Chapter 29:

After noon, Xiao Heng suddenly received an order to let him enter the palace.
Gu Suier remembered what the eldest lady had said before, and the eldest lady would also let Xiao Heng enter the palace. Xiao Heng would not go, now the emperor has made an order.
After receiving the order, Xiao Heng didn't say anything but said quietly: "I'll be back tonight."
Gu Suier nodded obediently: "Yeah."
In the evening it was the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet in the Hou Mansion. I heard Xiao Jin and Lu Qingyi talk about many tricks, guessing lantern riddles, playing cards, and writing a poem or something.
She doesn't know much about these.
If Xiao Heng were there, she would feel much better in her heart.
So when Xiao Heng said that, she was relieved.
Suddenly Xiao Heng left.
After Xiao Heng had left, Gu Suier sat at the window to herself, stupidly remembering how Xiao Heng kissed herself.
She knew that this was what it was like to kiss.
It's no wonder that Aunt Bao remembers her after kissing the young master of the inn house, no wonder the young master lay on the kang and cried a lot after kissing someone else.
She touched her lips and couldn't help but recall the taste again.
Like fire and ice, it is the taste of a bonfire burning in the extreme cold mountain night. Approaching the raging flame with your hand, there is a biting cold wind on one side and the burning heat on the other.
She let her body lean weakly on the back of the chair, closed her eyes, and missed him.
As long as she thinks about him, she feels as if her body is about to burn and burn to ashes.
"Little madam, what do you think are these pictures?" Mother An's voice interrupted her reverie.
She raised her face and looked over and saw that Mother An was carefully holding two paintings in her hand.
It seems to be painted in Xiao Heng's room before.
"This... will move here too?"
At this exit, she heard her own voice twisting, soft and delicate, like the sound made after the whole person turned into a pool of water.
Suddenly, his face blushed.
Fortunately, Mother An smiled, as if she hadn't noticed at all: "Yes, the third master told me to move over, and that he will live here in the future."
Gu Suier calmed down and said warmly, "Then wait for the third master to come back to see where it fits."
Mother An said, "No, San Ye means you will be the master."
As she spoke, she leaned over and smiled wrinkly: "San Ye will sleep in the same room with the little madam from now on, so she won't be separated."
Gu Suier was a little embarrassed on the face. Mother An taught herself a lot before, pulling her hands to take off her clothes and kissed her. At the time, she listened and didn't think so. Now she really kissed Xiao Heng. Goodbye Mother An , But many shy, dare not look at Mother An.
"Then put it on the east wall, hang that place, you can see it as soon as you come in, and it's conspicuous."
"Okay! Hang it here, San Ye must like it here too."
For a while, other small households were placed in the house. Some were originally in Xiao Heng's house, and some were obviously taken out of the warehouse.
Gu Suier didn't know how to decorate this room, but the maid underneath asked, she could only take a closer look and then ask Mother An.
After being busy for about half an hour, the house was all arranged.
The brocade tent was replaced with a new one, the red and gorgeous fine yarn material, the quilt was replaced with a two-person large brocade quilt, calligraphy and painting were placed in the room, vases were placed on the table, and the Baibao Pavilion was randomly placed Some things of writing and ink, the whole room looked elegant and warm, but also filled with joy.
As Gu Suier was thinking, she heard from Mother An: "Like a couple's wedding room!"
Gu Suier was stunned for a moment. In fact, she also felt like it, but after thinking about it, she felt wrong.
Remembering what Princess Zhaoyang said before, that Xiao Heng let his concubine conceive a child before marrying his wife. It seems that he is the one who is not on the stage, right?
As for Xifang, it should be no share.
Tired of the arrangement, Gu Suier lay on the bed for a while and rested. This bed was bigger than the previous one, and it was much more comfortable when lying on it. She always felt that she could roll around casually, from east to west.
But she has a big belly and naturally can't roll.
Xiao Heng came out when it was getting dark, and brought a stack of moon cakes when he came back.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner started, Mother An was afraid that Gu Suier would be hungry, so she cut the mooncakes into small pieces, inserted them with small sticks, and served them to Xiao Heng and Gu Suier.
Gu Suier took a piece first and handed it to Xiao Heng next to it.
Since he came back from the fight, he hasn't said much. If it was before, he would naturally be afraid, but now he is used to it, knowing that he is such a person.
"San Ye, try it."
The sound is soft and soft, and it is a soft and warm ironing feeling of the underwear.
Xiao Heng raised his eyes and looked at Gu Suier beside him.
He couldn't help kissing her before.
After the kiss, there was a lot of uncomfortableness, and it happened that the emperor summoned him, so he went.
Entering the palace, even the emperor could see that the unwilling to stay in the palace.
Before he left, the emperor didn't want to take this moon cake as a reward, and he didn't love it, but he brought it back after a thought.
The gentle little hand handed the mooncake to him, looking at him with eager and clear eyes.
He opened his mouth slightly because of a ghost.
She seemed to be taken aback, and there was a moment of doubt in her eyes, and then she understood, as if the red rouge had fainted into the water, the pink color slowly bloomed on her face.
"San Ye, here." She raised her wrist and put the small piece of moon cake into his mouth.
The moon cake slipped into his mouth, and he took her hand and ate it.
The emperor said that the mooncakes in previous years always felt tired. This year, the Imperial Kitchen was specially changed to make some mooncakes that were not so sweet but delicious.
I don't know what it is made of. The sweetness seems to have a faint salty taste, and the combination of salty and sweet does not feel abrupt, but becomes a unique flavor on the tip of the tongue.
This year, the emperor did not give a reward, but only eats himself in the palace.
Xiao Heng took out a small piece, raised his hand, and handed it to Gu Suier.
Gu Suier was planning to take the mooncake and continue feeding it to Xiao Heng. Now she blinked, looked at the mooncake that was handed to her, and then looked at Xiao Heng.
Seeing her doing this, Xiao Heng simply tasted the mooncakes in her mouth.
She followed his hand and opened her mouth wide and ate it.
After eating, she smiled, as if she had drunk honey: "San Ye, the moon cakes in this palace are not the same, they are so delicious. I have never eaten such delicious moon cakes."
Xiao Heng was noncommittal and took another piece and fed it to her.
After Gu Suier ate a few small pieces, she couldn't bear it.
It’s not good to eat such a delicious mooncake too much. He looked at Xiao Heng and suggested: "San Ye, this moon cake tastes different from the one in the mansion, wait for the old lady to try it?"
But after thinking about it carefully, he said: "There are also eldest girls, second girls, eldest and younger grandmothers, and second younger grannies..."
She broke her fingers and made a long list of children.
She hadn't counted the old maid who was sweeping the floor outside Zhuyuan.
Xiao Heng raised his eyebrows: "You don't need to be like this."
Gu Suier didn't understand: "Why?"
Xiao Heng's slender and beautiful fingers gently pinched the small bamboo stick, and said indifferently: "There is no need to be too wronged to please others. You don't need it, and neither do I."
Gu Suier looked at him blankly, as if she didn't understand.
"But..." She whispered: "But I don't feel wronged. They are all very good to me. I want to share such delicious food with them!"
Xiao Heng looked at Gu Suier like this, he also felt that he didn't understand, he didn't understand this Gu Suier who seemed pure enough to be like spring water.
"Don't you like it yourself?" He stared at her, his voice lightened unconsciously.
"Yes, I like it very much! But I don't want to eat the things I like. It's so boring to eat alone!" She told her thoughts earnestly: "I want everyone to taste this delicious They must all be very happy about mooncakes, because they may not have eaten them either. As for myself, eating one piece and eating a lot of them is not very different."
Xiao Heng sat there silently, looking at her serious eyes.
"Well, you make sense."
He has never particularly liked anything, nor has he particularly wanted, and he has never thought about who he wants to share what he likes.
So he didn't understand.
Now that Gu Suier said that, it seemed to make some sense.
Even if she still didn't understand it, the way she explained it to him carefully made him think that she must be right.
The Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet in Ruiding Hou's Mansion began. This evening, everyone in Ruiding Hou's Mansion was here.
Hou Ye Ruiding is a middle-aged man with a black beard, handsome and majestic.
In the past, Gu Suier was scared when he saw it. The great master couldn't raise his eyes.
But it's okay now. Because of her pregnancy, she was especially conscious of her, and she sat in front of the old lady with Xiao Jin and Xiao Xu.
Such a majestic person actually joked and laughed in front of the old lady, all sorts of thoughtful and filial remarks, made the old lady laugh from ear to ear, and even laughed at the few women nearby.
The eldest lady is still busy with the arrangement of the family banquet, while the eldest grandmother and the second younger grandmother wait on the side.
There were all kinds of fresh melons and fruits on the table, some Gu Suier had seen, some hadn't seen at all, such as the weird crab.
The old lady had ordered someone to cut the moon cakes that Gu Suier had brought over, and gave the big guys a taste.
The taste is really different from the previous moon cakes. After Xiao Jin ate it, she couldn't help but unexpectedly said, "Ah, this is actually salty!"
The second young lady also smiled: "It's sweet and salty, but it's delicious. I have never eaten moon cakes with this flavor."
The old lady has a bad appetite when she is old. She didn't like to eat these sweet and greasy ones, but now she heard that she just tasted it, and it was delicious.
Let Hou Ye Ruiding tasted it for a while, and naturally followed with praise again and again.
Seeing the old lady, she couldn't help but praise Gu Suier again: "Sui'er is careful, considerate, and respectful. She is really a good boy. I didn't say that there are so many wives and grandma girls in Ruiding Hou's Mansion. One is one, none of them is better than her."
The others burst into laughter and nodded: "Yes, yes, we can't compare, who let us have moon cakes in Suier to be filial to our ancestors!"
Gu Suier was embarrassed: "I am ignorant and know nothing. How dare to compare with the ladies and wives. In fact, this is all the filial piety of the third master. I just helped send it over. Great work."
Seeing her like this, the old lady became more affectionate, and couldn't help holding her shoulders and patted: "Sui'er, you are too honest. I know what Aheng is like, I know better than you, how does he care? He can't remember this little thing at all, it must be your mind!"
Gu Suier pursed her lips and chuckles: "Even if I have such filial piety to the old lady, I still can't make mooncakes with this flavor out of thin air."
When the young lady heard this, she also smiled: "What I said, A Heng didn't say it, she also respected the old lady in her heart."
The old lady is naturally happy to hear this. This is the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are so many men and women in the family, surrounded by people. People are getting older. Why not just like this.
And Lord Hou Ruiding had never seen Sui'er, and he was a little surprised when he saw him from the side.
I have sent someone to check the details before, but I only heard that this woman was a fool, and was somewhat dissatisfied. Ah Heng's identity is different, he is a concubine's room, and he shouldn't be casual, how could he find a fool.
But now, even though he has a simple face, he is also well-behaved and supple, and he has a rare face. Even the palace may not find a few such beautiful and beautiful ones, and they are barely worthy of Ah Heng. Acknowledged, thinking of being a concubine room, it's OK.
While talking and laughing, the maids came up with sweet-scented osmanthus wine, and Rui Dinghou personally poured a glass for the old lady and sent it to the old lady respectfully.
The few young masters nearby, from the eldest and the second young master to Xiao Heng, to the fourth young master who came out of the concubine, all stood together, praying to the old lady together.
The old lady smiled and ordered them all to sit down, and the big guys drank sweet-scented osmanthus wine together.
Gu Suier couldn't drink, her lips were only pressed against the edge of the wine glass.
When I was squeezing, I felt a gaze, and when I looked up, I saw Xiao Heng on the table of the young masters outside the curtain, looking up in her direction.
Seeing her holding the wine glass, he raised his eyebrows slightly.
She remembered what she had said to him, saying that she could not drink, so she squeezed the glass and shook her head gently at him.
He should have understood what she meant, and at exactly this moment, the second young master was dragging him to say something, and then turned around.
"Look at us, Sui'er, and Ah Heng are really honey blending oil!"
The second young lady, Bai Yuqing, took a sip and stopped drinking. As a result, she happened to see Xiao Heng and Gu Suier's eyebrows, and she started to joke.
"I really haven't seen this. What kind of temper is A Heng in our family, cold, never look at the girl, I just said that he will marry a wife in the future, I am afraid that the bride will be run away by ice. Er, I never thought that now that Sui'er has become a personality!"
The eldest grandmother heard this and followed.
You must know that this little uncle has always been cold-hearted, since the two of them married in Ruiding Houfu, they have not seen him smile. Now it is not a good time to catch this opportunity.
Originally, when the sister-in-law laughed and talked a few words, the younger uncle was nothing, but it was a big holiday, deliberately making the old lady happy.
However, Gu Suier was a little embarrassed. In front of so many people, she did flicker with Xiao Heng.
She blushed with suffocation, and finally said in a low voice: "He may just be afraid that I drink a bar. I am pregnant and cannot drink."
But when she said this, everyone burst into laughter.
The old lady leaned forward and backward with a smile: "Hey, my dear grandson, he is really the most considerate person in the world. Look, I am afraid that we have bullied her little daughter-in-law, and deliberately watched her not to drink. Yeah!"
Gu Suier didn't expect that her serious explanation would result in a laugh. Seeing everyone laughing so cheerfully, she couldn't help but laugh.
"Old lady, you made fun of me."
The old lady was tired from laughing, and took her hand: "Be good, Suier, I only hate that you are not my granddaughter! Don’t think you are as good as they are, and you are not as good as they understand all the principles, but I like you. This way, it feels comfortable to look at!"
Xiao Jin next to it listened, and deliberately twisted it around: "Old ancestor, you said before that you like the kind that is on the table the most, and you don't like the small-hearted ones. Why does it change his face in a blink of an eye? I don't follow it!"
The old lady looked distraught and deliberately said: "That was what I said yesterday. It has changed my mind a long time ago. Today I like Suier the most!"
Xiao Jin deliberately put her arms around the old lady's arms and made a big cry, making everyone laugh.
After playing around for a while, the eldest lady came over and brought me pens and inks, but they wanted everyone to write a poem, which was then posted on the lantern.
"Then the lantern will light up, and your poems will be all bright, that's interesting."
After hearing this, everyone thought it was a good idea, so they each took pen and paper to think hard.
Gu Suier was also divided into pen and paper. She faced the white rice paper, and she didn't know what to do.
Now she knows some words, can write, and even memorizes some poems, but if she is asked to write poems, she won't.
He raised his face and looked at Xiao Jinxiao Xu beside him, as well as the two young grandmothers, both smiling and holding pens quite confidently.
She was suddenly discouraged.
Thinking that I can barely recognize some words now, where can I compose poems? It is the poems that have been memorized, some know the meaning, some don't even understand the meaning.
How could it be possible to compose poems?
Put the pen on the table now.
But at this moment, outside the bead curtain, Xiao Heng heard Xiao Heng say to the young master: "Brother, I was in the staff department a few days ago. Have you ever done the Mid-Autumn Yinyue, I wonder if you have a good sentence?"
When Xiao Ju heard it, he didn't care to say: "It's just a toast for a toast."
Xiao Heng nodded and said quietly: "That's what I said, the moonlight was great a few days ago. Although it is not Mid-Autumn Festival, I can't avoid writing a few poems on the moon."
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The voices of the young masters outside were not loud, but Gu Suier still heard them. Even in the mid-autumn festival, she caught his voice accurately.
Xiao Heng is not a talkative person, at least not a person who can chat with people about these poems, so what does he mean by this.
Gu Suier remembered that just a few nights ago, he supervised his own writing and asked himself to transcribe a poem, a poem he wrote himself.
She naturally remembered the poem.
He said this now, meaning...she could simply use the poem he wrote that day?
At this time, Xiao Jin had already written her poem first and handed it in. Xiao Xu was also struggling to write a poem, and the two young women next to her seemed to have poems and were thinking about writing them.
Gu Suier was silent for a moment, lifted her pen, and wrote strokes on the rice paper.
After handing in their respective rice papers, the family banquet finally opened. Today, Ruiding Houfu specially invited two chefs from Xinghualou outside to cook all kinds of dishes. Naturally, people are coveted.
Although Gu Suier had already eaten some meals, people tended to be hungry when she was pregnant. Now she sees these dishes and feels appetite.
The old lady looked outside and gave her life: "Let them all come in. There are families on the left and right, and no outsiders. This is a big holiday, let’s have a reunion dinner together."
When the old lady said so, everyone agreed. Now the two tables were put together, and both men and women sat down separately.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or something, Xiao Heng happened to be sitting next to Gu Suier.
In front of so many people, being next to Xiao Heng, plus the previous "eyebrows and eyelashes" before being laughed at, Gu Suier was a little embarrassed, so she didn't dare to look at Xiao Heng, only focusing on the dishes in front of him. .
"Do you like this?" The man next to him didn't mean to avoid suspicion, and suddenly asked.
"Hmm!" She nodded her head hurriedly, and said, using chopsticks to pick it up.
But when the chopsticks were all extended, she could see clearly that there was a large plate in front of him. Inside the plate was a big crab.
She had seen this thing on the table before, and everyone said it was a crab, but she had never eaten it, and she didn't know how to eat it.
After the chopsticks paused there for a while, she bit her head and picked it up.
Then tentatively wanted to take a bite.
But where to bite...
This thing looks so ugly...looks so fierce...
Gu Suier weighed it for a long time, and felt that it should be peeled like a shrimp. She didn't know how to start. She secretly looked at the other people on the table. Everyone didn't mean to pull the crab in front of her to eat.
She bit her lip and silently put the crab down again.
At this time, Xiao Heng picked up the crab, and took the delicate scissors and pliers from the side.
I saw his beautiful finger flapping movements, and after a short while, the white crab meat was placed on the plate in front of him.
Gu Suier was thankful when she saw the crab meat. Fortunately, she didn't gnaw a bit foolishly just now, otherwise it would be really shameful.
Xiao Heng finally took out the crab roe, put it on the plate, and then silently pushed the plate in front of Gu Suier.
Gu Suier wanted to push it back.
She always felt that she should have served Xiao Heng well.
If it was privately, feeding each other a piece of mooncakes would make her blush and heartbeat, but she didn't think it was inappropriate.
But now in front of so many people, she didn't dare to eat the crab he peeled for herself.
Not to mention that in this well-regulated Houmen, even in her country home, her father would not serve her mother, it was her mother who was busy preparing meals and vegetables.
However, a cold voice came from my ear: "Eat."
Only two words, concise, but powerful.
Gu Suier glanced at Xiao Heng quietly, and ate silently without saying anything.
At the end of the night banquet, the lanterns outside were all lit up, and the moon head also rose. The old lady took the big guy to see.
Everyone pointed and pointed, saying that this is a poem written by you, and that one is written by me, and read each other out. You praise me, I laugh at you, it's so lively.
Finally, the young lady saw that Gu Suier next to her was not too verbal, so she smiled and asked, "Sui'er, what did you write?"
Xiao Jin suddenly remembered that Gu Suier was illiterate. Lu Qingyi had given her a collection of poems for her to recite before, and she didn’t know what she had memorized, so she spoke for her now: "My sister-in-law may not like this dance literary and ink stuff, so she didn’t write anything. Right!"
The eldest grandmother smiled and said, "Sui'er can read now, didn't she just write it?"
Xiao Jin looked at Gu Suier in surprise: "Are you literate?"
After all, it didn't take long for Gu Suier to come, so she could read, she was indeed a little surprised.
Xiao Xu glanced from the narration: "What's so strange about this, you can learn it if you don't know the words!"
Xiao Jin ignored her.
Gu Suier smiled, and then said embarrassedly: "I have only recently learned to read. It would be nice to know a few words. Where can I write poems, but I barely wrote auspicious words."
While speaking, she pointed to a lantern in the corner: "Hey, that's mine."
Xiao Heng on the side heard this and followed her gaze.
He discovered early on that these hanging lanterns did not contain the verses he wrote that day, nor did he have her handwriting.
Now when I look at the past, I can see a piece of paper pasted on a lantern in the corner, and it is absolutely her handwriting.
She wrote "Flowers bloom and full moon."
Slightly immature handwriting, four simple words, but one stroke by one stroke, carefully written.
He taught her words, and his taste between the lines.