I actually timetraveled and became the richest woman

Chapter 15 Official Banquet ([-])

After Zeng Xiaoxiao dressed up Xu Fengning, she asked Qiu'er to bring the box, which contained the gift she was going to give to the empress.

The sun was shining brightly today, and the carriage of Prince Zhong's Mansion was also very energetic, and it set off steadily towards the palace.

The official banquet of Yunqi Kingdom was set up by the emperor to encourage his officials to be diligent in political affairs and love the country and the people.It will be held once every quarter, hosted by the queen, and the ladies and ladies from various houses will come.

The ministers of Yunqi Kingdom are proud that their wives and children can participate in the official banquet, and they do not hesitate to use various methods to obtain the qualifications to enter the official banquet. As a loyal king, Zeng Kaizhi is not only diligent in political affairs, but also his wife and daughter have Awarded, naturally you can participate.

After a while, Xu Fengning and Zeng Xiaoxiao came to the gate of the palace. Different from Xu Fengning's dignified and elegant, at this moment Zeng Xiaoxiao was dressed in playful clothes, nestling beside Xu Fengning like a bird.

"Madam Yipin, Princess Zhongyi; Princess Yangshuo, the daughter of King Zhongyi has arrived~" Following the long voice of "Arrival", Zeng Xiaoxiao and Xu Fengning came to the main hall.

The main hall, which was originally quiet, suddenly became commotion, and the whispering voice was a bit noisy.

"Mrs. Xu, you are really dressed up today. Did you spend a lot of dowry money?"

"You should save some money, King Zhongyi is still paying out money?" A woman with single eyelids and squinting eyes emerged from the crowd, and behind her was Liu Ruxuan.

Liu Ruxuan had a playful expression, and looked at Xu Fengning and Zeng Xiaoxiao as if she was watching a play, but with this expression, there seemed to be a little jealousy hidden.

That's right, Xu Fengning's clothes today are dignified and elegant, and the jewelry decorations are just right, which is why Xu Fengning caused disturbance in the crowd as soon as she came in.

Although Xu Fengning loves to dress up, in order to avoid causing trouble to Zeng Kaizhi, she has always been cautious, never daring to dress too gorgeously on such occasions.But Liu Ruxuan is different, she is the queen's righteous sister, so it doesn't matter how public she is on this occasion.

"I don't need Madam Hu to worry about this. My daughter sewed my clothes for me. They are different from the clothes you rented. By the way, don't get dirty this time, or the shopkeeper won't care Are you Madam Shi Lang?" Xu Fengning laughed softly, looking Madam Hu up and down deliberately, it was the first time she had talked so much with Madam Hu.

Originally Xu Fengning didn't like this kind of occasion, but today she just wanted to tease Mrs. Hu.Because she is very happy today, her daughter designed such a beautiful dress for her.

This is not only a daughter's filial piety, but also her pride.

She has a special desire to show off today.

When the wives of several officials and eunuchs who were closer to Xu Fengning heard Xu Fengning's words, they were already secretly laughing, and even started discussing blatantly, with relatively loud voices.

"It turns out that Mrs. Hu can't even afford clothes, and she has to rent them. It seems that Mrs. Hu's usual wealth is just pretending." A very young woman with gorgeous clothes and sarcasm in her eyes smiled coquettishly. road.

"You!" Mrs. Hu blushed when she heard what others said about her, turned her head and got into the crowd.

Mrs. Hu is a distant relative of Liu Ruxuan, but she is different from Liu Ruxuan. Her father is a small county magistrate and an upright official. Her family is very poor, and she has been very frugal since she was a child.

Later she married the servant of the Ministry of Rites. Although the conditions improved and her life was much richer than before, she couldn't change her habit of searching and searching. Every time she attended an official banquet, she secretly rented clothes for appearance, and this secret was revealed by Xu Fengning. Found it by accident.

Now that Xu Fengning said it in public, not only did she avenge Madam Hu's public humiliation, but also made Madam Hu dare not provoke her again.

"Madam Xu is so beautiful today." To Zeng Xiaoxiao's surprise, Liu Ruxuan came forward to praise her mother.

"Xiaoxiao is getting more and more beautiful. You should come to the house to play with Jiaojiao more on weekdays. Don't be bored reading the Four Books and Five Classics at the house every day."

Compared to Mrs. Hu, this Liu Ruxuan's rank is much higher, and she is really good at exaggerating and sarcasm.

Fortunately, Xu Fengning had told her a lot of the rules of this dynasty in the past few days, otherwise she would have thought that Liu Ruxuan had really treated her so well and was sincerely close to her.

Compared with the children of ordinary people, although the women of official families have more opportunities to read and write, they also follow the principle that women who have no talent are virtues, and the education of women is more inclined to be a husband and a child.

So when Liu Ruxuan came up to boast, she was obviously doing something wrong.

"Mrs. Liu, is the injury on General Chu's back healed? I have a good medicine for golden sores at my house. I'll have someone bring it to you when I turn around."

Seeing her daughter being bullied like this, Xu Fengning is not a vegetarian. Before she left the cabinet, she was in charge of the family business. When she was joking, Liu Ruxuan didn't know where to play in the mud.

"It's much better, thank you Mrs. Xu for your concern." Liu Ruxuan suffered from being dumb, and quickly stopped this topic. Knowing that her husband's embarrassing incident was only a while ago, she didn't want to bring up the old incident again at this time, and her face would be dull.

Revenge, the future is long.

Sitting upright in the hall, the queen couldn't hear the conversation between Xu Fengning and Liu Ruxuan clearly, but only saw the bright smiles on their faces, thinking that they were having a good conversation.

As far as the queen is concerned, Liu Ruxuan owes a lot to her stable position in the middle palace, but King Zhongyi has repeatedly made military exploits on the battlefield before, and the emperor has always warned her to treat his wife and children well, which made her dare not show too much favoritism.

"Meet the empress." Xu Fengning took Zeng Xiaoxiao and saluted the empress.

"Madam Xu, please." The queen signaled the maid to prepare a seat for Xu Fengning.

"I was very happy to see Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Liu talking happily just now. It seems that the previous misunderstanding has been resolved." The queen continued.

Originally, the queen wanted to warm up the scene, but Liu Ruxuan, who had just sat down to drink tea, was extremely embarrassed when she heard what the queen said.

No matter how Liu Ruxuan pretended to be calm, she was also very nervous at the moment. After all, everyone in the imperial city knew that Chu Jianguo wet his pants in the cell and was ordered by the emperor to go to Zhongwang's mansion to plead guilty.

Feeling that countless pairs of eyes were watching her, Liu Ruxuan lowered her head, complaining in her heart that this sister, the Empress, really does not open any pots.

"Empress, Xiaoxiao has a gift for you." Zeng Xiaoxiao said in a sweet voice, and presented the box obediently and sensiblely, breaking Liu Ruxuan's embarrassing atmosphere.

"Oh? What gift did Xiao Xiao bring me again?" The queen and Chu Jiaojiao got closer, and everyone thought she liked Chu Jiaojiao more.

But Zeng Xiaoxiao is well-behaved and sensible. The queen watched Zeng Xiaoxiao grow up. Unlike Chu Jiaojiao who is arrogant and unreasonable, Zeng Xiaoxiao is very polite, and Zeng Xiaoxiao will bring gifts to the queen every time she comes, very thoughtful. So the queen prefers Zeng Xiaoxiao.

"A phoenix is ​​called Feng Yufei." Zeng Xiaoxiao said mischievously on purpose.

The crowd rioted again, discussing what was in the box.

"Is Fenghuang Yufei really a Phoenix? With the financial resources of the Zhongwang Mansion, at most there is a pheasant inside, and a pheasant can also become a phoenix?" Mrs. Hu just now might want to take revenge, so she came out to speak again. Flattery, many people now despise her very much.

"Don't talk about it, why do people have money to buy clothes? At any rate, Mrs. Xu is the daughter of the Xu family in Chuzhou. Although not all the family property is given to her, the dowry is considered generous! It is worse than you who rent clothes and dress up." It's much better!" On the side, a strong and tall woman couldn't understand Mrs. Hu, so she came out to fight against the injustice.

"You! I provoked you! You man, what do you say about me?" Madam Hu was humiliated by the woman in front of her, unable to control her emotions, she was about to start a fight.

"What are you doing! Do you really think I don't exist?" The queen was originally in a good mood, but when she saw this kind of shrew behavior at the official banquet, she had a headache and could only shout angrily.

"Empress, calm down, I am flying like a phoenix! It's worthy of my name!" Zeng Xiaoxiao hadn't achieved her goal yet, she didn't want the official banquet to break up because of a quarrel.

Saying that, Zeng Xiaoxiao opened the box, and a roast duck appeared inside!That's right, it's a roast duck!
"Hahaha, let me just say it! What good things can Xu Fengning's family get? It's just a broken duck!" Mrs. Hu was so angry that she wanted to fight, but now she burst into laughter.

　More exciting things are coming!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)