Xia Wanning is now a county lady and the future princess consort of Prince Xun. Her father is the Marquis of Ning'an and her mother is the only daughter of the richest man in Jiangnan. Given her noble status, she wants to hold a spring banquet. Which noble lady on the invitation list dares not come?
Today, everyone knows that holding a spring banquet is inappropriate, and the county lady rarely holds such gatherings on weekdays. She is usually invited by others to attend.
I don’t know what the wind is blowing today, but we suddenly have to hold a spring banquet.
Xia Wanning was a person who didn't like trouble, and she also didn't like to hang out with a group of noble ladies and compete with them in beauty and attention.
But in order to get Jiang Sui back on his feet, she didn't mind the trouble.
With her current status and position, plus Helian Jing's smooth sailing in the court, it is very likely that she will become Princess Xun and enter the Eastern Palace in the future. She may even be the mother of a country. Who dares not to give her this face?
Nowadays, there are many people who are willing to curry favor with her.
Today, she only needed to express a little dissatisfaction towards Cheng Xueyun at the Spring Banquet. Those noble ladies were very good at reading people's faces and acting accordingly. She didn't need to do anything at all. All of their mouths combined would be enough to make Cheng Xueyun so angry that she would go back crying.
Of course, with Cheng Xueyun's brain, she couldn't think that deeply. She had long wanted to build a relationship with Xia Wanning. The circle of noble ladies all had small groups, but she couldn't fit into any of them. Those in the alliance of legitimate daughters looked down on her, a legitimate daughter who crawled out of the belly of a concubine, and were unwilling to associate with her. She herself was unwilling to associate with those groups of illegitimate daughters, thinking that it was a loss of her status.
Now, only Xia Wanning is still neutral. She does not belong to any group and has always been a loner. If I can establish a sisterhood with her, who would dare to make trouble for me in the circle of noble ladies in the future?
Therefore, she started preparing for this Spring Banquet two days in advance, and prepared beautiful dresses and jewelry, so that she could outshine all the other girls on the day of the Spring Banquet.
She also prepared a gift for Xia Wanning. She heard that the county lady liked to collect rare treasures and jades from the North Sea for her collection. She happened to have a pair of South China Sea gold beads. She had originally planned to make them into earrings to wear, but now, in order to please Xia Wanning, she was willing to give them up.
Cheng Xueyun was full of fantasies that if Xia Wanning saw the pair of golden beads, she would definitely love them and then she would be able to stay by her side and become her little sister.
I guess Cheng Xueyun would never have imagined in her dreams that this spring banquet was specially held for her?
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One after another, the invited ladies arrived. Xia Wanning was yawning, looking like she hadn't gotten enough sleep.
However, she still cheered herself up and faced every noble lady who came to greet her.
Some basic manners are still required. Since you have already done it, you can't let people come for nothing. At least the experience should be good enough.
She was not a stingy person, and since it was a spring banquet, she tried her best to create the atmosphere of a spring banquet. She searched everywhere for many famous flowers and plants and displayed them for everyone to appreciate.
The tea and snacks are also of the best quality.
The ladies were all dressed exquisitely and appropriately, but none of them were exaggerated.
Cheng Xueyun was very confident. She deliberately came late just to get everyone's attention on herself.
She was wearing a light red gold-thread skirt with a pattern of hundreds of butterflies, and her shoes were made of Shu brocade, the thread for the embroidery on them was all gold thread, and the jewelry on her head was also extremely exaggerated.
Xia Wanning set up a table in the garden where everyone could sit and chat while enjoying the flowers and drinking tea.
Cheng Xueyun's position was arranged relatively forward, after all, she was the legitimate daughter of the Xuanping Marquis's Mansion.
Almost everyone had arrived, leaving only Cheng Xueyun, and her seat was the only one left vacant.
A noble lady saw that her seat was empty, so she asked, who else hadn't come?
"Who else could have missed coming, besides that butterfly?" one of the noble ladies said this, causing everyone to cover their mouths and laugh.
Just as he was laughing, the maid guarding the garden entrance sang out:
"Miss Cheng from the Xuanping Marquis's Mansion has arrived."
Speak of the devil, and he will appear. Everyone looked towards the entrance, wondering how extravagantly Hua Hudie would dress today.
Cheng Xueyun lived up to everyone's expectations. When she appeared, those who didn't know her thought it was a princess.
The glittering golden light, ostentatious in the streets, made people feel that the Xuanping Marquis Mansion was truly extremely wealthy.
Cheng Xueyun was being stared at by everyone, but she didn't feel embarrassed. Instead, she enjoyed the looks. No matter what their intentions were, she thought they were just envious of her.
"I heard that Anping County is holding a spring banquet, and I was so excited that I stayed up until midnight yesterday. As a result, I woke up late this morning. Sisters, please forgive me!"
She walked to the middle and saluted Xia Wanning. She must have felt that she was very graceful at the moment, but in fact it was very artificial.
I was so excited that I went to bed in the middle of the night. I was probably just busy dressing up in the morning.
Xia Wan Ning sat upright in the main seat, she curled her lips and smiled. This Cheng Xueyun was just as the rumors said, she didn't know the rules. When she came to visit someone else's house, she was dressed better than the host. This was not the way to steal the limelight.
"The Xuanping Marquis's Mansion is truly extremely wealthy. They have raised Miss Cheng in such a luxurious manner that I thought it was Her Royal Highness the Princess who came to visit me just now!"
Xia Wanning said this with a smile.
Cheng Xueyun thought he was praising herself for having the grace of a princess, and for a moment she raised her head even higher.
Both princesses were raised in the palace and seldom left the palace to attend such gatherings. There were no princesses in Kyoto. Apart from the five princes, there were only two brothers left of the emperor, and they all went to their fiefdoms. Their legitimate daughters were princesses, but they were not in Kyoto. Therefore, in Kyoto, apart from the princesses, Xia Wanning's identity as a county princess had a lot of say.
"Of course I don't dare to compare with Her Royal Highness, but thank you for the compliment, Princess."
Cheng Xueyun bowed again as she spoke. Her action was smart and caused everyone to laugh again.
She has a pig brain, can't she hear that I'm mocking her?
Even if the princess was not present, she couldn't break the rules. How dare she compete with the princess? If the princesses heard about this, they would be unhappy and punish her.
They are members of the royal family. How can you ladies from aristocratic families like you overstep your authority?
Moreover, there are only two princesses in the entire Daqing, and both are legitimate daughters of the Empress. Legitimate daughters of the Empress are even more extraordinary.
Even the most ordinary dress, such as how to comb your hair, what pattern of clothes and shoes you wear, and what grade of jewelry you wear, all have their own rules.
But not only did Cheng Xueyun violate taboos repeatedly, she also pressed further and further. Fortunately, the two princesses were not the type to make things difficult for others, otherwise anyone with a worse temper would have found fault with her.
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