Xiao Jinglin nodded. Today was her birthday and many people came to congratulate her. Ningxia also sent people over. It was not easy for her to hide all the time, so the princess asked her to go out and show her face.
Xiao Jingxi didn't continue what he had said before, and only said: "You guys go first, I still have some things to take care of."
Ren Yaoqi left with Xiao Jinglin. But along the way, she couldn't help but think about what Xiao Jingxi had just said.
Although Xiao Jinglin's coming-of-age banquet encountered an uninvited guest like Lu Yu, it was still a very important beginning for the Prince Xian's Mansion.
Princess Xian's grand invitation to the deposed Princess Rong as the guest of honor at the Princess's coming-of-age banquet could be said to have sent a signal to the various Yanbei noble families. In the dozen years since Prince Xian's family arrived in Yanbei, due to the court's taboos and the Yanbei Prince's indifference, almost all of Yanbei's noble families had unanimously ignored the presence of the people in Prince Xian's mansion, ostracizing them from the social circles of the Yanbei nobles.
Now, this deadlock that has lasted for more than ten years seems to be breaking.
On the second day after Xiao Jinglin's coming-of-age banquet, someone came to visit Prince Xian's palace.
The first family to visit Prince Xian's Mansion was the Lei family.
The Lei family currently lacks a matriarch, so it was Lei Ting, the patriarch, who arrived in person. Lei Ting explained that he had previously disturbed Li Gan's carriage and had come to visit him personally. Although Lei Ting spent less than two quarters of an hour in Baoping Hutong before leaving, he still attracted considerable attention.
On the third day, someone from the Yun family also came to Baoping Hutong to visit the Rong family. It was the eldest wife of the Yun family. She stayed in Baoping Hutong for half an hour before leaving.
The attitudes of the Lei and Yun families made the other families that were originally skeptical secretly understand the situation.
Let’s not talk about the Lei family for now. After all, the time that the Lei family moved back to Yanbei is still not long. But everyone knows that the Yun family has always followed the lead of the Yanbei Palace. How do we know that the Yun family is close to Prince Xian’s family without the secret instructions of the Yanbei Palace?
So on the fourth and fifth days, more and more people came to visit Prince Xian's Mansion, and some families from prefectures other than Yanzhou also sent people over.
Although many families did not have the head of the family come in person, they sent their stewards to deliver some ordinary snacks, or send an invitation to invite Rong or Prince Xian and his son to attend the banquet.
The attitude of the Prince Xian's Mansion was very normal, neither flattered nor indifferent. Rong accepted all the gifts and instructed her subordinates to return them according to the rules. Most of the invitations to the banquet were rejected, and only a small number of them accepted the invitation sincerely from the head of the family and could not afford to refuse.
Sisters Li and Ren Yaoqi also heard the noise outside. Two days after Li returned from Xiao Jinglin's coming-of-age celebration, she was invited to a tea party hosted by a woman named Gu from Yunyang Academy. Gu, also from an aristocratic family, had invited not only the ladies of Yunyang Academy but also some ladies from other families.
After Li came to Yunyang City, she had only interacted with the ladies of Yunyang Academy. However, that day, many people came to talk to Li on their own initiative, and they were not just the ladies of Yunyang Academy.
Ren Yaoqi was not surprised by this situation.
Most of the aristocratic families in Yanbei acted according to the Yanbei Palace's wishes. Ever since the Yanbei Princess personally went to Baoping Hutong to ask for Rong's help, Ren Yaoqi had anticipated this. However, for them, this wasn't a bad thing.
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