Chapter 257: Palace Banquet
Every year, a new look comes out in the palace.
And those wealthy official wives will pursue these new looks, so that those silk houses, ready-to-wear shops and silver buildings in the capital have business to do all year round.
In Shi Jinxiu's dream, she had never chased these, and she was not qualified to chase them.
I didn't think that now she could be this trendsetter.
"Tomorrow is just a palace banquet, you don't need to make up according to the product, you just need to dress appropriately," Aunt Xu smiled and pointed to Shi Jinxiu, "But the day after tomorrow, the foreign woman will enter the palace to worship according to the makeup." ”
Aunt Xu carefully told Shi Jinxiu about the matters that should be paid attention to when participating in the palace banquet.
Because the palace held a dinner party, Shi Jinxiu arrived at the palace gate in front of the first day.
She thought that many noblewomen would come to this palace banquet, but she saw in the carriage that she was the only one parked in front of the palace gate of Nuoda.
The little chamberlain, who had been waiting by the palace gate for a long time, trotted over as soon as he saw her carriage: "You are Mrs. Yuwen, right?" The little one has been waiting here for a long time on the orders of the imperial concubine. ”
Shi Jinxiu felt flattered.
She cautiously got out of the carriage, looked left and right again, and asked the little chamberlain puzzledly: "Didn't you say that there is a palace banquet tonight?" Why haven't you seen someone else's carriage? ”
"It's a palace banquet!" The little chamberlain grinned, "It's just that the royal family is only invited to the banquet." ”
"Huh?" Shi Jinxiu, who was following the little chamberlain, stopped, "Then why did you invite me?" I'm not a royal man. ”
"How do you know this little one." The little chamberlain looked embarrassed, "The little one is just on an errand." ”
Shi Jinxiu thought about it for a while, so she didn't say much.
The palace banquet was set up in the Jiying Palace, and when Shi Jinxiu arrived, he found that most of the invited princesses were royal relatives and princesses who married outside, as well as their concubines.
Mixed in with these people, she seemed a little out of place.
"Why are you here too?" Just when Shi Jinxiu didn't know what to do, Shi Linglong suddenly came over and looked her up and down.
The last time they fought in the paddock, the two of them were very unpleasant, and when they saw her again today, Shi Jinxiu knew that the person who came was not good.
"Naturally, I'm here for the palace banquet!" Shi Jinxiu was looking for a familiar figure in the crowd, she didn't want to stand with Shi Linglong to greet her.
"You?" Shi Linglong seemed to have heard a big joke, "What is your identity?" There's no place for you to sit and eat! ”
"You don't have to worry about this," Shi Jinxiu also became unyielding, "Since I can enter the palace gate, I naturally have a place to sit, but I can't do it, I can finish this meal by sitting on the threshold!" ”
"Who wants you to sit on the threshold?" Before Shi Jinxiu's words fell, the voice of the eldest princess suddenly sounded behind her.
Shi Linglong was frightened, hurriedly saluted the eldest princess, and called "aunt and grandmother".
The eldest princess glanced over, and said lightly: "It turned out to be Linglong, is your mother okay?" ”
"Thank you aunt and grandmother for your concern, my mother is fine." Shi Linglong is like a rabbit, well-behaved and clever.
"Well, that's good!" After saying that, the eldest princess looked back at Shi Jinxiu, "What?" Didn't they give you a seat? Then I'm going to have to find someone to talk to me about it. ”
"Back to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, I just arrived, and I haven't entered the palace to see ......" In order to prevent the eldest princess from being angry with others, Shi Jinxiu hurriedly explained.
Before she could finish her words, the eldest princess glared at her: "Huh? Don't you always call me your stepmother? Why are you still rusty today? ”
Stepmother?
Shi Linglong, who heard this, also widened her eyes and looked at Shi Jinxiu in disbelief.
Shi Jinxiu smiled shyly: "Isn't this in the palace, I'm afraid it's unruly to call you my stepmother......"
"Yu Wenyan is my righteous son, you are his daughter-in-law, you follow him and call me my stepmother, what's wrong with it?" As she spoke, the eldest princess took Shi Jinxiu's hand and hung it on her arm, "Go, go into the palace with me, and I'll take you to recognize people." ”
The two laughed and left, leaving Shi Linglong standing there stunned.
The rumors in the capital that Yu Wenyan was the face of the eldest princess, Shi Linglong had naturally heard of it, and the two of them had not avoided the rumors about this matter.
But why did the eldest princess say that Yu Wenyan was her adopted son?
Shi Jinxiu actually became the eldest princess's "daughter-in-law"?
In this way, wouldn't she become her own elder?
Who can bear this!
Shi Linglong didn't think much about it, lifted her skirt and ran to the main hall.
From a distance, she saw that the eldest princess was talking to her mother with Shi Jinxiu, and from her mother's elegant and polite smile, she could tell that her mother was obviously shocked.
After the eldest princess left with Shi Jinxiu, Shi Linglong dared to come to her mother's side.
"What is Grandmother trying to do?" She saw that the eldest princess brought Shi Jinxiu to the imperial concubine again, and the imperial concubine was very affectionately holding Shi Jinxiu's hand and talking.
Princess Celestia looked at this scene in amazement and did not speak.
In my impression, the imperial aunt has always been a cold and unsmiling person, and she has never seen her laugh with others in public, let alone help introduce others.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Although they are both princesses, the eldest princess is far from the prestige and status of the eldest princess, and she needs to be more cautious in what she says and does.
Shi Linglong's words came to her lips and swallowed them back, and she sat down almost by the door of Jiying Hall as if she was angry.
Although the eldest princess is the elder, she is not respected, and her position is naturally ranked after the princes.
Shi Jinxiu's side visited all the mothers of the palace masters, and then met all the princesses.
The third princess and the eighth princess were naturally happy to see her, and even if the other princesses had opinions about her, no one dared to embarrass her in front of the eldest princess, so everyone was talking and laughing and laughing kindly.
Not long after, Shi Jinxiu saw Yu Wenyan walking from outside the palace with Emperor Qingde, and they were followed by a group of princes.
She soon found out that the previous crown prince was not in the crowd, and the crown princess was not in the main hall, that is, Emperor Qingde really put the second prince and his family under house arrest.
Everyone in the hall bowed down and saluted.
Emperor Qingde saw the eldest princess standing in the innermost part at a glance.
Because these elderly princesses all lived alone in the courtyard outside the city, she had not been back to the city and had not participated in such a palace banquet for many years, and Emperor Qingde couldn't help but be excited when he saw her.
After the two sisters and brothers exchanged two words, Emperor Qingde naturally saw Shi Jinxiu who was following the eldest princess.
"You girl is so bold that you dare to cross the hospital and prescribe a prescription for my needle." Emperor Qingde raised his eyebrows, "Aren't you afraid that if something goes wrong, you can't get rid of it?" ”