live up to the moon

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there are moon-viewing gardens in the palace, such as Yigui Pavilion, Qiuhui Hall, and Bitcen, which are temporarily arranged by the emperor.Until late at night, the music in the palace was still floating outside the palace.Wool thread shops, honey fried shops, and incense shops on Yujie put out their goods one after another, vying for the best. There is another saying for this, which is "eye-catching".

The lamps and candles were brilliant, and they didn't stop until the sky.

At this night, Qiantang still has the custom of setting up small "a little red" sheepskin water lamps. Hundreds of thousands of small water lamps float on the water, rotten like stars, which is very spectacular.Legend has it that this is to cater to Jiang Shen's preferences, not just for a good look.

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on August [-]th. This day is exactly halfway through the three months of autumn, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the moonlight is brighter than usual, also known as "Yuexi".Kings and grandchildren, rich and powerful families, all climbed high-rise buildings and watched the moon by the railings; or gathered on the wide platform, enjoying delicacies from mountains and seas, wafting fairy music, drinking and singing, and playing all night long.And ordinary people also come to the small platform to arrange family banquets and reunite their children, hoping to have a good festival.Even very poor people would rather pawn their clothes in exchange for wine and drink, reluctantly have fun, and refuse to waste money.This night, the Tianjie market was open until dawn, and the tourists who played with the moon came one after another, all night long. Anyway, in the capital city, there was no curfew for this night.

All restaurants, big and small, redecorated their storefronts, built colorful buildings with silk and satin, adorned with flowers, picked out drunken wine flags, and began to sell new wine.People came to the restaurant to drink heavily. By the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the wine was sold out, and the restaurant pulled down the wine flag.On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, rich and noble families enjoy the moon in the ornately decorated terraces, while ordinary people rush to the restaurant to occupy a good seat.There was a lot of music everywhere, and the residents who were close to the palace could still hear the sound of Sheng Yu from afar in the middle of the night, just like outside the clouds.In the streets and alleys of civilians, children play all night, and there is a lively night market.

I must know that the jade rabbit is very round, and it has been frosty, windy and cold in September.Send a message to the heavy door to rest the key, and the night tide stays in the middle of the moon.

The custom of watching the tide in the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history in Yu Dynasty, and the custom of Yu Dynasty is very extravagant, eating, drinking and having fun, watching flowers and playing polo are indispensable.The Mid-Autumn festival is the most prosperous, and the second day gradually dispersed, with fewer people.

Because of the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year, the regent went out of the suburbs to practice the navy in the river tide. From the temple head to Dongguowai, the buildings of nearby people were rented by high-ranking officials and relatives to watch the tide.

The royal mid-autumn banquet was even more exciting, not to mention Dongwang's family, the Chengxi king was also sitting there, and he didn't know that there were wolfish ambitions hidden under the banquet.

Chang Yi covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed, calling rather weakly: "Ah Yue is back."

Li Yuehan nodded and bowed, Chang Yi nodded: "Come on, the Mid-Autumn Festival is here, our royal family managed to gather these few people together." There are also a few concubines and concubines around her, Shaking the palace fan and chatting carefully.

The palace is very quiet, it seems that a needle can be heard in the huge palace.

Li Lihan paused, and smiled lightly.

Qiyu stood behind him, still not daring to look up, but the little lady was much more delicately dressed than the usual palace maids.She pinched Li Lihan's sleeve lightly with her hand, Li Lihan nodded and said nothing.

Li Qinghan looked at Li Yuehan who was sitting next to him, his eyes seemed to confirm something.

He smiled, and took out a hand under the table to gently hold Li Qinghan's hand.

Before Li Qinghan could withdraw his hand, he clasped both hands backhanded.

Qiyu secretly glanced at the Empress Dowager, then stood behind Li Lihan as if she could hide.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet held by the few people in the royal family, the tide was already raging.

Li Yanran smiled: "Cousin, Yanran remembers that you like pastries." She glanced at the mooncakes on the jade plate, "This mid-autumn lotus must be delicious!"

"..." Li Qinghan nodded.

Concubine Dong stretched out her chopsticks and patted Li Yanran's hand holding the mooncake: "Presumptuous! Now that His Majesty is the Son of Heaven, how can you allow your cousin to be called that..."

Li Yuehan put a mooncake in his cousin's bowl: "Cousin, eat more if you like."

"Thank you, Ah Yue." Li Qinghan smiled at him.

Princess Dong: "..."

Chang Yi raised a somewhat pale smile and said: "These children, they just have no rules, it's okay, so don't care about it during the Mid-Autumn Festival today."

Princess Dong withdrew her hand and nodded: "The empress dowager taught me that."

"What is it called the empress dowager? According to ordinary people, Dong Wang is the elder brother of the first emperor. I must be your mother-in-law?"

"Hey!" Princess Dong smiled.

When people are in high places, the word love may be even more rare.

"Cousin, you eat this too." Li Yanran picked up the jade lotus, hibiscus and purple eggplant.

"No need, Princess Yunzhu." Li Yuehan glanced over, "Cousin won't eat this."

The little emperor nodded rather recklessly.

Li Yanran put it in her own bowl resentfully.

After a while, Li Yuehan picked up the jade lotus hibiscus and purple eggplant: "Cousin, try this. Ah Yue remembers that you haven't eaten it yet. Do you like it?"

"Well, thank you Ayue, I like it very much." Li Qinghan replied briefly.

Li Yanran: "..." On purpose!This is definitely on purpose!Don't discriminate!

Li Lihan glanced at it, then turned his head away again, talking to Dong Wang.

After the banquet was over, they went to the moon picking tower in the palace to enjoy the moon.

When it was Haishi, Chang Yi said: "If you are tired, let's all go back and rest."

All the talents dispersed.

The two sat side by side on the Yueyue Building, Li Yuehan sat over and approached his cousin: "Is Ah Qing happy today?"

Li Qinghan shook his head.

Li Yuehan looked around and saw that there were no outsiders, so he leaned over and kissed: "Ah Qing happy today?"

Li Qinghan nodded: "Happy."

"..."

"Will you be happy tonight?"

Li Qinghan's ears turned red: "Not good."

"Why?" Li Yuehan touched his burning red ears with one hand.

"It hurts." He buried his face in his elbows, planning not to talk to Li Yuehan anymore.

"No." Li Yuehan coaxed in a soft voice, "It's very light, I promise."

"No."

"real……"

"No."

"Very light."

"You lied."

"No, guarantee, guarantee."

"You can't control it."

"I was wrong, I was wrong..." Li Yuehan stretched out a hand to hug him: "Okay, okay, enjoy the moon."

"Yeah." Li Qinghan glanced lightly, "Will we miss it..."

Seeing that he didn't say the second half of the sentence, Li Yuehan was a little puzzled: "? No."

Only then did he raise his head to look at the young man beside him, and then at the sky where the stars and the white moon were hanging.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the sky is as clear as water and the moon is as bright as a mirror.

The white moon hangs in the sky, softening the surrounding stars and people on land.The sky is covered in the night, and the angular stars twinkle.A slightly lazy breeze blew through the treetops, the treetops swayed and danced, and that gust of wind seemed to just miss the pouring moonlight.

Mingyue don't startle, the breeze blares at midnight.

……

The morning light of the next day was too dazzling, and the astonishing light of time shone on the palace road, and the fluttering wings of a butterfly with spiritual wings left another butterfly resting on the branch.

Above the court hall, civil and military officials were chattering, anxious and chaotic.

Eunuch Wang was also in a hurry and kept saying, "Hurry up, hurry up, wait, wait, wait."

"Where did the emperor go?"

"After all, he is still the little emperor, and his temper is a bit playful!"

"Why haven't you come yet?"

"This has never happened before!"

"..."

Wang Gonggong had no choice but to wipe the sweat with one hand: "Everyone, everyone, there may be changes... even an eunuch in our family can't make up his mind, wait and wait..."

Li Qinghan was no longer in his bedroom this morning, and neither was Li Yuehan.

After asking, Lian Yu and Yingwei said they didn't see it, but only saw King Chengxi walking by.

Wang Chaocai looked among the courtiers, but there was no sign of King Chengxi below, and Wang Chaocai was even more flustered.

It was supposed to start the morning court, but the court meeting has not yet started, and it has even been delayed for almost half an hour. Many ministers already have subtle words in their hearts.

Prime Minister Jiang was standing upright, a middle-aged man with beards, his eyes were downcast and he didn't complain, Wang Chao saw it and nodded in his heart.

As time dragged on, Wang Chaocai became more and more panicked.

Both civil and military officials spoke to the small groups they formed.

The pedantic old master faction, the rude blind eye faction, and the idiot aristocratic and dandy faction.

The pedantic old master: "How can your Majesty's court meeting be a joke? It's up to you and me..."

Rude opened his eyes and went blind: "Damn, these fucking people have no bones, just stand there for a while, we..."

Stupid aristocratic dandy: "Oh, Bai Qing, I heard that there is another red character in the capital yesterday! It's very popular! It's so beautiful, oops! See, I forgot how strict your wife is, hahaha."

It is indeed Bai.

Bai Yuehan.

He found it.

Bai Yuehan.

Li Qinghan stood in a corner of Shangyuan Palace, bent over and panted thinly, maybe a little short of breath, he suppressed a cough, he listened to the conversation inside, his heart had already sunk to the bottom of the valley.

Li Lihan: "Tell me! Look, you like men, you fucking like men, and you also like your cousin, and today's son! Oh no, you are not of our royal blood, what are you so proud of?" , Bai Yuehan, Bai Yuehan, you are so damn good, you just say in front of the emperor's grandmother that you like being the emperor!"

Li Yuehan looked at the hand pinching his neck, but did not move.

"You said that you have the habit of breaking sleeves, you said that you have a good relationship with today's emperor, you say it! You fucking say it in front of the emperor's grandmother!"

Li Yuehan moved his head.

"Don't you say? That's right." Li Lihan withdrew his hand, pointed at him and sneered, "You still slept with today, did you fuck him or did he fuck you?"

He stood up from the ground, punched Li Lihan in the face with red eyes.

"Enough!" Chang Yi smashed the cup on the ground with a piercing sound, and it instantly shattered into porcelain pieces, with some fine white crumbs scattered on the ground.

There was no one in the hall, only Madam Su who was serving beside the Empress Dowager, and the main hall of Nuo Da had only the ear-splitting sound of the door opening.

Li Qinghan stood against the light, he raised his eyes: "My fault."

Li Qinghan stood against the light, he raised his eyes: "My fault."

"..." He looked over.

"My fault." Li Qinghan took a deep breath, "It's my fault, I was the one who fell in love first, I couldn't help it first, and I seduced him first."

Su Momo moved her toes.

Chang Yi was extremely angry: "The Ai family will be pissed off by you!!!"

"Grandmother."

Li Yuehan was a little flustered, seeing Li Qinghan like that, his heart tightened.

The young man was still arrogant in his bones, and he refused to admit defeat after all.

"I have liked my cousin since I was a child!"

He liked his cousin since he was a child.

I have loved it since I was a child.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was praised by the world at the age of three.

A glimpse of the corner of the six-year-old vermilion palace wall.

The first dialogue in the bamboo forest at the age of 14.

The collision of two teenagers during the Shangyuan Festival.

A 16-year-old boy's panicked cognitive escape.

Let the youth avoid the inevitable joy.

There is no mention of heartbeat, but everything makes the young man's heartbeat.

Chang Yi shook his hands: "The Ai family said earlier that you have a good relationship, but the Ai family faintly felt that the limit was exceeded!"

"So the emperor's grandmother had been suspicious for a long time, so she found that face that is somewhat similar to mine!"

"He is the son of heaven, how can the royal family have no heirs! The courtiers of the Manchu court are already worried about being heirs. He has only been on the throne for a few years. If there is no Prime Minister Jiang in the court, how can he sit firmly on the throne! One person, one bite, one little emperor, that is Because his foundation is unstable, how can he let the people of the world know that the emperor likes his cousin! Wouldn't it make the world criticize him!!"

"..."

There is no trade-off in liking in adolescence, only for sensuality and vigor.

Chang Yi was telling him that this kind of thought should not be and cannot be.

He lowered his eyes.

he's gone.

Li Lihan also returned to Fandi.

There is only one concentric lock.

All of this is as if it never existed.

Only Chang Yi's physical condition is getting worse and worse, as if reminding Li Qinghan that all this is not a dream.

It wasn't a dream, when he thought all this didn't exist, the scene of that day kept lingering in his mind again and again.

That afternoon, the wind was jittery and the only way was sad.

He stood and looked at the young man on the horse, his brows were clear and his eyes were warm, and the mountains were high and the water was far away.

The breeze blew the boy's white robe again, and he stretched out his hand.

The young man looked down at him: "One last look, take care."

The clothes slipped from his fingers, he walked too hastily, only a sentence cut by the breeze blew past his ears.

"One last look, take care."

The author has something to say: The scene of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Yu Dynasty is mainly translated from the "Meng Liang Lu" by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The scene of watching the tide, translated from "Old Stories of Wulin" by Zhou Mi in the Southern Song Dynasty

The picture of the common people's restaurant, translated from "Tokyo Menghualu" by Meng Yuanlao in the Southern Song Dynasty

Ah Yue is leaving, so I say goodbye to everyone!

Bai Yuehan: One last look, take care.

Li Qinghan: ...