A few days after he came out of confinement, before Zheng Wei could find a chance to talk to Zheng Shao, it was the first big banquet held in the palace in the spring - the peony flower banquet.

Zheng Wei also learned after entering the palace that the harem of the Dayong Dynasty used to have the tradition of holding a flower banquet every spring, but this time it was also because the new emperor ascended the throne, and everything did not gradually enter the orbit until the new year, and the flower banquet that was supposed to be held in mid-spring was a month late.

During the period of the first emperor, because of the early death of the queen, except for the New Year's banquet and the Lantern Festival Mid-Autumn Festival banquet and other festival banquets that must be held, other banquets have long been banned by the first emperor on the grounds of "luxury and waste".

Now that the newcomers have a new atmosphere, this is the first flower banquet held by the queen as the mother of the country, and the palace attaches great importance to it.

After listening to the role of the peony flower banquet of silk basket science, Zheng Wei figured out the origin of the banquet: this is a large-scale blind date specially held for the children of nobles!

The silk basket said very noblely: "At the banquet, the water flows, and the talented people write poems and lyrics, which is extremely elegant." ”

Zheng Wei: Spring is a season of turmoil, everyone wants to move, and the royal flower banquet is in line with the people's wishes.

The women in the palace are idle all day long, and there are not many group activities like this. Therefore, when the stars of Jingchen Palace arched Zheng Shao's moon to the imperial garden, almost all the women in the harem arrived.

The imperial garden of Dayong Palace is about the same size as the imperial garden of the Forbidden City in later generations, and the blue brocade silk fence separates the imperial garden into two pieces. The concubines and the ladies of the various provinces were all crowded on the side of the pavilion, and there was a small pond the size of a palm on the part of the men.

Looking at the few pots of precious peonies scattered in the garden, Zheng Wei felt that I was afraid that the silk basket would not be able to see the "meandering water" that she longed for the most.

The queen's spring banquet this time is quite humane, although there is a fence on both sides of the man and woman, this barrier is not too thick, and you can see hazy figures walking on both sides of the fence.

No matter how hard the women of each palace fight, they still have to maintain the false face of their wives and concubines and beauty in front of outsiders. In particular, this is the first unofficial collective appearance of the new emperor's harem in front of the Dayong nobles in addition to the palace banquet, and it is rumored that the emperor will also come to visit after approving the excerpts. Everyone knows that the royal face must not be lost.

Even Zheng Shao, who often wanted to tie the queen's head into a hole when he spoke like this, softened his voice today, and after asking the queen for peace in a proper manner, he found his mother, Mrs. Weiyuanhou, and reunited with her mother and daughter.

Even if she understood that her mother couldn't come in at such a level of banquet, Zheng Wei was still a little disappointed.

Weiyuanhou's wife Ji is a very clear person, she patted Zheng Shao, who was holding on to herself, comfortingly, took something from the hand of the eldest maid who followed the palace, handed it to Zheng Wei's hand and said with a smile: "Sister Wei, this is what your mother asked me to bring you in after she knew that I was going to enter the palace." She wants me to tell you, saying that she is fine in the house, and she wants you not to worry about her in the palace. ”

Zheng Wei took the box and gave Ji a half-salute, and Ji accepted it calmly.

Mrs. Hou is a first-class foreign wife, although Zheng Wei is nominally the emperor's woman, but her rank is too low, she gives this half-salute to the Ji family, and the Ji family can still afford it.

Zheng Wei was about to ask her mother what she was doing in the mansion all day, but Zheng Shao had already held Ji and chattered about her life in the palace.

In addition to seeing his daughter from afar at the New Year and Lantern Festival Palace banquet, this is the first time she has talked to her daughter after her daughter enters the palace, where can she take care of Zheng Wei?

Qiao Mu and Zheng Wei grew up together since childhood, and knew what she was worried about, so she whispered: "Beauty, do you want me to go to Sister Linglong to inquire about our wife's situation?" ”

Linglong is the first big maid to be used by Ji's side, and it is the only maid that Ji brought into the palace this time.

Zheng Wei looked around: the palace banquet hadn't started yet, the ladies were all walking around, there were a lot of people here, there must be nothing wrong, so she nodded.

According to the system of six-grade beauties, there can only be two big palace maids, and the silk basket was left by Zheng Wei to watch the house, and only Qiao Mu came with Zheng Wei.

Qiao Mu called a little Gong'e and asked her to follow Zheng Wei and listen to orders at any time, so he hurriedly caught up with Zheng's mother and daughter.

Zheng Wei didn't want to mix with those disgruntled palace concubines, so she deliberately walked in the direction of fewer people.

didn't go far, and the little Gong'e suddenly covered her stomach and groaned in pain.

"What's wrong with you?"

Xiao Gong'e's face began to turn pale, obviously she was really in pain, and she was so anxious that tears were about to fall out: "Slave, slave maid's stomach hurts so much." ”

This little girl, with her round apple face, seems to be only eleven or two years old, and she is still in elementary school in modern times, and she is now begging for a living in the most sinister place in the world, which is pitiful enough.

Zheng Wei saw that there were people walking around not far from here, and she didn't expect anything to happen, so she said, "Then you go to the doctor to see if you have a bad stomach, can you go?" ”

Xiao Gong'e looked grateful, and nodded again and again: "Yes, thank you for the beauty." After saying that, she ran away with her stomach in her arms.

Zheng Wei knew that there was a place in the depths of the rockery where the two mountains were connected, and the gap was slightly smooth, and the craftsmen chiseled a stone bench according to its style for people to rest for a while. If you don't look closely, you won't be able to spot the hole. It was a bit of a hidden location, and she could go there and hide for a while.

She held the box in her hand, a little eager to know what Jiang had brought her.

Zheng Wei found a place, and sure enough, there was no one there. She opened the box, and on the blue background was a small and delicate dragon beard candy wrapped in glutinous rice paper.

Zheng Wei picked up a piece and put it in her mouth: sure enough, it was still that familiar, sweet and not greasy taste.

Her eyes were a little hot, and she carefully closed the box—she counted, it was only as thick as an abacus, three palms wide, and there were less than thirty in a box, and she had to save some food.

Jiang is the most dust-free, and he was born with a character who does not like to ask for help, this time for her, I don't know how many relationships I have walked in the house with my face, so that this box of candy was handed to her alive.

Zheng Wei tasted this hard-won candy attentively: when she first learned that she was going to enter the palace, she had complained that if the Jiang family had a strong personality, thought about her a little more, and would live a better life, maybe she wouldn't have to go to the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion to send people under the fence, and finally be sent to the deep palace.

In the past few days of entering the palace, she has gradually figured out that not everyone can be soft and hard, and bow her head to make the material of cattail.

Jiang was arrogant, if it wasn't for the fact that he couldn't let her go, she would have gone with her father when he died.

When her father was before, Jiang was such a laughing and lively character. But since she entered the Hou Mansion, in order not to arouse the jealousy of the women of the Hou Mansion, she trapped herself in the small courtyard where the mother and son lived, and she had never seen a foreign man since the day she entered the mansion.

Jiang did this, and the hostesses of the Hou Mansion saw it.

Zheng Wei's ability to eat so openly in the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion has a lot to do with Jiang's character of keeping to himself and cherishing himself.

Zheng Wei took a breath: Even if it was for her mother, she had to go out and continue to fight. Zheng Shao is good, she is good, she is good, her mother is good.

She just moved, but she heard two gentle footsteps outside the rockery, and a male voice sounded: "It's not easy to see you once, do you think it's useful to hide from me?" ”

Zheng Wei was holding the box in a sluggish state, she really didn't expect that someone would come here to talk privately and listen to the voice in broad daylight, is this a private meeting? Like, not like.

The woman's voice made Zheng Wei even more shocked: "Why are you so bold?!" It's a palace feast, and it's full of people! ”

Wait, she's definitely heard this voice in the palace, whose voice is this......