In addition to making lanterns, the ladies can also go to the courtyard to enjoy plum blossoms.
The Crown Princess put a lot of thought into this plum blossom feast.
Many types of plum blossoms have been transplanted.
The common red plum blossoms are actually pink plum blossoms, including palace powder, cinnabar, and big red plum blossoms.
Among them, cinnabar plums have white beards, red beards, single petals, light halo, cinnabar pavilions, red bones, and black feather jade.
The flowers of sprinkled golden plum blossoms are mainly white. Each white flower must be sprinkled with red stripes or red spots, and occasionally a few red petals will jump out, or the whole red flower will be red and white. The white is bright and the red is eye-catching.
White plum blossoms have jade butterflies and pearls.
There were also two apricot plums, also called crane-top plums, with large flowers, bright colors, and pleasant pink color, which were particularly conspicuous, attracting the little girls to circle around and point out the beautiful plum blossoms for the maids to climb and fold.
Some are pinned to their heads, while others are cut off from branches to be placed in bottles.
The Crown Princess has even prepared vases.
This also corresponds to the theme of today’s Plum Appreciation Banquet—plum blossom appreciation.
After admiring the natural beauty of the plum trees, let’s look at the plum vases arranged by the ladies.
The lanterns could not be finished in a while, so Yan Yu took her sister out to see the plum blossoms.
By the way, choose one to see which one is better.
On the way, I met two young ladies from the Fang family and a young lady from the Yuan family, and they naturally walked together.
Yuan Ying was very familiar with the types of plum blossoms, and they were fascinated by it.
"When inserting a plum vase, you must first look at the vase, and then choose the plums." The relationship between tugging across the river together is different. Yuan Ying gave them generous instructions: "If the vase is round, choose the one with flowers in bloom. Look at the excitement,
For light-colored bottles, choose heavy-colored plum blossoms. The heavier the better, and vice versa. If you have a blue bottle like me, any color will look good, including red, white, green, and yellow."
"There are green plum blossoms? Where are they? Why are they missing?" Fang Xueer looked around.
"I have only seen green calyx in books. It is said to be light green, and a few are green and purple. They are treasures among plums and are extremely rare." Yuan Ying said.
"Oh." Fang Xueer was not disappointed. There were no more green ones and there were yellow ones. She liked these rare colors.
Looking at the bottle in the maid's hand, she asked: "Sister Ying, does my bottle look good with wintersweet in it?"
Wintersweet flowers are yellow, and she likes them when she looks at them.
Yuan Ying took a look at it and said it looked good. Fang Xueer immediately ran to the wintersweet tree with cheers and started choosing with the maid.
"You guys are here, it's easy to find me." Xue Zhaoxia walked over quickly with her fat maid.
"Sister Xue, what do you want from us?" Yan Yu asked curiously.
"Let's make lanterns and fold plum blossoms!"
The horns are strong and flexible, and can easily climb trees and break plum blossoms."
The fat maid behind her laughed so hard that she lost her eyes. She raised her chest and raised her head, and said, "Young ladies, you can choose. I am very good at climbing trees. I will take care of you."
Yan Yu's little sweet mouth is in business again: "Sister Xue Qiang has no weak soldiers. She is powerful, and Sister Sujiao beside her is also powerful."
Xue Zhaoxia smiled happily and waved her hand: "Bring the pickles to Sister Yan and Sister Yan first."
Yan Yu was not polite and asked her eldest sister her preferences. He also consulted sister Yuan Ying's opinion and chose white jade butterfly plums and red pruned red plums.
Several people also joined in the fun and picked a few apricot plums, which were about the size of a child's hand, and pinned them on their heads. Except for the Yan sisters, who had fair complexions, the others couldn't hold back such delicate pink flowers, which looked earthy and vulgar.
Girls, look at me and I look at you, we can’t stop laughing.
But I don’t want to take it off, since everyone is the same, just wear it.
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Six plum vases are arranged in a row, each with its own beauty.
Winter Solstice helped them close two tables, and several girls got together to make lanterns.
Looking up at the flowers, looking down at the flowers, and sharing gossip with the little sisters, I feel so happy.
Here, the two young ladies from the Fang family and Miss Xue talked a lot.
Mrs. Fang is very popular, and the two young ladies of the Fang family know more the more they see, but Miss Xue is here ready-made, so close in front of her eyes. The few girls like to listen more. They all look at Xue Zhaoxia with bright eyes, which is really disappointing.
People are very eager to share.
Fang Xueer said attentively: "Sister Xue, drink some water to moisten your throat."
Xue Zhaoxia gave her a sensible look, took a sip of tea, and continued: "...Mrs. Zhao will never come to the house in her eight hundred lifetimes. Once she does, nothing good will happen. This is because she knows that the Crown Princess is newly married and has a low reputation.
He insisted on keeping his daughters as guests.
Why are you a guest? She is a guest. She doesn’t even look at her daughters, whether they are worthy of being the prince or not. They are all crooked."
Miss Fang said something fair: "The ladies of the Zhao family are actually quite good-looking..."
At least he is much better than the others. Even when he stands outside, he wants to be praised for his good looks. Of course, he cannot compare to the two sisters of the Yan family.
She really has no conscience and says that people are crooked.
"Then there is another one. She's not a young lady from the Zhao family. Who is that? A cousin? A cousin?" Yan Yu has a good memory and remembers that in addition to her biological daughter and concubine, Mrs. Zhao also has an older one.
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Xue Zhaoxia curled her lips, looked around, and lowered her voice: "That's Mrs. Zhao's natal cousin. She is a young widow. She is very shameless. She is obviously a married woman, and she even combs her daughter's hair."
Seeing the little sisters' eyes widening and unable to close their mouths, Miss Xue was very satisfied with everyone's reaction: "I didn't expect it at first, but it would have to be my mother. She has sharp eyes, so she asked a few more questions.
Mouth, the little widow's face turned pale again, and then she told the truth, she saw that the princess was not in the house..."
The fat maid sour horn seemed to have a discomfort in her throat and coughed twice.
Xue Zhaoxia immediately stopped talking.
The King of England is the elder, and she, a junior, cannot gossip about her elders.
But the little widow must have gone after the prince. Hum, the Zhao family is also interesting. They haven’t been in contact with each other for several years, but once they come to visit, they want to eat all of them!
Miss Xue changed the topic and said: "There is another person who is also very annoying, that is the sister of the imperial concubine. You haven't seen it. Good guy, you really think you are some kind of golden nobleman. You are picky about this and that. Our tug of war.
The competition is so lively, if you ask her to say anything vulgar...fuck her..."
Tamarind coughed again, Xue Zhaoxia almost swallowed the last two words in her throat, like a mosquito humming.
This is a hornet's nest.
The little sisters became angry with the same enemy.
Fang Xueer is very proud that she can win the game today and win the prize.
Consider it a matter of great pride.
Not only does he gain face, but he also brings glory to the whole family.
He said anxiously: "How vulgar is that? She doesn't know how to talk nonsense, okay?!"
Yuan Ying was also dissatisfied: "That's right, the noble ladies in the capital all play like this, and her little fence attracts everyone."
Yan Yu showed off the gold bracelet hanging on her wrist and said with a smile: "We won the competition, we got the lottery, we have both fame and fortune! Let the person who can't eat the grapes say a few snarky words, hehe! Look!
Look how bright it is!”
Several girls took out their own bracelets and put them together, smiling happily.