The Storm Before the 1699 Banquet

After hearing Tan Yushu's words, Gu Xiaowan was a little stunned when she saw her smiling: "What do you mean?"

"Sister, don't you understand? They are looking at you!"

"Look at me?" Gu Xiaowan looked back.

The ladies were still together, pointing at Gu Xiaowan, the more they pointed, the more satisfied they became, even looking at Gu Xiaowan's back was like looking at her daughter-in-law, extremely satisfied.

Seeing Gu Xiaowan suddenly turned her head to look at them, she couldn't help feeling awkward, a little embarrassed. However, after all, he is a person who has seen the big world, and a few smiles were quickly pulled from the corners of his mouth towards Gu Xiaowan.

Only then did Gu Xiaowan understand Tan Yushu's words.

These people are here to see their daughter-in-law!

Seeing that Gu Xiaowan frowned, Tan Yushu said with a smile: "Every year, there are banquets held in the palace or other big families. It is said that they are banquets, but in fact, it is a meeting for unmarried sons and daughters. Even the Queen Mother's birthday This is no exception. Sister, just wait, as soon as the Empress Dowager's birthday is over, the threshold of your Qingyuan will be trampled by the Iceman."

Gu Xiaowan couldn't laugh or cry: "Yushu, it's not like you don't know, I already have a sweetheart!"

Tan Yushu smiled and said: "I know, but they don't know, you haven't been married yet, how can others be willing to let go, think about your current identity, power and status, and the people behind you. Jinfu Building and Lanyue Pavilion are all profitable businesses, you are a golden Bodhisattva, how could they let you go!"

A joke that Tan Yushu said, did not expect that it would really become a proverb after the year. The iceman who went to Qingyuan to talk about matchmaking almost stepped through the threshold of Qingyuan.

Of course, this is for another day.

On the Empress Dowager's birthday, as long as she is a woman of the fifth rank or above, an official of the third rank or above and her family members, all are invited to the birthday banquet.

So, before Gu Xiaowan and Tan Yushu could speak for a while, they heard people coming one after another.

The thin voice of the eunuch who chanted kept chanting: "Fang Zheng Xing, Mr. Fang sent a pair of Nanhai Ye Mingzhu."

Gu Xiaowan hurriedly looked around and saw Fang Zhengxing coming alone.

He has a wife and a daughter-in-law, so logically speaking, he shouldn't attend the banquet alone, but now he is busy giving his wife a title, so how could he think of the current Mrs. Fang!

If he doesn't remember his wife Lu Wenxin, he naturally doesn't remember Fang Peiya.

I heard that he never brought Fang Peiya to any gatherings, just because Fang Peiya's ugly figure made him ashamed.

Concubines and concubines and concubines were not allowed to participate in the Empress Dowager's birthday, so Fang Zhengxing came alone.

Tan Yushu also saw Fang Zhengxing, and after a glance, he and Gu Xiaowan looked at each other, seeing expectations in each other's eyes.

"Master Su Pei'an gave you two jade Ruyi handles."

Following the eunuch's chanting, Gu Xiaowan looked towards the gate, and saw Su Ziyue standing at the gate in a lavender dress and looking inside, as if she was looking for something.

Before Gu Xiaowan looked away, Su Ziyue's face changed suddenly.

The anxiety just now has now turned into joy and a little shyness.

Gu Xiaowan was curious about this person's change, so she turned her head in embarrassment, and heard a familiar voice shouting: "Princess..."

Gu Xiaowan looked back, and saw Lin Jingru wearing a green emerald smoke jacket, a green grass-colored floor-length pleated skirt, sweeping the Emei lightly, her eyebrows were picturesque, and at this moment, she was greeting Gu Xiaowan and Tan Yushu with a decent smile on her lips.

Seeing this, Gu Xiaowan quickly stepped forward and gently lifted her up: "Don't be too polite!"

This girl's face is like a spring flower, but she doesn't give people the feeling of being coquettish and aloof. She has a flat temperament, neither tepid nor overly flattering, nor overly alienated.

Gu Xiaowan's temperament has always been like this, seeing a person with a similar temperament, she also feels like seeing a bosom friend.

The three of them already had the same disposition, and they were talking in full swing in a short while, and they didn't even notice the figure walking over.

"Princess..." The visitor interrupted the conversation of the three of them, and when she turned her head, she saw Su Ziyue standing in front of the three of them, looking at Gu Xiaowan with burning eyes.

Gu Xiaowan frowned invisibly, and didn't intend to speak.

And when Su Ziyue saw Gu Xiaowan, there was a flash of amazement in her eyes. This time, it has been a long time since she disappeared. She seems to have grown taller, and she still looks like a fairy in the painting. , at this moment, after applying makeup, her complexion is even more beautiful.

Wearing lotus-colored clothes on that exquisite and exquisite body, it looks more and more like a branch of lotus in the lotus, which makes people admire in their hearts.

It's just that the slight alienation in those eyes made people only dare to look at it from a distance, not to profane.

As soon as he entered the hall, he was looking for Gu Xiaowan's figure everywhere.

The news that the Empress Dowager ordered Princess Anping to live in the palace ahead of schedule and attend the birthday banquet for the second time had already spread throughout the capital, and anyone who knew about it was shocked in the mansions of officials.

The empress dowager's move was to announce in the whole Qing Dynasty that the Ai family loved this woman very much.

Thinking that Gu Xiaowan, who was the Anping county lord before, got the title of Anping county lord after entering the palace, and then thought that when she held a thank-you banquet, Princess Lihua, who was still following the empress dowager to worship Buddha, was able to leave the palace to attend the banquet in advance, If it is said that this was not ordered by the Empress Dowager, no one would believe it.

The Empress Dowager valued Gu Xiaowan so much that the entire capital was in an uproar.

Although they looked down on Gu Xiaowan's status as a peasant girl, and thought it would be embarrassing for a country girl to be equal to her, but the Queen Mother, the Emperor, and Princess Lihua all loved this girl very much, so they couldn't offend this girl.

Therefore, some people in the family kept telling the ladies and gentlemen not to show their dislike for the lady at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet.

The empress dowager likes it, but they don't. Isn't this blaming the empress dowager?

So, yesterday, even Su Qianyue was told by Mrs. Su's ears. But Mrs. Su didn't remind Su Ziyue.

Su Ziyue looked at Gu Xiaowan, feeling that the lovesickness in her heart was getting worse.

Now, as soon as he came in, he found that delicate figure, and someone around him started talking about Princess Anping, and what he said seemed to have an inexplicable intention.

After Su Ziyue listened to the two sentences, he felt as if someone was vying for something he liked. Coupled with the longing for the past few days, he didn't know why, and he didn't care about the defense of men and women, so he came directly to Gu Xiaowan's side .

On the birthday of the Empress Dowager, there were no seats for men and women. Instead, dining tables were set up on a family-by-home basis in accordance with the status of officials in the capital.

Therefore, Su Ziyue went directly to Gu Xiaowan's side, with burning eyes, as if she had something to say.

Gu Xiaowan frowned slightly, she was already displeased.

Some people in the hall saw the movement here, and they all turned their heads to look at it. When they saw Su Ziyue approaching and talking to Gu Xiaowan straight up, everyone felt strange in their hearts.

And Su Qianyue was standing behind Mrs. Su, looking at Gu Xiaowan with stern eyes, and when she saw her brother's behavior, her face turned pale for a while, and then she looked at the entrance of the hall in fear.

But Mrs. Su's demeanor at the moment is calm and calm, as if she still has a little bit of expectation.

When a noble lady next to her saw Su Ziyue going directly to Gu Xiaowan, she couldn't help but asked curiously: "Master Su knows Princess Anping?"

Mrs. Su straightened her back, smiled, and said in a slightly smug tone, "Yes!"

She looked in Su Ziyue's direction, and saw that Su Ziyue was still standing with her arms crossed, facing Gu Xiaowan, her eyes didn't even blink, how could Mrs. Su not understand that obsessed look.

Gu Xiaowan's current identity and the industry behind it, for some reason, Madam Su's previous prejudice against Gu Xiaowan almost disappeared in an instant.

Although this girl came from the countryside, she relied on her own hands to earn such a great fame for herself, and she still has so many properties. Nowadays, no one in the circle in the capital would say that Gu Xiaowan is very powerful. With all her scheming and means, there is probably no lady in the capital who can match her.

Fame and wealth, needless to say about appearance and body, first-class one is good, temperament and temperament, there is nothing to say, if such a woman can really marry into the Su residence, Mrs. Su also has a faint hope in her heart .

Seeing the almost jealous eyes of the noble ladies around her, Madam Su felt a little complacent in her heart. However, Madam Su was not happy for a long time when the eunuch's chanting outside made her look awkward.

"King Ming has arrived, the young prince has arrived, and Princess Mingdu has arrived!"

When Su Qianyue heard the words Mingdu Princess, her body shook involuntarily. The joyful look on Mrs. Su's face also disappeared in an instant.

"Mom, I'm going to find Sister Min!" Seeing Shu Min coming, Su Qianyue said hastily.

Before leaving, he gave Gu Xiaowan a stern look, and had already forgotten what his mother said yesterday.