors of rope, but Wang Zhen'er has extremely beautiful colors, no wonder she usually paints so well.

"Hmmm! It's really a flower, you two have your own characteristics. The Queen Mother complimented.

Xing'er was on the side, just learning from Gui Chun and Su Chun's grandmother, but she didn't say anything.

After Xing'er worshiped Mama Yuchun as her teacher, she returned to Shuqing Palace, and gradually her words became fewer, and people became more polite. And in the last month, I saw that Xing'er had grown a lot, although she was only nine years old, her waist had gradually become obvious, and her figure had also appeared, like a girl.

The Queen Mother looked at Xing'er, who was seriously following Mama Suchun to flip the tricks, and it didn't seem to be going well, because she looked at it several times, but she didn't turn it right. The Queen Mother smiled.

"Xing'er, if you can't turn it, just tell Su Chun directly, when will you be able to figure it out if you don't say anything?"

Xing'er's face turned red, glanced at the Queen Mother, and nodded. But she didn't ask for Su Chun, but followed Su Chun a few times, and finally, let her object.

Xing'er looked at the Queen Mother happily, and the Queen Mother smiled at her and nodded, silently thinking in her heart: This girl is becoming more and more stubborn.

The study was calm again, Su Chun told a few jokes to the Queen Mother from time to time, and the laughter from the study could be heard in the whole brother Shuqing Palace, and everyone could hear that the Queen Mother was very happy today. Shuqing Palace, which has been dull for half a year, has finally returned to its former atmosphere.

Finally, an hour and a half later, all the hand ropes, tassels, tassels, and knotted ropes were finished, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, twisted their necks and stretched their waists, stretching their tiredness.

Everyone was still cleaning up the table, and Su Chun Mama held a tray of finished products and brought it to the Queen Mother Lafayette.

"Queen Mother, let's write cinnabar on these knotted ropes this year."

"How?" The Queen Mother looked at everyone's works.

"You've been in a state for half a year, go to get rid of the turbidity, the cinnabar red color is auspicious, and the cinnabar can ward off evil spirits," Su Chun Mama said.

"Yes, yes." The Queen Mother nodded.

"Queen Mother!" Chen Yiqing suddenly called out to the Queen Mother.

"What's wrong, girl?" The Queen Mother and Su Chun both looked at her.

"I heard that cinnabar is poisonous, so don't use it, right?!"

The Queen Mother looked at her, smiled knowingly, and nodded with satisfaction. I thought: I really didn't see the wrong person, or the girl in my own family was caring.

"It's okay. More use is toxic, less is better. The Queen Mother said.

"Oh, that's it. Qing girl only knows that this cinnabar is a thing that is strictly controlled in our Great Xia, and it needs to be recorded for private use, and the purchase needs to be recorded, and the amount is limited, and we usually have to lock it up if we don't use it in the palace, Qing'er only thinks it is a heinous poison, so it's like this. Today, the Queen Mother said that a small amount is not in the way, and the young lady can't understand it. Chen Yiqing looked like she didn't understand anything.

The Queen Mother raised her hand and motioned to Su Chun to fetch cinnabar, and the Queen Mother wanted to order it herself.

"You girl, you lack experience. Did you know that realgar is also poisonous? The Queen Mother asked.

Chen Yiqing nodded.

"But, why do we still drink realgar wine every year during the Duanyang Festival?"

"It's not that it can drive away the five poisons and get rid of evil spirits." Chen Yiqing tilted her head in response.

"This is on the one hand, cinnabar and realgar are the same truth, although it is poisonous, but the toxicity is not so great, it is not a big problem to use less, but it can drive away evil and avoid evil."

"Oh, oh, I see." Chen Yiqing nodded. "And what happens if you get poisoned?"

"If you are poisoned by cinnabar, your face and body will fester, so if you use it in our palace, you must lock it up after using it."

"Oh! Then the girl understood. "Chen Yiqing is more favored in the queen.

After a while, Su Chun's mother brought in a small box, and the small box was filled with cinnabar one by one, printed with the word "Ouchi". Su Chun Mama held it and put it on the bookcase.

Chen Yiqing paced over and looked at the small box, picked up one and put it in front of her to look at it.

"Queen Mother, this strip of sand is quite beautiful. ”

Chen Yiqing took a path to the Queen Mother and showed it to the Queen Mother.

"Queen Mother, the old slave is dizzy, I'm afraid that the research will not be good, and the research will not be even, so call a girl to even." Su Chun Mama said.

Before the Queen Mother could speak, Chen Yiqing opened her mouth first.

"Queen Mother Lafayette, the young lady is holding one person, do you think it's good?"

"Say, mourner listen." The Queen Mother looked at Chen Yiqing, and she couldn't say how happy she was today.

Chen Yiqing first put the cinnabar strip back in the small box in front of Su Chun, then ran to Xing'er, took all the things in Xing'er's hand, asked her to stop tidying up, and then pushed Xing'er in front of the Queen Mother.

"Miss Qing recommends Sister Xing'er." Chen Yiqing smiled sweetly, "Usually a few of us, we count all kinds of work on Xing'er's bookcase, she does the best, and Zhen'er and I can't compare to her." ”

The Queen Mother nodded and looked at the two girls with a smile.

"This recommendation is good! When Xing'er returned to the palace with the mourning family, when she was on the phoenix boat, she helped the mourning family grind and adjust the color every day. ”

"Xing'er, you go and help Su Chunyan cinnabar and let her rest."

Xing'er Fu responded to this grinding errand, Chen Yiqing pushed Xing'er to the bookcase, helped her prepare all the tools for sand mixing, and looked at Xing'er sand blending with interest. Xing'er unloaded the sachets and other things hanging on her body, and Su Chun only left a sand strip on the bookcase, and she quickly put away the rest and sent it back to lock it up.

When Su Chun left, Chen Yiqing showed a weird smile, and then while helping Xing'er sort out the tools, an object was stuffed into the sachet that Xing'er had taken off......