This card was sent by a subordinate of Tu Ruchuan, the Secretary General of the Grand Princess Wuyang Family. As Tu Ruchuan thought, he once had established a friendship with Sheng Lanci, and thus it was necessary for him to visit the Senior Master Sheng couple who had just arrived in Chang'an.
Actually, he had been thinking about paying a visit to Sheng Family for a long time. But there had been a host of things of Grand Princess Wuyang Family waiting for him to do over the past few days. As the Secretary General, he had been busy with these things. Thus, he put off visiting the Senior Master Sheng couple to this day.
"Ruchuan has almost become my son-in-law. But I have not cultivated my daughter into a lady. Thus, I have not been in luck. I have missed the opportunity to have such a kind son-in-law." Senior Master Sheng looked at the sender's name on the card and said wistfully, "I have heard that as Shuihe and Weiqiao arrived in Chang'an, he took good ca
When Sheng Weiqiao came here, Old Marquis Xu and Madam Nan had already left. Hence, Senior Master Sheng just came straight to the point and said to his granddaughter, "Your Uncle Tu has just come to tell me that the Grand Princess Wuyang believes that you are a nice girl and thus intends to arrange a marriage between you and her only son, Yichun Marquis. You have met Yichun Marquis once. What do you think of him?"Yesterday Senior Master Sheng had talked with Sheng Weiqiao about her marriage. But she did not expect that her grandfather would find a candidate for her marriage just in a day. Thus, she could not help being stunned by his words and said slowly, "On the last day of the Yuanxiao Lantern Exhibition, I was in the Buye Tower and saw him from a distance. Isn't it too sudden? As I have heard, it seems that the Grand Princess Wuyang does not want to get involved in the fight between the Meng family and Gaomi King."The Grand Princess, who was slick in
Flower-enjoying banquets were only for young men and women. As was known to all, with the name of “flower-enjoying banquets”, they were blind date parties in themselves. Well, in fact, they did have something to do with enjoying flowers. But the flowers that men enjoyed may not be such blooming flowers on the branches as peach blossoms, plum blossoms, apricot blossoms or pear blossoms, but beautiful young women who were in the prime of their lives.As a matter of fact, the Grand Princess Wuyang was very experienced in arranging flowering-enjoying banquets. At first, she gave some banquets to find good husbands for her daughters. Well, later, parents who intended to arrange marriages for their children all asked her to offer their children a decent opportunity to meet each other, for she was popular among the wealthy and influential families in Chang'an.Therefore, the flower-enjoying banquet took a very short time to arrange. Well, most of the famili
When the two sisters had come back home, they told the Sheng Family and Xu Family what had happened in Jingshao Palace. Then, Madam Nan ordered all the servants in Ningwei Marquis' House to be standing by, "A decree may be issued here tomorrow."The next morning, the empress dowager's decree was issued here. It was made up of several four-character clauses and six-character clauses. In the first place, it praised the girls of the Sheng Family very highly for their excellence. Then, in the second place, it announced that the empress dowager granted the title 'Princess Kangzhao' to Sheng Weiqiao, the title 'Princess Fuchang' to Sheng Weirao, the title 'Princess Huiyi' to Sheng Weiwu and the title 'Princess Mingning' to Gongsun Yingjiang.The news caused a stir among people in Chang'an. Well, it was not the first time that rulers of this dynasty had conferred the titles that are unique to ladies of the royal family on the girls of officials. But Huan Yehe, who
After hearing the words, everyone watched Huan Yehe and looked at how she was dressed at the moment.They saw that Jing Shu Princess wore her hair in a dignified cross bun, with a gold comb in the center and a pair of gold-inlaid hairpins on the left and right. Her eyebrows were penciled lightly and she made a light makeup. Under her clear eyes, there were pink lips and a pretty nose.Her slender swan-like neck was tightly wrapped in a light white collared shirt, covered with a lilac-purple short coat. Under her slender waist was a blue embroidered pleated skirt. People couldn't see her feet, but a pair of white jade anklets shook silently with her steps.Although she dressed up not as casually as usual times, in fact, the people present at this moment, including the host Grand Princess Wuyang, dressed up more ceremoniously than her. However, since they planned to heckle, people all echoed, "We also found that since Xinniang and Wanhua said it!
Sheng Weiqiao was relieved then and shook her head, "No, I have to accompany my grandfather.""I heard that Senior Master Sheng has always cherished Sheng Shuihe. How is he now?" Huan Yehe nodded understandingly and comforted her, "Lose at sunrise and gain at sunset. I hope that he won't be so sad!"Sheng Weiqiao thanked her for her concern and said, "My grandfather is generally okay now. But after this happened, he was a little worried after all."When Huan Yehe was about to answer, the Grand Princess Wuyang found that it was almost the time, so she coughed a few times. Everyone in the hall understood it naturally, so they stopped talking successively. The Grand Princess laughed and said, "It is a flower-enjoying banquet, but we just stay in the room, enjoying the potted plants. It's really boring. Why not go to the garden to have a drink while enjoying the flowers?""This is an opportunity for the guests who come over today to sh
A maid walked forward and explained with a smile, "Because there were so many guests here today, His Highness said that we would take a few more pots of wine over. Maybe the pots were buried so deeply, so His Highness was afraid that the servants would break them up when digging. So he asked them to dig slowly. Thus, he is somewhat late now."Huan Yehe, Cao Zhu, and some others mediated, "It’s not time for dinner. Let’s drink some rose syrup and mint syrup and eat some snacks at first. It's okay for the wine to be brought over slowly."Meng Lipiao and Meng Liti also said, "As the saying goes: Good dinner is worthy of waiting. So is the wine.""I shouldn't have let him do that." Grand Princess Wuyang only had one son, Li Shengxu. Over the years, she had been worried about his poor health all the time. Naturally, she wouldn't have the heart to blame him for just being late. She just felt that it was a snub to the guests, so she pretended t
Despite her regret for attending this banquet, Sheng Weiqiao had to stay and watch.Thanks to the finesse of the Grand Princess Wuyang, nobody suspected that the banquet which supposedly arranged for youngsters to find a match was merely meant to match Sheng Weiqiao with Li Shengxu...Hence, Sheng Weiqiao got to stay out of the conflict between Meng Lipiao and Princess Deping.And the guests only figured that the Grand Princess Wuyang gave this new princess privilege was for the sake of the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and her Secretary General Tu Ruchuan when she seated Sheng Weiqiao beside Li Shengxu, considering the Grand Princess Wuyang had earnestly expressed that "It's the first time that Princess Kangzhao visits my mansion" and introduced Sheng Weiqiao as "a daughter of Secretary Tu's former colleague".After all, they didn't think the Grand Princess, a widow who had lost her husband Yangwu Marquis Li Junze in early
Sheng Weiqiao expected that there would be a big fight after she returned to the banquet, but she bumped into Meng Lipiao and Princess Deping very shortly, who were looking around for her and Li Shengxu.Sheng Weiqiao and Li Shengxu noticed them first through the luxuriant shrubbery on a meandering path lined with flowers.Walking alongside Princess Deping, Meng Lipiao seemed to have dropped her mask in the absence of other guests, "I can't believe that a girl of your age is brazen enough to attend a banquet like this! Normally, she should be looking after their children at home now, unlike you! And you even began to think about marrying Shengxu, just because Her Highness was too soft-hearted to chase you out! Please, even an ordinary family won't consider marriage with you, let alone Her Highness, who must have somehow learned about how you set up my sixth brother before!""You're the last girl to whom she would ever marry off her son!"