Since it is a banquet, it is naturally famous, and this time the old lady took advantage of the ripeness of the fruits in the orchid garden in the western suburbs, and specially posted a post to invite the ladies of the powerful families in the city to taste and play.

The western suburbs of the orchid garden is not the assets of the Marquis of Anguo, but the purchase of the Zhao family in the south of the Yangtze River, because of the fear that the daughter will marry away from the capital will inevitably be homesick, so he found this place with rich water sources outside the city, and spent a lot of money to purchase a piece of land of nearly 1,000 acres, imitating the scenery of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, which took four years to build, and even the name was taken from Mrs. Xia's boudoir name.

In the orchid garden, there are pavilions and water pavilions, nine-curved corridors, green tiles and white walls, and strange flowers and rare trees...... The whole nine yards. The layout is free, the building is simple, the hall and the small pavilion are arranged as appropriate, and the structure is not formal, and it is known for its freshness and ease and elegance in this flashy capital.

This time, the old lady set the venue of the banquet here, obviously she put in a lot of effort, but if she said that she was going to come to this orchid garden, as long as she sent a post, no one would make excuses for not coming, and her status was not as good as that of the Marquis of Anguo, so it was needless to say, even if she had a higher status, even if she didn't want to touch the mold of July at the end of June, she would not say that it was the face of the two forces of the Marquis of Anguo and the Zhao family.

Although the orchid garden is outside the city, it also has maids and grandmothers, and the housekeeper is also there all year round, and Mrs. Xia will always live there for a few months of the year, so there is no lack of popularity. Even if you decide to entertain guests at the last minute, you will not be in a hurry or have inconsiderate hospitality.

The ingredients and refreshments needed for this banquet have been transported a few days ago, and the person in charge of the spoon used the emperor's gift in Xia Xue'er's kitchen, which can be said to have taken a lot of thought. The aunt and lady in the house waited for someone to wait for the morning and also took the car over. Xia Xue'er had to take a decoction after breakfast, so she took the maid over later.

The carriage was blocked before it left the city gate, and there were still more than two hours before it left the feast. I thought that people would step on it, but I didn't expect it to be so early!

Early in the morning, the carriages out of the city were all famous and promising families, and they were all on the official road, and the guards guarding the city did not dare to offend on the one hand, and on the other hand, they had to abide by the rules and check the tokens, so they had to do their errands with caution. The richly decorated carriages stopped and walked, and for a time there was a long queue blocked. And Xia Xue'er's carriage was at the back of the line.

"Miss, it seems that the carriage in front of us is the carriage of the Marquis of Pingyang."

Xia Xue'er was leaning on the cushion and closing her eyes to recuperate, when she suddenly heard Dongmei open the curtain of the car and came in and said such a sentence. When Fang Cai came over, he saw an old beggar in ragged clothes squatting at the foot of the city wall, and he was very pitiful, so he asked Dongmei to send a few copper plates, and her movements were also quick!

Xia Xue'er opened her eyes and looked out through a corner of the gap that Dongmei had specially raised, it was really from the Pingyang Hou Mansion, but I don't know if it was Yu Yingxi's carriage or Mrs. Hou's, or any other young lady.

"Why don't you go and have a look?" Dongmei saw her doubts and said loudly.

"No", Xia Xue'er shook her head and ordered softly: "Put it down."

At the same time, a person in the carriage in front of him got down, and he came to Xia Xue'er's carriage with only a grandmother.

"But Sister Xia's car?"

As soon as Xia Xue'er closed her eyes again, she heard the voice of Yu Yingxi asking the coachman outside, and Dongmei was also quick-eyed, and before her young lady could open her eyes and command, she opened the curtain and went out. While the two were talking, Xianglan opened the curtain of the car, and Xia Xue'er called Yu Yingxi at the small window, only to see her come over happily with the corner of her skirt.

"Mama said that this is Sister Xia's carriage, I don't believe it yet! I thought my sister had gone to Orchid Garden a long time ago, but I didn't expect to meet it here! ”

"Stop standing on the street, come in and talk." The carriage could not stop for long, and it was now possible to go, and if it was delayed, it would always cause inconvenience to others. And this group of carriages waiting to leave the city has already attracted a lot of people to stop and watch, Yu Yingxi is a girl who has not been out of the cabinet, and she is also beautiful, so it is not good to show her head like this.

Yu Yingxi also happily agreed, but the grandmother beside her persuaded her, and she turned her head a little unhappily and ordered: "Mama, go back, let my mother don't worry, I will go with Sister Xia!" Then she stepped on the stool and got into the car, and no one helped her, and the grandmother saw that she was not good at saying anything after she got in the car, so she also said goodbye and turned back, Xianglan put down the curtain of the car, but I was afraid that Mrs. Pingyang Hou was already complaining about Xia Xueer at this moment.

Because there were many people attending the banquet, and each family came with more than one carriage, for example, only four carriages came to the Pingyang Hou Mansion, so they could only wait for the host to get out of the car, and the coachman drove the car back to the city until late before coming to pick up the people back. Xia Xue'er is the owner of this place, she didn't have to get out of the car at the front door to squeeze this lively, the coachman can take the small road and drive directly to the corner gate, where there is no one, not only clean, but also can skip the fake greetings with a group of unfamiliar people and go directly into the garden. I don't know which carriage was unruly, and it stopped in the middle of the road, blocking Xia Xue'er's way.

Stopped at the gate of the garden. As soon as she got off the carriage, she attracted a lot of attention, not only because of her alluring appearance, but also because of her identity as the daughter of the Xia family and the grandson of the Zhao family, and of course, the scandal with the six princes hung everyone's appetite.

Xia Xue'er had a decent smile on her face, bowed slightly at everyone, and then took Yu Yingxi's hand and hurriedly entered the orchid garden, along the way, she always felt that there was a vicious gaze staring at her, and she glanced at it, and found nothing other than a face that smiled as hypocritically as her.

After she left, Yu Yingxi also became the object of everyone's discussion, and the Pingyang Hou Mansion was suddenly pushed to the peak of public opinion, more envy and jealousy, hoping to ride in the same carriage with Miss Xia Jiasan and holding her own daughter in her hand!

There are already a lot of people in the garden, and Xia Xue'er has also met a lot along the way, both famous and unnamed, which shows that the old lady has really made a lot of money this time. It's just that the more this is the case, the more Xia Xue'er doesn't understand what the old lady is doing this for, obviously it can't be just because of the fact that the prince of Jian'an Hou has added an official to power, not to mention the talent of the prince, just what the Hou of Jian'an has done over the years has laid the foundation for the Hou Mansion to become a big climate.

He ascended the throne as a new emperor, whether it was the third prince, the fifth prince, the sixth prince or the eighth prince, the hereditary reckless marquis was his tool for power. What's more, it's a dispensable marquis like the Marquis of Jian'an, who eats hereditary reckless replacement?!

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