When the crescent moon saw this thing, she suddenly patted her head and said, "Look at my damn memory, patronizing and listening to the master's story, forgetting to get down to business." ”

Jian Yue and several other palace maids were used to seeing the crescent moon like this, and couldn't help laughing.

Huai Sleeve asked, "What is it?" ”

The crescent moon smiled: "In a few days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, the ancestor and the emperor's uncle have invited the master to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. ”

After chatting for a while, the crescent moon said that he would go to Cining Palace for the night, so he rushed back with the palace maid before the palace ban.

Jian Yue changed the new tea, and when she walked into the study with a purple clay pot with a handle, she saw that she was leaning on the soft couch of the west window to copy the scriptures.

Seeing Jian Yue coming in, Huai Sleeve put down his pen, took out a few red blessing stickers from the middle of a stack of rice paper on the side and said: "I have nothing to do, I wrote a few blessing stickers, and in a few days it will be the Moon Festival, you call them Fuquan and paste them under the eaves of the corridor." ”

Jian Yue came over with the tea cup and put it next to her sleeve, took the blessing stickers and looked at them one by one, saw that they were all auspicious poems, nodded with a smile: "I will ask them to sprinkle and sweep tomorrow and paste these." ”

Huai Sleeve turned his face and said to the little palace maid who was serving Mo on the side: "I have something to say to you Sister Qianyue, you go, and bring the door by the way." ”

The little palace maid knelt down and turned to go out, leaving only the two of them in the room.

Huai Sleeve motioned for Jian Yue to sit on the soft couch beside him, his eyes were slightly closed, and he pondered for a while and asked: "In previous years, what was the scene of the Moon Festival in the palace?" ”

Jian Yue frowned and thought about it and said: "In previous years, I did not participate in the moon and night banquet held by the emperor, but the palace attaches great importance to the mid-autumn, I know that every year the empress dowager will deliberately change into auspicious clothes and celebrate with the long live lord and all the concubines in the harem, and those princes and nobles with heads and faces will also participate, and bring their ladies together, it is very lively." ”

Huai Sleeve nodded slightly, his eyes were still lowered, as if he was thinking about something while listening, and then asked, "Do you know that there are foreign ministers at the banquet?" ”

Jian Yue thought about it carefully and shook her head and said: "It doesn't seem to be, I remember that when I first entered the palace, the Empress Dowager returned to Cining Palace from the main hall after worshipping the moon god, and when I was with Aunt Su Ma to worship in Cining Palace, I heard Aunt Su Ma say about the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, I probably remembered this, but I didn't dare to ask more at that time." ”

Huai Sleeve knew that Jian Yue had never seen the royal banquet in person because of her low position, so she had to ask Aunt Su Mala to understand.

Thinking of this, he made up his mind and instructed Jian Yue: "Tomorrow, you will ask someone to pick all the purple chrysanthemum stamens sent by the Internal Affairs Office, dry them and keep them, I will be useful." ”

Jian Yue agreed, glanced at the door with her sleeves, and said in a low voice: "You sort out the old cotton robes I don't wear, and take the time to send them to Yinglian, the weather is getting colder, and she doesn't have winter cotton clothes there, the day before yesterday, I gave Fu Quan some silver, and asked him to buy two eunuch cotton robes on his behalf, you bring them to your uncle by the way, I saw the old man last time, and I was pitiful." ”

After that, he took out a small embroidered brocade bag from the small drawer under the soft couch and handed it to Jian Yue, who naturally understood the meaning of the sleeve, put away the bag and said with a smile: "The girl is so thoughtful, and we are not as good as ten." ”

The two chatted for a while, and then sent Jian Yue away.

I remembered that in the northern part of Xinjiang, every moon and evening festival, a few days ago, E-Niang began to prepare a sumptuous family banquet, and on the day of the moon, Ama came back from the army to reward the soldiers, and the family sat around the table to celebrate the autumn evening.

At that time, she was still young, and was still held in the arms of the nursing mother, the second sister Zhu Hetana and her brother Qi Buchen quarreled endlessly for the moon cakes, and the grandmother used the dough and fruit to coax the crying brother, and later, when the moon rose in the middle of the sky, Ama led the whole family to burn incense in front of the offering table in the courtyard, offer fruits, worship the moon god, and cut the round and big moonlight with her own hands......

At that time, the young arms often looked at the yellow-white moon in amazement, and always felt that there was the warmest thing in the world on the bright moon, so as to release such a soft Huaze.

Thinking of that time, the anxious state of mind looking forward to the festival and how to avoid the hustle and bustle of the festival at this time, I couldn't help but smile helplessly, raised my head and looked up at the round of toad light that was about to be completed soon, and whispered: "When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky, I don't know the heavenly palace, what year is it tonight......"

As soon as the words fell, I only heard a few slight crisp sounds from the green tiles on the edge of the eaves, and at first, I thought it was a cat jumping on the beam, but when I listened carefully, I felt that there seemed to be a slight footsteps.

Huai Sleeve felt in vain, opened the door and slid the arrow, jumped into the center of the courtyard, looked up at the roof, and saw a black shadow flashing behind the gable.

Huai sleeve didn't think about it, moved lightly to the wall, stretched out his arm to block the column, kicked the stone bench under the corridor, and flew up to the eaves of the corridor with his legs and feet, and went straight to the gable of the main house.

The black shadow saw that his sleeves jumped on the roof easily, turned around and strode and ran.

He only jumped on the roof of the house, and saw the man in black fleeing away, but he did not chase after him.

She saw that the man in black was flying on the ground, and his kung fu was never under him, and the night was falling, she didn't know the details of the other party, and she chased after her rashly for fear of losing herself.

At this time, the sound of the drums of the night guard gradually approached, and the sleeves flew back into the courtyard, just now I saw the man in black snooping on her, the sleeves were not frightened, only a little puzzled her, when she just walked out of the courtyard, the man in black seemed to have been prepared, as if he knew that she knew kung fu.

Looking at his appearance when he escaped from the palace, he seems to be very familiar with the terrain in the palace, could it be someone in the palace? is a person in the palace, who knows her so well? What does this man in black want to hear when he squats on her eaves in the middle of the night?

Huai Sleeve's heart was suddenly shrouded in suspicion.

The next day, after the morning class for the crescent moon, Huai Sleeve instructed Zhuo Qiu to serve refreshments as usual.

The crescent moon lying on the sleeve of the sandalwood soft stepped on the closed eyes to rest, suddenly sat up, sniffed the nose and sniffed hard, and the mouth continued to exclaim: "It's so fragrant!" It smells so good! What does it smell like? ”

When I opened my eyes, I saw that Lian Qiu walked in with two plates of small snacks, one of which was osmanthus cake, which was not rare, and the other plate contained a few crystal clear, rose-red petal-shaped dim sum, delicate and exquisite, as carved out.

The crescent moon didn't wait for Juanqiu to put down the tray, reached out and took down the plate of snacks and put it in front of his eyes, gently twisted one and put it in the palm of his hand and looked at it carefully for a long time, and sighed: "Where is this food, it's so beautiful, it's as beautiful as amber agate." ”