Chapter 390: Getting Ready for the Holidays



The stall in front of Yipinzhai sells mooncakes. Every morning, there is a long queue, and behind it are people queuing to buy mooncakes. In the kitchen, the chefs take turns making mooncakes from morning to night, but they can't keep up with the sales.

Knowing that Yipinzhai's mooncakes are good snacks, many mansions in Fengdu City have made orders in advance, and they still have to queue up to wait for their turn.

It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival. I heard that the mooncakes made by Yipinzhai are the most delicious. The price is a little more expensive than ordinary cakes, but ordinary people can afford it. Mooncake, the name is good, the meaning is good, and the mooncakes are made with enough ingredients and taste good, so the money is worth it.

However, queuing to buy mooncakes is a tiring thing. The last person in line doesn't know if he can buy one. The mooncakes in front are getting less and less. The people standing in line at the back are getting anxious. Those who bought mooncakes left happily with them and hurried to take them back home for their families to taste. Those who didn't buy mooncakes at the back could only look on with envy.

"Are these mooncakes really that delicious?" someone asked.

"Of course, you will know after you have tasted it. I am not lying to you. I bought it for my wife last year. After she tasted it once, she couldn't forget it. She knew that there were moon cakes for sale in Yipinzhai this year, so she rushed me to buy it." The person in front bought it and left. It was the next person in the queue. Seeing that it was his turn soon.

When the people around heard it, they thought that the moon cake was really delicious. They were even more reluctant to leave the queue. They secretly thought that they must buy it back for their wife/children to taste it.

There are less than two days to the fifteenth day of the lunar month. Every year at this time, every household is preparing fruit cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The full moon brings people together. People are looking forward to the reunion of the family every year. Poor families look forward to having meat to eat during festivals all year round. Children are always thinking about this meal. They know that their father and mother will bring them food when they come back from work outside, so they look forward to their father and mother coming home.

Every household and mansion in Fengdu City are also preparing for the festival. Rich families pay the most attention to this.

In previous years, the Queen Mother arranged people to prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet early in the palace. Recently, there have been many things going on in the palace, and the Queen Mother Sun was even thrown into the sky prison by the emperor. There is no one in charge of the harem, so the arrangement of the banquet was naturally delayed.

It was the old servant who served the emperor who mentioned the palace banquet. The affairs of the harem have always been under the jurisdiction of the harem. The emperor did not understand these things, and he had a headache when he heard these trivial matters.

Emperor Yongkang originally wanted to give the Phoenix Seal to his most beloved Shen Guijun, meaning that Shen Guijun would temporarily manage the harem without Sun Houjun. However, Shen Guijun refused on the grounds that she was pregnant, so the emperor gave the Phoenix Seal to Xiao Guijun. The affairs of the harem were divided among Xiao Guijun, Mei Guijun and Zhang Guijun, dividing the power of the harem into three parts.

Among the four nobles, Lord Xiao has a gentle temperament, is generous and never has disputes with anyone in the palace. In addition, his second son, Prince Ling, is also firmly seated on the throne. The other two nobles, Lord Mei has two princes, and Lord Zhang has raised the eleventh prince, who is also young. His nanny is just a palace maid and has no chance of becoming an emperor.

So among the four nobles, if Lord Shen is the most favored, Lord Xiao has the highest prestige and the best popularity. Now it is appropriate for him to hold the Phoenix Seal. The Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace has begun to be organized with the joint efforts of the three nobles.

I don't know who heard that there is a kind of cake called moon cake in Yipinzhai outside the palace, which is delicious. Xiao Guijun sent the palace maids to do this. It would be best if they could invite a master to come to the palace to make it. Otherwise, they would buy it directly from Yipinzhai. At this time, time is tight, and I don't know if it will be in time to ask the master to make it.

The officials in the court are the most likely to change their attitude according to the situation. When they saw Xiao Guijun took the Fengyin, if Sun Houjun was deposed, Xiao Guijun would be the most likely to take the throne of the Houjun. Compared with the other princes, His Royal Highness Prince Ling is not bad in character and talent. He gets along well with his brothers and has never had any disputes with many ministers in the court. It is not impossible for His Royal Highness Prince Ling to be selected as the crown prince.

Therefore, the wind direction in the court has changed slightly for a while. The most angry person is Feng Lingrui. His father is still in prison, and his father has handed the Phoenix Seal to others. Doesn't this tell everyone that his father wants to abolish his father? !

No, absolutely not!

Feng Lingrui got up from his bed before he recovered from his serious illness to run around for his father and grandfather Sun Guogong, hoping to turn the tide before everything changes and change the situation that is unfavorable to him.

Prince Yi's Mansion "Which servant cleaned this? It's not clean enough. Someone come and clean it again." The old maid wiped the window sill with a plain white silk cloth. There was a little dust on the white silk cloth. She asked the servant to come and wipe it again with an angry face, "This vase is placed here... move it over there." This position didn't look wrong at all, as if she had forgotten that the vase was moved here yesterday.

This room is cleaned every day. Today, she has cleaned it three or four times, but the old maid is still not satisfied. The servants below did not dare to complain. They took the clean rags in their hands and wiped it again carefully.

Princess Yi is pregnant now, and she is very precious. He has handed over all the affairs in the Prince Yi's mansion to the two old maids who came with him. He is resting and taking care of the baby, surrounded by a group of servants.

The two old maids fully demonstrated their spirit of not being careless in the slightest, and made the servants in the mansion very tired. Even the housekeeper in the Prince Yi's mansion has some complaints about the two old maids. The principal ruler of the Prince Yi's mansion is Princess Yi, and even he, the housekeeper, has to obey the orders of Princess Yi's people and cannot slack off.

The results are also obvious. The whole Prince Yi's mansion is tidy and neat, and the mansion looks brand new.

Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a palace banquet. The royal family, the nobles, and the high officials in the court will bring their families to the palace to attend the banquet. This year is no exception. However, the mansion cannot be sloppy at all. It must be tidy and presentable, waiting for the master of the mansion to come back.

Liang Xijun, who was sitting in the flower hall, was playing the guqin from time to time, but she had no intention of playing the guqin. The guqin was a good one, which her husband had found specially for her. However, no matter how well she played the guqin, it would be bad if she played it in front of the person who heard it. It was better not to play it. She waved her hand and asked the servant to put the guqin away.

Standing up from the stool, Liang Xijun looked at the sea of ​​flowers in front of him. The flowers in the yard were also planted by the gardener for him by his husband. He always felt that something was missing in his heart.

"Master, you are worried." Yu Xin saw that his master's face was not smiling at all. Seeing that the master asked Yulan to put away the zither, he knew in his heart that the master must be thinking about him. He smiled and asked, "Master, you are thinking about the prince."

It makes sense. The court is busy with affairs, and the prince always comes back in a hurry. It is said that the prince comes back very late at night and sleeps in his yard, and does not come to the master. The prince goes out early and comes back late. The master has not seen the prince for a long time. How can she not think about it?

The baby in the master's belly is the prince's child. His master is the legitimate prince of the Wing Palace. If this child is a boy, he will be the prince's eldest son and will belong to the prince of the Wing Palace in the future. Even if it is a boy, he will be the prince's legitimate son and his status is extremely noble.

The prince was not bad to his master. Every corner of the courtyard was decorated according to his master's preferences. Knowing that his master liked to play the zither, he specially asked someone to find a unique zither in the world and send it to him. As long as the zither was delivered, his master had been looking forward to playing a song for the prince. Even the sound of the zither was filled with infinite sorrow.

"Master, Yuxin thinks that the prince is too busy with official duties to come and accompany you. I heard from the courtyard over there that the prince comes back very late every night and goes out to attend court early in the morning. The prince is afraid of disturbing you. Yuxin thinks that in this world, except for the prime minister and the lady, the prince is the best person to the master." The little slave Yuxin tried his best to make his master happy. It is not good for the little master in the belly to worry all day long. What if he is born with a sad face?

Bah, bah, bah, crow mouth, their little master must be as handsome and romantic as his master and the prince, and he must be first-class in appearance.

"Yeah." Liang Baojun knew that the prince was busy with official duties. He reached out and touched his bulging belly, put away the random thoughts in his mind, and couldn't help but smile.

"Master, just smile. When you smile, you are more beautiful than the flowers in the yard." Yu Xin really thought that his master was the most beautiful person in the world. Standing together with the tall and straight prince, they were a perfect match.

"So what you mean is that if your master doesn't smile, she won't be as beautiful as the flowers in the yard?" Liang Baojun turned around and asked his little servant with a smile.

"No, no, no, it was Yuxin who said the wrong thing. Yuxin slapped herself. Just look at her mouth and you can tell that she is greedy and can't even say a few nice words that the master likes to hear to make the master happy." The little servant said and slapped himself on the mouth, but he was just pretending to make his master happy, and he didn't really mean to hit himself. "Our princess is the most beautiful princess in the world, the most beautiful person in the world." "Puchi..." This made Princess Yi laugh. His little servant, Liang Xijun shook his head, and the gloom in his heart was completely dissipated, but there was always something in his heart, in his heart.

Seeing that the moon in the sky is getting rounder and rounder, the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th is coming soon.

The moon is full and the moon is waning in the sky, and people gather and separate in the world.

People were coming and going in the bustling city. The carriage was moving on the streets of Fengdu City. The wheels were turning and the horseshoes were making clattering sounds. The person sitting in the carriage was holding a book and flipping through it casually. The carriage was shuttling through the busy streets, and there were endless noisy sounds outside.

"Master, we are here."

"Well..."


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