Today's luncheon was held at Xinyue's home, to be exact, at Xinyue's maiden home, Anxuanhou's mansion.

An Xuanhou's Mansion and King Yu's Farewell Mansion are only two streets away, and in the more than ten years since Xinyue arrived at the Mansion, he has not been back a few times, especially after marrying Rong Xu, in the past six years, there are only a handful.

Xinyue sat in the sedan chair, reached out and touched the forehead band on her forehead, in order to cover the wound between her sideburns, she was not for the wound to leave a scar, ashamed of others to see, but afraid that others would not see their wounds, so that everyone knew how hard they suffered in the Yuwang Mansion.

"Madam, I heard that Master Hou is also at home today." Feng'er approached the sedan chair of the new moon and whispered.

Crescent Moon snorted "I know"

"Is it you, ma'am, is there a special message?" Feng'er asked a little worriedly.

Xinyue didn't speak, and Feng'er was worried, "What if Master Hou hits you?" ”

Hearing what Feng'er said, Xinyue smiled, "He won't beat me yet, and I'm not a soldier under him." ”

Xu Xintai led the troops in a good way and governed the army very strictly, that is, there would be a matter of beating the soldiers during training, and His Majesty was alarmed for this, and His Majesty ordered to scold him several times, but it was over. The most recent time was a year ago, because Xu Xintai was fined for half a year, so Feng'er still remembers it vividly.

"If Hou Ye beats you, you will run first, the slave has rough skin and thick meat, and it should be fine if you are punched a few times by Hou Ye." Speaking of this, Feng'er swallowed his saliva.

Xinyue smiled, "You, you may not even be able to withstand his punch." ”

"Then what should I do, madam, why don't we go to see Master Hou, after meeting Mrs. Hou and Mrs. Cao, let's go back." Feng'er's worried expression was seen by Fei'er, who leaned over and asked, "What do you have to say, Madame?" ”

"Let's talk about my eldest brother again, you go to the mansion and follow behind Hao'er well, she won't let you follow, and you don't want to follow. You don't have any guilt in your heart, it's all because my eldest brother, unlike Yao'er's eldest brother, is a terrible person. After Xinyue repeatedly explained, Fei'er also wrote down one by one in trepidation, and after the three masters and servants finished speaking, An Xuanhou's Mansion was already close at hand. After hearing only a sound of falling off the sedan chair, Xinyue felt a shaking, and a familiar voice outside the sedan chair said, "Miss, you're back." ”

"Madam, it's Sister Rose." Feng'er's happy voice came from outside the curtain.

The curtain was lifted, and Xinyue saw that it was her sister-in-law Cao's personal maid, Rose, standing outside.

"Rose, I haven't said hello to you yet" Xinyue glanced at Rose, who was already dressed as a woman, although she didn't often go back to the house, but she seemed to know everything about the big and small things that happened in this mansion without special inquiry.

"The events of the year ago, Madame still remembers it, the slave has received your congratulatory gift from Madame, thank you here." With that, Rose bent her knees and gave Crescent Moon a salute in return.

"Xinyue" Xinyue heard someone calling her, and when she turned around, it was Cao's sister-in-law's mother, Li.

Xinyue looked sideways, and when she saw Yao'er who had just gotten off the sedan chair, she immediately straightened her back, nervous, but she didn't allow herself to lose and slowly walked to Xinyue's side.

"Yao'er, this is the aunt of the Cao family." Xinyue led Yao'er, and the two walked up to Li together, bent their knees in unison, and saluted Li.

Li raised the corners of his mouth, and even his eyes were bent when he smiled, "You should be sisters, this dress and temperament are exactly the same demeanor." ”

"Mrs. has won the award" Xinyue nodded, smiling brightly.

"Mother, the new moon seems to have made an appointment, and you have come together." Sister-in-law Cao should have been waiting in the front hall for a long time, so she came out to greet her in person.

"It's an appointment," he said, and Li took Xinyue's hand, "Let's go, let's go in." ”

"Yes" said that, Xinyue and Yao'er followed behind the Li family and walked into the Anxuanhou Mansion together.

The Hou Mansion is naturally still the same as when Xinyue was a child, because it is a royal gift, so in addition to repairs, there is not much change.

This is the side door of An Xuanhou's mansion, and to the inside is the main hall of the backyard, and most of the relatives who came to the banquet today have arrived.

Yao'er followed behind Xinyue without saying a word, and her little hands couldn't stop grabbing Xinyue's robe, Xinyue was afraid that her twisted appearance would be seen by the Li family, so she simply reached out and grabbed her.

Coming to the main hall of the backyard, Xinyue looked around, Yao'er also stood side by side with Xinyue, and asked in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, do you think my aunt likes me?" ”

The new moon glanced at her, and the other noblewomen hugged her to sit on the table, and for the time being, she couldn't take care of them.

Xinyue nodded, "Mrs. Li likes you very much, because she likes it so much, she almost broke my hand." ”

As she spoke, Xinyue stretched out her hand to her, and the hand held by Li Shi turned red because she was too hard, and Yao'er couldn't help but laugh when she saw it.

Yao'er's smile was the most contagious, and sure enough, Yao'er, who smiled like this, really attracted the sideways glances of the ladies who were busy socializing, and Xinyue carefully observed Li's expression, and the smile was much more sincere than just now.

After taking a seat, before lunch, a group of women were together, and they were only chatting over tea.

Xinyue is about to find a spare time to sneak away to find her brother, but the most important thing at the moment is still Yao'er's matter.

Among the guests who came, in addition to the most important person of the Li family, there were also in-laws of several families, Cao Jie and Cao's sister-in-law's aunt and aunt.

"Is Mrs. Shisun's journey still smooth?" In this room, there are few unmarried young ladies like Yao'er, and the lady comes and goes, not talking to the face, and she doesn't know who to make friends.

"The journey is good, the mountains and rivers are good, and the broad-eyed ones are not bad, and when I arrived at the border of Bingzhou, I also went to visit Princess Jin." Xinyue knew that this Mrs. Zhang wanted to ask herself what she was doing in Bingzhou.

"This princess of Jin, except for the day of her wedding, I have seen it once, and basically she has never shown her face in Jinling." Mrs. Zhang thought about it, causing the other ladies to nod, "I've never seen it before." ”

"It's the granddaughter of the Queen Mother, because Xinyue passed by Bingzhou and knew that she was pregnant, so I went to see her." Cao's sister-in-law received Xinyue's letter and naturally explained for Xinyue.

"This is the youngest daughter of the prince of Yu's family, it's the first time I've seen it, and I'm going to become a family." A noble lady sitting next to the Li family beckoned to Yao'er, "I'm Jie'er's aunt, come, let me see"

After Yao'er was named, she first tidied up her clothes with some trepidation, then stood up upright, and saluted to this Mrs. Cao, "Auntie." ”

"The little mouth is so sweet, come, this is my aunt's meeting gift." As he spoke, Cao Shi untied the beautifully embroidered purse with a jade pendant from his body and handed it to Yao'er, who thanked him and generously accepted it.

"She spends her days at home reading and embroidering. When I wasn't in the Eastern Capital Palace, I was busy taking care of the house. I suffocated her, so I took her out for a walk. As she spoke, Crescent reached out and pinned her hair, revealing the forehead band on her head.

"Yao'er, are you still housekeeping for your sister-in-law?" This time, Cao's sister-in-law didn't know how to answer this.

"Just a few days later, the sister-in-law was injured in the forehead, the reward of the next person after the New Year's Festival, the use of the New Year's Festival in the house, and the movement of human relations, this is all something that needs to be done urgently, and I am not doing very well, if there is a place that exceeds the rules, please ladies and gentlemen, don't be surprised." Crescent Moon saw that she was in good order, and it seemed that she was not doing well.

"I've fallen on my head, and I'm so dizzy that I can't get out of bed. After the New Year, there are many trivial things in the house, and this girl is also sympathetic to me. With that, Crescent Moon pulled her hair again.

At this time, everyone saw that in addition to the valuable robe and the very appropriate hair ornament, the new moon also had a light blue forehead belt tied around her head. The forehead was two fingers wide, covering the tip of the crescent moon's beauty, but it still couldn't cover all her wounds, and several ladies who were close to her could see it at a glance.

Xinyue has come to this point, these fairy-like ladies have long understood what Xinyue means, and they all praised Yao'er, she is a little girl after all, if she had been in the past, she would have been lying coquettish and hiding beside Xinyue, but because these ladies were there, they just lowered their heads, and their faces were already red.

Sensible, capable, and shy and couldn't help boasting, Xinyue's smile became deeper and deeper when she saw Li.

"Don't praise my Yao'er anymore, I finally ate a few pounds of weight this New Year's Festival, otherwise the ladies would have praised her, and she would have gone to the sky."

After a few polite words, Xinyue also said what she wanted to tell everyone, and she finished talking about Yao'er. It is said that there are many women where there are many right and wrong, sitting opposite the crescent moon is a young lady, is the daughter of Li's sister's family, Wang, and now married into the second son of the Hou family in Zhenbei, because of the marriage not long ago, also followed her mother-in-law Zhang out to walk, and her father, in Jiangzhou outside Jinling City as an official, the boat when the new moon returned to Jinling, was blown up under her father's nose.

Xinyue saw that her mouth was itchy, so she looked at herself vigorously, and sure enough, she found a gap, and asked Xinyue, "The boat my sister-in-law took when she entered Beijing was good, why did you change it halfway?" ”

With this question, all the women present quieted down, and the sudden condensation of the atmosphere made Xinyue look around in surprise, and then said the words that she had agreed with Li Yan with a smile on her face.

Seeing that the heat caused by himself was about to pass again, Wang said, "Listen to my father, the boat does not look like the explosion caused by the fire of tung oil, because the fishermen by the river, when they were fishing, fished out a copper sheet, which is only found on the copper fire thunder made by Liang China." ”

Xinyue paused, then slowly took out a handkerchief from his arms, wiped the water stains left on his lips after drinking water just now, "Sister-in-law knows a lot, the second brother of the Hou family in Zhenbei is one year older than me, my little prince, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, Xinyue is really afraid to be." ”

As soon as Xinyue's voice fell, Yao'er couldn't help laughing, her smile frightened Xinyue's heart, and she hurriedly went to see Yao'er's mother-in-law Li, and she opened her mouth to slap Li's niece, which was enough to be out of line, and Yao'er actually laughed like this.

Li is not only old, but also sleek and sleek, even so, the smile on his face does not decrease, but the more he laughs, the deeper he laughs, and finally he laughs out loud, "Yes, one of their Xin'er and Yu Xiaowang was born on the twentieth day of the lunar month, and the other was born on the tenth day of the first lunar month, although the difference between the two is only twenty days, but it is indeed not a year, and the difference of one year makes sense." Li smiled, and the ladies around him, either really found it funny, or just responded to it, and they all laughed.

And the angry look in Wang's eyes, Xinyue also saw it, and Xinyue had to answer her question, "As for what Wang's sister-in-law asked, as a woman, I really don't know much. ”

Cao's sister-in-law also came out to settle the matter, "Jing Zhaoyin has already made a decision about this matter, and the more gossip spreads, the more chaotic it is." ”

"Sister-in-law, this tea is a little light." The new moon also diverted the conversation.

"Speaking of Liang Guo, have you heard about the affairs of the Queen Mother and the Queen's Palace?" Xinyue finally knew why the Wang family could talk nonsense on such an occasion, it turned out that her mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhenbei Hou, was also a talkative person.

But this topic is exactly what the new moon wants to know the most at the moment.

"Yes, General Meng, the leader of the forbidden army, was dismissed and imprisoned, and my family officials, if it weren't for the fact that he was not on duty that day and was a deputy general, His Majesty needed to purge the forbidden army, otherwise he would have to be implicated." The one who spoke was the wife of Fan Tan, the deputy leader of the forbidden army, and Fan Tan and Men Mengyong, the leader of the forbidden army, were both very competent and brave generals.

"Because the harem is full of ladies and princesses, the forbidden army can only patrol outside the palaces at a specific time, and the queen and the queen mother are in the palace, but they don't dare to stay and ask more questions for a moment."

The ladies talked nonsense, and Xinyue slowly figured out that the things in the palace of the Queen Mother and the Queen vaguely seemed to be the handiwork of the Liang people.

Speaking of Liang Guoren, Xinyue squinted her eyes, she had not had such a thing in her dream, and Liang Guoren really had no need, when she was reorganizing her army to attack Dasheng, she was openly provocative, and she was so provocative.

Xinyue's sigh caused a sideways glance from Cao's sister-in-law who was sitting on her right, "Are you uncomfortable?" ”

"Sister-in-law, I'll go change my clothes." Crescent Moon finally found a reason to slip out.

Walking out of the tearoom, Xinyue looked back at the ladies who were still chatting hotly, and asked Feng'er sideways, "Where is King Jin?" ”

"The prince of Jin is still in the city, but the princess of Jin is about to have her birthday, so she will leave in the next few days." Xinyue heard Feng'er say this, and it coincided with the time in the dream, and it was indeed a while before the prince's personal expedition.

Feng'er looked at the new moon and asked with a sad face, "Madam, do you think there is something strange about this time?" ”

"This matter... Although I have no evidence, no matter how I look at it, it has nothing to do with King Jin. ”

"But just now, the wife of the deputy commander of the forbidden army said that the palace suspected that Liang Guo did it." Fei'er also followed behind Feng'er, and she listened carefully all the time.

"If it was really Liang Guo who did it, it really had nothing to do with Rong Ying." Saying that, Xinyue stopped, if she thought about things and walked again, she would fall, she was like this when she was a child, so Xu Xintai always asked her to think things clearly before walking.

"Madam, let's take care of the things in front of us first, Master Hou must have waited for us for a while." Feng'er was afraid of Xu Xintai from the bottom of her bones, so Xinyue couldn't help but ask her, "You are the maid that my aunt gave me, and you have basically never been in contact with my eldest brother, why are you afraid of him?" ”