food queen

Chapter 239 The Confrontation at the Banquet (3)
"Okay, everyone, please take your seats." Yun Shuo nodded lightly towards everyone, and then said to the eldest princess: "Auntie, you sit by my side today."

"Yes." The Eldest Princess replied with a bow.

"Let's go." Yun Shuo raised his hand to support the eldest princess' arm.

This made everyone look sideways, wondering when did the emperor respect the eldest princess so much?
There are really not many people who can sit with the emperor at today's reception banquet.

On the left side of the men's table are the old Cheng Wang, Zhen Guogong, and the first assistant Xiao Hou Ye.On the right side of the women's table are the Eldest Princess, Princess Cheng, and Mrs. Ninghou (Ninghou and his son are still in Xijiang, Mrs. Ninghou was specially given the word "please" by the emperor, but she couldn't pass it, so she had to come in person. )
The banquet is about to begin, and the singing and dancing also begins.

The banquet personally arranged by the Minister of Rites was naturally extremely thoughtful.The shengxiao orchestra, the sound of nature, the delicacies of mountains and seas, and the rich nectar and jade liquid, all of which are singing and dancing to promote peace and prosperity.

The emperor was very happy, and the officials were even happier.

Everyone exchanged cups, talked and laughed heartily, and enjoyed this prosperous feast.

But there are always some people with ulterior motives who will do some shameful things behind this prosperity.For example, the officials in the Jiji camp, such as Princess Jiaying, who is determined to find a good husband-in-law.

Yun Shuo asked Qianye to investigate the relationship between Concubine Mi and Shao Xilan, but the result Qianye gave was that the two had nothing to do with each other.It's just that at the banquet in the palace during the Chinese New Year, Concubine Mi said a few words to Mrs. Shao Xilan. Later, when Young Master Shao came to pick Mrs. Shao, Concubine Mi met Mr. Shao.

Afterwards, a foreign minister and a concubine, besides a concubine who lived in the Tuisi Garden and copied scriptures and recited Buddhism every day, such two people had no chance to meet each other. Shao Xilan was so smart, and he would not take the initiative to provoke the concubine Mi people.

Therefore, Jiaying's falling in love with Shao Juanwen is most likely just a lovesickness caused by a girl with a spring heart accidentally seeing a romantic boy.

Yun Shuo hates Jiaying very much, but he also understands that Jiaying cannot be allowed to stay in the palace forever.As the eldest princess, she still wants to marry even if she doesn't like the emperor anymore. Instead of letting her marry a military general in the court and use his military power to make trouble, it would be more worry-free to marry a scholar who has nothing to do.

Because of this idea, Yun Shuo accepted Jiaying to attend this banquet.He also wanted to find an opportunity to chat with Shao Xilan, and if he was willing to let his son be the Lord, he would marry Jiaying to his son.

After the song and dance ended, Jinghai Hou Xiaolin toasted to the emperor on behalf of all civil and military officials.

Jiaying took advantage of the excitement and quietly left the table.

After a while, a court lady quietly walked to the table where Shao Juanwen was, approached Shao Juanwen and whispered a few words.

Shao Juanwen glanced at the court lady in surprise, then looked around, and after hesitating, he said to his companion next to him that it was convenient, then got up and left the table, followed the court lady after he came out, and asked, "Is this lady You're tricking me? Princess Jiaying is following me and I don't know her, so what do you want me to do?"

"What did Mr. Shao say? The slave's family is the eldest princess's personal maid, and it's not just any cat or dog. Could it be possible to coax the minister's son casually? Our princess also talked to Mrs. Shao at the annual banquet. It’s fine if Mr. Shao doesn’t remember. It’s really unreasonable to suspect that our princess is deceiving you. Do you believe that the slave family is yelling now, and see if the guards in this palace listen to you or me?”

Shao Juanwen hurriedly changed his smiling face, bowed to the maid, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay! This sister, you are amazing, Xiaosheng is afraid of you."

The maid covered her mouth with a light smile and said, "Since this is the case, Mr. Shao will not go with the servant's house?"

"Let's go, sister, please lead the way." Shao Juanwen hurriedly cupped his hands.

The court lady stopped talking, and led Shao Junwen to wear flowers and willows, picked up a secluded path and walked for a stick of incense, and finally entered a small courtyard hidden in the bamboo forest.

"My lord, please." The maid pointed inside, but she didn't move her feet.

Shao Juanwen looked at the maid hesitantly, feeling something was wrong in his heart, so he stood there refusing to move.

The palace maid smiled lightly and said, "Our patriarch, the princess, is inside, and my slaves are going to pour tea for you. Mr. Shao, please go in first."

"I'm afraid I will be rude to the princess." Shao Juanwen said cautiously.

The maid sighed: "Young Master Shao is really a modest gentleman, well, please come with the slave's house." After saying that, the maid led the way and led Shao Junwen into the bamboo pavilion.

Because it was a cloudy day, and there were large pieces of bamboo outside the carved windows of the bamboo pavilion, the light in the room was somewhat dim. After Shao Juanwen came in, he looked around quietly, but saw that the room was empty and there was no one there.

Shao Juanwen felt more and more that this was not a problem, and just as he was about to say goodbye, he saw a chuckle coming from behind the four bamboo screens, and then, Jiaying, who was wearing a long princess palace dress, covered her face with a silk fan, and walked over lightly.

The palace maid said, "Go back to the eldest princess, Mr. Shao is here, and the slaves are going to make tea."

"Go." The fan embroidered with grape parrots covered most of Jiaying's face, only a pair of watery eyes were exposed, staring at Shao Juanwen.

Even though Mr. Shao is a flirtatious man in the sea of ​​flowers, at this moment, the eldest princess Jiaying looked a little hairy, and hurriedly bowed and said: "My minister Shao Junwen...see you, the eldest princess, the eldest princess... Wealthy and auspicious."

"Heh—" Jiaying suddenly smiled, turned around and walked to the bamboo couch under the window, Fang said: "Young Master Shao, please sit down."

Shao Juanwen looked up at the empty seat opposite her that Jiaying was pointing at, and hesitated for a moment—although the eldest son of the Ministry of Rites can be dragged to the sky outside, he doesn't count as farts in the palace. How dare he sit on an equal footing with the eldest princess? .

"Princess Xie for giving you the seat, but... I'd better stand up and answer." Shao Juanwen leaned forward.

"Why, you don't give face to this princess who gave you a seat?" Jiaying feigned anger.

"Don't dare, dare not." Shao Junwen bowed again and again.

"Then sit down." Jiaying said, then asked with a light smile: "Is there still a knife on this couch to cut your flesh?"

After hearing this, Shao Juanwen immediately blushed and didn't know what to say.

It just so happened that the maid came in with tea and said, "Princess, the tea is here."

"Put it down." Jiaying knocked on the small table next to her.

The maid put the two cups of tea away, smiled at Jiaying again, and stood aside.

"Mr. Shao also drank a lot of bars at the banquet just now? Come and have a cup of tea to refresh your spleen." Jiaying said, picked up the teacup in front of her, lowered her head and blew on the powdered tea, and drank half a sip of tea in it. Swallowing it slowly in his mouth, Fang Zan said: "As expected of the tribute tea from Yunwu Mountain, the taste is really good."

Shao Juanwen is also a person who likes to be arty, and he also knows a little about the way of tasting tea.His father is the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and it is through him that tributes from various places go through, not to mention the tribute tea from Yunwu Mountain, even the tribute gifts from foreign countries. Shao Junwen has seen many of them, and because he has already smelled the fragrance of tea, he feels that it is not like The smell of cloud and mist tribute tea, so I couldn't hold back for a while, I picked up another cup of tea, smelled the fragrance, sipped it carefully, then frowned and said: "It does have a scent of greenery on top of the snow, but it seems that there is something more? "

(End of this chapter)