Although the flower-viewing party at the Prime Minister Wang's Mansion was very small, it was like the sparkle of fireworks. After a little light, the flower-viewing lanterns of various houses in Jiangle City were like exploding fireworks, and the whole Jiangle City came back to life.
into the usual bustle.
I don’t know if it’s because of the curiosity about Li Xiaonan, the new Crown Princess, that the number of invitations sent to Prince Rui’s Mansion increased by at least 30% compared with previous years. Almost all of these invitations sent in specially included the sentence Li Xiaonan: Please invite the Princess and the Crown Princess.
How how...
Princess Wei took the invitations one by one, and remained unmoved by the specially-included phrase, "He is the Imperial Concubine."
Li Xiaonan likes to gossip and watch the excitement, but all she hears and watches is the gossip and excitement of other people's homes. She can't avoid the excitement of all kinds of invitations coming to her, silently praying that none of her family will go.
Prince Rui's palace has a transcendent status, and Princess Wei has a serious and dignified temperament. She has always refused to attend banquets, and now is no exception. Most of the invitations sent to Prince Rui's palace are ignored by Princess Wei.
However, Princess Wei could not ignore the invitation sent by Mrs. Pan personally, so Li Xiaonan had to go.
What Mrs. Pan Er sent was a spring feast at Yujin Garden outside the city.
According to the rules of Jiangle City, after watching the lanterns all night on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, instead of going home at dawn, you go out of the city to enjoy the first wave of spring. This area of Jiangle City is crowded with people, embroidered ribbons are flying, and the spring is full of joy.
But this year, due to the national mourning, the lights for the Lantern Festival were gone. Naturally, no one dared to be in the mood for the first spring to be enjoyed on the 16th day of the first lunar month. The mood of enjoying the spring in Jiangle City was suppressed until February.
The Prime Minister's Mansion invited people to view the flowers, and the floodgates opened. Even Mrs. Pan, who had a status like her, had to wait until mid-February to book a stay at Yujin Garden.
Going out of the city to enjoy the spring lasted from the 16th day of the first lunar month to the opening of Jinming Pond on the first day of March. There were numerous banquets at this and that house. Among these banquets, the one Mrs. Pan invited was a grand gathering for the young lady and her young daughter-in-law.
Mrs. Pan's banquet started in the second year of her widowhood and has lasted for more than 20 years.
In the beginning, Mrs. Pan’s banquet was hosted by a few good handkerchiefs. For example, Princess Wei, in order to distract her from her sadness and loneliness, she deliberately let her treat. At first, it was just a few good handkerchiefs. Later, these handkerchiefs gave birth to children.
, they brought young ladies from various families who had a good relationship with Mrs. Pan Er to add to the excitement. As time went by, there were more and more young ladies.
Later, one day, a daughter-in-law was so excited when she said how her child was so good and so cute, she made Mrs. Pan cry. From then on, each family made a tacit agreement not to let the daughter-in-law with a child in the family come over.
The banquet hosted by Mrs. Pan's second wife became a happy party for the young lady and the newly married young wives.
The talk show is worthy of its name.
Mrs. Pan's dowry was extremely rich, and the historian treated her as a single person in terms of money. Mrs. Pan was rich, generous, loved to eat and play, and was easy-going and considerate. She was enjoying the flower viewing.
The meeting became a big gathering for the ladies of Jianle City, and a happy gathering that the ladies most looked forward to and loved.
For example, now, any young lady who can speak in front of Mrs. Pan has expressed her desire to meet the Crown Princess. Mrs. Pan will personally go to Prince Rui's Mansion to deliver invitations and personally present invitations to the prince.
The princess invited Li Xiaonan.
Princess Wei actually didn't want Li Xiaonan to go to Mrs. Pan's spring party, but Mrs. Pan came to invite her, so she couldn't refuse.
Li Xiaonan didn't want to go either. If she went, there would probably be no one at the Spring Appreciation Banquet. But Princess Wei had already agreed, so it would be bad if she didn't go.
The idlers in Jiangle City pay a lot of attention to the matter of enjoying spring. For example, the plainer the clothes, the better, so as not to compete with the new green shoots for the beauty of spring.
Li Xiaonan looked at the pile of goose yellow, willow, primrose, bamboo and green that Wan Qing picked out, and laughed. Aren't these so-called plain colors the colors of spring?
Based on Wan Qing's opinion, she chose a silver-white plain skirt, a silver-white jacket, and a silver-blue trousers, and a thin cloak with a silver-white background embroidered with clusters of silver-blue bamboo. She put it on and took Wan Qing, Yuting and Awu with her.
The three of them went to Yujin Garden.
I brought Yuting, especially Awu, because these two people really wanted to go. Well, they would definitely be the focus anyway, and with Awu here, maybe they could take away some curiosity for her.
Probably because Li Xiaonan was going, Mrs. Pan’s Spring Festival Banquet was attended by a particularly large number of people, and almost everyone brought at least one sister with them.
After all, this was the second time since Li Xiaonan married into Prince Rui's house and went out to attend a banquet. The first time they went to Wang Xiang's house, they didn't have the ability to get together. This time they must be able to come and do everything possible.
Not only did the young ladies arrive in large numbers, but they also arrived early, so they couldn't miss any of the excitement.
Li Xiaonan was followed by Wan Qing, Yu Ting, and A Wu, and walked through Yujin Garden under the attention of countless young ladies.
The young ladies were extremely careful and found out that Li Xiaonan's hair was not well combed, her hair was not good-looking, and her posture was not elegant enough.
Li Xiaonan went over and continued to pick on the girl...how to bring a man with her!
Oh oh! Is she a woman? A man disguised as a woman? She is very good at kung fu? She looks exactly like a man...
Li Xiaonan listened to the few words that came into her ears.
Well! It was a wise decision to bring Awu here. We were all wondering why she looked exactly like a man. It was great.
Li Xiaonan was led by the girl next to Mrs. Pan's second wife and went straight into the hall with the best view of Yujin Garden.
When Mrs. Pan saw Li Xiaonan going up the steps, she sat upright, leaned forward, and waved with a smile, "Ah, I'm here to do it. Today I invited the best Pingtan in Jianle City. What do you think? I think
It’s still not as good as Pingjiang City’s.”
Mrs. Pan Jiu was sitting next to Mrs. Pan Er. Seeing Li Xiaonan being pulled by Mrs. Pan Er to sit on the couch, she stood up and sat on the armchair in front of the couch, looking intently out of the hall.
It must have been arranged in advance, so there were not many people in the hall. The other three or four were the clan ladies and daughters-in-law whom Li Xiaonan had met when she recognized her relatives.
Mrs. Pan Er took Li Xiaonan to sit down and called Pingtan in.
It is best to listen attentively to Pingtan. It is not advisable to talk too much. If you want to say a few words, you can use Pingtan as a topic.
When Mrs. Pan Er saw Li Xiaonan, she couldn't help but think of Mrs. Shi who was a monk and practiced spiritual practice. Alas.
Two Pingtan masters plucked the pipa and sang about ten lines when there was a commotion outside and a woman ran in.
"The Crown Prince is here! Madam, the Crown Prince is here! He's already here!"
The mother-in-law's report faded, and Gu Yan could already be seen striding in from the hall.
"Oh, why is he here!" Second Mrs. Pan stood up and walked to the door of the hall. Gu Yan was already at the foot of the hall steps. He raised his hand to Mrs. Pan and said, "Greetings to Second Aunt."
"Why are you here? What happened?" Mrs. Pan asked with concern.
"What's the matter? I just had half a day to spare. I remembered that I had always promised my grandma to accompany her to the Hanlin Academy, so I came to pick her up. I asked my second aunt for your forgiveness." Gu Yan said with a smile.
"Ouch!" Mrs. Pan Er's ouch had a complicated meaning. She turned around and motioned to Li Xiaonan, "Go quickly."
Li Xiaonan smiled and Wan Qing hurriedly went in to get Li Xiaonan's cloak.
Li Xiaonan walked down the steps and Wan Qing caught up with him. Just as he was about to shake off his cloak and put it on Li Xiaonan, Gu Yan reached out and took the cloak from Wan Qing's hand, picked it up and put it on Li Xiaonan, then tied it carefully.
Li Xiaonan saw Gu Yan's cloak from her own cloak.
She had a silver-white background embroidered with clusters of silver-blue bamboo, and he had a silver-blue background embroidered with clusters of silver-white bamboo. She didn't even know he had such a cloak.
Well, she never cared about his clothes. He had too many clothes.
Yu Ting watched Gu Yan slowly putting on Li Xiaonan's cloak and tying the belt, and wanted to tut, but held it back.
Wan Qing glanced sideways at the young ladies who were watching, glancing from here to there.
Awu stood behind Yuting and Wanqing with his hands behind his back. He wanted to say something but held back.
Gu Yan tied a decent bow on the belt of his cloak and walked out side by side with Li Xiaonan.
Wan Qing pushed Yu Ting and said in a very low voice: "Hold your head up!"
Yu Ting was stunned before he realized what he was doing, and followed Wan Qing's lead with his head held high.
Awu looked at Wanqing, then at Yuting, and straightened his back inexplicably.
Li Xiaonan was once again in the public eye and looked at Gu Yan, who was looking at her.
"What are you doing?" Li Xiaonan asked in a low voice.
"Because you have paid the price for marrying me, I thought, I can't let you pay for it in vain, I have to support you." Gu Yan leaned forward slightly, approached Li Xiaonan and whispered.
"Did you choose this cloak specially?"
"Um."
"Really going to the Hanlin Academy?" Li Xiaonan simply focused her attention on talking to Gu Yan, her eyes burning on the way out.
"Of course, we'll ride there together later." Gu Yan said with a smile.
"I also ride a horse? All the way to the Hanlin Academy?"
"Yes, don't I want to see you? Let them take a good look." Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan.
Li Xiaonan huffed.
Why does she feel like she's going to be paraded through the streets?
The walls of Yujin Garden are just a few half-person-high bamboo fences. Outside the courtyard gate, Gu Yan's guard boy is waiting with a horse. Shi Gun brings a snow-white horse over and gives it to A Wu. Gu Yan stretches out his hand.
Signaled to Li Xiaonan.
"I ask you to mount the horse."
Li Xiaonan laughed out loud, stepped on Gu Yan's hand rudely, and used Gu Yan's lift to get on the horse.
Gu Yan also got on the horse, watched Li Xiaonan adjust the reins, patted Li Xiaonan's horse with a whip, and the two horses moved forward together.
Mrs. Pan Er stood on the goose-neck chair in the hall until she saw Li Xiaonan get on the horse and walk side by side with Gu Yan, surrounded by guards and servants, and then she helped the girl down.
Mrs. Pan Jiu jumped down from the goose-neck chair and said angrily to Mrs. Pan: "It's really unruly. She asked the prince to put a cloak on her, and even stepped on the prince to get on the horse! If she were a eldest sister, she would definitely not be like this!"
"That's great! This is how a young couple should be. It's not good for your eldest sister to be like that, so this is the best." Mrs. Pan Er patted Mrs. Pan Jiu and waved to the two commentaries who were busy gossiping in excitement, "Let's continue.
