The twilight clouds are overflowing and cold, and the silver man silently turns the jade plate.

This night is not good in this life, where will the bright moon look next year.

The skies always get darker earlier in autumn. From today onwards, the sun will begin to move south to the Tropic of Capricorn, and the north will begin to have short days and long nights until the winter solstice, which is the knowledge point learned in geography of Duwu Middle School, and the Han Dynasty did not understand this from the emperor to the common slaves, but it did not prevent them from preparing for the autumn harvest and winter hiding.

Cai Bo drove Du Wu out of Kong Guang's mansion in a carriage, the carriage bell rang out, the horse's hooves resounded on the quiet stone road, and the moonlight sprinkled down, shining on the spear at the front of the procession, reflecting a little cold light.

Kong Guang was the second one Du Wu visited. Since Du Wu took office as Situ Changshi two years ago, every festival, Du Wu will visit the three princes and nine kings who are familiar with each other, such as Wang Mang, Kong Guang, Liu Xin, etc., and do not give too expensive gifts, just a few delicacies, which has won him the favor of many high-ranking officials, after all, the name of Chang'an God of Food is not in vain. Tonight, Du Wu only gave Wang Mang and Kong Guang some mooncakes made by themselves, and then took Wang Buliu and a few people back home.

The Moon Festival is also an auspicious day for the emperor to hold autumn ceremonies. In previous years, the emperor led high-ranking officials of more than 2,000 stone to Shanglin Yuan for autumn worship, and since Wang Mang was regent in the first year of the regency, this right became Wang Mang's.

Last night, Pipa told himself that he must bring the perilla to his home for the holiday, so Du Wu took advantage of Wang Mang's time when he was still in Shanglin Yuan for the autumn ceremony, and chose this time to visit Wang Mang, and by the way, he also took the perilla out.

Shisu has been locked up at home every day to learn the etiquette of the crown princess recently, and she has long been stuffy. At this moment, she has been looking forward to it for a long time, and she knows very well in her heart that this is the last moon festival she has spent outside, and after August, she will marry the four-year-old crown prince, like her aunt, locked in the palace forever.

When the carriage passed through Fang City, Du Wu told Wang Buliu to say a few words, and Wang Buliu galloped north. The remaining three automatically adjusted their formation, and the finished glyph surrounded Du Wu's carriage in the middle and drove towards home.

Wang Buliuxing's four people originally belonged to the Northern Army, and they were all among the thirteen people who survived the distress when they followed Du Wu to relieve the disaster in Qingzhou, and they got along day and night for two years, which made them have a deep sense of admiration for Du Wu. Du Wu also intended to cultivate his own power in the army, and the two hit it off, and several people got closer and closer. Wang Buliuxing is a native of Qingzhou, he has learned good martial arts since he was a child, so that a two-meter spear is about to catch up with the length of the horse lance, Wang Buliuxing is holding a spear weighing 20 catties, and the yellow horse under his crotch is waving up to the tiger, and more than a dozen people are not close to him. Du Wu saw that he was strong in martial arts, so he deliberately taught him a little art of war, Wang Buliu was overjoyed, although he was not very literate, but extremely intelligent, and from then on only Du Wu was the head of the horse.

The other three are Maliu, the Massin brothers, and Huang Daebi. The Ma brothers were originally famous wealthy families in Chang'an City, real good families, and their ancestors once attached to Wuyang Hou Fan Xu. In that era of rabbit death and dog cooking, Fan Xu was able to die a good death, which also made the ancestors of the Ma family slowly accumulate some contacts, and when the Ma brothers were in this generation, the family was already extremely wealthy, and there were several minor officials, and later the family bought a relationship and sent them into the Northern Army, which can be regarded as really eating the emperor's grain.

Although Maliu and Maxin are brothers, their temperaments are diametrically opposed. Brother Ma Liu is insidious and suspicious, but he has a good eloquence, but he speaks too bluntly, and the only person in the Northern Army who has not been scolded by him is estimated to be Du Wu. He knew that he was not welcomed, and he was afraid that someone would secretly take his life, so he asked the master to build a Liuhou crossbow out of stainless steel, equipped with fifty crossbow arrows, and never left his body for a moment.

On the other hand, Marsin is extremely open-minded and generous. Seeing that there were poor people selling their sons and daughters on the side of the road, they would also give dozens of hundreds of copper coins, and after a long time, someone in Chang'an City gave him the nickname of "Ma Shanren". Ma Xin behaved more well, and he also wore the standard weapon of the Han Dynasty, but he liked archery since he was a child, and spent a lot of silver money to hire someone to build a three-stone gold bow, and he practiced for five years before pulling the bow away. Since then, however, he has become more and more proficient in archery. At that time, when Zhijinwu recruited him into the camp, he boasted in front of all the soldiers for three days.

As for Euphorbia, he was a real rough man. He has infinite strength, swinging a halberd, and he is really as good as his name. After Du Wu took office, Ma Xin and Huang Da Euphorbia became acquainted with each other, and secondly, they respected Du Wu's righteousness and volunteered to be driven by him. And Ma Liu was almost framed because he offended Zhi Jinwu, but Du Wu, who had just taken office, found a relationship to help him exonerate, so he followed Du Wu with all his heart.

Today happens to be the Moon Festival, and the four of them discussed a few days ago that they would go to General Zhenbei's house for the festival after they got off duty. For this reason, he sent his family to Du Wu a lot of gifts two days in advance, just to taste the delicious crab paste that Du Wu said tonight.

When Du Wu arrived home, he saw two carriages parked at the door. looked at the flag on the car, and couldn't help laughing: Dare to love Kuang Xian and Lin Lan have already come.

Shiso jumped out of the car, knelt on the ground and hugged the strong rhubarb and cried, and the hearts of those who watched it were sour. Rhubarb hadn't seen Shiso for a long time, and stuck out his tongue to lick the tears on Shiso's face. At the beginning of the Great Sima Mansion, except for Du Wu, it had the closest relationship with Zisu, and at this moment it actually stretched out its front paws and probed Zisu's shoulder, as if to comfort her. Pipa ran out, cried with her for a while, and took Shiso to the backyard. Galangal also came out of the courtyard to greet Du Wu, and Caibo took the reins of Ma Liu and the others and led the horse to the stable.

As soon as Du Wu entered the small courtyard, he saw Kuang Xian and Lin Lan coming out. Kuang Xian is the head of Jiuqing, and was once the top boss of Du Wu's top boss, and the two have a lot of close relationship since the song "Luzhou Month", as for Lin Lan, they formed a life-and-death friendship as early as the Qingzhou disaster relief, so the two of them are never polite every time they come to Du Mansion, no, they also brought their own family members.

Du Er has been busy in Du Mansion since the afternoon. The head of the family is the god of food in Chang'an, who is very particular about eating, and there are often some novel dishes developed. After Du Wu moved over, Du Er often came to the house to cook, for which Qingfeng Lou recruited a new chef, and Du Er only made ten dishes a day, as the saying goes, scarce things are expensive, Du Er's style is like a celebrity chef, so his reputation became even greater.

Today's ingredients are very rich, except for one dish that needs to be checked by Du Wu himself, all the dishes are made by Du Er himself, which makes him have a very strong sense of satisfaction. Prepare a moon sacrifice banquet for the god of food in Chang'an, how many people can there be in the entire Han Kingdom? Thinking of this, Du Er lifted the lid of the pot again to see if the crab was red.

According to the customs of the Han Dynasty, after Du Wu's moon worship, the dinner party officially began.

In the main hall, in addition to Du Wu, Kuang Xian, as the highest official and oldest Venerable present, naturally sat on the north seat, Lin Lan sat opposite, Wang Shu, Gao Liang Jiang and Chen Xun, who had just been picked up by Wang Buliuxing, sat down in turn, Du Wu sat down in the west, picked up a bottle of wine, and said: "The moon and stars are rare, and the autumn harvest is hidden in winter." Today is the festival of the moon, everyone drink together and celebrate the festival together! ”

Everyone nodded, raised their skulls and drank them all.

After Galangal and Caibo stood up and added wine to the people present, Du Wu raised his mouth again: "You and I can drink here for the festival, thanks to the blessing of the crown prince Hongfu and Zai Heng, come, you drink again, respect the crown prince, respect Zai Heng!" ”

Everyone drank it all again, and when Du Wu turned his head, he saw that Wang Xu's face was a little gloomy, and he looked quite dissatisfied.

When the third wine was served, Du Wu glanced at Chen Xun and paused before saying: "I miss my relatives every festival, and today is a beautiful day, but unfortunately the deceased can't see it." Only with this respect, I respect the Hou Chen Gong of Guannei! Kuang Xian sighed, Xue Du Wu spilled the wine on the ground, Chen Xun fell to the ground, his shoulders twitched a few times, and he was picked up by galangal.

Different from the serious atmosphere in the main hall, under the pavilion in the small courtyard, Pipa accompanied Zi Su and Kuang Xian's wife and Lin Lan's concubine were eating happily. Except for the crab that has not yet been served, the other dishes are all served. Lin Lan's youngest daughter had just turned four years old, and she knelt in her seat and was extremely quiet, but her mother obviously couldn't let go when she faced Kuang Xian's wife, and she ignored the little girl's eyes staring at the osmanthus cake. Mrs. Kuang laughed when she saw it: "Today in Du Changshi's mansion, we are all guests, there is no distinction between high and low, Lin Xiaoniang should not be so restrained, the right should be in her own home, quickly give the child some meat dishes to eat." My husband once said that Lin Sinong is very honest, and with his money, the child may not be able to eat such delicious meat dishes, right? ”

Zi Su stuffed half a chicken leg in his mouth, and said vaguely: "Don't say that Lin Si Nong has less money, that is, he has more money than our family, and he doesn't often get such delicious meals." Look at that fat man, he runs to the master's house every day, just to steal the teacher and learn art! ”

Du Erzheng came up with the crab, and when he heard Zisu's words, he hurriedly defended: "The little one worshipped Mr. as a teacher, besides, every time the little lady comes, the little lady brings candied fruit to serve, and the little lady doesn't want to ruin my reputation!" ”

Zi Su snorted: "Where did you get any reputation, I ate so few walnuts that I peeled last time, did you eat them secretly, hurry up!" ”

Du Erdu was about to cry: "Ah, my little lady, even if you give me a hundred guts, I won't dare to steal your things, if I don't believe it, I can swear, if I steal the little lady's things, let the rhubarb bite me!" Saying that, he also raised three fingers and swore to the moon, Zi Su smiled, pointed at Du Er and called rhubarb, rhubarb understood, rubbed out from under the table, and rushed towards Du Er, Du Er's mother screamed, and ran out, everyone immediately laughed.

In the outermost courtyard, Wang Buliuxing and the four of them were staring at the crabs around a stone table, and no one dared to make the first move. The stone table was already full of wine and food, the four of them had been drinking for a while, and when they were about to tear the rope that tied the crab legs, Du Er's fat body flashed out of the inner courtyard, and a big yellow dog behind him pounced on him, Du Er panicked, and suddenly touched a corner of the stone table, the crab fell to the ground, and was stepped on by Du Eryi, the crab roe flowed to the ground, and the rhubarb smelled delicious, and no longer chased Du Er, and began to eat the crab shell with a clatter. Ma Liu stared at it for a while, and slapped his thigh: "It turns out that this ugly thing eats the meat inside!" ”