Everyone in Feng Mansion turned around to look, and sure enough, the carriage was driving straight in their direction and stopped slowly in front of the gate of Feng Mansion.
Then the car curtain was lifted, and a girl in palace clothes came out.
The reason why the old lady recognized this carriage and horses was that around this time every year, the palace would have carriages delivering name stickers to all the major palace gates in the capital. The carriages were also filled with pretty little palace maids, who were delivering name stickers.
It's the invitation to the Yuexi Palace banquet with the empress's phoenix seal on it.
Generally speaking, this kind of posts will be distributed on a family basis, with grandmothers, aunts and daughters all participating.
In previous years, the Feng family was basically represented by the old lady. The Yao family had also been there before, but I don’t know who was invited on this post this year.
The old lady came to the front with some excitement and took the initiative to greet the little palace maid: "Hey, this is the girl who sent name stickers to Feng's house this year. I haven't seen her for a year. She is getting more and more beautiful as she gets older."
The little palace maid immediately showed a bright smile, got off the carriage, leaned towards the old lady and saluted: "This slave has met Old Madam Feng and Lord Feng."
The old lady quickly reached out her hand to help her: "Quickly, you're welcome."
Feng Jinyuan also nodded with a smile: "The Feng family is having a happy event today. They have just sent their second son to Xiaozhou to be apprenticed to Chief Ye Rongshan as his teacher. The girl has also sent me a name sticker. Why don't we go to the mansion and have a cup of tea before leaving?
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When the palace maid heard this, she quickly congratulated Feng Jinyuan: "Mr. Ye Shan is the mentor of the current Holy Emperor! The second young master of the Feng family is really lucky. I think Master Feng teaches well on weekdays. Congratulations to Master Feng."
Everyone likes to hear good words, and there is no girl from the palace who doesn't know how to speak politely. A few words can make the people of Feng Mansion smile.
However, she refused to come into the house for tea and only handed a name sticker to the old lady: "This is a sticker sent by the Queen herself. The Feng family invited a few more people to this year's Yuexi Palace banquet. The old lady
Let's make preparations early." Then he said to Feng Jinyuan: "According to the usual practice, the Queen only sends name tags of the female family members, and the adults are invited by the Emperor himself in the court."
The old lady took the name sticker, exchanged a few words with the palace maid, and then sent her off.
After the palace car had gone away, the old lady resisted curiosity and did not open the name sticker. She just said to everyone: "You all follow me to Shu Yayuan. Jin Yuan, you can go and do your own business. You don't need to worry about the affairs of the women in the backyard."
Feng Jinyuan nodded and walked back to the Pine Garden. The rest of the people followed the old lady to Shuya Garden.
It wasn't until they entered Shuya Garden and everyone was seated that the old lady opened the name sticker.
As for the name, the old lady and Yao were invited three years ago because Feng Yuheng was not yet ten years old and could not attend the palace banquet.
In the past three years, the people invited were the old lady and Shen Yu. Shen was always ignored, but Shen Yu never entered the palace because of the Feng family's hiding.
The rules are like this. When the Queen invites people by name, she can find some excuse not to go. The Queen is just polite and polite, giving the officials a little face. As for whether you come or not, there are so many people, she doesn't have time to worry about each one.
.But if you are not invited, you will never be able to go. Not to mention that you cannot enter the palace. Even if you get in, if you are discovered by someone, it will be a serious crime.
But today, when the old lady opened the name sticker, she was slightly shocked by the name on it.
I saw that besides herself, Feng Yuheng and Feng Xiangrong were also named on it.
The most important thing is that her two granddaughters were directly pointed out by others to write their names, instead of just saying "invite the grandmother of Feng Mansion and the legitimate daughter to the palace for a banquet" as in previous years.
Generally speaking, the posts only have words like grandmother, aunt and daughter, but today's one says, "Please invite the grandmother of Feng Mansion, the second daughter Feng Yuheng, and the third daughter Feng Xiangrong to go to the palace together."
"Feast" means...
The old lady cast her eyes towards her two granddaughters. It was not unusual for her to invite Feng Yuheng, but she even invited Xiangrong. What did this mean? When did Xiangrong also hang out in the palace?
Got a name?
Everyone didn't understand what the old lady meant. When Yao saw the old lady looking at Feng Yuheng, he didn't think anything. He thought that Feng Yuheng was on the name post. But An paid attention when he saw the old lady.
Xiangrong couldn't sit still and asked tentatively: "Old lady, what does the post say?"
The old lady came back to her senses and said: "As usual, I have invited you to the banquet. In addition... I also specially named Aheng and Xiangrong to go with you."
"Did you call your name?" The person who asked the question was Chen Yu. She was a little confused about the meaning of calling her name. "Does it mean to let the concubine enter the palace?"
The old lady did not explain, and handed the name sticker in her hand to Aunt Zhao, "You guys can pass it around and take a look."
Aunt Zhao showed the name sticker to everyone in turn, and after receiving everyone's surprised expressions, she handed it back to the old lady.
"Do you understand everything?"
Everyone nodded, some were happy and some were disappointed.
The ones who were happy were naturally Yao and An, as well as Xiang Rong. Jin Zhen only showed freshness, after all, it was none of her business. The ones who were disappointed were definitely Shen Yu and Han.
Because of Shen, Chen Yu was fined and not allowed to enter the palace for five years. She had never been to the previous palace banquets in order to maintain a sense of mystery. But this year she really wanted to go, but it was too late.
"Aheng and Xiangrong, just prepare." The old lady put away her doubts. She paid attention to the expressions of Anshi and Xiangrong. It seemed that they didn't know why Xiangrong was named. Thinking about it again, I heard that
Feng Yuheng was very close to Xiangrong, so it was probably because Feng Yuheng asked the Ninth Prince to say good things to her. If that was the case, there was nothing wrong with it. It was always a good thing for the Feng family to have one more child valued by the palace.
As soon as she thought this way, the old lady felt much relieved, and her eyes when she looked at Xiangrong became even more kind.
But all this was so dazzling in Chen Yu's eyes. All the brilliance and brilliance that once belonged to her were now shared by two concubines. How could she be willing to do so?
The old lady saw what Chen Yu was thinking, but had no choice but to comfort her: "As for Chen Yu, let your father think of a way to see if he can ease the relationship with Concubine Yun." She spoke louder and louder.
The younger I am, the less confident I am. Want to ease the relationship with Concubine Yun? The relationship between the emperor and Concubine Yun has been eased for more than ten years. Why can the Feng family think of a way?
Chen Yu squeezed out tears, stood up and bowed: "Thank you, grandma, for caring about me."
The old lady nodded, asked Shen Yu to sit down, and then said to Yao: "You have participated in palace banquets before, and you know the rules and so on. Just help Aheng and Xiangrong organize more, don't let them
The two children have lost their manners."
This matter was something that Yao had to do, so he quickly got up and accepted it.
Feng Yuheng found it interesting when she looked at the nervous and excited little Xiang Rong next to her. She also found it interesting when she looked at the aggrieved look on Chen Yu's face across from her. So she decided to give Chen Yu some more ingredients: "
I heard that the palace banquet on Yuexi is not only attended by the female family members and courtiers, but also all the princes, and regardless of male or female guests, they are all present at the same banquet?"
"That's right." The old lady explained: "Because Yuexi is the day of reunion, there are not so many rules. Just like the New Year's Eve dinner, there are no two separate parties for male and female guests."
Feng Yuheng listened carefully and said gossipingly: "Except for Prince Yu and Prince Chun, who meet often, and Prince Xiang, who met once at his mother's funeral, I have never met any of the other princes!"
Xiangrong couldn't help but want to participate in the conversation, so he asked in a low voice: "How many princes are there in the palace?"
"I know this." Feng Yuheng said enthusiastically, "Prince Yu is the youngest, so there must be nine princes and no princess. Princess Wuyang is the only girl in the Xuan family."
The old lady also nodded: "Aheng is right. You are the ones who are going to the palace. It would be good to know more about the royal affairs, so as not to know anything at all and embarrass the Feng family for nothing."
Xiangrong quickly stood up and saluted: "Grandma taught me that Xiangrong will definitely follow the second sister and Mrs. Yao to learn more and inquire more, and will not embarrass the Feng family."
Only then was the old lady satisfied and waved her hand, "Let's all leave then. Go back and get ready. There aren't many days left."
Everyone stood up together and bowed to the old lady to say goodbye.
When Feng Yuheng was walking into the yard, she pulled Xiangrong to gossip, but her voice was louder - "Xiangrong, do you know? It's really funny to say it, don't look at His Highness Chun Wang, who doesn't usually wear
White clothes are like wearing Tsing Yi, and they look elegant, but in fact I heard that his favorite color is red! Especially women wearing red clothes always make him look twice."
Xiang Rong was a real child, so he felt that what Feng Yuheng said was true, so he couldn't help but smile and discuss it with her.
The two sisters talked while walking, and all these words fell into Feng Chenyu's ears.
Red, His Highness the Seventh Prince likes red!
At this moment, such a sentence was endlessly revolving in her mind, and it slowly took root. She was encouraged to send Yiyue to Mingyue Tower to invite Princess Qingle to Mingyue in the evening.
See you upstairs.
Feng Yuheng took Xiangrong and Anshi back to Tongshengxuan, and took Yaoshi into her yard.
Huang Quan took out two pieces of clothing and several maids carried them together and showed them to everyone.
A floor-length Baishui long dress forged by Shuiyun, and a moonlight robe made of Liangren brocade. The autumn sunshine was just right, and as soon as these two treasured clothes appeared, I felt that the small courtyard was instantly sparkling with brilliance, and it was so stunning.
Not daring to look directly and reluctant to look away.
Not to mention Anshi and Xiangrong, even Feng Yuheng herself thinks they are too beautiful. No wonder the ancients called these fabrics national treasures and just put them there like pieces of cloth without noticing. Now that they are made into ready-made clothes, they are so eye-catching.
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The water is cloudy, and under the sunlight, I feel that there are always floating clouds looming on the clothes, like smoke and fog, like a fairyland. Huang Quan said: "When the moonlight comes out, it will shine with dripping light, as if you are alone on the water."
My beloved brocade, if you look at it in the daytime and see it in your heart, no matter how anxious and irritable you are, you can calm down in front of this dress. Huang Quan said again: "At night, this dress can actually make those who see it look at the wearer."
If you are willing to respect and surrender to someone of the opposite sex, you will definitely love them, but you will never be sexually immoral."
This is a national treasure.
An didn't know how to thank Feng Yuheng, so she just pulled Xiangrong and said, "Second Miss is a great kindness, and we, the two of us, can't repay her. No matter what happens in the future, we will stand behind Second Miss and do our best."
Feng Yuheng was not too polite, and just asked Huang Quan to pack the clothes, wrap up the water-forged one and give it to Xiangrong's maid. Then she said: "When Xiangrong gets married, my sister will give you another wedding dress.
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In the evening of that day, Chen Yu and Qing Le were sitting opposite each other in the private room of Mingyue Tower. They heard Chen Yu pleading to Qing Le: "I beg the princess to find a way to bring me to the palace for a banquet on the night of the moon."