Qu Tianxiong still looked calm, and said unalarmedly: "It's not to protect his father, nor to protect the Qu family, but to protect Yuan Ginseng, protect your brother, are you willing." ”

There was a trace of emotion on Qu Lian's face, which was fleeting, and she smiled sarcastically: "Life is luck, death is fate, what does it have to do with me." ”

Qu Tianxiong's figure shook slightly, his calm expression finally showed traces of brokenness, and he was stunned for a long time before he made up his mind and said in a deep voice: "If you should do this, in the future, you will be the head of the Qu family." ”

Qu Lian turned her head and spoke viciously, which was very different from her before: "As long as you live, I can't be the rightful head of the Qu family, I can only be your puppet." ”

Qu Tianxiong met Qu Lian's eyes directly, as if he didn't know the person in front of him at all, and said angrily: "Then, what are you going to do." ”

Qu Lianxiu raised her eyebrows lightly and said calmly: "You die, the Qu family lives." ”

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One waits for the cool breeze to arrive, the second waits for the white dew, and the third waits for the cold cicadas.

The beginning of autumn is an important day at the turn of summer and autumn, since the founding of the country of Yun Chu, there is a gift of welcoming the autumn and reporting the autumn, two days before the beginning of the autumn, the emperor of Chu wants to bathe and fast, and wait until two days later to kill the beginning of the autumn, the hungry tongue is weak, and he also washes cleanly, he leads the same tongue and tongue, washes the clean ministers and ministers, goes to the altar to welcome the autumn, and holds the ceremony of sacrificing the young and harvesting.

After a set of tedious dozing rituals, the Chu Emperor would also review and reward the soldiers to cheer up the army, praying for less defeat in the coming year, fewer deserters, and less embarrassment.

On this year's Furi, Emperor Chu was sacrificed by the prince because of the dragon's physical illness, and the autumn ceremony was also done by the prince.

At the same time, the stargazing hall will move a pot of sycamore trees into the stargazing hall, and as soon as the "beginning of autumn" hour arrives, the director of the stargazing hall will play a loud sentence: "Autumn is coming." ”

After speaking, the sycamore fell one or two leaves in response, which is the "autumn report" gift of the beginning of autumn.

Although it takes no effort to move a pot of sycamore trees and shout that autumn is coming, and it will not hurt the muscles and bones at all, but you always have to find some reason, open a feast, and have a good meal, so as not to waste a solar term, as for the people who participated in the autumn festival, they have been dull for two days, and they have to find a reason to have a good meal and treat themselves.

So, there is a bitter summer, ushered in the cool harvest of autumn, it is necessary to "gnaw autumn", "lie autumn", "paste autumn fat" and so on, so there is "welcome autumn and report autumn", after the Chu Emperor put on a feast, banquet all the princes and ministers, dragon sons and phoenixes and grandchildren together to paste the custom of autumn fat.

It's just that this year, the people who put on the feast were replaced by the prince, and the only people who were invited to the banquet were the emperor's relatives and relatives, and as for the ministers, they went back to their own homes, closed their doors, and ate whatever they liked, and posted the autumn fat wherever they wanted.

When Luo Kui and his entourage returned to Qingzhou City, they did it just right, and the next day after returning to the city was the beginning of autumn, which was the day when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invited him to paste the autumn fat together.

At this time, the begonia tree in the courtyard has already fallen out of flowers, there is no bright dark red and light pink, the branches are green, the green leaves grow densely, like a piece of jade embedded in the branches, the green leaves hang down with dewdrops, the daylilies on the wall are swaying in the morning breeze, and occasionally a few birds and finches fall in the courtyard to chirp and feed.

I don't know when there is a bird's nest at the top of the tree, and a few young birds are looking left and right, and the tender yellow fluff is very delicate, adding a touch of coolness to the still hot early autumn.

The day after the rain, the transparent blue is like a deep pool, and after staring at it for a long time, it is slightly dizzy.

In the afternoon, Su Zi began to groom Luo Kui, he held a clear and round jade comb, which slowly fell from the top of his head to the ends of his hair, and the white hair was pulled out one by one, but it was more and more pulled, pulling out his hundred turns of sorrow, he muttered in a low voice: "Why is there more gray hair than a few days ago, how good is this." ”

Luo Kui smiled in the mirror: "Who can not grow gray hair, what's so strange about this." ”

Yu Liren jumped on the dressing table, tilted his head and said, "Senior sister, if you are fifty years old, it is not uncommon for you to have long white hair, but you are not in your twenties, and this white hair has grown a little earlier." ”

Luo Kui smiled lonely: "I don't lose money if I put what I only have at the age of fifty to grow up now." ”

Su Ziti slipped the back of Yu Liren's neck, threw it far behind the screen and hid it, and immediately shouted outside: "Clove, bring the black bean vinegar syrup." ”

Lilac responded clearly, holding a carved copper basin in one hand, and coming in with a curtain in the other, the steaming hot air wrapped in the pungent vinegar sour smell, sweeping the room, this smell is too strange and strong, and the depressed agarwood incense will be dispelled in an instant.

Luo Kui suddenly jumped out of eight zhang away, covered her nose and frowned, and waved her hand again and again with disgust: "What is this, go and go, go quickly." ”

Su Zi stretched out his hand and stirred it in the copper basin, picked up some black to shiny thick paste, looked at it carefully for a moment, and then said with a smile: "This is a good thing, I put aside black beans, black plums, mulberries, barley, needle sand, gallic seeds and vitex, soaked for a day and a night, and added vinegar to boil it so viscous, smeared on your hair, can cover white hair, I specially prepared for your banquet tonight." ”

Luo Kui shook his head resolutely and decisively: "No, never, smear this to the banquet, I am the biggest laughing stock at the banquet, tomorrow morning, I am the widest laughing stock in Qingzhou City, I will not have face in the future, do I want to see people." ”

Su Zi pulled Luo Kui's bun, dragged it to the bronze mirror, grabbed a handful of thick paste and smeared it on her long hair, slowly rubbed her five fingers between her hair, and said with a joking smile: "I don't care if you can see people in the future, I just care if you can see people today." ”

Luo Kui twisted and refused to give in, seeing that the thick paste was more and more on her hair, she had no choice but to accept her fate, pouting and saying, "Then you, give me more incense powder to cover the smell." ”

"Don't worry, you will definitely be overwhelmed at the banquet. Su Zi laughed while wiping, the laughter was arrogant and wanton, almost tearing off the roof.

At dusk, Luo Kui cleaned up, wore a Mulan green and silver silk dark pattern Luo dress, and wore a white bottom pleated skirt, embroidered a circle of cyan entwined chrysanthemums along the skirt, and covered the outer head with a thin silk gown with a white background of the same color as the pleated skirt, and also embroidered the same cyan entwined chrysanthemum pattern, which should be the scene of the coming autumn.

She stood in the evening breeze, the silk pearl hairpin on the sideburns was also trembling, looking from a distance, the whole person was like a chrysanthemum, more and more cold, she boarded the inconspicuous gray shed carriage at the door, all the way to the prince's mansion.

The sun was thin, and the twilight was heavy and swept across the sky, and in an instant, the entire prince's mansion was immersed in the thin night.

Zhou Hongxiang is the son of the first queen, and the crown prince, the status is respected, his mansion is naturally built extraordinarily magnificent, but carefully looked at it, this magnificence but implies a bit of simplicity and loneliness, even compared to the half of the palace of the king of Lin.

The banquet is set up in the front hall, Luo Kui is not too early, at a glance, the front hall has gathered a lot of people, smiling to enjoy the flowers and enjoy the scenery and antiques. She smiled brightly, took on the demeanor of Her Royal Highness the Princess, nodded and greeted the familiar or unfamiliar guests, and finally smiled and saluted King Lin.

King Lin actually took her hand and put on a smile: "The little sister is also here, the little sister was sick a few days ago, and I thought I couldn't come, or His Royal Highness the prince is big, and I can invite the little sister to come with a sick face, but the little sister's body is really going to be well conditioned, and the pain is always three disasters and eight difficulties, this is not a long-term image, little sister, what is lacking is short, just tell the third brother, our brothers and sisters, we should also be close." ”

This enthusiasm is sudden, rootless and unreasonable, where is it so simple that Luo Kui and King Lin are estranged, but resentment, no matter which one can not look at each other and smile, but the world is so impermanent, the two of them really looked at each other affectionately and smiled, Luo Kui pursed his lips, and smiled innocently: "What the third brother said is that the little sister is not welcome, but I always think that the little sister is young and ignorant, and I always don't like to take care of the little sister." ”

King Lin smiled happily, raised his hand and scraped the tip of her nose: "Isn't it, when I got married, you were so tall." He raised his hand and compared: "It's still a little girl, in a blink of an eye, the little girl has grown so big, and she is going to talk about kissing, but you are still a little girl in the third brother." ”

Luo Kuijiao smiled and stuck out her tongue, took out two brocade boxes from her sleeves, opened them separately, and said with a smile: "Third brother, here is a dragon scale grass and a chalcedony grass, the third brother is a cultivator, and he wants to use it." ”

King Lin gave in for a moment, motioned to his subordinates to take it, and said with a smile: "There are many good things in the little sister's house, and there are such fairy grasses," he raised his eyes and looked at Su Zi behind Luo Kui, and said with a smile: "The manager Su next to the little sister is also a rare talent, it's a pity to only be a general manager, I just want to discuss with the little sister what kind of official position will the manager Su have." ”

Luo Kui's eyes were slightly cold, and he still smiled and said: "The third brother values Suzi, it is Suzi's blessing, where does he dare to pick and choose, the third brother just looks at the arrangement." ”

Not long after he sat down, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince raised his glass and said, "Today, at the beginning of autumn, we will have a family banquet and invite all brothers and sisters to enjoy together." ”

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly raised their glasses and thanked them.

The prince nodded with a smile, clapped his hands lightly three times, and then someone brought a pot of various colors of morning chrysanthemums in front of the court, and the moon shadow bloomed all over the purple and red, and the beauty was unparalleled.

Seeing that everyone was surprised, the prince continued to smile and said: "There are singing and dancing music in the house, please appreciate it." ”

The voice fell, only a flute sound was heard, and twelve Miaoman women came out, with white faces and white shirts, and jade sleeves were thrown away in the void, like a wisp of clear spring in the hearts of everyone.

The sound of the flute stopped suddenly, and the sound of the piano slowly flowed out of the chrysanthemum bushes, like smoke and rain, and the sound of the piano was intoxicating, as if it could hook people's hearts.

Everyone looked up, only to see twelve women surrounded by various chrysanthemums in front of the court, and the women under the moon fell like a blue valley, walking slowly with the sound of the piano.