Chapter 16: The Birthday Banquet (1)
Today is the birthday of the eldest lady of the Feng family, the granddaughter of the old prince, and the Feng Mansion has been widely invited a few days ago, and the nobles of the various families naturally attach great importance to it, after all, the old prince is still in the court, and he loves Feng Qianhua the most, so each family has prepared a generous gift to send to the Feng Mansion early.
But inside the Tilting Pavilion, it's a different scene!
"Mama, this ...... You don't have to wear so much in this summer, I think the red gauze skirt yesterday is very good, how festive......" Feng Qianhua looked bitter, she knew that this era takes these things very seriously, and the clothes are also formal, but she really can't stand wearing five or six clothes in the summer, and this dress is not breathable, and there is no air conditioning this year, so she will suffer from heat stroke!
"That's not going to work! Miss, you can't come by temperament today, everyone outside here is a distinguished guest, our palace can't be rude, let them see jokes, Miss bear with me, it's good to pass today! In the end, Mama Wang still felt sorry for Feng Qianhua and comforted her a few words, but she didn't stop at all, and commanded Yishu Yihua to bring over the last piece of Chinese clothes that was put on outside for Feng Tinghua to put on, and took out the jewelry left by Feng Tinghua's mother, the third princess, and found a suitable set for Feng Tinghua to wear......
After an early toss in the morning, Mama Wang finally let go of Feng Tianhua with satisfaction. Feng Tianhua looked at herself in the bronze mirror, and was in a trance for a moment: she always knew that she was extremely beautiful, but because she usually likes blue and red, and she doesn't like to wear jewelry, she feels mostly that the jasper is fresh and elegant, or that she is as evil and enchanting as she was on the first floor yesterday, but she never thought that she would be so bright and dignified in formal clothes and full of heavenly spirit. Even the Yishu and painting around him didn't expect the young lady to be so graceful and luxurious, only Mama Wang nodded clearly: In the end, she is the daughter of the third princess, and she still has the royal spirit in her bones, and the princess in the sky will be very happy if she sees the young lady so good......
As soon as Feng Tinghua was dressed up, the old prince sent a housekeeper over: most of the distinguished guests have already come to the hall, please go to the hall as soon as possible.
Originally, Feng Qianhua should not have passed so early, but there were only these two serious masters in the palace, and the second room could not be used as the host to greet guests in this case, after all, Xileng attached great importance to the distinction between concubines and concubines.
In the Nuan Yu Pavilion, Feng Yu'er looked at the dress sent with a look of dissatisfaction: why can Feng Tinghua wear such good-looking clothes, and the clothes sent to her here are such colors, it must be that Feng Tinghua deliberately wanted to make herself ugly before she let herself wear such clothes, causing herself, the future "princess", to steal her limelight. Fortunately, he had been prepared, otherwise Feng Qianhua's treacherous plan would have succeeded: "Xiaohong, take out the dress sent by His Royal Highness the Prince!" "Feng Qianhua definitely didn't expect that she asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to send her a dress, her idea is destined to fail, good Feng Tianhua, you wait for me! Feng Yu'er looked ruthless.
After Feng Yu'er finally got dressed, she deliberately did not go to the hall with the people sent by the old prince, but entered the hall in advance under the cover of the maid.
When Feng Yu'er entered the hall, the old prince's face was not good in the upper seat, and one hand was tightly clenched on the arm of the chair: This idiot actually wore the clothes exclusive to the crown princess on his body, did he want the entire palace to bury her? She is not a princess concubine who has not passed the door, and she is not even qualified to enter the Jade Butterfly, so how can she be qualified to wear the clothes of the prince and concubine.
Sure enough, as soon as Feng Yu'er entered the hall with the maid, all the ladies and sons shifted their eyes to her, and there was still a slight disdain in their eyes: a concubine even wore the costume of a concubine! I really don't know what to do!
And Feng Yu'er didn't see the look in everyone's eyes clearly, and she was very proud to see that everyone was focused on her: she was really more beautiful than Feng Tianhua, even if today was her birthday, she was destined to be just her foil. Thinking like this, the smile on Feng Yu'er's face became more obvious, and she walked up to the old prince unhurriedly and saluted: "Yu'er see grandfather!" Feng Yu'er thought that her etiquette would add points to herself, but she didn't know that in everyone's eyes, she was like a clown jumping off the beam, and the old prince sitting on the upper seat really couldn't stand it, and was about to say something, when suddenly there was a voice of "eldest lady" outside the door, and the old prince barely endured it and set his eyes on the door.
And the guests in the hall also no longer looked at Feng Yu'er, but turned their heads to look at the door, after all, they all came to see the Feng family's daughter Feng Tianhua today. And it is not difficult to guess what these people think: this Feng family is a century-old family, if this Feng Qianhua is not as stupid as rumored, then it can climb friendship.
Feng Tinghua slowly stepped into the hall in everyone's eyes, wearing a lilac dress, inlaid with a few camellias, highlighting the elegance and dignity with a trace of majesty, wearing a golden step on his head with Feng Tianhua's footsteps and swaying slightly, highlighting a different style, such Feng Tianhua made the ladies in the hall and the standing sons were slightly stunned, how could such a fresh and agile woman be the rumored fool, the sons looked at Feng Tianhua's eyes with a trace of appreciation and admiration, The ladies present saw the demeanor of the third princess Nangong Yanyue through Feng Tinghua, the three princesses of the year were deeply favored by the emperor, and later they were in love with the god of war Feng Lie, which can be described as envious of others, but it is a pity that the two died early, I didn't expect their daughter to be so elegant and innocent, if the rumors are really wrong, it seems that you can discuss with your own master when you go back, this Feng Tianhua is a daughter-in-law candidate......
Feng Tianhua didn't pay attention to the thoughts of the ladies in the hall, because she had just greeted the old prince and saw Feng Yu'er's clothes standing aside, and then fell into a deep helplessness: This Feng Yu'er is really a master of death!
"Sister Yu'er, today is just my sister's birthday, there is no need to wear such a 'grand' dress, while His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and several princes have not yet arrived, hurry up and change one." After all, she Feng Yu'er made a stupid mistake, and the Feng family would also be implicated.
Sure enough, as soon as she said this, the people in the hall nodded slightly, and they also had a better impression of Feng Tianhua in their hearts: they didn't know about the struggle between the concubines in this family, but they just wanted to protect the reputation of the entire family outside, which was the style that everyone's daughter should have!
The old prince also nodded and endured the anger in his heart: "Your sister is right, it's just a birthday gift, you don't have to wear it so gorgeously, go and change it!" ”
But Feng Yu'er was not happy, she thought that the old prince and Feng Tinghua deliberately didn't want her to take away Feng Qianhua's limelight, how could she let them get their wish: "Grandfather, today is my sister's birthday, how can Yu'er go down at this time, doesn't this make the ladies laugh?" "It's absolutely impossible to let her go down and make way for Feng Tianhua.
This is the old prince has already shown his face, and directly ordered the housekeeper to let him pull Feng Yu'er down to change his clothes, and Feng Yu'er saw the maid next to the housekeeper coming over and called out directly: "Grandfather, Yu'er won't steal the limelight from my sister, Yu'er just wants to celebrate my sister's birthday, sister don't let Yu'er go down, okay?" Saying that, Feng Yu'er ran to Feng Qianhua's side and dragged Feng Tianhua's clothes and didn't let go, if it weren't for Feng Tianhua's quick hand to hold Yishu's hand, he was pulled to the ground by Feng Yu'er, Feng Tianhua pulled out his clothes that were dragged by Feng Yu'er, and was about to speak, when he heard a voice from outside the door, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived!" The Five Princes have arrived! ...... The regent of Nanyue has arrived! ”
The people in the hall were stunned, everyone can still figure out this His Royal Highness the Prince, after all, the current queen is a smart person, and she will not completely offend the Feng family unless she has to, and you will know the attitude of the queen mother when Feng Yuer was named a concubine this time. And these five princes come to them can also be understood as Nangong Yi wants to join in the fun, after all, these five princes have always been unserious in the eyes of everyone and love Fengyue, so it is understandable that he came, but ...... What's going on with this Nanyue Regent, I haven't heard of the Feng family having anything to do with the regent! And this regent is notoriously unfeminine, how can this be a woman's birthday?
The old prince here is also very puzzled, he has no friendship with the regent, and he doesn't think he has the face to let the regent deign to celebrate his granddaughter's birthday, what is going on?
Feng Tianhua finally showed his first smile when he heard that the fifth prince Nangong Yi was coming, and he didn't care about Feng Yu'er who was half-kneeling on the ground, and walked straight past Feng Yu'er, and the old prince and everyone also stood up to greet the crown prince and the fifth prince and the regent of Nanyue.
The three people who entered the door were all dragons and phoenixes among the people, His Royal Highness the Prince was dressed in a bright yellow suit, with four claws on his clothes, and he wore a crown crown on his head, although the prince was not very smart and easy to be tempted by beauty, but he still had to admit that he still had a bit of temperament, and he was a royal person in the end.
The fifth prince Nangong Yi was dressed in silver clothes, with Hetian jade pendant, but he simply cleaned up his hair with a silver ribbon, and did not wear a crown of the prince, holding a folding fan painted with landscape paintings in his hand, and he looked like a noble son, and seemed to be unstained. Seeing Feng Tianhua, he smiled warmly at her.
And the legendary regent of Nanyue is covered in purple, but it has a sense of mutual brilliance with Feng Qianhua's outfit, even if it is not as formal as the crown prince Nangong perched, but it is still impossible to ignore him, because his body is full of majesty, even the prince of a country cannot hide his deterrent.
I don't know why Feng Tianhua always felt that this regent gave her a sense of déjà vu and seemed to be very familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen him, and she always felt that the regent's eyes had been stopping at her, but she couldn't see anything, was it really too much for herself?
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the Fifth Prince." Feng Tianhua blessed his body slightly, and after seeing Nangong Qi nodding, he was about to salute towards Huang Luoxiao, who knew that the regent, who had never been close to women, came over directly and pulled up Feng Tianhua, who was about to salute: "You don't have to salute, you don't have to do it in the future!" "His princess is the one who wants to be with him, so naturally there is no need to salute him.
Everyone was stunned when they saw this scene, and even forgot to salute: This regent seems to be very special to the eldest lady of the Feng family. Is there something you don't know? But when they looked back at the old prince, they also looked confused, and everyone was even more confused.
Only Nangong Yi, who was standing next to the crown prince, shook his fan slightly, but his mood was low: Sure enough, he is always so freewheeling, he doesn't need to look forward and backward like himself, he is obviously familiar but he has to pretend to see him for the first time, just because he can't let the emperor and the prince doubt him, after so many years, he can't fall short at this time, just why does he feel that he seems to have lost something, a little sad......