Chapter 116: The Queen Mother Arrives
"It's beautiful, it's exquisite." Fu Shuyuan couldn't help but sigh.
When I went out at the beginning of the morning, an hour had passed, and the warm sun gradually shone into the whole garden.
There are people who know and are familiar here, such as Anguo Mansion, Zhongding Bo Mansion, Lin'an Bo Mansion, etc. Mrs. Fu and Mrs. Shizi of the Anguo Mansion looked at each other and nodded.
The rest of the officials' families are basically above the top five grades, but not all of them came today, and not all the mansions are willing to come to such an occasion.
Looking at the lady and lady in the garden, Fu Tianqing suddenly became irritable.
Pavilions and palaces can be seen everywhere in the garden, most people are interested in the pavilion that symbolizes the four seasons, in addition to resting in the hugging summer in front of the Qin'an Palace, everyone also went to the Wanchun Pavilion, Fubi Pavilion, Qianqiu Pavilion, Chengrui Pavilion and other four pavilions built on the east and west sides to sit.
There are palace maids waiting everywhere in the garden, and hot tea and fruits are also prepared on each pavilion, just waiting for the queen mother to lead the concubines over.
Fu Fu and his party happened to be close to the Fubi Pavilion and went up, there is a hug Xia built on the stone bridge in the south of the pavilion, the pool of clear water under the bridge, looking quaint and quiet from afar. Fu Tianqing was glad that there were not many people in this pavilion.
The palace maid standing on the side hurriedly presented a set of Ru kiln tea sets and placed them on the tea table that had already been placed in the pavilion.
Fu Xiangqing and Fu Tianqing sat quietly, and Fu Shuyuan and the two sisters curiously picked up the small Ruyao teacup and smelled it.
"This should be an aged spring tea, I heard that it is the first germination of the tea tree after wintering buds and leaves, although it is not more expensive, but because of its thick leaf flesh, high aromatic material content, fresh taste, strong aroma and popular, the north is rare to get this tea in the first time so it is more precious."
Fu Xiangqing glanced at the two sisters and said.
"Tea merchants mostly raise prices because of their seasonality, almost every year at this time of the year the old tea and the new tea that is about to come out have to rise in price, so ordinary people can't afford to drink, and gradually only official households drink, but this tea is only suitable for drinking at this time, and there are fewer people drinking."
Fu Shuyuan and Fu Shuxian listened carefully, and they were also grateful for Fu Xiangqing's kind explanation.
Fu Xinqing also said: "As soon as my sister said it, I remembered that we haven't drunk it in the house for a long time." ”
"Yes," Fu Xiangqing continued: "Most of the tea drinkers are elegant people, and they gradually lost their interest because of the wanton coaxing of businessmen, but the palace doesn't care about these, and the tea merchants exclusively supply the palace, which can not only make a lot of money but also win the love of the palace mother." ”
Except for Fu Tianqing, several people were talking interestingly, and at this time, there was a burst of discussion around them.
"I didn't expect people from King Ning's Mansion to come, didn't I hear that King Ning was placed under house arrest by the emperor in the palace? Does this Princess Ning want to take the opportunity to beg the Queen Mother today?"
"Maybe so, although King Ning was not born to the Queen Mother, but when the first emperor was there, the Queen Mother also took care of her, and she thought that the relationship was good......"
The crowd only dared to whisper a few words, and they didn't dare to say any more.
Fu Xiangqing looked at the brightly dressed Ping'an County Lord, but her originally smiling face stopped, and she looked at Princess Ning and Ping'an County Lord motionlessly until the two of them walked to the south end of the garden, getting closer and closer to the Tianyi Gate known as the South Gate.
At this time, there was a movement at Tianmen Gate, which led directly to the palaces of Xiyuan, and everyone was also calm and listened carefully.
The voice of the chamberlain sounded loudly: The Queen Mother has arrived!
Everyone stood up one after another, and I don't know how long it took for this voice to take before the queen mother's guard of honor slowly appeared in people's sight, followed by palace beauties one after another.
Fu Shuyuan and Fu Shuxian looked at each other quietly, and looked up slightly, from the queen mother to the palace concubines, all of them had the unique noble advantages of the royal family, and with such momentum, the two sisters only glanced at it and did not dare to look up.
No one noticed that Fu Tianqing was behind a few people, but he looked at the Queen Mother and the others over there without blinking. She is a stranger to the Queen Mother, this old man left the palace not long after she entered the palace, and the two have only met twice. Now a few years have passed, but she is still as noble as she was at the beginning, and there are hardly many traces left by the years on her face.
She caught a glimpse of Concubine Xian again, the concubine who was most familiar with her in this palace, although she had a faint smile on her face, Fu Tianqing saw her face with some vicissitudes than before. Heh, Fu Tianqing sneered, no matter how cold and ruthless a woman is, she will not be indifferent to her son.
The Queen Mother and the others slowly moved to the Qin'an Palace, and the women who were close to the Xia Hall hurriedly stepped aside, but the virtuous concubine and the concubine Shu stepped forward to help the queen mother enter the main hall.
Naturally, the concubines followed.
The main hall was open to the outside, and those first-class officials' wives were naturally standing nearby, waiting for the summons.
After the Queen Mother and the concubines were properly settled, the virtuous concubine came out to preside over the overall situation, and she smiled and said to everyone: "The Queen Mother said to her old man, don't be restrained, although the ladies and ladies are sitting and talking, let's also learn from the ordinary folk tea party today, and everyone will talk at will." The Queen Mother can also talk to the ladies. ”
At this time, Princess Ning said loudly: "In this way, I haven't seen the Queen Mother for a long time, so I thought about going in to meet her old man with peace." ”
"It turned out to be Princess Ning and the county lord, it's been a long time, why don't you say it sooner if you want to come, this makes me slack." As he spoke, he carried him to the main hall.
Each wife also sat down to continue to eat tea, the palace maid successively served all kinds of dim sum and pastries, each table is different, such as dim sum, tea knife cut, almond bergamot, crispy apple, Heyi cake, etc., the pastries are countless: flower longan, jam gold cake, glutinous rice cake, kidney bean roll, pigeon glass cake, whip cake, mandarin duck roll, etc.
Fu Shuyuan said: "The palace is different, the various porcelain boxes with dim sum are not ordinary at first glance, but my eyes are ignoring food." ”
Fu Xinqing pursed her lips and smiled: "Sister, I haven't seen so many places like this, just get used to it." ”
Fu Shuyuan smiled embarrassedly.
Mrs. Fu had been staring at the actions of those ladies since just now, some had already gotten up to enjoy the potted flowers around them, while some were staring at the movements in the Qin'an Palace. probably wanted to go to the Queen Mother to show her face.
Also staring at the hall over there were Fu Tianqing and Fu Shuxian. Both of them bowed their heads and drank tea to cover up, but Fu Shuxian was even more anxious on her face.
Fu Tianqing knew in her heart, she was already at peace at the moment, and what to do next was no longer something she could control.
(Double salary today, mobile phone code words are so slow, continue to catch up with the next chapter...... (To be continued.) )