Helian Jing saw Brother Chunyu looking at the young lady's background in a daze, and teased: "Brother Chunyu has fallen in love with her? Do you want me to ask which lady she is from?"
Xia Chunyu Lin glanced at him: "Your brother asked me to help you choose a wife. Let me see which one is suitable."
He Lianjing snorted and said, "Come on, he's not even married yet, so what do I care about?"
Master Mu saw Xia Chunyu and Helianjing and hurriedly came forward to say hello.
"Master Xia, young prince."
Xia Chunyu returned the gift with his hands in hand.
"Xiao Jing, congratulations." Mu Qinchu called He Lianjing by his nickname.
He Lianjing rolled his eyes and said to him, "Damn it, you and I respectfully call me "young master" and "little prince", why are you so close to me, you little bastard
Mu Qinchu was stunned, and Mu Shilang scolded him in a low voice: "Why are you calling someone? Do you still know the etiquette?"
Mu Qinchu hurriedly bowed again and called out: "Little Prince."
Wei Liujiang saluted and said, "Xiaosheng, please give this to the young prince. Sir Xia, please give me your regards."
"This is my nephew. He won the Jieyuan Prize in Jinan Prefecture last year and came to Jinling to take part in the examination." Mu Shilang introduced him with a smile.
Xia Chunyu twitched the corner of his mouth speciously: "Sir, please come inside for tea." He completely ignored Wei Liujiang.
Mu Shilang was embarrassed and thought to himself: Are his son and nephew so inferior? Mr. Xia and the young prince didn't seem to like them very much.
Mu Qinchu and Wei Liujiang felt uneasy. It seemed that Xia Chunyu still remembered what happened last time, and even He Lianjing didn't look good.
Ye Jinrong is dressed particularly luxuriously today. She wears a silk dress made of white ice silk, covered with a lotus-colored soft smoke, and underneath is a lotus-colored pleated skirt with floral mist. The fine flowers on the skirt are all made of gold threads. It is embroidered with exquisite workmanship. This kind of gold silk soft smoke costs more than one hundred taels of silver per foot, which is very expensive. A red gold necklace around the neck, beads and gold hairpins on the head are also the most popular styles nowadays.
Not long after she came to Jinling, she had such an opportunity to show her face, so she naturally had to dress up well.
Mrs. Mu Qi was in the front with a calm expression. In fact, she did not want to bring her nephew and daughter-in-law here today. Such an occasion is a good opportunity for each family to promote their children. She originally wanted to bring her daughter to show her face, but it was revealed. Jiang nudged her hard, forcing her to bring Jin Rong over. Alas, there was nothing she could do. For the sake of her old sister, she would just do it this time.
The mother in charge led them to the flower hall for tea.
The flower hall was already filled with ladies from the capital. It could be said that except for those in the palace, the most powerful women were present.
Mrs. Qi recognized some of them and went over to say hello one by one. Ye Jinrong followed behind and smiled brightly. Her movements showed good education, and some young women started chatting with her.
Seeing that she was getting along like a fish in water, Mrs. Qi ignored her and talked to the lady she knew well.
"It turns out she is the eldest daughter of Yang Tongzhi's family. Speaking of which, my natal family is also from Yangzhou, so maybe I have some friendship with your family." A bachelor's wife said with a smile.
Ye Jinrong smiled gently: "What's your maiden name, sister?"
"The surname is Zhu."
"Is it the Zhu family, a century-old family?" Ye Jinrong pretended to be surprised.
The lady smiled and said: "Exactly."
Ye Jinrong said happily: "That's really a friendship. I still remember that Mrs. Zhu's wife came to my house as a guest."
"Really? The eldest lady is my mother..."
The two instantly became familiar with each other.
The maids serving tea and fruits came in and out, and the mother in charge came from time to time to report to Princess Yide.
"My ancestors are ready, are you going to the theater now?"
Yide smiled and said: "Let's go now! You take the ladies to the theater, and I will personally go to greet the ancestors."
Everyone moved to the back garden.
The gardens of the palace include an outer garden and an inner garden. The outer garden invites jugglers, and the inner garden invites opera troupes.
Everyone was talking and laughing, and a servant girl came towards her. When she saw Ye Jinrong, she was stunned for a moment. Ye Jinrong was just joking with Zhu and the others she had just met and didn't pay attention.
"Second Miss?" the woman called softly.
No one knew who she was calling, and no one paid attention to her.
She caught up again and stopped in front of Ye Jinrong. With an excited expression, she said in a trembling voice: "Second Miss, it's really you. I thought I was dazzled. Second Miss, you have disappeared since the eldest daughter married to the Wei family in Jinan. For half a year, we thought you, Miss Second, were out of your mind and did something stupid, but we didn’t expect to see you here today. Miss Second, where have you been in the past six months?"
Ye Jinrong finally recognized that this was Ms. Li, a servant of the Ye family. How could she be here, and she told her details without any hesitation.
"You... who are you? I don't recognize you." Ye Jinrong said in a panic. It happened so suddenly that she was not mentally prepared at all.
"Second Miss, why do you say you don't recognize this slave? My slave, Mrs. Li, my slave served you when you were a child! You also have a red mole on the back of your neck, and this slave still remembers it..."
The people on the side couldn't help but cast their eyes on the back of Ye Jinrong's neck. Sure enough, there was a red mole.
Xia Youshi heard the commotion behind her, so she turned around and asked, "What's the commotion here?"
Yide asked her to help greet the guests, so she naturally wanted to ask.
Li didn't wait for Ye Jinrong to speak and said: "Madam, I was excited when I saw my second young lady who has been missing for half a year. I didn't mean to offend you. Please forgive me, madam."
Ye Jinrong was extremely anxious, and her aunt was not around at the moment.
"You're talking nonsense, who is your second young lady?"
Mrs. Zhu was filled with doubts. The servant girl could tell the red mole on Ye Jinrong's neck, which showed that she knew Ye Jinrong. She kept calling Miss Ye Jinrong, and said that the eldest daughter had married into the Wei family in Jinan. Could there be something wrong with this? Something fishy
"I just heard you say that the eldest lady married into the Wei family. What happened? How many girls in your family married into the Wei family?" Madam Zhu asked.
Mrs. Li replied: "Only one young lady from our Ye family has left the cabinet. The second young lady and the third young lady have not left Xu's family yet!"
Sweat broke out on Ye Jinrong's forehead, and she could only scold: "I don't even recognize you, what are you talking nonsense here? Why are there such servants who don't know etiquette in the palace?"
Over there, Yide was accompanying the old princess. He heard nothing else but this sentence. I couldn't help but feel a little angry. What arrogant little hooves dared to scold the palace's servants in the palace? Is it her turn to discipline the servants of the palace? And on such a special day.
He immediately said coldly: "The servants of my palace are ignorant and have offended Madam. I, the head of the household, must apologize to Madam."
Everyone could hear the anger hidden in these words.
Who can afford the apology of Princess Yide
The ladies who had just been walking with Ye Jinrong all took a few steps back to keep their distance from her.
Ye Jinrong was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat and felt terrible. This time she offended the eldest princess. He said hurriedly: "The eldest princess spoke harshly. I was angry and acted arrogantly. Please forgive me, eldest princess."
Princess Yide glanced at Mrs. Li and felt that she was unfamiliar. She couldn't remember that there was such a servant in the mansion. Maybe Manager Liu had summoned him temporarily for the birthday party.
The person summoned temporarily was also working for her palace, even though he was hers.
But now that the ancestor is still here, there is no need to make the ancestor angry for such a trivial matter, so he said: "The show is about to start, don't waste the time. Mother Gui, take this servant girl down to ask clearly, if you really want to do it Wrong, our palace has rules."
Everyone followed Yide and the old princess to the theater, leaving Ye Jinrong alone. Ye Jinrong was so upset that she wanted to cry. Why was she so unlucky? He unexpectedly met a servant of Ye Mansion here.
Mrs. Qi arrived late and saw Ye Jinrong standing there alone, so she stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter with you? Didn't you go to the garden with them to watch a play a long time ago?"
Ye Jinrong's eyes were red. Seeing that there were people around her aunt, she couldn't say anything.
Those people were also sensible and said to Mrs. Qi, "Let's go first."
Only when no one was around did Ye Jinrong tell her aunt what had just happened.
After hearing this, Mrs. Qi said repeatedly: "Oh no, no, no, no, I said I wouldn't let you come, but you come anyway. You should stay away and take it easy after doing what you did. If I were you, I would never go out in this life." Well, you still insist on joining in the fun. Now you will be exposed on the spot. If this matter spreads out, you will be ashamed not to tell it. It will also delay Liujiang's future and even bring shame to our Mu family... "
"Aunt..." Ye Jinrong sobbed, thinking of such serious consequences, she felt regretful, but who would have thought that a servant of the Ye family would come to the palace to work
"Where is the servant woman now?" Ms. Qi had seen the world after all. She quickly calmed down and tried to find a way to suppress the matter. As long as the servant woman changed her story and said she admitted to the wrong person, everything would be fine.
"She has been taken away by the people around the eldest princess and said she wanted to be interrogated." Ye Jinrong said weakly.
Mrs. Qi was so depressed that she almost spit out a mouthful of old blood. This was going to be interrogated. How could she keep it a secret
She had no idea, so she called her servants, and after a few words of explanation, the servants immediately went out to find Mr. Mu.
Over there, Mu Shilang was chatting with a group of courtiers. His son Mu Qinchu and nephew Wei Liujiang went to watch a sideshow with a group of young people. When they got the news, Mu Shilang was also frightened into a cold sweat.
Something big has happened.
He also ordered people to find Wei Liujiang.
When Xia Chunyu saw the servants of the Mu family coming to see Minister Mu, he knew that the matter was done and got up and went out.
Song Qi was waiting for him outside.
"Your Majesty, it's wonderful, it's so wonderful. Mrs. Li is really brave. In front of so many people, she called the second lady."
"It wasn't too much of a fuss, was it?" Xia Chunyu was also afraid of disturbing the old princess's mood, so she felt a little sorry.
"No, Miss Ye Er got anxious and scolded Mrs. Li, and the eldest princess happened to hear her. The eldest princess also mocked Ms. Ye Er, but now Li Shi was taken away by the eldest princess's mother Gui."
Xia Chunyu said: "Don't rush, just act according to the plan."
He knew the temper of the eldest princess very well, and she would not let others go without giving up. The Mu family was in great disgrace this time.
As for Li's matter, just say hello to He Lianxuan and say that he is here to help temporarily.
(End of chapter)