In the Zhou Dynasty, the protection of men and women was not so strict. On occasions such as flowers and birthday banquets, men and women were seated separately, with gauze curtains in the middle or a few pots of flowers.

Song Qingyue had a cup of tea with her mother-in-law, and there were also people from the direct branch of the Song family. They seemed to be seizing the time to go out with the Liang family.

It happened that the prince was strolling through the middle of the road with a few young masters from the palace. After meeting several young masters from the Song family, they greeted each other, crossed the Jiuqu Bridge, and sat in another pavilion facing the water to chat.

Over a dozen people came from the direct branch of the Song family, including wives, daughters-in-law, young ladies and young masters, plus their entourage, there were twenty or thirty people, which was really a sight to behold.

Song Qingyue sat in the main seat and glanced at the people who came, thinking: There are really uninvited people. For example, from Song Jianshuo's family, she remembered that there were only three sons and daughters who were direct descendants on the invitation list, but the concubines also came.

Three of them are of marriageable age.

Mrs. Liang didn't look happy at the first sight. Song Qingyue glanced at her mother and saw that she didn't stand up, so she didn't stand up either. She sat down and accepted Mrs. Song Jianshuo's courtesy, and said with a smile: "Hey, aunt, what are you doing here?"

I have so many younger brothers and sisters coming over, I really don’t see anyone outside.”

Mrs. Song Jianshuo came from the Qu family in Linhai, which has been a famous family for thousands of years. She was not upset when she came, and she had enough concentration. In other words, she was also thick-skinned. She smiled and replied: "Isn't this still...

Isn’t it the fifth time? Relatives always become more friendly the more they move around."

Song Qingyue nodded: "Yes, my generation is exactly five servers, and it has indeed not been released yet. Since my younger brothers and sisters are here, you are welcome, please sit down. You must eat well, drink well and have fun today, don't limit yourself."

After saying this, without waiting for everyone to greet each other, the maids and chamberlains came forward and led everyone to sit down. Unfortunately, the seats were quite far away from the main seat, and there were a bunch of empty seats in the middle, but they were not allowed to sit.

The Sixth Lady was from the Yuhang Kai family, and she had a pretty good relationship with Liang on weekdays. She wanted to come up to talk to Liang, but Liang was lukewarm and seemed unwilling to talk to her, which made Kui look a little embarrassed.

Gone.

Song Qingyue felt strange in her heart. Mrs. Liang was not such a person. On weekdays, even if poor relatives from her second uncle and third uncle's family came to visit her, she would send someone to greet them politely and send them off happily. Today

It's a little abnormal.

She leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Mother, is there something wrong with the direct branch of the Song family?"

Mrs. Liang sighed, her voice was very low, and she said: "The superiors want us to split up our clans. Your father has been worried about this matter these days."

Song Qingyue frowned slightly and then regained her composure.

He immediately understood in his heart that this was the emperor's dissatisfaction with the harmony within the Song family.

Previously, the emperor felt that his father had a grudge against Old Master Song, and thought that after his father came to power, he would retaliate against the people of Old Master Song's lineage.

However, his father did not do that. When he should be supported, he would still support him. When he should be taken care of, he would still take care of him. It was as if the Song family had just changed a helmsman. This giant ship was still the behemoth that could not be ignored. An

Driving smoothly without any changes.

From the emperor's perspective, such a big family is really annoying!

You need to be careful when attacking civil servants. If the emperor doesn't want to dirty his hands, he needs someone to bear the infamy. Unfortunately, Song Qingyue knew that his whole family needed to be this villain.

The girls from the Song family over there were so angry that they could no longer maintain their superficial harmony. They excused themselves to go for a stroll in the garden, found a secluded rockery, and started talking bad about Song Qingyue.

"Once you gain power, you are a villain! Look at her enchanting appearance. She doesn't look like a royal concubine at all! His Royal Highness is really blind to fall in love with her!" Song Jianshuo's youngest legitimate daughter, Song Yushu, was almost furious.

I picked up a few hibiscus leaves, tore them into pieces and threw them on the ground. "I think my mother is crazy too. She wants us to please her! Who the hell is she?"

Song Baizhi, the second daughter of the fifth master Song Jiancheng's family, sneered: "It's embarrassing for a whole family to dress like that without knowing it. I don't know what the people in the palace think of her."

"Don't men just like her like that? I heard that Song Qingyue is very favored by His Royal Highness." Song Baizhi's concubine Song Nanjia whispered.

"How long can a flower last forever, and how long can you be favored by serving people with sex? Just watch, there is no way in the palace that a person like her can handle it." Song Baizhi glared at her, while Song Nanjia pursed her lips, not daring to say anything more.

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Song Xianglan, the eldest daughter of the Sixth Master Song Jianzhan, had a darker complexion. She was one year older than Song Qingyue. She had been engaged to a grandson of the Second Fu Zhangge since she was a child, and they were supposed to get married in September this year. But what happened to her father?

Song Jianren had some bad luck. A coal mine near Datong Prefecture collapsed, killing miner No. 100. He was demoted from the Datong Prefecture magistrate to Yongning, Sichuan, as the Xuan Prefecture magistrate. That damn place in Yongning is where the Miao people live.

Since the reign of Emperor Taizu, there have been as many as thirteen officials who died of illness while in office in the Xuanfu Si Yamen alone.

As soon as something happened to her father, her fiancé suddenly became seriously ill. He went to a certain Taoist priest for a fortune-telling, saying that the two of them had conflicting fortunes and were not suitable for marriage. She was really angry that their beautiful marriage was ruined.

It’s over!

After hearing what those people said, Song Xianglan scolded her angrily: "If you don't want to stay here, go home. Go to someone else's house as a guest, eat at the host's house, drink from the host's house, and scold her behind her back."

, the noble ladies of the aristocratic family are not as arrogant as you! Now the eldest grandpa, second grandpa, and fourth grandpa are all at home, and the three of them are not too young. Without the help of Mr. Song Ge, do you think they can recover?"

Song Xianglan's eldest sister-in-law, Yao, also said: "The younger sisters should speak more quietly. After all, they are guests in the palace."

After all, Song Yushu was the most favored in his family. He glared at Yao and Song Xianglan with dissatisfaction: "You take it out on us when your sixth uncle is demoted? If you want to curry favor with Song Qingyue, just go by yourself. There is no need to hold us back, and don't take advantage of us."

Grandpa makes rafts! Besides, how great is the palace? Think about the East Palace back then..."

Halfway through the words, Song Baizhi, his second sister-in-law, and his third sister-in-law joined forces and covered his mouth. He was too arrogant! Is this a curse on the palace? Are you going to die?

In the waterside pavilion, Song Qingyue met the princess of Ruihua County from the Wang family of Dunjun, the seventh prince, and two girls from the Wang family of the eighth prince, Minjun. The younger prince's son was not old enough to get married, but two of them came.

The county lord and three royal girls.

These two princes were both honest people and had no interest in a certain position. They were willing to join in the fun no matter which party held a banquet.

On the other hand, the eldest concubine of the deposed Prince Shenjun, Mrs. Zhou, the second wife, Mrs. Kang, and Miss He Liu, who had married the third young master a few days before her, all came.

In addition, when Prince Shen was still the crown prince, four of his daughters were granted the title of princess. Now, although the crown prince is no longer the prince, the four princesses are still princesses. This is the first time among the imperial granddaughters.

One serving.

Song Qingyue was very surprised that they would come. Back in the palace, Song Qingyue had met Miss He Liu from Ningyuan Marquis Mansion. She was only a little girl in her twenties and eighties. Now her face was covered with thick powder and her eyes were swollen.

, the sunken cheeks actually look like a withered flower.

Song Qingyue looked uncomfortable and distressed, and decided in her heart that the third young master must not be a good person. What kind of person is the prince who loves such a third young master?

Thinking about it this way, she felt more and more that His Highness Prince Su and Li Zhao had become more upright.

Not long after, Huang Huaide brought a group of princesses, the young masters from the eldest princess's palace, and the ladies also came to join in the fun.

Song Qingyue knew about the friendship between Mr. Huang and Li Zhao, so she did not dare to neglect. After greeting him warmly, he asked everyone to sit down. There was no need to arrange the seats specially. The county lord and the girls who were born in the royal palace gathered together to talk, as did several royal granddaughter-in-laws of the same generation.

Sitting together in a group, the conversation became warm after a short conversation.

After that, Song Qingyue met the eldest daughter-in-law of Song Jianshu's family and his eight-year-old eldest daughter who came from Jiangling. This thirteenth master was the great-grandfather of Song Qingyue's family. Speaking of which, he was better than the direct branch.

The relationship is even closer to that of a generation ago. He was very polite when he came, gave her a birthday gift, and asked the eldest daughter-in-law to take her daughter to talk to Mr. Liang, while he took the eldest son to the pavilion across the bridge to meet the prince and the prince's palace.

The gentlemen.

Following the Thirteenth Master of the Song Dynasty, there were also the female dependents of the Xing Zhuangyuan family who were ranked in the same ranking as the eldest and second brother, and the female dependents of Tong Jiuye's family. After that, the female dependents of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Hubu, the female relatives of the Langzhong family, and Dali

Temple ministers and the female relatives of the Yin family of Shuntian Prefecture also came one after another to congratulate Song Qingyue.

Zhang Luoyi, the eldest daughter of Master Zhang's family, is going to marry her eldest brother Song Chenhai next spring, so the three sisters from the Song family gathered around and talked for a long time.

Li Hua looked at Zhang Luoyi from a distance, her eyes were a little red, and she simply took a few county heads and the palace girls out of the waterside pavilion and went to talk in a small garden elsewhere.

As for the wives of the military commander Xungui's family, the ladies gathered together as if they had made an agreement.

The first ones to come were the Bo Fang family of Rongchang and the Bo Guo family of Anyang. Naturally, Miss Fang Liu and Miss Guo B came to congratulate them, but Song Qingyue didn't have time to talk too much to them, because several more families came later.

The female dependents of the idle noble family who have lost their power.

It was almost noon, and the sun above her head was getting hotter and hotter. Song Qingyue felt dizzy from exhaustion. She guessed that she was anemic and had low blood pressure, so she asked Eunuch Qin about the people from the Mu family in Rongguo Gongfu and the Hou Ning family in Zhenbei.

After receiving a negative reply, he snorted and went to the dressing room to change into a set of aqua clothes.

In summer, cool-toned clothes really make people feel comfortable.

She sat in the dressing room, drank a bowl of hot tea, ate some red date and walnut cake, spread out on an armchair and relaxed for a while, her thoughts became confused again.

The female relatives of officials from the Ministry of Hubu and the Ministry of Personnel came here because of the face of their father and Mr. Wu Ge; the female relatives of a minister from the Ministry of Works probably came because of the coal mine incident in Zhuangzi, Baoding; the family of the Minister of Dali Temple probably came

I was dragged here by my second sister.

I don’t know why the female relatives of the Yin family of Shuntian Prefecture are here. Naturally, they either have friendship with their father or with Prince Su’s Palace. In the name of the Crown Princess’s birthday banquet, it’s really strange to invite so many family members of civil servants and generals at once.

How arrogant!

Song Qingyue rubbed her cheek tiredly, she couldn't rest yet, ah, but she was so tired. Let her drink half a cup of tea before going back. She really hates places with many people!

While Song Qingyue closed her eyes to rest, a second-class little girl named Mo Ran came over from outside and whispered into Mo Xiang's ear. Mo Xiang frowned and went to Song Qingyue again, summarizing the words of Song Yushu and others to Song Qingyue.

Said it once.

Song Qingyue closed her eyes and listened. After listening, she slowly opened her eyes and sneered nonchalantly, "If you like, let them say a few more words. Oh, I'll rush to give people an excuse."

After thinking about it for a while, she whispered a few words in Mo Xiang's ear, "Let Mo Ran handle this matter. If you do it well, you will be rewarded."

After two cups of tea, Song Qingyue finally changed her clothes, combed her hair and returned to the waterside pavilion. She saw at a glance the second girl of the Ning family who had been pestering Li Zhao and was unwilling to marry, Ning Yueyao, Mu Yufu, Mu

Yulian was already sitting in the waterside pavilion.

After seeing Song Qingyue, the two sisters from the Mu family avoided Song Qingyue's gaze with some guilt, but Miss Ning met Song Qingyue's gaze without fear.

Song Qingyue smiled gently, as if she didn't know what they had done to her before, nodded to them, and went to talk to the ladies and ladies around her.

As lunch time approached, Feng Jin, the fourth son of the Jin Yiwei commander Feng Kun, unexpectedly came over with his twin nieces.

This is truly uninvited. After all, they are the emperor's eyes and ears. Who dares to invite them casually? Even Feng Kun has been cautious in these years and does not dare to make friends with courtiers casually. Today, when Feng comes in, Song Qingyue is not sure what Feng Kun means.

, or the emperor’s intention.

"Master Feng! Why are you here?" Song Qingyue stood up and saluted.

Today, Feng Jin seems slightly different than that day when I saw Feng Jin at the city gate. He feels more handsome and energetic.
To be continued...