Chapter 252: Racing
The scorching sun was in the sky, the surging heat was rising, and the sultry weather without a hint of breeze not only did not make everyone dying, but more exciting; I saw a group of good men from the Eight Banners standing on both sides of the strait in strong suits, all of them gearing up to compete with each other; For a while, the boiling catharsis, shouts, and laughter continued to enter the high tent, and you can also imagine the lively scene when you crossed the river for a while.
At this time, it is still early, and it has not yet begun to cross, and there are only eight boats on the vast and open Fuhai Sea, such as the color boat, the music boat, the painting boat, the small dragon boat, and the tiger head boat, performing acrobatics and music, for the royal family and other ministers to watch and see.
"Master, it's a quarter of an hour to noon, but now it's morning?" Xiao Ranzi asked in his ear.
Hearing this, Huizhu glanced at an empty seat in the east, frowned and thought for a while, pursed her lips and said, "Wait another quarter of an hour, if the young concubine doesn't come, open the ......."
At the end of the sentence, I only heard the eunuch shouting loudly: "Nian Guifei Niangniang is here, Eighth Elder Brother is ............" Huizhu obviously stretched her thin eyebrows, tilted her head and whispered: "Hurry up and let the palace people set the table; By the way, give each person a bowl of snowflake cheese and a soup to relieve the heat. Xiao Ranzi had to be ordered to retreat.
As he spoke, Nian, who was wearing a silk silk and lantern uniform, had already marched to salute with the support of the palace people: "The courtyard where the concubine lives is a little remote, so she came late. ”
As soon as the soft words came out, everyone looked at the chair on the west side; Huizhu didn't see it, shook the fan in her right hand, and said with a smile: "Sister Nian's body is weak, and this palace has arranged my sister's courtyard more secluded according to the instructions of the imperial doctor, but I forgot that the place is far away, and it is the palace's negligence." It dawned on everyone.
In the hot weather, Huizhu was a little impetuous, and she didn't want to make fun of it anymore, so she sat up straight and set her eyes on Fuhai under the golden light.
Fuhai is a lake in the east of the Old Summer Palace, when Yinzhen ordered the expansion of the Old Summer Palace, he ordered skilled craftsmen to expand it, and it was not completed until the beginning of April this year, this time it was used for amusement. The reason why Fuhai is named for this is to take the meaning of "Furu East China Sea". It is said that it is the sea, and it is indeed worthy of this name; I saw that the surface of the Fuhai Sea is vast, sparkling, the surrounding ditches and rivers are criss-crossed, and the whole environment is quiet and elegant, with a water town style.
Seeing this, Huizhu couldn't help but think of Yinzhen's fear of summer boredom, no wonder he would spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build this water park. Thinking about it in his heart, the corner of his eyes then fluttered at Yinzhen, who was sitting alone. Today, Yinzhen is dressed in a fit of solar terms, wearing wormwood tips on the crown embellished with red tassels, wearing a stone green cotton gauze robe, a two-color gold dragon coat embroidered with red and green cotton yarn, and a bright yellow jewel-inlaid belt with dragon boat-sized purses, and five poisonous small purses.
At this moment, Yin Zhen was sitting straight on the dragon chair, seemingly interested in enjoying the lake scenery, but in fact, it was not, the cold and hard face hidden under the crown showed impatience, and the thin lips were slightly drooping down, thinking that the gradually rising sullenness had made him more impetuous.
Without waiting to look any further, a cold dose of light came over, and Huizhu retracted her gaze in a daze. When he was secretly feeling weak, the aroma of Luo Yi came to his nose, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the beautiful palace ladies of Shaohua were holding the glutinous rice aroma to eat and execute the zongzi. Steamed buns. . Drinking. Ice bowls are placed on the table one by one. Among them, Yinzhen, as the emperor, drank calamus wine, and everyone including Huizhu's mother and son drank realgar wine.
The noon sun is the most poisonous, in the face of a table of dry glutinous food, everyone has no appetite, so Huizhu ordered someone to set the table of snow cheese cold food, by the royal family, the minister of civil and military unanimous praise. After lunch, Huizhu also spent a lot of effort to put the mulberries, cherries, poria and other fresh fruits that were only on the list in the past, sliced them in a glass bowl with crushed ice, and added yogurt, raisins, red beans, mung beans and other things to make fresh fruit shaved ice, so that everyone could relieve the heat of the summer.
Thirteen Fujin ate the last spoonful of shaved ice in the bowl, wiped the corners of his mouth and said: "Concubine Xi Niang Hui is a blue heart, a few things that are usually used to eating, arranged by Niangniang's skillful hands, refreshing and delicious, and the food is reminiscent of the taste." After a full meal and wine, everyone came to the spiritual leader and praised Huizhu without hesitation.
There are many of these people, and everyone is gossiping, and there are few sycophants, who simply praise Huizhu as having nothing in the sky and the earth, which makes Huizhu embarrassed first, but he has to respond with a generous smile.
Undoubtedly, Huizhu's hostess style is self-provoking the eyes of people with hearts. I saw that Li, who was shaking a purple embroidered Buddha's hand fan, changed to a delicate ivory fan in his hand at some point; When the fan is played one after the other, the red sapphire on the handle of the fan shines in the sunlight, attracting everyone's attention.
Seeing everyone's eyes coming one after another, Li raised his forehead proudly, and Danfeng, who already had fine lines, slanted at Huizhu, covered his mouth with a fan, and said with a smile: "Concubine Xi has been more stable and aggressive in her behavior over the years, but it is not as big as back then." Take the ivory fan in the hands of the palace as an example, the workmanship is fine, and the material is also one in a thousand, and it is Venus glass, ruby sapphire, tortoiseshell and other things, but it can not be given away at will, and only like Niangniang can be the master of Jingren Palace. ”
As soon as everyone secretly pondered the deep meaning of this, they already knew. Huizhu used to be an unknown character in Prince Yong's mansion, and he had nothing to do after eight years in the palace, and his appearance was not outstanding, and his family background was no different from that of a commoner in the eyes of these dignitaries. Such a concubine from a small family is a small family, and it is impossible to have anything good in his hands. Lee's words are clearly praised, but in fact they are sarcastic.
Everyone has thought about it, and they all press no, wait to see how this concubine Xi, who is in the limelight and has a faint tendency to be favored, responds, and by the way, what kind of attitude Yinzhen has towards these two concubines of equal status, they can also think about it. made up their minds, everyone watched from the wall, their eyes roamed between the two concubines, and from time to time they cast a glance of concern at another Nian's mother and son who had a strong momentum of seizing the heir.
Huizhu's mind was not so far, and she didn't bother to have a verbal dispute with the Li family, so she played Tai Chi, and said as if she was in harmony: "Concubine Qi praised it falsely, this ivory fan is just a thing for the palace to borrow flowers and offer Buddha." It originally had two handles, both of which were rewarded by the emperor to the palace some time ago, and the palace made the May solar terms, which were given to the sister of the concubine and the concubine of Qi. Unexpectedly, as soon as these words fell, the faces of the people present changed several times, and their eyes widened slightly in surprise, and they looked at Huizhu in surprise.
Huizhu was shocked, could it be that what Fang Cai said was wrong, and he was busy thinking about his words carefully, and seeing that there was nothing wrong, Fang calmly shook the fan, and looked back at everyone with a light smile. However, the heart was not fixed for a moment, and it was already wrong, Nian and Li, who were sitting opposite each other, had blue and white faces, among which Nian looked at Yinzhen with tears in his eyes, and Li stared at her with cannibalistic resentment.
Huizhu glanced at Yinzhen in confusion, and immediately looked at Yinzhen with displeasure, and her heart was even more suspicious, so she heard Yinzhen say coldly: "The two ivory fans from Guangzhou were given to Concubine Xi." When Nian heard this, he lowered his autumn hair, and said with a trace of loneliness: "Concubine Xi's sister is so generous, and the private belongings that the emperor personally appreciates can also be given away at will???? ”
"Knock-knock-" Suddenly, the deafening sound of drumming rushed in, and the voices on both sides of the strait cheered and shouted, and Nian's soft voice was drowned in the stirring voices.
I don't know when, eight ornamental boats out of sight, another eight yellow dragon, white dragon, red dragon, blue dragon each two dragon boats into the eyelids, wearing the costumes of each boat The children of the eight flags have been ready, the two of them sit in a row in the dragon boat, the posture is side by side, the posture is cool, and everyone shouts and cheers.
Under the order of "Bang-", the dragon boat galloped away, speeding together, falling like a flying sword, and the drum sounded like thunder in an instant. As the race unfolded, the mood of the crowd gradually became warmer, and the drummers on the dragon boat were still excited, only to see that the movements of their hands were speeding up, and the drums were mixed with percussion and resounded all over Fuhai. Gradually, the dragon boat degree is further accelerated, the drum music is also excited, the eight dragon boats have become a trend of you chasing me, and the atmosphere is quite jubilant.
In her past and present lives, Huizhu has never seen such an original May dragon boat race, and her neck has long been stretched, staring intently at the Capture the Flag Race. The same is true for the rest of the palace concubines and noblewomen, usually they don't go out of the door, and it is rare to have this opportunity, and they are also staring.
The people who can survive in the palace all have a seven-trick mind, and I saw the chief eunuch of the Old Summer Palace bowing down and bowing: "Your Majesty, the pennant pole at the end is a little far away from here, it is better to go there to watch it closely, but there is a bit of heat there, I am afraid that your golden body will be heated." The people looked in the direction of his finger, and saw that the terrain was good, and the only thing that was missing was that there was no shade from the trees.
Yin Zhen saw everyone's thoughts, so he agreed: "In this way, just go over there and watch." Everyone praised repeatedly, Yin Zhenfu looked at Nian again, frowned and said: "Concubine Nian, in that shady place, you have always been weak, it is better to stay here." Nian's eyes flashed brightly, and he suppressed joy and said: "Emperor Xie cares, but Fuhui also sees it happily, and the concubine is reluctant to let him stay, so the concubine's mother and son are willing to accompany the emperor." Seeing this, everyone was amazed, it seems that Nian's mother and son are honored.
At this time, Zhang Guiren stepped forward and said: "The concubine has the best of two methods, the young concubine and the eighth elder brother can watch the wonderful scene of capturing the flag up close, and they can also avoid the direct sun." As he spoke, he pointed to a place near the lake twenty meters away from the Holy Driver.
From the perspective of everyone, Xinjue's land is good, but he can't stand beside Yinzhen. Nian couldn't, so he had to agree, a pair of wonderful eyes glanced at Zhang Guiren coldly, and Fang got up with everyone.
Not long after, the surrounding presents a boiling scene, only to see the yellow dragon, inlaid with the yellow dragon, the white dragon three dragon ships far ahead of the remaining five, into the momentum of victory, the three dragon boats are only a fraction of a difference, just look at the head of the dragon, who can capture the flag to win.
"Coax-" Everyone shouted in unison, the suona sounded, and Huanglong took the lead and captured the flag in one fell swoop!
"Poof-" The weight fell into the water.
At this exciting moment, when everyone was still excited, they suddenly exclaimed. The screams were all in unison, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.
(I didn't want to write this in this chapter, how to write it, the content changed...... Have a good weekend, shy, tickets)
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