Chapter 152: Busy Preparations for the Mid-Autumn Festival Feast (2-in-1)
Qu Wenhai didn't expect that in just one night, he was trapped in the cabinet and discussed with several other cabinet elders how to implement the idea he made the night before, and the prince had already gotten people directly to the Zhan Mansion.
He was worried and anxious, but he hadn't forgotten Qu Qingyan's bright eyes when he mentioned Beijing.
Was the prince's repeated actions intentional or coincidental?
Although he was anxious, he didn't have time to explain Qingyan's current predicament, and what he wrote on his previous recital was a bit false and empty, and it was only one night, and many details were too late to scrutinize.
Although his thinking made Emperor Jing extremely satisfied, when it came to some details, it would take six parts to come together and scrutinize them repeatedly.
When he returned home, he changed his clothes and robes, and he couldn't even see Qu Qingyan's face, so he was sent back to the cabinet.
was asked to go to Zhan Shifu, Qu Qingyan was unwilling and frightened at first, and he was able to face it calmly in the past few days.
The three of them were divided into one room, which was called for the lecture at the beginning of next month, but in Qu Qingyan's opinion, there were always some inexplicable people passing by from time to time outside their room, which was quite interesting.
There are four tables on the left and right of the door, and there are bookshelves in front of the wall facing the door.
Qu Qingyan sat on one side, and Gu Ruohong and Yang Jianxian sat on the other side.
There are questions for the prince's lectures every month, and the questions assigned to them this time are similar to the questions in the palace examination, which is also filial piety.
The next line of small characters in the title, eight words were written in a regular manner, but it made Qu Qingyan's heart tighten.
Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons.
Ting asked her the question of Emperor Jing, and she thought of such an answer behind her sweaty clothes, but she didn't expect the prince to remember this moment.
She held the pen in her hand, and it seemed that she had grasped something in her head, but it flashed again.
Approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, after Emperor Jing succeeded to the throne, in order to recuperate and reduce the expenses in the palace, he subtracted the Mid-Autumn Festival feast, and used the saved silver taels as the military salary of the soldiers in front.
In the last battle, Yongning Hou and Zhu Jinrui beat the Tartars to a great injury, the winter border of the previous year was unprecedentedly peaceful, until now it is close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, there has been no trace of the Tartars outside the gate, Emperor Jing was overjoyed and asked the Ministry of Rites to organize the Mid-Autumn Festival feast.
Qu Wenhai, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was even more busy and couldn't go home.
At the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion banquet, Emperor Jing sent someone to send the edict to Shaanxi and ordered Zhu Jinrui to return to Beijing.
Only he refused Emperor Jing's summons on the grounds that he had been out of Beijing for less than a year, had a lot of affairs in the northwest, and was afraid of a sneak attack by the Tartars.
Qu Qingyan also heard Qu Wenhai whisper in private, saying that Zhu Jinrui's 'resistance to the decree' made Emperor Jing a little annoyed.
August 14, Hugh.
Beijing was faintly restless because of the Mid-Autumn Festival feast on the second day, and all officials above the fifth grade could bring their families to attend.
Only this one, all the juniors in the family are waiting eagerly, looking forward to the feast where their juniors can show their faces in front of everyone, maybe they will enter someone's eyes.
Since Liu Shi knew this news, she couldn't help but recite Amitabha Buddha silently, she was really afraid that Qu Wenhai would do what he said, and he would really match Qu Zhaoying with a family at will.
Qu Boshu's official position is too low, and such a feast is not good to rub Lao Tzu's face and squeeze in, so Qu Zhaoying can only enter the palace with Qu Wenhai when he arrives.
However, Qu Qingwen and Qu Qingyan have successfully entered the office, and the two of them will definitely enter the palace with Qu Wenhai at that time, and Qu Wenhai will be too busy to take care of Qu Zhaoying at that time.
Liu's thoughts are particularly good, these days he has taken Qu Zhaoying everywhere to buy materials and jewelry, just hoping that she can dominate the crowd at the feast.
So, on August 14, Qu Zhaoying's dress and jewelry for the banquet were still not decided.
"The long room is really noisy, isn't it a Mid-Autumn Festival feast, when they go, they are the protagonists of the whole scene, and the silver building almost empties them."
Qin sat by the window, and his words were a little sour.
Mama Wang only thought of Qu Zhaoyun again, although the Qin family gave birth to three daughters, but the first two were not close to her when they were not married, and Qu Bozhong died unexpectedly not long after getting married, and even a daughter rarely came to the door.
The only ones who accompanied her through Qu Bozhong's sudden death were Qu Zhaoyun and Qu Qingyan, Qu Qingyan had been mourning in front of the grave for the past two years, and only Qu Zhaoyun had been with the Qin family in serious calculations.
Because of that companionship, the Qin family gave birth to a little maternal love for Qu Zhaoyun, and when she returned to Qu Mansion, she tossed it.
The third daughter, who had been released by her mother's love, had not heard from her since she arrived in the northwest, and the Qin family still cared a little bit when she thought about it occasionally.
This will see that the Liu family is making a lot of trouble with Qu Zhaoying's affairs every day, and she suddenly thinks that if Qu Zhaoyun is not married, she will definitely be able to take advantage of this opportunity to find a good family.
"Miss Seven, if she can find a good family, it's also good for our Qufu, isn't it." Mama Wang smiled and persuaded.
The Qin clan glared, obviously unable to listen to the words that this kind of long house was good and they were not good.
"What good can it be, they get benefits from the long house, when will we get involved, you look at what kind of goods the maids and wives I have in this courtyard, none of them serve me sincerely, I can get benefits from their long house?"
Her words made Mama Wang want to squeeze out the sweat, she couldn't hold people herself, how could this fault be pushed to the long room.
"Madame, don't you see what you said, you see that the fourth young master is now on an errand with the eldest young master, and as soon as he entered the Hanlin Academy, he became an official who was higher than the eldest young master, this is not to say that our fourth young master is more powerful."
This is only pleasing to the ear, and Qin Shi turned around and couldn't help but sigh a little: "Do you say that we Qingyan are sorry for her face, you said that if she changes into women's clothes, she will definitely be much more delicate than that Qu Zhaoying." ”
At noon, there was still a bit of heat in the air, and the windows in the room were not closed.
There is a maid guarding the yard under the eaves, how can she get what she says if she is heard!
Mama Wang couldn't wait to step forward and plug her mouth.
"Madam, what are you talking about, don't let the fourth young master listen to what you say, she hates others to say that she looks feminine like a woman."
She bit the word woman very hard, and Qin couldn't help but laugh a few times when she came back to her senses: "Look at me, this is thinking about the six girls ruthlessly." ”
In Qinghe Town, which is close to the capital, a team of people and horses got on the bus after breakfast early in the morning, and the horses were ready to go again.
In the carriage, a woman dressed as a woman was six months pregnant.
Beside her, the man's big hand fell on her stomach and rubbed gently: "When you return to Beijing this time, don't go to the northwest with me, just wait for delivery in Beijing." ”
Qu Zhaoyun leaned his head on Jiang Jinquan's shoulder, only humming and refusing to speak.
After staying in the northwest for more than half a year, the yellow sand was scraped twice a year, and she didn't want to go over it again in her life.
This time, the holy decree was sent to the Marquis of Yongning, and the Marquis of Yongning was allowed to return to Beijing to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In the northwest of the important place, Zhu Jinrui will be recalled and he will be recalled, if the Tartars take this opportunity to commit, how to explain if there is no owner in the city?
So even if he was desperately suspicious of Emperor Jing, he still stayed in the northwest and only sent his two sons back.
Jiang Jinfeng and Jiang Jinquan originally wanted to rush back to the capital all the way, but Qu Zhaoyun knew the news for a long time before Jiang Jinquan nodded and took her back to Beijing.
After being carried to the Hou Mansion, she and Jiang Jinquan were as good as one person for a period of time at the beginning of the year, and every day was a day of mixing oil in honey.
Let her not pay attention to Jiang Jinquan's main room, and she tried her best to go to the northwest together, and when the two were fighting in bed, she forced Jiang Jinquan to respond.
She thought very well at that time, and always felt that she went to the northwest with Jiang Jinquan, where there were only the two of them, she accompanied him through the long cold winter at the border, they could live like an ordinary husband and wife, so that she completely captured Jiang Jinquan's heart.
As a result, as soon as she arrived in the border city, she got out of the car and entered the door, and was almost blinded by the warblers and Yanyan who were all over the yard.
Jiang Jinquan has never been a clean and self-righteous master, and he is alone in the northwest and he is unwilling to wronged himself, so he made up the fat and thin of the courtyard.
Most of these people follow Jiang Jinquan and have no reputation, but they are better than Jiang Jinquan.
Qu Zhaoyun initially relied on himself to accept the dowry, and looked down on the women in this courtyard because of his identity.
It's just that half a month has passed, Jiang Jinquan has never entered her room as if she has forgotten that there is still a person in this mansion, and she finally began to panic.
began to understand why Qu Qingyan wanted to say that she didn't do a good and decent room, and she had to be willing to be cheap.
But regret didn't have any effect, she fell into this courtyard full of warblers and Yanyan is no different from them, if she wants to achieve her original goal, she has to try her best to make Jiang Jinquan set his eyes on her.
She stroked her round belly, and only she knew what it was like to have been hard for more than half a year.
She rubbed her back in front of Jiang Jinquan: "Second master, the concubine just thinks about her mother, and I always feel that leaving like that before will definitely make my mother worry about the concubine day and night, and the concubine will go back to the border city with the master when she sees her mother, and the concubine is really a little uneasy to stay there alone." ”
Thinking of the courtyard over there, the beautiful girl who tried her best to compete with her for favor, she still hated her teeth.
Before they went out, the Liniang had just been found to be two months pregnant, if she couldn't get a man in one fell swoop but was given birth to Jiang Jinquan's eldest son by Liniang, she would have a more difficult time in the second room of the Hou Mansion in the future.
Jiang Jinquan smiled, raised his hand and rubbed it on her chest: "You little goblin, you don't know what you're thinking?" You can give birth to the child for your grandfather now, and you don't have to worry about it. ”
This sounded like he was concerned about her, but after thinking about it carefully, he knew that Jiang Jinquan was warning her not to meddle in her affairs.
She was about to say something when she heard a voice outside the car.
"Second master, the prince has sent a message, His Royal Highness King Yu is waiting at the post station in front, he wants to beat the horse first."
"I'll go over with the eldest brother first, you go and talk back and let the eldest brother wait for me to change horses."
Jiang Jinquan didn't look at Qu Zhaoyun again after his voice lagged, and ordered the coachman to stop the car and dodge out.
Qu Qingyan thought that he had been delayed for several days, but when he caught up with Xiu Muri, he could always meet Tongqu Wenhai in the mansion and say a few words to him.
But I didn't want Qu Wenhai to be busy with tomorrow's feast, so I went to Guanglu Temple early in the morning, and Guanglu Temple came out and went to Honglu Temple, and it was already three days to go back to the house.
On the fifteenth day of August, the palace began to arrange all the affairs they needed to enter the palace early in the morning.
Because it was a feast, Emperor Jing's crown prince and his people needed to wear crown clothes, that is, they had to change into official clothes.
The feast was held in the evening, and just after noon, she and Qu Qingwen were ready to enter the palace.
Although one of them is now in the Hanlin Courtyard and the other is in the Zhan Mansion, these two errand places are outside the Chengtian Gate, except for the court meeting on the fifteenth day of the first month, strictly speaking, this is the second time they have entered the palace.
The carriage left Qu Mansion one after the other, Qu Qingyan and Qu Qingwen had one, and Qu Zhaoying sat alone.
Before Qu Qingyan got into the car, she caught a glimpse of Qu Zhaoying's outfit, and she couldn't agree with Liu's aesthetics for the first time, Qu Zhaoying's head full of beads was like a cash cow.
"Big brother, it seems that the purpose of letting the seventh sister enter the palace to participate in the feast this time is not pure."
Qu Qingwen was slightly embarrassed by her meaning, and coughed lightly: "Mother just hasn't died yet." ”
Qu Qingyan mentioned it casually, without any ridicule or exclamation: "Many colleagues in the Hanlin Academy should be present this time, and the eldest brother can take the opportunity to complete the eldest uncle's request." ”
Where would Liu's request be so easy to meet.
The colleagues in the Hanlin Academy are just petty officials of seven or eight grades, although the future is immeasurable, where can the Liu family's current vision be seen.
She now wants Qu Zhaoying to marry into a wealthy family, and she can enjoy Qingfu when she enters the door.
"Qingwen, your seventh sister's relatives can only be handed over to you, this time you will take her to take her around in front of a few pavilion elders, but understand?"
Qu Qingwen thought of Liu's words, and the embarrassment in his heart was about to ferment and break his whole person.
"I know that the eldest brother is very embarrassed, and the fourth brother still makes fun of me, but my mother is just whimsical."
The carriage swayed all the way towards the Forbidden City, and when it reached the street, it began to line up without accident.
When the three of them entered the palace, they were led by the palace people into the noon gate, and they saw that the inner hall of the Fengtian Hall was covered with tables and brocade mats.
The two of them couldn't find Qu Wenhai, so they were led into the palace by the palace people and made it under the mansion of the princess and uncle.
The relatives of the six members of the cabinet have already arrived in the third family, and the Qian family, the Gu family, and the Zhou family all have people sitting in their seats.
Especially the Gu family and the Zhou family, there are still old ladies in the array.
Qu Qingyan pushed on Qu Qingwen's back, this person didn't take care of Qu Zhaoying's family affairs, how could such a rare opportunity be missed.
Qu Qingwen blushed at Qu Qingyan's naked hints, but when he turned around and saw Qu Zhaoying, who had an innocent face, he still gritted his teeth and brought people over.
Qu Qingyan sat still in place, just watching the excitement with a smile in his eyes.
Suddenly, a person walked at the side door of the main hall, a tall figure with a straight back, walked to the table next to the throne, and sat down with a robe and a golden sword.
Qu Qingyan raised his eyes and saw that he collided with the other party's line of sight in mid-air.