The Yulan sisters also stepped forward to greet Ma Yunniang, and just praised each other a few words, they heard three cannon shots from the direction of the outer courtyard, followed by a bustle, thinking that Mrs. Jinghai Marquis knelt down to receive the reward from the imperial concubine.

After a while, there was a noisy sound of footsteps outside Shan'an Hall, and a little girl ran in advance and said crisply, "Distinguished guests, the old lady is back." His Royal Highness King Zhao, Her Royal Highness Princess Yong'an, and Her Royal Highness Princess Yinyue also came over together. ”

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, and hurriedly returned to their positions, and as soon as they stood up, there was a hearty laugh from the Marquis of Jinghai's wife, Wen, outside the door: "Your Highness can come to visit my old woman in your busy schedule, and she has already given the old woman a big face." ”

"His Royal Highness King Zhao has arrived!"

"Princess Yong'an has arrived!"

"Princess Silvermoon has arrived!"

With the shouting and cheering, several little eunuchs took the lead, and a man and two women appeared in front of the door of Shan'an Hall with Wen.

Yulan glanced at King Zhao, and saw that he was wearing a red velvet crown on his head, a stone blue dark dragon brocade robe, and a mink face with a ruyi crane. is only fourteen or fifteen years old, neither Ye Yichen is charming, nor Ye Minchun is gentle, he is not a handsome young man, but he looks quite majestic and tall, a half-grown child, and there is a faint bloodthirsty cold on his body. He held his head high like a winning rooster and swaggered into the Shan'an Hall.

Following her in was Wen's, one left and one right, accompanied by two girls.

The girl on the left hand side is full of beads and hairpins, and she is dressed up very luxuriously. The facial features are also exquisite, but it is a pity that a pair of triangular eyes destroys the overall beauty, making her not good at stubble add three points to her rudeness.

Da Chu respects the left, needless to say that this is the daughter of Emperor Xiao's concubine, Princess Yong'an. Princess Yong'an's biological mother is the imperial concubine, and it is said that she can only get the title before marriage, but the imperial concubine is too favored, and the emperor still makes an exception to the name of Yong'an when he sees her face.

Princess Yong'an wore a bright blue folded floral gown, which shimmered slightly in the sunlight. "Cuiyun Qiu!" A knowledgeable lady has already exclaimed. Immediately there was a whisper.

Yulan also gasped, the emerald cloud fur was made of kingfisher feathers twisted with fine silk threads to weave a luxurious cloth. Legend has it that Cuiyun Qiu is very light, a brocade weighs only fifteen or sixteen taels, which is extremely expensive, and one foot is worth 100 gold. Legend has it that the palace Shangyi Bureau made Cuiyun Qiu only uses a kind of jade bird back hair produced in Guangxi on the emerald fine velvet, because the raw materials are too rare, three years and five years can not weave a horse, the preciousness of this clothing can be imagined.

For a while, all the ladies looked at Princess Yong'an's eyes full of extreme greed and heat, and Yuxia behind the eldest lady was staring at the princess's luxurious dress, as if she wanted to burn a hole in her gaze.

On the right hand side of King Zhao, it is natural that Yulan has seen Princess Yinyue once. I saw her wearing a water-red cross-collared wide-sleeved shirt, a pale pink pleated skirt, a loose peony bun on her head, and a yellow and clear light under the sun from the golden phoenix in her hair.

Although she is not dressed more luxuriously than Princess Yong'an, she is generous and decent, and she will not be ignored at all.

King Zhao is only fifteen years old this year, and he has neither crowned nor married, although he is a female dependent, he does not need to be strictly evasive.

So the room full of ladies and ladies knelt down together to greet King Zhao and the two princesses. The two princesses, Yong'an and Yinyue, helped Wen to sit back in their seats. The little maid brought a chair and set up a seat next to Wen's.

After a bit of hustle, Ye Minyu, the king of Zhao, wanted to take Princess Yongan and Princess Yinyue to kowtow to the Wen family to celebrate his birthday.

Wen Shi excused himself for a few words, and finally accepted it.

It was a national gift just now, and now it is a family ceremony.

Wen's face was so big that he couldn't close his smile from ear to ear, and his face was hard to hide.

It's just that everyone thinks it's too grand. King Zhao, Yong'an, and Yinyue are the bloodlines of the Heavenly Family after all......

Yulan faintly felt that this was like a unique "show", what was the show, because there was too little information, Yulan was not easy to judge, but it must be directly related to the distribution of power in the political circle of Da Chugao.

Princess Yong'an sat down next to the Wen family, said a few words to the women, and sang and talked about Xiao Guifei's rich rewards: "There are ten crowns in the internal office, fifty pieces of palace silk with color patterns, palace satin, makeup satin, and python satin, two hundred pairs of gold and silver ingots, ten pairs of jasper chirps, ten pairs of amber bowls, and ten pairs of luminous jue...... I pulled four big carts over. ”

The ladies didn't care at first, but when they got to the end, the rewards got better and better, and the more everyone listened, the more they spoke, and their expressions gradually became solemn. Many clever points even began to think: If the emperor did not nod his head in person for such a precious treasure, how could the imperial concubine take it out of the treasury of the Internal Affairs Office, does this mean that the emperor also attached great importance to the Xiao family......

Everyone unconsciously had more respect for the Xiao family. The family members of some officials who maintain neutrality in the DPRK and China have already begun to think about how to describe the prosperity of the Xiao family to their husbands when they go home, and persuade them not to stand in the wrong line!

Yinyue is also thoughtful, Princess Yong'an is domineering in the harem with the power of the imperial concubine, and Yinyue has a bad relationship with her. But today she had to pull herself over to the Xiao family to pay respects, and she couldn't refuse, as if she was being used as a gun.

There was a look of annoyance in her eyes, and in the blink of an eye, she was full of coquettish smiles. She swept her gaze through the crowd, and immediately saw Yulan standing not far away, and Yinyue became happy again, and secretly winked at her.

Yulan smiled back. These days, Yinyue sends her mother to send a letter every three or five days, filling in the lyrics for a while, composing poems for a while, and occasionally guessing a lantern riddle, at the beginning every sister has it, and the daughters of the Yang family have been tortured by her so much, and they all complain. Slowly, only Yulan has this glory. And no one is jealous of her because of this.

The women didn't know what to do, and when Yinyue corresponded with Yulan again, she would only say witty things to contact her feelings, and she would never play those sour things again.

Here, King Zhao saw that Yong'an and the Wen family were talking endlessly, and he was bored listening to it, so his eyes flew around the nobles unscrupulously, and his eyes were a little dark and a little sharp, which was extremely uncomfortable to see.

After all, men and women do not kiss, the ancients paid attention to incivility and disregarded, Ye Minyu is already very rude. But he is the son of the emperor today, a prince, and a notoriously arrogant and cruel, who often whips ministers and kills subordinates, who dares to say a word.

When King Zhao's gaze swept to Yuxin, he stayed for a moment.

Yulan was also very uncomfortable with him, his gaze was not color, but like an inanimate thing like a scrutiny, like a piece of porcelain or a vase. It seems that life is not worth mentioning in his eyes.

Yuqing beside Yulan, in order to avoid King Zhao's fearful eyes, simply hid her body behind her. Yulan rushed to Yinyue Nunu's mouth, and his eyes squinted at King Zhao.

Yinyue smiled slightly, revealing a reassuring expression.

She found a time to interject, first a long laugh attracted everyone's attention, and then said to Ye Minyu unhurriedly: "Since the fourth brother has already kowtowed to the old birthday star, aren't you bored to sit with a group of our girls and daughters-in-law?" Why don't you go to the outer courtyard and have a drink with all the adults! Today, the outer courtyard is full of guests, and the eighteen yamen in the four nine cities have heads and faces, but they are all here, how can you be missing this young prince? ”

Ye Minyu glanced at Yinyue happily, and smiled: "The imperial sister is reasonable!" He immediately stood up, and Shi Li retreated: "There are many female guests here in the old birthday star, and it is inconvenient for me to be a man after all, so don't leave it at that." Come in again next time, please say hello to your old man! He bowed his hand to the ladies and relatives again, and strode out of Shan'an Hall without hesitation. With him, a few little eunuchs immediately followed.

Wen didn't even have time to get up to see him off, and hurriedly urged the right-hand man beside him to follow.

Yulan breathed a sigh of relief, and took advantage of everyone's eyes to fall on Ye Minyu, and gave a thumbs up to Yinyue. When Yinyue saw it, she immediately showed a smug expression, and then in a blink of an eye, she changed back to a cute and cute face.

Ye Minyu left, and the atmosphere in Shan'an Hall was immediately relaxed, and everyone began to whisper again. Follow-up guests came one after another, and there were more and more people in Shan'an Hall. Seeing that the people were almost there, Wen called Mrs. Xiao to her side and said a few words.

Mrs. Xiao raised her voice and said: "Distinguished guests, the stage has already been set up in the Cuijin Garden, and today I have invited the Quanfu class to sing a full set of excerpts. Everyone went to listen to the play to relieve their boredom, and the banquet will not start until a while. The old lady also had to go to the front yard. Everyone knew that the Wen clan would go to the outer courtyard to receive congratulations from the male guests. They all stood up and were led out of Shan'an Hall by Mrs. Xiao. The stage is on the water, because the excerpt has not yet begun, everyone followed Mrs. Xiao to a large courtyard not far from the Liubei Pavilion, the little maid moved a lot of high chairs, everyone sat in a group, and chatted in groups.

Princess Yong'an and Princess Yinyue did not follow for the time being.

As soon as the eldest lady sat down, a lady wearing ten kinds of lilac makeup and flower gowns came up to greet her.

"Who are you?" But the eldest lady did not know her.

The second wife introduced with a smile: "Sister-in-law, this is Mrs. Jin, the wife of Wang Siren, the deputy chief soldier of Taiyuan." His ancestral home is Dengzhou, Shandong, and his ancestor Wang once served as Emperor Taizuwu's personal soldier, and he was after my great Chu meritorious service. "The second wife's father, Mrs. Li, the Korean Gong, has sent troops to release horses many times, and is familiar with the military generals of the DPRK and China, and the second wife and Mrs. Jin have also had a few encounters.

Mrs. Jin was blessed, "The slave Wang Jin has seen the eldest wife!" The eldest lady got up and saluted back, but her expression was quite arrogant.

Da Chu is heavy on literature and light on martial arts, and Mrs. Jin's husband is just a deputy chief soldier, so Mrs. Jin doesn't pay much attention to it. Mrs. Jin was also unexpected, after seeing the second and fifth wives, she sat next to the eldest lady very familiarly, and chatted with her very enthusiastically. He smiled and looked at the girls.

The eldest lady introduced Yulan to her. Mrs. Jin smiled: "She really deserves to be the granddaughter of the first assistant, this style is not comparable to ordinary young ladies." ”

praised all the girls one by one, what is good-looking, has an excellent temperament, and Lala is a lot of miscellaneous. praised the four girls Yufei, Mrs. Jin seemed to be unable to stop the brakes, and praised her for half a cup of tea time, praising the four girls as rare in the sky and nothing on the earth.

Yufei was so ashamed that she blushed and lowered her head. After this kind of thing, the second wife immediately showed a thoughtful expression. Sure enough, Mrs. Jin changed her words and talked about her family affairs, and Yulan suddenly realized.

The Wang family, this is to marry the Yang family! The marriage partner is obviously the fourth girl Yufei, and it is obvious that before coming here, Mrs. Jin had done her homework.

Yulan was a little strange, saying that kissing is a big deal after all, these ladies are all careful in their operations, and no one will take the initiative to propose it before the two sides reach a tacit understanding. If you talk about such things on such occasions, if you are rejected, will you not lose your face?

How did she know that Mrs. Jin's husband Wang Siren's career was in a critical period, and she urgently needed the help of the central ministers, she had already been willing to marry, but she lived in Taiyuan with her husband all the year round, and it was rare to return to Beijing once, so she couldn't care about it.

Yulan secretly went to look at Yufei, she lowered her head, she couldn't see any expression, but the handkerchief was tightly grasped and crumpled into a ball.

Obviously, Yufei was nervous.

Yulan listened carefully to Mrs. Jin's chatter: "...... I have a biological son, Brother Lin, the eldest in the family, who is nineteen years old this year and has not yet married. At the age of fifteen, he followed his father into battle to kill the enemy, and a while ago, the father and son had just fought a battle with the sudden barbarian under the command of the sixteenth prince, and Lin Ge'er killed a small leader of the barbarian tribe and made a small contribution, and the sixteenth prince promoted him to be a deputy thousand households. ”

Yulan nodded secretly when he heard this, the deputy Qianhu is from the fifth grade, the key is not to be a big official or a small official, the son of the Wang family can follow his father to kill the enemy at a young age, and he earned his own background, obviously he is also quite a young hero. Although the Yang family is high, Yufei is a concubine, and it is already good to be able to pick such a husband!

Yufei listened to it, but was slightly dissatisfied in her heart. After all, military generals are not as noble as civilian officials, and the war in Dachu has been prolonged in recent years, and marrying a military general is destined to be frightened for a lifetime. The point is that she looks down on the Wang family a little.

Mrs. Jin said tentatively: "My kid also came with his father today, and my wife and I hit it off at first sight, why don't you find a time to take the child to visit you, I don't know if my wife can appreciate my face?" ”

Mrs. Kim's meaning is already obvious, if the eldest lady is interested, she will take her son to show the eldest lady. If the eldest lady disagrees, stop it, and no one will lose face. Mrs. King found a good reason.

The eldest lady smiled reservedly: "It is said that it is my honor that Mrs. Jin is willing to visit." It's really unfortunate, it's a matter of time both at home and outside, and the queen mother's condition in the palace is not getting better, and I have to go into the palace from time to time to serve the sick. I don't think it's as good as this, and when I'm free, I'll definitely send a post asking Mrs. Kim to come over. She didn't mention her son.

Mrs. Jin's face froze, and then she recovered and said busily: "It's me who is abrupt, I am abrupt!" After saying a few more words in response to the occasion, he went elsewhere to talk to the other generals' families.

The eldest lady sneered and thought, "A little deputy chief soldier also wants to marry the daughter of the Yang family?" ”

The second wife was very disapproving: this sister-in-law, one day, only knew that Lu Dao was staring at the official position, but she didn't want to think about it, the nine sides are important towns of the imperial court, and they are the front line to resist the Abrupt and Jurchen, and the status of the two thirds of the country's heavy troops is gathered in these nine important military towns, and the status of the nine border general soldiers is significantly higher than that of the rest of the country. That's the prince of a feudal town. The eldest lady probably doesn't know what to do, this deputy general soldier Wang is very appreciated by Ye Yichen, the king of Jin, Qiu Luan, the chief soldier of Taiyuan above him, is old, and he is about to become a general, and in a few years, the position of the general soldier of Taiyuan will probably fall into the hands of Wang Siren.

If the fourth girl marries into the palace, it will be a low marriage, and the father-in-law needs the support of the old lady's central court, and he is still obedient to her? What's more, the Wang family has a strict style and a simple population, and the prince only has a younger brother, who is seven or eight years younger than him, and his mother-in-law is a good talker at a glance, so how can the four girls be uncomfortable?

However, the second wife had no intention of mentioning the eldest wife. If the daughter of the big house marries too well, she will not feel comfortable. Let's see what kind of relatives you can find for these daughters!

Yulan has his own opinion: the old lady is the center, the Wang family holds the military power, and it is taboo to make friends with each other, no matter how much this marriage is talked about, when it comes to the old lady, it will definitely be PAss, so it is not bad to waste less effort now.

Yufei clutched the handkerchief in her hand with all her strength, she hung her head, no one could see it, and her eyes were full of resentment. It's not a pity that this family affair, she can't look down on the Wang family, what makes people annoyed is the perfunctory attitude of the eldest lady, in front of so many noble ladies, she has such an arrogant attitude, if this matter is spread out, who will dare to propose marriage in the future? What kind of heart does the eldest lady have to keep herself in Yang's mansion for retirement?

After thinking about it, a maid reported that Princess Yongan and Princess Yinyue had arrived. The wives of the Xiao family went to greet them for a while, and after a while, the two princesses came in, the two princesses were divided into two circles, each with seven or eight girls talking around, and several girls from the Xiao family surrounded Princess Yong'an, and the ten girls were holding her arm, looking very affectionate.

The ladies didn't greet the two princesses just now, and Hula surrounded them all at once. The eldest lady was a little tired when she saw it, so she didn't step forward to join in the fun. She is the niece of the Queen Mother, and her status is noble, but after all, she has no heavenly blood, and she is a little shorter in front of the two princesses.

After a while, Yinyue finished dealing with a group of noble ladies, lined up and walked in front of the three ladies of the Yang Mansion, and called sweetly after giving gifts: "The eldest aunt, the second aunt, the fifth aunt!" ”

The eldest lady got face, so her complexion was a little pale, and she took Yinyue's hand and greeted her.