In the autumn and August of the twelfth year of Guangzheng (949), the laurel in the Changchun Hall was in full bloom, and the whole palace seemed to be soaked in the osmanthus fragrant soup.

When I got up in the morning, I saw clusters of fragrant and white flowers among the branches in the courtyard, and I had a whim, and I told Zhiqiu to call a few palace maids to follow me to the osmanthus tree to wear a flower chain.

However, the osmanthus was so thin and small, and I was impatient when I wore it for a while, and I only felt that my head was down and my neck was sore, so I simply pushed it to Zhiqiu and them to get it.

If there is nothing to do, what should I do? was worried, and when I looked up, I saw that Ming'er was making a female red under the corridor, carefully embroidering a silk handkerchief.

With a roll of his eyes, he thought about it, recalled entering the house and taking the Sujuan white fan left on the west window table, tiptoed behind Ming'er, and posed as a prodigal son of Pai Deng, holding Ming'er's chin with a fan, and jokingly: "Dare to ask Miss Fang's name." ”

Ming'er was concentrating on embroidering a peony, but when I came like this, she jumped up and shouted, "Oh, sister, you scared me to death." ”

"Sister? Where are there any sisters? I pretended to be suspicious.

Ming'er was angry and funny, snatched the silk fan from my hand, and pouted and complained: "My sister is a concubine now, why bother to tease people if she has nothing to do." ”

"Yo yo, according to Ming'er's meaning, my sister can't tease you? So next time, let's tease you with someone else, okay? I smiled evilly and sat next to Ming'er.

Ming'er's face turned red, threw down the handkerchief in her hand, and said angrily: "Look at my sister's trouble, this handkerchief has been embroidered for a few days and it still doesn't look like it." ”

I leaned over my face, looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's not a dowry, it's up to you to be in a hurry." ”

"Sister~!" Ming'er blushed and was so anxious that she only stomped her feet.

I got up and walked out of the porch, pointed at her and said with a smile: "Another day, I will ask the emperor to point you a young and talented husband, so that you can save yourself from preparing so much dowry in vain." ”

Ming'er saw that the more I talked, the more energetic she became, so anxious that she got up and chased after me, I laughed and shouted as I ran: "Mother Qiu, come and see, Ming'er is making trouble!" Quick, go and summon the Yulin Guard to protect the Lord. ”

Zhiqiu stood under the laurel tree, and Zhengse replied: "Ming'er made a mess, and she should have called Yulin Wei, but the old slave was worried about alarming the emperor, so Niangniang, you should watch and clean it up yourself." ”

I didn't expect Zhiqiu to be old and serious on weekdays, but he could say such funny things with a serious face, and he laughed for a while, squatting on the ground with a smile, pointing at her speechless.

Ming'er ran to me, anxious and worried, and said, "I said that I won't get married, and my sister wants to use words to provoke me all day long." Don't laugh, look at it for a while, and go ......."

"Committing ...... Violate...... If you make a mess, hehe, Changchun Hall doesn't dare to stay, so I'll find someone tomorrow and find someone to carry it to my home. Haha, hahaha...... "I did get out laughing.

Seeing that I was still talking nonsense, Ming'er bit her lip and stomped her feet and turned around to leave, but when she saw it, she bumped into Xiao Pian who was delivering medicine.

Xiao Lian was frightened, the medicine was scattered on the ground, I got up and clapped my hands, and said with a smile: "It's all said, the injury is all healed, what medicine do you take, you don't need to drink it now." ”

"Niangniang~!" Xiao Lian said helplessly: "The emperor ordered, you have to listen to Imperial Doctor Ling." ”

"Imperial Physician Ling's medicine is the most bitter ......," he was saying, his nose was already filled with the fragrance of the medicine. Belch! This medicine didn't smell like the bitterness of normal days, but there was a faint cool aroma, I sniffed and sniffed again, and asked, "Has Mrs. Ling changed the prescription?" ”

"You said that your throat was uncomfortable that day, and Imperial Doctor Ling considered prescribing this prescription to get rid of wind-heat throat paralysis."

"Oh, what ...... is this scent?"

"Maybe it's dipterocarp." Xiao Ren replied as she cleaned up the debris on the ground.

"Dipterocarp? Oh, it should be borneol! I said to myself.

"Borneol?" Xiao Pitian looked at me puzzled.

"Nothing, nothing." I disguised myself and waved my white fan, and a cool and refreshing air rushed towards me, which would be wonderful if it were in summer.

"Li'er, you go to the pharmacy now and get some dipterocarp for me." A flash of inspiration flashed in my head, and my heart was also excited.

Seeing my happy face, Little Mercy opened her mouth blankly, and obediently trotted to fetch medicine for me.

I turned around and called Ming'er to play a few plain tassels with me, and fell into the tail of the fan. Ming'er muttered puzzledly while playing the tassels: "Sister, I really don't want to stop for a moment." ”

"Work hard, there's a lot to talk about." I took a sip of tea and said as an overseer: "If you play well today, this palace will exempt you from the crime of rebellion." ”

"You ......" Ming'er glared at me, pouting and digging her head down.

After a while, Xiao Lian took the dipterocarp.

I turned the dipterocarp incense into water, applied it to the fan with a clean brush, and waved it lightly, and it was very refreshing to learn and cool.

As expected, I chuckled, this is a good idea. Then he tied Ming'er's well-made pendant to the tail of the fan, and immediately a plain white fan became elegant.

Ming'er was pleasantly surprised when she saw this, and ran to the house to get a few more fans, and Xiao Lian also understood it on the side, and helped Ming'er apply dipterocarp incense to each fan one by one.

While laughing, Bao Yuan paced in, saw the newly made fan on the table, took a closer look at it curiously, he also smelled the aroma, took a deep breath and asked, "It's a very special taste, but dipterocarp?" ”

I smiled and nodded, and said proudly: "Meng Lang, you see, if you use it in the summer, wouldn't you feel cool and breezy." ”

He looked at it over and over again, and said with a smile: "Clever ghost, you can think of such an idea." After that, I laughed, and I was also happy, pestering him to choose a name.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Su Juan, dipterocarp, how about calling it a snow incense fan?" ”

"Snow fragrance fan, snow fragrance fan! But it's a very clever name, so let's call it a snow fragrance fan. I clapped my hands and agreed.

"Well, I instructed the Shanggong Bureau to make some fans with plain white and dark flowers, and then apply dipterocarp, which is a veritable 'snow fragrance fan'!"

I was overjoyed when I heard this, and urged him to make an order quickly.

That night, Bao Yuan invited me to watch the night view in the Taixu High Pavilion.

Taixu High Pavilion faces the Dragon Leap Pond and leans against the city wall to build, climb the high pavilion to overlook the panoramic view of the Peony Garden, and can also cross the city wall to see the night view of the imperial city Luocheng. Under the city wall is the bustling Luocheng downtown area, and you don't have to go out of the palace to see Luocheng.

At the right time, the crescent moon is like a hook, the stars are charming, Luo Cheng is extravagant, I quietly leaned on his side to look at Luo Cheng with him, my eyes were full of prosperity, and I couldn't say that I was quiet and satisfied.

If according to the palace system, the concubines and concubines are not allowed to go to the palace in private, and today Ming'er is rare, and she is very excited, and she looks around curiously along the side of the building.

"Niangniang, look at you~!" She called me softly, and also blessed Bao Yuan apologetically.

I followed her down the city tower, and the women with jingling rings were walking through the city in various butterfly dresses, some of whom were wearing butterfly hairpins as headdresses.

I was puzzled at first, then I chuckled, and Ming'er said, "Mrs. Xinning said that day that the women of Luocheng wear all the same clothes as Mrs. Hua Rui. My sister didn't believe it that day, but today it seems that what she said is true. ”

"I wear it on the Yuan Festival, who knows it's me." I shook my head and chuckled: "Isn't the palace people who make skirts in the palace according to the popular styles outside?" ”

"How is that possible, it is naturally from the palace" Ming'er argued: "Sister's hundred butterfly dress, but it was given by the emperor, and it is unique in this world. ”

Bao Yuan leaned over and said with a smile: "What's so difficult about this, if you want to know what the imitation is, just give it a try." ”

When I heard him say this, I was curious and anxious to know what was going on, and with a smile he took out the "snow incense fan" made today and threw it downstairs in the city, where the white fan was falling on the street.

I saw a man in a green shirt walking by, leaning over to pick it up, looking around for a moment, seeing that no one cared about it, he looked at the city tower again, then carefully hid it in his sleeve, and left in a hurry.

Bao Yuan said with a smile: "That passer-by must know that it fell from within the palace wall, and soon, the snow incense fan will be popular in the city, so Rui'er will wait and see." ”

Unexpectedly, the snow incense fan spread in Luocheng in less than half a month, and for a while, there were almost no plain silk fans for sale in the fan village in the city.

Although I know in my heart that buying a fan in this autumn is just someone who is elegant, but I didn't expect it to be so popular, I only sigh that people in ancient times are really good at following the trend!

On the tenth day of the first month, the palace has begun to prepare for the fifteenth moon sacrifice and moon appreciation.

It is close to mid-autumn, it is the season of hibiscus blooming, according to the legend of the servants who often go out of the palace to do business, the hibiscus trees planted on both sides of the Jinjiang River last year have been full of flowers this year, and the two banks of the Huanhua River are now the places where the people play and enjoy the flowers.

After Bao Yuan heard about it, he was interested, and immediately passed down the message, prepared the dragon boat, and scheduled to leave the palace on the 12th to visit the Xinghuanhua River.

It was a crisp autumn day, and the sky was cloudless.

This trip to Baoyuan not only brought all the ministers with him, but also allowed the concubines with titles in the harem to travel together, which was unprecedented. Jin Yan was also going to go, but he caught a cold at night, and he was not happy after getting up in the morning, so he resigned to Baoyuan and stayed in the palace to rest.

Ming'er urged me to comb my makeup early, only to say that today's people want to see the royal style, and specially combed the fluffy Liuxian Gaoyun bun for me, only to make the waves like clouds, and decorate the hair bun with antler gold steps. I swept the moth eyebrows with Shi Dai, dyed the soft lips with cinnabar, and pasted the golden flowers on the forehead, and finally changed into the water red moon Huashu brocade and fog silk palace dress.

"The water spirit curtain is quite a pillow, and the warm fragrance provokes the dream of mandarin duck brocade.

The willows on the river are like smoke, and the geese fly in the waning moon.

The autumn color of lotus silk is light, and the people are uneven.

The temples are fragrant red, and the jade hairpin has the upper hand. ”

Bao Yuan smiled brightly, and whispered Wen Feiqing's "Bodhisattva Man" to open the bead curtain and come in.

"Meng Lang~!" I turned up to greet him with a smile in my eyes, and the golden jade peach leaves above the golden step collided, making a crisp and pleasant sound.

"One step and three shakes, step by step. Rui'er is finally willing to wear these broken gold and jade beads and emerald branches. He straightened my hairpin.

"However, this is so heavy, it turns out that beauty has a price." I sneered at him.

"Hahahaha. Yun Xiang clothes and flowers want to look, which woman in this palace is not surrounded by pearls and emeralds, and the ground is in your little head, which is eccentric all day long. He smiled heartily and took me to the mirror to get dressed, and I looked at the woman in the mirror - the head of the mantis, the cicada, the neck of the cockroach, the graceful posture, the tenderness, the charm of words, and even I had a momentary trance.

On the day of the trip, the front and back were escorted by the Yulin guard. And Xie Xingben also took a dozen attendants and rode around Longyu.

Bao Yuan and the Queen Mother took the Royal Dragon Yu, he wanted to sit with me, but I insisted on refusing, only got on the tired Zhai car, took Xuan Zhe, Jingyi also took the Zhai car with Fengyi, and then the concubines under Zhaoyi only took the Anche.

The whole team walked out of the imperial city through the palace city, and the flags and canopies danced in the wind, and went to the Wangjiang Tower.

Chengdu Fuhe River and Nanhe two rivers hug the city, called Jinjiang River with "Shu Jinshui water", the late Tang Dynasty Gaoyu built Luocheng, the Fuhe River water flows from west to east around the city north and turns to the south, and the Nanhe River converges under the Hejiang Pavilion, forming the pattern of "Jinjiang Ring City, Shu Water Surrounds the Spring City", the imperial city and palace are all surrounded by the Jinjiang River, and the Huanhua River, a tributary of the Jinjiang River, flows slowly through Luocheng.