Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

During this small Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Di Qing's inadvertent exposure of his true abilities surprised Liu Qi and Zhu Shuo.

Because of his preoccupation, Di Qing forgot to restrain himself as usual when eating, and ate by instinct, revealing his true appetite.

What is quite similar between him and Lu Ci is that the speed of eating is not fast, but the results are equally impressive-it was just after Liu Qicai moved the plate in front of him five or six chopsticks, he accidentally saw the plate in front of Di Qing The dishes were already empty, and the servant quietly helped to refill the third bowl of rice, only then did he realize that something was wrong.

How did he eat so much and move so fast?

Liu Qi was stunned, and blinked vigorously, thinking it was her own hallucination.

Even the little Taotie couldn't keep up with him!

...But as the saying goes, a half-sized boy eats a poor old man, and this boy is lean and strong, so it's not surprising that he can eat some.

Thinking this way, Liu Qi managed to persuade herself, and then looked away from Di Qing.

When looking at Zhu Shuo, he caught a similar shock in the other's eyes.

During this month in Lu Cisuo Academy, Zhu said that he was the most attentive and spent a long time with Di Qing, which was different from his lazy attitude of fishing for three days and drying the net for two days when teaching Di Qing's lessons.

Naturally, it is clear that Di Qing's usual appetite is at most half a bowl more than his, and the time spent is also gentle, and he will be full soon.

What's going on with this bottomless pit now?

However, Lu Ci had seen Di Qing's extraordinary fighting power when he was in Fenzhou, and he was willing to bow down to him. When he saw Di Qing unstoppably destroying the dishes one by one, he was not surprised. Ask them to cook an extra pot of rice, and then change to a larger bowl, so that Di Qing can hold more rice at once.

Under Lu Ci's silent connivance, when Di Qing was thinking hard about the best of both worlds, he didn't notice that the other people on the table gradually put down their bowls and chopsticks, and watched his performance with amazement...

Unknowingly, he added a large bowl of rice to half of the table's dishes, enough for six people, and quickly emptied them all.

He was usually too embarrassed to scare people, and he didn't want Lu Gongzu to feel that raising him was laborious, so he ate very restrainedly, and only ate [-]% of his fullness. , the whole talent suddenly woke up.

not good!

Di Qing broke out in a cold sweat from being so frightened, he raised his head belatedly, and when he looked around uneasily, he heard Liu Qi sigh with emotion: "I still wonder why Brother Di and Yu Yu are so destined. In the dining room!"

Lu Ci lazily said, "Isn't that right?"

Zhu said that he still didn't know the truth, and he felt guilty all of a sudden, looking at the embarrassed Di Qing and sighing: "I didn't know until today that I have made Di Di suffer from hunger and hunger for more than a month, and I have wronged Di Qing. Unaware."

Di Qing shook her head vigorously, and racked her brains to explain: "It's absolutely nothing! I just—"

Lu Ci smiled, pinched Di Qing's face punitively, and said to Zhu: "He is such an introverted person, what has he got to do with Brother Zhu? It's my negligence, forgot Besides, for so many days, I have been locked up in the tribute courtyard, and I can't take care of him at all. Without Zhudi's dedicated care, he would have gone somewhere wild, and I'm afraid he would have slept with the pheasant and the baboons. "

Di Qing shivered, and subconsciously covered the pinched cheek.

But he didn't know that the other cheek directly exposed himself and became flushed.

Seeing that Zhu said he couldn't help laughing, after explaining this, Lu Ci directly ordered him to give Di Qing's meal share in the future, according to his, and then add a little more.

Only Liu Qi looked up and down at Di Qing curiously.

Looking lean, where did all the food go?

Di Qing lowered her head embarrassingly, trying to avoid his gaze in embarrassment, but couldn't help hiccupping again at the next moment, making Liu Qi laugh unkindly.

Lu Ci didn't help Di Qing out this time, and while slowly rinsing his mouth with tea soup, he chatted with Zhu Shuo, Ren Diqing blushed and stammered at Liu Qi's words.

After a while, he graciously intervened and invited several friends to the backyard to enjoy the bright moon together.

Tonight is also a beautiful day, when the clouds are thin and the fog is few, and the autumn rain washes away the dust.

Looking up, you can see a bright moon, shining stars, and the Milky Way.

There are five osmanthus trees planted in the courtyard, and now the osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, and the fragrance of the flowers is overflowing, not to mention Liu Qi, and even Lu Ci has been aroused for a long time.

As he unsealed the wine jar, he suggested: "In a few days, I will find some free time and hire craftsmen to repair the platform."

The ancients liked to climb high to admire the moon, but they couldn't climb high. No matter how beautiful the moonlight is, it seems that it has to be discounted.

What's more, the rich and powerful houses in Kaifeng City have many dangerous buildings, wide pavilions, and moon pavilions. Not to mention the tortoise feast, they also invite qin and zither to sing and sing, which is very luxurious and lively.Even if it's just a home for display, there is still a small platform, and a Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet will be held to repay the festive season.

In his family, there are three officials, big and small, and he has been holding a salary of the fourth rank, and wants to do some repairs on the house, and others have no reason to impeach him for being extravagant.

Especially now that the backyard is quite spacious, except for some plants and flowers brought in by Yan Shu from time to time, there is only a small rockery pool left by the original owner. It is just right to build a small platform.

Lu Ci was interested in this, and of course his friends would not spoil his interest, but gladly expressed their support.

Liu Qi took the initiative and said: "My rich salary is with you, if there is any shortage of money, just do it."

Zhu Shuo also nodded: "The expenses should be borne together."

Di Qing hurriedly said, "Me too."

Lu Ci laughed and said, "How much money does it cost to repair the platform? If it's really short, with the relationship between me and you, I don't even bother to be polite, but I will talk to you directly and bring it for emergency."

Zhu said nothing, but quietly refuted in his heart.

——Brother Lu will not be like this.

If there is a shortage of money, brother Lu will never let them know because of his disposition that he never wants to let them suffer.

Liu Qi also showed disbelief.

Only when he knew that he was not good at sophistication, he raised his eyebrows, shrugged his shoulders, and pretended not to be entangled in the matter.

Only Di Qing believed it was true, and felt a little relieved.

While the three of them were having a drink, Lu Ci ignored Liu Qi's rhetoric and replaced the wine in Di Qing's bowl with sour plum soup.

Such a little guy, what kind of wine do you drink?

Di Qing obviously had no opinion on Lu Ci's arrangement, and even took the initiative to hand over the wine cup that Liu Qi had filled for him to his servant, and asked him to replace it with sour plum soup.

Liu Qi's 'sympathy' for him has turned into full of 'anger and indisputable': "Oh! What's the point of having a drink and substituting sour plum soup?"

Di Qing didn't listen.

Lu Ci narrowed his eyes even more, and smiled slightly: "If you really want to, I can make your life more interesting right away."

Liu Qi heard the blatant threat, changed the subject very naturally, and sighed: "Nowadays there are beautiful scenery, good wine and cinnamon, what's missing is good poetry and beauties."

After finishing speaking, he was the first to get the inspiration. Yang Tian drank the fine wine in one gulp, and chanted with a smile: "The golden wind moves, the light smoke encloses the moon, the wind penetrates the golden toad like washing... The bright moon is long and round, and the colorful clouds gather together... ..."

Zhu said that he listened intently, appreciating it carefully, and added a few sentences silently from time to time; Di Qing also listened seriously, envious and admiring in his heart.

Only Lu Ci was smiling, and what he was thinking in his heart was completely different from those present.

He is recalling.

Reminiscing when I met Liu Qi for the first time, knowing the identity of the other party, and then knowing the fate of the other party, he subtly influenced him with half-soft and half-hard...

Liu Yong, who was nostalgic for flowers, drunk and dreamed to death, was loved by prostitutes, and wrote lyrics in the market day after day, was replaced by Liu Sanbian, who was about to start his official career and brought a sharp and high-spirited spirit.

It is conceivable that those excellent works written by Liu Yong and handed down to later generations, because Liu Qi walked more smoothly and knew how to cherish feathers, I am afraid that they will never appear.

On this point, he really didn't know whether his unauthorized intervention was right or wrong.

But seeing Liu Qihuan's happy appearance, as a friend, Lu Ci will never regret it.

Liu Qi has no way of knowing the other fork that Liu Qi once had.

He is in a very happy mood at this time, and his popularity of Ci has always been that once it emerges, it seems to have an endless momentum.

Since he took a sip of wine, got up and paced, and began to chant lyrics, he has composed three poems in one breath, without stopping at all.

Just when he paused for a while, took another sip of wine, and was about to compose the fourth song, a very clear "okay" came from the courtyard next door, which was only separated by a wall.

A few people were half-drunk, and they froze for a moment. Lu Ci, who was the most conscious, immediately recognized the owner of the voice, and said with a smile, "Uncle Tong."

Could it be Yan Shu?

Just when the people on both sides were naively arguing about who should go to whom, the banquet had just ended in Da Nei, who was not as lively as the folks.

There was obviously no shortage of people who were dissatisfied with Zhao Zhen's frequent big actions in the court, and they spread the news to Zhao Heng's ears with embellishment.

As a result, the emperor, who was happy to throw troubles on the prince in the name of "experience", felt a sense of crisis in his heart.

Although the prince is loyal and filial, he comes to his palace to greet him every day, and also reports some important matters respectfully, asking for his thoughts.

But the prince gradually skipped over some minor matters.

Didn't he remind him not long ago that Lu Ci's promotion is too fast, and it's too late?

How could it be half a year later that the crown prince directly came to cut him off first and then played, and promoted him to Secretary and Provincial Superintendent, knowing the imperial edict.

To put it bluntly, it is because the prince is kind-hearted and caring about old feelings; to put it seriously, it is not that the prince did not take his warnings seriously, and obeyed and violated.

Therefore, at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Zhao Heng slapped people relentlessly.

Now that the edict has been issued, if he is forced to withdraw, it will be tantamount to discrediting the Crown Prince. Zhao Heng naturally would not want to act like this.

But as a warning, it is still possible to let the prince remember to ask him first when making similar decisions in the future.

Zhao Zhen had been prepared for this, and immediately obediently agreed without making any arguments.

Such an attitude made Zhao Heng feel a lot better, so he just let it go and stopped admonishing him.

Liu Shengren has been kept cold these days, and he was also terribly frightened. Now that he finally had a chance to get close to the official family, he showed the tenderness and care that he had left behind many years ago. Zhao Heng, who had aroused old feelings, gathered again.

Seeing this, Zhao Zhen took the time to get up and leave.

On the way back to the East Palace, on a whim, he went to the Imperial Garden for a stroll.

Because the concubines were also all dressed up and went to the palace banquet, and now that His Majesty has not left the banquet, it is naturally impossible to wander around in this scattered imperial garden.

As a result, the imperial garden, which is usually bustling and bustling, where you can always see concubines wandering, is unprecedentedly deserted.

This kind of tranquility is exactly what Zhao Zhen wanted.

He asked the palace man to put down the lamp, stepped back a little, and entered the gazebo alone.

He leaned on the pavilion pillar, listening to the sound of frogs, while absently looking at the bright moon in the sky, while thinking about how to do things next, so as not to be hindered the least...

After staying for an unknown amount of time, he suddenly heard the noise gradually dissipating in the direction of the palace where the palace banquet was being held, and was approaching him, so he stood up calmly and continued to return to the palace.

At this moment, Zhao Zhen caught a faint light in the imperial pond from the corner of his eye, and asked, "What is that?"

The waiter quickly salvaged it.

Zhao Zhen took a closer look and found out that it was a small sheepskin water lamp, which was mostly submerged in water, and the dim light was completely extinguished because the lamp oil burned out.

Apparently it had been put in the pool for a long time before following the current, it was accidentally washed here and ran aground.

Such a small water lamp, Zhao Zhen recognized what it was for.

This is what he heard from Lu Ci not long ago. It is called "one point of red" among the people. It is said that if you use this lamp to worship the river god and float it on the Qiantang River, you can hope to be blessed by the river god.

Probably some palace official who was born in the common people took advantage of the festive season and quietly made a wish.

Zhao Zhen didn't think much about it, he was always kind-hearted, seeing that the little streamer tied on the lamp hadn't been completely soaked, and after he could vaguely recognize the content on it, he said, "Take off the strap and let me have a look. "

Since there is a spirit in heaven, send this little lamp with the wish of the palace man to his feet. If it is not too much, let him fulfill his wish.

The waiter hurriedly did as he was told.

And the moment he got the streamer and saw clearly what was written on it, Zhao Zhen was completely stunned.

——Hope my son will benefit from a healthy and happy life

The place where the name is left is a "Li" that is much more scribbled than the neatly written wish content.

And Zhao Zhen's original name and surname are exactly Zhao benefit.

Zhao Zhen was inexplicably confused for a moment, as if a stone had fallen into a well and splashed a burst of water.

plum?

He intuitively felt that this person had a lot to do with him, so he put the ribbon away calmly, and said nonchalantly, "Let's go."

The author has something to say: Notes:

1. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Hangzhou's "princes and grandchildren, rich and powerful families, all climb dangerous buildings, play with the moon in Linxuan, or open wide pavilions, tortoise banquets are arranged, the zither is clanging, drinking wine and singing songs, to predict the joy of the evening. To Rupu Xi's House also boards a small platform to arrange family banquets to pay for the festive season. Although poor people in the back alleys undress and buy wine, they reluctantly welcome them, and they refuse to spend them. This night, the sky street sells and buys until Wugu, Tourists playing with the moon, whirling in the city, until dawn" ("Cultural History of the Song Dynasty")

2. The words Liu Qi chanted were made by himself.

3. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the tide watching in Hangzhou began on August [-]th and reached its climax on August [-]th.[-] days to end.Mid-Autumn Festival night.There are also hundreds of thousands of small sheepskin water lamps on the Qiantang River, known as "a little red", floating on the water, rotten like stars.Use this lamp to sacrifice to Jiangshen, hoping to be blessed by Jiangshen.

The foods listed in the Mid-Autumn festival include pomegranate, pear, chestnut, jujube and cakes, etc. Whether there was a custom of eating "moon cakes" in the Song Dynasty is still difficult to determine, but moon cakes have become one of the dim sum foods in Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty. There is no doubt. of. "Old Stories of Wulin" and "Meng Liang Lu" both list "moon cakes", but they do not record that they are Mid-Autumn Festival food.

4. After giving birth to Zhao Yiyi, the Li family was only granted the title of Chongyang County Lord.Later, she gave birth to a daughter, who was named a talented person in Jin Dynasty, and she died soon after.After entering Feng Wanyi.After Zhenzong's death, Empress Dowager Liu Jin Li Wanyi was sent directly to Zhenzong's Yongding Mausoleum for Shunrong.Throughout his life, he has never had the opportunity to get close to Zhao Zhen.