At three o'clock, Nanyue also returned to the palace. The old lady was very happy, although it was a simple reception banquet, in the end, the whole family gathered. Nan Lingxuan took out the best Hunan embroidered handkerchief and gave it to the sisters as a meeting gift, and here Nan Lingmo took out two jade hairpins with good color and gave them to Nan Lingxuan, and took out a set of new silk flowers and gave them to Nan Lingqing, who was still young.

The scene at the reception banquet was peaceful and lively, which made the old lady very happy to see it. The entire main hall of Rongjin Hall was filled with laughter. After the meal, the old lady said: "Second daughter-in-law, you are back now, and the people in the house have naturally added a lot." Now the Jiang family has passed away, Zhang's health is not good, invited the master of Fayun Temple to see, said that it is the New Year's Chong Tai Sui, unlucky, after the New Year's Festival, Zhang invited himself to Fayun Temple to eat and pray for the palace, now the affairs of the palace are taken care of by a few jasmine girls, they are inevitably young and inconsiderate, and you will worry more about the affairs of the second room. ”

Zhao Shi was slightly stunned, immediately reacted, and said with a smile: "That's natural." If the county lord or the county lord doesn't understand anything, he can also come and ask the concubine. The three girls also learned to take care of the house with the concubine for two years, and then you sisters can learn from each other. ”

The old princess nodded and smiled: "That's right, second daughter-in-law, if you usually lack anything, just open the public high school treasury to get it." In a few days, there will be a Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet, Mother Gui, you go to open the old body's private warehouse, and pick up a few pieces of head jewelry for the old second daughter-in-law. ”

Nanling Mei said sourly: "Grandmother, you can't be partial, open a private treasury for the second aunt, let's also open our eyes and see what good things our grandmother has that are suitable for our sisters~"

The corners of Mrs. Jiang's mouth paused slightly, and she continued: "Okay, grandmother is not partial, grandmother will give you good things!" Mama Gui, go get a set of new jewelry. Originally, my grandmother wanted to keep it for you until the day before the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet, so that you could wear it when you entered the palace. It would be good to give it to you now, so that you may be happy for a few days. ”

Mama Gui responded and went to fetch a few good Yunjin and gave them to Zhao, and distributed the jewelry to the ladies: Nanling Mo and Nanling Xuan were pink crystal drop earrings, Nanling Fan and Nanling Mei were older and received pink crystal forehead pei, Nanling Xiang received pink crystal hairpins, Nanling Qing was still young and couldn't use the hairpin ring, so she gave her two new palace flowers.

The old lady said: "This year, our family is full of happy events, the wedding date of Fan Yatou and General Sun is in June next year, Mei Yatou and Mo Yatou are also married, and the second family will also return to Beijing and do not have to go out...... It's just that it's still in the ban period, so you shouldn't wear too much, and when the ban period is over, your grandmother will give you gorgeous and good materials to wear.

Everyone thanked them in unison: "Thank you, grandmother." ”

The old lady said: "Buddies also have it", Mama Jin followed behind and took out the best side of the inkstone to give to the prince Nanling Xiao, two coral pen holders to Nanling Mao and Nanling Wei, and a set of good lake pens to Nanling Ce.

On the second day, the people from Yaxing came, and according to the rules, Zhao added two first-class maids Xianglan and Magnolia to himself, and added two first-class maids to Nanling Xuan, Xinran, Xinrong, and Nanling Qing added a first-class maid Yunzhi; In this way, Zhao has two grandmothers around him, four first-class maids, six second-class maids, and eight third-class maids; Nan Lingxuan has three first-class maids by her side, Xinyou, Xinran, and Xinrong; six second-class maids, eight third-class maids; Nan Lingqing has two first-class maids Shui Zhi and Yun Zhi by her side, three second-class maids and four third-class maids; added a small servant to Nanling Mao, two second-class maids. There are dozens of people in total, which is equivalent to a small governor's mansion.

As soon as the time turned to the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, there were still two days before the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet. In the past two months, Nanling Mo has taken the pills made by Mei Xi every day, soaked in a medicinal bath every night, and died of pain every time she soaked in a medicinal bath. Fortunately, the hard work is rewarded, two months have passed, the birthmark on Nanling Mo's face has completely dissipated, and her skin has become more and more white because of the medicinal bath, shining like white porcelain. But even she didn't know that she had a small mandala flower on her right lower waist.

Because of this birthmark, Nanling Mo has still had low self-esteem since she was a child. If the birthmark is not obvious before the age of 10, it can be covered with a little fat powder. After the age of ten, Nanling Mo's body grew larger, and the birthmark became larger and more obvious. After the age of ten, Nanling Mo refused to let the maid serve by her side when she bathed. Since the nurse died, Su Ran, who had served her since childhood, died on the way back to Beijing, and none of the people around her knew that she had a brand on her waist.

Tang Liju

"Jianqiu, you didn't do it well last time, this time you will be given a chance to atone for your sins, if you can't succeed again, the county lord will sell you to the lowest kiln in Beijing." Nan Lingmei said viciously, "This is itchy powder, do you know what to do?" ”

"Yes, yes, the slave knows. Miss, rest assured! Jian Qiu kept kowtowing and said.

Lingmo Temple

"County Lord, the clothes for the palace banquet have been delivered." Mei Qian came in with her clothes in her hand, "This is unified in the Ming Embroidery Workshop." Why don't you give it a try? ”

Mei Xi picked up the dress, which was a light blue moire warm satin hundred butterflies playing flowers Qiyun skirt regulated by the county lord, and was about to help Nanling Mo change it on, when she suddenly approached and smelled the smell: "County lord, the fragrance on this dress is wrong, the fragrance on the neckline seems to be a little pungent." ”

Nan Lingmo sniffed it closely, and said with a smile: "Isn't it, wearing this clothes, once you get close to the brazier, it will soak into the skin, and then it will be allergic and itchy, and the public will embarrass the county lord!" ”

"County Lord, what are you going to do with this dress?" Mei Xi asked.

"Bring it with you at the palace banquet, since some people are looking forward to it and some people are reading it, it is better to plan it." Nanling Mo sneered.

After the new year, it snowed for two days in a row, and by Chinese New Year's Eve, the snow had almost melted, and the weather had cleared up. At the right moment on this day, Mei Xue took back a set of dresses, which were lilac Ruyi water patterns embroidered with jade hairpin flowers and double butterfly cloud-shaped thousand water skirts, and said: "Master, this is the dress specially sent to you by Prince Yun for the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet. The satin used in this skirt is the thousand-colored brocade of the Xishu Kingdom into the palace, showing seven colors in the sun, and the double butterfly embroidered on it is embroidered with eight strands of silver thread mixed with a strand of gold thread. In addition to this, there is also a set of purple jade jewelry regulated by the county lord that matches the skirt. This purple jade jewelry is extremely rare, not to mention that this entire set of purple jade heads is from a piece of purple jade, I am afraid that there are not a few sets in the whole country of this Dayan country.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after lunch, Nanling Mo began to make up according to the product, and Mei Shuang intimately prepared several snacks that Nanling Mo liked and put them on the carriage. The food at the palace banquet is the same all year round, lackluster. And the emperor and the queen mother are all there, and everyone is not really happy, except for drinking, most of them are hungry.

Mei Xue was more familiar with the palace makeup than Mei Xilai, and soon she combed Nanling Mo with a Chaoyun near fragrant bun according to the appearance of her clothes, and originally intended to wear all the purple jade heads, but Nanling Mo was too heavy, so she directly took off the purple jade hairpin, leaving a purple jade forehead and a pair of purple jade hosta flower ears.

"County Lord, ...... you" Mei Xue saw that Nanling Mo still used a light red rouge to trace the position of the original birthmark on the left side of her face again, and then thinly applied a layer of homemade red plum powder, lightly traced the willow eyebrows, put on honey-colored lipstick, put on a mask, and tied the silk silk ribbon sent by Yun Tianhong before as a waist seal on her body, put on a blue rabbit fur cloak and took Mei Xue out like this...... Before leaving, bring the problematic dress with you in case you need it.

There are also strict regulations on bringing maids with you at the palace banquet, and generally only one master is allowed to bring one maid in the Prince's Palace, and a maximum of two people can be brought above the palace. Mu Yi couldn't follow into the palace, and the old princess only brought one person to the palace banquet, and in order to keep a low profile, she only brought Mei Xue into the palace. Mei Xi Meiqian is not familiar with the palace banquet, and she has never experienced any palace banquet; Meishuang Meixue has been specially adjusted/taught, and she is very familiar with the etiquette and terrain in the palace, and it is very suitable to take any of them with her.

In less than three moments, at the door of the aisle, except for the old lady, the other ladies had already arrived. Nanling Mei saw that Nanling Mo was not wearing the dress made by the palace for the female dependents, and said sarcastically: "The second sister is worthy of being the princess of Zhunyun, and she can't even look down on the palace dress uniformly made in the palace." ”

"Where's that, big sister," Nanling Mo replied with a smile, "Don't you forget, the decree of marriage on that day is very clear, and the lord of this county immediately enjoys the power of the prince and concubine." The palace banquet is such a formal banquet, how dare the county lord slack off? This dress is a palace dress that conforms to the rules of the prince and princess. ”

"You ......" Nan Lingmei glared at her unwillingly, and saw the old lady coming from a distance, supported by Mama Jin, so she changed the expression on her face and stopped speaking. After the Zhang family lost power, she knew that she could not make any moves that would make the old princess unhappy, so as not to make her situation even more difficult.

"It turns out that the person she promised to marry was Prince Yun," Nan Lingxuan said with a smile in her heart, "Then it seems that she was given up by the palace, otherwise how could a dignified second-class county lord and the daughter of the palace marry a cripple?" Thinking like this, she looked at her mother Zhao, but also found that Zhao's eyes were also a little complicated.

When the old lady arrived, everyone got into their carriage in turn. The carriage in the first place is naturally the carriage of Jiang Lao Taijun who carefully carved the bat group longevity pattern symbolizing the five blessings with fine rosewood, the second is the carriage of Huanghuali wood of Nanling Mo, and then the carriage of Zhang's, Zhao's, Nanlingmei, Nanlingxuan, and Nanlingxiang. Nan Lingqing was under the age of thirteen and was not yet old enough to participate in the palace banquet, so she stayed at home and was taken care of by Concubine Jiang. As for the third master, the ladies of the Nanyue Mansion have already set off separately.

The palace is not far away, and it is only two quarters of an hour by car. However, the prince's family of the prince of the palace took the Yongde Gate, and the families of the ministers took the Qing'an/Gate, and the carriage would automatically separate not far from the palace. Although the two Nanshen brothers have not separated for the time being, the posts under the palace are distributed according to their ranks, and the Zhao family and Nan Lingxuan can only enter through the Qing'an // gate no matter how reluctant they are. And this made the Zhao family and Nan Lingxuan secretly hate, and they were even more determined to take the palace over.