After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

In the eighth year of Yongding, the night of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

There is still no celebration in this year's Mid-Autumn Palace.

Every August [-]th is the birthday of the first emperor, Gu Hong. Therefore, since Gu Xiu ascended the throne, except for a few years, there is no celebration in the palace on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. .

Although there is no celebration in the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is always a lot of rewards for the festival and the year. The envoys serving in the palace can also take turns to go home to reunite with their families.

In this way, there is no one in the palace who is not grateful to Gu Xiu and Han Mochu, the monarch and minister.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival was as quiet as ever. In the morning, Gu Xiu issued a decree from the previous court, and all the ministers and workers in the court had a holiday of kindness. They also rewarded various clan kings with mooncakes and fat crabs. On the cloud platform on the second floor of the hall, drink wine and enjoy the moon.

Tonight, the model of the giant ship in the warm pavilion was finally completed, and the young prince Gu Yucheng happily clamored to put it in the garden of his grandmother, Concubine Li. .

Therefore, before Haishi, he took Shanggong Wu to bathe and change his clothes, and went to sleep happily.

On the cloud platform, the evening breeze is slightly cool, and it is particularly refreshing when it blows on people's faces.

The bright moon hangs high like a silver plate, illuminating the sky as bright as day, casting a dazzling soft light on everything under the moon.

Gu Xiu concentrated on using a silver pick to peel the crab roe for Han Mochu beside him.

Ning Wang Guyou's private field produced only [-] catties of fat crabs a season.All of them are full of jin and liang, and the cream is full of yellow fat, which is the rare best among crabs.

Gu Xiu doesn't like crabs very much, mainly because the way to eat them is too complicated.But when he knew that Han Mochu likes to eat crabs, he suddenly fell in love with peeling crabs.He took a slender silver pick to dig out the complete crab roe from the crab body, piled it in the crab cover, poured a small spoonful of sesame oil and ginger vinegar, and carefully picked out the white meat from the crab body and crab claws and pressed it On top of crab roe.The crab cover has become a natural small cup, which is specially used to hold these tempting delicacies.

Gu Xiu put the peeled crab on the small plate in Han Mochu's hand, and tacitly said nothing.

Han Mochu was also polite, took a mouthful of crab roe with the crab cover, and sipped on his palate, allowing the delicious taste to travel back and forth between his lips and teeth, then he picked up another glass of wine, and washed the delicious taste into his mouth. belly.

The wine Han Mochu drank was sent from Guangling, and it was named "Zhao Hongying".It is a wine made from the pistils of hundreds of flowers. Although the taste is a bit bitter, but after the water temperature is over, it will emit a refreshing and strange fragrance. It is perfect to accompany such fishy and greasy crabs.

"Hey, why does the crab peeled by His Majesty seem to be much tastier than ordinary crabs?" Han Mochu half-closed his eyes, with a three-pointed smile on his lips: "Your Majesty can't drink alcohol since he was a child, and he doesn't like to eat crabs. His Majesty's accompanying ministers are here to enjoy the moon, but His Majesty has been wronged."

"I like drinking with you and peeling crabs with you. How can I be wronged?" Gu Xiu stretched his hand across the small table between the two of them, and reached out to touch Tanren's cool cheek: "Zi Ran just drank a few cups and it's over." Drunk? There is no one here, what are you calling me?"

"Hehe, when will Your Majesty learn to be hypocritical?" Han Mochu's smile deepened, and he said without hesitation, "What's the difference between calling you Your Majesty and calling you Yunchi? Could it be that I call you Your Majesty in my dream? Don't you know I'm calling you?"

"I don't know what other people are like, but I just like to hear you call me by my name." Gu Xiu frowned, and wanted to bite Han Mochu's lips, but he was afraid that if he continued, this person would not agree with him for two or three days. say.

"Okay, okay, I will remember in the future, just call your majesty's name." Han Mochu said in a low voice, and raised his hand to smooth the wrinkles between Gu Xiu's brows: "Yun Chi, good boy, give Master a smile."

Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment. After thinking about it, he worked hard many times and finally reached a coordination between the thoughts in his head and the nerves on his face. The corners of his mouth finally pulled out a curve that could barely be called a smile within a controllable range. .

Gu Xiu was born with a cold heart, and it was difficult to express emotions, Han Mochu suddenly asked him to smile today, it was even more difficult than that.

It was finally squeezed out a little, and it didn't look much different from usual.

He was still handsome and handsome, just because he met that person's eyes with a lot of tenderness and tenderness in his eyes.

"Yunchi, Yunchi, you are really a good disciple of Master." Han Mochu saw the jerky curve on the corner of Gu Xiu's mouth, he was in a good mood immediately, and couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing.

When the two monarchs and ministers were having a good time, a burst of fire suddenly exploded above the sky, and the radiant fireworks rose and fell one after another in the sky.

The hustle and bustle outside the palace formed a strong contrast with the cleanliness and ease inside the palace.

"It's only Mid-Autumn Festival today, why are there people setting off fireworks outside the palace?" Gu Xiu couldn't help asking, looking at the bustling scene on the sky.

"Your Majesty, don't you know? Ten days ago, Yin Jiangli of the Jingzhao Mansion handed over an all-night fair in Bianjing City on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. I think this is the fireworks that the people set off on the night fair." ?Now that the people live in peace and the world is in peace, the people are happy, so naturally there are fireworks to celebrate any festival."

"Mid-Autumn Festival?" Gu Xiu looked at the overwhelming fireworks and suddenly turned his eyes to Han Mochu: "Zi Ran, it's rare to have such a grand scene in Bianjing, why don't you and I go out of the palace to have a look?"

"Alright, His Majesty should go and see such a prosperous and peaceful scene." Han Mochu stood up and straightened the cloak on his shoulders: "Do you want to go and wake Yucheng up?"

"Yucheng doesn't need to cry, that child rarely sleeps well, and the concubine mother will come to pick him up early tomorrow morning, so don't let him stay with you and me tonight."

"Forget it." Han Mochu held the lantern in one hand, and Gu Xiu's arm in the other: "Then, your Majesty and the ministers will leave the palace after changing into ordinary clothes, and return to the palace before dawn."

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Bianjing City, Mid-Autumn Festival.

Every house is decorated with lanterns and streamers, and every house is brightly lit.

Colorful brocades and satins are hung in front of the doors of businesses of all sizes, the street doors are wide open to greet customers, and the small merchants and hawkers who set up stalls on the street are also full of energy, waiting for passers-by to come here Patronize.

Among the crowd coming and going, whether they were walking or setting up stalls, there were a few faces of foreigners with blue eyes and red hair.

Two handsome young men in handsome clothes walked side by side among the crowd, one was dressed in a dark crimson pattern robe, the other was dressed in a snow-green cloud gauze cloak.

Especially the one in white is more eye-catching than the immortals sung in dramas.

Rao people on the street crowded shoulder to shoulder, and they couldn't help but let out a heartfelt admiration when they passed by: "Look! What a handsome young master!"

Han Mochu didn't say much when he heard it, but he would give a little nod to anyone who praised him, and those who got his response would be happy for a long time.

However, in Han Mochu's eyes, he couldn't actually see these bustling crowds.

The only one who can really make him pay attention all the time is Gu Xiu, the unsmiling king beside him all the time.

"Yunchi, I brought the money, just say what you want." Han Mochu pointed to the fluorescent lamps in the hands of the children who had just run past beside him: "Would you like Yunchi to buy one and carry it?"

It doesn't matter how many years Han Mochu is older than Gu Xiu.It doesn't matter whether this person has become the supreme emperor looking down on the world.

In Han Mochu's subconscious mind, he always hoped that Gu Xiu could be a carefree child like Gu You.

It was as if he wanted to make up for the ten years that he hadn't known him.

At first, Gu Xiu refused directly without even thinking about it.

But the longer two people spend together, the more they can guess exactly what is in each other's mind.

When those children carrying Liuying lamps ran past the two of them, Gu Xiu guessed that Han Mochu would ask this question, so he nodded and pointed to a stall selling lamps not far away: "Well, Ziran and I will buy one." Bigger ones."

Gu Xiu said something bigger, but Han Mochu didn't follow what he said. Instead, he picked a small and bright tiger head lamp from the booth. The trembling tiger whiskers came alive, and the bright yellow soft light came from inside to outside. It looks much better than the ones in the hands of those children.

"Yunchi has had enough fun, and I can give it to Cheng'er later." Han Mochu smiled and handed the lamp to Gu Xiu: "Yunchi is ready, don't touch anyone."

Holding the lamp, Gu Xiu was secretly happy, no matter where he was, Han Mochu was the one who knew what he liked best.

The two walked and played all the way, and tasted the newly made moon cakes on the street for a while.For a while, he was sitting on the stone steps by the roadside drinking cheese, for a while he was picking toys at the stalls of the merchants from the Anxi Kingdom, for a while he was picking pearls and hairpins at the stalls of the Koreans, and for a while he was picking spices at the stalls of the merchants of the Dashi Kingdom.

The spices of the Great Food Kingdom are very popular in Beijing, but Han Mochu and Gu Xiu, the two monarchs and ministers, are always unaccustomed to smelling them.

Once, the Shanggong Wu family wore a big food sachet given to her by Concubine Li, which made Gu Xiu almost cry.

For this pair of monarchs and ministers, the self-made incense produced in Dazhou is the most satisfactory.

Not far forward, there is another stall selling spices opposite the big cannibal's spice stall.The booth was connected to the shop behind it, and it was wider than other booths, and the shopkeepers watching the booth were more energetic.

There are a wide variety of incense pills, incense cakes, incense furs, and incense bags on the stalls, as well as various incense burners.

Attracted by this situation, Han Mochu stopped in front of the booth and began to choose among various fragrant pills.

After smelling two or three in a row, when it was the fourth time, Han Mochu's eyes suddenly brightened.

It was a refreshing sweet fragrance, outstanding but not escaping. Although the smell was sweet, it became heavier and heavier, and the base note was extremely strong, lingering between the nostrils and almost penetrating into the bones of the person.Han Mochu reached out and placed the incense pill under Gu Xiu's nose and shook it gently, and Gu Xiu was indeed attracted by the fragrance.The two looked at each other, and Han Mochu asked, "My little brother, do you know what kind of fragrance this incense pill is made of?"

"Master, you have a good eye. The name of this incense is 'Bangqintai'. It is made from the incense prescription used by Mr. Nanxi in Yongxi's palace. I heard that the late emperor was full of praise when he smelled it!" Seeing the clothes of the two of them, the buddy didn't dare to neglect immediately, and hurriedly explained to others.

"The incense prescription used by Mr. Nan Xi?" Gu Xiu was puzzled, but he didn't show much on his face: "But I don't know who your shopkeeper is, how can you have the incense prescription used by the nobleman in the palace?"

"My lord, you don't know. My shopkeeper's surname is Cui, the chief inspector of the late emperor, and now he is old, and he opened this fragrant medicine shop. So you can rest assured that you will not find a shop that can do it if you look around Bianjing." It is a better fragrant medicine than my fragrant medicine!"

The little guy said so much, Han Mochu felt the wonder of fate in his heart.

He and Gu Xiu only went out for a stroll in the palace today, and by chance, they ran into an old man from the palace from the past.

Gu Xiu's father had betrayed Empress Meng, his mother, the concubine Jin, all the ministers of the Yun family, and countless loyal ministers. In his later years, he was the only one who never failed It was this Cui Weng who thought out a way out for this Cui Weng before his death, and now this Cui Weng is indeed living a comfortable, prosperous and safe old age.

Han Mochu heard a few more words from the young man, and immediately took out the money, and asked someone to pack the incense pills into a box, and picked out a small incense burner with a hook on the top that can be hung on the hanging curtain of the bedroom, and packed it together Tie it together and let Gu Xiu carry it in his hand.

The two monarchs and ministers wandered all the way, and they took everything that was delicious and fun when they encountered it.

Gu Xiu's arms are also very strong, no matter how much he lifts, he seems tireless.

At the beginning of the ugly day, the sky will break the dawn.

The two monarchs and ministers finally left the crowd and walked to the foot of the imperial city.

"Yunchi." Under the high palace wall, Han Mochu patted Gu Xiu's shoulder: "I'm a little tired from walking today, how about..."

Gu Xiu tidied up the big and small bags in his hand, turned his back, let the man lie on his back, and lifted him up with his shoulders.

Han Mochu held the tiger head lamp he just bought in his hand, and wrapped his arms around Gu Xiu's neck with peace of mind: "Oh, it's comfortable not to have to walk by yourself. No wonder your Majesty wanted to live twelve hours a day on his back when he was a child."

"Zi Ran likes it, I can carry Zi Ran on my back every day." Gu Xiu put him on his back steadily, and walked towards the palace steadily.

"Your Majesty can carry your back in a place where no one is around, but if you are in front of people, both Your Majesty and the minister will be embarrassed." Han Mochu put his arms around the man's neck and looked at the full moon in the sky with a smile: "Your Majesty, let's go, I want to go back to sleep for a while. "

In the palace road, under the shadow of the moon.

The two figures overlap each other, and at this moment, they fit together as if they are the same person.