Yanmenchun

Princess Tai'an's marriage was imminent, but in order to show her importance, the queen held a flower viewing banquet in the palace, and invited noble ladies from Dongdu to attend the banquet, and introduced Princess Tai'an to them.

Princess Tai'an wore a shocking bun, with mother-of-pearl hairpins inlaid with pearls on both sides, and a hairpin with orchid grass pattern hanging from gold threads on the back.

Shen Tuchan glanced at the rouge on the table and said, "Give the princess some glass flame."

Liuliyan is the simplest kind of flowers between eyebrows, like a slender beam of flame, with a vertical stroke.

Shen Tuchan wore a round-neck gown for a female officer, and a golden crown on her head, with small red ribbons hanging down from both sides of the golden crown.

Princess Tai'an originally didn't plan to bring Li Jingshu along, but Shen Tuchan took her along and asked her to attend in the same capacity as herself.

When they arrived in the garden, the queen's maid was waiting for them, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, the queen will be here in a while, and this servant will introduce you to the fourth princess."

The fourth princess is the most favored among the princesses. If the emperor is guilty of Yu Wenxu, then he is the favorite of the fourth princess from the bottom of his heart.

The fourth princess named Yuwen Yuexiang was born to the emperor's Concubine Hui, but when she was twelve years old, Concubine Hui died of illness.

Shen Tuchan followed the gaze of the female officer. Yuwen Yuexiang was wearing a sapphire blue palace dress with a hundred birds facing the phoenix, and a corolla on her head. The corolla was inlaid with gorgeous bird feathers and pearls, and a sapphire hung down , is falling eyebrows, very gorgeous.

When she saw Princess Tai'an, she stepped forward with a smile, and the two greeted each other.

Shen Tuchan followed Princess Taian and saluted.

Yuwen Yuexiang smiled and said: "I often heard that the Dajin people are outstanding, but I didn't believe it in the past. When I saw the princess and Miss Shentu today, it really lived up to its reputation."

She is on the same level as Princess Tai'an, but she claims to be the palace, obviously she can't let go of her sense of superiority.

At this time it was not Shen Tuchan's turn to speak, Princess Tai'an smiled slightly: "Where is the princess, I feel ashamed when I see you, and I heard that the princess is not only beautiful, she is also good at playing piano, chess, calligraphy, horseback riding and archery. I wait!"

Yuwen Yuexiang covered her face and smiled, and said to the noble ladies next to her: "Look, you used to say that you were stupid and you didn't know it, but now look at His Highness Tai'an, do you know how stupid your tongue is?"

In a few words, he actually compared Princess Tai'an to a vassal.

Princess Tai'an smiled and said nothing, a noble girl with almond eyes and peach cheeks next to her took a round fan and slapped it twice and said with a smile: "How can we compare with the princess!"

Obviously smoothing things over.

Yuwen Yuexiang glanced at her lightly, and Shen Tuchan smiled and said: "Our Dajin practiced the pampering of noble girls, and the princess was raised under the empress's knees. I am used to the rules. I have never seen many fun and interesting things outside the palace. Riding a horse and archery I can envy the noble girls outside, but now that I have come to Da Zhou, I have seen a different world, and I have to count on the fourth princess to take our princess to play more in the future."

She spoke so long that Yuwen Yuexiang and all the ladies' eyes fell on her.

Shen Tuchan stood with a smile, neither humble nor overbearing, but the smile floated on the surface, her eyes were cold, and her eyes were clean.

"This is Miss Shentu, right?" Yuwen Yuexiang fiddled with the armor on her hand.

Shentuchan smiled and said, "I have seen the fourth princess."

The round-faced and peach-cheeked lady next to her didn't dare to speak anymore, Yuwen Yuexiang put away her smile slightly: "Miss Shentu came to Dazhou as a female official, right?"

Shen Tuchan didn't even nod her head, she just raised her eyebrows to signal her to continue talking.

Yuwen Yuexiang snorted softly: "Everyone here has status. How can you, a little female official, speak without authorization? Are the rules of Dajin so loose?"

As soon as she said this, the surroundings fell silent, even the empress's mother was stunned, she did not expect that she would make a public attack, it really is too big to be two tigers.

The smile on Princess Tai'an's face faded instantly, Shen Tuchan touched her arm lightly, motioned her to stop talking, and then said with a smile: "Fourth princess, you may have made a mistake, I am the eldest Jin's female officer is not your Da Zhou's, I'm here to accompany our princess, so naturally I have to speak for her, why can't I just wait for our princess to speak for me? What's wrong with that?"

"Oh——" Yuwen Yuexiang said meaningfully, "Miss Shentu, don't mind, I just saw that you and the lady behind are all beautiful, so I thought"

Half of the words will only make people daydream more, why can she think that she and Li Jingshu are dowry maids who will warm the beds of the masters in the future.

Li Jingshu's complexion had already darkened, Shen Tuchan smiled and remained silent.

Princess Taian said with a gloomy face: "Yuexiang, I respect you as a princess, do you really regard yourself as the master of this palace? To put it bluntly, you are a princess, and this palace is also a princess, and I want to marry you. You are going to get married, and if you humiliate your future sister-in-law at the first meeting, you don't take the will of the emperor and empress seriously, right?"

But Yuwen Yuexiang was not afraid, snorted and was about to speak, but Princess Taian didn't give her a chance to speak at all: "If you don't like me, I won't make mistakes, and we won't see you at such banquets in the future. , anyway, there are many sisters in the Yuwen family, you have your playmates, and I have my playmates!"

As she said that, she turned her head and wanted to leave, so scared that the queen's mother hurriedly supported her: "Oh, princess, it's just a few jokes, don't be angry, the empress is coming soon!"

Yuwen Yuexiang has been in the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty for more than ten years, and she has never seen any noble lady dare to be so direct. After all, it is obvious that there are no rules.

She sarcastically said, "Is this Da Jin's rule?"

Princess Tai'an did not hesitate: "Which of the noble daughters of the Jin Dynasty dares to speak out to anger this Palace?"

Yuwen Yuexiang was about to speak when the eunuch over there reported that the queen had arrived.

After accepting everyone's greetings, the queen smiled and said: "What's the matter? The sword is drawn."

The nanny looked around and didn't speak, as if she was afraid that her prestige would be compromised, so she took a step forward and reported the matter.

What she said was basically the same, but when it came to Yuwen Yuexiang's humiliation of Shen Tuchan, she was a little nervous, so she said it twice before letting go.

The smile on the queen's lips faded. If Princess Tai'an was already her daughter-in-law, she would have to punish both of them together. As a sister-in-law, Princess Tai'an would have to be punished more severely, and Yuwen Yuexiang was favored by the emperor. It's just that she is not her daughter-in-law yet, and the envoys and wedding procession of Dazhou are still in the eastern capital.

She looked at Yuwen Yuexiang: "Yuexiang, it's because of your verbal disrespect."

Yuwen Yuexiang said unconvinced: "Mother, Yuexiang didn't say anything about Tai'an, she was just curious about Shen Tuchan's identity. She ran on her son and minister when she came up, and the mother will punish her severely!"

This is too ignorant to say.

The three noble daughters of Da Zhou were silent, but Princess Tai'an's expression already showed her attitude.

The queen had no choice but to ignore Yuwen Yuexiang's words, looked at her and said: "Princess Yuexiang is rude, she was punished by confinement for half a month, and she copied the Qingxin Sutra. Princess Tai'an was wronged today, so she took out the jade bracelet I got newly."

Princess Tai'an saluted and thanked her.

Yuwen Yuexiang bowed and said, "Queen mother, what's wrong with my son?"

The queen glanced at her: "Princess Tai'an came from afar, and we will be a family in the future, but you insisted on being the master in front of her, and even embarrassed Da Jin's noble daughter who came to accompany her. This is not her face, but yours." own face."

No matter how favored Yuwen Yuexiang is, it is impossible for her to make a mistake in front of her aunt, so she can only bear with resentment for the time being.

When the queen came, no one dared to make a mistake, so everyone sat together and talked about the customs and interesting stories of the two countries.

Coming out of the flower viewing banquet, Princess Taian snorted as soon as she left the palace: "What! The peacock's feathers are stretched to the sky, just like the auntie of the shopkeeper of the silver building!"

For Princess Tai'an to say such indecent words, it was obvious that she was really angry with her.

Li Jingshu glanced at Princess Tai'an and said, "How about killing it?"

Now she seems to dislike everyone, she is extremely hostile, and she kills when she opens her mouth and shuts her mouth.

Princess Tai'an said coldly: "It must be a disaster if you keep it."

Both of them looked at Shen Tuchan, and Shen Tuchan stroked the red ribbon on her temples and said with a smile: "I have always been kind-hearted, and for no reason, I don't want to kill someone just because of a few words."

Before the words finished, he continued: "But there is always someone who can kill for us."