On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, on the Shangyuan Festival, lanterns were hung everywhere in the palace, sweeping away the decadent atmosphere of the past half a month. No one mentioned Xie Meiren's fainting for no reason, but if you are careful, you can see that the number of people using hand stoves in the palace has dropped sharply recently, which shows that the palace really can't hide secrets. Although no one said that Xie Meiren's fainting was because of the hand stove, the people in the palace had their own news.

Regardless of whether these characters hurt themselves for fear of being plotted against themselves, or afraid that the hand stove will be taken out to stun their eyes, in short, I am afraid that no one will like this object this winter, but I am afraid that it will be the same next year. But people are the best at forgetting, and in three or five years, the matter will disappear completely.

Liu Cairen was wrapped in a long purple begonia cloak and cautiously stepped up the steps.

The star-picking tower is full of colorful lanterns from the top to the end, and it looks like a glazed pagoda from a distance, crystal clear. Ascend the stairs, the whole imperial garden is at the foot, the lights are scattered, and the Hanyun Pavilion not far away seems to be a pearl floating on the vast lonely sea.

This kind of scene was impossible to see in the past, and only twice a year in the Star Picking Tower could they set foot in it. One is to watch the lanterns on the Shangyuan Festival, and the other is to enjoy the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Zhao Cairen squeezed through the crowd with great difficulty, she was afraid of catching a cold, and she wore thicker, and when there were many people, she walked a lot of stairs and began to breathe.

"My skirt and shoes were stepped on several times." Zhao Cairen was a little pity: "I knew I wouldn't wear new shoes and came out." ”

didn't see the emperor again, dressed like this in vain, Zhao Cairen felt sulky in his heart.

She thought that what she did was natural and would not attract attention, but in the eyes of Liu Cairen and the others, those careful thoughts were all clear and clear. It's not that they all have a pair of eyes like a torch, but compared to Zhao Cairen and the newcomers who have just entered the palace and have just been divided, Liu Cairen is already a senior, and Zhao Cairen's current little calculations are all leftovers from the seniors. Besides, what woman in the palace doesn't want to be favored? Liu Cairen didn't think that Zhao Cairen should have anything wrong with this.

"The emperor won't come to pick up the star tower tonight." Liu Cairen told her: "I heard that the emperor went to the same paradise. "It's still with Xie Meiren. They can only walk around the palace, and these lights look every year, and they are no different from last year.

Thinking of Xie Meiren earlier, Liu Cairen was still sour and unbearable jealous. But now that Xie Meiren has moved out of the back garden and into Yong'an Palace, she is a little out of reach of the popular family. In the future, it will only get farther and farther away, and it will no longer be an equal relationship like in the past.

In fact, Xie Meiren also has her benefits, even if she is petted, she is not arrogant and bullying others. In the past, she was also angry with others, but she didn't think that she would have this evil breath once she gained power.

Upstairs was windy, and Zhao Cairen pulled his hood high to cover his head, leaving only one face outside.

Not long after, Sun Cainu also came over, and also filled her purse with rose-scented fried melon seeds and invited the two of them to eat together.

Liu Cairen grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and Zhao Cairen waved his hand and said: "I don't eat it, it's on fire in the past two days, and I've drunk porridge three times a day." ”

Sun Cainu turned her head and glanced at it, and whispered to Liu Cairen: "I didn't see Chen Jieyu, and Concubine Xian and Shi Shunyi didn't come." ”

Liu Cairen also said: "Concubine Shu didn't come upstairs either, just now I saw Concubine Shu taking Princess Yuyao with Princess Yuyao as if she was going back." ”

Not only are they blushing at Xie Meiren, but Concubine Shu is only afraid that her heart will be even more uncomfortable. When Concubine Shu was pregnant with Princess Yuyao, she also caught up with the Shangyuan Festival, and I heard that she also asked the emperor for grace, and she wanted to go to the same paradise to enjoy the lanterns on the Shangyuan Festival.

It didn't work out in the end. Concubine Shu was looking forward to giving birth to a son, and at that time the palace said behind her back that Concubine Shu was going to give birth to a prince, and she was going to be a queen. The previous momentum disappeared all of a sudden, and no one mentioned the words of being in charge of palace affairs and establishing a queen.

Xie Meiren, don't look at the current scenery, if she is also a princess after birth, the current scenery will definitely not last long.

Zhao Cairen suddenly called: "Sister Liu, look at it." ”

Fireworks explode in the air, and the dark night sky suddenly blooms with magnificent flowers, which makes people dazzled.

The brilliant colored light brightened the faces of the people around him. One light and one dark, unpredictable.

Liu Cairen cheered up and clapped his hands and cheered with the people next to him.

When Xie Ning got off the sedan chair, Hu Rong and Qinghe could only stand back, and the emperor held her hand and steadily helped her get off the warm sedan chair.

Far away, you can already hear the noise of people.

This kind of sound is absolutely unheard in the palace. This kind of vulgar, noisy, noisy, ordinary sound.

Xie Ning stood in place and didn't move his steps, just listened in a daze for a while.

The emperor saw that she was distracted, and asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's the first time I've been out of the palace, and I'm a little unused to it."

"The excitement is still ahead, and we are not on the same road as the people who enter the garden to enjoy the lanterns."

That's natural, although it is said to be happy with the people, but the emperor still won't go out into the crowd.

Looking at the lake from the corridor, there are dotted lights floating on the lake, such as lotus lanterns, goldfish lanterns, and even lanterns in the style of a balcony. Across the lake, there are already many people on the other side of the lake enjoying the lanterns.

"Didn't you see the lights before you entered the palace?"

Xie Ning smiled and said, "That's natural." Not only did I look at the lanterns, but I also tied the lanterns myself. Once during the Chinese New Year, my cousins and cousins all wrote lantern riddles and hung them in a room, and everyone guessed together, and guessed that there was a lottery. ”

That time, it was because my grandmother was sick and couldn't go out of the house, so they hung all the lamps in the house, just to make the old lady happy. The riddles are very simple, and the old lady even guessed one of them. In order to celebrate the festival, they began to prepare many days in advance, and the materials for making lamps were all found by themselves, and as for the practice, they didn't need to go outside to learn, the little uncle could do everything, and there was nothing he didn't know. He can tie lanterns, make kites, smoke spinning tops, play kemari, but there is nothing that children like that he is not proficient in.

Therefore, the eldest uncle always hates that iron is not steel, saying that he is smart and useless. Obviously, he has been clever since he was a child, but he just can't read.

The little uncle tied a big lion lamp, and Xie Ning made a sheep lamp, although it was not very similar, but there were two sharp horns poking there, and it could be seen that it was a sheep.

"You can also make lamps?"

Xie Ning nodded: "Yes, it's just not very good." Especially when the tail was not glued, and before it lit up, the tail fell off. Later, my grandmother made fun of me for being a bald-tailed sheep. ”

The emperor also laughed, and a joking word turned around his mouth, but he didn't say it.

She has a body now, and there are some things that are not suitable for her to say, and some things that she cannot do now.

"Did you see the ship ahead? Let's sit on the boat and enjoy the lanterns, we don't have to squeeze with them, and it saves you from walking tired. ”

Xie Ning didn't know what thoughts were turning in the emperor's heart, and when he heard that there was a boat on it, he said with a smile: "The concubine hasn't been on a boat for a long time." The first time I took the boat, I was dizzy and didn't eat for a few days, I only knew the road in the dark, and I vomited when I drank water. Later, I took more boats, and then I slowly got used to it. ”

The ship is not too big, and it is not far from the shore, and it rows forward steadily. Shainin sat leaning on the smoke cage, the boat was walking, and he heard someone on the shore singing, but he couldn't hear anything clearly.

Xie Ning stretched his neck to look out, and a platform was set up near the water on the shore, on which people were dancing, and the crowd of onlookers burst into cheers from time to time.

The emperor asked, "Do you want to get closer and see?" ”

"No, it's good to look here."

Others admire the lanterns, crowd everyone and crowd each other, and their feet are sore when they walk in the cold wind. But with the emperor enjoying the lanterns, sitting in the cabin with the wind blowing can't blow, and the smoke cage is so hot that he can't even wear his coat. Looking at the lamp and listening to the music, there are snacks to eat.

Because I came out of dinner, the boat was not big, and I prepared small snacks, thinking that it was cold, and the soup was hot and comfortable.

"Little wontons, lotus seed soup, rice balls......" Xie Ning thought for a while: "Today's festival, let's eat rice balls, right?" ”

The emperor smiled and nodded: "Then let's make rice balls." ”

It has been several days since she was frank with the emperor about entering the palace, and she really didn't take it to heart when she saw the emperor's appearance, causing her to worry in vain for two days.

The rice balls were brought up, and Xie Ning's bowl was filled with osmanthus sesame candy, and there were six in one bowl.

She held a bowl of rice balls and ate glutinous rice balls, the skin was thin and the filling was fragrant, that is, the filling was wrapped in the middle, it was very hot, and when she bit into a little skin, the filling was impatient to come out, and she hurriedly blew a few times to dissipate heat before she dared to eat.

The emperor asked her, "What kind of stuffing are you eating here?" ”

"Sesame filling, where's the emperor?"

The emperor scooped one and handed it over: "You taste it." ”

She tasted it and her eyes narrowed, a little sour: "Hawthorn's." ”

The emperor asked her, "Which one do you like?" ”

She tasted it carefully, but she still preferred sesame seeds, fragrant, so she ate the contents of her bowl with peace of mind.

After eating these rice balls, I felt that I still wanted to eat something salty and fragrant in my mouth, so I served two more bowls of small wontons. This bowl of wontons is really small, that is, the amount of a few bites, and the soup is particularly fresh.

After eating two bowls like this, Shaining's stomach really couldn't be stuffed.

The boat moved forward slowly, and there was a paper lamp floating outside the porthole, and you could reach out and catch it. The water rippled beside the boat, and the lights were pushed away little by little by the waves.

There were also several lights in the cabin, large and small, the smallest being the size of a fist, and the largest being half a man tall, standing in the corner of the cabin. The lights were lit, and the light of the lanterns was soft and not dazzling, and the reflection made people become gentle.

Shainin looked at the lights outside, and then at the people beside him.

Later, she found out that she spent more time looking at people than she did at lights.

The emperor wore a royal blue dress tonight, and the color looked particularly soft under the lamp. There is no crown on his head, so he really doesn't look like an "emperor", like an ordinary person.

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There have been so many things these days, and it's not comfortable. I should be able to write more tomorrow.