Chapter Seventy-One: The Palace Banquet 2
Jiang Yu sighed, thinking that he didn't need to see the person he wanted to see in this life, but who knew that it was inevitable, as soon as he thought of this, a eunuch came to invite, saying that the time was up to invite the daughters of the Zou Mansion to the table.
The queen's Yiluan Palace is really full of flowers at this time, and people are more delicate than flowers.
The peonies in the garden are gorgeous and dazzling, and the peony flowers are rich and beautiful, and the fragrance is fragrant. Everyone enjoyed the flowers for a while and then brought into the big open pavilion next to it, glazed tiles, red lacquer columns, warped cornices, the scenery of the small bridge and flowing water really made people happy to see it.
The palace maids in pink clothes on the long table are all tied with double hair, these are all third-class palace maids, and the exquisite blue porcelain tea set is placed on the table in an orderly manner, and the boiled new tea is poured into the tea cup, the fragrance is pleasant, and everyone sits down to drink.
The long table seats are also very exquisite, the royal relatives live on both sides of the table, and the family members of the officials who attack the knighthood are ranked second according to the rank, and then arranged one by one according to the rank. In this palace banquet, only adults above the third rank are invited to enter, which is always the case, and the table is also 300 meters long and often 50 meters wide.
When everyone in the Zou Mansion arrived, everyone had just entered the table, and when they saw them coming back, they couldn't help but take a few more looks.
Following the steps of the old lady and the arrangement of the grandmothers, Jiang Yu finally sat down, but the faint pain in her heart still did not get better, how much she hoped at this time, they just looked alike.
After the tea, the palace maids withdrew all the tea cups, and the cold dishes were served first, and there were all kinds of dishes.
Then the high-pitched voice of the ceremonial official sounded: "The queen has arrived." ”
The women stood up, bowed, and said in unison: "See the queen's mother, the mother is a thousand years old." ”
"Excuse me." A loving voice came, Jiang Yu slowly looked up, and saw a group of graceful and luxurious women walking in surrounded by palace maids. The leader is dressed in an embroidered phoenix robe, wearing a phoenix golden step, his face is exquisite, the corners of his eyes are slightly wrinkled when he laughs, his body is graceful, and his wealth is fully revealed, this person is the queen Di Fei.
The other concubines who followed behind him were slightly inferior to the queen, no wonder the queen has been able to be favored over the years, but more importantly, the queen gave birth to two sons, Ye Shengfeng and Ye Shengqiong, both of whom are noble princes, and the emperor loves them very much.
Maybe everyone's eyes secretly looked at the expressions of the girls, but Jiang Yu glanced at the queen a few times and then turned his gaze to Concubine Mei's woman, and kept staring at her for a moment.
To say that this queen is not good-looking, but Concubine Mei is even better, not only young but also bewitching, every gesture is charming, no wonder the emperor will leave a place for her childless among the four concubines, obviously this woman is not only beautiful, but also has some good means.
A group of concubines sat down, and some people looked at Jiang Yu's side, it was none other than the queen's mother, the lady concubine and the plum concubine. The three of them saw that the Zou family was sitting in a proper manner, and there were a few young women, but obviously everyone recognized Jiang Yu at a glance, the woman was dressed very simply, but the temperament of the whole person was incomparable to others, and then looked closely at the woman's skin was crystal white, her eyes were dark, her body was small, and she was young, which made all the concubines envious.
"The palace invites everyone today, just because the spring season is good, the garden is full of spring to be enjoyed, today I invite you to enjoy the flowers and tea, everyone is lively and lively, and then there are young juniors who are willing to perform better, so they will go to the Yuan Gonggong to register and make a book, and when the meal is finished, it will start, what do you think?"
"The queen is kind and generous, and the courtiers obey orders." Everyone responded in unison, and the celebrant shouted the name of the dish, and the palace maids brought the dishes with all the colors and flavors to the table one by one.
Chicken with five-spice sauce, duck with red oil, Changchun deer whip soup, braised garden fish, diced black chicken, duck tongue with a hundred flowers, hanging stove sand board chicken, horse venison skewers, pine monkey head, cuttlefish soup, stir-fried white mushrooms with beef tenderloin..........
Everyone cleaned their hands, the queen took the chopsticks, and the palace maid had already prepared the dishes. "Well, everyone, please."
"Thank you, Queen Mother."
Only then did everyone move, and the palace maid standing beside her was always arranging vegetables and acting skillfully.
After the meal, the palace maid removed the dinner plate and served the tea Shifeng Longjing.
Many women have gone to register to prepare for the performance, this is a rare opportunity to perform, once the queen is favored to become the crown princess. So for a while, the registration office was crowded.
The Zou family was not too far from the position of concubine, so the queen whispered to greet Mrs. Feng's physical condition, and the old lady hurriedly replied: "Lao Niangniang is worried, everything is fine with the old body." ”