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!"
They had met Sheng Weiqiao before, Meng Lipiao and Princess Deping shared the same opinion that she was a squeamish daughter of a squire from a remote county.Hence, they were expecting Sheng Weiqiao to flinch and run away when Princess Deping brought up her supposed engagement with Xu Baomo!However, they turned out to be the ones left behind by her, trembling in madness. They exchanged a few glances, and stepped to chase up!“I've got a feeling that my mother and I were both cheated!" Li Shengxu murmured as Sheng Weiqiao dragged him, "You were described as a girl tactless, broad-minded, ingenuous, and credulous who I would like to back up in that situation!""I supposed it would be a thousand years before you finally offered to back me up!" Sheng Weiqiao laughed coldly, "And how dare you claim that you were cheated? I am the more likely victim, to think how my... my grandfather praised you as a generous refined handsome man and a
Since she tried to egg him on, Li Shengxu said sternly, "Am I such a mean person? That happened so many years ago! How could I still remember that as a dignified man!"But he hit Meng Lipiao's eyes with a punch before Sheng Weiqiao could react!"Shengxu... Shengxu, you hit me!" Meng Lipiao covered her eyes before she rolled her sleeves and she got frozen, "We have known each other since childhood. In the early days, my thirteenth sister and I used to come here to play with you. But now you... You hit me for this b*tch?"Sheng Weiqiao was also stunned, "How could you really hit her?"Anyway, Meng Lipiao was Li Shengxu's aunt, and she came to the Grand Princess Wuyang Family as a guest. Sheng Weiqiao thought that even if Li Shengxu hated her, he would at best stop her or say something hurtful to her.It seemed that he hated Meng Lipiao's bullying in the past so much that he had hit her really!"How ca