Can you make money, the gift box they made was originally only to make money from the rich, so this festival is worth half a year's profit of the shop.

Liu Ruolan is now not short of money in hand, and as soon as she is happy, she ordered the monthly money of all the servants to be doubled this month, even those who were sent by the imperial court also had a reward of one or two silver, and they were very generous!

Xie Ronghui was called back, Liu Ruolan explained carefully, and then asked him to take Fang Hu to give a gift to the Chen family.

The Chen family did not separate, but Chen Bo lived in Feng County with his wife and daughter, so Liu Ruolan sent most of the rituals to Feng County, and as for the Chen family in the capital, it was symbolically sent.

In addition, the festivals of the Dingguo Mansion and the Weixin Marquis Mansion cannot be missing.

Although the Xie family is not bad for money now, this level of wealth is obviously not comparable to these two nobles.

It's not at the same level at all!

But a few friends don't just value these external things.

Now that Liu Ruolan has a seal, according to the rules, she also wants to participate in this year's Mid-Autumn Festival Palace banquet.

The Mid-Autumn Festival palace banquet is different from the palace banquet usually organized by the queen or concubines, it is very formal, so even if Xie Rongzhao is a young lady, she is still not qualified to participate in the palace banquet.

Therefore, the night before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xie Xiuwen took the neatly dressed Liu Ruolan into the palace together, leaving Xie Rongzhao alone at home to eat and admire the moon.

Female dependents who do not have a title are not allowed to participate in the palace banquet unless they have received the queen's decree.

And in some noble families, most of the female dependents will have this opportunity, such as Zhao Ying of the Weixin Marquis Mansion, who can accompany the Gao family into the palace.

This does not need to be named by the queen alone, the emperor will generally issue a direct decree, including some nobles such as the Dingguo Mansion, and will also have this honor.

It is an honor to be able to enter the palace to participate in the banquet.

No matter whether the things in the palace are delicious or not, the important thing is to be able to enter the palace and meet those noble mothers and princesses, which will be a part of their own glory in the future.

Xie Rongzhao didn't envy this at all.

She had heard her father say that the things in the palace were not so delicious, and when some dishes came up, they were already cold, and they had to entertain, and some officials drank wine for a long time and didn't have the time to eat a mouthful of food.

If this is the case on the minister's side, it won't be much better on the women's side.

After all, if a low-grade woman enters the palace, she always has to keep saluting, and if she is fortunate enough to wait until the banquet is held, the order of passing the dishes must be the slowest in the low-ranking one.

In short, in Xie Rongzhao's view, there is one word everywhere in the palace banquet: trouble!

Those who are also unwilling to participate in the palace banquet are Wang Yanqing and Wang Yinuo of the Dingguo Mansion, but no matter how unwilling they are, the saint has made a will, and they still have to go, but before they go, these two people are smart, they first ate three points full in their own home, and there is a snack box in the car, so after entering the palace, it doesn't matter if they eat or not.

Liu Ruolan is just a lady from the fourth grade, if it is placed in Anyang County, it is definitely a big man second to none.

But in the capital, her identity, that is, she was barely arranged to sit at the bottom.

At the forefront of this are the royal princesses, princesses, and then county lords, princesses, and so on.

In the second row, it was the turn of the families of those ministers, starting with Mrs. Yipin, who was ordered to go down one by one.

Liu Ruolan sat in the fourth row on the left, and there was another row behind her, which should be all Mrs. Wupin's fate.

In the middle of the main hall, the court musicians are playing music and singing, which is lively, and the dancers are also brightly dressed, and they are full of vitality when they look at it.

However, this song and dance did not last long, and was ordered by the queen to be temporarily withdrawn, and then ordered a violinist to sit in the palace and play the piano, which also has a unique charm.

Liu Ruolan lowered her head and ate the things on her desk, occasionally raising her head, but she didn't dare to look at the phoenix.

The two ladies in the front row whispered, but they didn't seem to have many scruples, so she sat here and listened to the gossip.

"Why did you suddenly change to Fuqin? The luthier's skills are good, but this piece doesn't sound as festive as it just now. ”

"That's it, this big holiday, how did the queen mother suddenly remember to listen to such elegant music? I can still hear the drums coming from in front of me occasionally, but the men are more lively there. ”

In this kind of formal palace banquet, everyone is wearing the corresponding grade of commanding clothes, so Liu Ruolan only needs to look at the other party's clothes to roughly know whether the other party's identity is higher or lower than herself.

"I heard that the concubine wanted to hear it, and the queen just got her wish."

"What you said, the concubine wants to hear it, and the queen will bow to her?"

"Shhhh Be careful! I heard that the limelight of the concubine in the palace is the same, that is, the new beauties in the past two years cannot be compared, and the saint treats the concubine Niangniang very well, but whatever Fengyi Palace has, the concubine Niangniang is also never missing here. ”

Liu Ruolan took a sip of fruit stuffing, which woman is favored by the emperor, and people outside can also know?

Why do you feel that what these two people said in front of me is unreliable?

"Okay, let's not talk about it, let's just eat and drink peacefully. By the way, I heard that Xie Jieyu is pregnant, and I didn't see her at the palace banquet today, so I was afraid that something would go wrong, so I raised the baby in the palace. ”

"But the one from the Xie family on Anhe Street?"

"Who else but his family? Jieyu, who is surnamed Xie in the palace, is now the only one. ”

"Xie Jieyu's time in the palace is not short, right? Have it been two or three years? ”

"Almost, it should have been three or four years."

"Now that I can be promoted to Jieyu, it can be regarded as boiling out, but what do you think of this Xie family? Why did you let your daughter participate in the audition? For many years, the rules of the Xie family's women not entering the palace have been completely changed! ”

"Who said it wasn't, I see that the Xie family is not as good as it is day by day, and now it is Lord Xie who is supporting it in front, but there are few children and grandchildren below. But this is normal, even if it is a family, it is impossible to be beautiful every year. ”

Liu Ruolan felt that what she gained the most from today's palace banquet was that she learned so much gossip news.

This is much more exciting than the news that usually comes from talking to those good wives!

When she left the palace, Liu Ruolan had just followed a group of women out of a palace gate, and she saw several men talking in front of her, it was dark and she couldn't see clearly, Liu Ruolan recognized her husband by virtue of the color of her official uniform.

There are not many ministers waiting for their wives here, and Xie Xiuwen is one of them.

The carriage moved slowly, and Liu Ruolan whispered: "I heard a terrible big news, Xie Jieyu borrowed her womb to give birth to a child, you said such a big thing, does the emperor know?" ”