Chapter 60 Fool
As dusk fell, the lights in Minghe Garden began to light up.
The winding water reflects the glazed palace lanterns and the rising stars and moon in the sky, with flowing light and fragmented shadows.
The Guanlan Terrace overlooking the water stood high above the seats, and the bright yellow imperial curtains swayed gently in the evening breeze.
The Guanlan Terrace is arranged in a stepped manner from high to low, and seats are arranged according to rank.
Minghe Garden, a place specially used for hosting banquets for officials and guests, combines luxury and elegance.
All officials, along with their families, took their seats under the whispered guidance of palace servants.
As a third-rank official, Minister Ning naturally sat in the front.
The Zhu family was seated further back. Perhaps it was fate, but the Zhu family's seat was just below and opposite Minister Ning. When Wei Rong looked up, he could see the girl sitting behind Lord Zhu below.
Yun Fu sat cross-legged obediently in Wei Rong's arms, and also noticed the Zhu family members sitting diagonally below her.
From the palace gate to Minghe Garden, Maomao looked in her direction whenever he found a chance.
Now that he had just sat down, the cat was looking around, trying to find her.
At this time, the banquet had not officially started yet, and the emperor, empress dowager and various princes had not yet arrived, so the atmosphere was still quite relaxed.
Many daughters of officials who were familiar with each other would occasionally meet and whisper to each other.
The cat was a little nervous at this time, its little hands tightly grasping its skirt, its body tense.
There were many exquisite pastries on the table in front of it, but it didn't dare to touch them.
Yun Fu noticed Maomao's nervousness, sat up and looked around.
Wei Rong saw Ah Fu in his arms looking around, and a trace of emotion flashed across his eyes, but he did not show it on his face.
Yun Fu had already observed the route and patted the man's hand that was holding her, signaling him to let go.
"Meow~" I'll leave for a while.
Because there were people everywhere, Yun Fu did not write with her claws. She could only see whether she and Wei Rong had a tacit understanding during their time together.
Wei Rong naturally understood what the little guy was going to do. He let go of his hand and said calmly, "Go early and come back early."
Then he made a gesture to Shen Shi in the dark, indicating him to look at Ah Fu and not be offended by any blind guy.
Yun Fu relaxed her body and jumped out of Wei Rong's arms lightly, giving the man an admiring look.
Well, it’s worth it that I’ve been with him for so long, we do have this tacit understanding.
The table where the delicacies were placed was covered with a bright yellow tablecloth. With the cover of the tablecloth, Yun Fu ran freely under the table.
Occasionally, I would accidentally step on a lady's embroidered shoes, causing them to exclaim softly.
I lifted the tablecloth but found nothing.
Zhu Yuxi pushed a bowl of osmanthus and lotus seed soup in front of her little cousin and reached out to pinch the little girl's hand that was holding the hem of her skirt.
"Don't be afraid, Fu Fu, eat this, it's delicious."
The cat looked at the bowl in front of it, and the sweet smell kept coming into its nose.
Since becoming a biped, the cat discovered that there are so many delicious things in the world besides leftovers and small fish and shrimps to fill its stomach.
Lu Fanglin, who was standing by, pushed the processed fish in front of her niece.
Ever since the Zhu family knew that Yunfu liked to eat fish, there would always be one to three dishes of fish on the dinner table every day.
Steamed, boiled, fried, take your turn.
"Fu'er, eat more meat and drink less lotus seed soup. There will be crabs later, and your aunt will peel them for you."
The original nervousness and anxiety gradually dissipated under the comfort of the two, but...
The cat raised its head and looked to the front and side, and found that the fellow creature that had been squatting on the two-legged beast had disappeared.
It was in a low mood, and the delicious smelling food in front of it was no longer that tempting to it.
But in order not to disappoint the two people who were friendly to it, the cat picked up the spoon and scooped the lotus seed soup a little clumsily.
"Pfft~ He really is a fool~"
At this moment, a light laugh came from the side.
Zhu Yuxi's smiling face suddenly darkened, and she turned to look at the person sitting next to her.
"Who are you calling a fool?"
The person was wearing an emerald green silk dress, and the jade jewelry she wore complemented the dress perfectly. Her face was also painted with delicate peach blossom makeup, but the contempt in her eyes ruined her beautiful makeup a little.
"Who else can I blame? How old is he and can't even hold a spoon? What else can he be but an idiot?"
Hearing this, Lu Fanglin's delicate face darkened. She looked the elegantly dressed girl up and down. "Miss, please be careful with your words. How my child holds the spoon is her freedom. It's none of your business."
"Those who can come to this banquet tonight are all dignitaries favored by His Majesty, and are also well-known figures in the capital. I wonder which family you are from? You speak so rudely. Do you know that the current Empress Dowager values etiquette the most?" Zhu Yuxi spoke in a loud voice, and everyone around heard it.
His original mentality of watching the show was immediately put away, and he sat up straight, not daring to watch the fire from the other side of the river.
The girl in green's face turned red and black, and the embroidered handkerchief in her hand was crumpled into a ball.
Just as I was about to say something, I felt something tugging at the corner of my clothes.
She quickly lowered her head and tugged at the hem of her skirt, only to see that the embroidery on the hem of the crabapple and kingfisher pattern, embroidered with gold and silver threads, had all been snagged, and the threads were a tangled mess.
“My skirt!!!”
The girl in the green dress screamed, attracting many people to look over.
The girl's mother quickly covered her mouth. The man in official uniform sitting in front turned around and glared at his unpresentable daughter.
Zhu Yuxi saw the man’s skirt getting caught and sneered, “Serves him right!”
If it weren't for the fact that the banquet was about to start and it would damage the reputation of the Zhu family, she would have wanted to go up and smash the man's mouth.
The seemingly gentle girl is extremely protective of her family.
And the person involved... no, the cat involved was completely unaware of this matter, as if it wasn't her who was being talked about.
This was mainly because the cat didn’t understand what the biped said, it only knew that the smell of this person was not pleasant at all.
The cat, who had drunk half a bowl of lotus seed soup, suddenly stopped what he was doing, sniffed with his little nose, and his beautiful peach blossom eyes trembled.
It stretched out its little hand to lift the tablecloth, and saw the fellow it had been thinking about day and night suddenly appear before its eyes.
Yun Fu shook her paws at the girl who was bending over and looking at her, and meowed softly.
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