Spring and Autumn I Am King

In August and mid-autumn season, the court of Jin State quarreled again about the release of Leqi from the Great Sicheng of the Song State.

However, at this time, the six ministers in Xinjiang were not complete. Fan Yang was still in Chaoge. It was said that he contracted a minor illness and could not return immediately. After all, he was already an old man in his 80s. Everyone is guessing when this tumbler in Jin politics will die, or when he will retire and give up the throne to his younger son, Fan Jishe.

The rebel forces in the Zhou royal family have resurfaced, occupying the royal city for a long time and cannot be captured. Since Fan Bo was ill, Zhisong, who used to be in charge of Cheng Zhou's affairs, also went to the south to take charge of the overall situation. He also brought Ji Qin with him. It is said that Deng Fei also accompanied him as a Chinese clerk.

As an ally of the Zhi clan, Wei Ju has come back. Under Zhao Yang's offensive, he has the intention of loosening up...

The Bank of China has always expressed opposition to the release of Le Qi, and Han Buxin, the only one who clearly supported Zhao Yang, went to Lingyi Prefecture.

Therefore, the Marquis of Jin used the excuse that the six ministers were not in the same order, so he could not hold a public meeting. His attitude was still a drag, but he had changed from favoring Fan Yang and Zhili to becoming neutral.

This is also thanks to the fact that Zhao Wuxi, the "honour minister" beside the Marquis of Jin, intentionally or unintentionally mentioned Zhao Yang's loyalty to the office, and emphasized the damage to Jin's prestige caused by some greedy and vulgar behaviors of Fan and Bank of China. Wu Xie felt that the Jinhou line, after operating for more than a month, the time should be ripe, and he could take action.

On Zhao Wuxi's side, a messenger who sent ♀ to Zheng State to find Qinyue people also came back.

When the messenger arrived, Zhao Wuxi was in the kitchen, studying a new food with Zhao Guangde, and ran out immediately after hearing the news. Only after asking, did they know that they had not found Qinyue people.

The messenger reported: "Gentleman. The people from Xinzheng said that before we arrived. Qinyue people have already come to Jin."

Wu Xie was stunned when he heard the words: "I've come to Jin, why don't I see anyone else?"

"He didn't come from Xinjiang, it is said that he went to Guoxian."

Guoxian was originally the state of Duke Guo, the king of Zhou, and more than a hundred years ago, Jin Xian conquered it with the plan of Xun Xi, an ancestor of the Zhongxing and Zhi clans, to "fake Yu and cut Guo".

Guodi is located on the edge of the Yellow River, in the Sanmenxia area of ​​later generations, and controls the fortress of Taolin. That is, Weihan Tianjian, also known as "Hewai", is only a ten-day journey back and forth from Xinjiang. So Zhao Wuxi asked the messenger to go to Guodi instead, and be sure to invite the Qin and Yue people!

He couldn't help but sigh and said, it's really a good thing. Fortunately, Le Qi has been in good shape recently. After he started writing his volume of "The History of Le's Family", his health has been getting better day by day. Maybe Lingzi's diagnosis was wrong?

When the Book of Songs said "Weiyang in August", Zhao Wuxi once again entered the Xiqi Palace as an assistant to the Marquis of Jin. As the so-called "spring morning sun, autumn evening moon". Xiyue is to worship the moon on the day of Weiyang.

This day is actually the fifteenth day of the eighth month in later generations, the night of the full moon. There is no Mid-Autumn Festival during the Spring and Autumn Period. But there is already the custom of "raising the aging in the mid-autumn month and eating porridge and eating". It's a little different than usual.

After the complicated sacrifice, Zhao Wuxi was the same as usual. Under Taishi Mo's cold gaze, he presented another novelty to the Marquis of Jin, as well as Le Qi's side. At the lower palace, he also sent a copy to his father Zhao Yang, his eldest brother Zhao Bolu, his sister Ji Ying, his fiancee Le Lingzi and others.

"What is this?"

Le Lingzi was worried that the Qin and Yue people would not come to Jin for a long time, could not sleep at night again, and could not eat well. When she opened the porcelain food gui sent by Wu Xie, she found some attractive powder food inside.

"It looks so fragrant." Ji Ying in red was like a greedy cat, and also lay lazily on the mat with another food gui. When she saw the sweets, her eyes narrowed into crescent moons.

The two women picked up a piece each, opened her mouth slightly, bit her teeth lightly, and tasted it carefully. Soon, both pairs of eyes suddenly lit up, and they nodded inexorably at each other.

Wheat flour is made with crispy skin, thin sides and thick heart, with pine nuts, sunflower seeds, almonds and caramel, or green salt. Then wrap it with hot ointment as a filling, and the food is fragrant and soft and greasy, which is very different from ordinary food.

They said in unison: "It's sweet!" "It's salty!"

Sister Ji Ying is a sweet party, but Le Lingzi is actually a salty party.

Zhao Wuxi eats both sweet and salty.

On the two food guises that were sent, there was also a slip of paper attached to each. Ji Ying picked it up and looked at it, only to see a few small seal characters written by Zhao Wuxi himself: "The small cake is like a chewing moon. Crisp and caramel".

"It turns out that this thing is called moon cake, and it really resembles a full moon." Ji Ying looked at the silver plate in the sky and silently wrote down the name.

And the bamboo slips on Le Lingzi's food scorpion have more characters and are densely written. Ji Ying had a bit of taste for his brother's behavior of "favoring one over the other". Just as he was about to tease Le Lingzi sourly, he saw two lines of tears streaming down her cheek.

"What's going on here?"

Ji Ying leaned over and wiped her tears with her red cuffs, only to see her pair of big, clear and graceful eyes overflowing with tears, which made me feel pity and made Ji Ying a little crazy.

"I want to see, what Wu Xie said actually made you cry."

She picked up the slip of paper that Le Lingzi accidentally dropped and read it aloud.

"People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and sunny. It is difficult to complete this matter. I hope people will live long and live together in a thousand miles..."

These few sentences are quite different from the style of the poem 300. Although they are not elegant, they are catchy and have a different kind of beauty. They are exactly the same as Zhao Wuxi's "Sound of Desolation" when he answered the musician Gao in the main hall of the lower palace.

Ji Ying was also stunned for a while, but saw Le Lingzi wipe away her tears and burst into laughter.

For the first time in a few days, she let herself eat more food. These delicious snacks are all the gentleman's heart and silent care. Come to think of it, my father can taste the same taste in the deep palace. I hope my father has a long life, I and a gentleman can grow old together, and the family can be reunited as soon as possible!

But in Ji Ying's heart, thinking of his own life experience, it has a different taste.

The moon can be rounded again, can the broken bronze mirror be rounded again?

The Mid-Autumn Festival is full of moon, and people also hope to be reunited. This is probably the first time in history that someone has given this day a different meaning.

At the same time, Zhao Wuxi rejected Le Qi's suggestion to let him stay in the palace of Long Qi, and rushed back to Chengxiang overnight. He couldn't go to the same room with Ji Ying and Le Lingzi, so only Chengxiang could make him feel at home on this special day.

After a bumpy ride on the carriage until the middle of the night, he finally returned to the living room. After taking a bath and grooming under Wei's personal service, Wu Xie sat on the watchtower of the Xiang Temple again. Accompanied by Wei, he also held a "moon cake" and stared at the bright and bright moon that climbed higher and higher.

It has been almost a year since he came to this era, and his words and deeds are more and more like a gentleman in the Spring and Autumn Period, and gradually he completely coincides with "Zhao Wuxi". The family and various life events in the previous life seem to be separated from each other, and here, he also got a lot of things, and even relived the taste of family and love.

It was also from this year that the custom of "eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival" became popular among the upper-class aristocrats of Jin.

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The mid-autumn season has passed, and the season of "September Giving Clothes" has begun. Jin State is located in the north. It was the first to feel the coolness of the north wind. Every household began to sew winter clothes. day.

However, the messenger who went to find the Qin and Yue people still did not return within the expected time. Instead, the lower palace sent someone to summon him, because the car of Dong Anyu, the doctor of Jinyang, was coming tomorrow. (To be continued..)

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