and son

His smile is uglier than crying.

Ah Fu was puzzled in every possible way: "Isn't this a good thing, why is your face so ugly, young master?"

Meng Chuji didn't answer, but turned back and entered the room, lost his mind and said: "Let me stay alone for a while."

A Fu stood there and scratched his head in a daze, so he had no choice but to leave with the plate.

……

It was a long time since the New Year's banquet, and several days had passed since the Lantern Festival. The sudden news that the banquet was going to be held in the palace shocked the royal family, civil and military officials.

Immediately afterwards, news spread that a Jiji banquet was going to be held, and everyone was even more confused.

The princesses in the palace have all grown up a long time ago, and the youngest also held a Jiji ceremony last year. What kind of Jiji banquet is this.

However, Pei Jing held the power of life and death in his hand, and no one dared to say "no", and all those who received the invitation said they would go to the appointment.

In order to be lively enough, Pei Jing invited more than a dozen well-known troupes in the capital, and let them sing "The Story of a Thousand Umbrellas" in turn. He didn't know which troupe sang "The Story of a Thousand Umbrellas" that the Queen Mother heard back then, and each of them sang a section. , there is always a passage that the queen mother has heard.

There are also fireworks, Pei Jing ordered people to move out all the fireworks in the palace treasury, and asked them to set them off during the opera until the end of the banquet, and if there were not enough, they had to go outside the palace to buy them.

After several days of preparations, the lively Jiji banquet began.

The temperature was bitter at night, and the stage was set up near the lake. The wind blowing towards us was like ice knives. The Empress Dowager was supported by Pei Jing, and she walked step by step to the most central viewing position.

Emperor Sui was pardoned by Pei Jing and allowed to release Qingchen Palace. He held the Queen Mother's other hand and reminded: "Mother, please slow down."

All the people vaguely guessed that the queen mother's body was not very good, so they kept silent one by one, for fear of saying something wrong.

Meng Chuji stood far away and didn't dare to approach, he was afraid that if he appeared, the Queen Mother would be displeased, but in fact the Queen Mother wanted to watch the show wholeheartedly, and others didn't care at all.

For example, Pei Xian.

Pei Xian was crippled, and it was Pei Jing who had someone carry him over. As soon as he appeared, he yelled, "Queen Mother, save your son, and see what good things your grandson has done."

The Empress Dowager turned a deaf ear, looking forward to the stage, as if she had returned to her 16-year-old youth overnight, and asked softly, "Jing Er, why hasn't the show started yet? I can't wait."

Pei Jing hid her emotions very well, and said with a gentle smile: "Grandma Huang, please sit down, this is the beginning."

As he said that, he winked at Li Xiuyi, and Li Xiuyi left to give orders. After a while, the sound of drums, moon, flute and trumpet opened up lively, and Hua Dan in a costume appeared somersaulting on stage.

The Queen Mother clapped her palms happily, her eyes narrowed into slits when she smiled: "It's started, it's started."

Pei Jing grabbed a handful of melon seeds and peeled melon seeds for her. The Empress Dowager enjoyed watching them while eating them. After a while, she looked at the people around and asked, "Why don't they laugh?"

As soon as the words were finished, all the civil and military officials of the royal family smirked, pretended to be serious about watching the show, applauded and cheered: "Good!"

The Empress Dowager glanced at the person who applauded, and said: "What's the matter, the protagonist has been dismantled."

The man bowed his head slowly, and Pei Jing smiled: "Grandma Huang, you can't eat too many melon seeds, it's easy to get angry."

The queen mother only ate a few, which was far behind Pei Jing's peeling speed. Hearing what Pei Jing said, she stopped eating: "Then take it out. If you eat too much, you will get acne."

Pei Jing turned around and waved to Meng Chuji who was in the crowd. Meng Chuji hesitated whether he should go or not. Seeing that the Queen Mother was concentrating on watching the play and not looking at other places, she silently walked up to her, trying to reduce her sense of existence.

Pei Jing gave him a plate of melon seeds, "Here, take it and eat."

Holding melon seeds, Meng Chuji looked at the queen on the left, and then at A-Jiao on the right. The pressure was huge, and perhaps seeing his embarrassment, A-Jiao took the initiative to grab a handful from the plate and said, "Prince, brother, peel the seeds." The melon seeds are delicious."

Then, the empress also picked up a few, and said coldly: "I can't help my mother."

Meng Chuji ate the melon seeds one by one.

It took an hour to watch this play, originally it was two hours, the queen mother watched and fell asleep, leaning on Pei Jing's shoulder.

Pei Jing straightened her silver hair that was blown slightly by the wind, Emperor Sui took off his clothes and covered the queen mother, the queen silently handed over the hand stove in her arms, and Gillian wrapped half of the queen's body in a big cloak.

Meng Chuji squatted aside, suddenly feeling that he...was really an outsider.

Meng Chuji didn't try to get into the horns, but just stepped back quietly and stayed away from them, so as not to destroy such a harmonious and beautiful picture.

The queen mother woke up after a quarter of an hour's sleep, squinting her eyes and couldn't open them, saying that she wanted to go back to sleep, and told Pei Jing not to see her off.

Nanny immediately went up to help her, and Emperor Sui said to Pei Jing: "Jing'er, you can go back, I will just take care of her."

Pei Jing didn't turn her eyes, she watched the Queen Mother being surrounded and walked away, and then turned to look for Meng Chuji.

Meng Chuji is no longer there.

Pei Jing asked the palace man, the palace man pointed to a dark path, and said: "Your Majesty went over there."

Pei Jing hurriedly strode to catch up.

The path is very narrow, the shadows of the trees are mottled on the ground, and the light spots of the moonlight are very shallow, not as bright as the fireworks in the sky, making everything as bright as day.

Pei Jing saw Meng Chuji walking slowly along the road, and called him, "Quiet."

Meng Chuji stopped and looked back, waiting for him in front of him without saying a word.

His face was outlined with smooth lines by intermittent light, one half was bright and one side was dark, his eyes were clean and clear, like silver stars, somehow, he read a trace of loneliness and melancholy in them,

It was clear that the two of them were close at hand, but the distance between their hearts was thousands of miles, as if... He would turn into a fairy at any moment and leave him.

Pei Jing suppressed the panic, and asked with a smile: "Why are you here alone?"

Meng Chuji drooped his eyelashes, "Walk around if you're bored."

Pei Jing went up to hold his hand and said, "Then I'll walk with you."

"Ah."

Pei Jing took him out of the woods, the surrounding light became transparent, and the fireworks exploded straight into the sky with a "chirp bang--", especially like the fireworks that he set off on the night he married Meng Chuji, colorful, beautiful and prosperous.

"Grandma Huang is going to find Grandpa Huang. Grandpa Huang will be very happy to know."

In the past few days, he has gone from unacceptable to grief to numbness to calm and calm acceptance of the facts, to the cheerfulness at this moment, and his mentality has matured a lot.

Life is full of hardships, life and death, old age and illness are inevitable, he can understand the queen mother, if one day Meng Chuji dies first, he must also want to hurry up and see him.

Looking at the sparkling lake surface, Meng Chuji smiled softly: "It's reassuring for you to think so."

Pei Jing stopped, turned her head to stare at his face, slowly took one of his hands, held it in the palm, and said: "Quiet, everything is hard to come by in the world, let's stop talking, if you are right I have a little bit of love, accept me and me as a real couple, okay? When I get old, I will take you for a walk like this. It is time to live, and we will make an appointment to die together, live together, die together The same hole, the sea is dry and the rock is rotten, and it will not change forever."