Chapter 1053 Princess Chaoyue (1)
The Duke of Liguo's mansion was naturally extremely grand and lively when he married a daughter-in-law. From the queen and the prince to the princes and ministers, they all gathered at the Duke of Liguo's mansion to congratulate him.
For a time, the huge mansion was overcrowded. The courtyard and the garden were full of people. The male guests were arranged in the theater. The princes and grandchildren, headed by the prince, and the first-class ministers and princes were placed on the balcony facing the stage, watching the play, eating and chatting; the rest were arranged in the open space under the stage; the female guests were arranged in the Ruifang Pavilion next to the water in the back garden.
Ruifang Pavilion is a square pavilion that spans over the pool. Only the south side extends out to the porch. The space is still relatively large. Various pots of famous and precious flowers are placed around the pavilion. The pots are in full bloom, fragrant and pleasant, attracting colorful butterflies, competing with the flowers for beauty.
Chairs were also arranged in the pavilion. The main seats were occupied by the Queen, Lady Liu, the wife of Duke Liguo, and several other ladies of higher rank, such as the wife of Prime Minister Ning and the wife of General Li. Lady Du was also pulled to sit at that table. At first, she was a little scared. The shadow left by the Queen when she celebrated the old lady's birthday at the Duke Liguo Mansion last time had not faded. Therefore, when she was pulled to the table by her old lady, she was still trembling and did not dare to sit down.
However, to her surprise, Queen Mo actually smiled at her and said lightly: "It's the month, sit down quickly, be careful not to tire the child!"
Lady Du sat down in fear and trepidation, as if she was in a dream. Although the Queen's words just now were light and there was no emotion in them, they sounded like she was concerned about her in the ears of others, which was considered to be giving her enough face.
Wen'er and Wu'er were taken by Huanqiu and sat with a group of young masters who came to the mansion not far from Ruifang Pavilion.
These guys are all sons of noble families. What delicious food have they not eaten on weekdays? Therefore, they don't pay attention to eating and drinking. Because someone heard the crickets chirping in the rockery over there, they all shouted that they wanted to go to the rockery to pick crickets to play with, but were coaxed by the nurses and maids behind them; Fei'er was pulled by Mo Shuya to sit at the same table with several young ladies of the Mo family. There were also Li Ruizhu, the eldest daughter of General Li, Ning Huaixiu, the daughter of Prime Minister Ning, and a very beautiful princess.
It is said that this princess was born to Concubine Yao De in the palace. Because she was weak and sick since childhood, she listened to the words of the former national teacher Tianjizi and was raised outside the palace. She only returned to the palace recently and was named Princess Chaoyue by the emperor.
For some reason, since Fei'er sat down, Princess Chaoyue's eyes fell on her, and she kept looking at her inquiringly with extremely complicated eyes. Fei'er looked up several times and met the complicated gaze of Princess Chaoyue, which made Fei'er feel confused and a little uneasy. She really didn't know why this noble princess was staring at her so intently!
Today, Fei'er was dressed very decently, wearing a silver-red soft smoke gauze dress and an autumn-colored flower-sprinkled gauze skirt; her black hair was not combed into a high bun, but braided into many thin braids from front to back, and tied together at the back of her head to form the shape of a blooming peony flower. The black and shiny peony flowers, layered and lifelike, set off her white jade-like cheeks, forming a sharp contrast between black and white, which was really beautiful!
On her small earlobes, she wore a pair of low-key and luxurious earrings. The style of the earrings was simple and elegant, with only a thin gold thread and two peanut-sized Melo beads underneath. Although the beads were not big, the rare thing was that the two beads were exactly the same, no matter the size, color, pattern or roundness, they were exactly the same, without any difference.
Such a bead, if sold alone, would be worth at least one thousand taels of silver, but two identical beads put together, I'm afraid it would be more than five thousand taels!