After rebirth, the Prime Minister's wife married the living devil

Lin Yanyu thought Qian Caixia was very strange. She wanted to chase her away first, and when she was about to leave, she stopped him.

At first he circled around her a few times, his expression changing several times, and finally he apologized with a smiling face.

"I'm sorry, Madam Li, I was just irritated by that village woman. Logically, Madam Li is also the victim, and I really shouldn't be angry at you."

She took Lin Yanyu's hand and led her back behind the desk.

"Madam Li, please sit down. My mother and the governor's wife will be here soon. We can start the banquet when they arrive."

Lin Yanyu felt that Qian Caixia was holding her hand a little too hard. She frowned slightly and sat down under the force.

Today, at the flower-viewing banquet at the government office, many local gentry, officials, clerks and soldiers came to the front yard. The imperial power did not extend below the county level, and without the support of these people, local officials would sometimes be restricted in what they could do.

Li Yanqi had just arrived in the provincial capital and had not yet completely established his foothold. The relationship network in Chongzhou Prefecture was more intricate and complicated than that in Yunlong County.

She didn't want Li Yanqi to leave the table halfway and miss this perfect opportunity to build their relationship.

Qian Caixia stood at the table and looked down at her. Suddenly, she said in an ambiguous tone, "It seems that Li Jun loves his wife very much."

Her eyes swept from the pearl hairpin on Lin Yanyu's head to her lotus pink satin shoes.

"Madam Li is not only very cute, but her clothes are also very nice. I see that your outfit looks plain, but the workmanship is very exquisite. Is it the work of Lady Jin from Jinxiu Pavilion?"

"Also, the material of your clothes is really good. Where did you buy it in Yunlong County? Can you teach me how to buy some too?"

Lin Yanyu lowered her eyebrows and closed her eyes, and said in a calm voice: "Miss Qian, I am sorry to have embarrassed you. I am from a small family and have never seen the world. This is my first time attending such an important occasion, and I picked the only thing I can show off. I don't know what material it is made of, and I don't even remember where I bought it."

There was a flash of anger in Qian Caixia's eyes. Just as she was about to say something, she saw maids walking in a line from the stone path, each holding a beautiful platter of fresh fruits in their hands.

She knew that her mother had ordered a banquet and estimated that the governor's wife would come over soon.

Qian Caixia pulled up the corners of her mouth, her smile not reaching her eyes, and said with a hint of sarcasm: "The banquet will start soon. There are a few new cooks from Lingnan who have fled to the government office. Madam Li, you have to eat more. After all, you don't have many opportunities to eat exquisite dishes."

"I will remember what you said and I will not let Miss Qian down."

Qian Caixia looked at her beautiful face with lowered brows and a faint smile, and she felt as if she had punched cotton, feeling extremely aggrieved.

The inquiring looks from everyone only made her feel more embarrassed and she couldn't help but get angry.

But her self-esteem told her that if she lost her temper in front of Li Yanqi's wife at this moment, she would lose.

Qian Caixia gritted her teeth and tried to smile at Lin Yanyu, "Madam Li, please feel free to eat and drink. I'm going to the kitchen to check out the fruits and dishes. I won't be with you here for now."

The shaky smile on her face fell to the ground and shattered after she turned her head.

Seeing the Shu brocade clothes on Lin Yanyu, what else could she not understand?

The shock and fear I felt when I saw Li Yanqi a few days ago seemed to be vivid in my mind.

Qian Caixia was the daughter of a wealthy prefect, but the only setback she experienced in her life almost cost her life.

When she was rushing back to Chongzhou from her trip, she took a shortcut despite the guards' advice and encountered vicious rebel bandits. Although she survived in the end, her clothes were torn to pieces in public with dozens of eyes watching her. How could she claim to be innocent?

Even though the bandits were killed, her two maids were secretly executed.

But Li Yanqi witnessed her most filthy and miserable moment, when she had no self-respect and begged like a dog.

The funniest thing is...

Only now did she realize that Li Yanqi had saved her just to make nice clothes for his wife, a country girl whom she had always looked down upon... that was all.

Qian Caixia walked on the stone path, she was so angry that she had no expression on her face. She walked to a clump of crabapples and stood still, looking at the delicate flowers in front of her. A face that she wanted to crush popped into her mind.

She became furious and gritted her teeth to pull out those annoying crabapples, threw them on the ground, and stepped on them into lumps of pink floral mud. Looking at the pink color on the white pearl-embroidered shoes, Qian Caixia waved to a little maid in green.

"come here."

……

After the maid brought the fruits and melons, the prefect's wife, the governor's wife, and a group of maids and servants slowly came down the stone path.

Everyone at the table stood up and greeted the two officers' wives.

Lin Yanyu also stood up and saluted with everyone else, lowering her head and looking up.

The two noble ladies in the lead, the taller one had a high bun on her head, and wore red gold hairpins with kingfisher feathers and auspicious clouds and golden flowers on their heads, two golden ruyi combs, inch-long golden earrings hanging from her ears, and a necklace around her neck.

She was wearing a brand new dark green Hangzhou silk double-breasted shirt embroidered with hundreds of butterflies and flowers, a dark blue skirt, and two pure gold bracelets on her hands. She was shining with golden light and had a ruddy complexion. She looked like the wife of the prefect.

Lin Yanyu's eyes turned and she saw that the Jiedushi's wife looked pale and weak compared to the prefect's wife.

She had her hair tied up in a simple bun, with only a lotus flower hairpin inlaid with kingfisher feathers and gems inserted diagonally, amber earrings, a soft blue wide-sleeved shirt with flower and bird patterns, and a shadow blue silk skirt embroidered with epiphyllums. Her outfit was extremely simple and elegant.

When she passed by Lin Yanyu, she nodded slightly to her, then followed the prefect's wife to the upper seat.

Lin Yanyu nodded in return, and the moment she looked up, she saw a woman in a pink skirt following closely behind the Jiedushi's wife.

She vaguely saw the woman's profile and felt that she looked familiar, as if she had seen her somewhere.

The wives of officials of all ranks in Chongzhou Prefecture were gathered here. Lin Yanyu's seat was at the back, and in a blink of an eye the woman walked away and could no longer be found.

After the two wives of high-ranking officials were seated, little maids in green clothes with double buns came out one after another, carrying delicacies in their hands.

Plates were placed on the desks, all of them were official kiln powder-green glaze plates, in different shapes and sizes, including sunflower-shaped plates, plum blossom plates, chrysanthemum plates, crabapple plates, lotus plates and so on.

The crabapple plate contains crystal clear and delicious candied crabapples, the chrysanthemum petal plate contains chrysanthemum honey jelly, the lotus plate contains lotus seed paste and chestnut heart cake, and the plum blossom plate contains lotus heart, red dates and plum blossom cake…

Every dish was themed after the flower viewing banquet.

Lin Yanyu took a small spoonful of chrysanthemum honey jelly and put it into her mouth. The sweet taste melted in her mouth, and then the refreshing and pleasant chrysanthemum aroma diffused in her mouth.

She narrowed her eyes, put aside the unpleasantness that had just happened, and began to enjoy the food with all her heart.

The maidservant quickly removed the chrysanthemum petal plate and served a dish of jasmine tofu. Lin Yanyu had eaten this dish before and she liked it very much.

But when the dish was placed in front of her and the rich floral aroma hit her face, she couldn't help but feel her stomach churning.

"vomit…"