Su Wanyan naturally didn't attend the Mid-Autumn Festival palace banquet, but she couldn't avoid the Autumn Farewell Banquet invited by the Eldest Princess.
Fortunately, the Princess's Autumn Banquet was scheduled for the first day of the ninth month, giving Su Wanyan ample time to prepare.
Mid-Autumn Festival, August 15th.
It is a day for family reunion.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the palace not only holds a banquet, but also a ceremony to worship the moon.
In folk customs, moon gazing, osmanthus appreciation, lantern viewing, and osmanthus wine drinking are all common practices.
There is a Moon Pond in the palace, which is connected to the city's moat. Every year after the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet begins, the young ladies of the capital who go to the palace to attend the banquet will release lanterns in the Moon Pond.
The lanterns will float downstream and appear on the city's moat.
In the capital, there is a lantern festival, and people place lanterns with lit candles in the moat. At this time, the entire moat inside and outside the capital is filled with lanterns.
The twinkling lights resembled the Milky Way in the sky.
On this lively festival day, Su Wanyan was in the main room helping Yu Nanqing with acupuncture, changing his dressings, preparing medicinal meals, and massaging his acupoints.
At night, Su Wanyan removed the bandages from Yu Nanqing's body and checked the wounds on his back. With her careful care over the past few days, these wounds had begun to heal.
The scabs have formed nicely, so there's no need to wrap them with bandages anymore. Just keep them clean on a regular basis.
It must be said that Yu Nanqing's physical condition played a part in the reason why the injury healed so smoothly.
On the day of the assassination attempt, Yu Nanqing was brought back in such a state that an ordinary person would have been dead long ago.
He survived three years of serious illness and three years of being bedridden, reaching an unparalleled level in both physical fitness and willpower.
After giving Yu Nanqing acupuncture, Su Wanyan brought hot water to wash his body.
After helping him put on his clothes, Su Wanyan suddenly grabbed a strand of his hair and smelled it.
Yu Nanqing's ears turned bright red instantly. She raised the back of her hand to cover her eyes and turned her face away.
"I'll wash your hair again tomorrow; it's been a long time since the last time."
"Hmm..." Yu Nanqing pursed her lips, feeling extremely embarrassed, and let out a muffled sound.
After serving Yu Nanqing, Su Wanyan was also tired. Just as she was about to take the hot water out, Yu Nanqing called out to her, "Su Wanyan..."
"what?"
"There's a Mid-Autumn Festival lantern festival in the city today, aren't you going to go take a look?"
Su Wanyan thought for a moment: "I'll go alone?"
"Cough..." If he could, he would like to go with her.
Yu Nanqing composed herself: "You can go with Su Chien, along with Mingyu and Xiaobu, Qiuye and Huangye..."
Mingyu and Xiaobu can protect her, and Qiuye and Huangye can help her carry her things.
Since Su Chien started learning martial arts from Mingyu, Su Wanyan hadn't seen him for a while.
Now Su Chien is woken up before dawn every day and practices until the wee hours of the morning before returning to his room. When asked by Wang Zhang, Wang Zhang said that a piece of open space had been set aside in the backyard of the Wang Mansion for Su Chien to practice martial arts.
The backyard of the Prince's Mansion is not the backyard of the main courtyard.
It would take more than fifteen minutes to walk from the main courtyard to the back of the Prince's Mansion.
Su Wanyan knew that practicing martial arts was hard work, and she would feel sorry for the child if she went to watch. So she asked the kitchen to send some late-night snacks over every night, and she didn't want to join in the fun herself.
Upon hearing Yu Nanqing say that she could go with Su Chien today, Su Wanyan's eyes lit up: "Give Chien a day off?"
"A holiday?" Yu Nanqing asked curiously, but based on what he had said earlier, she could roughly guess what it meant, and replied, "Yes."
"Well... I'm going, okay?" It's an ancient Mid-Autumn Festival lantern festival; it's impossible not to go.
She didn't mention it because she was afraid Yu Nanqing would be disappointed since he was paralyzed and couldn't go.
Moreover, she had never tried going out at night before, thinking that she would wait until next year if she had the chance, but she didn't expect Yu Nanqing to bring it up first.
"Mm." Seeing Su Wanyan happy, Yu Nanqing's lips also curved into a slight smile.
"I'll ask Master Wang to send a few people to guard the door. Just call them if you need anything."
"You don't need to worry about me." We've been through so many years, how could things be any worse than before?
"Then I'll go call Chi En." Su Wanyan said cheerfully, picked up the basin of hot water and went out of the room.
Only after watching Su Wanyan's figure disappear from sight did Yu Nanqing's eyes darken. He lowered his eyelids, unable to stop the surging thoughts, and finally suppressed them all, slowly closing his eyes.
Su Wanyan instructed Wang Zhang to prepare a carriage and then sent someone to the backyard of the Prince's Mansion to summon Su Chien and Mingyu.
As the autumn winds grew cooler in August, especially at night, Qiu Ye and Huang Ye prepared a small heater, a blanket, and an extra cloak for the carriage.
Normally, women would wash and dress up before going out, and put on beautiful makeup, but Su Wanyan was a very simple person in modern times, and she found it troublesome to do her makeup every time she went out.
So she traveled light, tied her hair in a ponytail, and prepared to set off.
"elder sister!"
Su Wanyan waited at the entrance of the Prince's Mansion, and from afar she could hear Su Chien's excited voice.
Looking up, she saw Su Chien running excitedly toward her, his clothes clearly cleaned. A servant boy carrying a lantern followed behind him, his eyes shining.
"You're here?" Su Wanyan especially liked his positive attitude no matter what happened.
That smile is so healing.
When Su Chi'en ran up to him, Su Chiyan noticed that there was a red mark on his left chin. Upon closer inspection, it looked like a scratch. She couldn't help but reach out and lift his chin: "What happened here? How did you get a scratch?"
"It's nothing, just a minor injury, it doesn't hurt at all." Su Chien raised his hand to touch it.
Su Wanyan was taken aback when she saw that his hand was wrapped in bandages.
A slight shock ran through me: "Your hand is injured too?"
I know that practicing martial arts is hard, and I know that it is impossible to practice martial arts without getting injured. But knowing is one thing, and seeing is another. It has only been a few days. How could I not feel sorry for him?
"I'm not injured, just a little scraped." Su Chien raised his hand: "I've bandaged it up, so it won't hurt so much."
After saying that, he put his hands behind his back and said, "Sister, don't worry about me. Practicing martial arts is what I like to do most right now. It's alright."
Su Wanyan was worried that he would give up halfway, but now it seems that she was worrying too much.
"Alright, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern festival today, let's go check it out."
"good."
Xiao Bu was the coachman, Ming Yu walked on the left side of the carriage, and Qiu Ye and Huang Ye, the two maids, walked on the right side of the carriage.
Because of the lantern festival, the streets were teeming with people.
Unable to contain her curiosity, Su Wanyan opened the curtains and looked outside. She saw street vendors displaying all sorts of lanterns: dragons, phoenixes, rabbits, birds, flowers and grass, and some shaped like insects.
The variety was dazzling to Su Wanyan.
And this is still not the lighting on the main street.
Hearing that there would be a dragon lantern parade on the main streets of the capital on Mid-Autumn Festival, a truly spectacular sight, Su Wanyan felt even more excited. She was late and wondered if she would miss it.
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