During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the imperial officials had three days off.

In previous years, lantern buildings were set up in the palace, and the emperor and empress, concubines, relatives and officials from the imperial court gave a reward. This year, the emperor's uncle passed away. To express his memorial, Emperor Xuande ordered everything to be kept simple in the palace and the banquet was not held anymore, but he did not ask the ministers and the people were not happy. Therefore, the people continued to run the lantern market, and the ministers could also have lantern decorations on their palaces.

Zhao Heng ordered the Shou Palace early in the morning that there was no need to buy lanterns this Mid-Autumn Festival. After all, the emperor's uncle died. Not only the Shou Palace, but the other three royal palaces, except for the Chu King who was kept in the dark, they started to arrange them in advance. The Rui Palace and the Gong Palace were all quiet and accompanied Emperor Xuande to mourn.

It was impossible to do it, so Zhao Heng ordered people to prepare red paper, bamboo strips, paste and other utensils, and he accompanied his wife and daughter to enjoy themselves.

The bamboo strips were all packed by the servants, but it also required skills to weave lanterns. The little eunuch demonstrated three times. Zhao Heng learned quickly and Song Jianing was confused. So the couple sat face to face. Zhao Heng made bamboo lanterns and Song Jianing made paper lanterns. Zhao Zhao, who was combing the sky, sat next to his mother and looked at him, and then he came to his father's place, staring at him intently.

When Zhao Heng finished crafting the lamp holder, Song Jianing's paper lanterns had been blurred. Zhao Zhao happily ran to his mother's arms and touched them casually. Song Jianing held his daughter and looked at the prince opposite him with some smugness. Zhao Heng looked at her, smiled, lowered his eyes, and began to wrap red gauze on the lamp holder.

The man had a handsome face, fair and slender fingers, and everything he did was carefully revealed his elegance and elegance. Song Jianing held his daughter and looked at him, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised. As he looked, he suddenly heard a strange "punch". Song Jianing lowered his head in confusion and saw his daughter's fat finger poked into the lantern she had worked hard to make! It poked a big hole!

Song Jianing's eyes moved to his daughter's face.

Zhao Zhao raised his head and looked at his mother blankly. Seeing that his mother frowned, Zhao Zhao took out his fingers obediently, and then saw the big hole in the red lantern. Zhao Zhao blinked and pointed at the hole to tell his mother: "It's broken..."

Song Jianing raised his eyes and saw the unconcealable smile on his prince's lips. He was gloating but pretending to know nothing. Song Jianing took a deep breath, and then calmly said to his daughter: "Yes, the lantern is broken. We have no lanterns tonight, so we can only eat moon cakes to watch the moon."

Zhaozhao liked lanterns, so she was anxious. She tilted her head and looked at the red paper next to her for her mother to show her, which meant that she would block the hole in the lantern. The little girl was so smart that Song Jianing couldn't bear to scare her daughter anymore, so she cut a round red paper with scissors and carefully glued it on.

Zhao Zhao smiled again and slowly turned the lantern to look at it.

Song Jianing continued to look at the prince opposite him. Zhao Zhao had played with his mother's lanterns and suddenly remembered something and tilted his head. Before, Zhao Heng had only one lamp holder, and the bare Zhao Zhao didn't like it at all. Now Zhao Heng's lantern has been wrapped in a circle of red gauze, like a real lantern. When Zhao Zhao saw that his father was as big as his father, he put his mother's lantern back on the table and ran shakingly towards his father.

"Zhaozhao is obedient, don't move first." Zhao Heng patted the place beside him and asked his daughter to sit down.

Zhao Zhao didn't sit, and she lay on the low table, watching her father's busy work curiously. She tried to sneak in several times, but Zhao Heng blocked her in advance. Zhao Zhao giggled once when she blocked her. Zhao Heng signaled the princess to come to see her daughter. Song Jianing deliberately did not move, and Zhao Heng looked at her deeply.

Song Jianing was finally scared. Last time the prince looked at her like this, his little waist was almost broken by him.

"Did your father be a coincidence?" Song Jianing quickly flattered and came over to hold his daughter in his lap and looked at him.

"Come on!" Zhaozhao said to his father.

Zhao Heng picked up the brush and smiled and said to his daughter: "Dad's paintings are shining."

Zhao Zhao was held by her father and painted many times. She knew what it meant to draw her, and she looked more and more serious. Zhao Heng held the lantern with one hand and painted with the other hand, and soon drew two fairies. Her big colorful clothes were floating, just like Chang'e in the Moon Palace, but Chang'e was holding a jade rabbit in her arms, and the fairy in Prince Shou's paintings, and... a beautiful and cute little fairy in her arms.

"Zhaozhao!" Zhaozhao recognized that it was her at first sight.

Zhao Heng looked at the princess and pointed at the big fairy and asked his daughter: "Who is this?"

Zhao Zhao grinned and looked up: "Mom!" Of course, it was the one who held her.

Song Jianing bowed his head and kissed his daughter. The mother and mother were just getting tired of it, but he heard Prince Shou who was painting and said, "No."

Song Jianing looked over unexpectedly, Zhao Zhao also looked at his father blankly, and his two pairs of moist almond eyes looked at him together. Zhao Heng ignored his princess and pointed to the beautiful woman in the painting, and taught his daughter seriously: "There are gods in the sky, called Fairy Jianing."

Zhaozhao murmured and learned the words: "The God..."

Song Jianing's face turned red, and his dripping eyes looked at the nonsense man with a angrily voice: "Your Majesty isn't afraid of Zhaozhao remember?" What if his daughter goes to the palace to appreciate the lanterns in the future and points to Chang'e on the lantern and calls Fairy Jianing. Others misunderstood that she taught her daughter? What should I do if the delicious Princess Birth wants more reputations: stinky and beautiful.

Zhao Heng seemed to have not heard of it, pointed to the girl in the arms of "Fairy Jianing" and said, "This is Fairy Zhaozhao."

Zhao Zhao smiled even more happily.

Zhao Heng looked at his daughter with his eyes, but his hand was bypassed by his daughter and held the princess's little hand.

As the sky became darker, Zhao Heng lit a lantern, held his daughter and led his wife to the yard to watch the moon and watch the lanterns.

On the fifteenth day of August, the bright moon hangs high in the sky, and the bright afterglow shines into the homes of millions of people. When the Shou Prince's Mansion and his family of three were snuggling to watch the moon, the Rui Prince's Mansion in the inner city was also accompanying his princess and concubines to drink and have fun, but King Rui's heart was not here, and he would look at the direction of the Chu Prince's Mansion from time to time.

Since he learned the real reason for the secluded residence of King Chu, he secretly planned for the next month. Whether it will be successful or not depends on tonight.

He picked up the wine bottle that had just been filled with the maid, and King Rui looked over.

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Compared to the desertedness of the Shou Palace, there were only a few illuminated lanterns. Only one lantern made by Zhao Heng. Because the King of Chu had been in the palace for too long and had a rare festival, he asked someone to hang the main courtyard and garden with all kinds of lanterns. After dinner, the King of Chu held Cheng Ge'er, Feng Zheng led Sheng Ge'er, and the family of four enjoyed it one by one. From the courtyard, he came to the water pavilion by the lake, where the moonlight was the best.

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse. Brother Sheng was holding a piece of moon cake in his hand, sitting on the steps outside the water pavilion, staring at the moon while eating, and asked curiously: "Father, is that dark person the Moon Palace?" The wet nurse told him the story of Chang'e flying to the moon. Brother Sheng knew that the beautiful fairy Chang'e lived on the moon.

The King of Chu also sat on the ground, touched his eldest son's head, and smiled at the moon: "No, that's Wu Gang's Guilin, the Moon Palace is blocked."

Brother Sheng was a little disappointed. He wanted to see what the Moon Palace looked like.

The King of Chu still regarded his son as he was unhappy because he couldn't see Chang'e. He turned his eyes and smiled at his eldest son's daughter-in-law on the other side: "Chang'e is not as beautiful as your mother."

Brother Sheng looked at his mother in surprise.

Feng Zheng glanced at her husband. His son was so old that he was not serious.

Brother Sheng was about to ask his father if he had seen Chang'e with his own eyes, but when he turned his head, he suddenly found a fire in the garden. At first, it was just a ball of fire the size of a lantern. It suddenly became bigger as it was burning. Brother Sheng was startled and immediately asked his father to see it. When the King of Chu turned around, his face suddenly darkened when he saw the fire. He quickly handed Brother Cheng to Feng Zheng. He got up and left, and told his wife without looking back: "You take Brother Sheng and the others back first, I'll go and have a look."

"Prince, wait!" Feng Zheng held the second son and called uneasily. Since the prince recovered from illness, he had not left her.

However, the King of Chu had already led his men into the night.

I don’t know if it was scared by the fire or because my father left him and ran away, Brother Cheng started crying. Feng Zheng originally wanted to hand over his son to the wet nurse, and she followed him to see the prince, but Brother Cheng hugged her neck tightly and refused to leave with his mother. Feng Zheng couldn’t be more cruel and had to sit in the water pavilion to coax his son first. Thinking about the prince’s side, Brother Kang was a little relieved. As for the fire, it was probably a lantern that was blown to the ground by the wind.

When the King of Chu brought Eunuch Kang here, the fire had almost been wiped out by the three little eunuchs who came first. The fire was very big, but because the fire was open, the flames did not burn the surrounding trees, the eunuchs took off their outer robes and put them out. The autumn wind blew the smoke and rolled upwards, and the paper burned to ashes floated around, and the remaining paper could be vaguely seen in the middle of the black and gray.

Anyone can see that someone once worshiped here.

Who should I worship?

Eunuch Kang was most afraid of someone mentioning the King of Qin in his master's ear, so he thought of the King of Qin first. He was not afraid of ten thousand, but afraid of one. Eunuch Kang subconsciously blocked his master's face and advised Surong: "Prince, if you have a small matter, you will definitely find out thoroughly. The prince will go to appease the princess and the two princes first, don't let the princess be scared."

The royal family had such a bold slave. The King of Chu looked very good. He ordered Eunuch Kang to investigate carefully. He turned around and prepared to go back to celebrate the festival with his wife and children. However, at the moment he turned around, the King of Chu suddenly found two things scattered in the grass not far away, just like the moonlight, and could vaguely see that they were two human-shaped puppets.

The King of Chu frowned and strode towards the grass. Eunuch Kang looked over with his master's eyes and was immediately frightened. He rushed over with a few steps, without looking at what was written on the doll. He instinct would have to tear it apart. How could the doll made by Bu be destroyed by brute force?

"Bring it." The King of Chu said in a deep voice, unable to understand Eunuch Kang's strange behavior.

But Eunuch Kang hid two things behind him and said incoherently: "Prince, this thing is not clean, don't taint your hands."

The King of Chu guessed that it was the evidence left by the person who set fire tonight, and Eunuch Kang was suspicious. The first thought of the King of Chu was that Eunuch Kang wanted to shelter the other party, so he walked to Eunuch Kang's side with anger, grabbed Eunuch Kang's shoulders like a big hand, and turned it hard, making Eunuch Kang's body tilted in pain. The King of Chu took the opportunity to grab two dolls.
Chapter completed!