Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 875 Deception
At the banquet, men and women are naturally separated.The male guests are in the front hall, and the female relatives are in the harem.

The banquet was held in the back garden, and the banquet was set in an empty main hall and two side halls.

Today is a cloudy day, the weather is not too hot, there is a cool breeze, and there are many cloisters and flowers and trees for shade. The women who came to the banquet did not go into the hall, but talked and chatted in the garden or in the corridors in twos and threes.

Du Jinning arrived half an hour earlier, but he didn't expect that there were already many people here.

As soon as she entered the garden, Aunt Yan, who was following her, began to introduce the people in the courtyard to her in a low voice: "The old lady in the ginger gown on the right porch is Princess Gong of Anqing County; Wearing Chu Hong and wiping their foreheads next to them is the eldest princess and the princess of England; the one who is talking to them is Mrs. Ruan, the Minister of the Ministry of punishment..."

Aunt Yan originally said that she wanted to come to the princess mansion for retirement, but Du Jinning asked Qi Muyuan to investigate, and found that what Aunt Yan said was indeed the truth, and there was no conspiracy.Later, she asked Queen Mother Zheng, and Queen Mother Zheng also said that Aunt Yan was an honest person, and after rewarding some silver taels, she asked Aunt Yan to leave the house with her.

Aunt Yan stayed in the palace for 30 to [-] years, and even if she didn't know all of them, she knew most of them, so today Du Jinning took her out on purpose and instructed him to recognize people.

Du Jinning has a good memory, and he has a map of the entire capital's interpersonal relationship in his heart. As long as Aunt Yan introduces who the other party is, Du Jinning can quickly take a seat by code name and recognize everyone.

Du Jinning led Aunt Yan and the two maids to recognize her and walked in. Princess Gong of Anqing County saw her and immediately yelled: "Oh, look who is this? My old lady is here. The capital has participated in banquets all his life, but now his eyesight is dull, and he doesn't even know anyone."

The people who were talking to Mrs. Gong all turned their heads.

Gong's voice was so loud that Du Jinning couldn't even ignore it.She turned her head, and saw Gong Shi and others all looking at her.

She stopped and smiled slightly: "The old lady is talking about me?"

"That's not it." Mrs. Gong had a smile on her face, but the smile was a bit weird, "The old lady is old and her seniority is also high. She thought that my old lady knew all the imperial orders above the third rank in the capital, but now I find that I am really knowledgeable." Shallow, but I don’t know Madam.”

Not all those who came to the banquet today were imperial orders above the third rank.This kind of occasion is a place for each family to show off their daughters, or match their sons with their daughters-in-law.Therefore, although those who came to the banquet were all ordered by the rank three or above, these old wives or wives also brought their granddaughters and daughters.

These young girls are of no rank.

Although Du Jinning is young, she is about the same age as the young girl standing behind Gong Shi and the others, but she has a woman's hair.

When combing a woman's head to attend a banquet, one can no longer rely on family background, but on one's husband's official rank or one's own rank.

Du Jinning is the eldest princess, and her rank is naturally higher than that of the county princess.But Mrs. Gong is a round older than Mrs. Chen, and the King of Anqing County is Zhao He's uncle. In terms of seniority, Mrs. Gong is qualified to teach Du Jinning, the new eldest princess, a lesson.

What's more, she was pretending that she didn't know Du Jinning.

And if Du Jinning followed her pace and declared himself a family member, his momentum would be weakened.After being squeezed by her a few more words, saying that she hadn't paid homage to their elders for half a year and didn't pay attention to the imperial orders, Du Jinning was directly trampled under the feet of the princess today.

The female relatives in the courtyard kept their voices down, for fear of disturbing Queen Mother Zheng.Now that Mrs. Gong called out like this, everyone looked this way, and some people who liked to watch the excitement gathered around.

Who is Du Jinning?She is a person who has inquired about the various factions in the capital before she came to the capital to take the imperial examination.Come to the banquet today, how can you not inquire about the twists and turns of these female relatives?
Du Jinning stopped in front of Mrs. Gong, and said with a smile: "You are really a noble person who forgets things too much. I don't know me. I, as a junior, dare not not know you. You are the Princess Gong of Anqing County. You have committed a crime. The younger sister of Mrs. Zhang's family who committed a great treasonous crime, am I right?"

As she said that, she raised her eyes to look at the eldest princess: "Aunt Huang, is what I said about Ningguo right? Did you recognize the wrong person?"

The eldest princess is about the same age as Gong's, and they have known each other for many years; but they have no friendship with Du Jinning.Although she felt that Gong's actions were very inappropriate just now, it was not good to show Gong's face in front of all the guests.At the same time, she also wanted to see what kind of person this newly promoted eldest princess, Da Si Nong, who was recognized by the emperor and the court ministers, was like.So she just watched with cold eyes and kept silent.

Unexpectedly, he was caught off guard by Du Jinning's question on his face.

"Princess Gong of Anqing County", there is nothing wrong with this sentence; but what the hell is "the younger sister of the old lady of the Zhang family who committed the crime of treason"?How should I answer Du Jinning's words?
All the old men who came out of the palace were stopped by the question, and the footsteps of the ladies who wanted to come to watch the excitement were also stopped there because of this sentence, and they even took a few steps back.

Princess Ning's words are terrible.Opening his mouth, he touched Gong's Achilles heel.

Gong almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, slapped the table hard with his face flushed, and stood up: "Du Jinning, you are presumptuous!"

"Huh?" Du Jinning looked at her in surprise, "Don't you know me? On the day I got married, the princess of the county gave me a wedding. Just now you pretended not to know me, why?"

"Also, why am I being presumptuous? Aren't you the princess of Anqing County? Perhaps, Mrs. Zhang, who committed the crime of treason, is not your elder sister of the same father and mother?"

The onlookers almost burst out laughing.

Ruthless, too ruthless.

Princess Gong of Anqing County is indeed the biological sister of Mrs. Zhang from the aristocratic family, but when a woman gets married, she takes her husband's family as her heaven.Even if the Gong family committed the crime of treason, it would not be implicated in the Gong family, let alone the crime committed by the sister's husband's family.

So even though Mrs. Zhang was beheaded, Mrs. Gong still took good care of her princess.And because she gave birth to two sons and a daughter for the Prince of Anqing, and her own son is still the prince's heir, no one would shame her because of this.No one dared to mention the Zhang family's affairs in front of her.

Gong's provocation of Du Jinning was naturally for the sake of her own sister.Otherwise, he wouldn't come to embarrass Du Jinning for no reason.

These aristocratic families are all related, and many ministers hate Du Jinning because of this.It's just that the high-yield rice that Du Jinning researched was too important to Da Song. Once someone provoked Du Jinning, Zhao Yu's fury could be imagined, so no one dared to act rashly.

However, Mrs. Gong felt that she was a woman and an elder of Zhao He. Even if she gave Du Jinning a little bit of anger, Zhao He and Queen Mother Zheng would not embarrass her for the sake of King Anqing, so they were confident.

Furthermore, she felt that a girl of Du Jinning's age, with a thin skin and a newcomer, even if she was named the eldest princess, was not of the orthodox royal blood after all.

Who knew that Du Jinning was a ruthless character, one sentence stabbed her in the heart and killed her with a single blow.

(End of this chapter)