Chapter 15: The Autumn Festival (I)
Ten days before the Autumn Festival, two fathers-in-law came to the palace and began to take everyone to practice etiquette. The location was also moved from Diancui Pavilion to the open space in front of the Pillow Water Pavilion, and everyone practiced entering, kneeling, worshipping, and knocking over and over again under the sticks of the grandmother and the extremely harsh eyes of the father-in-law.
Meng Shuipei became more and more busy, Huang Ling'er also began to get up, Li Qing still went to class, ate, and slept every day, going in and out with his head down, and a very shy and wooden appearance gradually faded out of everyone's sight.
Gu Ruyan became impetuous, a little unable to sit still, sooner or later she found an opportunity to talk to Meng Shuipei, Meng Shuipei was polite but extremely distant, Gu Ruyan turned to Huang Ling'er again, Huang Ling'er simply didn't say anything, and directly ignored her. Gu Ruyan wanted to pull Li Qing to visit the door, Li Qing only said that she was tired and refused to move, Gu Ruyan walked to the door alone, hesitated and returned to the bed to sit down, just sat down and stood up and walked to the door, back and forth, Li Qing lay on the bed, but didn't see it, and finally saw her gritting her teeth and going out of the door, hurriedly jumped out of bed and lifted the curtain to look secretly, only to see her hesitating outside the door again, standing for a long time, actually turned around and went back to the house, Li Qing hurriedly lay back on the bed, laughing and shaking her head in her heart.
After suffering for a few days, Gu Ruyan seemed to be dead, hanging her head to class and eating every day, and the rest of the time was to stay in the house with Li Qing, gossiping:
"Huang Ling'er said, are you relatives?"
"Well, my mother has an aunt who married her father as a sequel."
"You've known each other since childhood?"
"It's not too young, my cousin was six or seven years old when she got married."
"Then Huang Ling'er's mother didn't have it when she was six or seven years old?"
"It seems to be gone very early, and my cousin-in-law is late."
"Then who did Huang Ling'er grow up with? How to ......"
Gu Ruyan laughed, her face flushed, she came over and sat side by side with Li Qing, her eyes flashed with gossip, and she lowered her voice and said:
"You don't know, my cousin and aunt have the most, at least six or seven, and they are all ...... That kind of place comes out! According to my mother, my cousin-in-law likes that kind of foxy look. Ling'er also loves to learn from these people, but my cousin's husband and wife can't stand it, so I continued my cousin's, how dare my cousin care about her, last year, she fought with an aunt, who knew that the aunt had a body, and she actually saw the red stream. Her father had no choice but to send her to be a female officer. ”
Li Qing sighed secretly.
Three days before the Autumn Festival, Mama Wang officially said that she would enter the palace to watch the ceremony during the Autumn Festival. The two fathers-in-law from the palace also began to teach the arrangements and rules of the Autumn Festival, where the emperor and queen were to receive gifts, where to feast, where to watch the fireworks, and what the palace was used for. The crowd listened very carefully.
Gu Ruyan's face was a little red with excitement, and she pulled Li Qing to talk non-stop at night:
"Sister Qing, you say, will we be arranged to Yonghe Palace? It's good to Zhishuang Pavilion, the emperor may be able to see us!
Even if it's Guanghedian......"
Li Qing lay on the bed, looked at the excited little girl who couldn't sit still, yawned, and fell asleep by herself.
Li Qing was sleeping deeply, and was suddenly awakened by the fragrance of roses, gently lifted the curtain, and saw Huang Ling'er sitting on the bed, shaking the things wrapped in her skirt to the bed, as if she felt Li Qing's gaze, Huang Ling'er turned around suddenly, Li Qing couldn't dodge, and hurriedly waved her hand to continue, then put down the tent, turned over and fell asleep. Huang Ling'er sat on the edge of the bed for a while with her eyes flickering, and then fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Huang Ling'er's probing and vigilant eyes kept staring at Li Qing, and Meng Shuipei seemed to feel that something was wrong, and stared at Li Qing and Huang Ling'er quietly.
On the way to class, Huang Ling'er pulled Li Qing a little behind, and whispered to Li Qing:
"I think you're a good person, I'll just tell you, you are not allowed to tell others, especially the little slut surnamed Meng!"
Li Qing was a little impatient, and replied softly:
"Sister is not worried, so don't tell me."
Huang Ling'er suffocated slightly, looked up at Meng Shuipei, who was deliberately slowing down in front of her, and said quickly in a low voice:
"You pick some flower petals, crumple them and apply them to your body, it's nothing worse than those flower dew."
After speaking, gently twisting his waist and walking away, Meng Shuipei hesitated for a moment, stopped, waited for Li Qing with a smile on his face, and asked in a low voice:
"Sister, be careful, that Huang Ling'er is not a good family, what did she tell you?"
"I didn't say anything, I just asked what flowers I loved."
Li Qing replied with a smile, Meng Shuipei looked at her suspiciously, Li Qing ignored her, and walked forward with low eyebrows.
The day before the Autumn Festival, their classes were temporarily suspended and preparations began to be made for the Autumn Festival, and the clothes and clothes were also delivered to each house by the mother-in-law. Li Qing shook it off: a flowing chrysanthemum pattern cloud brocade palace jacket, a light yellow bottom sprinkled with flowers and smoke Luo Ruyi moon skirt, a bow with a long spike five-color palace silk, and a pair of light yellow thin-bottomed chrysanthemum cloud brocade shoes, all made according to each person's size.
Meng Shuipei carefully put the clothes into the cabinet, Huang Ling'er carried the clothes and gestured on her body, and muttered softly:
"If only it were red."
A sneer flashed on Meng Shuipei's face, Gu Ruyan sat on the bed, carefully looking at the patterns on his clothes, and his excited face was slightly red.
Before entering the palace, Chenzheng, Mama Wang, Mama Zhou, and Mama Zhao stood in the courtyard upright, staring at everyone and began to bathe and comb their clothes.
After lunch, everyone lined up in the front yard, and Mama Wang ordered them to step forward in turn, and Mama Zhou and Mama Zhao carefully checked their faces, bodies, and outfits. As a female officer, you can't wear makeup, let alone any peculiar smell.
The inspection started with the girls in the Ding room, and when Pan Wenlian in the Ding room was found, Mama Zhou's face turned cold and scolded:
"You! What's smeared? ”
Pan Wenlian trembled like chaff, and replied silently:
"Back... Hui Gu... Sister, no... Not... Didn't paint, really... Not...! ”
Mama Zhao snorted coldly:
", dare to quibble!"
As he spoke, he turned his head and stared at the other three girls in Ding Fang, and asked sharply:
"Who saw that?"
The three girls in the Ding room trembled, just shook their heads, and Mama Zhao was about to speak again, when a respectful voice with some schadenfreude came from behind Li Qing:
"Back to my aunt, I saw her secretly pouring something into the bath water."
Li Qing hung his head, not daring to look back, only listening to the voice, as if it was Gu Hongqin in the first room, Pan Wenlian turned her head violently, and hurriedly argued:
"Nope! I didn't! You are talking nonsense! ”
Gu Hongqin "snorted":
"I'm not alone! She saw it too! ”
Mama Wang stood beside her, staring at Gu Hongqin coldly, following Gu Hongqin's fingers, staring at Meng Shuipei, Meng Shuipei, who was standing in front of Li Qing, moved lightly and respectfully:
"Back to my aunt, it was Sister Gu who said it, and I saw it."
Mama Wang stared at Meng Shuipei with cold eyes, Meng Shuipei gradually became uneasy, a sneer faintly flashed at the corner of Mama Wang's mouth, and she turned around and ordered:
"Lock up this scheming first, and then dispose of it when you come back and give it to the adult."
A few mothers-in-law next to him agreed, stepped forward to hold down Pan Wenlian, gagged her mouth, and dragged it down.
Meng Shuipei's back straightened, and Li Qing quietly touched a few extremely small pills tied in the palace silk with her hand, which she carefully prepared, which can make people sweak for a while, without strength, but it is extremely difficult to notice. If something happens, she can have a chance. Li Qing stabilized his mind and stood still, but he felt Huang Ling'er standing behind tremble slightly.
It was Meng Shuipei's turn to check, Li Qing quietly stared at Mama Wang with the corner of her eye, saw her turn around, stared at the inspection in front of her, hurriedly took half a step back, stuck to Huang Ling'er, and said quickly in an inaudible voice:
"Born."
Huang Ling'er frowned, then her eyes lit up, and she looked gratefully at Li Qing who was standing in front of her with her head lowered and her eyebrows lowered.
Huang Ling'er walked out, Meng Shuipei raised her head slightly, looked at it with a smile on the corner of her mouth, Mama Zhou's brows furrowed, and Huang Ling'er hurriedly explained with a smile:
"Auntie, I've been born like this. Don't believe me, you ask her. ”
As he spoke, he pointed at Li Qing with his finger, Li Qing lowered his head and lowered his eyebrows, as if he hadn't heard, Huang Ling'er's hanging hand was in a ball, and she trembled a little, Mama Wang walked over, stood in front of Li Qing, and said:
"Tell me."
Li Qing meekly took half a step forward and replied respectfully:
"Sister Huang's bed is next to me, and I can smell it every night."
Mama Wang nodded, walked to Huang Ling'er's side, and said sarcastically for a long time:
"It's still a rarity."
Huang Ling'er stood beside Li Qing and breathed a sigh of relief, Meng Shuipei stared at Li Qing angrily, don't overdo it.
At the beginning, a few little fathers-in-law came to the palace and led them to the inner palace. Entering the inner palace and coming to a large hall, Li Qing raised his head slightly and saw the three words Ningshou Hall written on the plaque hanging above the hall door.
Mama Wang instructed everyone to wait first, leaving Mama Zhao to watch, and went out with Mama Zhou.
It wasn't until the end of Shen and the beginning of the year that Mama Wang and Mama Zhou accompanied the four grandmothers in brocade dresses to come in, Mama Wang called her name, and everyone stepped forward in turn, Li Qing also stepped forward respectfully, a mama wearing a dark blue brocade dress stared at her tightly for a moment, Meng Shuipei saw it, and looked at Li Qing thoughtfully.
After seeing the ceremony, the four grandmothers began to choose, Meng Shuipei, Huang Ling'er, Li Qing and Gu Ruyan were picked together, and Yang Yuzhu, Yu Xiuhe, Gu Hongqin in room A, and the three people in other rooms, followed the mama in the dark cyan dress along the labyrinthine road to the depths of the palace.
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