reborn princess

Chapter 576 Dragon Boat Race
Shen Weilan smiled and said, "That's really rare..."

"But you can see princes, princes, princesses, high officials and their sons..." Xiaoxi said, showing a longing expression, which shows that there is a little dream in her heart to fly on the branches and become a phoenix.

Shen Weilan smiled lightly, and didn't want to fight against her little dream. It's a good thing to have a dream, at least you can be happier, unlike her, who lives in hatred all day long.

In the evening, Mama Ma gathered all the people in the kitchen to give lectures.

"The Dragon Boat Festival will be in a few days. The first thing is to make zongzi. With the grace of Her Royal Highness, each person can get four zongzi. According to the number of people in the house, you have to make [-] zongzi. There are [-] zongzi for presents. There are [-] zongzi in total, and the glutinous rice has already been soaked, everyone hurry up tonight, and start wrapping after dinner, so don’t miss it.”

Speaking of this, Mama Mama paused, and then said: "In addition, there is one more thing, which is more important. According to the usual practice in previous years, there will be a dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival, and our Third Princess' Mansion will also participate. You guys But don't let the third princess lose face, otherwise, my face will have no place to put it, and you don't think well."

Everyone agreed one by one, and began to get busy.

Shen Weilan was puzzled, so she asked Xiaoxi, "Isn't dragon boat racing just for men? What does it have to do with us?"

Xiaoxi looked at her with surprised eyes, "Xiang'er, don't you know? Men have men's competitions, but women also have women's competitions. Every year in the dragon boat race, there are several princesses and daughters of high-ranking officials above the third rank. Let us compete first, and then the princes and princes and ministers compete. Then all the rowers in our mansion must be women, and when the three princesses stand on the bow of the dragon boat and beat the drums, we have to row hard."

"There is another thing to say." Only then did Shen Weilan understand that the rules of Beichen Kingdom and Canglan Dynasty were different.

In the Canglan Dynasty, there were no women who raced dragon boats. Speaking of which, the folk customs of Beichen Kingdom were more sturdy.

Not to mention anything else, just take the matter of raising noodles for the third princess, no one in the Canglan Dynasty dared to do it openly.

Even if there was a little widow who raised her face, she would not dare to be so arrogant, and everyone in the world would know it.

Seeing that Shen Weilan didn't know many things, Xiaoxi couldn't help feeling superior, and chattered in her ear: "Dragon boat races are fun, we can't go out on normal days, but this day we can go out with the three princesses." To go to the dragon boat race, you have to go out the first day. The place for the dragon boat race is by the Moxi River. Do you know the Moxi River? It is [-] miles south of the capital, and you can live in tents by the river. For the bonfire party, we can also play casually, and we can play by the Moshi River for a total of three days."

Shen Weilan couldn't help narrowing her eyes slightly when she heard the words, she was worried that she would be trapped in the kitchen in the future, and she would have no chance to get to know the other nobles of Beichen Kingdom, she never thought that there would be such a good opportunity.

"Then let's have fun." Shen Weilan said to Xiaoxi with deep meaning.

"Must!" Xiaoxi is bored in the kitchen all day long, and when she is not doing things, she will be bullied by Mingzhu and Baile.

Under Mama Mama's command, the crowd guarded the soaked glutinous rice basin in groups of three or four, wrapped plump and plump rice dumplings with soaked rice dumpling leaves, stuffed two big red dates into the snow-white rice grains, Wrap it with a string, tie a knot, and a zongzi is wrapped.

Naturally, Shen Weilan was together with Xiaoxi and Ruosu. The three of them took the zongzi and sat in the yard, taking advantage of the cool breeze, chatting and making zongzi.

The cook and pastry chef in the kitchen worked together, as well as a few maids who passed the dishes and did rough work. There were more than 30 people in total. In this way, they were busy until midnight before wrapping the [-] zongzi. .

It’s not enough just to wrap it up, it has to be cooked, and put it into food boxes. At daybreak, it’s handed over to the steward of the outer courtyard, and the steward will send someone to send it to the various prefectures.

And this is not over yet, Mama Ma sent everyone to make some snacks that could hold them, and put them in food boxes. When the time comes to watch the dragon boat race, the three princesses will bring these snacks, so that they can eat by themselves. Second, you can connect with people.

Everyone was so busy that Shen Weilan felt that this job was really not a good job, and she felt that she had dark circles under her eyes.

I heard that women staying up late can do a lot of damage to the skin.

Shen Weilan, who looks only 14 years old, is very worried about whether she will develop acne or wrinkles on her face in advance.

time flies.

Everyone got up early in the morning, Shen Weilan and Ruosu couldn't help but look at each other as they watched Xiaoxi rushing in and out to dress themselves up, they both thought it was funny.

They just made up as usual and went out.

The snacks were all prepared the day before, packed in food boxes, and carried onto the carriage.

Because it was a long trip, all the maids and women also took a carriage.

Except for the third princess who rode in a widened and reinforced luxurious carriage, the others all rode in a green tarpaulin carriage, and a carriage could seat six people.

More than half of the people in the Three Princess' Mansion followed the Three Princess, and dozens of carriages set off on the road.

Of course, there were not only people from their mansion on the road.

The day after tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the nobles, grandchildren and officials above the third rank must all participate in the dragon boat race.

So all the streets in the entire capital are bustling, full of carriages and servants from various prefectures.

Xiaoxi was sitting in a carriage with Shen Weilan, Ruosu and the three girls who were rough envoys. She raised the curtains and looked out from time to time, "I don't know if I can see the Ninth Prince again this year?"

Xiaoxi's popularity is quite good, and the three girls who are rough envoys have a good relationship with her, and one of them with a round face said, "Actually, the thirteenth prince is quite handsome, and he is even younger."

"Oh, don't bother with the prince's business. Last year, our house didn't win the first place. The third princess lost her temper for many days."

Xiao Xi looked around, then lowered her voice and said, "Actually, I think that if the third princess wasn't too fat, our princess mansion would definitely win the dragon boat race. Think about it, such a heavy person standing on the bow, Can you not press the weight?"

Shen Weilan glanced at her with laughter and felt that this girl was really hopeless, and she didn't know whether she was innocent or audacious, and dared to talk about the weight of the third princess behind her back. If the third princess heard about it, she would lose her head of.

Xiaoxi chattered on the side: "Last year, the Mansion of the Ninth Prince won the first place, and the emperor rewarded the Ninth Prince with a jade handle. Xianger, you must have never seen the Ninth Prince. The Ninth Prince is so handsome. , tall and handsome, and personable."

Hearing her mention of the Ninth Prince, Shen Weilan's mood suddenly became very bad. That was the person she most wanted to kill, but she had to give up this idea because of her stepfather's words.

Xiaoxi didn't even notice that her mood turned sour because of her words, and continued to chatter: "I wonder if the Ninth Prince will come this year? You haven't seen the Ninth Prince, and I don't know how the Ninth Prince looks like." How handsome, the Ninth Prince is handsome and tall, many noble daughters in the capital are very fond of him..."

Ruosu turned her face and glared at her, "Xiaoxi, shut up! You can talk about princes and nobles as you please, so be careful not to speak out!"

Xiaoxi pouted unhappily, "Okay! If you don't say it, don't say it!"

The other three girls stuck out their tongues when they heard the words, and they didn't dare to bring up the topic again.

Because there were too many people traveling, the carriage couldn't run away, and they walked for a whole day before they came to the bank of a river.

The name of this river is the Moxi River. It is about fifteen feet wide. The river is very wide and the water is not very fast.

At this time, many people had gathered in an open area by the river, and all kinds of tents had been set up, and many dragon boats that had been brought in the previous day had already parked by the river.

These dragon boats are all made of wood, with dragon scales painted with various colors of lacquer, and the bows of the boats look like dragon mouths. There must be at least forty people on each dragon boat to operate the oars, and someone in front must come to beat the drums. The drummer is the master of each government.

There are bonfires and tents everywhere, and each government has sent stewards to bring people over to set up tents in advance.

Everyone bumped in the car for a whole day, and their skeletons were almost torn apart. Xiaoxi entered the tent assigned to them, then sat down on the wooden bunk, beat her calf with her hand and said, "I'm so exhausted, My legs are numb."

This kind of tent is very large, and inside it is two big bunks made of wood facing each other. One bunk can sleep ten people, and the other two bunks can sleep twenty people.

The other girls were all too tired to sit down on the bunk, shouting tiredly one by one.

Shen Weilan didn't feel too tired, the bumps were nothing to her, she had been trained by Shen Luo long ago to have a copper-skinned and iron-framed body.

She glanced at Ruosu who also had a relaxed expression on her face, smiled faintly, looked away, and sat down next to Xiaoxi.

She had already noticed that something was wrong with Ruosu, and she was sure that Ruosu would know martial arts.

Because she is a martial arts practitioner, she has a strong intuition for martial arts practitioners.

Ruosu not only knows martial arts, but also should be pretty good at martial arts.

She couldn't figure out Ruosu's origin, but as long as Ruosu didn't interfere with her affairs, she didn't want to care who Ruosu was or why he worked as a pastry chef in the Three Princesses' Mansion.

Everyone rested for a while, and the acquaintances gathered together in twos and threes to chat.

A nanny who was very unfamiliar to Shen Weilan came in and said, "Chunhua, Xiaoli, come and do something for me!"

The two girls who were named hurriedly said with a bitter face: "Nurse Zhou, look, my feet are swollen, I can't even walk a step, and my legs are cramped. You should find someone else to do things."

(End of this chapter)