Chapter 43: Seventeen Aunts
It is said that the moon on the fifteenth is round and sixteen, but in Dayan, it is the roundest, largest and most beautiful moon on the day of the August Festival.
When the first fireworks exploded in the sky, the entire imperial city came to life in an instant, with cheers and music.
Rows of red lanterns illuminate all the streets with a scene of red fire, the Qinglong Street leading to the gate of the palace is bustling with people who come out to enjoy the moon, and there are places on both sides of the street where juggling and opera are performed.
The people outside the palace were full of joy, and the Mid-Autumn Banquet in the palace was not too much-the emperor personally invited guests, except for Jiang Fenghao, who was suspected of having a brain in the water, who else would refuse to participate so unsightly?
Fireworks are in the air, and flowers compete with each other in the imperial garden. In the water stage, the gongs and drums are noisy, the actors in colorful costumes are singing festive plays, and the viewing pavilion across the half of the lake is staggered, and the ministers are happily pushing cups and changing lamps to flatter each other, and occasionally secretly put a cover on their rivals or step on a few feet to help them have fun.
Princess Jinghe, who had already been summoned back to the palace, sat impatiently under the Queen Mother, holding a wine glass in her hand but couldn't drink it, just raised the chopsticks, and lost interest in seeing those tired dishes, in addition to the noisy gongs and drums in her ears was the sound of the ministers laughing and toasting, she felt even more bored, so she simply left the dishes and chopsticks, and said goodbye to the Queen Mother and walked towards the place where there were few people, and the four palace maids and two little eunuchs behind him followed suit.
“…… It's a show like this every mid-autumn, it's really boring. Throwing away the peony flower that she had just pulled in her hand, Jing and Princess Jing walked around the garden with their hands behind their backs, and kicked the pebbles with their feet to play with boredom.
After walking around twice, she always felt that something was wrong, Princess Jinghe looked up at the night sky overhead, but her mind drifted outside the palace.
Otherwise, let's just go to Uncle Seventeen's for a trip!
That Tucun aunt must still be in the palace and will not leave, she has to help Uncle Seventeen take a good look, lest she don't understand anything, and when the time comes, she will do something embarrassing to ruin the royal reputation - yes, that's it!
Princess Jinghe made an excuse for herself in her heart, and when she saw that it was still early, she didn't bother to go back to the banquet, so she sent someone to report to the Queen Mother, and she sneaked out, got into a sedan chair and went straight to Changning Palace.
Although Princess Jinghe didn't run to Changning Wangfu when she was a child, but this big holiday, she suddenly saw Princess Jinghe, who was supposed to accompany the emperor and queen mother in the palace, suddenly appeared at the door, and the little guy who guarded the door in the palace was still frightened, and after putting people in, he burned his butt all the way to find someone to inform Jiang Fenghao.
Princess Jinghe is very familiar, seeing that there are few people in the house, she casually grabbed a subordinate and asked about the situation, and then walked around Mingcui Courtyard by herself.
As soon as he walked halfway, there was a trace of burnt barbecue mixed with the smell of smoke at the end of his nose, and Jing and Princess were paused for a moment, and when they were thinking about what smelled so fragrant, they turned their heads and saw two little girls walking towards this side with a smile.
"Stop!"
"Gong ...... Princess? The two little servants have also been in the palace for a while, so they naturally recognize who the person in front of them is, and they glanced at each other at the moment, and knelt down without saying a word, "The little one asks the princess to say goodbye." ”
"What do you have in your hands?" Princess Jinghe's eyes were sharp, and when she saw that they were carefully hiding the oiled paper bags in their hands, they looked like they didn't want her to find out, so they immediately frowned unhappily, and played the princess's temper and asked them to open it to take a look.
The two little guys naturally didn't dare to resist, so they had to open the oil paper bag with a bitter face, and handed it over with both hands raised above their heads.
By the faint light of the lantern in the hallway, I could barely see that inside was a palm-sized round thick cake, with the words "Rich and Blossoming" engraved on it.
Princess Jing and Princess Jing curiously reached out and picked up one of them and looked left and right, "What is this?" ”
"Returning to the princess," one of the little servants saw that his mooncake was taken away, and waited for Princess Jinghe to return it while explaining insincerely, "This is a mooncake." ”
"Mooncakes?" Princess Jinghe tilted her head, frowned and took the mooncake under her nose and sniffed it, as if she hesitated, then held it with both hands and took a bite carefully.
The little maid in the back couldn't stop it if she wanted to, so she only had time to shout in horror, "Princess! ”
Although this is in the palace of Changning, but the princess is a golden branch and jade leaf, and someone needs to test whether it is poisonous first, but she actually sent something of unknown origin to her mouth with such a big horn, in case there is a problem with eating, several of them can't get out of it, and they can't escape the fate of being punished!
"Shut up!" Princess Jinghe waved her hand, signaling them to step aside, staring at the mooncake in her hand for a long time, and then took a big bite regardless of the image, and when she ate the filling inside, her eyes immediately lit up, "It's delicious!" ”
"What are these two...... For moon cakes, this princess wants it. As he spoke, the palace maid who followed behind him wrapped another moon cake and brought it over, "Come on, give each of them ten taels of silver." ”
The two little guys were stunned on the spot when they heard this, originally they were reluctant to eat the moon cakes, and they were planning to save them for people to take home to honor their parents, who would have thought that the things in their hands would bump into Princess Jinghe, an unreasonable person, before they could cover the heat.
was already desperate, but I didn't expect Princess Jinghe to suddenly drop such a sentence again, although the silver had already been pinched in their hands, but the two of them still couldn't react.
I lost the moon cakes in exchange for ten taels of silver, which ...... Should this be considered a good thing or a bad thing?
"By the way, Princess Ben asked you," Princess Jinghe didn't care what they were thinking, she finished eating a cool mooncake in a few bites, clapped her hands and asked, "Who made this thing?" Has there been a change of chef in the house recently? ”
The two little servants looked at each other for a while, and then they both shook their heads, "Back to the princess, there is no change of cook in the house." Saying that, the two of them looked at each other again, both straightened their chests, and replied in unison with a look of Yu Youyan's honor, "This moon cake is made by our princess herself, and the entire brocade is the only one in our house, and there is no other place." ”
“…… Seventeen aunts? Princess Jinghe automatically filtered out those unique nonsense, and only heard the word 'princess' in her ears, "This thing, this thing is really made by Aunt Seventeen herself?" ”
Although the two little servants didn't understand why Princess Jinghe was suddenly so excited, they still nodded obediently, "The little one doesn't dare to deceive the princess, the moon cakes are indeed from the princess." ”
As soon as the words fell, Princess Jinghe, who had always been curious about this seventeenth aunt she had never met, had already disregarded her image, lifted her skirt and rushed out.
At that time, He Xiaoqiao was busy teaching everyone to roast mutton, the marinated mutton skewers were brushed with chili sauce, and then soy sauce and a little honey, and finally evenly sprinkled with crushed cumin foam.
Princess Jinghe rushed into Mingcui Courtyard in a hurry, and before she could open her mouth, she choked on the special fragrance of cumin, and sneezed several times in a row before she eased up.
Everyone in the courtyard was originally drinking, eating meat, singing and having fun, but when they turned their heads and saw that it was Princess Jinghe, the scene instantly became cold, and a group of people stood in a daze around the burning tile kiln, not knowing how to react - except for Liu Yidao, who was old and unfazed, only He Xiaoqiao and Jiang Fenghao, who were completely unaffected.
One was busy taking care of the barbecue and roasted eggplant and didn't have time to take care of anything else, and the other was busy grabbing red wine and skewers with Uncle Liu, and didn't bother to pay attention to the surrounding things.
However, Princess Jinghe didn't care about this, took the handkerchief handed by the palace maid, rubbed her nose elegantly, and followed the fragrance to the grill not far from her.
Sensing the unusual quietness around him, He Xiaoqiao quickly turned over the meat and vegetables on the grill twice, and then took the time to raise his head, but he didn't expect to look at Princess Jinghe who was standing in front of him, and immediately raised his eyebrows in understanding.
"It turned out that Her Royal Highness the princess was coming, I don't know if Her Royal Highness has any advice?"
On a good day, as the eldest princess, if you don't stay in the palace and eat the reunion banquet, you want to run here, should it be that you are bored and have nothing to do and want to find faults, right?
Jing and the princess were all focused on the fragrance that tickled people's hearts, but they didn't expect to look up and meet He Xiaoqiao's inquiring gaze, thinking of the previous incident, they couldn't help blushing, but they still replied with a weak neck, "This palace, this palace is just here to see Uncle Seventeen, and it has nothing to do with you!" Also, what kind of nougat you had last time wasn't ...... at all Delicious! Don't think that this palace is specifically here to ask for you! ”
The corners of He Xiaoqiao's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart - girl, it doesn't matter if you can confess a little more, really!
I really don't know what kind of environment can raise such an arrogant and arrogant princess, but sometimes cute and innocent people can't refuse, if someone in the palace really has the intention to plot against her, it is estimated that this girl can fight with people for less than half a round to get a successful bento to eat.
When the two of them were staring at each other, Jiang Fenghao didn't know when he also swayed over, holding an empty plate in his hand, but his narrow eyes were slanting at Princess Jinghe, exuding an invisible coercion.
Princess Jinghe had only been reprimanded before, and she was still a little dissatisfied in her heart, and just now she was even more angry and didn't say hello to Jiang Fenghao, but now that she was looking at it with his cold and deep eyes, her back instantly became cold, and the instinctive reaction she had cultivated since she was a child made her only reluctantly shout Uncle Seventeen with her neck shrunk.
Jiang Fenghao snorted, and prankfully raised his big hand that was still stained with oil and slapped her on the back of the head, and the bull head asked the horse's mouth, "Figured it out?" ”
Knowing that he was asking about the sale of Xia Bing and Begonia last time, Princess Jinghe's face immediately changed several times.
Although she understood that Jiang Fenghao was for her own good, the breath she held in her heart had long since disappeared, but she couldn't get down on her face.
The eldest princess of the dignified Yan Kingdom, but she can't even keep the minions around her, if this is going to be spread, the majesty of her princess must not be swept away?
However, judging from the current situation, it is obvious that face is not worth a few dollars, and coaxing Uncle Seventeen to let him continue to support him is the king - otherwise, if she angers her mother and brother in the future, where will she hide?
“…… Figured it out. Weakly responded, Princess Jinghe, who finally understood what 'those who know the times are junjie', really couldn't understand why she had all kinds of majesty on weekdays, but when she arrived in front of Jiang Fenghao, she didn't dare to resist anything like a mouse seeing a cat.
Could it really be as the imperial brother said, Uncle Seventeen's aura is too strong for her to parry?
"It's good to figure it out," he put his hand on Princess Jinghe's shoulder, and quietly used her clothes as a rag to wipe the greasy on his hands with the action of slapping, Jiang Fenghao laughed harmlessly and handed the plate in his hand to He Xiaoqiao, who rolled his eyes, and ordered the dish shamelessly, "Lady, for the husband, I want ten skewers of roast meat, ten skewers of bone and meat, ten skewers of roasted leeks, ten skewers of roasted mushrooms, plus two portions of roasted eggplant, three portions of roasted gluten, and another jar of red wine." Oh, by the way, and two more skewers of grilled wings......"
This guy has made up her mind not to be tired to death, she won't give up, right?
"Get out!" He Xiaoqiao's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, snatched the plate in his hand hard, gritted his teeth and said word by word, "No matter what you want, it's all there!" ”
"Then let's have a 'nothing'."
Jiang Fenghao replied cheaply, he was used to her personality of blowing up her hair at every turn, knowing that she was a knife-mouthed tofu heart, so he didn't say more, just smiled, and took the opportunity to introduce Princess Jinghe, who was shocked by the sentence 'lady', "Come on, Jinghe, I didn't have time to introduce you last time you ran too fast - come and see your seventeenth aunt." ”
Looking at Jiang Fenghao, Princess Jinghe's whole person was shattered.
The dirty Tucun aunt in front of her actually ...... It's actually Princess Changning, who was rumored in the capital a while ago, her seventeenth aunt?!
God, I don't take you as a whole person!
The glamorous little face instantly turned the color of pig liver, and Princess Jinghe stared at He Xiaoqiao, who was burned to ashes by the smoke, her mouth was wide open, and there was a ridiculous gurgling sound in her throat, and the hand pointing at her nose was even more shaking, and the overly frightened appearance was as funny as it was.
Your uncle's! Who told her that Aunt Seventeen is a mysterious beauty?
She's going to strangle him!