Chapter 8: Mid-Autumn Festival
The day is getting darker, the autumn night is a little cool, Luan Jing sits outside the window and looks at the somewhat round moon, falling into the vast contemplation and memory.
The maidservant put on a fox fur coat for Luan Jing. He said softly: "It's cold, but the girl is cold again." ”
"Girl, the slave and maid have burned all the clothes properly, and they will never be discovered. Another maid hurried in. Another bowl of soup and medicine was brought in his hand. He added: "I just boiled the clothes and boiled a bowl of medicine, and the girl drank it while it was hot." The maidservant girl who put on the cloak for Luan Jing took the medicine brought by the other maidservant and said softly: "You go down, I will serve the girl to take the medicine." ”
"Yes. The maidservant who served the medicine packed up her things and walked out with the door.
"Girl, let's take medicine first. This medicine is no longer hot. The maidservant whispered again.
Luan Jing came back to his senses, gently took the decoction handed by the maidservant, and took a bite into his stomach. Seeing that there were some medicine stains in her mouth, the maid took out her handkerchief and said with a smile: "How can a girl and a child take medicine and leave stains." He gently wiped off the stains for her.
Luan Jing took the medicine and handed the bowl to the maidservant, and asked softly, "What time is it?"
The maidservant replied, "It's three o'clock in the morning." ”
"Hmm, it's so late?" Luan Jingfu looked at the sky again in a daze, how long had it been, how long had it been since he had seen such a round moon.
The maidservant looked in the direction of Luanjing, and then said: "Girl, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival of reunion in three days, and the moon at that time will be much rounder than here." The mother will also give each girl some mooncakes, and then the girls can enjoy the moon while eating the mooncakes. ”
Luan Jing smiled and sighed: "People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and sunny. He thought to himself. But I didn't have a family. I thought about it for a long time. He said to the maidservant, "Go down and rest." I'm tired too, and I need a break. ”
"Yes. The maidservant agreed, and glanced deeply at the mirror. immediately helped Luan Jing to the bed, and served her to sleep, and then closed the doors and windows.
Moonlight, somewhat quiet. The next two days passed quietly.
Shops opened early on the side of the street, and many people ordered mooncakes in dim sum shops early, and the crowd was a bit large. The proprietress of the shop was a little busy.
"Queue up, don't mess with the order. The proprietress said loudly. He beckoned the guy behind him to bring the mooncakes.
"Bring up the mooncakes, and you are about to trample the door. The two middle-aged men nodded. "Hey. Then he ran to the back kitchen to serve mooncakes. Hold the paper bag as well.
There are more and more people at the door. This shop is the most delicious pastry in Jingzhou. Mooncake pastries come in a variety of flavors and are loved by a variety of different people. Therefore, when the sky was still gray, there were many people who came to stand and wait. The shop has also made pastries for two days, so naturally it is enough.
"I want two catties of moon cakes, my children love to eat them, so I always have to eat more. A somewhat delicate woman in her twenties said. At this age, she is already a mother of two children.
"Hey. The proprietress put the moon cakes in yellow paper, spread the yellow paper on the rod scale, and weighed them carefully. Then he took it off, tied it with straw rope, and handed it to the woman.
smiled: "This is two catties of moon cakes, a total of twenty wen. ”
"Give. The woman took out the copper coin from her waist and handed it over, and at the same time took the mooncake.
"I want three pounds"
"I want five pounds"
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The voices of people continued to boil, and Liu's mother took the money and lined up for a long time, looking at the store with some nervousness. I'm afraid that the next one will be gone.
After filming for half an hour, it finally arrived at her.
"I want thirty pounds of moon cakes. The voice was a little slight, but it was softly heard.
The proprietress was startled when she heard this, and she didn't look at anyone, but she said slowly: "Thirty pounds." Isn't it a bit much?"
Liu's mother took out the silver and said, "It's the same." ”
The proprietress looked up at Liu's mother when she saw the coin, her face was a little happy, and she hurriedly changed her words. "Man, go get the mooncakes you have prepared. When the moon cakes were delivered to the proprietress, the proprietress smiled at her: "Since I am a sister, I came early in the morning to pick it up, and we have already prepared it for you." ”
"Even so, I still have to queue up, and I can't mess with the rules. "Because there are too many people in this dim sum shop, there are too many people to customize it. So they made a rule that they also needed to queue up for custom-made ones. And Liu's mother didn't book in advance. It was the hostess who prepared it for her in advance.
"My sister often comes and goes around in the future, and she is lonely in the cold autumn, and she often comes to reminisce about the past. The proprietress said this when Liu's mother was leaving.
A young guard took the mooncake right in front of the door. Mother Liu nodded lightly and went back to the flower building.
As soon as I arrived at Hualou, the moon cakes were divided one after another, and they were divided according to the amount of profit from picking up customers. Luan Jing, as an Oiran, although he has not received customers in the past few days, the money in the past few days is the highest. So she got twenty mooncakes. Some of the famous ones got ten, and the last girls were only two each. Those who did not receive customers and those who worked under them had nothing to eat. Obviously, Liu's mother also has no share. But the proprietress prepared a pound of mooncakes for her to eat by herself. It's just a matter of having it.
Just after noon, a maidservant girl happily walked towards the door of Luan Jing's room with the moon cake that Mother Liu had rewarded Luan Jing.
Knock knock. "Girl, it's me. Lan'er" Luanjing heard someone knocking at the door, so she said casually: "Come in." ”
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Lan'er entered the door and brought the pastry to the Luan mirror table. smiled: "Girl, my mother gave the girl a moon cake, and the girl contributed the most and was an oiran, and my mother gave the girl twenty moon cakes." Can you taste it, girl?"
Luan Jing looked at the moon cakes in front of him and looked a little good-looking, there were pink and light green, they looked really good-looking, I couldn't bear to take a light green one and handed it to my mouth, and took a bite, well, some fragrant and delicious, and crispy like a pastry, and a little sober and greasy, like the taste of lotus leaves. "What kind of mooncake is this?" Luan Jing couldn't help but ask curiously.
Lan'er heard this, I am afraid that it should be the first time for the girl. He bowed his head and replied, "Returning to the girl, this is called the blue bird admiring the moon." It is made by mixing the juice of lotus leaves, and it is lotus nectar inside, and the lotus has a consensus, and it is also auspicious to use it in the Mid-Autumn Festival. It looks a little like a bird, which means sustenance and can fly back to reunion. ”
Luan Jing listened to Lan'er's story, and looked at the moon cake in her hand carefully. smiled: "What a happy name." ”
"The girl had nothing to do, so the slave went down first. "Lan'er just came to deliver moon cakes to Luan Jing, and after sending moon cakes, she naturally had to leave.
Luan Jing didn't speak, just nodded.
Lan'er saw Luan Jing nodding and retreated.
Lunch was served in less than a while, and two of their maidservants followed.
The first person served some rice and porridge, as well as one or two bowls, and the latter served dishes, "Osmanthus duck, glutinous rice lotus root with honey sauce, sweet and sour pork ribs, peacock Kaiping fish, duck soup." The five butterfly dishes were placed in front of Luan Jing. Luan Jing looked at it and smiled and asked, "What's going on today? Why is it so delicious?"
The maidservant immediately bowed her head and replied, "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and this is a must-eat dish." It's all ordered by my mother. ”
Luan Jing couldn't help but smile, Mother Liu would be so good to herself? Then he raised his hand and said, "I know, Mother Fang just sent someone to bring some moon cakes, you can take the moon cakes and divide them." I've eaten it. ”
Hearing this, the maid's face was a little ugly and she knelt down and said, "No, the girl, Mother Liu is a reward for the girl." We can't eat it. ”
Luan Jing listened to her words and said with a little amusement: "You are a subordinate, but I am a famous celebrity, I am not as good as you." "Luan Jingxin's heart is also a little cold, this red man can be regarded as the lowest identity here. can't keep his innocence and is ravaged. It's much lower than the next person.
The servant girl knelt nervously and kowtowed. said again and again: "The girl was punished lightly, it was the slave who said the wrong thing." She also knew that what Luan Jing said was the truth. The Red Lady is indeed the lowest status. There is no reason but to apologize again and again.
Luan Jing didn't actually feel any discomfort, but he thought that he was a little desolate. Seeing the people on the ground kowtowing repeatedly, she was a little distressed and said, "Okay, get up quickly, I don't blame you." You can do as I say, give these mooncakes to you, I don't like sweets very much. "It's true, I haven't eaten many sweets since I was a child, and I didn't think much about getting close to them later.
The maidservant stopped her movements and slowly lifted herself. I looked at the mirror. Then he said slowly: "Yes." ”
took the moon cakes on the table and distributed them to the old mother who was cleaning and her ordinary maidservant.
Although Luan Jing stared at the food, although it looked good, he had already eaten sweets, and it was difficult for his abdomen to swallow these oily meals, so he simply asked the maid to take them out and let them eat.
When the room returned to calm, Luan Jing carefully recalled that Liu's mother had obviously been much colder to her recently, and she was not in a hurry to ask her to pick up guests, and she didn't come to walk around much, but she came to visit her the day before yesterday. Luan Jing was obviously a little surprised by her great changes, but if there was anything delicious, she would always stick to herself first. She secretly thought, did she really think that she was controlled by Mo Wencheng? In her previous life, she was only fortunate to be knocked unconscious by someone on the first night, and later she was arrested in a murder case, but it was Mo Wencheng who came forward to save her. brought her back to Hualou, but then she was not so lucky. Less than the third day, he was put in the glass he was drinking, and he lost his virginity to a man. The man now thinks he had forgotten what he looked like. Later, Mo Wencheng often appeared to help him, and because of this, Luan Jing fell in love with Mo Wencheng, and did not hesitate to use his body to trap corrupt officials for him. It was more painful for her than killing her, but I don't know if it was because I liked Mo Wencheng too much, and I was willing to be the woman behind him. Later, he taught himself kung fu, and he began to use martial arts to kill people, and he would only use booby traps when he was invincible.
Now that I think about it, everything works. Luan Jing met a miracle doctor when she was twenty-three years old, and found that there were Gu worms in her body, which were guided by blood, and unless she died, she would be freed, otherwise the Gu worms would always be in her body. It turned out that Mo Wencheng had already drugged my body. When I lost my virginity, night blood was the medicine that activated the Gu worms. Good control over everything I do, and I think it's willing. Seeing Liu's mother's appearance, she may have guessed correctly. Because she pretended to be suddenly sick when she planted Gu before, Mother Liu didn't feel unusual, but avoided herself a little. But he also takes care of himself more than ever.
Thinking of this, Luan Jing couldn't bear to think about it anymore. He just waved his hand, looked at the air, and muttered, "Tonight, I'm afraid it's a full moon." ”