During the Mid-Autumn Festival, officials of the imperial court took three days off.
In previous years, the palace would have a lantern tower, and the concubines, concubines, royal relatives, and court officials would share the appreciation. This year, the uncle passed away, as a sign of condolences. Everything in the palace of Emperor Xuande was simplified, and banquets were no longer held. The officials and the common people were not required to forbid joy, so the common people continued to hold the lantern fair, and the officials could also display lanterns in their palaces.
The Shouwang Mansion, but Zhao Heng ordered it early in the morning. There is no need to buy lanterns this Mid-Autumn Festival. After all, it is the uncle who died, not only the Shouwang Mansion, but the other three palaces, except for the Chu King who was in the dark. Prince Rui's Mansion and Prince Gong's Mansion were both silent, accompany Emperor Xuande in mourning.
It was impossible to do it in a big way. Zhao Heng ordered people to prepare red paper, bamboo strips, paste and other utensils. He accompanied his wife and daughter to enjoy himself.
The bamboo strips are all cleaned up by the servants, but weaving into lanterns also requires skills. The little eunuch demonstrated three times, Zhao Heng learned quickly, and Song Jianing was confused, so the couple sat face to face, Zhao Heng made bamboo lanterns, Song Jianing Make paper lanterns. Zhao Zhao, who was combing into the sky, sat next to her mother and watched, and then leaned over to her father, watching with her eyes fixed.
When Zhao Heng finished making up the lantern stand, Song Jianing's paper lanterns had already been pasted. Zhaozhao happily ran to his mother's arms and touched them rarely. Song Jianing hugged her daughter, and looked at the prince opposite with some smugness. Zhao Heng glanced at her, smiled, lowered his eyes, and started wrapping the red veil on the lamp stand.
The man's face is handsome, his fingers are white and slender, and everything he does carefully reveals his elegance. Song Jianing hugged his daughter and looked at it, and the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously. Looking at it, he suddenly heard a strange sound of "flapping". Song Jianing bowed her head in doubt, and saw her daughter's fat finger poking into the lantern she had worked so hard to paste! Poke a big hole!
Song Jianing's eyes moved to her daughter's face.
Zhaozhao raised his head and stared blankly at his mother with almond eyes. Seeing her frown, Zhaozhao obediently pulled out his fingers, and then saw the big hole on the red lantern. Zhaozhao blinked, pointed to the hole and told his mother, "It's broken..."
Song Jianing raised his eyes and caught a glimpse of the undisguised smile on the corners of his prince's lips, as if he was gloating at the misfortune but pretending he didn't know anything. Song Jianing took a deep breath, then calmly said to her daughter, "Yes, the lantern is broken. Tonight we don't have any lanterns to watch, we can only eat moon cakes to enjoy the moon."
Zhaozhao liked lanterns, so he was immediately anxious, tilted his head and pointed to the extra red paper next to him to show his mother, meaning to let her plug the hole in the lantern. The little girl was so smart, Song Jianing couldn't bear to scare her daughter anymore, so she cut a piece of round red paper with scissors and carefully glued it on.
Zhaozhao smiled again and slowly turned the lantern to see.
Song Jianing continued to look at the prince on the opposite side. Zhaozhao had had enough of his mother's lantern, and suddenly thought of something and tilted his head. Zhao Heng had only one lamp stand before, and the bald Zhaozhao didn't like it at all. Now Zhao Heng's lantern has been wrapped in red yarn, like a real lantern. When Zhaozhao saw how big his father was, he would kiss his mother. He put the small lantern back on the table and staggered to the father's side.
"Zhao Zhao is obedient, don't move yet." Zhao Heng patted the place beside him and told his daughter to sit down.
Zhaozhao didn't want to sit, and leaned on the low table, curiously watching his father busy. He wanted to sneak a few times, but Zhao Heng stopped him in advance. Once he stopped Zhaozhao, he giggled once. Zhao Heng motioned for the princess to come to see her daughter, Song Jianing deliberately did not move, and Zhao Heng gave her a deep look.
Song Jianing was finally scared. The last time the prince looked at her like this, her small waist was almost broken by him.
"Father, is it a coincidence?" Song Jianing hurriedly flattered, leaned over and hugged his daughter on his lap, looking next to him.
"What a coincidence!" Zhao Zhao said, looking at his father.
Zhao Heng picked up the paintbrush and said to his daughter with a smile, "Daddy paints Zhaozhao."
Zhaozhao has been drawn by his father and king many times. He knows what it means to draw her, and he looks more and more seriously. Zhao Heng held the lantern with one hand and painted with the other, and soon he drew two fairies on it. The big colorful clothes fluttered, just like Chang'e in the Moon Palace, but Chang'e was holding a jade rabbit in her arms, the fairy written by Lord Shou, in her arms. Holding is... a beautiful and lovely little fairy.
"Zhaozhao!" Zhaozhao recognized her at a glance.
Zhao Heng glanced at the princess, pointed to the great fairy and asked his daughter, "Who is this?"
Zhaozhao grinned and looked up, "Mother!" Of course, it was Mother who was holding her.
Song Jianing bowed her head to kiss her daughter, the mothers were tired and crooked, but heard the painter Shou Wang Ye say: "No."
Song Jianing looked over unexpectedly, Zhaozhao also looked at his father blankly, and two pairs of moist almond eyes looked at him together. Zhao Heng ignored his princess, just pointed at the beautiful woman on the painting, and taught his daughter seriously: "There are gods in the sky, called Fairy Jianing."
Zhaozhao murmured to learn words: "God..."
Song Jianing's face flushed red, and her watery eyes looked angrily at the nonsense man: "Your Highness, won't you remember Zhao Zhao?" , What if others misunderstood that she taught her daughter? At that time, the delicious Princess Shou will have more reputations: smug.
As if he hadn't heard it before, Zhao Heng pointed to the girl in the arms of "Fairy Jianing" and said, "This is Fairy Zhaozhao."
Zhaozhao laughed even more.
Zhao Heng looked at his daughter, but his hand went around her daughter and held the princess' small hand.
The sky was getting dark, Zhao Heng lit the lantern, hugged his daughter and led his wife to the courtyard to admire the moon and watch the lanterns.
On August 15th, the bright moon hangs high in the sky, and the bright afterglow shines into the homes of millions of people. When the family of Shouwangfu is snuggling up and admiring the moon, Prince Rui in the inner city is also drinking and having fun with his concubines and concubines. , but Prince Rui's heart was not here, and from time to time he would look in the direction of the Chu palace.
Ever since he learned the real reason for King Chu's seclusion, he has been secretly planning for a month or so. Whether it succeeds or not depends on tonight.
Holding up the wine bottle that had just been filled by the maid, Prince Rui threw it away.
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Compared with the desolateness of Prince Shou’s Mansion, the Chu Prince’s Mansion has only a few illuminated lanterns, and only one lantern made by Zhao Heng himself. Because the Chu Prince was bored in the Prince’s Mansion for too long, it was rare to celebrate the festival, so he let people put them on the right track. The courtyard and garden are covered with all kinds of lanterns. After dinner, the King of Chu held Brother Cheng, and Feng Zheng led Brother Sheng. The family of four started to appreciate them one by one. They walked from the courtyard to the waterside pavilion by the lake, where the moonlight was the best.
The moon is bright and the stars are scarce. Brother Sheng held a piece of moon cake in his hand and sat on the steps outside the water pavilion. He stared at the moon while eating, and asked curiously, "Father, is that dark moon palace?" The nurse gave it to him. Having told the story of Chang'e flying to the moon, Brother Sheng knew that the beautiful fairy Chang'e lived on the moon.
The King of Chu also sat on the ground, patted the eldest son's head, and smiled at the moon: "No, it was Wu Gang's Guilin, and the Moon Palace was blocked."
Brother Sheng was a little disappointed, he wanted to see what the Moon Palace was like.
The King of Chu was also unhappy because he couldn't see Chang'e. He turned his eyes and smiled at the daughter-in-law on the other side of the eldest son: "Chang'e is not as good-looking as your mother."
Brother Sheng looked at his mother in surprise.
Feng Zheng gave her husband an angry look, his son is so old, he is not serious.
Brother Sheng was about to ask his father if he had seen Chang'e with his own eyes, when he turned his head, he suddenly found that there was a fire in the garden. At first, it was only a lantern-sized fire, and it suddenly became bigger as it burned. Brother Sheng was startled, and immediately called his father to watch. The King of Chu turned around and saw the fire, his face sank, and quickly handed Brother Cheng over to Feng Zheng. He got up and left without looking back and instructed his wife: "You take Brother Sheng and the others back first, and I'll take a look."
"Wait, lord!" Feng Zheng called out nervously, hugging his second son, since the lord recovered from his illness, he hadn't left her eyes.
However, the King of Chu had already led people into the night.
I don't know if he was frightened by the fire, or because his father left him and ran away, Brother Cheng burst into tears. Feng Zheng originally wanted to give his son to the nursing mother, so she followed him to see the prince, but Brother Cheng hugged her neck tightly and didn't want her mother to leave, so Feng Zheng couldn't take it anymore, so he had to sit on the waterside to coax his son first, thinking about it. With Eunuch Kang beside the prince, Feng Zheng was somewhat relieved. As for the fire, which lantern was probably blown to the ground by the wind.
When the King of Chu brought Eunuch Kang over here, the fire was almost extinguished by the three little eunuchs who came one step ahead. The fire was huge, but because the fire started in an open space, the flames did not burn the surrounding trees. , The little eunuchs took off their robes to put out. The autumn wind blew the smoke and rolled upwards, and the paper that was burned to ashes fluttered, and in the middle of the black and ashes, the remaining paper was faintly visible.
Anyone can see that someone has worshipped here.
Who do you worship
Eunuch Kang was most afraid of someone mentioning King Qin in the ear of his master, so he was the first to think of King Qin at this time. The little one will make a thorough investigation, and the lord will go to comfort the wangfei and the two young masters first, and don’t let the wangfei be frightened.”
The king's mansion sent out such a daring slave, the king of Chu looked very bad, and ordered Eunuch Kang to conduct a thorough investigation. He turned around and planned to go back to spend the holiday with his wife and children, but at the moment when he turned around, the king of Chu suddenly realized that he was not far away. There are two things scattered in the grass at the place, just in the moonlight, you can vaguely see that they are two human-shaped puppets.
The King of Chu frowned and strode toward the grass. Eunuch Kang followed the master's gaze, and his heart skipped a beat. He rushed over with a few strides, not looking at what was written on the doll. He would tear it up by instinct. Even, how can it be destroyed by brute force
"Bring it." The King of Chu said solemnly, unable to understand Eunuch Kang's strange behavior.
Eunuch Kang hid two things behind him and said incoherently: "My lord, this, this thing is not clean, don't stain your hands."
The King of Chu guessed that it was the evidence left by the person who set the fire tonight, and Eunuch Kang was suspicious. The first thought of the King of Chu was that Eunuch Kang wanted to cover up the other party, so he walked to Eunuch Kang angrily and grabbed it like a pair of iron pliers. Eunuch Kang turned his shoulders hard, causing Eunuch Kang to twist his body in pain, and the King of Chu took the opportunity to grab the two dolls.
There was a lantern hanging on the tree next to it. The King of Chu turned over the doll and found that the doll was actually wearing the clothes of the royal dynasty. On the chest of the doll, there were several blood-red characters written: "King Qin died unjustly, and he will never be born..."