Chapter 19: Attending the Palace Banquet for the First Time
In the afternoon, the carriage of Yunfu came to the gate of the General's Mansion, because today's banquet must be attended regardless of the concubine, and Mu Lige is the sister-in-law, so Mu Cailing and Mu Xiangling followed her and Mrs. Yun into the palace together.
On the carriage of Yunfu, in less than half an hour, the carriage stopped at the Chengde Gate of the palace, and Lige got off the carriage, and what greeted her was a tall and majestic palace, although this was the first time Mu Lige came to the palace, but she felt that the architectural style of this palace was similar to the Forbidden City in the previous life. Mu Lige, who was not very interested in these things, just glanced at it a few times, and then followed Mrs. Yun to the door of Chengde Gate.
Due to the large number of people who are going to enter the palace today, and the personnel are more complicated, in order to prevent assassins from entering the palace, everyone needs to queue up for inspection before entering the palace. Seeing this, Lige just wanted to say that if this assassin's brain circuit was normal, how could he be so open-minded to be examined? But since it was a rule, Lige had to wait in line with Mrs. Yun.
The reception banquet was held in the main hall of the palace, which is enough to see the emperor's importance to King An, but Lige felt that since the emperor valued King An's younger brother so much, why would King An be arranged by the emperor to guard the border for five years in his good youth? This is the point she can't understand the most, after a while, she stepped into the main hall after leaving the song, and she arrived not too early or late, and there were already many people in the hall.
I saw that a lot of tables and chairs were neatly placed on the left and right sides of the main hall, and Lige sat down in the designated position under the leadership of the maid, because her father was a general, so her position was in the front place, and Mu Xiangling and Mu Cailing were in the back because they were concubines.
In less than a moment, An Jiaying came in, today's An Jiaying is wearing a purple dress, with exquisite makeup, her eyes and teeth are very beautiful, seeing this, Lige squinted her eyes, today she seems to have been carefully dressed,
"Leave the song!" An Jiaying waved her hand after seeing the song. Lige smiled and nodded at her, An Jiaying's position was next to her, and Lige felt that it was good to have acquaintances together.
After An Jiaying came to sit down beside Lige, she said, "You came earlier than me." ”
"I've just been there for a while." Lige looked at An Jiaying with a smile.
"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that? An Jiaying touched her face a little uncomfortably, "Is there anything dirty on my face?" ”
"No, you seem to have dressed up today." After leaving the song, An Jiaying's face turned red at once.
"What nonsense are you talking about? No. As she spoke, her eyes inadvertently glanced at the entrance of the main hall, and her face suddenly turned even redder.
Seeing that Li Ge lowered her head, she looked towards the door of the main hall with some doubts, and saw Mu Xiuyuan, who was dressed in an ink-colored brocade robe, came slowly.
Lige smiled, when Mu Xiuyuan walked to the opposite side of the two and sat down slowly, Lige found that the arrangement of today's seats seemed to have ulterior motives, in addition to arranging the seats from front to back according to the rank of the official, the woman who had not yet left the cabinet and the man who had not yet married were sitting facing each other, like An Jiaying and Mu Xiuyuan, who themselves had a marriage contract, were facing each other squarely, although there was an aisle in the middle, but as long as they looked up, they could see each other, did the emperor plan to match them at today's banquet?
Lige looked at the shy An Jiaying and quipped, "Oh...... I said why are you blushing, it turned out that you saw my brother. ”
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Isn't it? Hey, my brother seems to be looking at you. ”
Hearing this, An Jiaying raised her eyes and looked at Mu Xiuyuan's smiling expression, she smiled at Mu Xiuyuan with a red face.
"Since there is a marriage contract, you don't have to be embarrassed, future sister-in-law." Mu Lige took An Jiaying's hand, it seems that these two people like each other, so it's okay, what they are most afraid of when they get married is a resentful couple, and now it seems that this seems to be a good match!
"But then again, why is this seat lined up like this? It's not a coincidence that my brother and you are sitting facing each other, right? ”
An Jiaying raised her head and saw Lige's puzzled expression, and then remembered that Lige was attending the palace banquet for the first time, so she said: "Every palace banquet is arranged like this, saying that it is to facilitate young people to communicate, but in fact, it is not, there is such a wide aisle in between, how to communicate?" I think it's just to provide opportunities for men and women who are not yet married, and if you look at it right, you can directly make a decree to marry. ”
"I see." The corners of Lige's mouth twitched, the palace people should have been instructed by the emperor to arrange this way, it seems that the emperor who has not met has been committed to matchmaking! So it's interesting to care about the karma of the minister's children.