At banquets, men and women are naturally separated. The male guests are in the front hall, and the female dependents are in the harem.

The banquet was held in the back garden, and the banquet was held in an empty hall and two side halls.

It was a cloudy day, the weather was not hot, the breeze was cool, and there were many corridors and flowers and trees to shade them, and the women who came to the banquet did not go into the temple, but talked and chatted in twos and threes in the garden or under the porche.

Du Jinning arrived half an hour in advance, but he didn't think that there were already many people here.

As soon as she entered the garden, Aunt Yan, who was following her, began to whisper to her about the people in the courtyard: "The old lady in the ginger jacket on the right porch is Gong Shi, the princess of Anqing County; Sitting next to her wearing a red forehead are the eldest princess and the British duchess; Talking to them was the lady of the Criminal Department, Nguyen Thi, ......"

Aunt Yan originally said that she wanted to come to the princess's mansion to retire, but Du Jinning asked Qi Muyuan to check it out, and found that what Aunt Yan said was indeed the truth, and there was no conspiracy. Later, she asked the Empress Dowager Zheng again, and the Empress Dowager Zheng also said that Aunt Yan was honest and responsible, and after rewarding some silver taels, she let Aunt Yan go out of the house with her.

Aunt Yan has been in the palace for twenty or thirty years, and even if she doesn't know all of her orders, she knows most of them, so today Du Jinning specially took her out and instructed herself to recognize people.

Du Jinning has a good memory, and he has a book of interpersonal relations in the entire capital in his heart, as long as Aunt Yan introduces who the other party is, Du Jinning can quickly take a seat and recognize the whole person.

Du Jinning led Aunt Yan and the two maids to recognize people while walking inside, and the princess Gong of Anqing County saw her and immediately shouted: "Ouch, look who this is?" My wife has participated in a banquet in the capital all her life, but now she is clumsy and doesn't even know anyone. ”

The few people who were talking to Gong all turned their heads.

Gong's voice was so loud that Du Jinning couldn't ignore it. She turned her head and saw that Gong and the others were all looking at her.

She stopped and smiled slightly: "The old lady is talking about me?" ”

"Not really." Gong had a smile on his face, but his smile was a little strange, "The old woman is old and has a high seniority, and I thought that my wife and son knew the orders of the three grades or more in the capital, but now I find that I am really shallow and ugly, but I don't know my wife." ”

Not all of the people who came to the banquet today were above the third grade. This kind of occasion is a place for each family to show their daughters, or to be sons and daughters-in-law. Therefore, although the people who came to the banquet were all ordained by the third rank or above, these old ladies or ladies also brought their granddaughters and daughters.

These young girls are unclassed.

Although Du Jinning was young, about the same age as the young girls standing behind Gong Shi and several others, she combed her hair.

When a woman comes to a banquet with her head combed, she can no longer rely on her family background, but on her husband's official rank or her own rank.

Du Jinning is the eldest princess, and her rank is naturally above that of this princess. But Gong's age is older than Chen's, and the king of Anqing County is still Zhao Yu's uncle, in terms of seniority, Gong is qualified to teach Du Jinning, the new eldest princess, a lesson.

What's more, she is still under the guise of not knowing Du Jinning.

And if Du Jinning follows her rhythm and reports to her home, this momentum will be weak. was squeezed by her for a few more words, saying that she hadn't seen their elders for half a year, and if she didn't take the edicts in her eyes, Du Jinning was directly trampled under the feet of the princess of the county today.

The ladies in the courtyard spoke in a suppressed voice, for fear of arguing with the Empress Dowager Zheng. As soon as Gong called this now, everyone looked here, and some people who liked to watch the excitement even gathered around.

Who is Du Jinning? She is a person who has not yet come to the capital to participate in the imperial examination, so she has inquired about the various factions in the capital. When you come to the banquet today, how can you not inquire about the twists and turns of these female dependents?

Du Jinning walked in front of Gong Shi and stopped, and said with a smile: "You are really a noble person, you don't know me, I don't dare not know your old man as a junior." You are the princess of Anqing County, the princess of Anqing County, the sister of the old lady of the Zhang family who committed the crime of rebellion, am I right? ”

As she spoke, she raised her eyes and looked at the eldest princess: "Aunt Huang, Ning Guo, what I said is right?" Didn't recognize the wrong person, right? ”

The eldest princess is the same age as the Gong family, and the two have been friends for many years; I don't have any friendship with Du Jinning. Although she felt that Gong's actions were very inappropriate just now, it was not good to look at Gong's face in front of all the guests. At the same time, she also wanted to see what kind of person this new eldest princess, Dasi Nong, who was recognized by the emperor and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty. So she just watched coldly and remained silent.

Unexpectedly, he was asked in the face by Du Jinning unexpectedly.

"Princess Gong of Anqing County", this sentence is naturally fine; But what the hell is "the sister of the old lady of the Zhang family who committed the crime of rebellion"? Du Jinning's words, how should I answer?

The old elves who came out of the palace were all asked, and the footsteps of the ladies who wanted to come over to watch the excitement also stopped there because of these words, and even took a few steps back.

The words of the eldest princess of Ning Guo are too terrible. With one mouth, he lit Gong's death hole.

Gong almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, slapped the table hard with a swollen face, and stood up: "Du Jinning, you are presumptuous!" ”

"Huh?" Du Jinning looked at her in surprise, "Doesn't this know me?" On the day I got married, you gave me a dowry, princess. Why did you pretend you didn't know me just now? ”

"Also, how can I be presumptuous? Aren't you the princess of Anqing County? Perhaps, Mrs. Zhang, who committed the crime of rebellion, is not your old half-sister and half-mother? ”

The crowd of onlookers almost burst out laughing.

Ruthless, too ruthless.

Princess Gong of Anqing County is indeed the sister-in-law of Mrs. Zhang, but when the woman marries, she takes her husband's family as the sky. Even if the Gong family commits the crime of rebellion, it can't implicate the Gong family, let alone the crime committed by the sister's husband.

So although Mrs. Zhang was beheaded, Gong still served as her princess well. And because she gave birth to two sons and a daughter for the king of Anqing, and her own son is still the son of the prince of the county, no one will give her no face because of this. The affairs of the Zhang family, no one dared to be in front of her.

Gong's provocation of Du Jinning was naturally for the sake of his sister. Otherwise, he would not have embarrassed Du Jinning for no reason.

These families are all related to each other, and many of the ministers hate Du Jinning because of this. It's just that the high-yield rice studied by Du Jinning is too important to the Great Song Dynasty, once someone provokes Du Jinning, Zhao Yu's thunderous anger can be imagined, so everyone dare not act rashly.

Gong felt that she was a woman and an elder of Zhao Yu, even if she gave Du Jinning a little anger in a weird way, Zhao Yu and Empress Dowager Zheng would not embarrass her in the face of the king of Anqing County, so they had no fear.

Moreover, she felt that a little girl of Du Jinning's age, thin-skinned, and a newcomer, even if she was named the eldest princess, was not an orthodox royal bloodline after all, and she was already lacking in confidence, so she should be said by her elders, shouldn't she be?

Who knew that Du Jinning turned out to be a ruthless character, and a sentence stabbed her in the heart and killed her with a knife.