Sheng Mansion.

Old Madam Ming was a little trembling from the moment she got up.

After getting into the carriage, I was even more nervous, and from time to time I asked the granddaughters and maids in the same car: "Is my hair messy?"

"What's the mess?" Old Lady Sheng couldn't help but say when she heard this, "The car full of people can see you when they look up, and if there is any omission, they won't tell you?! Look at the way you haven't seen the world!"

Old Madam Ming said angrily: "I want to see the world! But my father is a rural landlord, and after following you, he will either teach his husband and children in northern Xinjiang, or be an old lady in Nanfeng County!

The old lady was rarely stopped by his wife's question, and after choking for a while, he saw that his granddaughters didn't give face to cover up and snicker, although the maids next to him didn't dare to laugh openly, they also lowered their heads to cover up, the old face turned red, and hummed: "Didn't this bring you to Chang'an? I will have to participate in the palace banquet later! How many people have never seen such a scene in their lives!"

"Is this the world you brought me to see?!" Old Madam Ming rarely had the upper hand, and couldn't help but take advantage of the victory to pursue, snorting coldly, "I'm not stained with the light of my grandchildren?!"

“…… You're all this old man, what do you love!" Old Lady Sheng said angrily, "You don't look at Qiao'er and a few of them are here, there are young and beautiful girls in the family, who is impatient to look at you old woman!"

Mrs. Ming sneered: "Then you still swear that the silver-gilt cloisonné jade peony hairpin is not the current silk inlaid gem-inlaid character pattern gold hairpin suitable for my hair bun and dress today?!Anyway, it's an old woman who no one looks at, I just don't dress appropriately, so what's the matter?!"

"Isn't that still for me to watch!" Old Lady Sheng subconsciously replied.

When these words came out, the old couple's faces turned red at the same time, and they each looked at each other complainingly, and they were silent.

Seeing this, even Sheng Weiqiao, who thought that he would inevitably see Rong Sleeping Crane and was so preoccupied, couldn't help laughing.

On this day, when the Sheng family and his party got out of the car, their expressions were a little strange.

The crooked beating made the old lady Ming, who was originally very nervous, calm down a lot.

It's just that they took out the invitation and were led to the seat by the palace people in the garden Soon after, the palace maid of Jingshao Hall came to find her, saying that Queen Meng heard that the Sheng family was coming, and planned to take advantage of the fact that there were not many people at this time.

With Chunlai in front of her, she was embarrassed to ask left and right, "Is the hair messy, and the hairpin ring crooked", but she kept touching her hands, and she was a little at a loss.

Fortunately, Chunlai noticed it, and took the initiative to reassure them on the way to Queen Meng: "The queen has always liked several county lords, and often said that the old lady can raise such an outstanding granddaughter, and she must also be a kind and amiable elder. At this moment, I just want to meet with you and say a few words about homely things, and the old lady doesn't have to worry!"

Mrs. Ming stammered a little and said, "Qiao'er...... Well, Kang Zhao didn't actually teach them ......."

"Grandmother is humility. Sheng Weiqiao is also familiar with Chunlai because of Queen Meng, and she will see that beads of sweat are on the old lady's nervous forehead, and she is busy speaking, "We are your granddaughters, not you taught us, and who taught us?"

Old lady Sheng couldn't help but be angry with this old wife's little family, sighed secretly, and whispered: "It's this reason! The queen mother is not looking for you to settle accounts for Qiao Er and the others who have done something wrong, what are you afraid of?"

Under the comfort of the ancestors and grandchildren, Mrs. Ming finally eased up a little, and at this time she also arrived at the place where Queen Meng was.

Let's talk about the venue for today's banquet, of course, in Shanglin Garden.

However, Shanglin Yuan is more than 300 miles longitudinal and horizontal, spanning five counties, and there are hundreds of pavilions in the inner palace, and it is impossible to use them all for a day.

Probably because Empress Dowager Meng is indeed getting old and can't help but toss, at this moment it is the Lingbo Palace closest to the palace city.

Lingbo Palace is a palace built according to one of the eight rivers in Shanglin Garden, because of the influence of dense forests and riverbank topography, the whole palace complex is not as regular as the palace in the imperial city, but a kind of narrow distribution.

Influenced by the imperial city located in the south of Chang'an, the main hall of Lingbo Palace is located in the southeast.

Based on the main hall, the seats further northwest the more humble and less valued.

Although Sheng Weiqiao has been in and out of the palace from time to time recently, and it has also caused the county lord of Deping and Meng Twelve and Meng Thirteen to have a bleak ending, but after all, they have not been in Chang'an for a long time, and their foundation is still shallow, and their elders Mrs. Sheng and Mrs. Ming are even more lowly in official positions, so the original seat, although it is not said to be the last seat, is almost the same.

At this moment, I walked all the way to the main hall, but when I saw the surrounding splendor and beauty, the people who saw it were simply dizzying.

Because the main hall was already arranging seats at this time, in order to prevent disturbance, the queen used the side hall next door to temporarily settle down.

Before I entered, I saw several noble ladies and ladies who had also arrived early talking and laughing around Queen Meng, who was standing on the phoenix throne, and when they saw the Sheng family and his party coming in, they all looked over. Sheng Weiqiao has been in and out of the palace several times, and the old lady Sheng is used to seeing life and death in the army, so he is naturally not afraid of such a gaze at this moment.

Sheng Weiqiao recognized a few of them who knew their names, and nodded slightly.

However, Mrs. Ming suddenly showed her timidity, and subconsciously wanted to bend down to salute, but she only made a move, and remembered the etiquette that her granddaughters had told her before.

So he stopped abruptly...... The first crowd saw her crampedness clearly, and some people covered their faces with fans, their eyes slightly bent, and they were obviously smiling.

However, it was probably because they all knew that Empress Meng was very partial to Sheng Weiqiao and the others, but no one dared to laugh out loud.

Therefore, the Sheng family, who noticed this scene, couldn't say anything, but Mrs. Ming felt ashamed and became more and more stiff.

Although Empress Meng was kind and pleasant, and after giving the seat, she also specifically asked them whether to eat tea or drink to show her attention, but Mrs. Ming still stammered a little when she answered, and she almost turned the tea over her skirt when she received the tea.

Seeing this situation, Empress Meng could only quietly give Sheng Weiqiao an apologetic look, and after a few words of greeting, she said: "Kang Zhao and Jiaxiang stay here to accompany the palace! As for the old lady and old lady, can the palace give you a new seat?"

Sheng Weiqiao knew that the seat she changed must be higher, but the Sheng family did not have the support of prominent power and status at this time, and it was not necessarily a good thing to change to a noble guest.

But before the words of resignation could be spoken, Empress Meng had already continued, "How about sitting with the Ningwei Hou Mansion family?"

Sheng Weiqiao immediately nodded at the inquiring gaze cast by Old Lady Sheng, her grandfather, grandmother, cousin and cousin were all attending a banquet of this scale for the first time, and with the Xu family watching, she could finally rest assured.

In this way, after Mrs. Sheng and the others left, Empress Meng said to Sheng Weiqiao: "I originally heard that your seat is in the back, and I wanted to change it for you, by the way, but I didn't want to disturb Grandmother Ling." ”

"My grandmother has been in Nanfeng County for a long time, and it is the first time she has participated in the palace banquet, so she is unfamiliar. Where the deceitfulness is, it's good if the mother is not to blame, where can you say 'disturb'?" Because there are other people around this time, Sheng Weiqiao naturally will not be as casual as in private, and said politely, "Speaking of which, when I went to Xinshou Palace to meet the Queen Mother for the first time before, I was also very frightened. Thanks to the Queen Mother's tolerance and kindness, she didn't care about me. ”

Empress Meng covered her mouth and smiled: "Auntie is very impressed with you until now, and occasionally mentions it, I have never seen such an innocent girl as you!"

Sheng Weiqiao thought of his recklessness when he first entered the palace, his face turned red, and he said, "Let the Queen Mother ...... Well, I'm smiling!"

"Queen Mother, this county lord of Kangzhao, I have always heard you talk about it, but this is the first time we have seen it!" At this time, among the ladies who arrived first, a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl asked with a smile, "Won't you introduce us to us?"

Empress Meng turned her head to glance at her, smiled and said to Sheng Weiqiao: "This is the granddaughter of the second uncle of the mother's family in this palace, her father is the second brother of the mother's family in this palace, and her maiden name is Shuangli, she is twelve years old this year, she has always loved to be coquettish, and sometimes she can't cry and laugh in this palace." ”

From this introduction, it can be heard that Queen Meng still has a little love for this Meng Shuangli.

Sheng Weiqiao smiled and said, "This is because Miss Shuang Lian is related to her mother." ”

"It's also my mother's love for me, don't I want to be spoiled?" Meng Shuang interjected sweetly, "Otherwise, I wouldn't dare to speak rashly in front of my mother." ”

Empress Meng deliberately said with a straight face: "You still don't dare to speak! This palace sees that sometimes everything this palace wants to say is finished by you!"

"Then it must be that I feel sorry for Niangniang, you will be tired from talking too much, so I helped you finish!" Meng Shuangli didn't panic when she saw this, and immediately said, "It must be like this! I am so sympathetic to Niangniang, so I won't annoy Niangniang with many tongues in front of Niangniang!"

She nodded thoughtfully, "That's right!"

"Did you see that?" Queen Meng pointed at her with a fan and said to Sheng Weiqiao, "That's it, both love to talk and quibble, it's really impossible to call this palace!"

"Niangniang's words sound like a complaint, but we can all see that you are full of pain Miss Frost!" Sheng Weiqiao snickered and asked everyone, "Did you say that?"

So everyone naturally joined the topic in the echo, but Gongsun Yingjiang, who was left behind with Sheng Weiqiao, never made a sound.

In everyone's opinion, this situation is naturally because not long after the flower viewing banquet, even if the most miserable Jiaxiang county lord who was cheated at the banquet has Yi Zhijin to cover his face, it would be good to have the courage to come to the banquet at this time, how could he talk as hot as no one?

In fact, at this time, including Empress Meng, they were a little surprised that Gongsun Ying Jiang would come.

They all thought that since Gongsun Yingjiang had "suffered such a big blow" at the beginning, and heard that he had "committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake that night", if it weren't for "Mrs. Ning Weihou expected it and sent someone to keep an eye on it", Xiang Xiaoyu would have died a long time ago!

In this way, according to common sense, this person is hiding at home and refusing to see anyone at this time!

"Could it be that after the marriage, she felt that she had a name, so she was embarrassed to come out? But looking at her taciturn appearance now, it doesn't look like she has already been exposed...... It's no wonder that she tried to kill herself in the first place, and it's only been a few days, how could she have thought about it?"

"I wonder why she's here today?"

Everyone muttered in their hearts, because they were afraid of Queen Meng's presence, let alone ask, even if they didn't dare to show it on their faces, they only secretly guessed.

But I don't know that the reason why Gongsun Yingjiang didn't participate in their topic at this time was that he was not interested in this kind of entertainment, and secondly, he was seriously thinking about a question: "Last time, the little uncle said that any beautiful man who beats his aunt's idea, whatever I sleep!"

"So ......"

"Today, should I sleep with Yichunhou first, or Chongxinbo first, or Cao Zhu first?"

Too many choices are also a sweet annoyance!