Listening to her words, I suddenly felt that the originally gorgeous and graceful woman turned out to be a pitiful person. And she herself understood this, too. In the past, she resented and resented in her heart, but she still wanted to maintain her demeanor as a queen.
She smiled in front of everyone, just for a man who didn't love her. And now? Suddenly I remembered a passage I saw in the Bible before. Based on some memories and my own words, it seemed to say
He told her, as if speaking to himself, he said calmly: "There is a season for everything, a time for everything. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot; a time to kill, a time to heal; a time to weep, and a time to laugh.
There is a time; a time to be sad and a time to be happy; a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to abandon; a time to tear and a time to mend; a time to be silent and a time to speak; a time to love and a time to hate; a time to war and a time to make peace.”
She slowly turned around, looked at me steadily, and repeated: "A time to live, a time to die; a time to be happy, a time to cry, a time to laugh; a time to be sad; a time to love, and a time to hate."
I thought she might be enlightened, so I said: "Some people have to experience this, and some people don't need to experience it. I just want you to take it lightly. Life has sorrows and sorrows, and birth, old age, illness and death are more complete. Of course, this does not mean that
For the sake of this integrity, you have to ask for trouble and even death. Death will not solve any problem. Objectively speaking, you just lost someone who does not love you, but the emperor lost someone who loved him. In total, you
It’s not a loss. On the contrary, you want to risk your life for this now, and that’s the biggest loss. Remember, you don’t know how to love your own people, so how can you ask others to love you? Why should you?
Jealous of the woman he loves. Don't punish yourself for the mistakes of others. It's not worth it."
I looked at her eyes, which became a little angry, and continued: "I'll put this porridge and sweet soup here. Eat it when you think about it."
After saying that, I walked out. I understood that she was not the mastermind behind the scenes. She was probably just a pawn in this trap. I looked at the gloomy sky again, thinking that I might not be able to take the newly picked wild vegetables yesterday.
I went out to dry in the sun. Otherwise, it started to rain and I would not be able to come back in time to collect it. I took the long hook directly to Luohe Pavilion to continue picking lotus pods and lotus roots. Suddenly I found that I looked like a concubine now, and I looked like a real concubine.
Village girl.
When it was almost noon, the sun came out again. I looked at the basket of lotus pods and the freshly hooked lotus roots, which were almost done. Then I ran to the stream to wash them, holding the basket in one hand and a bundle of lotus roots in the other.
.I thought I would go back early so I could take out those vegetables and dry them. Otherwise, if they get spoiled, it would be in vain.
As soon as I returned to the Morning Palace and saw the scene, I was stunned for a while, and then I felt a lot more relieved. I looked at the queen who was lying still and not moving much in the morning. She had freshened up now. Although she still looked a little haggard, she was neat and tidy.
She grew a lot and looked comfortable. The most important thing was that she slowly took out some wild vegetables, put them under the sun, and spread them out carefully.
She looked up and saw me, smiled sheepishly, and said, "That bowl of porridge and sweet soup was not enough, so I went to the dining room to see if there was anything else. Seeing these dishes, I should have brought them
Let’s dry it for the winter.”
I felt relieved and nodded. She came over and seemed to take the basket and lotus roots from my hand. I smiled and said to her, "You must not have recovered yet, forget it, I'll do it."
I felt that this scene was quite similar, just like two sisters living together. I picked up the lotus root on my hand and said with a smile: "Let's go cook. It's still early today, so I'll give it to you."
Let’s make a whole lotus root feast.”
"Full lotus root feast?" She looked at me curiously and said.
"Well, that's right. The osmanthus flowers in the Baihua Forest are also blooming at this time. I'm going to pick some and bring them back to make glutinous rice and lotus roots." After saying that, I walked into the dining room, poured out the lotus seeds, and ran out again with the basket in hand.
"Tianfei." The queen stopped me and asked a little unnaturally: "My maiden name is Lan Lin. Just call me Lan Lin. Can I call you Si'er?"
"Why not? Lan Lin." I asked back with a smile.
She smiled and said favorably, and asked, "Do you need me to do anything?"
"Okay, there is some glutinous rice in the white porcelain jar next to the rice vat in the dining room. Take out a small bowl, wash it and soak it in warm water. Take ten red dates next to it, wash them clean. There is sugar in the red porcelain jar next to it.
, just take a small bowl of water, mix it with red dates and soak it." I said, it looked like she really wanted to do something, but her body was not good, so I would choose the simplest thing to do for her.
She nodded, and I turned around and walked towards the stream in Baihualin. There was nothing I could do, the osmanthus trees in other places were burned by the fire, only the trees by the stream behind the slope were still intact.
When we came to the slope, the sweet-scented osmanthus was fragrant. As soon as I saw the light yellow dots on the tree, I felt very good. It bloomed more than I expected. I came under the tree and picked a few more.
I think that in the future I can make osmanthus cakes, make osmanthus tea, make osmanthus lotus root powder, osmanthus small yuanxiao, and if I can catch the mandarin ducks from Luohe Pavilion, I can also make osmanthus meat...
The more I think about it, the better I feel, and I want to move all these trees back.
After returning to the Morning Palace, Queen Lan Lin had already soaked the glutinous rice and washed the lotus roots. Seeing me coming back with a basket of osmanthus and a large handful in my hand, she made a somewhat excited sound and took the osmanthus in my hand.
Osmanthus, I smelled it again and again. I smiled knowingly. This was the first time I saw her smile so pure. She said: "You said you were going to make a whole lotus root feast, so I thought I should use a lot of lotus roots, so I
Wash them."
I hummed, picked up a lotus root, quickly peeled off its skin, and cut both ends. Use the lotus leaves to make a funnel. Sieve the funnel hole into the lotus root hole, and use chopsticks to fill the hole with glutinous rice.
When it is full, cut a few toothpicks and insert them into the incisions, then put the cut lotus root segments on the other end of the toothpicks to sew them up. Put them in a pot, add sugar and some red dates.
Looking back, I saw Lan Lin looking at me in surprise, as if she had discovered a new world. I smiled and said, "It's strange that I can do this?"
"Well, it's a little strange, but it's not that strange if it happens to you. I just admire you a little," she replied.
"Then just take your guess." I said, thinking: Do you admire me? Then I will let you admire me a little more.
Next, I made sweet and sour lotus root, cold lotus root, stir-fried shredded lotus root with crispy peppers, and fried lotus root cake. The ingredients were limited, but it still tasted delicious. After half an hour, I took it out and boiled it in the pot.
Glutinous rice and lotus root. Cut into slices, pour a little honey on it, and sprinkle with osmanthus. The osmanthus sugared lotus root is completed.
The soup inside can't be wasted. Good red date soup is the best for replenishing blood. However, I was still a little embarrassed looking at the dishes on the table.
"Sui'er, what's wrong with you? Aren't you fine?" She looked at me strangely and asked.
"No meat!" I really haven't eaten meat for a long time. When my appetite came up today, I really had the urge to show off my animal nature. Then I remembered that there is a lotus pond and a stream here, so I said, "It's okay, I'll look for it later."
Make a fishhook with a needle and see if you can catch a fish. If not, there are some mandarin ducks near the Luohe Courtyard. You can catch them and make a salted duck and stewed lotus root."
Lan Lin was halfway through eating, and she looked at me blankly and said, "But that's a mandarin duck."
"At this time, those are just prettier ducks." I replied after taking a bite of sweet and sour lotus root.
When she heard it, she burst into laughter.
In the afternoon, she insisted on going to Luohe Pavilion with me to help. I thought I would go and go. Anyway, she looked like she should go out for a walk. So, I hooked up lotus pods and fished out lotus roots by the Luohe Pond. And she
I was washing the lotus roots I fished out by the stream, and the cooperation was quite tacit. I also tried to catch a few mandarin ducks, but those things seemed to understand my gloomy eyes and ran away when they saw me approaching.
I was still swimming in the lake, looking at me from a distance, as if to say: Are you mistaken? I have heard of people beating mandarin ducks with sticks. I have never seen you wanting to eat mandarin ducks.
But I couldn't run fast, and I was tired for a long time without even catching a hair. I could only stare at the group of mandarin ducks leisurely swimming in the lake, thinking, if my Qinggong hadn't locked them up, they would have been roasted.
You guys thought again that you couldn't catch her anyway, so you asked Lan Lin to go back to the Lotus Pavilion to peel off the lotus pods.
Looking at the large lotus pods, I still feel a sense of accomplishment. With the help of an ax or sickle, I carefully peeled them open, and there were the black lotus seeds - they are as black as big peas, but hard, smooth and quite
It's weighty. Lan Lin's eyes lit up when she saw it. I was about to say something when I saw her and put one in her mouth. As expected, she was so miserable that all her facial features were tangled together.
He opened the shell of the lotus seeds, tore off a green bud in the middle of the two lotus seeds, and said: "The buds are beautiful, but they are so bitter that they cannot be swallowed. I am afraid you will not be able to get over the bitter taste for a long time.
.Hurry and drink some of the red date water you brought. Take it easy."
As soon as she heard this, she immediately opened the food box on the table, poured a cup of red date water and drank a big gulp. She said with some displeasure: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? It's so bitter!"
"You were so impatient that you just stuffed it into your mouth without asking. I want to say it's too late. Eat this." I handed the peeled lotus seeds to her hands and said.
She put it to her mouth with some doubts, and seemed to have made up her mind before she put it in her mouth and chewed it. Her tangled face slowly relaxed and she said: "Well, it's really sweet. Shi'er, you like to eat this lotus pod very much."
What?"
I nodded and said: "Only lotus pods are more delicious here. But the beauty of eating lotus pods lies in listening to the sound of autumn, where brilliance and depression coexist, refreshing and elegance coexist. You can enjoy the lotus pods by calming down and peeling them off in the autumn wind."
The delicious taste and the leisurely sound of autumn.”
"Well, you can learn a lot, just like peeling this lotus seed. The other parts are delicious, but the buds in the middle look beautiful, but are actually the most bitter. Just like people, they are always confused by the beauty on the outside.
.Once touched and bit open, the whole lotus seed will be destroyed in the end." She looked at the lotus seed that had not yet been peeled off and said.
I was very moved by her sentiments, yes. There are absolutely bad people in this world. They just have their own inner demons. Once they cannot overcome them, if they are not careful, the whole person may be destroyed. But after all, people are not
Lotus, everyone should have a chance to change.
"Sir, you know, I feel guilty now that I think about it. Last time I came here, I felt really happy about my misfortune." She confessed. I looked calmly into the distance, and she asked further.
: "Aren't you angry?"
"Are you angry? I am not a saint, of course I will be angry. But why should I embarrass myself for the mistakes made by others. But if it really hurts my relatives, then I will not forgive. If there is a chance, I will also
I will pay them back in full."
"Do you really hate the emperor so much? You don't seem like the kind of person who would harm his own children just for the sake of hatred." She looked at me and questioned.
"Do you all think that I killed the child myself? Why are you so sure?" I turned my head and looked at her and asked. Now I feel sure that she did not plan this matter.
"All the evidence points to you, doesn't it?"
"Oh, I didn't even know Musk at that time, but they all said it was me. So what about the little princess? I guess all the evidence later pointed to you, but did you do it? You didn't." I continued to peel it off.
The lotus pods seem to be telling a story.
She choked and said sadly: "I didn't expect you to be the first person to believe in me."
"Actually, at the beginning, I did doubt you, even my child. I also doubted that it was you. But when I thought about it later, there were many things wrong. If it was really you, you don't seem to be that kind of person.
People who are angry will come here in less than a day. If it were you, you would drive away the others that day, leaving only one person who can protect you, and then openly tell you how you plotted against me. Only in that way can you
Happy. But you didn't. Although you were willing to take pleasure in others' misfortune, you were the one investigating this matter. But you were not the mastermind behind the scenes. Now that you have been charged with a crime so quickly, the possibility is even less likely.
." I continued to peel off the lotus pods and analyzed.
"It seems there are a lot of things we don't know here. I don't think you would hurt your child. The man behind the scenes is too scary and hateful. He almost wants to push us to death. If someone hadn't done it for me,
Please forgive me, I'm afraid I would have died on that stick. At this time, who will be her next target?" She said with lingering fear.
"Who she is, we will naturally know in the future. What we have to do now is to live well. Only by living can we have the opportunity and right to know everything. Moreover, we must try to live a better life."
She nodded knowingly.
I looked at the sky in the distance. It was blue and clear, and the white clouds were flying and scattered into strands. If they were there or not, they would gather and disperse... The white clouds and lotus pods were as far away as they were infinite, and as close as they could be hidden deep in the belly, and they could
Slowly reflect on it again and again.
While savoring, look at the sky, the earth, yourself, the wild geese flying south in the distant sky, and the yellow leaves falling on the branches. It's like watching a black and white movie in the wilderness. Distant memories arrive in an instant and shake away in the blink of an eye.
, shots from far and near change the time between the past and the present. A single shot in a trance can make people linger for a long time, just like the aftertaste of lotus pods in the mouth.
After a long time, I saw that it was getting late, so I suggested going back so that I could cook early. Otherwise, when it gets dark, I would have to go out in the dark again. That would be very uncomfortable.
On the way back, I heard Lan Lin shouting in surprise. When I turned around, I saw a bird lying on the stone roadside. I walked over and picked it up and saw that it was a wild goose that had been shot by a short arrow. I thought it should be
It must have been the man named Ye Ling who shot him down and put him here. He was really a strange person. However, tonight we can make fresh lotus root stewed wild goose soup, and we can finally eat some meat.