Chapter 305: Cold Food Festival

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of March.

In the originally quiet Jiangdu Palace, it has suddenly become lively again these days, Shang Ruyi watched those palace maids and eunuchs busy with everything, as if they were preparing something, so he asked a few palace maids who served him.

One of them said, "Madame Hui, in a few days it will be the Cold Food Festival, and Your Majesty will celebrate it in the palace."

"Winter Food Festival, celebrate?"

Shang Ruyi frowned slightly, and said, "It should be a sacrifice, right?"

The palace maid laughed awkwardly and shook her head.

The Cold Food Festival has been a day to worship the sages since ancient times, and few people will celebrate anything on this day, Shang Ruyi didn't know what Chu Yang's intention was in arranging this, just at this time, Gonggong Yu came with people.

He saluted Shang Ruyi, and then said, "Madam, Your Majesty is waiting for Madame in the Inner Palace, please take Madame away."

Shang Ruyi said, "Is there something wrong?"

Yu Gong said fairly: "Your Majesty has arranged some things in the back, please ask Madame to come and take a look."

It's not that she doesn't know how much the cost of the palace is, just her daily meal is enough for several families to eat, but this kind of waste is still limited, if she really dresses up the entire Jiangdu Palace like this, the amount of money spent is unimaginable.

The huge garden was covered with a thick carpet as always, but this time the blanket was dark green, and it looked like soft grass all over the ground; However, the garden is not as visible as before, but is filled with screens, dividing the garden into countless winding paths. The silk screen is embroidered with plum orchids, bamboo chrysanthemums, and beautiful maids, and it looks like there are many people in this garden to enjoy spring.

Shang Ruyi still had something to say, but Chu Yang had already said coldly, "Okay."

Wang Shaoji said, "It's just that there is one thing that needs to be asked for advice from Your Majesty."

When I came here before, I heard the sound of silk and bamboo, but for some reason, now it is a bell.

The further you go, the more you can see some spring scenery made of yarn and silk, or rather, piled up with silver, such as a few trees on the side of the road, which are also covered with red ribbons, flying in the wind, like a laurel tree.

Shang Ruyi looked up and was immediately shocked, because she found that above this garden, there was a huge net made of gold wire.

Shang Ruyi was so shocked that he forgot to salute, only looked at him, and then looked at the luxurious scenery in front of him.

Both men lowered their heads and closed their mouths.

"I have people work overnight to make these thousands of silver bells, and with these things, those birds will not dare to come down."

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When Gonggong Yu heard this, he only smiled bitterly.

There were countless silver bells hanging on the net, and when the wind blew, those bells immediately made a jingling sound, like the laughter of these women who had gone green.

said that it was an invitation, but in fact, she had no position to refuse, so she got up and followed Father-in-law Yu. It's just that on the way, Shang Ruyi couldn't help but ask, "Father-in-law Yu, I heard that Your Majesty is going to celebrate the Cold Food Festival, what is it celebrating?"

The more Shang Ruyi walked, the heavier his mood became.

Shang Ruyi's heart also sank.

Chu Yang said: "I have people prepare a lot of flowers, but there are also many birds here, two days ago, they pecked and took a lot away, so I let people hang a net here."

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She thought for a moment and said softly, "Your Majesty, if you can't close the palace gate, will something happen?"

Father-in-law Yu, who was originally standing aside, broke out in a cold sweat at this time.

Yugong said fairly: "This is a flower made by His Majesty specially asked someone to find a craftsman from the south, and a flower costs two dollars of silver."

Shang Ruyi hesitated for a while before he said softly, "Your Majesty, just for a cold food festival, this-it's too expensive."

"Scenery?"

He smiled, "This is the scenery that Jiangnan should have."

A familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears, Shang Ruyi hurriedly turned his head to look, but saw Chu Yang walking behind the screen from somewhere

came out and was looking at him with a smile.

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Shang Ruyi was a little dizzy, and walked all the way to the bottom of the tree, looking at the white jade-like flowers blooming on it, as well as the golden wire net hanging overhead, and couldn't help but ask softly, "Your Majesty, why are you making such a big net here?"

He stood under the tree, and reached out to pluck the round silver bell above his head, and with the bell trembling lightly, even the golden wire net also trembled, and all the bells rang together, as if a hundred birds were singing, and it was pleasant to the ear.

"Is it beautiful?"

Of course she knew that the word "rebel" that Chu Yang couldn't hear the most now was it, and even no one was allowed to mention the fall of Dongdu anymore.

Wang Shaoji said, "Then, please ask the young lady to leave the actions of our Praetorian Guard. The Praetorian Guards never slack off on the safety of the Imperial City, and the only thing to worry about is the defenders of the Old Palace, who have never been at peace."

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And at that time, she also persuaded him - any access must be moderate.

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But Shang Ruyi on the side couldn't help frowning.

As soon as I raised my eyes, I saw the surrounding scenery, and sure enough, it was different from what I saw when I came, both sides of the winding path paved with bluestone slabs in the inner palace were originally planted with flowers and plants, but at this time it was not too late, although the green leaves were luxuriant, but there were not many flowers, but this time, Shang Ruyi saw all kinds of flowers that spread red, pink, yellow, and purple competing to open, and squinted her eyes for a while.

Everything he created was breathtakingly beautiful.

As soon as he heard the word "rebel", Chu Yang's face immediately sank.

"On the day of the Winter Food Festival, let's come here to enjoy the spring."

Just as they were about to reach the garden that day, they heard a pleasant silver bell in the distance.

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Then he said, "It's not a celebration, it's Your Majesty's intention to visit the garden on that day. But recently, it has not been very safe outside, so His Majesty does not plan to leave the palace, so he will also go out in the palace, so some scenery has been specially arranged."

Wang Shaoji said: "Wechen has asked people to make 20 pairs of bead curtains overnight, and on the day of the Winter Food Festival, they will also be hung on the palace gates around this garden, and the pearls will shine and add to the brilliance by the moonlight."

Chu Yang glanced at Shang Ruyi coldly, but didn't say anything, only looked up at Wang Shaoji again, thought for a while, and said, "The inner palace gate doesn't have to be closed, but the bright gate is closed on time."

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Chu Yang's expression eased slightly, and said, "What's the matter, say."

Wang Shaoji immediately said, "Could it be that the young lady means that at the foot of the Son of Heaven, in the Jiangdu Palace, there will be rebels?"

As if sensing something, Chu Yang looked down at her, but saw that the expression on her face was not as happy as he thought, and couldn't help frowning slightly: "What's wrong?"

Shang Ruyi looked at him silently, and stopped talking a few times.

Chu Yang nodded when he heard this: "Reasonable. Then you give the order to go down, and when it comes to the night of the Cold Food Festival, the door of the Inner Palace does not have to be closed."

Of course she didn't forget, this was the first time the two of them met, she looked at Chu Yang's extravagant behavior, and couldn't help but open her mouth to admonish, but was refuted by him.

Can't close the Inner Palace Gate?

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"What?"

Chu Yang glanced at him, and before he could say anything, Wang Shaoji had already smiled and said, "Young Lady Yuwen is too worried. You're living in the palace these days, but what's going on?"

Shang Ruyi frowned, didn't say anything, and just continued to walk forward.

But at this time, she couldn't open her mouth when she looked at Chu Yang's eyes, which were already familiar.

"However, there are only nets, which looks unlucky."

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Shang Ruyi's eyebrows frowned slightly, and when he turned his head, he saw Wang Shaoji appear at the door of this garden again, and when Gonggong Yu saw him, he still sighed, and could only salute respectfully.

"Youβ€”"

When I got closer, I found that those flowers were all made of yarn, so lifelike that I couldn't identify them if I didn't look closely.

Chu Yang seemed to be very satisfied with her "faux pas", he reached out and grabbed Shang Ruyi's wrist and led her into this picturesque landscape.

Shang Ruyi's heart suddenly sank.

Sure enough, as he spoke, a little sparrow landed on the net, which immediately triggered several silver bells to jingle directly, and the sparrow screamed in fright and flapped its wings and flew away, and the rest of the birds did not dare to fall.

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Wang Shaoji's brows frowned slightly.

But who knows what such a beautiful scenery will turn out to become?

And above their heads, there was a small and melodious ringing of bells.

"That is, if the beaded curtain is hung, the palace door must not be closed, otherwise, there will be no candlelight beauty at all."

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Chu Yang looked at her coldly and said, "Have you forgotten that I once said that all things are born for human use, and if you don't use them, they won't have any meaning in being born with them."

Shang Ruyi said, "Nothing happened because the palace gate was closed. But if you open the palace gatesβ€”"

Wang Shaoji's eyes flashed slightly, and he immediately leaned over and saluted: "Yes."

Shang Ruyi was a little surprised, and at this moment, they passed through the middle gate and entered the inner palace.

Chu Yang's brows immediately twisted.

When Chu Yang heard this, his eyes lit up.

He nodded and said, "Okay, you've done this beautifully."

And at this moment, the familiar and disgusting voice sounded on the side: "Your Majesty, Weichen has something to play."

Shang Ruyi hurriedly quickened her pace, and when she walked through the vase door, the scene in front of her immediately shocked her eyes wide.

She said, "It'sβ€”"

Seeing this, Chu Yang's face showed a smug smile.

"I originally wanted to go out of the palace to go out, but the people below said that the weather outside the city has been bad recently, so I asked people to move all these scenery to the palace."

It's beautiful......

But immediately, he smiled and said, "Wechen understands, Wechen will go down and give orders."

After saying that, he saluted, turned around and left in a hurry.

When he left, Chu Yang lowered his head again, looked at Shang Ruyi with a worried face, and said in a deep voice: "I asked you to come so that you can accompany me to enjoy and enjoy the beautiful scenery.

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Shang Ruyi bit her lower lip and was silent for a long time, and finally said softly, "Yes."

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