XLIII. Banquet

Three days later, Qingfeng and Yu, as the princess's personal maidservant, greeted the guests outside the gate of the princess's mansion in the crawler workshop instead of Shen Mengxi, and Yin'er also entertained the many teenagers brought by the ladies as the host.

This banquet is the first time in ten years that the princess's mansion has held a banquet. But everyone who received the invitation was not present. For a time, in front of the princess's mansion, the carriages and horses were noisy, the clothes were fragrant and the temples were shadows, and it was very lively.

Di Guangyuan's wife Pang Shi, she brought two sons and a daughter to the banquet, and the Cui Saijiu Mrs. Wang, who has always been indifferent and communicative, also brought two granddaughters and a grandson to finally arrive, and the two families arrived almost at the same time, Shen Mengxi took four children and greeted each other at the Yufeng Pavilion by the Xiaoyao Lake, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Pang walked forward quickly to salute, and the young boys and girls also saluted, Shen Mengxi hurriedly asked them to be exempted from the courtesy, and invited the two ladies into the pavilion, and the young boys and girls were taken by the maidservants to their respective pergolas.

The banquet was held on the shores of Xiaoyao Lake, and three large pergolas were erected by the lake, one and a half feet high, cool and airy, and surrounded by light veils, one red, one cyan, and one pale pink. It is set up in a three-legged manner, around the Yufeng Pavilion next to the lake, and the distance between the three pergolas is about 20 meters, and you can just see the faces of the people in the shed.

Although there are no flowers and trees in Qingyun Villa, there are countless potted flowers outside the pergola, which are set up into various flower stands. The breeze on the lake brings the fragrance of flowers into the shed, accompanied by delicious food and wine, which is really pleasant to enjoy.

The cabaret is set on a huge flower boat in the middle of the lake, and the other two pergolas have a very good view, except for the cyan pergola that is the farthest away.

"Your Highness, when I saw the servants and maids of the princess's mansion, I realized that the servants and maids of the Cui family were really useless." Mrs. Wang pointed to the uniformly dressed, courteous, and orderly servants in the house, and praised Shen Mengxi.

"This palace doesn't care about this, it's all taken care of by the breeze." Shen Mengxi said with a smile. The breeze came out behind her and saluted Madame Wang.

There are a total of eight people in the Yufeng Pavilion, and the group sits around a huge round high case, this year, Chang'an Luoyang is especially popular for big cases, high cases, and even improves the Hu bed to make a seat as high as the couch.

These seven ladies are all important ministers in the court and the ladies in charge of the family, how can they not know about this housekeeper's affairs, even if it is a maidservant, the master must be the master's mother. But looking at the banquet in the princess's mansion, there are more than 100 guests, and there must be 200 servants and maids who can be seen, not counting the light and dark guards, all of them act silently and cooperate tacitly. I also secretly praised it in my heart.

Mrs. Pang was a little satisfied with Yu'er first, her mother knew how to take care of the house, and her daughter was naturally not bad. Before she went to the banquet, she was very dissatisfied with her father-in-law's order, Princess Li had a very bad reputation, but now the Di family had to marry the county lord of Yuhua, obviously to repay her son for her kindness. But whether it was her father-in-law's order or the invitation from the princess's mansion, she was not qualified to refuse, and she had to bring her two sons, Zhilan Yushu's eldest son, to send them to the family to pick, and her heart was twisted when she thought about it.

When I entered the princess's mansion and saw the princess, I peeked at it a few times, and felt that the princess had a kind face, her eyes were stable and unwavering, and she had a maturity that did not match her age. She couldn't help but wonder a little, would such a princess really raise a face? Will her daughter follow suit? For a while, I was in turmoil.

An Ning also came with her two daughters, she sat in the red pergola, her eyes were aimed at the young man in the cyan pergola, and she only felt that all of them were good, and which one was not bad as a son-in-law. The other ladies also secretly observed the young people and girls of the family.

In the pink pergola, the warbler and the swallow are the most lively, and a group of girls in red clothes and green clothes are more fascinating than the beautiful scenery and blooming flowers in this garden.

In the cyan pergola, more than a dozen teenagers, all of whom have not yet reached the crown, are just having the appearance of adults, but with some youthful and immature age, they are like a beam of sunrise light, like a spring wind, even if their noisy words and actions bring the wind, all make people feel that the world is so beautiful and full of hope.

Shen Mengxi also loves to look at young people, she glanced at her son lovingly and proudly, Yin'er jumped on the boat, and after a salute, Dafang delivered a speech on behalf of Shen Mengxi, welcoming all guests ,—— the unique flower-viewing banquet of the Princess's Mansion begins!

The three pergolas are also high desk high chairs, which sit in groups, which not only saves space, but also reduces the distance between each other, and young people find it convenient to stand up, especially like it. Some of the ladies didn't think it was very polite, but other than that, the rest of the banquet was decent, and they couldn't say anything.

The banquet in the princess's mansion was praised by everyone, and the young and young girls threw pots, sang and danced, played the piano and danced the sword, all of which made the banquet atmosphere high. Di Jingen danced a sword, Shen Mengxi looked carefully, and saw that the young man was seventeen or eighteen years old, with a good face, generous manners, a free demeanor, and a chic posture. Shen Mengxi couldn't help but look at Yu'er again, only to see that Yu'er was also staring at Di Jingen.

After the banquet was withdrawn, everyone moved to the library building, and there were young men and little ladies who wrote a few poems, and some people shot arrows at the arrow target outside the building, Shen Mengxi invited the ladies to the hall to rest and drink tea, and the young girls were in groups of three or five, visiting and walking in the garden.

When it was Shen, the banquet was over, Shen Mengxi secretly compared a few teenagers and girls in his heart, and listened to Shen Qilai report that everything was going well in the house today, and there were no safety accidents, but I overheard the two ladies who were visiting the garden talking, "Can you meet the princess's face?"