Chapter 18: The Merchant Girl Who Rivals the Riches of the Country 9
There are two days left for the peach blossom banquet held by the prefect's daughter.
The peach blossom banquet of the Peach Blossom Festival is the tradition of Yangzhou, and the most sought-after peach blossom banquet is to choose the "peach blossom master", selecting a most beautiful, talented and popular unmarried woman, who is called the peach blossom lord. The one who has always been able to hold a peach blossom banquet is either one of the best nobles in Yangzhou City, or the previous peach blossom master.
Last year, it was held by the Yichun county lord of the county king's mansion, and this year it was held by Yao Yude, the peach blossom lord and the eldest daughter of the prefect.
The annual peach blossom banquet can be said to be a first-class event in Yangzhou City, 20 men and women can participate in the peach blossom banquet, identity, status, appearance, talent are indispensable, the participants must be unmarried, are carefully selected and assessed by the dragon and phoenix. It can also be said to be a high-end large-scale blind date banquet, which is sought after by everyone.
Many people snatched their heads in order to get the qualification to participate in the banquet, and those who could be chosen, regardless of men and women, were all elated, radiant, and proud.
The Peach Blossom Banquet was held five years ago by the richest man in Yangzhou City, the Qi family, together with several wealthy businessmen, the first one, created the practice of electing the most outstanding woman as the peach blossom lord, which was a great success and sensation, and was sought after by the nobles of the family.
At the banquet, there will be three traditional items of poetry, music and rhythm, and beauty, each of which will have a link of throwing flowers, and the men who participate in the peach blossom banquet have three bouquets of peach blossoms in their hands and vote for the most outstanding women.
After the comparison of the three traditional projects, it is counted that whoever has the most peach blossoms will be the peach blossom master this year, and get a peach blossom hosta that symbolizes the peach blossom master.
Each woman also has a sachet embroidered with her name, if you like a man, give him the sachet, if the man takes the sachet and gives back the peach blossom, you can get married. It is the custom of the Peach Blossom Festival in Yangzhou for thousands of years, but at the Peach Blossom Banquet, the sachet has only become an ornament, and the core goal of the women participating in the banquet is only one: to become the peach blossom master.
Once you become the owner of the peach blossom, you will be sought after by the men of the entire Yangzhou field, and your worth will rise gradually, making it easier to marry into a high family and find a good family. Therefore, countless women rushed to it and snatched their heads.
The annual peach blossom banquet will also give rise to a series of commercial activities to add taxes to the government, so it has received strong support from the government.
The annual Peach Blossom Festival will attract countless outsiders to flock to Yangzhou to watch, especially after the election of the peach blossom master, the three-day street parade is more empty.
Folk gambling houses will open bets, betting on which noble girl will become the peach blossom owner, and it is not a dream to get rich overnight.
And the clothes, jewelry, and makeup of the peach blossom lord will lead the trend, not only the women of Yangzhou City will compete to imitate, but the entire Eastern Jin Kingdom will also be all the rage.
Therefore, there will be many merchants vying to provide the most exquisite and luxurious clothes and jewelry for the women participating in the peach blossom banquet, and they will also grab their heads in order to provide the peach blossom clothes and peach hairpins worn by the peach blossom masters.
It can be said that the Peach Blossom Festival is a perfect integration of beauty pageants, blind dates, tourism, advertising and other activities, and it can be said that it is an annual event in Yangzhou City.
As the richest man in Yangzhou and one of the four imperial merchants of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Qi family almost every year peach blossom clothes and peach blossom hairpins are provided by the Qi family.
In the previous life, that is, in the original historical trajectory, Qi Yuxiu hit the pillar, and after waking up, she cried and asked Master Qi to be the master of Qi to clean up Qi Yuning for her, and Master Qi felt sorry for her, so he wanted to beat Qi Yuning with a cane.
Although Qi Yuning is only nine years old, she has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and her talent is high, usually three or five strong men can't get in, and her personality is unruly and unruly, the people brought by Master Qi not only did not catch her, but was taught a lesson by Qi Yuning, Master Qi was so angry that he scolded his daughter for being rude, vicious and vulgar, and was scolded back by Qi Yuning's sharp teeth, and he fainted with anger, making the Qi family jump up and down.
Qi Yuling and Old Madam Qi were very angry about this, and Qi Yuling directly ordered Qi Yuxiu not to go out, and thought about it behind closed doors. Qi Yuxiu has been preparing for a long time, and the peach blossom banquet that she is full of confidence to participate in has come to naught.
And Qi Yuling, as the big financier of the Peach Blossom Banquet, the main sponsor and the provider of the peach blossom hairpin in the peach blossom suit, although he does not participate in the Peach Blossom Banquet, he can also attend the Peach Blossom Banquet.
The people who participated in the peach blossom banquet, in addition to the women who ran for the peach blossom lord and the unmarried men with excellent conditions, there was also a category of people, in addition to sponsors similar to Qi Yuling who spent money, that is, the celebrities and nobles of Yangzhou, who belonged to the VIPs who came to watch, and also had the qualifications to cast flowers. It's not easy to get a place for onlookers, and an invitation to participate in the peach blossom banquet can make a sky-high price.
Qi Yuning is lively and lively, and she also followed her sister Qi Yuling to attend the peach blossom banquet.
Qi Yuning rescued Song Bihua, the ninth lady of the Song family, who fell into the water, at the peach blossom banquet, and provided her with new clothes and jewelry, so that Song Bihua was successfully elected as the peach blossom master.
The Song family has a prominent family background, and the Song Guogong Mansion in the capital is from the same line, Song Bihua's father is the concubine of Song Guogong, and the eldest daughter of Song Bihua's uncle is the current crown princess.
Because of the grace of saving lives and the like-mindedness of temperament, after getting acquainted, Song Bihua and Qi Yuning became good friends and treated them like sisters. Later, Qi Yuning and the emperor's eldest grandson met, also because of Song Bihua.
If Qi Yuxiu hates Qi Yuling the most, the one who hates Qi Yuning the most is Qi Yuning.
is the same as marrying into the royal family, far inferior to her, but the barbaric and vulgar Qi Yuning can be deeply favored by the emperor's eldest grandson, and smoothly become the emperor's eldest grandson, the crown princess and even the queen.
And she, who is proud of her outstanding appearance and talent, has a virtuous and virtuous character, and has to marry her favorite Nine Princes as she wishes after twists and turns, but because Qi Yuling and those little sluts seduced the prince, she was framed everywhere, causing her to lose the child in her womb and die tragically in the backyard.
How could she be willing? Fortunately, with God's mercy, I can have a chance to live again.
After Qi Yuxiu was reborn, because he did not provoke Qi Yuling, he was able to participate in the peach blossom banquet. At the peach blossom banquet, he took the opportunity to call Qi Yuning away, and designed in advance to let a gentleman who had no opportunity to participate in the banquet, but just spent money to watch, and his unattractive gentleman went into the water to save Song Bihua, the gentleman was extremely lustful, and took advantage of Song Bihua in front of everyone's eyes, Song's father was pedantic, regardless of Song Bihua's crying, and insisted on marrying her to this gentleman.
Although Qi Yuning did not participate in the Peach Blossom Banquet in her previous life, because she paid close attention to the information of the Peach Blossom Banquet, she still remembers the exam questions, and with the convenience of her previous life, plus the loss of her strong and powerful opponent Song Bihua, Qi Yuning was successfully elected as the Peach Blossom Lord.
But the Nine Princes at the Peach Blossom Banquet, no matter how Qi Yuxiu scratched his head and gestured, his words hinted, he still disdained her, or was bewildered by Qi Yuling's shameless and lewd slut who seduced other people's husbands (Qi Yuling: He meowed, didn't I do anything?) )