Mu Qingjia was angry in his heart, but for the sake of the child in his belly, he had to endure it, which can be said to be extremely aggrieved.

Now is the season when the peony flowers are in full bloom, in order to celebrate the great scenery and safely survive the flood and the war in the border area, the palace will hold a peony flower banquet to celebrate, and also to see the relatives of the young sons and daughters who have made meritorious contributions.

As soon as the news of the peony banquet came out, the ladies and ladies of the various families began to cut clothes and buy jewelry frantically, and Mu Qingwan's Linlang Pavilion took the opportunity to launch a variety of novel jewelry, so it made a lot of money.

The banquet invited the ladies of various families, mainly for the women of the right age in the official families of the capital. Not only that, some local nobles also came from afar, and a large part of the reason was because Li Yuxin of the Li family started and successfully married the Seventh Prince as his wife, so that the major families felt that there was sweetness to get, and they all followed suit.

Emperor Jianye simply waved his hand and allowed them one by one.

The prince's old illness recurred, and the queen was depressed about the prince's condition, and she also fell ill. However, the right to preside over this banquet did not fall into the hands of Concubine De, but was handed over to Concubine Liang by Emperor Jianye.

Although Mu Qingwan made a family relationship with the Twelve Princes, she was also invited. Mu Qingwan was not interested in these things, but the edict in the palace came down, and Mu Qingwan had to go.

On the day of the banquet, Mrs. Mu and Mu Qingwan got into the carriage and prepared to leave. The nephew was sick, and the sister-in-law stayed in the house to take care of it, so she didn't go with her.

On the side of the Marquis of Anping, there are no more daughters of appropriate age in the big house, and there are only three parties left, Mu Qingrong and Mu Qingyun, but unfortunately they are only concubines.

Xiao An's wanted to participate very much, but he didn't want to bring these two people and lose face, but Mu Qingrong didn't know where she learned about the Peony Banquet, so she begged Mu Sanye again, Mu Sanye was not interested in these things, and went with her.

As for Mu Qingyun, he took it with him, anyway, Xiao An's family has thought about it, Mu Sanye is at least a fourth-grade official now, and taking his daughter to the banquet can also highlight his good name, thinking about this, Xiao An's happily agreed.

The day of the peony banquet has finally arrived, it is really more beautiful than flowers, the ladies of each province are gorgeously dressed, dressed up with flowers and branches, just for the day of the banquet to be able to overwhelm the crowd.

Mu Qingwan set off with Mrs. Mu, and on the side of the Marquis of Anping, Xiao An's took Mu Qingrong and Mu Qingyun together, and it was still a carriage for Xiao An's and a carriage for the other two people.

After Mu Qingwan arrived, she suddenly found that she didn't seem to know many people!

When I came to the capital five years ago, I was "kicked out" of the capital before I got acquainted with it. When I came back here after five years, I was busy doing business all day long, tinkering with my own medicinal herbs, and basically did not participate in any banquets.

Mrs. Mu has basically lived a life of teasing her grandson now, a few years ago, Mu Qingwan was not in the capital, she was alone, and basically did not go out to attend banquets. When she came over this time, Mrs. Mu suddenly found that she had overlooked one thing, that is, the number of times she brought Mu Qingwan out was too small, so that Mu Qingwan basically didn't know any young lady in the capital, and she would have to marry a wife sooner or later, how could this work? Mrs. Mu was annoyed that she was negligent, and began to quietly calculate in her heart which family was close to her and could move around more.

The banquet has not yet begun, and all the ladies and ladies have a flower garden to enjoy the flowers.

"Mother-in-law."

A noble lady came over and greeted Mrs. Mu, Mu Qingwan observed that the other party's appearance was five points similar to the sister-in-law, this person should be the mother-in-law of the sister-in-law, the Duchess of the Protectorate.

"Mother-in-law, you're here too."

Mrs. Mu stepped forward and shook the other party's hand, and when she noticed the other party's gaze looking behind her, she naturally explained.

"Ping'er was crazy and caught a cold, and her daughter-in-law stayed in the house to take care of her if she didn't feel at ease, so she didn't come with her. However, don't worry, it's no big deal, it's just that it's very sticky now, pestering her mother to be coquettish, and if she doesn't let go, she really can't get out. ”

"Okay, it's okay. This is Qingwan, right? It's the first time I've seen it. ”

The Duchess of the Protector saw Mu Qingwan's eyes showing amazement, she really looked good.

"This is Qingwan, who has just returned to the capital."

Mrs. Mu smiled, and she didn't care about the Duchess Protector's neglect of Mu Qingwan just now. After all, even if it is her, her feelings for her daughter-in-law and her daughter are different.

"Let the girls play by themselves, let's go, let's talk."

The Duchess of Huguo beckoned to a place, and a little girl jumped over, this is the sister-in-law's little sister Xiaoqi, who is fourteen years old this year, one year younger than Mu Qingwan.

"You leather monkey, let's play with your sister Qingwan."

The Duchess of the Protector introduced it, and let Mu Qingwan go to play with the little girl.

"Let's go, let's go."

The little girl took Mu Qingwan's hand and walked away quickly. Mu Qingwan is very unaccustomed to others being so intimate with her, especially strangers. Suppressing the rejection in her heart, Mu Qingwan followed the other party and walked away.

"You are Mu Qingwan?"

Xiao Qi shook off Mu Qingwan's hand and looked Mu Qingwan up and down.

The other party's gaze was not good, although it was well disguised, but Mu Qingwan could see the disdain in the other party's eyes. What's going on here?

Mu Qingwan remained silent, waiting for the other party to speak.

"It's a bit good-looking, but that's it, I really don't know what's good about your Mu family, it's worth my sister's heart, if it weren't for Mu Chen, cousin him, hum."

Xiao Qi spoke in a very impulsive tone, such evil words were an insult to Mu Qingwan. Mu Qingwan only regarded the other party as a child who had not grown up, but she keenly captured the word "cousin".

Cousin? It seems that there is something hidden in it, which involves the eldest brother, and Mu Qingwan has to check it.

"Who wants to play with you, a country woman!"

After Xiao Qi said this, she pouted and ran away.

"A woman from the country?"

Mu Qingwan looked at the direction Xiao Qi left and was silent, and she didn't know where such a statement came from.

"Jixiang, when I go back, let someone find out what's going on with my sister-in-law's cousin."

"Miss, why is the second lady of the Protector Mansion so unreasonable, she is really not at all like the temperament of the eldest young lady."

"The dragon gave birth to nine sons, and each of the nine sons was different. Don't worry about such people, let's just hang out. ”

Mu Qingwan's heart is very wide, and the verbal cheapness is the most useless, and she can't afford to be angry with such a person.

Mu Qingwan's master and servant followed the place where there were few people, wandering slowly, just waiting for the banquet to start before entering.

"Hmph, the Twelve Princes are also what you can think of? Give me the slap in the face. ”

In a hidden place hidden by a big tree, a circle of people shouted around a young girl.

The girl at the head was dressed in red, and looked at the girl who was surrounded in the center with her hands on her chest.

"No, I'm not, I'm not."

"It's good that you have a hard mouth, I call you hard mouth."

The girl in red stepped forward and slapped her, causing the girl in the middle to shake her body.