The concubine will not accompany you: General, Madam ran away again

Chapter 546 Banquet
The two wrote the answers in their hearts, and then put the two pieces of paper together as a pair, both of them had smiles on their faces.

"Nothing can be hidden from the lord's fiery eyes." Mu Shuyao said rather bitterly, "Princess Yonglin from Nanlan came to Beijing disguised as a maid, but her intentions were very hard."

"Whatever is on her mind." Chu Yuchen fell in love with his wife's awkward appearance, stretched out his big hand, pulled her into his arms, rested his chin on her head, and said cheerfully: "My husband only cares about you, girl."

After finishing speaking, he paused for a while and lowered his head, "I'm just curious, why didn't you react at all when Rong Xian and Concubine Xian hurt you so much?"

Mu Shuyao pushed Chu Yuchen away, raised her head halfway, raised her eyebrows and said, "Isn't there still you? My wife is just a weak woman with no strength to restrain a chicken. Lord, what else can I do?"

"Hahaha!" Chu Yuchen laughed, reached out and rubbed the top of Mu Shuyao's hair, messing up her hard-combed bun. She slapped Chu Yuchen's hand off angrily, and said angrily: "Hate it! It's hard for someone to learn how to make a bun."

Chu Yuchen laughed again after hearing this, and then called Huarui to bring a bronze mirror and a comb, and personally combed Mu Shuyao's messy hair finely, and skillfully tied it into a bun, "Why? Like? It’s not worse than stamen’s workmanship, right?”

"You are quite handy." Mu Shuyao looked at the bun in the mirror for a while, and then said, "Who did it with someone's hair?"

Hearing the meaning behind Mu Shuyao's words, Chu Yuchen hurriedly said, "Of course it's my own hair. As a husband, I don't bother to touch other people's hair. It's dirty!" Finally, she uttered a word emphatically.

Mu Shuyao nodded in satisfaction.

The princess Nanlan was staring at her for a long time, and it didn't disturb the mood of the two couples. Anyway, as long as she didn't reveal her identity for a day, Tianli would treat her as a maid for a day, no matter if she knew her identity or didn't know it. Yes, everyone pretended not to know.

Due to the emperor's seal during the Chinese New Year, all officials do not have to go to court, but it gives Chu Yuchen and Mu Shuyao more opportunities to get along with each other. Although many officials entertain them, they are usually invited to the banquet together as husband and wife, anyway. There are also female relatives in the family.

On this day, Mu Mansion posted a post to Li Wang's Mansion. They invited Prince Nanlan and his wife, and specially invited Li Wang and his wife to accompany them.

"Mu Yongnian knows that his own identity is not enough, so he brought in two masters to support him." Vanilla said with a smile while holding the bronzing post.

Mu Shuyao glanced lightly at Chu Yuchen who was changing clothes, and the two exchanged knowing glances, and without explaining to Vanilla, they packed up and went out with Huarui and Xiaofang, leaving vanilla and parsley behind. Housekeeping.

Chu Yuchen was still accompanied by the guard Yuan Fei.

The two of them arrived at the Mu Mansion in a carriage, and no one from the Mu Mansion had seen them, so they went in to report.

Mu Yongnian came out with everyone from the Mu family.

After the people on both sides saluted each other, Chu Yuchen and Mu Shuyao were let into the front hall.

But as soon as they entered the front hall, both Chu Yuchen and Mu Shuyao were stunned for a moment, they quickly looked at each other, and then looked away.

The three people who were sitting in the hall stood up one after another to salute Chu Yuchen and Mu Shuyao, "The envoys from the neighboring country, Shen Yingzhuo and his wife, have seen King Li and Princess Li."

"Rong Xian has met King Li and Princess Li!"

Chu Yuchen and Mu Shuyao glanced at each other again, quickly adjusted the emotions on their faces, and responded politely to the three of them. Mu Shuyao turned to look at Mu Yongnian and said, "Master Mu has a lot of face. Not only did you invite Prince Nanlan, but you also invited Princess Rongxian, who came to Beijing for the first time, I heard that several officials have invited the princess these days, but she declined all of them."

Mu Yongnian frowned slightly when he heard this, but Rong Xian said by himself: "My concubine was joking, now that Rong Xian's status is embarrassing, I really don't dare to go to the homes of all the adults in Tianli to embarrass me, because Song Xian has been following Master Mu from the North It’s only when you come over here that you have the cheek to come and disturb me.”

Mu Shuyao smiled and said nothing, then looked at the concubine next to Prince Nanlan in a blink of an eye, bowed and said, "Concubine Xian, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon."

"Yes, Princess Li is being polite." Princess Xian replied, but she glanced at the wrist of Mu Shuyao's dropped sleeves. However, the clothes in winter are thick, and Mu Shuyao is wearing a formal dress for the princess today, and her sleeves are extraordinarily tight. It's so long, naturally you can't see what's hidden under the sleeves.

At this time, Mu Yongnian felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, and hurriedly said: "The banquet in the mansion has also been prepared, so let's invite some nobles to the table, let's chat while eating."

A group of people followed the old lady to the flower hall to have a banquet. Naturally, men and women sat separately, but because Mu Yongnian didn't have many concubines, everyone usually ate at the same table.

But today is different. Today is the reception of Nanlan’s prince, concubine and Princess Rongxian. It’s unreasonable to be as unruly as usual, so the old lady specially told several concubines to eat in their own rooms, but the concubines did not. Can be regarded as a decent master, able to sit with several distinguished guests.

The Xian Wangfei just picked up the chopsticks, she looked at the male guest's table by accident, then sighed softly, and asked the old lady: "Old lady, I should ask something that should not be asked. Are there separate tables for men and women at the banquet?"

The old lady smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, there are no outsiders on weekdays, and Yongnian also eats with everyone. Today, when Princess Xian and Princess Song Xian arrived at the mansion, they only divided up a male and female guest." While talking, she looked at Mu Wan Ting and Mu Jiaqing added another sentence, "It stands to reason that concubines shouldn't be at the table. It's just that there are not many juniors in the house, and if they don't sit up, it will inevitably appear too deserted."

This made Mu Jiaqing's heart ache!But what if it gets blocked again?A concubine is a concubine, the old lady is right.But Mu Jiaqing didn't feel anything, she didn't even shake the tea in her hand.

At this time, Mu Shuyao, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly said, "It seems that I heard that in Nanlan, the folk customs are open, and it's common for men and women to have banquets at the same table. There are not as many rules as Tianli, right?"

Concubine Xian smiled and nodded, "Princess Li is right. In Nanlan, it is normal for men and women to have a feast at the same table. So I think... old madam, there are only three people at the left and right tables, why don't you just sit down?" Come together."

"Ouch! This is not good!" The old lady said, "You can't let people say that our Mu family has no rules."

"There's nothing wrong with it." Concubine Xian said: "Although you should follow the Romans in the countryside, I still hope that the old lady will not see outsiders too much. Although the prince and I are envoys of the subject, since it is a family banquet, everything will be done according to Mu's house." The old rules are over."

(End of this chapter)