Chapter 11 The Flower Banquet (IV)

　　Yu'er was uncomfortable being watched and quietly tugged on Peony's sleeve: "Young lady, you'd better take your seat first, right? There's still a lot of nice songs and dances in the back." 　　"Oh." Peony turned her head back and swept into the venue, only then did she realize that the seats were set up in a particular way. There were three seats at the top, with one empty in the middle, but behind the seats stood a group of servants of Princess Qinghua, obviously the upper seat set up exclusively for Princess Qinghua, who had the highest status here. On the left one, sat Pan Rong and his wife Mrs. Bai, behind his group of beautiful and attentive concubines. The right one, however, was the master's seat, which was originally her and Liu Chang's seat, but was occupied by Princess Qinghua. 　　And the following two rows of seats are male left and female right, female guests came quite a lot, has long been the left side of the seat full, male guests seat although there is still space, she can not go to squeeze. The bottom, that is, where she stood, only a lonely acacia tree, did not set up seats. She, surprisingly, has no place to sit. 　　At this moment, except for Liu Chang and Princess Qing Hua, everyone had their eyes on her, and the house-player who played the music messed up the tune, and the dancer who danced with the slender veil made a mistake in the dance steps. The gazes of the crowd included sympathetic intolerance, gloating, disdain, and purely just watching, but there was just not a single one who was willing to help her out, Pan Rong even raised her wine glass at her and made a distant toast, Mrs. Bai frowned and swept a glance at Liu Chang and Sheriff Qing Hua, but she also lowered her eyes. Mother Lin had already slurped lightly, and Yu He's breathing, which had become heavy from anger, resounded in her ears. 　　Perhaps everyone thought that it would be better for her to avoid this kind of occasion? If she was defeated today, how would she still have the face to come out in the future? But it was just bullying her thin skin, what was this? Can she still be suffocated? Peony smiled faintly towards the crowd, signaling Yu He to spread the gold brocade cloak she was holding under the Acacia Tree in public, and she sat down on it gracefully. 　　She has a good material, can not sit on the Yin seat, how about sitting on the gold brocade? With the adulterer and the adulteress of the taste of the original also good, what is the main seat? What is the main seat? She is here alone, more like the main seat. The green waist dance has been messed up, and there is nothing more to see, Peony just sat there, lifting her eyes to look at the crowd lightly. The crowd looked at her, and she also looked at the crowd. When it came to mental capacity, she asked herself if she was still good. 　　It was strangely quiet. 　　Everyone was looking at Peony, looking at Liu Chang and Princess Qing Hua, followed by the sound of whispers. This dynasty is certainly open, princesses and county lords privately keep male pets is not a rare thing, but, this kind of blatant flirting in front of the wife of the other person, the man is really too bullying some, the woman is also too shameless point. 　　Noticed that there is a difference, Qinghua County Lord's face flashed a hint of anger, vigorously pinched Liu Chang's waist: "Your wife is quite rich, gold brocade shakes people's eyes. She is also very skillful, what does she want in the end? Why don't you get lost?" 　　Liu Chang swept Peony a glance with gloomy eyes, looked at the wax bead cherries mixed with sugar and cheese in the gilded silver covered bowl in front of him, slowly stretched out the silver spoon to scoop up a cherry, fed it into his mouth, and faintly said, "She stares like this, all people don't have a good time, and there are still people familiar with the He family in here, I'm afraid that the bad old man is going to come to the door to theorize about it tomorrow, it's annoying to the point of being very annoying. " 　　The corner of Qing Hua County Lord's lips floated up a cold smile: "Saying it nicely, but it's just looking at her pretending to be pitiful and feeling heartbroken. Well, if she is howling in public, you face is also dishonorable, I will go over first." He got up and went to the upper seat, asking the beautiful young man in Hu clothing to give her a whack on the leg, and brought a glass of wine for himself, looking at Peony with a deep gaze. 　　Shixia led Liu Chang's order, quickly walked to Peony's side, bowed and bowed, "Young lady, the Prince said, it's cool here, and the cloak is thin, you are not well, it's better to go and sit over there." 　　Beckoning and waving, it seems as if the purpose of one's guarding here is really to fight with the Qing Hua Sheriff for that seat? Peony smiled faintly, "You go and speak to the Duke, this is the best place, if you are sympathetic to my weak body, then please set up another seat for me." 　　Shixia was in a difficult situation, but she couldn't help Peony, so she bowed down and retreated, going to reply to Liu Chang's words. Liu Chang said expressionlessly, "Let her do as she pleases." Shixia received the order and immediately went to set up a new seat for Peony. 　　After the seats were set up, Mudan put her eyes on the several cases, but she saw that the gilt deer patterned silver plate was filled with ancient Louzi Hu Cake stuffed with mutton, the gilded silver bowl was filled with cherries mixed with sugar and cheese, the glass marigolds were filled with wine, and there was even a plate of white eel known as "soft ding xue cheng" in a fine porcelain plate. 　　Food utensils are exquisite, dishes are exquisite, this kind of table surface, at that time is already the top grade, but Peony herself to use sugar and cheese mixed with cherries this kind of weird taste is not thankful, because I see Yu'er in the side of the bawdy eyes, then casually handed the bowl of cherries to her a few people: "You share eat it." He also rewarded the white eel to Shixia. 　　Shixia smiled and said curtly, "Young lady, if you don't like to eat these, later there are still flying knife chopped fish, and mixed sheep did not neglect." 　　Flying knife chopped fish, to put it plainly, is to eat sashimi, and this mixed sheep no hu, Peony is not aware of, then said: "This mixed sheep no hu is how to say?" 　　Shixia said saliva are flowing out: "This is the palace out of the new method, first of all, scalding water to remove the hair of the goose, remove the organs, in the goose stomach filled with meat and round-grained rice, with the five flavors of the seasoning and good, and then a sheep, the same hair, remove the stomach and intestines, will be put into the goose in the sheep's stomach, the sheep stitched together and roasted. When the meat is cooked, the goose is taken and eaten. Master Gongzi made money to inquire about the method some days ago, and left it for everyone to taste today." 　　Peony sighed, "That's too wasteful." In her heart, she thought, Liu Chang's money is really not much, which may have taken advantage of the He family how much cheaper it is, when she divorced, those dowries can't be cheaper than a penny. And asked xixia: "When will start to enjoy the flowers?" 　　Shixia smiled and said, "Back to the young lady, we have to wait until the guests are full of wine and food, and then we will start only after they have the pleasure of poetry." 　　Seeing Peony enjoying herself, Princess Qinghua felt bad in her heart and pushed the beautiful young man away with a slap, looking askance at Liu Chang, "Is she against you? I remember that she used to follow you and cry her eyes out every chance she got. Now she's so powerful that she's hooked all of your long-time followers." 　　Before Liu Chang could answer, Mrs. Bai faintly said, "Perhaps she is too timid to come up. If she is really made to cry as gently as she was in the past, there is no fun for everyone, so this is very good." Then he raised his cup and said to Princess Qinghua, "Qinghua, I toast to you." 　　Mrs. Bai came from a hundred year old family, and had a very good reputation in the noble circles in the capital, so County Head Qinghua didn't dare to underestimate her, and didn't care how cold she usually was to herself, and happily said, "Mutual respect, mutual respect. You are extremely reasonable, although she is a turtledove and deserves what she gets, but we can't spoil everyone's fun for her." 　　Hatchetting a magpie's nest? You've come to be the favorite of all? Mrs. Bai smiled faintly, took a light sip of wine, got up and said, "Always sitting all day long, it's weirdly meaningless, I'll go for a walk." 　　Pan Rong indifferently drained the wine in her cup, "Go ahead, whatever is fine, as long as you are happy." 　　Lady Bai swept a glance at Peony and brought along a few servant girls with her to turn around and circle out of the banquet venue. 　　Princess Qinghua's wine desire came up, leaned towards Liu Chang's side with gusto, clapped her hands, and after the attention of the crowd was focused on her, she then said loudly, "This princess has recently acquired a hu spinning child, and her hu spinning dance is very good, so I'll take this opportunity to have fun with the crowd." 　　She wanted to show off, who dared to disobey? The crowd naturally all chimed in. A green-clothed maidservant fetched a small round blanket and placed it in the middle of the grass and retreated, and Princess Qinghua looked at the beautiful young man and said, "Dance well for me." 　　"Please don't worry, Your Highness." That beautiful young man smiled with his teeth showing, surprisingly bright and delicate no less than a woman. After he stood on the round carpet, heard the string drums, then raised both sleeves, left and right, wind-like turn up, vertical and horizontal Teng Tap, two feet never leave the carpet above, and occasionally do not forget to throw winks towards the women in the seats. 　　Seeing the crowd look at the eyes, all shouted, especially a few young girls at the table are red, Qinghua County can not help but laugh into a ball. Pan Rong patted a few cases and said, "Good!" Before her words fell, she heard a clear cry of approval, "Good!" Raising his eyes, he happened to see Peony's frown and was taken aback. 　　Not to mention Pan Rong and the others were surprised, it was Yu He, Lin Mama and the others who were also extraordinarily surprised. 　　Peony shouted out with a cry before realizing that she had lost her tongue, which was just too far from the real He Peony's disposition. Her heart was like a shocking wave, but her face remained unchanged, so she excitedly said with Yu'er, "I usually don't come to these banquets, it's really a great loss, the dancing was really wonderful!" 　　Yu'er saw her face flushed, her phoenix eyes flashing with excitement, she couldn't help but nodded along, "Among the people the maidservant has seen, this person is indeed the best dancer." 　　"What is this? It's nothing more than a clamor for the master! Watch later, I will definitely make him pale in comparison!" With a faint laugh of disbelief, a young man wearing a silver and white folded branch and flower round collar missing robe, wrinkled boots, and a long-footed Luo turban, aged around twenty years old, with red lips and white teeth, walked over. 　　As soon as Peony saw this person, the heart that was hanging in the air finally settled down, she immediately made a wink towards Yu He, got up and greeted him happily, "Cousin, I thought you weren't coming."