Chapter 36: The Mid-Autumn Banquet (Part II)

"What is this thing called, how is it made?" As if looking at this thing called frozen by the little doll for the first time, he had never seen or tasted it, and he felt very novel, and couldn't help but ask Yun Manqing, who was sitting opposite.

"It's delicious, right, I've researched it, let's call it Yun Jelly!" Speaking of this, Yun Manqing had an excited expression on his face.

"Wow, so you are so good, this is simply delicious, it is very refreshing after eating, smooth-tender-tender, fragrant and sweet. "I think I have a very high opinion of it. "Tell me how you did it, I think there seems to be a milky smell in it, sweet and sour. ”

"You guessed it right, there is indeed Heluo's goat's milk in it, and I cut some fruit dices and put it in it, and I also added some sugar, how does it taste, isn't it fishy?" Yun Manqing actually not only has research on medicinal materials, but also is more interested in food, and often wanders the rivers and lakes with Yun Yi Tiannan and the north to appreciate the human flavors of various places, and of course brings back famous local specialties.

"There is no fishy smell at all, how did you do it?" Wan Ruochu asked her in surprise, knowing that she had also drunk goat's milk before, but she vomited as soon as she got into her mouth, it was too unpleasant to drink, and it smelled bad.

"Tea leaves are added to it, and there is also a lemon fruit from Baiyue. ”

"But how did this milk freeze when it didn't freeze?" Yinzhu also dug a spoonful of "frozen" and took a bite of it, and asked her.

"This is a bit troublesome to do, you need to remove some beef tendons, beef bones and cowhides, etc., and put them in a large pot to boil until the water is slowly reduced, the latex comes out, and let it cool and dry to form a rubber block. You must know that this program is very complicated, and it is generally made by experienced palace people in the City Lord's Mansion.

"Generally, the bones of the cow have a fishy smell, is it also the lemon fruit you said with the addition of tea leaves?" Yebai looked like he liked it very much, and he also tasted it with a spoonful.

"yes, it's good to get fishy. Yun Manqing didn't expect that Ye Bai was also interested in this thing, so he quickly nodded and answered his words.

"That's right, my son likes to eat it. It was the mother of the little doll who had just screamed for freezing, she was pregnant, and when she talked about her son, her face was full of doting.

"If my sister-in-law has another daughter in this child, it will be a complete child. Yun Yifeng looked at the pot-bellied poop, and the woman in blue who was pregnant with Liujia said.

"It doesn't matter if it's a boy, when the time comes, I will work for the city lord with Heng'er. It was Yun Yifeng's second cousin who spoke, tall and burly, looking like he was in his thirties, with a beard.

Because Yun Yifeng's generation is scarce, he always likes children.

"City Lord, you are twenty years old this year, and it is time to start a family, you see that Yitian will almost marry a wife and have children in two more years, and he will soon catch up with your uncle. It was Uncle Lobby who spoke with a gray beard but still a tough body.

"Okay cousin, Yi'er knows, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, let's enjoy the lanterns next. "Yun Yifeng would hear the urging from his cousin and even two cousins every once in a while.

But indeed, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the festival is the most important, this meal was also eaten, and I ate the full moon pancake food, and even the refreshing cloud jelly after the meal was also eaten, and then I entered the last link of the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, the lantern appreciation conference. In previous years, there were palace people to make, or from outside the palace to buy, hanging in the courtyard for everyone to watch, because this year's Mid-Autumn Festival has like the beginning of their line of people to join, this lantern exhibition will be more exciting.

"Please move to the outer courtyard of the Yunying Hall to enjoy the lanterns. After Yun Yifeng finished speaking, he led everyone to the courtyard.

At this time, the palace people have hung all the lanterns they made in the courtyard, and the whole courtyard is illuminated, and all kinds of lanterns bloom in the twilight of the night.

"Wow, it's really beautiful!" Yun Manqing couldn't believe it, this was the courtyard in her own palace. Happily ran to the first lantern and took a turn.

The first lantern is a more traditional round lantern, with a red paper with a red and yellow hazy candlelight, and the skeleton is painted with golden edges, which is very suitable for the golden tassels hanging below. A red ribbon hangs in the middle of the round tassel, and a warm yellow sign hangs on it, on which are written two poems: The moon rises in the sea, and the end of the world is at this time.

"Who made this lantern, it's not bad!" Ruo Ruo looked at the red lantern and praised, "Especially these two poems, they are really too appropriate for the occasion, 'The moon rises in the sea, and the end of the world is at this time.'" Although thousands of miles apart, thousands of rivers and mountains, as long as you look up at the bright moon in the sky, it is as if the relatives and friends of the beautiful woman are in front of you, enjoying the beautiful scenery together. ”

"The moon rises in the sea, and the end of the world is at this time. Yun Manqing read and recited the two lines of poetry, suddenly patted his head, glanced at Yun Yi and said, "Your kid has a pretty good memory." ”

Yun Yi saw that Yun Manqing guessed that the lantern was made by them, and scratched his head with a somewhat embarrassed smile.

Everyone suddenly realized that this poem must have been heard by the two of them when they traveled, and it was used by Yun Yi on this lantern, which can be regarded as ingenious, and it really suits the situation.

Next to Yun Yi and behind the silver bead lantern is an oblong lantern, a warm yellow full moon is drawn on the white plain Xuan paper, and the wanderer drinks alone with a wine jug in his hand under the moon, and two poems are written on the other side: When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky. Although the painting is a little lonely, but the bold and expansive love of the poem is contrary to this loneliness washed away, the bright moon is empty, so people are in their hearts, I hope that people will last a long time, thousands of miles together. When I miss you, you're right in front of you, in your mind, and in your heart. Therefore, as long as there is one person in the heart, parting is not a real parting.

"Haha, I can see it too, this is made by the eldest brother!" Yun Yi shouted happily as he looked at the long round lantern.

"How do you know?" Yun Fei looked at his younger brother with some confusion, knowing that he didn't use the sentences he had heard in his travels.

"I've read the blue-threaded book with your pillow down more than once. Yun Yi was a little proud when he said this, as if telling his brother, you have to be careful, I know everything about you.

Although these two poems are good, it takes Ziyan's good hand to paint to set off this artistic conception. Yun Yifeng looked at the drinkers on the lantern, and painted it vividly, expressing the pride and spaciousness and a little melancholy. Originally, people were a contradiction, maybe one second they were still full of pride, raising a glass and drinking, but the next moment they looked at the full moon, but they still couldn't help but cry.

"You can't see it, you can still draw. As if I saw it for the first time, I couldn't help but praise it, but I still said silently in my heart, although it was very good, it was still not as good as someone.

Next, the crowd paced to the opposite side and saw a lantern of different shapes. The shape is made like a wine glass, and a round moon is made of Xuan paper on the top, and a few golden osmanthus flowers are painted on both sides, and the full moon is connected with the wine glass lantern body below, so the candlelight inside shines from the bottom to the full moon above, and the whole body is hazy and warm yellow, and the warm yellow lantern has a few lines of poetry written on it: Remembering the Mid-Autumn Festival osmanthus from the bush, the flower is in the cup, and the moon is in the cup.

"This artistic conception is also good, the lantern is not only made for the occasion, but even the poems seem to be specially made for this lantern, the full moon is good, the flower is in the cup, the moon is in the cup, it is really good. Ruochu raised his thumbs up at Pian Feng and Yun Manqing.

Needless to say, there were only four lanterns in total, and the first two had their own masters, so it is obvious who made these two.

Yun Yifeng was also surprised to see that his sister could complete such a beautiful and meaningful lantern, he only knew that she loved to play before, but he didn't expect to do things seriously, which was still good.

After reading the three sets of lanterns, everyone looked at the courtyard, except for the simple red round lanterns made by the palace people, but they could not see the lanterns that looked like the white of the beginning and the night.

"Sister Ruochu, why didn't you see the lantern you made with Brother Yebai?" Yun Manqing asked while holding Wan Ruochu's hand.

As if he had just looked at the two palace people who were slowly walking outside, he said with a smile: "Isn't this coming?" ”

Everyone looked, two palace people came to meet them, carrying a square carved lantern twice as large as the ordinary lantern, the four corners were engraved with the red flaming bird that was about to fly, the lantern body was made of translucent brocade, and a cluster of plain osmanthus flowers were painted on it, as well as a bright moon in the sky, and it was written in small golden characters on the side: Dew is white from tonight, and the moon is the hometown of Ming.

The most peculiar thing is that this lantern does not use candles, but the inside of the lantern is much brighter than other ordinary lanterns.

Even Yun Yifeng's white-bearded cousin couldn't help but lean over and take a closer look, wanting to see what was in the lantern, which could shine so brightly.

"Sister Ruochu, what is in here, how can it be so bright?" Yun Manqing looked at the lantern in front of him and asked happily.

Among these people, Ziyan, Pian Feng and Yinzhu naturally know that this is a night pearl of thousands of years, and these treasures can only be seen in the palaces of the heavenly court and the mansions of the immortals, of course, there are only a few, not all immortal mansions can have them.

Therefore, everyone present was dumbfounded, it was the first time they had seen such a precious thing.

"This is the 'moon' that I and Yebai gave you. Of course, I painted the paintings, I wrote the poems, and he prepared the valuable and bright things in them. Wan Ruochu blinked his eyes, and whispered to her: "Actually, I also read this poem from other places, you see that there are two words 'night white' here, so I like it very much." ”

When Yun Manqing heard this, she was so excited that she shed tears, they had known each other for a few days, and they just met in Pingshui, so they gave her such a precious gift, and they really regarded her as a close friend.

"When the time comes, you put this lamp in your Yunying Palace, if you miss us in the future, just look at it, there will be a surprise." Wan Ruochu whispered in her ear.