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Chapter 85 Going to the birthday banquet was coveted(1/2)

The carriage lasted about half an hour before reaching the princess's mansion. Under the guidance of the servants in the mansion, he entered the door and stopped. Several mothers and little girls recognized the sign of the prime minister's mansion on the carriage and surrounded him.

Mrs. Ji got off the car first, and Song Ruoxi helped Mrs. Ji and got off the car. The woman and the little girl only felt her eyes lit up. The girl from the Ji family looked a little more beautiful than a fairy!

"I have waited for the two Mrs. Ji and Miss Ji. I am the servants next to Princess Shunshu. My wife is called Lao Nu Ma Ma Chang. I am waiting for the wife's grandfather here on the order of the princess!" Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Smiling and flattered.

Mrs. Ji narrowed her eyes and smiled and said, "Madam Chang, this is the granddaughter of the old man, whose surname is Song, and is the granddaughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Song."

As soon as Mrs. Song entered the mansion, she was surrounded by three girls Song. Since the old lady brought three granddaughters, what if she could bring one more? Why didn’t this girl Song go with her grandmother? But she followed her grandmother and aunt to the banquet?

Madam Chang experienced the world, and the strange color in her eyes flashed, her smile on her face remained unabashed, and she saluted: "I have made a mistake, Miss Song."

"A small matter, nanny doesn't have to care." Song Ruoxi bowed slightly and said with a smile.

Mrs. Ji said politely: "I'm sorry, Madam Chang leads the way for me!"

"You are kind to me, please follow me here." Madam Chang led the way in front and soon arrived at Qinfang Hall where the princess's mansion was entertaining the female family. The banquet was placed in the front hall. Open the floor-to-ceiling wooden window and you could see the stage behind. The guests who attended the banquet went to the east room to have tea and wait, and the birthday party would only start at noon.

The royal family was very cautious in interacting with foreign ministers. Most of the people who came to the princess's house to attend the banquet were female relatives, while the male guests were men who sacrificed the princess's future, as well as brothers and nephews from the princess's house.

When they entered the east room, Mrs. Ji and Mrs. Ji wanted to take Song Ruoxi to greet Mrs. Song, but when they saw the three people who came with Mrs. Song, anger flashed in their eyes. Song Ruojie and Song Ruoying were both engaged. According to the etiquette, they could only go to the blood relatives' home to attend a banquet before getting married. Princess Shunshu and the Song family were not blood relatives, and even in-laws, why did they come to the banquet?

They come to the banquet and think they are young and ignorant, but Old Mrs. Song is nearly 70 years old. Wouldn't he be sensible? Song Ruoxi is a girl from the Song family. The Song family is not polite, which will make people question the tutor of the Song family. Fortunately, Song Ruoxi did not come with Old Mrs. Song this time. You can tell outsiders that Song Ruoxi was raised in the grandfather's family. In this way, although Song Ruoxi cannot be completely picked out from the Song family, it can more or less make people not associate Song Ruoxi with the actual Song family girls.

The two of them had been mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for more than 20 years. When they looked at each other, they knew what each other was thinking. They walked over with a smile on their faces.

"Granddaughter greets my grandmother, good luck to my grandmother, little sister greets my third sister, fourth sister and fifth sister, good luck to my three sisters." Song Ruoxi greeted the four gracefully.

When the old lady Song saw Song Ruoxi following the Ji family to the banquet, she was furious and snorted coldly, saying, "You have the support of Mrs. Yipin's grandmother, and you can give me any tribute and care. Just please please her."

Mrs. Ji was shocked. She never expected that the older Mrs. Song was less unrestrained, and she said such words in public regardless of the occasion and regardless of her face.

Mrs. Ji was secretly happy. Now that I didn’t have to ask for a question, I bowed and said, “Mrs. Please calm down. Xier is a girl from the Song family and should be happy with her. But my mother-in-law loves my aunt the most. After my aunt gets married, she cannot always be with her kind mother. My mother-in-law is worried and can’t afford to eat and eat. In order to fulfill her filial piety, my aunt sent her daughter to my mother-in-law and serve my mother-in-law. She also asked her wife to understand my aunt's filial piety and don’t blame Xier too much.”

"Mrs. In-law, I know that in-laws love Xi'er and cannot bear to leave Xi'er. In the future, I will let her go back to the Song family to visit her in-laws often." Mrs. Ji recovered from her shock and said with apologies.

Listening to Mrs. Ji's words, Song Ruoxi was still confused. He suddenly became enlightened and knelt down and said, "From the future, my granddaughter will go home to settle the morning and evening for my grandmother. I will not stop wind and rain. Please relieve my grandmother's anger and forgive my granddaughter this time."

Song Ruoxi deliberately called Old Lady Song the legitimate grandmother, and this is to tell everyone that Old Lady Song was deliberately making things difficult for the legitimate daughter of the concubine. After hearing Song Ruoxi's words, everyone really showed dissatisfaction. Although these noble ladies did not like the concubine's children, they had to show their magnanimity as legitimate mothers outside.

Song Ruojie is best at observing words and expressions. Seeing this, she hurriedly helped Old Mrs. Song defend her, "Seventh Sister, grandmother has no..."

"Hey, second sister? Why are you here? You shouldn't be embroidered at home..." Song Ruoxi pretended that she had just seen Song Ruojie. She was an unmarried girl. She said that the marriage was inappropriate. Before she finished speaking, she pursed the corners of her lips. This move not only showed that she knew the politeness, but also showed that she blurted out her words in surprise, and would not make people feel that the two sisters were in disagreement. She did it on purpose.

As soon as the word "marry" was released, other people who didn't know that Song Ruojie was engaged also knew it. There was a little more contempt and ridicule in their eyes, and they were also famous families. How could they be so ignorant? The girl who had been married came to someone else's house to attend a banquet.

Song Ruojie's face turned red and she lowered her head and did not dare to speak anymore. Mrs. Ji and Mrs. Ji smiled with satisfaction.

"Oh, Sister Ji, what's wrong?" A slightly hoarse voice came, and everyone looked over. A thin woman in a royal blue embroidered colorful bat coat came over with a girl in a bean green embroidered flower satin embroidered with windy hair.

"Mrs. Jiang, you are here." Mrs. Ji owed her, "It's nothing big, just because my Xier often comes to accompany my mother-in-law. My wife is jealous and said that my Xier only has her grandmother in her eyes, and she only knows how to respect her grandmother and forget her legitimate grandmother. We are all here to persuade her, but the more we persuade her, the more angry she becomes, and she will definitely punish my Xier."

The person who came was Jiang Yan's mother, Mrs. Jiang. She was good friends with Mrs. Ji Er. She always loved the people of the Ji family. When she saw Mrs. Ji, the first-rank lady, but the second-rank lady, was sitting, she was very annoyed. After hearing Mrs. Ji's words, she was very angry. She was slightly angry and said in a deep voice: "Mrs. Song, although Miss Song is your granddaughter, you want to beat and scold her, and she should be the junior. But this is the princess's house, not the Song family. If you punish your granddaughter in public, do you still have a princess in your eyes? Are you still etiquette?"

Mrs. Jiang did not speak harshly and her tone was very calm, but Mrs. Song felt scolded, and her face was flushed and she defended: "I didn't want to punish her."

"You didn't want to punish her, so what did she do when she kneels down here?" Mrs. Jiang asked in surprise.

"Seventh girl, you can't get up." Old Mrs. Song gritted her teeth.

"Xi'er, your legitimate grandmother will not blame you anymore, thank you very much." Mrs. Ji said with a smile.

"Thank you granddaughter for your grandmother for being generous and forgiven your granddaughter." Song Ruoxi stood up, lowered his head and looked down and pretended to be well-behaved.

The fat on Mrs. Song's face shook uncontrollably.

Mrs. Jiang stepped forward and held Old Mrs. Ji's arm, and smiled and said, "Aunt Ji, let's sit there and talk."

"Okay." Mrs. Ji no longer paid attention to Mrs. Song and sat down with Mrs. Jiang.

The maids served hot tea.

This is not the first time Mrs. Jiang has seen Song Ruoxi. In order to treat Song Ruoxi, she specially recommended the doctor who treated her to the Ji family. She has the same affection for Song Ruoxi. Looking at Song Ruoxi standing behind Mrs. Ji, she sighed: "I haven't seen you for a few years, and Xi'er, who has no conscience, forgot Aunt Jiang."

Mrs. Ji smiled, "Xi'er, hurry up and find your Aunt Jiang, otherwise she will be jealous!"

Zhou Siyi stepped forward and took Song Ruoxi's hand and pulled her to Mrs. Jiang, "Auntie, this sister Song is the sister Song I told you yesterday. She is better than me in listening to music."

Mrs. Jiang smiled and narrowed her eyes, "Oh, it's rare that you, a person who never admits defeat, are willing to accept it."

"Princess Rongshu is here!" A maid outside the door made a sound, and the chatter in the room stopped abruptly. Mrs. Jiang was Princess Sheng Yu's daughter-in-law. Princess Rongshu was one generation older than her. She stood up with everyone and saluted Princess Rongshu.

After Princess Rongshu arrived, other princesses also arrived one after another. With the spread of maids, Princess Shunshu, dressed in a red palace costume, walked in with her twelve-year-old daughter Jiang Yan'er.

When the ladies stayed in the Dongzheng room, the girls were taken to the east by Jiang Yan'er. The topics of the ladies and girls were about the same, interesting news about the capital, popular hair accessories, clothing materials, rouge and watermelon.

Zhou Siyi ignored others and pulled Song Ruoxi to talk about music. Song Ruoxi only dealt with Mr. Ji yesterday, racked his brains and said a car of words. It was very relaxing to deal with Miss Zhou again today. Just say yesterday's words again. It's fine. It's not a brain-consuming thing, it's a bit of a throat.

Song Ruojie and Song Ruoying both made a marriage appointment and even went out to have a banquet. Many girls were unwilling to pay attention to them. As soon as they continued, the others changed the topic. The two of them were girls' homes, with thin-skinned faces and sat aside to have tea in anger.

Song Ruoman ignored others and just knew how to eat. He kept stuffing a piece of chestnut cake with his left hand and a piece of candied date cake with his right hand.

"It's still half an hour left, so it's not interesting to sit here. Why don't I take everyone to the garden?" Jiang Yan'er put down the teacup in her hand and suggested with a smile.

"Okay, the weather is good today. Let's go to the garden to play with a swing." The lively girl echoed.

"You can also play fighting grass."

The guest followed the host, and the girls stood up and went to the garden with Jiang Yan'er. In order to enjoy flowers all year round, the garden was divided into several pieces and planted flowers in different seasons. The rockery stood in the middle, a stream crossed the garden, and the small bridge and flowing water were like a wonderful picture scroll.

Sitting in the pavilion in the garden for a while, Jiang Yan'er went on a swing with a few lively and active girls. Some looked for flowers and played with grass, while others went to the garden together. Song Ruojie and Song Ruoying left Song Ruoman who was working hard to eat pastries, and they didn't know where to go.

"Ouch." Zhou Siyi suddenly had abdominal pain and pressed her stomach and said, "Sister Song, I'll go to the clean room."

"Okay, go quickly." Song Ruoxi smiled.

The maid from the Princess's Mansion led Zhou Siyi and the three masters to the clean room. Seeing that there was no one in the pavilion, Song Ruoxi didn't want to sit here and blew the wind. He got up and left the pavilion, and took Xiangxiu Qinghe and walked around the garden along the path.

Walking to this piece of peach blossom planted, a breeze blew, and a few peach blossom petals fell down with the wind. Song Ruoxi reached out to receive the petals and chuckled.

Suddenly, a frivolous voice heard: "What a beautiful peach blossom fairy!"

The master and servant were shocked. Jiang Yan'er invited the girls to the garden, but she didn't send anyone to guard it and let the men go in and out at will. It was really outrageous.

"Let's go quickly." Song Ruoxi turned around and left quickly. When she met a man who was keeping a courtesy, she made a few polite words. But the sound was not a good thing. If he kept pestering and ruining his reputation, it would be a big trouble. She couldn't afford to offend her and could afford to hide.

"Beauty, don't leave."

Unlucky, I met a pervert!

Song Ruoxi didn't care about his demeanor, so he lifted his skirt and trotted. Qinghe bent down and picked up a stone from the ground, turned around and bounced the stone towards the leg of the man chasing him.

"Ouch!" The man squatted down in pain. When he stood up again, Song Ruoxi and the other two had disappeared. He said fiercely: "Damn, you can run away, monks can't run away, temples, I can find out by just asking, and then I will sleep with the beauty first, and then you, the fierce maid."

Song Ruoxi had no idea about the man's "ambition" and she was afraid that the man would catch up with him, so she ran forward in panic. When she turned around, just as she was about to run into someone who was hurrying from the opposite side, the figure of the man on the opposite side flashed and avoided her.

"Be careful, girl!" Xiang Xiu and Qinghe who were following behind exclaimed in surprise.

Song Ruoxi rushed forward two steps, stopped, turned around and saw the man who was avoiding her, and smiled and said, "Senior Brother."

Ye Shuhua was slightly stunned and asked with confusion: "What are you?"

Song Ruoxi clasped his hands together, chanted the Buddha's name, and said, "Jingchen has seen Senior Brother Shuhua, and Senior Brother is polite."

Ye Shuhua stared at Song Ruoxi for a moment, and finally overlapped the little girl in gray robe five years ago with the girl in gorgeous clothes in front of her. He put his hands together and said apologetically: "Young brother is polite, but you have never recognized your junior brother, don't blame me."

"No wonder, no wonder." Song Ruoxi smiled, "Senior brother, why are you here?"

Ye Shuhua smiled gently and said, "Princess Shunshu's birthday, I came to send a gift on my mother's order."

"But the senior brother just now didn't look like he was here to give gifts, but he was so angry that he had taken someone else's things." Song Ruoxi couldn't help but tease him when he saw Ye Shuhua was still as stupid as he was five years ago.

The smile on Ye Shuhua's face showed a hint of embarrassment, "There are several female donors who have been pestering the little monks. In order to get rid of them, the little monks quickly walked away and hid."

Song Ruoxi's eyes were slightly stern. The man before could have been snatched into the garden, but Ye Shuhua sincerely looked at Buddha and did not get close to women. He would appear in the garden. It was obviously the owner's deliberate arrangement. What should Princess Shunshu do with this birthday party?

"Junior brother, what's the problem?" Ye Shuhua observed it in detail, and saw that Song Ruoxi's eyes looked strange, and asked with concern.

"No, I just thought of something."

Ye Shuhua smiled gently and said, "If you have something to do, please tell me, my senior brother, I am willing to do my best."

Song Ruoxi smiled, "Okay, if you think I have something to do, I will definitely ask my senior brother for help."

Ye Shuhua chanted the Buddha's name and said, "I wish my junior brother a safe and smooth life, make good connections with sentient beings, and do not commit evil deeds."

"Thank you, senior brother." Song Ruoxi clasped his hands together and smiled, "Senior brother, don't go there anymore, there are more female donors there."

Ye Shuhua's face turned slightly red and said, "The little monk is willing to talk to the female donor about Buddhist scriptures and Zen principles to solve the confusion of sentient beings. However, the purse and handkerchief that the female donor stuffed to the young monk is unacceptable."

Song Ruoxi chuckled lightly. She was already stunning. This smile was really shameful. Ye Shuhua saw it, and his heart hopped suddenly. He quickly lowered his eyes and quickly pulled the beads in his hand, and silently said, "When Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara practiced the deep Prajna Paramita, he saw that the five aggregates were empty, and he survived all sufferings. Sacred Relics, color is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color, color is emptiness, emptiness is color..."

Qinghe took advantage of this opportunity and stepped forward and said, "Miss, it's not too late, it's time to go back to Qinfang Hall."

"Senior brother, I'll go there first, see you some other day." Song Ruoxi smiled and turned around and left.

Seeing Song Ruoxi turn the corner, Ye Shuhua also quickly left, more urgent than before, as if there were a bunch of red pink skeletons chasing him behind.

Song Ruoxi identified the direction and walked along the path with Xiangxiu Qinghe. Xiangxiu and Qinghe looked nervous, worried that some man would appear from where he would come. Halfway through the way, he met Zhou Siyi who came to find her.

"Sister Song, where have you been?" Zhou Siyi stepped forward and pulled Song Ruoxi away, "Let's go back to Qinfang Hall."

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Song Ruoxi asked stammered.

"This princess's mansion is too unruly. Even though we know we are in the garden, we still let the man in at will." Zhou Siyi lowered her voice and said with anger.
To be continued...
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