The girl's voice was crisp, although it was not loud, and it was on the crowded street, but the vigorous voice was very clear in the ears.

Liu Wensu looked over when he heard the sound, and saw that the little niece had poked her head out and stretched her neck, and her eyebrows, which seemed to have a little more gentle and delicate today, were also full of eccentricities, so I don't know where so many spirits came from every day and were curious about everything, Liu Wensu shook his head and smiled, and still said truthfully: "Most of the people who were invited to participate in the Qujiang banquet today are permanent staff officers above the fifth grade, and Li Siniang's father's official rank is just on the fifth grade, and he should bring his family with him today." Looking at Liu Chenxing's gaze, he always had a faint smile.

Liu Chenxing's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he knew that calling him his future aunt outside would have an impact on Li Siniang's reputation, so he only said happily: "That's great, maybe I can still talk to her today, and I'll be close to her in advance." ”

Liu Wensu looked away from Liu Chenxing, looked ahead, the smile faded, and the moist eyes returned to their usual cold and modesty, and said, "It's here." ”

Seeing that Uncle Liu was a steady Liu Buque Moyang, Liu Chenxing also had a tacit understanding to retract his poked head, sat down in the carriage, and the uncle and nephew stopped talking.

People like festival entertainment, and it is a large-scale entertainment banquet set up by the empress, civil and military officials are flocking to it, even if the uncle and nephew are not late, the royal garden on the south bank of the Qujiang River - Furong Garden, which is set up for a banquet today, is full of civil and military officials and horses, but there are already guards strictly guarding here, just like outside the Danfeng Gate of Daming Palace, although there are many people and cars, but one by one strictly check into the palace, and there are miscellaneous servants here to guide the crowd of cars and horses, and according to their respective grades one by one, the scene is orderly.

As soon as Liu Wensu and Liu Chenxing's uncle and nephew came, someone set up a mount for them and rented a carriage for a day, and then when they handed over the turtle talisman and passed the inspection of the Praetorian Guard, there was a little eunuch who led them into the park.

The current architectural style is the same as that of the Tang Dynasty of the Celestial Empire, with white walls, red columns, green tiles, and mullioned windows, which build a magnificent, rigorous and cheerful modern architecture.

I have seen the solemn grandeur and magnificence of Daming Palace, Furong Garden is probably the forbidden palace garden of royal leisure and entertainment, sometimes the building is solemn and solemn, it is also the same magnificent, but it is less Daming Palace everywhere with a sense of strict hierarchy, a little more beautiful, only to see the red drop of green in the Furong Garden, every grass and tree is the scenery.

Although the Dragon Boat Festival has not yet been officially determined, there should be a lot of customs, zongzi calamus wine is not mentioned, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, there is one of the most lively events is dragon boating, so today's banquet is located in the middle of the Furong Garden.

This is also one of the most magnificent palaces in the Hibiscus Garden.

Built on a high platform, above the white marble staircase is the luxurious golden palace, and under the jade tower is a huge square and curved water.

Stand tall and see far. Standing on the top of the Golden Palace, you can have a panoramic view of the curved water, and the curved water overlooking the Golden Palace is the competition venue for today's dragon boat competition.

The ministers of today's banquet are mainly permanent staff officials in Beijing, mainly Beijing civil officials of five grades or above, equivalent to modern "department-level cadres", about 200 people, and many of them bring their families together, and the number of people at today's banquet has doubled.

Of course, not everyone can become a guest of the Golden Palace, not to mention the ladies and nobles.

Although the status of women is now unprecedentedly high, and the idea of upper-class women advocating bold emancipation of themselves is becoming more and more intense, in the end, it is still a patriarchal society, there is a difference between men and women, and there are still very few women who can really ignore the gender gap.

Just like in the Daming Palace, on Chinese New Year's Eve, the women who are ordered to enter the palace to pay homage, it is impossible to go to the women's hospital located outside the Yuehua Gate of the Xuanzheng Hall with the civil and military officials, but to go to the Women's House located outside the Yuehua Gate of the Xuanzheng Palace.

In the same as the Ziyun Building of Furong Garden, there are side halls on the left and right sides of the main hall, each connected by an arch bridge, and the women and dependents who attended the banquet today are generally arranged in the left and right side halls, such as the eldest princess and other statuses, and such as Ouyang Zijin and other powerful ones, of course, they are not among them, and the civil and military officials are in the main hall.

I thought that she was probably arranged to the side hall, but she didn't expect that she and Uncle Liu would climb the white marble stairs of Ziyun Tower together, and they were directly led to the main hall by the eunuch who led the way, Liu Chenxing was slightly surprised.

The eunuch who was arranged to lead the way, although he was a lowly eunuch, had to choose the clever one.

Sensing Liu Chenxing's footsteps, he saw Liu Chenxing glance at the side hall at the other end of the arch bridge, and the eunuch who led the way looked at it in his eyes, remembering the empress's reward to Liu Chenxing two days ago, and couldn't help but glance at Liu Chenxing.

The eunuch who led the way was startled, and hurriedly looked at it, this was the big-sleeved shirt cut with smoke and haze brocade, and he took a deep breath, and immediately became more and more respectful, and explained on the side: "Liu Nushi is not an ordinary wife, but a female official of the imperial court, and she should be seated in the Golden Palace." ”

I see.

So no matter where you are, you are still the most reliable.

The wife got the fate of her husband, but in the end it was not as good as her own official position, even if she was only a minor official of the ninth grade, and her future was blackened, but she was more qualified to be a guest on the Golden Palace than the wife.

Liu Chenxing suddenly smiled when he heard it.

When he spoke, he arrived outside the gate of the Golden Palace, and after little gossip, the two uncles and nephews and the eunuch who led the way all looked right, and then walked into the hall together, and immediately two little eunuchs ushered in.

"This one is Liu Buque of Zhongshu Province."

"This one is the history of Liu Nu of the History Museum."

The eunuch who led the way introduced the two uncles and nephews to the eunuchs in the palace one by one, and then bowed and left, and continued to lead the way outside the Furong Garden.

The main hall of Ziyun Tower is very large, and it can easily accommodate more than 200 people to feast and drink here, and it is still a single seat for one person.

As early as when Liu Chenxing stepped into the main hall, he found that it was not too early for their uncle and nephew to come, and there were already many people sitting on the seats on the left and right in the hall, most of them were civil and military officials, among which only a few gorgeously dressed women were sitting, and everyone was talking and laughing in twos and threes, but it was quite lively.

There are very few women who can probably become guests of honor in the Empress's Golden Palace, and as soon as Liu Chenxingfu stepped into the palace, guests from all over the world came to see him.

Over the years, all kinds of eyes have long been commonplace, not to mention that in front of the civil and military officials, he accepted the empress's hand-picked appointment as the first place in the palace examination, and at that time, the scene was compared to now, and it can be said that Liu Chenxing had already practiced.

At this moment, Liu Chenxing was as usual, he didn't even breathe in the slightest, and followed the eunuchs in the palace to his seat.