Replacing Begonia is a maid who is older and more senior, but when taking care of Jiang Jun, she is obviously not as dedicated as Begonia.

Sometimes Jiang Jingshu chatted with Jiang Jun occasionally, always listening to her eldest sister sighing and sighing, missing the days when there were begonias. Jiang Jingshu saw that there was no caring person around her, and her body was getting worse day by day.

But all Jiang Jingshu could do was to comfort her and secretly help Haitang, so that she would not be humiliated.

The days passed. On this day, it was another day of rest, and the Marquis of Anguo Mansion received an edict - the annual Huachang Palace banquet was coming.

The banquet of the Flower Palace is scheduled for the day of the great heat. As the old saying goes: the great one is the hottest one.

The heat is the hottest time of the year, so it's better to drink and have fun. The reason why the famous flowers are often is a metaphor for the change of seasons, and the flowering period is always there, which is entrusted with people's beautiful vision.

And if there is a "flower" in the name, it must be hooked with a woman.

Every time there is a banquet in the Huachang Palace, the emperor will invite the daughters of the princes and nobles in Beijing to enter the palace to drink flower dew and sweets together.

This is a carnival for the ladies in Beijing. However, there are very few people who can get a banquet, and there are only those who attend regularly every year, and the Marquis of Anguo's Mansion is basically a regular visitor.

Just because women are the center doesn't mean that men can't participate. There is an unwritten rule in the Huachang Palace banquet: male participants must be born with bright eyes and bright teeth, and their faces are like crowns of jade. In a word: handsome and chic, extraordinary bearing.

Then, the level of the men at the banquet is already clear at a glance.

Tomorrow is the great heat, and right now, the rooms of the Marquis of Anguo Mansion have begun to make intense preparations. At this time in previous years, everyone would take out the new clothes that had been ordered before, dress up for a good time, and want to excel in the palace banquet and become the party of the stars holding the moon.

Early the next morning.

Outside the palace wall, there was a lot of traffic, Jiang Jingshu got out of the carriage, looked at it, saw many acquaintances, greeted them one by one, and stood with Jiang Jun.

There are three carriages in the Anguo Hou Mansion, one for the young lady, one for the son, and one for the main house.

If it was said that in the past, Begonia would also be together, but it happened unfortunately, and due to multiple considerations, Jiang Jingshu did not bring her again this year.

Every year, the palace banquet prepares a resting place for each female family member who enters the palace, usually three people per room. Jiang Jingshu and Du Ruo have always been good friends. This year, too, when the ladies went to their respective rooms, Du Ruo quietly made an appointment with Jiang Jingshu, and after saying goodbye to her mother and eldest sister, the two secretly went to the back garden to chat.

Happy times always fly by, seeing that the time is not early, Jiang Jingshu and Du Ruo temporarily broke up and walked towards the rest house alone.

The room of the ladies of the Marquis of Anguo is in a quiet place, with small bridges and flowing water, and rockeries next to each other. Passing by a door, she heard intermittent voices coming from inside, and after hearing the content clearly, Jiang Jingshu couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and stopped.

It was the voice of the second aunt Jiang Hong, and what she said was clearly planning how to frame herself.