When Shen Minghuang was busy with the aftermath of the dinner and walked down the stairs with Jiao Qi Beihai to the first floor, he saw Wei Shuping and his wife saying goodbye to Shen Mingyuan. Wei Shuping looked at Wei Yangyang first, and then saluted Shen Mingyuan: "Your Highness, Weichen and Humble Jing go back first." Shen Mingyuan readily agreed: "Okay, I will send Yang Yang back to Guiyuan later, please rest assured." Wei Shuping bowed again: "With His Royal Highness with you, there is nothing to worry about, say goodbye." With that, the couple bowed and left again. Shen Minghuang saw the figure of Wei Shuping in the distance, as if he saw the throne of the East Palace, which was getting farther and farther away from him.

Because he was standing at the corner of the stairs, Shen Mingyuan didn't notice that there was someone behind him, but smiled and talked to Wei Yangyang: "I was too nervous just now, didn't I eat enough?" Wei Yangyang pitifully stretched out three fingers: "I only ate three bites from beginning to end." I looked at the sweet and sour fish, and I felt delicious, but everyone was looking at me, and I didn't dare to clip it. She spoke as straightforward as usual, but in a coquettish tone. When she was stationed, she had no fixed place to live and couldn't eat enough, so eating delicious food has always been her biggest hobby in life. Today, seeing that the table full of delicacies is close at hand, in order to maintain a dignified image but can't pick up the dishes, it is really more uncomfortable for her than whipping her.

Shen Mingyuan looked at her sad face, as if she had lost thousands of taels of silver when she went out, and almost laughed: "I found someone to fill ten boxes of delicious food for you, eat slowly in the carriage for a while, and go back to eat overnight." After hearing this, Wei Yangyang happily pulled Shen Mingyuan's sleeve and refused to let go. The two of them walked out of the Mingyue Tower with a smile and got into the carriage and left.

Because it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family goes home to enjoy the moon reunion, although the street is brightly lit, there are not many pedestrians. Wei Yangyang was holding a food box in her hand, which contained all kinds of strangely shaped snacks, each of which was made into a very small one, so that she could take a bite of it. At this moment, the moonlight is beautiful, but she has no intention of looking at the scenery outside the car window, and the small snacks in the food box are obviously more attractive to her than the night view of Huadu. Shen Mingyuan couldn't close his mouth when he saw her happily, so he approached her little by little. The moonlight came in through the window and sprinkled on the faces of the two people, and the whole carriage was full of affectionate atmosphere.

Just as Shen Mingyuan was about to put her mouth close to her face, she hurriedly put the last snack into her mouth, and quickly chewed a few bites and swallowed it: "What His Highness gave me is mine, don't you want to grab it." Shen Mingyuan was angry and funny: "What? You think I'm going to steal your snacks? The box was empty, but Wei Yangyang still hugged it tightly: "Hmm." I won't give it to you. Shen Mingyuan was very helpless: "Okay, okay, it's all yours." Let's eat slowly, don't choke. ”

At this time, the car had already entered the alley and arrived at Guiyuan. Wei Yangyang jumped out of the carriage first, and opened the food boxes held by her maids one by one, each box was what she liked to eat. And in the last box, there are four small mooncakes. The ten boxes of snacks were all prepared by Shen Mingyuan in advance as a Mid-Autumn Festival gift for Wei Yangyang. He pointed to the four small moon cakes and asked, "In previous years, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, did your family not share moon cakes with you?" Wei Yangyang didn't care: "Well, I eat a whole piece by myself every year." Otherwise, if I divide their mooncakes, the whole family will be unlucky. ”

Although she said it easily, she has not enjoyed the moon with her family once in 18 years. Shen Mingyuan listened to it in his heart, and added three points to her pity: "Then I will share it with you this year." With that, he picked up a piece of mooncake and put it in the other person's mouth. The moon cake was very small, Wei Yangyang bit half of it in one bite, Shen Mingyuan took the opportunity to lower his head, put his mouth close to her, and bit off the other half. The two of them swallowed the mooncakes together, only to feel sweeter in their hearts than in their mouths.

When they finished eating, Wei Yangyang invited him: "Your Highness, do you want to come in and have a cup of tea before leaving?" Except for the Wei family, Guiyuan never entertains male guests, and Shen Mingyuan was overjoyed when he heard this: "Can I go in?" Wei Yangyang deliberately joked with him: "Of course you can't enter when you are a prince." Well, my man can enter. Shen Mingyuan hurriedly echoed her: "It makes sense, it makes sense." After saying that, the two of them walked into the door together, and this was the first time a male guest had come in. The people in Guiyuan had obviously gotten the news and knew that Shen Mingyuan was the noble son-in-law of the Wei family, so they were not surprised by his arrival, and no one came to disturb him.

Wei Yangyang first took him around Guiyuan, and then came to the courtyard of Mulan Xiaozhu where she lived. Tonight, the moon is like water, and the scenery in the small courtyard can be seen very clearly. The yard is obviously not often tended by a gardener, and there are no ornamental plants, and it looks like it is all small flowers and grasses that grow naturally. Shen Mingyuan even suspected that Wei Yangyang had never hired a florist at all. He looked at a few strange plants, as if they had just been transplanted, and asked, "What kind of flower is this?" Why are there still pods? Wei Yangyang hurriedly introduced to him: "This is red beans, didn't His Highness let me learn to embroider red beans?" I'll wait for it to grow up and embroider it, and the beans grown can be cooked into porridge for you to drink, okay? ”

Hearing her words, Shen Mingyuan was simply dumbfounded. He pointed to the plants and couldn't laugh: "This, this is red beans?" Wei Yangyang looked at him like a fool: "Yes, you don't even know red beans?" Shen Mingyuan said bitterly: "You, do you think red beans are eaten? Wei Yangyang was even more strange: "Isn't it food?" Isn't it the bean in the bean paste bun? Shen Mingyuan felt like he was about to faint: "Bean paste bag? The expression on Wei Yangyang's face was even more surprised than him: "You don't know that the bean paste bun is made of this?" Oh, you're a prince, so naturally you don't know. The bean paste in the bean paste bag is made by steaming red beans, mashing them and adding sugar. It tastes sweet and rustling, and it's delicious. ”

When young couples get along, they are all willow tops on the moon, and people are about after dusk. And under this beautiful moonlight, I have to listen to my fiancée explain how to make bean paste buns in a serious way. Shen Mingyuan was so angry that he really didn't know what to say, he thought about it for a long time before he figured out how to explain: "The red beans that are the most lovesick red beans are not the red beans that are eaten like this." It grows in the south and does not produce flowers. It was a kind of vine man, wrapped around the tree, and the fruit was soft and had red sap in it. And it's poisonous, so you can only watch it, you can't eat it. ”

Wei Yangyang was shocked after hearing this: "Poisonous? So why do you give it to your sweetheart? Is it because his sweetheart abandoned him, so he took revenge on him? Wouldn't it be okay to cut him, in case he ate too little beans and was not poisoned for a while? What if he is on guard and refuses to eat? Can't find the flowers yet? So what to do? It's still a knife cut, it's safer. She thought about it seriously for a long time, and was very satisfied with her conclusion, and felt that it was best to slash the other party's neck and split the corpse in two.

Shen Mingyuan looked at her eyebrows fluttering, and he didn't think it was funny, he only felt that his neck was cold. Wei Yangyang saw his expression and hurriedly shook his hand: "Don't be afraid, I know that you are the prince and will not cut you." As soon as she said this, Shen Mingyuan was even more frightened, and he couldn't wait to swear to the sky: "Don't worry, you are the princess given by your father, and I will never dare to abandon you." Wei Yangyang listened to his words and was very satisfied: "That's good." ”

Shen Mingyuan saw that she was smiling beautifully, so he took two steps forward to her side, reached out and wrapped his hand around her waist, and pulled her closer to him. Wei Yangyang was a little embarrassed, but he didn't push him away: "What are you doing?" Shen Mingyuan smiled a little malicefully: "What are you doing?" You are my future princess, and you can do whatever I want. I haven't kissed you yet, I didn't kiss you in the car just now, and now I have to regain my husband's strength. Wei Yangyang raised his hands and put them on his shoulders, making the two closer: "You are talking nonsense, last time in Baiyun Temple, you kissed." Thinking of the matter of Baiyun Temple, Shen Mingyuan was very helpless: "It was forced to do it, and I didn't count it." Wei Yangyang saw that he didn't admit it, so he didn't follow: "If you don't do anything, you don't have to pay the bill." ”

She was going to continue, but she couldn't speak, because Shen Mingyuan's lips were already close to hers, kissing her gently. She was a little scared, she wanted to push away but felt that she shouldn't push away, and she wanted to cooperate but didn't know what to do. I just felt that my mind was blank, and my face seemed to have been struck by lightning, and it was getting hotter and hotter. I don't know how long it took for Shen Mingyuan to stop, seeing her blushing, he couldn't help but ask, "You won't be scared, right?" Wei Yangyang never refused to show weakness to others: "What are you afraid of? I, I'm alone, in front of the battle, against the front, against the five tyrants, all, are not afraid. Shen Mingyuan saw that she was still hard-mouthed, so he teased her: "Really? So you mean, I'm more powerful than five Tyrannical Soldiers alone? ”

Wei Yangyang also felt that he was very unproductive just now, but he didn't know why, every time he saw him approaching, he would stutter when he spoke. She was really a little flustered, and she didn't know how to deal with it, so she quickly changed the subject: "Your Highness, should you go?" Shen Mingyuan pretended to be angry: "You drove me away? Wei Yangyang was very confused: "Do you want to live here?" Shen Mingyuan stretched out his hand and touched her red face: "Of course I can't live here, and before we get married, I can't come often, so I want to stay a little longer." What's more," he put away his hippie smile and looked very serious: "I haven't celebrated the birthday of my future princess yet, how can I just leave?" ”

It's not yet time to be a child, it's still August 15, and Wei Yangyang's birthday still has half an hour to pass. Hearing him mention this, Wei Yangyang's heart was surprised and a little moved, and the red glow on her face that had just faded flew up again. She looked up at Shen Mingyuan, her eyes were full of anticipation, but after a while, she shook her head again: "I appreciate His Highness's kindness, but don't worry, we Haixi children don't need to celebrate their birthdays." She was talking about a custom unique to Haixi, because of the long-term war, every time a large number of people died, the people would go crazy to say that it was the Lord of Yama who came to arrest people. In order to prevent the child's birthday from being arrested by Lord Yama after being known, the Haixi people do not celebrate the child's birthday on weekdays, and even outsiders refuse to say which day the child's birthday is, for fear that the child will die if the ghosts in the underworld hear it.

Therefore, in Haixi, if anyone wants to celebrate the birthday of someone else's child, in the eyes of other parents, it is simply a curse for the child's early death, and he has to fight hard with the other party. Only the elders of the family will celebrate their birthdays, but not every year, they will be celebrated by the whole family every five and ten years. For example, on Wei Shuping's 45th birthday four years ago, even Wei Bingge took leave from the Criminal Department, made a special trip back to Haixi, and together with his brothers, held a lively birthday banquet for Wei Shuping. Shen Mingyuan stayed in Haixi for half a year and found that there were many children of the Wei family, but none of them had a birthday. He thought it was a little strange, and after asking, he learned that there was such a custom in the local area.

In previous years, every time Wei Yangyang's birthday on August 15, because she would overcome people, her family avoided her, and she would not mention it, even Wei Shuan and Wei Bingyue would not come to celebrate her, and she could not spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with her family. When her brothers gathered in the old house of the Wei family to share mooncakes with their parents to enjoy the moon, she could only stay in the small tent by herself and eat a piece of mooncake alone, and then look at the night sky in the desert alone.

She has been used to this matter since she was a child, and she doesn't feel anything wrong. Even, after she came to Huadu, when Song Wenru took her into the palace to celebrate Shen Youran's birthday, she knew that she could receive gifts, eat longevity noodles, and have a lot of fun on her birthday. She was envious in her heart, but she still secretly comforted herself, just adding a bowl of noodles, she can usually eat noodles, nothing special.

Shen Mingyuan heard her talk about her birthday earlier, and when she heard it, it suddenly dawned on her, no wonder her nickname was "Jade Rabbit Fairy", it turned out that she was born at noon on August 15 in the year of Ding Mao. Ironically, August 15 was a family reunion, but she was forced to be separated from her family. It is also because she is only eighteen years old at noon today, so tonight's engagement can break the saying of the Ke people.

Thinking of this, Shen Mingyuan walked to the door of Mulan Xiaozhu and called Ling Quan to bring a box. He opened the box and showed it to Wei Yangyang: "You have turned eighteen years old at noon, and you have been engaged in the evening, you are an adult, and you can celebrate your birthday now." This hair crown is given to you, do you like it? Wei Yangyang saw that there was a hair crown made of pure gold in the box, and he didn't think there was anything special at first glance. But when she reached out and lifted the hair crown, she was shocked to find that it was actually Guiyuan!

Shen Mingyuan sent someone to find the drawings of Guiyuan, and then found skilled craftsmen, and according to the appearance of Guiyuan, he used gold to create an identical hair crown. The pavilions above, and even the stream in the garden, are exactly the same as Guiyuan. The floors of the houses are made of gold thread and gold sheets, and the water in the creek is inlaid with turquoise gemstones. The pure gold material used is not particularly valuable, but it is the most rare skill to be able to turn the entire yard into a small hair crown.

Shen Mingyuan saw that she was so shocked that she didn't speak for a long time, so he casually pulled out the hairpin in her hair and poked the window of the "Mulan Pavilion" on the crown of her hair, which could actually be opened. Mulan Pavilion was her boudoir, just inside this Mulan building, only four or five meters away from where the two of them were standing. She felt incredulous, so she stretched out her hand to take the hairpin in Shen Mingyuan's hand, and poked at the doors and windows of other rooms, every door and window could be opened, and even the wind chimes on the eaves would ring. Each room is not as big as her fingernails, and the doors and windows are as small as a grain of rice, but they can be opened and closed freely, which is really amazing.

But this surprise was not over, Shen Mingyuan stretched out his hand again, pressed the small ball that the stone lion stepped on on the head of the small bridge in the garden, and the stream made of precious stones under the bridge began to flow. The first time he changed from a blue gem to a white pearl, he pressed it again and it turned into a blue gem, and it was really as if the color of the stream changed occasionally as the seasons changed. Wei Yangyang's surprised mouth couldn't close for a long time, and Shen Mingyuan saw that she was stunned on the spot, and asked again: "Do you like this gift?" She nodded dumbly, and it took her half a day to say two idioms that she had only recently learned: "Beautiful, really ingenious!" ”

She doesn't usually feel that she is any different from others, she can't celebrate her birthday, she can't attend family gatherings, and she doesn't care. But today someone remembered that she hadn't eaten moon cakes with others, and gave her gifts, this happiness came too suddenly, she opened her mouth, and her eyes were almost red: "This is the first time someone has celebrated my birthday, I, I like it very much, I really like it!" Shen Mingyuan saw that her eyes were full of tears, and knew that she would get sick when she cried, so he hurriedly interrupted: "I'm so happy today, don't shed tears." Isn't it your boudoir next to it? It's better to let the maid put it on for you, and let me see if it looks good. Wei Yangyang nodded hurriedly and called Camellia in.

Although men are not allowed to enter the boudoir of an unmarried woman, Shen Mingyuan has lived in her tent in Haixi and is still her fiancé, so naturally there is nothing wrong with it. Camellia called a few maids to come, and several of them quickly combed Wei Yangyang's hair into a cloud bun and put the hair crown on the bun. Shen Mingyuan did not enter her inner bedroom, only waited in the outer room. When Wei Yangyang walked out of the inner room wearing "Guiyuan", he couldn't help but clap his hands and praise: "You didn't like to wear hair accessories before, but you didn't expect to look so good on them, this "Guiyuan" and you are a perfect match." Wei Yangyang couldn't help but raise his hand to touch the hair crown, and there was a little pride in his tone: "I am the owner of Guiyuan, so naturally this hair crown is the most compatible." Her face was a little shy, but she continued: "And, and the person who gave the crown is also the most compatible." ”