Chapter 211: Mid-Autumn Festival
Every year on August 15 is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on August 15 is rounder and brighter than the full moon in other months, so it is also called "moon night" or "August festival". On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky like jade, and naturally look forward to family reunion. Wanderers who are far away also take this opportunity to express their longing for their hometown and relatives. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "Reunion Festival". Ling'er is not a wanderer tonight, but she misses Meng Meng who is wandering very much, where is she and when she can come to East China, I hope she is safe.
At the dinner party, people entered the palace one after another, Ling'er should have been very busy, but because of pregnancy, she unloaded her work, and sat there to watch Ah Jue and the Queen Mother are busy pointing and pointing that way, and the emperor is still in the imperial study, and he will come over after approving today's recital.
Mid-Autumn Festival banquet customs, to the court is the most elegant, such as the fashion to eat crabs, crabs are steamed with pampaches, everyone sits around to taste, accompanied by wine vinegar. Drink Suye soup after eating and wash your hands with it. Around the banquet table area, full of flowers, large pomegranates and other seasonal fresh, the mythical opera of the Mid-Autumn Festival is performed, and a screen will be placed in the hall to the east at this time, and the two sides of the screen are placed on the cockscomb, edamame, taro, peanuts, radish, and fresh lotus root. In front of the screen, there is a table of eight immortals, on which is placed an extra-large moon cake, surrounded by pastries and melons and fruits. After the moon sacrifice is completed, the moon cake is cut into several pieces according to the royal population, and each person tastes a bite symbolically, which is called "eating reunion cake", the moon cake is so big that it is unimaginable. Ling'er saw that super big moon cake just now, and she wanted to eat it when she looked at it, it was really super super big. It's just that I heard that I can't eat crabs after pregnancy, so I'm so disappointed, and I can only watch the big guy eat it this year. Today's banquet is still held in the middle of the mountain, where the field is big, today's reunion and reunion, that is, men and women sit at the same table, and the officials and princes and uncles in the imperial city above the third grade come to participate. There is a lady who is also by her husband's side.
Wen Guogong came early, with two ladies with a fate, and Ah Jue's mother was also wearing a fateful dress today, and she drew a good makeup and dressed up carefully. It seems that he wants to give Ah Jue a boost of face.
"Mother, it's really nice today." Ah Jue was busy and ran to her mother to laugh happily.
"His Royal Highness is auspicious!" Ah Jue's mother looked at Ah Jue with a smile, Ah Jue was still wearing the dark blue and red-edged robe, and his mother led him to look left and right and said, "Your Highness looks good without wearing those white and black." This dress is still so handsome on His Highness. ”
"That is, what doesn't your son look good in wear? Do you say yes? Ah Jue helped her mother to Ling'er, and whispered in her mother's ear: "Mother, Ling'er is pregnant with a son's child in her belly." ”
"Really?" Ah Jue's mother turned her face to look at Ah Jue happily, and her mouth was almost unable to close her smile.
"Really, does my son dare to joke about this!" Ah Jue whispered again: "It's not even three months, don't say it, my mother has to keep it secret." ”
"Hey, Mother knows, so do you, don't tell anyone else." His mother took her son's hand and came to Ling'er, Ah Jue's mother wanted to kneel down and salute, but Ling'er saw it and stepped forward to help her.
"Mother is here, don't be polite, there are so many people today, how can there be so many false courtesies." Ling'er smiled and led her to sit next to her, and said to Ah Jue: "You go and get busy, I can't do a lot of things, my mother is next to me, you can rest assured to be busy." ”
"That's what I mean, you're bored by yourself, and your mother doesn't have anyone to talk to here, so you just want to talk together." Ah Jue looked at the two women he loved the most, smiled and turned to get busy.
"Ah Jue has entered the palace, her temperament is different from before, and this dress looks good, and the clothes in the house before were all white and black." Ah Jue's mother didn't know what to talk about with Ling'er, so she started with clothes.
"He now has clothes of any color, and he dares to wear them, and once he even wore red, which made me laugh at him for a while. You haven't seen him wear green when he wears it, but it's ugly, Ah Jue doesn't look good in green. I don't think it's pretty. Ling'er knocked on the melon seeds, and her eyes followed Ah Jue as she walked around,
"Listen to Ah Jue, Your Majesty is pregnant, is it serious?" Ah Jue's mother didn't know what to talk about, so she remembered Ah Jue's words just now and hurriedly asked.
"Bad joy? Do you mean that vomiting? "Ling'er hasn't been exposed to these much, and some of the terms still don't understand" Well, there are some, it was good when I ate last night, but I wanted to vomit after eating, but I couldn't vomit, I retched for a long time, and the top of my stomach was uncomfortable, and it was blocked here. Ling'er said and pointed to her throat.
"That's the joy, people say that the joy is serious, it means that the child is healthy, God bless, Your Majesty and the little highness in the belly are healthy." Ah Jue's mother smiled and took the bag of melon seeds that Ling'er brought over.
"Mother taste it, it's fried in brown sugar, it's delicious." Ling'er didn't want to talk anymore, she was very tired today, so she wanted to knock on the melon seeds and see Ah Jue busy there.
"Concubine Huai Ah Jue will ......" Ah Jue's mother somehow, today seems to have opened the chatterbox, talking endlessly, I didn't find it when I went to Qi Mansion before, Ling'er was helpless to socialize, Ah Jue is really self-defeating, afraid that Ling'er will be bored, afraid that her mother has no one to talk to, but forget that they are not together at all and have not much to talk about.
Ah Jue's mother was still talking about her pregnancy, but Ling'er didn't want to listen to it anymore, so she turned her face and beckoned to Xiao Taoxin: "You go and see where Grandpa Guo and the eldest lady went, let's call over together." ”
"The concubines know where they are, go to the concubines, Your Majesty is here to rest, the peach girl can't be too far away." Jue's mother suddenly stopped talking.
"Then there is Mother Lao." Ling'er said with a smile.
"Find Grandpa Guo and the eldest lady, do you want to come over?" His mother asked.
"Mother found them and sat down, and the feast was about to begin." Ling'er got up and helped Xiao Taoxin to prepare to go out for a walk.
After Ah Jue's mother left, Xiao Taoxin helped Ling'er to walk out slowly.
"Your Majesty, why did you come out again, Your Highness should be anxious when you walked away for a while." Xiao Taoxin asked puzzled.
"Just come out and relax, and I'll go back in a while." Ling'er always felt something blocked in her chest, and she felt dizzy when she first learned to ride a horse, and she wanted to vomit, but she was retching and couldn't vomit at all. With this disgusting feeling for a while, I came to the gazebo I had been to before, and recalled the people I had met in this gazebo, I didn't come here often, and every time I came, I had memories.