Chapter 34 An unexpected event
But today's protagonists are not the eldest princess and her husband.
After they greeted the guests with a smile, they walked to the left and stood there.
The musicians continued to play, and the sound of the music gradually changed from grandiose at the beginning to light and lively like a girl's parade in a garden.
Princess Anle was holding a round fan in her hand, which was delicately embroidered with a cluster of osmanthus flowers, and a cute magpie was standing on the osmanthus branch.
The osmanthus flowers and magpies are lifelike. As Princess Anle walks, the round fan gently shakes with every step, and different colors appear at different angles.
Wen Ling heard someone whispering nearby.
It is said that this round fan was embroidered by nine of the best embroiderers in Jiangnan, who specialized in embroidering round fans. It took two years of preparation in advance.
Moreover, all nine embroiderers must be blessed ladies, with both parents alive and both sons and daughters.
Even a small round fan is so exquisite, not to mention other things. It can be said to be luxurious.
Princess Anle walked to the front step by step under the envious gazes of the top daughters in the capital.
She had a long skirt trailing behind her. Six maids of similar age were standing on either side of the skirt, bending over, holding the skirt with both hands, following Princess Anle's steps, walking forward step by step.
Compared with the glorious Princess Anle, these maids are the lowest level of dirt and no one pays any attention to them.
No one noticed that one of the maids had a particularly pale and ugly face.
Her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, but she dared not say anything in such a situation and could only grit her teeth and hold on.
Just when Princess Anle was about to stop in front of the crowd and turn around, the maid suddenly fainted on the ground.
She fainted on the hem of her skirt which she held up with both hands, pressing it down.
Princess Anle continued walking forward without stopping, and was almost knocked backwards and fell when her skirt pulled her.
Fortunately, the prince consort next to her was quick to help her up, so she did not fall.
But even so, a section of the long skirt was torn off.
Princess Anle, who was originally extremely graceful and elegant, now looked a little embarrassed.
On such an important occasion, at such a crucial link, such an accident happened in full view of everyone.
Princess Anle's eyes suddenly turned red as she felt ashamed.
She turned to look at the eldest princess, tears in her eyes, and called out in a wronged voice: "Mother..."
The eldest princess's face was very ugly, her brows were knitted together, she said in a deep voice: "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and help him up and check what's going on!"
The prince consort supported his daughter distressedly and said angrily, "Hurry up, if you delay Gui Lan's auspicious time for inserting the hairpin, I don't think any of you can bear the consequences! Who is responsible for this matter? Why did you arrange such a person?"
Princess Anle's name is Gu Guilan, and Guilan is her maiden name.
Following the questioning by the prince consort, one of the six maids leading the group quickly knelt down.
Her face was filled with fear and panic. She kowtowed hard while explaining, "Princess, calm down, Prince Consort, calm down. Today's maids were carefully selected.
Before the start, I led them to rehearse for half a month and
It was Xiaocao who stole the food from today's banquet last night. I don't know if she got an upset stomach from the undercooked food.
She had been running to the toilet before the start, and the servant sent a doctor to make her drink some medicine.
The real reason is that this place is about to start, and there is really no one who can replace her, so I had to bite the bullet and use her. ”
The maidservant next to her also knelt down immediately: "Madam Ge had asked Xiaocao before, asking her if she could hold on. It was Xiaocao who insisted that she could do it in order to get an extra ten taels of silver for doing this job..."
Giving a servant a reward of ten taels of silver is already considered a very generous family.
From this point of view, it is entirely the problem of this maid named Xiaocao.
No one expected such a sudden incident of such a low-level mistake to happen. Everyone was just there to watch the fun, and there was a lot of whispering from below.
The Prince Consort turned his gaze towards the eldest princess. He was always good-tempered, but at this moment, he couldn't help but sound a little angry: "Madam, are these maids from your courtyard? This maid really doesn't know the rules!"
The eldest princess only felt her eyebrows twitching. She has always attached great importance to rules.
Unexpectedly, in such an important occasion, it was the maid in her yard who broke the rules and caused the coming-of-age ceremony to go wrong!
She fully understood the prince consort's anger because he valued his daughter.
Because she was also very angry!
She was not familiar with this maid named Xiaocao at all. She should have been transferred to her courtyard some time ago and was just assigned to work now.
The princess frowned and gave the order directly: "Take him away and let the housekeeper deal with him as needed. Don't delay the coming-of-age ceremony."
Just this one sentence basically sentenced the maid named Xiaocao to death.
Maids were of low status and their masters could beat or kill them directly if they made mistakes.
Even worse is that she meets an unkind master who sells her to some brothel, where she will be met with an even more inhumane fate.
The maid named Xiaocao fell to the ground with a face as pale as paper. She opened her eyes with great effort and moved her mouth as if to speak, but nothing came out.
Two lines of unwilling tears flowed from her eyes. She wanted to explain something, but it seemed that she knew no one would listen to her. Finally, she closed her eyes in despair.
Just as Xiao Cao was about to be dragged away, a clear and loud voice rang out: "Wait a minute, Princess, please think twice. Don't do anything that will make you regret for the rest of your life."
Now everyone's eyes were focused on the person who had just spoken.
This person was none other than Wen Ling.
She was not shy when being watched by everyone, and she accepted everyone's scrutiny with an open mind.
After seeing clearly that the person who spoke was Wen Ling, the princess frowned slightly and said, "Princess Chen, what do you mean by this?"
It's obvious that she is unhappy now.
Wen Ling's reputation was not very good. He was previously known as a lunatic throughout the capital, and later he opened a feng shui and fortune-telling shop outside.
It is simply unreasonable and inappropriate for a princess to open a shop like this outside!
Now he comes out and says such things out of nowhere.
Gu Guilan, also known as Princess Anle, raised her red eyes and looked at Wen Ling, with a vicious look in her eyes.
She spoke before Wen Ling could, "Princess Chen, although I met you near your Wanshi House before and your attitude was not very good, there is really no need for you to target me like this at such an important coming-of-age ceremony."
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