Xia Miaoyuan hurriedly swallowed the sea cucumber in his mouth and looked up, only to see a dozen women in gorgeous clothes standing behind the palace maids with their heads lowered.
Those female guests were princesses and wives of high-ranking officials in the court.
They were all dressed gorgeously and luxuriously, with smiles on their faces and wine glasses in their hands.
These female guests were not with their husbands during the New Year's greetings. They had to wait until the banquet started before they could toast to the Empress Dowager, the Queen and others.
"I respectfully wish the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and all the ladies to have everlasting beauty and good fortune in the new year," said the wife of the Minister of Works.
The female guests at the back also gave toasts one by one.
The Empress Dowager used her old age as an excuse and only drank two glasses of wine to pretend. The Empress and other concubines couldn't refuse and drank one glass after another.
Especially the Queen, all the female guests rushed to toast her, and the Queen had no choice but to accept them all.
Even if he came from the northern border and had a good alcohol tolerance, he couldn't resist drinking like this.
After drinking a round of wine, the queen was already a little confused.
"Your Majesty, please don't drink any more. You'll pass out if you drink any more." Seeing that their mistress was drunk, Sang Qi and Ying Xue stepped forward to stop her.
Xia Miaoyuan also stood on the chair excitedly, waving his two little hands and shouting fiercely: "No, no, no!"
"Okay, okay, we concubines can drink by ourselves." The female guests found a way out for themselves.
At this moment, another female guest came over gracefully, holding the hand of a little girl of five or six years old.
She has a beautiful face and her clothes are fresh and refined, which makes her look eye-catching.
Even though the queen was a little drunk, she was dazzled by the female guest and became a little more sober.
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