Tian Lanqing raised her eyebrows and joked softly: "They are just ignorant. Don't pay attention to them."
Hua Xiaogu tugged on the clothes of the person next to him: "How can you say that about your father and mother?"
Tian Lanqing put an index finger on her lips and took Hua Xiaogu to eat something. After resting for a while, the two of them got on the carriage and headed to the palace.
The Empress Dowager's birthday banquet starts at noon, and staff like Hua Xiaogu and others naturally have to arrive early in the morning. Different from previous years, when there is a big banquet in the palace, the Tian family who is responsible for supplies really needs someone to wait in the palace to prevent
If anything goes wrong, the person in charge can be found in time.
But this time, because Hua Xiaogu's bartending required on-site preparation, it almost turned into a performance. A special corner was opened during the banquet, and Hua Xiaogu and Tian Lanqing needed to stay there all the time.
Everything was ready. Hua Xiaogu and Tian Lanqing stood in an inconspicuous place in the corner, watching the various nobles coming and going. Every time someone passed by, they would glance at them.
Hua Xiaogu felt strange, they were just two temporary servants, how could they attract so much attention? She lowered her head and looked at herself, then turned to look at Tian Lanqing.
...It turns out that their clothes match each other.
Hua Xiaogu hadn't looked carefully in the mirror, so she didn't know what she was wearing. She just looked at the embroidered patterns on the fabrics of the two clothes, but they looked very similar.
Tian Lanqing is the eldest son of the Tian family, the richest man in Beijing, so many relatives of the emperor actually know him. He occasionally greets people, but his voice is not very loud. The sun gradually rises above the head, and there are already people in the garden hall.
Gradually the seats were filled with people.
It didn't take long for a young eunuch not far away to announce that the Queen Mother was coming. In the entire hall, the original thin conversation gradually became quieter. After a while, a palace maid turned on the light, and the eunuch cleared the way.
A graceful and luxurious woman was carried on the chariot and slowly came this way.
People in the entire hall knelt down one after another. Hua Xiaogu knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise his head. Then he felt a slight darkness above his head. Then less than a cup of tea later, a gentle and smiling woman's voice came.
Said: "Everyone, get up, kneeling is very tiring."
Shouts of gratitude rang out all around. Before Hua Xiaogu could follow him, he was pulled by Tian Lanqing and stood up.
Hua Xiaogu and Tian Lanqing stood back at the temporary "bar". She secretly glanced in the direction where the sound had just come from. From a distance, she saw three golden people sitting at the top.
The old lady in the middle, who looked to be about 60 or 70 years old with white hair and a childish face, was probably the Queen Mother, right? She was covering her mouth and laughing, talking to a middle-aged man wearing a dragon robe sitting next to her.
talk.
I'm afraid that's the emperor, right? Tsk tsk... He looks like he's only about forty years old, so he's not old.
The one at the very back couldn't tell how old she was. From a distance, I just thought she had a very good temperament. If she could sit in that position, she must be the queen?
"Don't look around." Tian Lanqing lowered his head and coughed quietly. When Hua Xiaogu heard this, he immediately lowered his head.
Tian Lanqing turned her head slightly, glanced at Hua Xiaogu, then curled her lips, and said softly: "There are great rules in the palace, and you have to be careful about everything. I will give you a look in a while, and if you are not allowed to speak, you can't say a word
