Crown Princess, she can catch ghosts

Chapter 110 Family Dinner
Chapter 110

It was not until the end of the unitary year and the beginning of the new year that the long-postponed Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet officially started.

Fortunately, they are all imperial chefs from the palace, and the dishes they cook taste very good, so they are warmed up after a while without losing their taste.

In addition to King Huai and Princess Wang, there are also the eldest son, Diansu, and Sang Lao, the master and apprentice.

Sang You's complexion is still not very good at the moment, he looks so pitiful, and the princess asked him several times.

Although it is not in the capital, the banquet is much simpler and does not have so many etiquette, but it is also a dish according to the rules of the palace banquet.

First, some snacks are presented, such as sesame golden cake and canary bird.

Followed by candied fruit, for appetizers, such as candied green plum, snow-capped bayberry and the like.

Then came the appetizers, including crystal fish balls, heavenly fragrant abalone, loquat prawns, orange stuffed crabs, etc.

The main dishes are deep-fried quail, fish fillets in milk sauce, fish sticks with sweet-scented osmanthus; eight-treasure wild duck and so on.

Then came meal porridge, tea, dried fruit and meal soup.

There are hundreds of dishes, large and small, all delicate and delicious, with a tangy fragrance.

Ordinarily, the dinner should start at Shen Shi, but now it has been postponed for an hour.

Naturally, King Huai knew that it was to wait for him so he delayed, and he took good care of the concubine during the banquet, not even the servant girl had a chance to intervene.

Although it was the first time for Dian Su to attend such a formal banquet, no matter how careful he was, there was always something lacking in etiquette.

But Huai Wang and Wang Fei had already given orders, and the servants in the mansion did not dare to neglect in the slightest.

What's more, with the eldest son taking care of her personally, no one dared to look down on her.

It's just that Diansu was a little worried, she was used to being unrestrained, and she did things entirely according to her heart.

Now it's really not easy for her to behave herself.

It's just that she and Shizi have already talked about this matter, and she will not feel resentful because of such a trivial matter, and she will not get along with Shizi.

The crown prince also understands Su's difficulty.

If there is something wrong with Diansu, or something that needs special attention, I will remind her in a low voice and do a demonstration first.

King Huai and Princess Wang didn't want Dian Su to be so restrained, after all, it was a family banquet and there were no other people around, so they don't need to be so restrained, just be more casual.

But seeing that the eldest son and Diansu are so harmonious, they think that Diansu will always go to the palace to have a banquet when they get married in the future. They don't care about this, there will always be some people who will talk behind their backs, so it's better to get acquainted now, so let them went.

After finishing the meal, it was the end of the Xu period, and the servants removed all the dishes and chopsticks from the table.

Several people moved into the main courtyard to hold the moon sacrifice ceremony. Celestial Master Sang followed the rules of worshiping the moon in the Lingtian Sect, so they went back to the courtyard without going together.

In fact, the moon has risen for a while now.

Just because the banquet was postponed, the time of worshiping the moon was also delayed.

But it doesn't matter, I don't pay so much attention to worshiping the moon at home, but it's different if it's in the palace.

When they arrived at the main courtyard, King Huai and his concubine first knelt and sat on the futon in front of the altar, lit the incense, and after knocking three times, put the incense in the incense burner.

Then he took cinnamon wine, filled it in a silver cup, and sprinkled it on the ground in front of the table.

After three offerings of incense and three offerings of wine, the concubine recited the blessings.

After reading the Zhu Wen, the moonlight paper with the Zhu Wen and the image of the moon god was thrown into the golden basin and burned, and everyone bowed their heads together.

Afterwards, the moon cakes on the altar were brought down, and everyone shared the food, and the moon sacrifice ceremony was completed.

The servants set up a table in the courtyard, put melon and fruit snacks and moon cakes, and a few freshly cut sweet-scented osmanthus.

Another servant set up a tea table at the side and began to brew tea.

It is the excellent Shaanzhou famous tea Bijian Mingyue and Dongting yellow tea Junshan Yinzhen.

Drinking tea against the moon is indeed the happiest thing in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

It would be even better to eat a few more crabs at this time.

It's just that the princess was worried that the prince would not be restrained, so she didn't let anyone prepare.

The night is thick, the full moon is as bright as jade, hanging high on the branches, and the thin moonlight is shining down, which seems to bring a bit of coolness.

The fragrance of tea is rich and fragrant, accompanied by the fragrance of golden osmanthus, it is a bit intoxicating.

Lights were lit in the courtyard.

It's just that the light is weak, and it can't take away the brilliance of the moon.

Sang You took a sip of tea, looked up and saw a light rising in the night sky, and said happily: "Someone is already setting off sky lanterns, let's go too!"

Shizi and others took the sky lantern that Diansu made in the afternoon, and burned the turpentine inside.

He had already written that wish, and he wished for the peace of the country and the people, the health of his parents, and the happiness of his marriage.

Although it's a little greedy, don't wish words, aren't they all such beautiful wishes.

There must always be something to think about in life.

The skeleton of the sky lantern is light, and the paper is also extremely thin.

Diansu was done very skillfully.

After a while, the lamp became more and more inflated, and as soon as the hand was released, it floated into the sky with the words of vows.

At this time, the busy servants in the mansion finally rested, and they also gathered together to eat wine and share mooncakes.

Today is the festival, King Huai and Princess Wang don't restrict them, they even gave out a lot of rewards.

Some of them were younger, and they also set up sky lanterns in the yard.

Most of those sky lanterns were made by themselves, with a lot of words crookedly written on them, but I don't know if this lantern can send those prayers to the Moon Palace.

King Huai and Princess Wang didn't do these things, they just watched the juniors play, but their hearts seemed to be filled with something, and they swelled up like the lanterns of the day.

For some reason, looking at it, Wang Hao's eye sockets gradually became moist.

"In the past, the Mid-Autumn Festival was held in the palace. Although it was lively, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be more complete than ever before."

King Huai held him in his arms and said, "Now that Yuan Shan is in good health and the marriage has settled down, it is naturally consummated."

He looked into the courtyard.

Shi Zi was talking with Dian Su, the smile on his face never faded, he was clearly very happy, totally different from his low temper before.

He couldn't help but said: "It would be great to settle down here in the future. If the emperor doesn't allow it, he will live in Huaishui. The left and right fiefs are there, not far from here, and others can't gossip Come."

This was the first time that King Huai said such words, and the princess was a little surprised.

In the past, King Huai devoted himself wholeheartedly to the country and society, even if he let go of power, he would often do errands for the emperor.

The concubine persuaded him many times, but she still refused to relax completely, but now she figured it out by herself.

Thinking that the days to come would only get better gradually, the princess felt more and more sore and unstoppable.

They were having fun, but they didn't notice the mood of King Huai and Princess Wang.

After putting on the lights, I changed into normal clothes and went to the market. The servants who wanted to join in the fun quickly packed up and followed.

King Huai was worried that they were going crazy and out of control, and he was afraid of danger, so he asked his private soldiers to follow them.

General Fan and the others followed King Huai back from Linchuan, so they naturally wanted to take a rest and have a good time.


This is the bustling time on the street.

The wooden shelves on both sides of the road are covered with all kinds of lanterns, all of which are extremely exquisite.

There are also many stalls selling sky lanterns and various gadgets.

There are also food stalls, but most people buy moon cakes and moon cakes.

Moon Ci is a characteristic of Huai'an Prefecture.

The glutinous rice is first steamed, crushed and made into glutinous rice cakes, wrapped in sesame seeds and malt sugar to make a round shape, and then fried.

The skin is fragrant and crispy, but the filling is soft, sweet and delicious.

There are also salty ones, which are wrapped in dried shredded pork and yam eggs, and the taste is also excellent.

Sangyou has a sweet one in his left hand and a salty one in his right hand, eating it very happily.

He hadn't finished eating what he had in hand, so he stared at the osmanthus duck stall in front of him again, Lin Chen frowned.

(End of this chapter)