Section 9 Happy Times (1)
The long day finally passed, I couldn't sleep in bed, I was half asleep all night, I always dreamed that King Qi was coming, Xiaocui shouted in front of the bed: "Miss, why haven't you gotten up yet, His Royal Highness King Qi has already arrived in the front hall." ”
One of the spirits got up, saw that it was dark outside, and that there was no sound around, and lay down again. After so many tosses, it was easy to survive until the fifth watch, and I couldn't lie down anymore, so I got up quietly and looked at everything at home through the meager morning light. I hope to find out where there is something unsatisfactory or suddenly remember, so that the slaves and maidservants can hurry up and make up for it.
After breakfast early, I carefully freshened up. The clothes were set a long time ago, a simple light purple shirt dress. The good thing about this outfit is that it is not cumbersome, and the lines are simple, which makes me look not fat at all. Unlike the popular miscellaneous draped clothes, the skirt is overlapped, the lace is draped, and the bib is tied around the waist, and many long streamers protrude from under the bib. It might be very flowy for a tall, skinny girl to wear that kind of clothes, but why not wear them for me...... cough cough cough, Xiao Cui's dead girl said: "Then we don't have to hire someone to sweep the floor in the Prime Minister's Mansion in the future." ”
It's the trouble on the head. A few girls and servants were around, and it was "flying bun", "cross bun", "cicada sideburns", and "falling horse bun", trying to come and go, and a few of my hairs were about to be torn off. That's not all, the most terrible thing is that they also put a lot of headdresses on my head, such as golden steps, jade hairpins, jade flowers, golden phoenix hairpins, brocade tweezers, etc., etc., etc. At the end, there is a big red flower on my ear! It is said that this big red flower is still an alien decoration brought by a woman named Yang Erche Namu from South Vietnam, and no one in Beijing has ever worn it.
When they were finally done, I let out a long sigh and turned around from the mirror and said, "Do you think I can see like this?" People thought I was a nouveau riche in the township who had entered the city, for fear that others would not know that I had two bad money at home, so they wore all my belongings on my head. ”
Everyone was laughing, and there were already servants running in outside and shouting, "His Royal Highness King Qi has arrived at the gate." ”
Now the room is full of panic, what should I do? I didn't expect His Royal Highness King Qi to come down so quickly. The people in charge of combing my hair were about to burst into tears, but my mother had sent me to groom and dress me, and if they hadn't done it and messed up today's date, they wouldn't have been able to raise their heads to see my world-famous fierce mother?
I was a little panicked, but I tried to smile and say, "It's okay, you look at me." ”
I took off all my headdresses, ripped my bun so that my hair hung down naturally, straightened it with a comb, and tied it on my head with a light purple silk of the same color as my clothes. Alright, combing is done!
Xiaocui was the first to praise, "Not bad, not bad, like this, it looks fresh and natural, it turns out that my young lady is a poor life, the more she doesn't dress up, the more beautiful she is, and the more she dresses up, the more unseemly." "This dead girl, I don't know if she's praising me or hurting me.
The others also nodded, and I didn't bother to look in the mirror anymore, so I hurried out. When he walked to the vestibule, His Royal Highness King Qi had already walked in accompanied by his mother.
My father had already gone to the morning court, and he was supposed to stay to receive distinguished guests, but I advised him not to stay at all. If he is at home, he will inevitably have to accompany the guests in person, and there is such an elder by King Qi's side, so what else is there to play.
My father was hesitant at first, fearing that it would be rude. When a distinguished guest comes to the door, how can the host not be at home? I tried to convince him, "This time it was my daughter's treat, not my father's treat." If the father is at home, and the father naturally has to accompany such a distinguished guest at home, then what is the matter with the daughter? In that case, the daughter would be embarrassed to even want to say a word to King Qi, how could there be a father who accompanied the daughter of the distinguished guest to interject and mix on the side? ”
As soon as my father heard the reason, he went out early this morning, and specially left the opportunity to receive distinguished guests to me.
My mother and I let King Qi into the inner hall, and after offering tea, I said to my mother: "Mother, I will take Your Highness to the back garden to see the flowers." ”
Mother hurriedly agreed, and I took King Qi all the way to the back garden, leaving all his people in front. My servant simply set up the tea and pastries in the gazebo and stepped aside.
I turned around and happily said to the king, "Now there are only the two of us left here, you can say whatever you want, you can play whatever you want, I will accompany you."
King Qi was so happy that he said like a child: "Really, then can I jump into the water to catch fish?" ”
I said, "Yes, you can do whatever you want, it doesn't matter if you want to set a fire in this garden, let alone catch fish." There are a lot of carp in this pond, and if you catch them, I'll roast them for you to eat, and let's be vagabonds. ”
Unexpectedly, he really took off his long clothes and went into the water, touching and catching fish in the water. It turns out that under his gentle appearance, there is also such an innocent and naughty side.
I actually had the servant bring a charcoal fire and a grill, and I built a fire by the pool myself. If His Royal Highness King Qi can go into the water to catch fish, why can't I burn the fire and grill the fish?
After a while, the fishcatcher stood in the water and looked at me and laughed, I reached out and wiped the sweat from my head, brushed my hair again, and asked him, "What's wrong with me?" ”
He laughed even louder: "Look at your face, haha. ”
I couldn't see my face, I could only look at my hands, I see. I went to the pool and washed my face with a few handfuls of water, urging him, "You are still laughing, my fire is rising, and where are your fish?" If you don't see any fish after the charcoal is burned, your highness will be ashamed. ”
As he spoke, his mother sent a bunch of tools, including a basket, a net, a harpoon, and a fishing rod. I looked at the pile and teased him: "Otherwise, you can just get up and fish, although fishing is slow, but it is more reliable than you catch fish." I'm afraid I'll starve to death by the time you catch the fish for lunch. ”
He glared: "If you don't look down on me, there will be fish coming up soon, and I won't kill you when I see how busy I am." ”
The big words were resounding, but until noon, his stomach was rumbling, and he hadn't seen him pick up a piece of fish scales. My mother has already sent someone to spread the word a few times, saying that the food over there has been ready, and she is waiting for the prince to come over and enter the table.
But King Qi insisted, resolutely, and firmly said: Today, we must support ourselves, eat the fish if we can, and starve if we can't.
Again, I suggested that he should switch to fishing, because it's not good to be in the water all the time. But he still only wanted to catch fish. I suspect that this guy's desire to catch fish is fake, and his desire to play in the water is real. I've never seen anyone so addicted to playing in the water, and I'm not tired after a morning of playing.
I teased him and said, "You were a dragon king in your last life, you like water so much, you can't walk when you see water." ”
He actually nodded and said: "I'm afraid it's true, I really can't walk when I see the water, every time I walk on the Jinshui Bridge in the palace, I really want to jump down and swim in the water, but I am always surrounded by palace maids and eunuchs, and I am always embarrassed...... Yes! ”
I hurried over to see him reach out of the water in surprise, and a live fish appeared in front of me.
We excitedly gathered around the charcoal fire together, and he sat intently watching me cut the fish, spice it up, and grill it on the rack. He said, "You're still very good at making it, it's decent, and the fish must be delicious today." ”
I said, "It's the first time I've grilled fish, but I've cooked it, and I know how to cook it." ”
"It's really not simple, the prime minister's daughter can cook, and now the average daughter may not be able to."
I wanted to tell him that my mother taught me how to cook. My mother didn't just beat and scolded my father, she would sometimes cook a table of good food for my father, and my father was full of praise every time. Perhaps it was my mother's sometimes fierce and sometimes gentle personality that attracted my father to other women.
I couldn't help but pun on the words and said, "If the fish I make is really delicious, I will often make it for His Highness in the future, okay?" ”
He replied fluently, "Yes." ”
My heart is sweet, whether he understands my words or not, I already feel very happy.
When the fish was grilled, he praised it as he ate it, saying that he had never eaten such a delicious grilled fish. I thought, firstly, that the grilled fish I made was really good, and secondly, that the fish was caught by him after a long morning's work, which made this unusual fish particularly delicious.
I took the opportunity to promise him, "Okay, if you think the fish I make is really delicious, then I will make it for you in the future." ”
"Uh-huh", he replied vaguely, sucking his fingers.
The action of his finger sucking made my heart pound, because he was really charming at this time, and there was a different kind of charm. It also makes me very happy! Because, the woman who can see the noble His Royal Highness King Qi sucking his fingers with his own eyes, who else is in the world?