Chapter XVII: The Palace Banquet 1

In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of the year, and the prince's mansion was very lively early in the morning. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Rong Ruoxi's Xiyuan is even more chickens and dogs.

"Yao Huang, have you found my jade-embedded dripping bead armor? Hurry up! And that Er Qiao, go and find out the piece of jasper Tenghua jade pendant that the Queen Mother rewarded last time. ”

"County Lord, you see that this comb is okay. Zuiyu asked uncertainly, this was the third time she had combed in the morning, and Zuiyu's hands were so sore that she couldn't lift them.

"Hurry up, I'll have to try on clothes later. ”

"County Lord, today's headdress, I will use the set of cloud-foot pearls rewarded by the queen mother last time to dot the emerald head, okay?"

What followed was another chaos ......

"Xi'er, you're ready. Before leaving, Zhang Yun still had to come over to take a look before he could rest assured.

"Mother, you look good!" Ruoxi stood up and spun around.

She is wearing a purple silk and emerald pattern skirt today, with a jade sprinkled cloud embroidered shirt, with a little emerald head, and the whole person looks particularly pretty and smart.

"My Xi'er is like a nine-day fairy today, so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it. ”

Rong Ruoxi's face turned red shyly, and she didn't answer.

The princess gently brushed the broken hair of Ruoxi's sideburns.

"Let's go, the carriage is ready, enter the palace early, greet those ladies and ladies, and let them see how comfortable my house is in Ruoxi. ”

Rong Ruoxi helped Zhang Yun weakly, and the mother and daughter walked to the flower hall.

Today, in the New Year, the emperor invited officials above the third grade and their families to the palace to enjoy together. This kind of large-scale banquet, called the Tongle Banquet, is actually a blind date banquet in disguise.

It is rare to have so many famous nobles gathered together, all of them are young talents, ladies of prestigious families, and each housewife naturally thinks about it, and everyone has so many children and grandchildren who are to be married and unmarried. Usually raised in the deep boudoir people don't know, but now you can openly and honestly investigate the other party's character, appearance, and conversation.

Therefore, everyone attending the banquet is trying to dress up and hope to show their best side.

Walking into the flower hall, everyone in the palace was ready, and everyone was wearing brand new clothes, and they were dressed up more festive than the New Year.

The fourth lady was dressed as magnificently as ever, like a walking jewelry box, shining with gold.

The fifth lady Rong Weixiang, today she is wearing an ancient smoke pattern green bamboo long skirt, covered with a rain-swept azure smoke cage gauze dress, hazy and hazy like a cluster in the clouds, like a dream, so light.

The sixth lady Rong Bingqing wore a pink flower dress and a butterfly dress, showing that the ice and snow were cute.

Rong Qingqian wore a Su embroidered moon brocade shirt and a pleated Ruyi moon skirt of the same color, which looked particularly dull in a group of flowers, but the orchid bud-shaped pink agate head was like a stroke of genius, which made her whole person light up.

Rong Ruoxi looked at Rong Weixiang with envy, her fifth sister is the most hateful, a little concubine actually steals the limelight with her everywhere, if she doesn't have the ability, forget it, but she still presses her everywhere, doesn't she chant some sour poems, pretend to paint a few paintings, and actually won the title of the first talented girl in Bianjing, and she is not a concubine who can't be on the stage in her bones.

"The county lord is really beautiful today, and the fairy is nothing more than that! Look at this set of green heads, I think only the identity of the county lord can be called. Rong Shuying has always been the first to look forward to Rong Ruoxi, how can she be praised at such a moment!

Rong Ruoxi glanced at Rong Shuying with appreciation, and only this sister in the entire palace was still on the road and could get on the stage.

"The fourth sister is also extravagant today, and she will be in a carriage with me for a while, so you don't know which ones you don't know to squeeze together. "What a gift to her to be able to get into the carriage of the county lord of Ruoxi, and others can't ask for it.

Of course, she is so elegant and agile today, she has to find a stupid foil to show her freshness and refinement.

The princess led Rong Ruoxi and Rong Shuying into a carriage, and the other ladies got into another carriage, which was the carriage that Rong Qingqian had ridden before.

Before Yayi, he thought that Rong Qingqian's carriage was already unspeakably expensive, but when he saw the carriage of the county lord Ruoxi today, he knew what it meant to be a small witch.

The windows are inlaid with a round and full, the same size of pearls, the body is all made of wenge wood, slightly exuding fragrance, even the curtain curtain is made of inch cloth inch gold purple fragrant cloud yarn, can be described as extravagant. In comparison, the carriage that Rong Qingqian was sitting in was extremely ordinary.

Jalan Yi Xiaokui and the other young ladies crowded into another carriage, although this carriage was very shabby, but no need to walk, it was already a great gift for Jay Yi, she was still very content.

The carriage staggered for about half an hour, and finally stopped when Jalan Yi was about to fall asleep. All the maids ran down to serve their own young lady with their hands and feet.

"When you enter the palace, you must be cautious in your words and deeds, don't move around at will, and don't lose the face of the palace. Zhang Yun's eyes swept over the group of concubines, if it weren't for the fear that others would criticize her for favoritism, she didn't want to show her face with these cheap hooves.

Walking into the banquet hall, there were already a lot of ladies and ladies sitting down in turn according to their identities, because the royal people had not yet come, so they all gathered together in twos and threes, and exchanged heads and ears. This is also the time when the news spreads the fastest.

Although the rules of ancient times were strict, some specific occasions were still relatively open. For example, in the hall, men and women sit opposite each other, only three or five meters apart, but there is no screen partition.

Most of the people who came today were young men and women, so of course they had to take a sneak peek.

"The concubine has seen Princess Duan, the lord of Ruoxi. "Here is now the highest status of the princess, and everyone has stopped chatting and has stood up to salute.

"Get up, don't be polite!" the princess put on a noble and graceful face again, but her old chin was raised to reveal her arrogance and indifference.

"The lord of Ruoxi is really getting more and more standard, and she has already been born with such a national color before she has reached her death, and who wants to marry her in the future is not a blessing that has been cultivated for several lifetimes. ”

The one who spoke was Chen, the wife of the household servant, she had a son, Yang Donglin, who was fifteen years old, but he was also dignified, although their family background was not bad, but they still couldn't climb with the county lord. The reason why she praised Rong Ruoxi so much was not just to please the princess, after all, Prince Duan's Mansion was a piece of fragrant bread in the eyes of everyone.

Chen opened this head, and the next beautiful words rushed out like a flood opening a floodgate, only boasting that there was nothing in the sky and nothing in the ground. Even Ruoxi, who has always been praised by others, is a little fluttering.

"That's right, look at this figure, I have inherited the advantages of my parents......"

"The skin is also a blow bomb that can be broken......"

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Of course, there are always some people who scoff at it, like the Marquis of Wuchang's wife, Sun, who doesn't buy her account.

Sun is the daughter of Sun Yuan, a scholar of the previous dynasty, who is very knowledgeable, not only relied on by the first emperor, but also admired by many students.

Sun is also smart and famous, and she has a deep relationship with the Marquis of Wuchang, and she is even more humane to outsiders. Sun was favored by his parents when he was at home, and after he got married, he was favored by his husband, so he developed an upright temperament, and his love and hate were clear and he was never false and wronged.

"Ruoxi County Lord is good-looking, but you look at the sisters of her family, which one is not slim and elegant, if you want me to say that the princess is a good blessing, there are so many fairy-like daughters. Why, won't Princess Duan introduce me? I believe everyone is looking forward to these young ladies. ”

At this moment, she couldn't stand the thousands of praises from everyone, and interrupted this endless and boring drama.

Princess Duan was robbed of white by the Sun family, and her face was red and white.

Rong Ruoxi was happy when she heard Sun's first half of the sentence, thinking that Sun also valued her, so the next words made her completely deflated, but she was not good at attacking, after all, Sun was the mother of Brother Qian, and she couldn't be offended.

After all, the princess had seen a big scene, and she quickly calmed down, and a modest smile quickly appeared on her face, as if the embarrassment just now had not happened at all.

"Mrs. Sun reminded me that this is my third daughter, and her name is Qingqing......"

"I've seen ladies and ladies. Rong Qingqian, who was watching the play on the side, was called by name, quickly gathered his mind, and Shi Shiran stepped forward to salute.

"This is my fourth daughter, my maiden name is Rong Shuying, this is the fifth daughter Rong Weixiang, and the sixth daughter Rong Bingqing. ”

The sisters of the palace also appeared in turn.