When night fell, Gong Lianyang went to the banquet as scheduled. Although he had a high position, he was not a person who liked to put on airs and was not punctual. However, the other people at the banquet were all minor officials, so they arrived early.
, when he entered the door, everyone came over to welcome him.
After a brief exchange of greetings, Gong Lianyang took his seat, but his eyes inadvertently fell on the figures sitting behind the curtain: "That's..."
"Those are the concubines and familiar female relatives of several colleagues." Cao Chengji quickly replied with a smile, "I know that you don't like public banquets, so this is a completely private banquet. Although the female relatives are sitting in the side hall behind the curtain,
It can also make everyone feel at ease, right?"
Cao Chengji's intention was also understood by Li Yangxuan. Emperor Zhan didn't like the courtiers to form cliques, so the courtiers kept a very low-key private banquet. However, today it was a public banquet, and even the prime minister was invited. If there were female relatives present, it would indeed be
It's just a proper private banquet.
Gong Liyang didn't like public banquets either, so he was satisfied with Cao Chengji's arrangement: "Since it's a private banquet, don't be so formal and let the ladies come over. Since these adults are bringing their wives to the banquet, they must be considerate."
He is a wife, so it is really not appropriate to ask the female relatives to have separate meals."
Cao Chengji knew that Gong Liyang would say this. In fact, when he first invited Gong Liyang to a banquet, he didn't want to hold a private banquet, but wanted to hold a public banquet in an elegant manner. Although this behavior was a bit arrogant,
But it would not be true. It was just that Concubine Yu wanted him to bring a woman to the banquet, so it would be impossible for the whole audience to be men and only one woman.
Cao Chengji thought that Concubine Yu might be interested in wooing Gong Lianyang in marriage, so he immediately thought of holding a private banquet like this and let the married young officials bring their wives to the banquet, so that there would be other female relatives at the banquet.
Then the appearance of this purple-clothed woman would not be so abrupt, not to mention that he had already heard the descriptions of Gong Liyangxuan by storytellers in the market. Although the Prime Minister looked indifferent on the surface, he was actually a compassionate person.
People, it’s just that there doesn’t seem to be a mistress in the Prime Minister’s house.
"Everyone, hurry up and ask the ladies to come over and meet Mr. Gonglian together." A young official was also a smart man. He immediately took the lead and called his wife from behind the curtain. He took the lead and took his wife to perform the treatment on Mr. Gonglian.
Meeting gift.
There were six female relatives at the banquet, five of whom were wives of officials. Only one of them, wearing a veil and wearing her hair in a young woman's bun, looked a bit abrupt...
After everyone had already seen Li, Gong Lian Yangxuan saw the veiled woman, still wearing the familiar purple clothes, her clear and bright almond eyes, and the silver hairpin in her hair...
Gong Lian Yangxuan's hand trembled, and the tea cup in his hand fell down. The spilled tea wetted his sleeves. Then his face, which had long been accustomed to being indifferent, was full of surprise, and even his voice trembled:
"Sparse, sparse purple..."
The veiled woman lowered her eyebrows slightly, then nodded: "Husband..."
"Husband?" Cao Chengji looked at the woman in purple in surprise. No matter how he asked the woman all the way out of the palace, she always remained silent. In this way, no matter how he guessed her identity, he could not think of this.
She turned out to be the wife of Gong Lianyangxun, but since she was the wife of the prime minister, how could she be in the palace and with Concubine Yu?
