Along the way, Mi Xiayao deeply realized how embarrassed Miao Qi's face looked across from her.
But Cui Sibao seemed like he didn't notice it.
"I didn't expect her and her aunt to come to the house as guests this morning. My aunt asked me to take her out to see the world, so I simply brought her out together."
Cui Sibao seemed unaware of the awkward relationship between Mi Xiayao and Miao Qi.
Mi Xia Yao looked at Miao Qi with a meaningful smile, "That's it."
The carriage drove leisurely towards the alley of the inner city.
The journey shouldn't take more than half an hour, and they soon reached their destination.
Cui Sibao got off the carriage first, which meant that only the two of them were left on the carriage.
Miao Qi changed her reserved expression just now, and her face changed very quickly.
She looked Mi Xiayao up and down and said warily: "Licking your face to praise my cousin? What are your intentions?"
"Miss Miao, I haven't seen you for a long time and you still have serious delusions of being victimized. I suggest you go to Zhuangzi to stay for a while to relax."
Mi Xiayao was too lazy to argue with Miao Qi at this time. She spoke sharply as always and said her words to the point.
Then he got off the carriage without looking back.
Cui Sibao was standing at the door of Jubaoyuan, talking to the doorman, and did not notice the superficial exchange of words between the two people on the carriage.
When everyone stood at the door one after another, the doorman led the three of them into the garden.
The location they have chosen today is in the middle of the pond, surrounded by a waterside pavilion surrounded by gauze.
Some of the female officials in the palace have already arrived.
Cui Sibao brought them both here, and no one doubted Miao Qi.
She could see that Cui Sibao often brought Miao Qi to parties.
It is not difficult to understand why Miao Qi dared to show off his power so much.
In addition to the fact that her mother's family is from an old aristocratic family and her status is so high that no one dares to challenge her, she is also connected to so many female officials in the palace.
Mi Xiayao sat down in her own place with a calm expression.
These female officials were dignified and serious in the palace, but they didn't expect that after leaving the palace, they would still be playful and gossipy like the ladies of the boudoir.
"Have you heard recently that Chen Xi is always forced by her mistress to attend various banquets? There are only a few families in the capital who like to organize banquets, and now they are almost regular guests.
Already."
One of them, a female official who looked unfamiliar, had a faint smile on her face and pursed her lips after speaking, deliberately suppressing her gloating emotions.
When Cui Sibao heard this, he raised his eyelids and glanced at the speaker.
"She is almost in her twenties now. Her mother-in-law is famous for being mean and neglectful. It is good that she has not gotten engaged until now."
In the waterside pavilion, everyone's topic of conversation fell on this person named Chen Xi.
Mi Xiayao was familiar with this name, but didn't know it very well.
"Miss Mi has now taken over her position as a female official in the court. The days that had finally improved slightly have now returned to the original disaster."
The girl who spoke had a look on her face as if she were watching a show.
What I said is inevitably a bit unpleasant.
Miao Qi followed everyone's gaze and looked at Mi Xiayao, as if he wanted to use his eyes to force Mi Xiayao into emotional distress.
Mi Xiayao blinked her eyes under the gaze of everyone.
Mi Xiayao said lightly, "Did she also have the conditions for purchasing palace fabrics at the Zhenyi Bureau before?"
At first glance, this sounded like an open question.
But Cui Sibao reacted the fastest among the group of people, and finally there was a little wave of emotion on his cold face.
The female officer who had just opened her mouth to embarrass Mi Xia Yao paused and said, "That's not so...not really, the Chen family's relatives have a pretty good cloth shop there, cough..."
These people don't save any face when they speak, and they say everything so openly.
Chen Xi did serve as a sixth-grade female official in the Precious Clothing Bureau. It was precisely for this reason that she brought in private goods and used all her rights to win over a cloth shop owned by her relatives, thereby achieving a win-win situation.
Unfortunately, this win-win situation did not last long.
As soon as a "connected person" like Mi Xiayao came out, they were dispersed.
Mi Xiayao was sitting on the water pavilion seat in Jubaoyuan. At this time, she could see clearly what these female officials had in mind for each other.
Although they are colleagues, they cannot be said to be good colleagues who fight side by side.
They all wanted to have the mentality of watching a show, wanting to watch the people around them flip over and flip over.
"Axi herself said at the beginning that she had already guessed that being a female official in the imperial city was not a long-term solution."
At this time, Cui Sibao spoke leisurely and stopped this embarrassing topic.
The female officer who wanted to stir up trouble laughed awkwardly. In order to ease the superficial relationship, she held the wine glass in front of her and raised it in the direction of Mi Xiayao.
The woman responded to the other party smoothly and calmly.
This is not an embarrassing scene either.
When Miao Qi saw this, she secretly felt that this scene was not something she was happy to see.
So, she turned to look at Mi Xiayao and said abruptly: "I heard earlier that Sister Mi was bullied at the gate of Mi Mansion on the New Year's Day?"
The insider gossip about this matter, in fact, these female officials secretly communicated with each other in private.
They all glanced at this Miao girl, watching the show happily, and silently turned to pay attention to the person involved.
But Cui Sibao didn't show any emotion. She glanced at the cousin next to her.
"That family has some grudges with me, and it's not like what Miss Miao said about me being bullied.
"After all...the other party didn't end up well either."
Mi Xiayao's smile was quite hypocritical. When she looked at Miao Qi, she knew that he had some evil intentions.
Do you want to talk about her in front of these gossipy female officials?
"Miss Mi, I am really not too talkative. After that day, everyone in the capital said that you and the Duan family once had a son, right? After all, everyone has heard about your selection of wet nurses in the capital before.
"
Miao Qi bit her alveolar teeth, but she was still unwilling to let the topic continue like this.
She dropped such a heavy blow that the eyes of the female officials on the table suddenly gleamed.
The smile on Mi Xiayao's lips cooled down slightly. She didn't expect that Miao Qi would investigate so carefully when he was tit for tat against her.
It seems that she is still a little too underestimated.
"If I really had a son with the Duan family, how could they let me reconcile with him so decisively and worry-free.
"Miss Miao is really too young and has not experienced these things yet. She is so eager to understand how mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along."
She looked at Miao Qi with a sly smile.
"I don't know which young man in the capital can fall in love with Miss Miao. Then the family will definitely be very harmonious in the future."