My younger sister insisted on marrying me and made me the Marquis' wife.

Chapter 319 Banquet (XII)
Qin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, and the discomfort in her heart had dissipated.

Gu Shiba watched his wife's expression gradually soften, and asked cautiously, "Madam, do you want to pass on a message to the Marquis?"

Qin Yuan said, "Forget it. The prince is weak and won't be able to sit for long. But you can ask the Marquis. The Ninth Princess brought the Chang family's little daughter to ask the Gu family to take care of her. I'm not sure about the severity of this matter, so I dare not agree to it rashly."

Gu Shiba responded, tapped his toes lightly, and his figure passed three or four feet away and disappeared quickly.

Qin Yuan returned to the table and sat for a while. A young eunuch came in and whispered something in the Ninth Princess' ear. The Ninth Princess stood up and said, "Madam Gu, Madam, I and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have something to do and cannot stay for long. Enjoy your meal."

Madam Gu tried to persuade her to stay: "The palace has also invited Wuqiao acrobatics and opera troupes, but the Ninth Princess has to leave before she can even see them. What a pity."

The Ninth Princess felt a little reluctant when she heard this, and said, "Brother Crown Prince is in a hurry, so we can only wait and see later."

Chang Qingling had no choice but to stand up with the Ninth Princess. Before leaving, she said reluctantly, "I came here in a hurry this time and haven't met the Marquis yet. Qingling deeply regrets this."

Madam Gu said, "It's okay. Your father is going back to Beijing. We will have a chance to meet in the future."

Qin Yuan served by the side, just smiling and saying nothing.

Everyone escorted the Ninth Princess out of the mansion like a star, and then came back to sit at the table again. They were much more relaxed in their words and actions.

Dai smiled and said, "With the Ninth Princess here, we dare not speak too loudly, for fear of offending the royal majesty."

Madam Jin also said, "This is the first time I have seen the princess of the palace so closely. Her style and dress are so impressive. I wonder if the old lady would not dare to breathe even when she attends the palace banquet."

Madam Gu laughed and said, "This is my first time attending a palace banquet. I didn't eat a single bite of food. I went in hungry and came out hungry. I didn't even dare to drink a drop of water. It was really a torture."

Madam Jin lamented, "What a pity! The food in the palace is all made in the imperial kitchen, and there are all kinds of rare things."

Madam Gu said, "It's not a pity. Think about how many people attended the palace banquet. Could they all eat dragon liver and phoenix marrow? It was still winter, and the dishes were frozen when they were served. Who could eat them?"

After chatting and laughing for a while, everyone cleared the banquet and went to the theater in the mansion to watch a play.

The male guests had also finished their banquet and were seated downstairs and in the lobby. They went upstairs through the back door, which also had a good location and allowed them to see the entire view.

The first to perform was the Wuqiao Acrobatic Troupe.

The show starts with the rope-collision and fancy disc spinning that ladies and girls love to watch.

Two men, a man and a woman, walk towards each other on a thick hemp rope set up. When they meet, they bump into each other's shoulders, so it is called a rope-collision.

This made everyone scream in shock.

Madam Gu smiled and said, "Hurry up and reward me."

The old women guarding the stage hurriedly scattered a basket of copper coins, which fell on the stage and made a crackling sound.

Hongye was very happy to see this and couldn't help laughing: "It sounds pretty good."

Qin Yuan also stared at it with interest.

The rope was tied higher, and as the two men walked towards each other, they made some extremely dangerous moves from time to time, and they were always about to fall off the rope, but they stood still in danger amid the exclamations of everyone.

Amid cheers, copper coins were scattered in baskets.

The rope was tied higher and higher, and became thinner and thinner. The two people's movements on the rope became more and more vigorous. Qin Yuan's heart was in her throat, afraid that someone would fall down.

But the two people on the rope were not afraid at all. They started joking around and made everyone laugh.

At the end, the woman, relying on her light body, even danced on the rope. Gu Baozhu was so excited that she clapped and shouted, "Good, there will be a reward."

As she said this, she pulled out a hairpin from her head and threw it over.

The woman was standing on one leg on the rope, her head slowly tilted back, her waist soft and almost bent into a bow shape. At the critical moment, the leg on the rope was hit by a strong force. She screamed and was about to fall headfirst from the height.

The man on the rope was also shaking, and he was still spinning the porcelain plate with a dozen thin sticks held high in his hands.

Gu Baozhu covered her face: "..."

Madam Gu hurriedly shouted, "Hurry up and save them."

Before the guards could move, a whistle was heard, and the woman somersaulted in the air and returned to the rope, stepping firmly on the shaking rope. The man opposite also slowly stabilized his body, and the plates in his hands were still spinning, and none of them fell.

Gu Baozhu put down her hands that were covering her face and said in surprise, "How amazing."

Old Madam Gu looked at the reckless guy in silence.

Tips were thrown down like rain, mixed with a lot of gold and silver ornaments thrown from the seats.

The people downstairs who were unaware of the situation thought it was a deliberate attempt to create trouble.

They all praised loudly: "Good!"

Qin Yuan heaved a sigh of relief and said to Hong Ye, "Give those two people ten taels of silver to calm them down later. Miss Seven was too reckless in this matter."

Gu Baozhu was glared at by Madam Gu and dared not to do anything rash again. She just stared at the woman on the rope nodding with her toes, and kept exclaiming: "How did you train this? Is this considered as light as a swallow? Can my third brother fly like this?"

Someone laughed and said, "Your Majesty is learning the art of killing the enemy, how can you do this? These people are all lowly people. They learned these things since they were young and performed them for us. How can they compare with Your Majesty?"

Gu Baozhu said: "You don't know, my third brother can also jump very high, but he is not as light as them."

Qin Yuan seemed to be thinking about something.

Someone who knows the business said: "These people were selected from childhood, their bones are soft, their bodies are light, and they can't eat too much, so they are so light. The martial arts that the Marquis practices emphasize the word "strong", which are completely two different skills."

Everyone nodded in unison.

The man standing on the rope was thin and slender. If he wore cast iron armor and carried a spear and shield, he would be crushed before walking two miles.

Gu Baozhu sighed, "It's a pity that I'm a woman, otherwise I would have to learn martial arts from my third brother and fight for a good future on the battlefield. Who wants to get married and have children? It's really boring."

Qin Yuan was listening at the side: "..."

I never thought that the seventh daughter of the Gu family had such ambitions.

Madam Gu said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? I haven't beaten you up yet because I caused trouble just now, but you still want to learn martial arts. Don't you think you haven't caused enough trouble?"

Gu Baozhu said, "These are two different things. If my husband is unreasonable in the future, I will use my fists to reason with him."

Madam Gu was very angry and said to Qin Yuan, "As her sister-in-law, you should take the trouble to teach her well. She really doesn't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. The sons of our military families have fists as big as sandbags. She still wants to reason with others with fists?"

Qin Yuan was troubled by these two women.

Gu Baozhu said: "What's the big deal? I can just marry a man from a civil servant family."