Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Thirty-Seven Banquet and the Organs
It was not early, Tang Yue didn't dare to stay longer, and walked quickly towards the side hall where Princess Hui lived.
The maid went in to inform that Tang Yue was invited in, turned into the east room, spread a soft red cashmere blanket on the ground, built a kang by the window on the west side, put a small number of pear blossom wood in the middle, placed a red sandalwood frame marble kang screen, and paved it with a turquoise green swaskaji brocade mattress with brocade edge and ink, and put two autumn fragrance pillows on the flowers. There was no incense in the house, only a few fresh bouquets of plum blossoms with rain and dew, and the side shelves were supported and the windows were opened to avoid the masters in the house.
Princess Hui leaned on the kang, her eyebrows were deeply locked, and she hadn't seen her for a while, Tang Yue found that Princess Hui was thin and not as bloated as a full moon like an ordinary pregnant woman, but became more and more weak, and she had a lack of grace.
His heart tightened, looking at Dongyang who was sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals, the old grandmother of the Su family who was waiting on the side drank a few big girls, and Mu Doudou, who was standing on the side to set the meal, went straight to the first salute, and only then sat down at the bottom of Dongyang after Princess Hui nodded.
"It's been a long time since I've seen Miss Yue, how is the family lately?" Tang Yue could clearly feel that Princess Hui was holding herself up and couldn't hide her weakness.
"Princess Lao is worried that everything is fine at home. Tang Yue replied, Mu Doudou had already set the plate here.
Dongyang saw the eyes handed over by Doudou, got up with a smile and invited the princess to take the throne, except for Mama Su, the rest of the people retreated to wait outside.
Mu Doudou personally poured the boiled snow water and handed it to the princess, "Princess, please use it." Because of her pregnancy, in order not to recruit people, Dongyang simply stopped Princess Hui's tea, and only picked up snow water and well water outside.
"This water has a different taste, why does it still have the fragrance of flowers?" Princess Hui was curious, the snow water was less sweet than the usual well water, and there was a little more frivolity, this water was different from usual, the fragrance of flowers was hidden, lingering lips and teeth, and the first smell of joy was repaid, but only the fragrance remained.
Dongyang covered his mouth and smiled, "This was originally a recipe I asked Ah Yue! Cooking the dried plum blossoms or lotus flowers dried last year with the snow water on the plum blossom stamens also has a special taste, if my mother likes it, Ah Yue has a lot of them! What lotus stamens freesia, candied fruit made from peach blossoms, wine made of green plums, tea made of licorice, sachets made of honeysuckle flowers, I know where she is hidden!"
Tang Yue tilted her head and puffed out her cheeks, pretending to be unhappy, "I have saved these family funds so easily over the years, you want a small half of this opening, Doudou took some under the pretext of cooking, and my stock is almost gone!" Her voice was soft and glutinous, coupled with a natural coquettish voice, the shape was moving, which made Princess Hui feel happy for a while, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Ming'er, I will lend Dongyang to you and let her give you a hand! There are a lot of flowers in the palace! Let her pick them all for you!"
"That's a good idea!" Tang Yue's eyes were bright, his face was flushed, and he pulled Princess Hui's sleeve with the innocence and cuteness of her little daughter, "Princess, let's say okay, don't lie to me, otherwise ......" His eyes rolled, and he was a little distressed, he didn't seem to be able to do anything with the princess!
"How else?" Dongyang teased her.
Tang Yuejiao glanced at Dongyang, "Otherwise, I'll tell Uncle Yan! When he comes to class next year, he will definitely ask him to assign you a lot of homework!" Cui Yan entered the palace to teach the emperor's son and grandson, but the queen personally invited her, if it wasn't for Uncle Yan teasing her a few days ago, she would still be kept in the dark! No wonder my uncle didn't go back to Cui's house for the New Year this year, I think one is not worried about my mother, and the other is also for the sudden change in Beijing.
Dongyang was stunned for a moment, and then opened his mouth and scolded with a smile: "Okay, you Tang Yue! I just asked you for some dried flowers, and you treated me like this! It seems that you can't clean you up well, you don't know that I'm amazing!" As he spoke, he got up and attacked him unprepared, tickling Tang Yue.
Tang Yue has always been afraid of itching, squeaky and laughing, and begging for mercy with sideburns, "Spare me, spare me, don't dare again!"
"Really?" Dongyang raised an eyebrow and threatened.
"Don't dare, really. Tang Yue leaned on the table aggrievedly, and looked at it with water in his eyes.
Princess Hui saw the two of them playing like this, it was rare to feel comforted, Dongyang didn't seem to have laughed like this for a long time? Wouldn't it be better to have another child? She would be a little happier? There was a pain in her heart, as if the silver needles were pierced one by one in her heart, and the wind was leaking on all sides, and she was dripping with blood, she didn't care about a cheap life anyway, but Dongyang was still young, Dongyang was still small! If King Hui failed...... It's not a pity for her to die, Dongyang ...... Dongyang can't pay for this matter!
Here Tang Yue and Dongyang were playing, but Mu Doudou said, "Okay, okay, if you make trouble again, the food will be cold!" The two of them gave up, tidied up their clothes, and sat obediently waiting for the meal! By the way, they also gave each other a look: I'll wait for me later!
"What are you going to eat today?" two pairs of soft and cute eyes looked at Mu Doudou, Mu Doudou only felt liver pain, it was like two rice buckets!
"Doudou's skills are good, but the four of us can't eat so many meals, right?" Princess Hui opened her mouth stiffly with a smile, Dongyang glanced at Tang Yue, and it was in vain.
Tang Yue was also gloomy and frustrated, didn't they all laugh before? Sure enough, a woman's heart, a needle under the sea! The ancients didn't deceive me! Shaking his head, looking at Mu Doudou, it's time for you to go!
Mu Doudou quietly cheered himself, "Is this time different from the past, if it was natural to only cook a few of us in the past, but today I have to make a little more to show sincerity!" Mu Doudou's face was serious, and the three of them were stunned.
"Is today a special day?" Princess Hui spoke, Tang Yue and Dongyang luckily counted the days with their fingers, "What's wrong today?"
Mu Doudou said again, "Today is the birthday of the fairy by chance, so naturally I have to do a little more to show respect!"
Who is that? The three of them were confused.
"The fate fairy is a god in my hometown, the fairy who was originally the fairy who broke the fate of the people in heaven and the cause and effect of the person was later reincarnated in our hometown, and helped many crazy men and women who had no fate to resolve the debts and then continue the front edge, extremely respected, and then although she soared in the day, but there are still her temples in our hometown, and there are literati who write poems to commemorate it!"
"There are also old people who say that this fate fairy lives in the Wanyan Mountain Cause and Effect Hall on the bank of the Nine Heavenly Spirit River, and the old man of the moon is in charge of marriage, and she is in charge of cause and effect in the world. But all the debts made by unfinished fate are up to her to think how to repay them, whether to be a cow and a horse knot grass ring to repay or to continue to write the front edge in the next life and put your name on the marriage book of the old man, she must first decide to record it on the Fengyue spectrum, so it must not be offended!" Mu Doudou opened his mouth in a straight voice, Tang Yue Dongyang pretended to listen carefully on his face, and secretly looked at Princess Hui's face from the corner of his eye.
Mama Su on the side almost hated that iron could not become steel, and she didn't have eyes to see it, is it really good that you are doing it so obviously, but she also saw the contemplative look on Princess Hui's face.
Unfinished fate, she and her cousin...... Does it count?
Mu Doudou calmed the two who were anxious and stretched out their claws to scratch the wall and continued to fool around, "For example, Xiaohong and Xiao Ming are a couple with a marriage contract, but Xiaohong was forced to marry Zhang San, and Xiao Ming was forced to marry Li Si, but both of them have each other in their hearts, this life is regarded as fate, and the next life will let them meet again and form a mandarin duck relationship, so as to eliminate the love debt on the Fengyue spectrum." ”
"What if one of them already hates Huangquan?" said Princess Hui leisurely.
"That's easier!" Mu Doudou smiled heartlessly and didn't seem to hear anything, "The so-called fate fate, a marriage is fate, if there is fate in this life and the next life, it would be good to accumulate points in another way! For example, one of them went first, and the person who stayed behind was the one who had a thousand flowers brushing through his fingertips, he was the one who had seen the flowing clouds in his eyes, he was the bluestone road he had walked on, and he was the willow tree that had leaned against the pool, and he would be all the scenery that the person had seen with his eyes and all the sounds he had heard in his ears. When fate has saved enough, I will meet again on the bridge Sansheng Stone, waiting for the return to the world and then entering the world, and the white head will not leave. ”
"White Head...... Don't leave the ...... "Princess Hui is not in her mind, there is a sad look in her eyebrows, Tang Yue Dongyang looks at each other, is this medicine a little fierce?
"Mother?" Dongyang couldn't hold back his concern to speak, Princess Hui came back to her senses almost instantly, and picked up her dignified and elegant mask again, "By the way, does this banquet have a name?"
Mu Doudou looked at Dongyang with some guilt in her eyes, signaling Tang Yue to comfort her before speaking, "Naturally, this banquet is called the Sanqi Banquet." ”
Without waiting for a few people to speak, Mu Doudou lifted the lid on the dish one by one and explained, "This dish is made of schisandra and reed penny bamboo shoots, which means the five flavors of the world, and the taste is refreshing." "Then refer to the next chicken soup" This soup is live and live alone, and then add snow lotus, called the head white mandarin duck", "This is flavored with peach blossom mandarin fish, and then take green plum wine to cook it, called flounder green plum." "As for this porridge, it is made from yam into the bone marrow of the pig's big bone, and it is called Jinse. "And this one, a pastry made with red beans and wolfberries, also known as Acacia. "There is also this wine, boiled rice wine with green plums, honeysuckle flowers, and grape leaves are sealed and called vain eyebrows. "This dish is the most important thing, and it is difficult to calm down, take peony, red beans, angelica, Fusu, plus turtledove, cherry and other things, the process is complicated, not to mention. ”
"This dish...... But what else does it mean?" Princess Hui looked obsessed, Tang Yue took over the conversation and asked, she knew that Princess Hui would definitely listen to everything!
"Naturally" Mu Doudou breathed a sigh of relief, or Tang Yue calmed down, "This way is said to be mandarin duck dishes, in fact, they are all parting and miserable, the fate fairy will feel distressed when he sees it, and fate is naturally heavier than others! ”
It was easy to serve Princess Hui for lunch, and the princess entered the warm pavilion to rest, and the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's over! I'm tired to death! Dongyang, I fell in love with the Xiangfei bamboo fan in your room, and it will be sent to me another day as the reward for my hard work!" Tang Yue was paralyzed on the kang, tired to death!
Dongyang took a sip of water and waved his hand, "Go get it yourself, I'm very tired!" "By the way, what do you want Doudou?"
Doudou shook his head and refused.
Tang Yue couldn't look at it and said, "Don't ask her what she wants, this is a master who doesn't speak! If you thank her a few times and find a way to ask the queen or the emperor for a favor, you can't let her go back and be harmed by her father and stepmother! It's really not good, it's okay to give marriage! Her cousin is now asking for teaching and asking questions by my uncle's side, and at the beginning of the year, she will take the letter to Qingshan Academy to be tested by the gentlemen of the academy, and after that, she will be able to enroll!"
On the other side, Princess Hui was served by Mama Su and lay on the bed, she didn't have much appetite and didn't eat much today, but fortunately she didn't vomit. I'm afraid that I'm worried that I'll offend the fairy by vomiting the dishes at this banquet, so she's ......
"Mama, do you really have a chance fairy?" Princess Hui was lying on the bed with a fragile expression, tears streaming from the corners of her eyes, and Mama Su felt distressed for a while.
After thinking about it, although it was fabricated by the two county lords and Miss Mu, it was good for the princess to have a hope, and Mama Su said, "The old slave has also heard that there are some legends of gods and monsters in some places. "As for whether it's true or not, I can't avoid it.
Princess Hui cried even more, "Then I ......"
"Girl, listen to the old slave's advice, maybe it's really because your fate in this life is not enough. If the girl is not at ease, let's also hold a banquet every year today in the future, okay?"
"Okay......" Princess Hui sobbed and fell asleep.
Mama Su let out a long sigh, and her old face was wrinkled into chrysanthemum folds.
What is this?
In the palace, Su Wuxing turned around and went to an abandoned palace.
"You're here?" the man turned around, his face childish, and his voice was pale but spirited.
"Why do you ask me to meet here?" said Shu Wuxing.
"That little girl saved the Emperor?" the man asked.
Shu Wuxing raised his eyebrows, "Don't you know everything?"
The man sighed, "It's one thing to know, it's another thing to know the answer from your mouth." ”
"You shouldn't have meddled in this. Isn't it good to retire in the mountain gate outside the palace?"
"What can you do? You should figure it out, King Rui is the one who ascends the throne, how to go against the sky. ”
The sneering look at the corner of Shu Wuxing's mouth became heavier: "Aren't you the one who goes against the sky?"
"Why are you doing this?" "Beware of the fact that the agency has calculated and cost Qingqing's life!" the man continued.
"Why do you say you're doing this? Doesn't her return mean that her last choice was rejected by Heavenly Dao?" Shu Wuxing said lightly, fiddling with a string of prayer beads in his hand.
"That's all wrong!" the man shook off the dust, and his face was threatening.
Su Wuxing smiled but didn't speak.
"Don't tell me you haven't noticed that little girl is becoming less and less like before, she will slowly forget her past life and leave only this life, so that everything will go back to the way it was. ”
"You are wrong, it was not her in the previous life, but now it is her, the way of heaven is balanced, she should naturally forget but should not forget. Su Wuxing calmly retorted, she believed that Tang Yue's rebirth was by no means a dead letter, everything was already doomed, all she had to do was to protect Tang Yue and help her grow, but she was too indecisive now.
"Whoever is wrong knows who is right! According to the history books of the next hundred years, you and I are unseemly visible to people and unsightly, so why bother!"
"Why are you suffering!" Shu Wuxing sneered, people like them would not have been known to the world in the first place, and they could only wander in the shadows under the emperor's throne for the rest of their lives, doing shady things, why bother to mix with and take the heir!
"You said that she would be the sharpest knife to cut off King Rui, King Li, King He, but now she is too indecisive, what great thing can a woman's kindness be!"
"You won't understand. She just cares too much about her loved ones, and the lost and regained is what she cherishes the most. "Lost and regained, gained and lost, especially when she could save but couldn't save it, at that time, she grew up and became the sharpest knife.
Su Wuxing smiled, the sky turned dark, gloomy and gloomy, making her whole person half evil and half weak and innocent.
"You still believe her?"
"It's nature. "She's the knife that Heaven chooses anyway.
The man was silent, and then threw out a book, "That's it, if you give this thing to her, it can be regarded as my apology." ”
Shu Wuxing touched the words on it, is it "Chen's Fragrance Spectrum"? I think it's time for the next volume.
"Thank you. ”
"It's not for you, so you don't need to thank you. The man turned and walked away. Su Wuxing also left.
It was completely dark.