Prince Gong Chang Ning specially asked the royal florist to rush for a few days, and moved the bright red and white camellia to the potted plant, and placed it around the hall to decorate, which not only responded to the topic of the tea art conference but also appeared to be more elegant and natural than the side of it.

The princes and nobles who came one after another, as well as the courtiers and wives, all praised Chang Ning for being thoughtful and meticulous, and the style was not conventional, and most of them naturally took the opportunity to flatter the royal family.

Huai Sleeve got up early to go to serve in the house of Xiaozhuang, because a few days ago Zhu Qing suddenly felt cold, although the illness is not serious, but after all, it is Xiaozhuang's personal service palace maid, Su Ma Lagu for the sake of Xiaozhuang's body, and another Xiaozhuang to call a spiritual person, so he still called Huai Sleeve to replace.

Huai Sleeve carefully coiled the hair bun for Xiaozhuang, picked out a brown tourmaline Tuanhuadian in the makeup box and gently placed it in the middle of the bun, and no longer used any other headdress. After combing his hair, Xiaozhuang looked left and right in the mirror, and nodded with a smile: "Well, plain and dignified, just what I want, I don't like those tired pearls, the head is heavy, and the neck is sore." ”

He smiled with his sleeves: "If the ancestor likes it, I'll wait for the ancestor to change his clothes." Two palace maids came over next to him and served Xiaozhuang's auspicious clothes at the same time.

At this time, the voice of the palace maids greeting in unison suddenly came from outside the door, "The crescent princess is auspicious." As soon as the words fell, the crescent moon ran in in a hurry.

"Why is it so hot in the morning? Nor do you learn from your master's modesty of gentleness. Xiaozhuang pointed a little crescent moon with his finger while changing his clothes, and said with a smile.

The crescent moon only smiled and didn't care, and said bluntly after greeting Xiaozhuang: "The ancestor has been radiant for a lifetime, and now let us little wildflowers show their faces, right?" ”

Xiaozhuang laughed when he heard this: "You elf weird ghost girl, what do you think of again, don't say it, send me first, you tell me, why don't I let you show your face?" ”

The crescent moon came over and grabbed the arm of the sleeve and said: "Ancestor, I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about my master, she is going to participate in this tea art conference, but she patronized and dressed up her ancestor in the morning, you see that she is still facing the sky now." ”

When Xiaozhuang heard this, he turned his head to look at his sleeve, nodded and said, "Isn't it?" Look, I forgot about this stubble, you can't dress up like this, it's too plain! Go back and dress up well, you are going to participate on behalf of our Songhe Zhai, you have to pay attention to face! ”

Huai Sleeve's face was slightly red by Xiaozhuang's words, and he replied: "I am deeply honored to be able to participate in such a grand tea banquet, but I am here to play, the beauties of the harem are enough to be beautiful, and I don't get in the way if I don't wear makeup......"

"That's not what I said, when I was young, I wanted to live spiritually, and when I got to my age, I didn't have that heart even if I thought about it, and I dressed up and made people secretly scold the 'old goblin' in their hearts......

Xiaozhuang's words caused everyone to laugh. The crescent moon urged Huai Sleeve to go back to freshen up, Xiaozhuang opened his makeup box and took a look, picked out a tourmaline carved broken pattern begonia step and gave it to Huai Sleeve, Huai Sleeve hurriedly thanked him, and retreated with the crescent moon.

Before leaving, the crescent moon begged for Huai Sleeve to be at the same table with her at the Xiaozhuang Tea Banquet Conference. Xiaozhuang agreed, went with them, and was accompanied by Aunt Su Mala.

The location of the Yuexi Ninglan Hall is slightly farther away than the other palaces, with the north mountain at its back, it is a square and flat palace, and the overall main hall is divided into two floors.

The upper floor is slightly narrower, push the window to look north, a glance of the green mountains, to the south courtyard in front of the open frosted stone paved flat field is just a regular stage, reflecting the mountain next to it and the open green plants under the four sides, is an excellent listening theater.

The first floor is an open field completely supported by eighteen and vermilion pillars, there is no wall around it, only a circle of white marble carved railings and several layers of steps on the periphery, the eaves of the corridor are surrounded by the ditch along the horned beasts lifelike, looking at the surrounding hanging one-person high palace lamp, one side is Mei Lan Zhu Ju Sui Han Siyou's fine brush ink.

On the other side is the corresponding spring rain, summer thunder, autumn clouds, winter snow and four seasons. Delicate palace lamps reflect the picturesque pavilions. The main banquet of this tea banquet is located on the first floor, and the second floor is divided into different small spaces with several screens for the emperor, the empress dowager and the palace concubines to change their clothes and take a short rest.

A number of sandalwood round tables are set up on the flat field in front of the door to entertain the courtiers, inside is the scarlet thick felt paving floor, the middle is set aside for the tea ceremony performance to prepare the empty field, and the long table of the dragon banquet with gold lacquer carving is set up around it, which is specially placed for entertaining the royal family and nobles and the concubines to enter the banquet and watch the performance.

There is a pair of eight eight treasures in the middle of the eaves screen, in front of the screen is placed on one side of the table of the dragon playing phoenix, and the back is set up with a phoenix couch and dragon bowl, which is the main seat of the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang and Kangxi.

Huai Sleeve and the crescent princess took the crescent moon sedan chair together, and came out of Songhe Zhai to the Moon Tide Ning Lan Palace. Originally, she wanted to walk in the past, but the crescent princess said that the distance was long, so she pulled her sleeves and walked with her.

Along the way, I met many imperial relatives and courtiers who went to the tea banquet together, most of them were relatives, and some of them recognized the crescent moon and saluted her or exchanged a few words with her, so they also looked sideways at the sleeves sitting beside the crescent moon.

Huai Sleeve felt deeply uncomfortable, and wanted to go down and walk, but the crescent moon insisted on holding it and refused, the crescent moon was originally flamboyant, and he had always been spoiled by the Empress Dowager and Kangxi, so he naturally didn't take the side eyes of others to heart, and when he saw Huai Sleeve cramped, he smiled and explained: "Master, you don't have to care about those people's eyes, most of them are envious of Master, and women are so jealous of time, especially these people." ”

Huai Sleeve was not originally a person who cared about others, but during the time he entered the palace, his temperament was more peaceful than before, and he was used to acting in a low-key manner, and when he heard the crescent moon say this, he saw her squinting at the contemptuous eyes of those noble ladies, and he was unconsciously curious, and asked: "Why are you so disgusted with these people at such a young age?" When did they provoke you? ”

"Hmph, don't these people have a pair of rich eyes? Just look up......" Crescent Moon said, her face turned red.

Seeing her like this, Huai Sleeve knew that there must be a story in it, but it was inconvenient to talk about it at this time, so he swept away the interest of the tea banquet for a while, and then casually said something else.

When the crescent moon and the sedan chair with sleeves arrived, most of the people had already come, Kangxi had not yet arrived, Xiaozhuang was surrounded by a group of relatives who had not seen for a long time, Fujin was chatting upstairs, and the empty field in front of the door was already full of civil and military officials and their respective relatives.