Chapter 190: Fell in love with Qiong Hua

The eighth day of May is the Queen Mother's birthday banquet.

As soon as the sky got light, the palace maids began to get busy one after another.

Song Qingyan was also dragged up early by Jinxin and Jinyu to dress up. In Jinxin's words, this was the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, and the Queen Mother was now the Imperial Consort, so nothing could be sloppy.

However, Song Qingyan solemnly warned the two of them that they only needed to dress normally, because the protagonist today was the Queen Mother or the Empress, but not herself.

All I have to do is attend the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet in the best mental state. As for what to wear, those are all small matters.

The Queen Mother said that it was OK, but the Emperor of Great Chu took it very seriously.

This was also the first proper banquet after Shen Ning was crowned queen, so she had prepared carefully for several days and would never allow anyone to find fault with it.

At this time in the Jinxiu Palace, Yueran and the others were busy dressing the Empress.

Bai Ling was very deft and was very good at combing hair. Her nimble fingers worked on the Empress's hair, and finally she made it into a Chaofeng hairpin, and inserted a gold hairpin with a red gold peony flower on it. In the middle was a golden phoenix crown inlaid with jade.

The red gold necklace around her neck was also sent by the Empress Dowager on the day she was crowned Queen.

After finishing her work, she looked at Shen Ning in the mirror in a naive way: "The Queen is so beautiful."

But my thoughts drifted far away. I thought that if this hairpin was worn on Concubine De's hair, it would definitely look better.

After all, this was the Queen's wish before she died, but unfortunately she is no longer with us.

The busy people naturally didn't care about Bai Ling's mood. At this time, Yunlan had already found the queen's clothes, held them in front of the queen, and then said with a smile: "Our queen is really a beauty."

"You're right," Yue Ran smiled and looked at Yun Lan, "A beauty as beautiful as a country, it's the most appropriate way to describe the queen."

Shen Ning said nothing, but just smiled faintly.

Prince Yi was truly very satisfied with the maid that he had found this time.

Be polite and know your limits.

Not only can she keep the Jinxiu Palace in order, but she can also take care of external affairs for Shen Ning. Since her coming, Shen Ning has felt a lot more relaxed.

It was already the hour of Chen, and the wives and daughters of officials were already waiting outside the palace gate, waiting to enter the palace one after another.

Although men and women sat together at the palace banquet, in order to avoid chaos, men and women were still arranged to enter the palace from different gates.

As for the people from the Dingguo Marquis' Mansion, they had already been led by the palace servants at the palace gate and had gone to Qingyun Palace in sedan chairs early in the morning.

Song Zhuo also went to Qingyun Palace.

"Greetings to Her Majesty the Imperial Concubine." At this time, Song Qingyan and Lu Xingwan had already dressed neatly and were meeting people in the main hall of Qingyun Palace.

After all, Lu Xingwan was just a little baby who was just learning to walk, so Jinyu didn't dress her in anything too complicated. She only wore a pomegranate red wedding dress with gold embroidery of flowers, birds and branches, which suited the spring scenery.

"Hurry up and get up!" Because they were in the palace, Song Qingyan became more serious, "Sit down!"

"I didn't expect my mother and my sisters-in-law to come so early."

"Your Majesty, you don't know." Although Zhao Qingqing was a lively person, she was well-mannered. Now that she was in the palace, she naturally restrained herself a lot. "There is a long queue outside the palace now. If it weren't for the favor given by Your Majesty, we would probably have to queue outside the palace now!"

This time it was a formal palace banquet, so Song Qingyan did not ask Mei Ying and the others to eavesdrop outside, but just waited obediently in the palace.

For such a big occasion, it is better to be safe and stable.

As they were talking, Lu Xingwan had already gotten off Jinyu and was staggering towards the side of Mrs. Xiao, the wife of Marquis Dingguo.

Lu Xingwan suddenly appeared beside her, which startled Xiao. She then started to laugh: "Princess Yong'an is leaving now? She even came to see me on her own initiative. It seems that Princess Yong'an likes me very much."

As he said that, he picked up Lu Xingwan and let her sit on him.

Lu Xingwan was also very happy to be close to Xiao.

Song Qingyan thought to herself: Wanwan probably likes her mother's gold!

Lu Xingwan never disappoints.

[Of course I have to give my grandmother a big kiss, because she gave me so many gold bars! ]

[I also want to hug my eldest aunt, second aunt, and third aunt! You are all my gods of wealth. ]

Lu Xingwan was muttering as she struggled to get off Xiao's body and walk towards Wei's side.

Wei was also extremely surprised and looked at Xiao, then at Song Qingyan: "It seems that Princess Yong'an also likes me."

Song Qingyan almost blurted out: I like your money. You gave me such an expensive cosmetics box, who wouldn't like you?

But of course I won't say it out loud! It's good for everyone to know that Wanwan is a little money-grubber, but don't say it out loud and embarrass Wanwan.

Looking at Song Zhuo who was watching the excitement, Song Qingyan couldn't help but ask, "Why did Brother Zhuo come here? Prince Pei went to the Prince's Palace early in the morning, and now the princes are probably busy in Xingyang Palace!"

Song Zhuo looked at Song Qingyan embarrassedly and said, "I was thinking of following my grandmother to pay my respects to the Empress."

Seeing that he seemed to be hesitant to speak, Song Qingyan signaled Jinxin and Jinyu to go out first.

Tong and Zhao were also sensible, and they stood up and said goodbye: "Your Majesty, my second sister-in-law and I will go out for a walk first, and let mother and eldest sister-in-law sit with you."

Song Qingyan knew that this matter was probably related to Zhuo Ge'er's marriage.

Since Song Qingyan returned to the palace, Xiao and Wei have also visited some families and found some suitable ones. However, when Song Zhuo was asked to go and see them himself, he refused to show up.

Wei couldn't help it after all, and went to ask Song Zhuo in person. Unexpectedly, he actually fell in love with the female doctor beside Song Qingyan, the girl named Qiong Hua.

If it was because of the mismatch in background and status, the Song family wouldn't care about that.

But Qiong Hua is the female doctor beside Song Qingyan after all, so I still have to ask her first.

"But has Zhuo'er's marriage been settled?" Song Qingyan asked bluntly.

When Song Zhuo heard this, he scratched his head in embarrassment and said nothing.

It was Wei who finally spoke up: "If it is really settled, then there is no need to worry Your Majesty."

"Zhuo Ge'er has taken a fancy to Miss Qionghua who is beside the queen. I wonder if the queen..."

Without waiting for Wei to finish speaking, Song Qingyan stood up abruptly and almost swept the teacup off the table.

Lu Xingwan, who was standing on the ground, also sat down with a plop.

Both mother and daughter were stunned.

Song Zhuo actually fell in love with Qiong Hua. This is shocking news.

Wei knew that this would scare Song Qingyan, so she quickly explained, "I said it would scare the queen. I thought that since Miss Qionghua is working for the queen now, she would need the queen's approval."

"No way!" Song Qingyan blurted out as Wei's words fell.