Chapter 151: Palace Banquet
The palace banquet held by the queen to celebrate Yingge's marriage began.
The venue of the banquet was the west side hall of Kunning Palace, and when Tang Jingchen arrived, many concubines had already come.
Although Yingge is just a palace maid, she is the queen's confidant, and this marriage is considered a marriage given by the emperor, plus Duolun is now pregnant in the limelight, so not only do no concubines ask for leave, but they are also dressed up very grandly.
The west side hall is even more festively decorated.
Because it is just an ordinary palace banquet, there are no luxurious decorations, and the round tables used in those big banquets are not set up, but a number of high tables are ingeniously arranged, one for each person, and there are palace maids serving in the back.
There is no incense in the hall, but all kinds of flowers are placed in the four corners, the fragrance of the flowers is refreshing, and the mood is refreshing when smelling, and everyone can not help but praise the queen's ingenuity.
Duolun's mood was not very good, and he was not as happy as before for everyone's flattery, and said lazily: "It's all done by Jingchun." ”
It turned out that Jing Chun and Shu Ying were the maids of the first queen, and when the first queen died, they stayed to serve Duolun, but Duolun had Yingge by his side, and they couldn't come forward at all, and later Shu Ying was promoted, and after the waiter went to bed, she was crowned a concubine, and Jingchun was even more frustrated.
So this time Duolun ordered her to prepare a banquet, and she racked her brains to make it perfect, and now she has been praised by the concubines, but it is a pity that Duolun seems to be lacking in interest, so Jingchun's expression is a little gloomy.
Tang Jingchen swept his eyes around, and found that all the concubines were sitting high and low according to their positions, so he walked to the position where he should sit and sat down, on the left hand side was Chang Guifei Chang Xueli, Chang Xueli's seat was empty, and it should be Shu Ying according to her position.
Facing Tang Jingchen is Concubine Xi Lan Changxi, on the right hand side is Su Yinxue and Su Concubine, and Concubine Su is facing Concubine Xu Xinyue.
These are all old acquaintances, and then there are the new concubines who entered the palace not long ago, and Tang Jingchen is more familiar with Cheng Rongrong and Zhou Baoer.
Cheng Rongrong has a lot of nerves, and Zhou Baoer has been close to her, so these two people impressed Tang Jingchen deeply.
Because it is rumored that the emperor is coming, all the concubines are trying their best to dress up, the brocade clothes in the hall are dazzling, and everyone looks kind, if you only look at the appearance, it is a group of good sisters.
Concubine Xu looked at An Yurou, a jade nobleman sitting under her, and exclaimed exaggeratedly: "Sister Yu, your flowers are so chic, are they all pearls, it looks really good, and I don't have any concubines." ”
immediately attracted everyone's attention, and even Tang Jingchen couldn't help but look at An Yurou.
An Yurou wore a bright green dress and held a flying fairy bun, because she was only a nobleman, she couldn't use a golden hairpin as usual, so she only wore a silver hairpin and a few beaded flowers as decoration.
What attracted Xu Xinyue's attention was naturally this pearl flower, which was arranged in the shape of a few pearls into flowers, and the pearls were round and full, emitting a soft luster in the candlelight, which was indeed very beautiful, and it was worth a lot of money at a glance.
Facing everyone's eyes, An Yurou hurriedly smiled: "Sister Xu said that she laughed, what kind of identity is a concubine, where can she dare to cross her sister, and this is not a pearl, just an ordinary pearl." ”
The beads are made of pearl powder scraps, which are not valuable in themselves, mainly because the beads are not as round and without gaps as natural pearls, but An Yurou found a skilled craftsman to polish the powdered pearls to be delicate and soft.
After listening to An Yurou's explanation, Xu Xinyue didn't say anything more, but Ning promised Chen Ning but sneered, "The jade nobleman's family is in business, and he is wealthy, and all the material beads can be made like this, no wonder he is rich." ”
Everyone couldn't help but snicker, and An Yurou's face changed in anger.
Her family is indeed in business for generations, to her grandfather's generation to become a royal businessman, and when An Yurou was born, she has been beautiful and lovely since she was a child, and there are fortune tellers who say that she will have a great creation in the future, An Yurou's father is obsessed, so he donated a five-grade official, so that his daughter can be qualified for the draft.
Sure enough, he was selected into the palace, and he was still the highest ranking among this group of show girls, and the An family was proud, and the fortune tellers everywhere were really accurate.
But other show girls who were jealous of her inquired about her family background, and they had to sarcastically ridicule her as a merchant girl, the dynasty paid attention to Shinong industry and commerce, although the merchant was rich, but the social status was the lowest, so An Yurou was often angry and aggrieved.
Chang Xueli is the usual one who plays the round, "I heard that Yu Guiren's father is now an official of Zhengwupin, and he can be regarded as a young lady of the family." ”
Chang Xueli is a noble concubine, and everyone didn't dare to talk back, but there was a woman dressed as a low-level palace concubine in the corner and laughed in a low voice: "No, a business family is also a family." ”
Tang Jingchen remembered seeing her when she asked for peace, and it seemed to be a promise.
Her seat was far away from the high-ranking concubine, Chang Xueli didn't hear it, maybe she was too lazy to care about it, but An Yurou couldn't ignore it, and looked at her angrily, "Liu Xiangyun, you want to die, aren't you?" No matter how poor my family is, it is better than yours, and your ancestors still sing it. ”
It turns out that the Liu family is a nobleman of the previous dynasty, and the family fell into the middle of the road after the death of the previous dynasty, Liu Xiangyun's great-grandfather was poor and made a living selling art along the street, fortunately, the children of their family learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since childhood, so they still have some customers.
Because he was born in a family, Liu Xiangyun's great-grandfather was very knowledgeable, and when he saved some money, he bought a house and land, and when he married a daughter-in-law and gave birth to a son, he was forced to study, and he was promoted to become an official.
So An Yurou said this, Liu Xiangyun was not convinced, and sneered: "My ancestor was the prince of Zhenguo, and your family will not be able to earn such a title in ten lifetimes." ”
An Yurou also sneered, "Zhenguo Gong, I don't know whose country the town is, and which treasury issued the money?" ”
Liu Xiangyun was stunned, and then remembered that he only cared about robbing Bai An Yurou, and he forgot that his own town Guogong was in the past of the previous dynasty, and he couldn't mention it in the new dynasty.
An Yurou was unforgiving, and said in a cool voice: "Some people just can't figure it out, but they have the past in their hearts, and they don't know if they want to rebel." ”
Liu Xiangyun's face became more and more pale, but she herself said that she leaked her mouth first, and at this time she could only shout angrily, "An Yurou, you are talking nonsense." ”
An Yurou shrugged, "Are you in such a hurry, is it because I said that you are in your heart?" ”
They are arguing and shouting, and the other concubines are all like watching jokes, anyway, Liu Xiangyun's family doesn't look like a rebellion, it's just a war of words.
"Concubine Xian Niangniang has arrived-" With the announcement of the eunuch, An Yurou and Liu Xiangyun both stopped their mouths, looked at Shu Ying with envy, and after receiving these glances, Shu Ying proudly held up her slightly bulging lower abdomen and walked in with the support of the two palace maids.
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