Chapter 167: Mid-Autumn Festival
Finally, at the end of Shen, a feast began to be set up in the palace.
Gao Qinqin stood by the open window outside the hall, looking at Wen Qingwu, who was sitting behind the low desk at the end of the door, and sneered in her heart. Wen Qingwu, from now on, live your few days.
Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, the palace concubines with different positions have different arrangements, Concubine Mei Shufei is the main person who manages the banquet, Concubine Jiang Defei is responsible for the layout of the entire banquet, and Yang Zhaoyi and Zheng Zhaorong are responsible for the arrangement of the banquet, dance and music. Further down, each has its own responsibilities.
Except for Wen Qingwu, a cripple.
"Cairen, everything is ready in the dining room." Chunniang walked behind Gao Qinqin and said.
"Let's go." With that, Gao Qinqin turned around and walked towards the dining room. She is one of the palace concubines in charge of meals today. There are three people in charge of the meal, except for two Jieyu, who is her. The scope of responsibility of the three people is different, one is responsible for the meal of the emperor and the nine concubines and four concubines, and the other is responsible for the meal of the princes and generals who are attending today's banquet. These two are all pleasing people, but the last one, who is responsible for the diet of the women below the world and the subordinates, is of low rank, even if the arrangement is good, it is also thankless.
Gao Qinqin rushed to do this thankless job, and they all felt that she knew the current affairs, and her own position was lower than theirs, and she was not qualified to compete, so it was arranged.
Walking to the dining room, Gao Qinqin looked at the food placed in the dining room, checked them one by one, and then asked, "Have the meals of the two Jieyu been delivered?" ”
"I'm leaving, I'm still on my way." The servant replied.
"Then let's hurry up and follow them." Gao Qinqin waved the handkerchief in his hand and commanded the servants with meals to rush out.
"Talented, Lin Jieyu asked the slave maid to ask, when will these people's moon cakes be distributed?" A Gong E walked over and asked.
Today, in the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone has mooncakes. It's just that the slaves in the palace are assigned to the highly talented people to manage.
Gao Qinqin looked at the direction of the palace e, and saw five people standing there, three of them were holding huge plates, one on top of each other and piled up like a hill of moon cakes, next to one with white gloves and a wooden clip in his hand, and the other hand was stacked with a small plate of Xu Gao. Gao Qinqin knew that these were the moon cakes that would be distributed to the slaves and maids of the palaces later.
"Follow me." Gao Qinqin waved at a few people and followed the servants who served the meal out.
A long line of slaves walked out of the dining room in an orderly manner, passed through the heavy palace lights, and the long and winding palace road, and waited outside the main hall. Gao Qinqin stood beside him with a large number of people, looking at the two Jieyu in front of her.
On her side, she has to wait for the two Jieyu's meals to finish before she can go on.
After a while, the two Jieyu finally finished and walked down with a bunch of slaves, among which Lin Jieyu didn't forget to smile and urge when she passed by Gao Qinqin: "You hurry up, I'll send you." ”
"Yes." Gao Qinqin bowed and smiled respectfully. In his heart, he was dissatisfied, and he sent some low-level palace concubines and slaves, so he naturally wanted to be behind them. It was as if she was deliberately late.
After the two Jieyu walked away, Gao Qinqin got up and rolled her eyes at Lin Jieyu's back. Turn around and walk towards the main hall.
When he walked to the door of the main hall, he was discovered by Ruyoshi's sharp eyes. Gao Qinqin habitually looked at Wen Qingwu, and when she turned her head, she saw Liuji staring at her viciously, she was startled at first, pinched her handkerchief and covered her heart and touched it. Hold your mind and glare at Ruyoshi fiercely.
Liuji sat behind Wen Qingwu and was unmoved. Gao Qinqin simply turned around and looked at the other people in the hall. Then he turned around and gave something to the man behind him.
After a few moments, a stream of people with plates of food came in from outside. In the hall, there was a dancing girl dancing, and the slave maid with the meal bent over and rubbed her sides lightly, and then began to serve the meal from top to bottom according to the position. After a while, the meals of the palace concubines and princes who participated in the banquet were all put away one by one.
Wen Qingwu kept watching the dance in the hall, but didn't pay attention to anything else. When he saw that the meal was served, he lifted the chopsticks to use them, and suddenly his dress was pulled.
Wen Qingwu turned his head and looked at Liuji in confusion.
"Master, this meal is in charge of a highly talented person." Ruyoshi said in a low voice.
When Wen Qingwu heard this, he put down the chopsticks he was holding, looked at the meals on his plate, and then looked at the meals on the left and right. From the morning sacrifice to the present, she has not eaten a drop of water, waiting for dinner here in the evening.
told her that it was Gao Qinqin who sent it.
After Wen Qingwu hesitated, she said in a low voice: "Today's festival, she is responsible for the meals of so many people, and she doesn't dare to do anything to me." ”
As he spoke, Wen Qingwu lifted the chopstick, and the tip of the chopstick touched the meal, and then put it down. Gao Qinqin has never been a smart person, and she can't be thought of as a smart person.
"Do you have a silver needle?" Wen Qingwu tilted his head and asked in a low voice behind him.
A moment later, a silver needle was handed to his hand. Wen Qingwu took it, hid it in his sleeve, and took the opportunity to insert the silver needles into the meal one by one.
After a while, until the palace maid who distributed moon cakes to the palace people came in from behind, the silver needle did not change. Wen Qingwu was relieved to eat.
After taking the silver needle and confirming that it was non-toxic, Ruyoshi breathed a sigh of relief. Also, on such a day, if Gao Qinqin dares to poison, it will be because of his brain.
"Father-in-law, your mooncakes."
Someone next to him whispered. Liuji came back to his senses and turned his head to look at the Tsing Yi palace maid who was talking, only to find that the moon cakes on this road had already come from the palace people above, but he didn't pay attention to it. So he quickly reached out and took the plate: "Thank you." ”
The palace maid bent down and left with the palace man serving moon cakes next to her, and went to the next chamberlain.
Ruyoshi glanced at the person holding the moon cakes, the moon cakes on the plate were stacked one on top of the other, and they were all exactly the same, and he didn't know which one was which. When you put it in your mouth, you will have a sweet and glutinous fragrance spread on the tip of your tongue.
The mooncakes in Luoyang Palace taste really good.
Gao Qinqin stood outside the hall, waiting for the slave with moon cakes inside. The meal was already distributed, and she sent it back. She was a little anxious, standing outside rubbing her hands and looking at the sky from time to time. It's cloudy today, and the scenery that should be shining in the sky with the bright moon is obscured by layers of thick clouds, and there is only an endless night.
It's just that the palace lights in Luoyang Palace are all over the place, standing outside the hall and looking at it from a distance, there are dots of stars. It's like a flowing galaxy. It's just that Gao Qinqin didn't have the heart to look at the scenery of this galaxy, and still rubbed his hands impatiently.
Several times I wanted to turn my head to look at the scene in the hall, but I remembered Ji Fang's entrustment, and I endured it stiffly.
After a long time, the palace people who distributed moon cakes finally came out, and Gao Qinqin saw the Tsing Yi palace maid at a glance, stepped forward to grab her in three steps and two steps, and asked eagerly: "How?" ”