Chapter 427 Shangsi Festival 1st Update (5)

After Caiwei and the three sisters of the Du family got off the car, they saw a lot of carriages from various mansions parked in front of the palace gate, all of which were decorated with magnificent canopies and tops, showing their wealth.   It was the time when the noble ladies of various mansions entered the palace, and there were many people in front of the palace gate.

But the surroundings were quiet. No one dared to make a loud noise in front of the majestic palace gate. They greeted each other politely. Even if they met familiar people, they just nodded slightly. No one would chat and laugh here.

The girls followed the maids sent by the palace in a proper manner, taking small steps and walking towards the Imperial Garden.

This Shangsi Festival banquet was held in the Linshui Pavilion in the Imperial Garden. On the winding corridor, many tables and chairs were placed in an orderly manner. With the Linshui Pavilion as the boundary, on the left, there were seats for female relatives, and on the right, there were seats for male guests.

This arrangement can not only meet the requirements of the rules that men and women have different seats, but also allow both men and women to see each other's appearance.

The Shangsi Festival was originally a festival for washing dirt and worshipping ancestors by the water. Now it has evolved into a festival for feasting by the water and spring outings in the suburbs. The Shangsi Festival hosted by the Queen of the Great Jin Kingdom every year is actually a disguised blind date festival. It is a day for those powerful and noble sons who have reached the age of marriage but have not yet been engaged to have blind dates with those noble ladies.

Therefore, every Shangsi Festival, the young men and ladies of various families in the court will dress up and come happily, hoping to meet a suitable person.

Especially those young men, they all come to the Linshui Pavilion early, and whenever a female family member comes, they will immediately attract their attention.

If they meet a suitable woman, they will send someone to investigate the woman's origin, name, age, etc., and then write it down, and go home to discuss with the elders. If the elders are also optimistic about this marriage, the man will immediately send someone to the woman's family to propose marriage.

For the young ladies who participated in the Shangsi Festival, if they did not see the matchmaker come to their house after four or five days, it proved that their performance in the Shangsi Festival was not good enough and no one liked them. This was a shame for the girls.

Therefore, after the Shangsi Festival, the more matchmakers came to a family, the better and more popular the daughter of that family was! They felt more honored!

Caiwei and Du Wanqiu were led by an old nanny to sit at a table on the left side of the Linshui Pavilion. There were already three or four young ladies sitting at the table. They were talking and laughing in low voices, and their pretty faces looked at the pleasure boat parked on the lake. There was a wide platform on the pleasure boat, which was used for the noble ladies to perform their talents later.

Caiwei sat down at the designated position and looked around. When she raised her head, almost everyone who saw her subconsciously held their breath. Words such as "sinking fish and falling geese, closing the moon and shame flowers" to describe beautiful women were really suitable for her.

As the poem says, "The most beautiful woman in the world is Xi Shi, and the most beautiful woman in the world is the peony." She is like a peony in bud, and she has already revealed her stunning beauty. She doesn't even need to do anything, just standing there quietly, and she has already made everyone pale in comparison.

Now she has such a beautiful appearance, how beautiful will she be when the blooming season really comes?

Wherever she is, all women become foils.

Her appearance caused a small commotion on the right. After seeing Cai Wei's peerless beauty, those young masters of noble families rushed to send their servants to talk to Cai Wei about her.

"Whose family is she?"

"How old is she?"

"What kind of in-laws do you want to find?"

Huo Yuan sat at the table on the right and saw the sensation caused by Cai Wei. He chuckled and thought a little vainly that if these people knew that this girl would belong to him later, would they be envious and jealous of him?