Moon Festival mountain top.
It was clearly the middle of the night, dark and windy, but tonight there were still quite a few figures gathered near a cliff in the east, seemingly carving some words on the cliff.
The work is in full swing.
Officials from the Ministry of Rites, imperial court craftsmen, and the Crescent Moon Women who served as military supervisors, these figures frequently came and went on the top of the Moon Ji Mountain.
It’s so lively.
However, most of them walked lightly, and some of them even glanced at the center of the mountain top from time to time, where there was a completed grand Temple of Heaven, and on the top was the figure of a Confucian scholar...
Everyone's actions became more careful and meticulous.
At this time, the preparations for the Fengshan ceremony arranged and designed by Mr. Zhao Xiao from the academy were ninety-nine percent complete.
The only thing left is the cliff on the east side of the mountain top, where the words "Reporting Merit to Heaven" are engraved. This last place will be completed in the early morning soon.
Actually, it could have ended on time at three o'clock not long ago.
However, an old monk who was engraving the inscription made a mistake, or was a little lazy, and failed to accurately copy the strokes of a certain rare character written by Mr. Zhao.
This was just discovered by Mr. Zhao Xiao, who for some unknown reason suddenly arrived at the top of the mountain in the middle of the night...
So they had to erase the inscription and carve it again.
It was hard to tell whether Mr. Zhao was in a good or bad mood. He just pointed with a calm expression, whispered an order, and then said seriously, "Thank you for your hard work, colleagues. I will accompany you all."
Then he turned around and walked to the less crowded Temple of Heaven in the distance. He lifted his clothes and sat down on the lowest step of the Temple of Heaven. He waited quietly, as if facing the east cliff, without saying a word...
Everyone on the top of the mountain started working overtime again.
However, no one complained, everyone was honest.
The person closest to the Temple of Heaven at this time was a young girl named Xianyue Li.
This little girl has a slender figure. She wears a fairy-like white gauze dress unique to Crescent Moon Girls, has tasseled hair, and has an immature face with some baby fat on her cheeks.
A lovely appearance.
But at this moment, he had a stern face and stood guard seriously.
She followed the instructions of her sisters and kept an eye on the surroundings. She didn't seem to think that standing guard in the cold autumn wind late at night was a hard job.
She should be a young girl who has just become a crescent-crescent girl. Her fair forehead is adorned with a red flower-shaped forehead sticker that seems to have been carefully selected and worn.
At this moment, she kept her long and slender eyes twisted up from time to time, paying close attention to the things around her. If there was any movement, this little girl would glare at them...
But soon, this chubby little girl seemed to realize that the job assigned to her by her sisters was indeed a bit unpopular and boring, and was on the margins and not an important job.
Staring at people is really an exaggeration.
So at some point, the chubby little girl closest to the Temple of Heaven seemed to mutter something, then nodded quietly, like a kind little fox who had just come out of retirement, convincing herself that she was not stealing the chicken, but just taking it back to make a friend, and she would never drool and do something unjust to her good friend...
However, this little girl didn't know that she would have to find excuses to stand guard or do nothing for most of the day.
Not far behind her, on a step of the Temple of Heaven, there was a young scholar looking at her with his eyes slanted. She didn't know when it started...
At this moment, Xiao Li glanced at her sisters who were far away from her, then raised her head and turned her eyes, first respectfully making a crescent moon salute to the bright moon on the top of the mountain.
"The moon is split into two, coming and going..."
The voice is soft and delicate, with a hint of childishness.
Then, the chubby little girl quietly clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, made a wish towards the bright moon above, and called out in a crisp voice:
"Moon, moon, the moon in the sky... May grandma have a bad memory, may sister be more stingy, with a temper smaller than a soybean, may the dog at home be more impatient, the more impatient the better..."
A young Confucian scholar who was listening in out of boredom while thinking about a problem couldn't help but twitch his lips. What the hell are these money-wasting wishes of yours?
However, before he could continue to complain, he heard the chubby little girl's thin voice again.
She spoke in a serious and childish voice:
"Oh, moon, the sisters from the Music Bureau all said that this mountain top is the closest to you. Oh, I finally caught you. If you can't satisfy this simple wish of mine, I wonder if you will ever show up in the world? Bah, how embarrassing! When I follow the queen and the sisters up there, I'll see how ugly you are..."
Zhao Rong, who couldn't sleep tonight, went up the mountain to be in a daze. He sat on the lowest step of the Temple of Heaven. He couldn't help but curl up his lips slightly. He felt that this girl was a little confused. By the way, how did you, Dugu, select the people for the Music Bureau...
However, before he could laugh at this silly little girl for long, the little girl's tone suddenly dropped:
"I really don't have many wishes. Moon, moon, you should be able to make it come true. Can you just say it straight out? What's the point of dithering? Even if I... even if I beg you... Grandma is so old, and my sister and I are the only relatives left. Now that I'm gone, if Grandma's memory is even worse, she might just forget about me."
"And elder sister, you must still be mad at me, blaming me for being willful and ignorant of the world and running out. Then... just get angrier. This way, you won't miss a little girl like me..."
"Actually, I'm not willful, sister. I just listened to my grandmother. She said that people can be poor, but they must have ambition. The same goes for repaying a favor. The queen and the sisters saved our family. They are noble people and noble fairies. They don't need these charity, but we can't take their help to the poor for granted and just kowtow to thank them..."
Under the moonlight, this chubby little girl whose name and origin were unknown clasped her hands in front of her chest, closed her eyes, raised her head, faced the bright moon, and muttered softly.
"Oh, and there's the dog. It can't even fart even if you beat it with eight sticks. It's too cowardly. In the past, when the village bullies came, it couldn't bite them even as well as I could."
"Well, I don't expect it to bite anyone in this life. When running for its life, it should not be so stupid and run faster. Don't do it like last time, when I told it to go away but it refused, and ended up getting its legs broken by the bad guys, and it could only whimper... I recently heard Xuechan Fengyi say that a dog will jump over the wall when it's desperate. Well, it can jump as high as the wall, so running away shouldn't be a problem, right..."
Behind the chubby little girl who was making a wish, the young scholar's smile gradually disappeared from his face. He turned around and looked at the little girl's back.
He rested his chin on his hand and listened calmly.
At this moment, Zhao Rong temporarily put aside his worries about the abnormal behavior of a certain old-fashioned woman. When he heard about the new behavior of "a desperate dog jumping over the wall", he took a breath of cold air.
The young scholar rubbed his face, thought seriously, and suddenly said:
"Hey, your dog can jump that high, the remaining leg will probably be broken too."
He nodded and analyzed the wave, his tone firm.
The atmosphere near the Temple of Heaven suddenly became quiet...
Baby fat little girl: "......???"