As soon as the Duanmujun and Duanmufei sisters arrived at the entrance of the garden, they were greeted by a palace maid and welcomed them to a few sycamore trees by the lake.

Under the dense shade of the trees, it was very lively, and many boys and girls were surrounding the long red lacquered wood cases under the trees, which were full of bamboo strips and papers, and it seemed to be a mess.

"Duanmu ......"

The palace maid was about to explain something, when she saw Yunhua smiling and waving her hand at the sisters, and beckoned: "Ah Jun, sister Scarlet, come here!" ”

Duanmu Fei glanced at the table, and Han Xing's mysterious words couldn't help but appear in his ears: "...... Scarlet cousin, you remember to bring another ingenious maid. ”

At this moment, she suddenly realized that this was what Han Xing's words meant.

"Sister Scarlet, do you think the lanterns I made look good?" Dangui carried a white rabbit lantern and proudly showed off.

Lan Tingyun, who was beside Dangui, sneered, and teased unceremoniously: "Dangui, you just pasted some paper on the lantern shelf......

"That's also the paper I made with my own hands, the rabbit eyes and rabbit mouths that I drew with my own hands." Dangui raised his chin and shook the white rabbit lantern in his hand happily.

Lan Tingyun shook her head helplessly, and the other girls on the side couldn't help but laugh.

"Yunhua, are we going to make lanterns?" Duanmujun looked at the half-made lanterns on the table and asked curiously.

Yunhua nodded, "I heard from my mother that there was a sudden snowstorm in Mozhou, the lower reaches of the Mohe River froze, and many people in several counties in Mozhou froze to death, and hundreds of people died of freezing and starvation every day......

With Yunhua's words, the girls around them quieted down, and the atmosphere was solemn.

"The emperor just got an 800-mile urgent fold this morning, so there is this lantern festival, and tonight everyone has to make a lamp and hang it on the branches to pray for the people affected by the disaster in Mozhou."

However, few of the young girls present knew how to make lanterns, so most of them were just pasting paper on the lantern shelves made by the maids of the palace, and painting pictures or poems on the lanterns.

Duanmu Fei looked at the messy tables in front of him, picked up a slender bamboo strip in one hand and a bamboo strip knife in the other, and said eagerly: "Sister, let's make lanterns too." ”

After the voice fell, the surroundings became quieter for a moment, and the falling needles could be heard.

The eyes of several girls were focused on the cold and shining bamboo knife on Duanmu Fei's right hand.

In an instant, the scene of Duanmu Fei kicking the shuttlecock and throwing the pot flashed quickly in front of the girls' eyes, and their expressions became complicated.

Yun Hua swallowed his saliva and looked at Duanmu Fei's white left hand without blinking, and couldn't help but worry about the safety of her left hand...... However, how can I say it so as not to hurt my sister's self-esteem? Yunhua tried to consider the sentence.

"Zhen Zhen," Duanmu Jun cleared his throat, his eyes were a little strange, and quietly proposed, "Let's divide the labor!" I'll make the lantern, can you draw the lantern? ”

Yun Huadeng's eyes lit up, it was really Sister Mo Ruo, a good idea!

Yunhua immediately affectionately took Duanmu Fei's hand and said with a smile: "Sister Scarlet, I just made a lamp...... I remember that the dress you drew for Han Xing last time was so beautiful, why don't you draw a lamp for me! ”

"Sister Yunhua, what do you want to draw?" Duanmu Fei was distracted, and boasted with a smile, "I not only paint flowers and birds well, but also those mountains and forests can be painted, speaking of which, this is also the blessing of autumn hunting, I used to look at paintings to paint, there is always a bit of tangible and boneless ......"

Duanmu Fei talked about the painting of birds and beasts with great interest, and at the same time, put down the bamboo knife in his hand, and the girls around him breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that they had prevented a "bloody case" from happening.

Yunhua quietly exchanged a look with Duanmufei, and with a smile on his face, he pulled Duanmufei to the hexagonal lantern he made, and casually stuffed a sheep's hair pen into Duanmufei's hand, "Sister Scarlet, you can just draw it." ”

Duanmu Fei thought about it, dipped it in ink, and directly drew it on the lantern, one by one, painting all six sides of the lamp in one go.

Before he could dry the ink, Dangui said eagerly: "Hurry up, hurry up! Turn the lights on! ”

After the candle in the lamp was lit, the lamps around the candle were illuminated, and the paintings on it became brighter and clearer.

The Great Compassion Willow Guanyin, the Shengde Dragon Head Guanyin, the Shengwen Sutra Guanyin, the Pure Circle Light Guanyin, the Great Mercy White-clothed Guanyin and the Gassho Lotus Lying Guanyin, the six portraits of Guanyin jumped on the paper.

The postures of the six Guanyin are very different, but they are all dignified and dignified, with kind faces, and they seem to have seen the vicissitudes of the world.

The girls just looked at these statues of Guanyin, and they felt solemn and pure, and their hearts were calm.

Before they knew it, they fell silent again, and no one spoke for a long time.

"Buddhism is boundless, Master Guanyin should bless the victims of the disaster in Mozhou to get through the difficulties as soon as possible!" Yunhua folded his palms and sighed at the lantern.

The other girls also silently closed their eyes and clasped their palms, praying, and the atmosphere was solemn.

When Duanmujun opened his eyes, he happened to see two familiar figures entering the garden, and he couldn't help blurting out: "Your Highness......"

It is either a princess or a prince who can be called His Royal Highness, and several girls around him also looked at Duanmujun's gaze one after another.

Anping and Feng Yan's mother and son entered the garden side by side, the two of them were also dressed very elegantly today, Anping was wearing a duck egg green cloak, and Feng Yan was wearing a thin black riding costume, as if he couldn't feel the chill of the autumn night at all, and his heroic appearance was radiant.

The mother and son, who are very similar between their eyebrows, are both outstanding, even if they are coarse clothes, they can't hide their outstanding and dazzling faces, but they also add a bit of dust.

Duanmufei and Duanmujun stepped forward a few steps one after another to greet Anping.

"Are you making lanterns?" An Ping raised his eyebrows slightly and said with a smile, in a good mood.

After Duanmu Fei said something in Chu Qingyu, he was a little worried about Anping, and he would go to Changyue Palace almost every day in the past two days to ask Anping for peace, and Anping has always been in a good mood, and it seems that he has not been affected by the threat of sealing the horse, which also made Duanmu Fei feel a little more at ease.

Duanmufei immediately nodded in response, and warmly beckoned An Ping to come and see the lantern she had just painted for the lord of Yunhua County.

An Ping's heart moved, and he said with a smile: "I'm not good at making lanterns, but Ah Yan is very good at making lanterns." An Ping said, his smile deepened, he turned his head to look at Feng Yan, and blinked quickly, "Ah Yan, why don't you make a lantern and let Scarlet draw it for you." ”

"Won't it be too troublesome for the fourth girl Duanmu?" Feng Yan looked at Duanmu Fei inquiringly, looking polite.

Troublesome? How can it be troublesome! Duanmu said in her heart, she was worried that she didn't know how to make up for the "damage" she caused to Feng Yan, now it's good, the opportunity has come.

After working hard to pay off her debts, she will be able to sleep peacefully at night in the future, and she will never be awakened by the Feng Yan who fell asleep again.

Thinking about it, Duanmu Fei felt that a spark of hope appeared in front of her eyes, and she nodded with a smile: "It's just that the effort of raising your hands is not enough to worry about." She opened her eyes wide and tried to tell him that she was useful.

Feng Yan felt that Duanmu Fei seemed to have something to say, and after thinking about it, he asked thoughtfully: "Fourth girl Duanmu, what do you say we should do with lanterns?" ”

He smiled slightly, his beautiful face became more and more clear and translucent under the light of the lights around him, and his phoenix eyes were bright.

He'd have to show Vera how good he is at making lanterns!

Duanmu Jun nodded secretly, feeling that Feng Yan respected his sister's meaning very much in everything he said and did, which was very good.

Duanmu Fei was stunned, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she muttered in her heart in embarrassment: She doesn't know what the level of Feng Yan is at making lanterns, if she casually says a kind of lantern that Feng Yan won't do, isn't that the face of Feng Yan in public?! Isn't it a good intention to do a bad thing, and a new debt is added to the previous debt?

At this moment, a casual male voice sounded in the back: "Ah Yan, I remember that you did a good job." Jun Ran appeared shaking the folding fan, trying to hold back his laughter, he had been hiding aside and watching the show for a while.

"It's good, I'm good at cutting paper." Duanmu Fei hurriedly nodded in agreement, and cast a grateful look at Jun Ran, "I'll cut the sky, Feipian and the dark night." ”

As she spoke, she herself had a little itchy hands, so she picked up the pen first and drew a few horses with a wave of ink......

Feng Yan was not idle, picking up the bamboo strips and sorghum straw on the table.

He didn't seem to be satisfied, so he simply picked up a bamboo strip knife and cut the bamboo strip himself, "brush ......" In the light, the cold knife light was everywhere, and the sound of the blade cutting bamboo and the sound of breaking the air staggered sound, attracting a lot of attention.

also includes Duanmu Fei, who has just painted a few galloping horses.

The others looked at Feng Yan's eyes with appreciation and admiration, but Duanmu Fei felt even colder on his neck, and silently said to himself in his heart: She must work hard!

Feng Yan naturally noticed that his own Zhen Zhen was looking at him, and became more and more proud, and the bamboo knife in his hand also made it faster and more powerful, and thought in disgust: This knife is too blunt, if he uses his treasured scimitar, Zhen Zhen will know that the knife work he has performed now is not half of it!

In the sound of "brushing, brushing, brushing", Duanmu silently picked up the scissors and cut the paper......

Duanmujun, who was not far away, was pasting lanterns while looking at the two of them from time to time, with a light smile in his eyes, and said in his heart: Zhen Zhen and Feng Gongzi have always been quite compatible.

After two teas, Duanmu Fei cut the paper, and Feng Yan's marquee frame also began to take shape, his movements were very skillful, light, with a strange rhythm.

The marquee is much more complicated than the ordinary lantern, to make a wheel axle in the lantern, glue the paper-cut to the axle, when the candle is lit in the lamp, the heat will push the wheel axle to rotate, forming a picture like "you chase me", hence the name of the horse lantern.

It was the first time for Duanmu Fei to look at the human-made marquee, and he was accidentally fascinated, staring curiously at Feng Yan's slender and powerful fingers and the marquee that was gradually forming under his hands......

Feng Yan was happy that her own Zhen Zhen was looking at her at first, but after a while, she couldn't stand her eyes, the tips of her ears began to burn again, and her heartbeat became faster and faster......

"Zhen ...... The fourth girl of Duanmu ......" Feng Yan suddenly stopped, and wanted to try to let Duanmu Fei do something else, but when she saw her raise her eyes to him suspiciously, her eyes were shining.

When the two of them looked at each other, Feng Yan's mind was almost blank, and he had nothing to say: "Let's try the new fire gun tomorrow, right?" ”

When it comes to the new firecracker, Duanmufei's eyes are brighter and radiant.

At this moment, she had forgotten all about what debts she owed to pay off, and she nodded her head without thinking, a little eager to see the power of the new firecracker.

Duanmu Fei's mind accidentally ran to the fire gun, his soul flew for nine days, and his thoughts ran away.

Feng Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stared at Duanmu Fei with a smile for a moment, and continued to do the marquee. He had to hurry up, he couldn't bear to be stared at by Zhen Zhen so closely.

So, when Duanmu Fei came back to his senses, he found that the marquee for sealing the flame had been completed.

At the same time, the lanterns of the other people around were also completed.

With the sound of the chamberlain, "The emperor has arrived", everyone's eyes looked at the entrance of the garden, and a group of harem concubines, princesses and princesses, and noble ministers surrounded the emperor in bright yellow dragon robes and walked towards this side, which suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention.

In this autumn hunt, the queen did not accompany her as in previous years, and the emperor naturally became the imperial concubine Yeluchen.

The emperor looked at the lanterns made by everyone with great interest, and rewarded the dragon lantern "made" by a certain noble son, which seemed to be very happy.

After that, everyone hung up their lanterns one after another, and the palace maids gave each of them a lotus lantern. After the lotus lantern was lit, it was put into the lake one by one, and as the water waves drifted away, the dense lotus lantern floated on the surface of the lake, brighter than the dense stars in the sky.

After the emperor spoke impassionedly about the disaster in Mozhou, everyone clasped their palms together and prayed silently for blessings to the lotus lanterns on the river.

Then, the first assistant Duanmu Xian was the first to respond to the emperor's disaster relief order, willing to offer three years of Yulu, the emperor was moved, those nobles are secretly Duanmu Xian is really an old fox, his year's Yulu exchanged for silver is only more than two hundred taels, but he sold it well in front of the emperor, but he had to respond, either donated cash, or also offered Yulu......

For a while, there was a momentum of unity, and the emperor's mood became more and more cheerful.

The emperor beckoned to the little chamberlain on the side, gave a command, and then the chamberlain stretched his neck and looked around in the bustling crowd, and walked quickly to Duanmufei.

"Fourth girl Duanmu," the little chamberlain arched his hand at Duanmufei, "The emperor asked the girl to come forward and speak." ”

Duanmu Fei responded, and in the eyes of everyone scrutinizing one by one, he walked calmly in the direction of the emperor, bent his knees with a smile and blessed his body, his posture was both elegant and did not lose the innocence and liveliness of the little girl's family.

The emperor looked at the cheerful appearance of the little girl, and couldn't help but be infected with a smile, and the corners of his mouth also curled up with her, and said kindly: "Little girl, I know that you have been wronged, and I reward you with a pair of jade ruyi to suppress your shock." ”

When the courtiers on the side heard this, their eyes were looking at Duanmu Xian, and their expressions became even more entangled. Old fox, old fox, this left hand has been out for three years, and the right hand has doubled it back through his granddaughter.

"Thank you for the emperor's reward." Duanmu smiled and blessed his body, and patted his chest again, "There is a way, Saiong lost his horse, and he didn't know if it was a blessing." It seems that the ancients did not deceive me. ”

Seeing that there was still a hint of fear in the little girl's description, but she was generous, the emperor's eyes became softer and softer, and he felt that Duanmu Xian was really teaching Sun Youfang.

Hey, this time the little girl was indeed wronged, even Duanmu Xian, who has always been steady, came to him and cried, saying that the little girl was awakened by a nightmare in the middle of the night for a few nights, dreaming that she fell into the water and almost drowned in the lake......

"It's also a shame that you girl is quite open-minded......"

The emperor said again with emotion, and before he finished speaking, there was a sudden ethereal and loud singing voice in the distance, and the woman's singing voice was smooth and pleasant, jumping like the gurgling mountain stream.

“…… The flowers float and the water flows freely. One lovesickness, two sorrows. There is no way to eliminate this ......"

The singing voice is soft and lingering, outlining a beautiful picture.

Originally, the lotus lanterns drifting with the waves in the lake were so holy, but at this moment, under the backdrop of the singing, they suddenly became "flowers floating and flowing freely", as if the woman was thinking about her lover.

The others around were all subconsciously silenced, and they quieted down in amazement, making the singing sound not far away clearer and clearer.

Everyone was either stunned, puzzled, or curious, looking at each other, but Han Xing behind the emperor knew who the owner of this song was, stretched his neck and glanced in the direction where the sound came from, waiting to see the excitement.

The emperor's face instantly darkened, so gloomy that it seemed to be able to drip water, and he ordered: "Ah Yin, let people go and see who it is!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Cen Yin responded, and a smile appeared on his lips.

There was no need for Cen Yin to give any more orders, the little scorpion behind him had already taken the two little attendants to follow the direction from which the song came from, and walked briskly towards several rockeries in the southwest.

Soon, the singing ceased as a slightly mournful cry broke through the silence of the night.

Then, the surroundings became quieter and quieter, and there was no sound.

Then, I heard a somewhat familiar female voice coming from behind the rockery in front of me: "Let go of me!" …… Do you know who I am? ”

"Be careful, I let my uncle cure you for a crime of disrespect!"

"Do you know that my uncle is the governor of Jingying!"

With this loud reprimand of the fox and the fake tiger, everyone's eyes looked at Wei Yongxin meaningfully, and Wei Yongxin's face was extremely ugly.

Soon, the little scorpion entered everyone's field of vision again, and the two little attendants behind him clamped a red girl left and right and walked towards it, it was Liu Yingshuang.

At this moment, everyone around is dressed in plain clothes, only Liu Yingshuang is as dazzling as a peony in a red dress, which looks so abrupt.

Liu Yingshuang's feet were lifted off the ground by the two little attendants, she felt unbearable pain in her upper arm, her body struggled subconsciously, and she said, "Let go of me, I will ...... by myself" will go.

She finally saw the emperor and everyone in front of her, and she was immediately dumbfounded, lest she lose her honor in front of the emperor.

The two little chamberlains carried Liu Yingshuang to the emperor, and then one of them rudely kicked the back knee socket of Liu Yingshuang's left leg, Liu Yingshuang only felt the pain in her heart, her feet were weak, and she fell to her knees on the cold and hard ground.

She was still confused, didn't quite understand what she had done wrong, and fell to her knees weakly.

Wei Yongxin has always loved this niece, and he was really angry and distressed in his heart, but on the surface, he made a furious appearance and reprimanded: "I don't know what to say! Why don't you go back now! "At this time, it is better to avoid the limelight first!

Liu Yingshuang was entangled in her heart. If she misses this opportunity, she doesn't know when she will have the opportunity to meet the saint again.

She secretly bit her silver teeth, raised her head and said, "Your Majesty, the courtiers know that they are wrong. She looked at the emperor a few steps away with an innocent face, her autumn-like eyes glowing with a little water, and she was pitiful.

She kowtowed to the emperor respectfully, and then raised her little face again, "The courtiers are here to ask the emperor for their guilt, and please ask the emperor to forgive the courtiers." ”

She wore a red embroidered peony full-breasted skirt, covered with a red gauze as thin as cicada wings, when she kowtowed, the gauze slid slightly from her right shoulder, revealing a white collarbone, like a fine mutton fat white jade carving, revealing a girl's unique coquettish style.

The emperor looked straight down at the girl kneeling below, the corners of his mouth pursed a displeased arc, and his eyes were gloomy.

The emperor never minded having a few more red sleeves around him, but tonight he gathered everyone here to pray for the blessing of the snow disaster in Mozhou, and this Liu Yingshuang "didn't know what to say" and ran like this to seduce himself, which simply made him the handle of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs.

He is romantic, but he is by no means a faint gentleman who gets dizzy when he sees a woman!

"......" Wei Yongxin is not a fool, of course, he can also see that Liu Yingshuang is clearly flattering the emperor openly...... But I chose the wrong time.

Wei Yong's confidence was so regretful that his intestines were also green. Because Liu Yingshuang had to recuperate from her injuries recently, he didn't let her talk about tonight's lantern festival, let alone tell her what the lantern club was.

Just looking at the emperor's face at the moment, Wei Yongxin knew that Liu Yingshuang had committed the emperor's taboo this time.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are also guilty." Wei Yongxin hurriedly bowed his head and clenched his fists and confessed for Liu Yingshuang, only hoping that the emperor could see his face and spare Liu Yingshuang this time.

The emperor silently turned the jade wrench on his thumb and looked at Wei Yongxin with a faint expression.

"Lord Wei," Cen Yin's soft voice suddenly floated out from the emperor's side, "I almost thought this was Lord Wei's daughter." There was a faint smile on Cen Yin's beautiful face, revealing a meaningful ridicule.

Duanmu in the crowd almost didn't laugh out loud, she tried hard to hold back her laughter, and cast a reverent look at Cen Yin. Probably Cen Yin can be in front of the emperor like this, if no one is around, Wei Yongxin's face.

The people around were not stupid, so they naturally heard the ridicule in Cen Yin's words, and couldn't help but stumble to each other, looking at Wei Yongxin's gaze was also a little strange.

Speaking of which, it is rare for someone like Wei Yongxin to treat a niece of a concubine more than his own daughter.

"......" Wei Yongxin only felt that the eyes of the people around him were like countless sharp arrows whizzing on him, making him almost invincible.

With the commotion around her, Liu Yingshuang couldn't help but glance around from the corner of her eyes, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, everyone else present was dressed very plainly, and those girls were not wearing half of the gold hairpins and gems...... She understood something at once, and knew that she must be wrong in dressing.

When she came out in this dress before, Wei Ruxian said that it was inappropriate, she had to let her dress plainly, she only thought that Wei Ruxian was jealous that she would be in the limelight in front of the emperor, so she ignored it at all and didn't ask the reason.

I didn't expect ......

Her heart sank little by little, and she knew that something was wrong.

Liu Yingshuang deliberately dressed so bright and charming, and she did have the heart to seduce the emperor. Before this autumn hunt, she originally thought that her uncle Wei Yongxin was very powerful, and he was the same in Beijing, so those ladies in Beijing did not dare to snub themselves.

It wasn't until she suffered a loss in the hunting palace this time that she found out that her uncle was just a courtier, and if she could enter the palace, then her identity would naturally rise......

She had heard her aunt Liu Rong say a lot about the emperor, and knew that the emperor had always been amorous, and there were many warblers and swallows in the harem, whether it was a lady, a small jasper, or a beautieth of different races, as long as she was talented or maverick, she could be favored by the emperor.

If she can enter the palace and get a name, then who will dare to bully her in the future!

Liu Yingshuang is very confident in her singing, and even her aunt has praised her, that is, a few years ago, the most famous Oiran Peony in the Peony Building, her singing voice was not as good as her, so she wanted to use her singing voice to attract the curiosity of the emperor to explore the traces, a good start, it is equal to half the success, but I didn't expect that it was not the emperor who was waiting for him, but the inner servant who was like a wolf and a tiger and didn't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade at all.