The housekeeper quickly picked up the gift book and checked it. After looking through it once, he couldn't find it. Fearing that he had missed it, he hurried to look at it a second time.
After checking three times in a row, he said to Gu Jinyan with a heavy face: "Miss, I checked three times and couldn't find any record of Miss Zhao giving gifts."
Now, everyone was in an uproar.
"It turns out she really didn't give any gifts!"
"Humph! You're so stingy, yet you have the nerve to look down on other people's gifts."
"They always talk about being well-mannered, but they do things like not bringing gifts when visiting guests."
Someone asked uncertainly, "Is this considered freeloading?"
The scene was chaotic for a while, and Zhao Qianhua's face changed again and again like a palette.
Suddenly, someone questioned, "The Gu family didn't invite her, so she shouldn't have an invitation. So how did she get in?"
At this time, the housekeeper stepped forward to explain to everyone: "Miss Zhao came with Miss Jiang from the Earl's Mansion."
Hearing this, the noisy hall suddenly became quiet. Just when Tian An was puzzled.
The eldest lady of the Gu family smiled and said, "So it was a friend that Miss Jiang brought! Wanmeng, you are the same child. Why didn't you explain it to everyone earlier? Look at what a commotion this is."
Jiang Wanmeng, who was named, finally stopped playing dead and walked to the front of the group, bowing and saying, "It's all Wanmeng's fault. Wanmeng didn't expect Qianhua to be so unreasonable. Please forgive me for disturbing everyone."
Then he looked at Zhao Qianhua who was standing beside him and said, "Qianhua, why don't you apologize to everyone quickly."
These words actually put all the blame on Zhao Qianhua.
Zhao Qianhua's face turned even paler, but she didn't seem surprised, as if this was just normal.
Zhao Qianhua walked to the center with a look of humiliation on her face. Just as she was about to kneel down and apologize to everyone, she heard Tian An say, "Miss Zhao, you've got the wrong person! Shouldn't the person you're apologizing to be the Gu family or Jin Yan?"
Zhao Qianhua paused, then looked up and pointed at Tian An and cursed: "Tian An, who do you think you are? How dare you say such things about me?"
Xiao Lao San was immediately furious. "How dare you speak so arrogantly after making a mistake? Have you learned all the rules?"
Zhao Qianhua's knees softened, and she knelt down in front of Xiao Laosan, "Cousin, I was wrong."
Huh? Cousin? Is this Duke's Mansion related to the royal family? Wait, Zhao? Same last name as Zhao Yiming. Could this be Zhao Yiming's half-cousin?
I originally thought that Xiao Lao San would show some mercy to her because he called her cousin, but who knew that the next second, Xiao Lao San angrily shouted, "Shun Zi, slap your face."
The servant behind him, oh no, it should be the eunuch, walked up to Zhao Qianhua and slapped her in the face, "Pa pa pa pa..."
When she stopped, her pretty little face was red and swollen, looking no different from a pig's head.
Xiao Lao San glanced at her with a dark face and said, "You know you are wrong."
Zhao Qianhua's face was covered with tear marks and her cheeks were swollen and red, and she couldn't speak clearly.
He said tremblingly, "Zhi, Zhi is wrong."
"Then tell me, what did you do wrong?"
"Cousin, the house is wrong..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard Xiao Lao San say, "Shun Zi, slap me again."
After a few slaps, blood oozed out of Zhao Qianhua's face.
Xiao Laosan didn't even glance at her, and just said, "Shunzi, tell Miss Zhao, what did she do wrong?"
Shunzi puffed out his chest and said loudly: "Miss Zhao has three faults.
If you make a mistake, you will lose face if you do not bring a gift when attending a banquet.
The second mistake was telling lies and causing a scene at someone else's party, ruining someone else's good fortune.
The third mistake is not knowing what to do and calling someone names randomly."
This caused an uproar among the crowd.
"So, the Third Prince is blaming Zhao Qianhua for calling him cousin?"
"Isn't that right? How can a mere bastard's daughter have the right to call the prince her cousin?"
Listening to everyone's discussions, Tian An understood.
Then Xiao Lao San said, "Since you know you're wrong, apologize to the Gu family and get out of here! How can you come to this kind of banquet with your status? It's a good thing that the Gu family is generous enough not to make a fuss about you. If it were someone else, they would at least close the door and let the dogs out."
Zhao Qianhua didn't dare to stay any longer. She faced Gu Jia and Gu Jinyan with a swollen face, and after a while, she called them "Ouba Oppa" and ran away with her maid.
The annoying person left. However, the banquet was ultimately ruined. Everyone left one after another, and Mrs. Gu and Gu Jinyan's uncle and aunt forced themselves to smile as they saw them off.
Most people had left, so Tian An and Zuo Yunshu and the others didn't want to stay any longer. They comforted Gu Jinyan and then left. However, Tian An stayed behind and asked Mrs. Gu about the identity of the beautiful woman before leaving with Deng Xue.
As soon as the guests left, the Gu family's faces darkened. Gu Jinyan's uncle snorted coldly and said self-deprecatingly, "The banquet of the Earl's Mansion was actually disrupted by a yellow-haired girl."
Madam Gu looked at Gu Jinyan with pity and said, "My poor Jinyan's coming-of-age ceremony is only once in a girl's life, and it was ruined by that girl from the Zhao family."
Gu Jinyan sensibly stepped forward, took the old lady's hand, and comforted her: "Grandma, it's okay. Relatives and friends are here, Jinyan has no regrets."
Madam Gu patted her hands lovingly, "Grandma knows you are a good person."
Madam Gu and Aunt Gu Jinyan exchanged a glance, and both saw the same message in each other's eyes, which was, "This matter is not over yet."
Seeing the adults' grave expressions as they stared at the glazed immortality lantern in the center of the hall, the Gu sisters spoke to ease the atmosphere, saying, "Sister Jinyan, could we take another look at this glazed immortality lantern? There were so many people around just now that we couldn't get a good look at it!"
"Of course." After saying that, Gu Jinyan helped the old lady up and said, "Grandma, come and take a look! No one could see it clearly just now because they were far away!" Then she went to greet her mother, uncle and aunt.
Speaking of the glazed eternal life lantern, everyone's faces showed a little smile.
Madam Gu looked at the magnificent glazed eternal life lantern and nodded, saying, "That girl is thoughtful. It's obvious that a lot of thought went into making this thing."
The others nodded in agreement and then began to admire the lanterns attentively.
I thought the matter was over, but unexpectedly something happened again that day.
It was a rare day that Tian Mingwu came back from the military camp early. He knew that his daughter was attending a banquet at Gu's house. He originally wanted to go to Gu's house to pick her up, but he didn't expect that when he arrived at Gu's house, he was told by the doorman that the banquet was over.
"Does the Gu family's banquet always end so early?" Tian Mingwu asked in confusion. It should still be early now!
The doorman was also a chatterbox. After sighing, he told Tian Mingwu what happened that day as a story like a storyteller.
Tian Mingwu was listening to the story with great interest, but as he listened, he felt something was wrong. His daughter was actually being bullied?
How could that be possible? He loved his daughter so much, how could he let others bully her?
He then asked the doorman how Tian An was bullied. After hearing what the doorman said, he was furious and cursed the Duke's Mansion for being too bullying.
Then he jumped on his horse and rushed straight to the palace.
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