Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 1051 - 1053: Princess Zhao Yue (1)

Chapter 1051: Chapter 1053: Princess Zhao Yue (1)

The noble Duke Li Guo’s Mansion was marrying off a daughter-in-law, and naturally, the ceremony was impressively extravagant and boisterous. Dignitaries from the Empress and The Prince down to princes and ministers all gathered at the Duke Li Guo’s Mansion to offer their felicitations.

For a time, the vast mansion was overflowing with people. The courtyard and garden were crowded everywhere with guests. The men were arranged in the theatre, with the princes and grandsons led by The Prince, as well as prime ministers and dukes of the first rank, they were seated in the pavilions facing the stage, watching plays and chatting while drinking; the others were arranged on the open ground below the stage. The female guests were arranged in the Ruifang Pavilion by the water in the back garden.

Ruifang Pavilion was a square pavilion straddling over a pond, extending only a gallery on the south side, but the space was still quite large. All around the pavilion were placed basins of various prestigious flowering plants, each basin blooming with vigorous beauty, fragrant and delightful, attracting colorful butterflies fluttering and competing for beauty with the flowers.

Seats were also arranged in the pavilion, with the Empress, Lady Liu of the Duke Li Guo’s wife, and several high-ranked noble ladies such as Madam Ning, the Prime Minister, General Li’s wife, and others seated in the principal seats. Lady Du was also pulled to sit at that table. Initially, she was somewhat afraid, as the shadow left by the Empress from the last time at the Duke Li Guo’s Mansion to celebrate the Old Madame’s birthday had not yet faded, so when she was pulled to that table by her Old Madame, she was still trembling with fear, not daring to sit down.

However, to her surprise, Empress Mo actually smiled at her and said indifferently, "You are quite far along now, sit down quickly, be careful not to tire the child!"

Lady Du sat down with reverence and fear, feeling as if she were in a dream. Although the Empress’s words were indifferent, without much feeling, in the ears of others, it was a genuine concern for her, giving her plenty of face.

Wen’er and Wu’er were led by Huan Qiu, sitting not far from Ruifang Pavilion with a group of young masters who had come to the mansion.

This group of boys were all sons of aristocrats; what delicacy had they not tasted? So, they paid no attention to food and drink. Instead, they all clamored to go to the fake mountain to catch crickets upon hearing the sound of cricket from there, but were coaxed by the nannies and maids behind them. Fei’er was pulled by Mo Shuya to sit with several Misses from the Mo Family, seated at the same table were also the eldest Miss Li Ruizhu from General Li’s house, the precious daughter Ning Huaixiu from Prime Minister Ning’s house, and an extremely beautiful Princess.

It is said that this Princess was borne by Concubine Yao from inside the palace. Her health had been delicate and fragile since childhood, so following the advice of the former National Teacher Tianjizi, she had been raised outside the palace. Only recently had she been brought back to the palace by The Emperor and bestowed with the title Princess Zhao Yue.

For some reason, ever since Fei’er took her seat, Princess Zhao Yue’s gaze had been fixed on her, studying her with an extremely complex look. Fei’er caught that intricate look several times when she lifted her head, which not only made Fei’er perplexed but also subtly uneasy, uncertain why this noble Princess would stare at her so intently!

Today, Fei’er was dressed very appropriately: a silver-red soft yarn gauze dress paired with a Qiuxiang-colored delicate flower-patterned thin gauze skirt. Instead of wearing her shiny black hair in a high bun, it was braided in fine small braids from front to back, gathered at the back of her head into a shape that resembled a blooming peony flower. The glossy black peony with layers upon layers was strikingly lifelike, contrasting against her pale jade-like cheeks, creating a vivid contrast of black and white, she was truly beautiful!

On her delicate earlobes, she wore a pair of understated luxurious earrings. The design of the earrings was simple and elegant, a slender gold thread with two Melo beads the size of peanuts hanging beneath. Although the beads were not large, what was rare was that both beads were exactly alike, whether in size, color, lustre, the pattern or their roundness, precisely matching without the slightest difference.

Such a bead, if sold separately, could fetch at least a thousand taels of silver, but two identical beads paired together would probably cost more than five thousand taels!