Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 1: Skirt Banquet ()

Since she had such a guess in her mind, Qiao Lili had to be on guard. She armed herself fully, and so did Cai Qi and Cai Xing who were accompanying her.

For safety reasons, if you can only take two maids with you, then you should take Caiqin and Caixing. Qiao Lili was worried that Caiqin and Caiwei would feel uncomfortable, but she was wrong.

Caiqin and Caiwei treated Caiqi and Caixing better and better. They felt that Caiqi and Caixing had taken on the responsibility of protecting the young lady on their behalf, while also taking on the risks.

Whenever there was something delicious, he would remember to save it for Caiqi and Caixing. He would always let Caiqi and Caixing choose first when he received clothes and jewelry as a reward, and he took good care of their lives. This made Caiqi and Caixing, who had just arrived at Duke Dingguo's Mansion, feel a sense of belonging.

Qiao Lili also became more and more fond of Caiqin and Caiwei.

Even Nanny Sun looked at the two older maids differently. These two maids were loyal to their master and had clear minds. They considered everything from the perspective of their master and did not care about their own gains and losses.

Qiao Lili took Caiqi and Caixing out. Nanny Sun gave them instructions for a quarter of an hour. When they arrived at Zhenxiayuan to say goodbye to the old Duke's wife, the same situation happened again.

Qiao Lili did not feel bored or nagging. On the contrary, she felt very useful and happy.

It was already late, but of course Qiao Lili's status meant that as long as she wasn't late, it wouldn't be considered rude.

When the carriage from Duke Dingguo's Mansion arrived in front of the Third Princess' Mansion, it was blocked by a row of carriages in front of it. It seems that the Third Princess has invited quite a few guests today.

In fact, the real "skirt tent banquet" is an outing in the wild. A group of girls meet in the spring to go out to the wild to see flowers and scenery, compete with flowers and plants, guess riddles, tell stories, and compose poems.

Thousands of hands are vying to climb the willow branches, with tens of thousands of red flowers interspersed among them.

After the fun, they used the grass as a mat, inserted bamboo poles around it, and then connected everyone's skirts and hung them on the bamboo poles to set up a temporary banquet tent for a banquet called "Tainchun". The sound of music was rippled, intertwined with the soft voices and whispers of the girls in the boudoirs, and the grand occasion was evident until dusk when they returned home drunk.

The neighbor girl smiled sweetly, and met me on the mulberry path. I wondered why I had such a good spring dream last night, but it turned out that I won the grass-fighting contest today, and the smiles appeared on both of our faces.

Let's see how the third princess's pretentious banquet turns out today.

Two quarters of an hour later, Qiao Lili's carriage drove into the Third Princess's Mansion. The ladies got off outside the middle gate. Then, the carriage drove out from another gate and waited nearby. Usually, a family would have a servant waiting at the door. If the lady wanted to leave midway, he would quickly send a letter and her carriage would come to pick her up.

Led by the maid, Qiao Lili and two other maids came to the venue of today's banquet, the garden of the Third Princess's Mansion.

What Qiao Lili didn't expect was that there was a male guest today.

Just, Liliyuanshangshang.

Okay, don’t worry about the name of the Qunwo Banquet. Just treat it as an ordinary banquet and you will feel at peace.

The garden is filled with winding corridors, rockery, exotic flowers and plants, bamboo paths, pavilions and curtains. It is very exquisite. Elegantly shaped tables and chairs are scattered irregularly in the garden, filled with fine cakes, tea, juice and fine wine.

There was an oval lake in the garden, with a stone bridge and a wooden bridge connecting the two sides. Half of the lake was covered with water lilies, and several fat koi fish swam around, playing on the lotus leaves to the east and west. A few pairs of mandarin ducks were frightened by the bustling voices and hid under the arch bridge. On the contrary, the mallards were very brave and swam back and forth to compete for the food thrown by the ladies.

On this side of the lake, there were ladies walking or standing in groups of three or four. On the other side of the lake, there were men walking or talking in groups of two or three. They were well-dressed and drinking, and the scene was quite harmonious.

Just as Qiao Lili was looking forward to finding someone familiar to chat with and ease the nervousness of being in a strange environment, good fortune came and a very familiar person walked towards her.

The visitor was wearing a light yellow summer shirt, which was a bit thin to be honest. The sun was very warm in this season, but the wind was still a bit cold. If one stayed outdoors for a long time, wearing such a thin summer shirt would make one look very bleak.

She had her hair in a ponytail bun with a golden hairpin and a jasmine flower ornament between her eyebrows. It was quite unique, but her face was a little unpleasant, it was Bai Rouer's domineering face.

Qiao Lili turned around, not because she was afraid of her, but simply because she didn't want to step on this pile of stinky dog ​​shit.

How could Bai Rouer let Qiao Lili go? Or rather, she had been waiting for Qiao Lili to arrive this morning.

"Hey, isn't this my sister-in-law? Are you going to pretend you don't know your sister?" Bai Rouer's sharp voice attracted almost everyone's attention. After Shang Zhen and his men spared no effort to publicize the engagement between Qiao Lili and Bai Junzhe, and after the emperor's final decision, everyone in the capital knew the whole story.

Now that Qiao Lili and the Sixth Prince have both been engaged, Bai Rouer actually called her like that, just to disgust people.

"Oh, some people just don't learn their lessons. They openly go against the emperor's orders. What do you want to do?" Qiao Lili didn't get angry but laughed instead. She really didn't know what was going on in Bai Rouer's brain circuit. Wouldn't it be good to live secretly?

Do you have to run out and jump around? Don't you have a clear understanding of your own identity and status?

"Cai Qi, slap her ten times."

"Why do you hit me? I just called you sister-in-law. It's not against the law."

"It's not against the law to call an unmarried woman sister-in-law, but you have offended the daughter of the Duke's mansion, so beating you is just a small punishment for you." Cai Qi said this, and after she finished speaking, the sound of a crisp slap rang out. "Pa pa, pa pa..."

Bai Rouer's face immediately turned into a braised pig's head.

The third princess watched all this from a distance in the attic and smiled silently. They were all idiots, and they got involved so quickly. She told the maid Yalan beside her to act according to the original plan. If anything happened to Qiao Lili, she would not be responsible because it was all Bai Rouer's revenge.

That's right, this banquet was held specifically for Qiao Lili. The Second Prince was instigated by the First Prince and had taken a fancy to Qiao Lili. He intended to take Qiao Lili down by any means during the time when Yu Jingyan was away from Beijing.

The reason why the third princess held this banquet was because of one person, Bai Junzhe. She wanted Bai Junzhe to see Qiao Lili's most unbearable side, so that he would completely surrender to her.

As her lover, only she can dominate their hearts. There can't be anyone else in their hearts. She, Qiao Lili, is not worthy of them.

She, Qiao Lili, was not worthy of being dragged into this unprecedented banquet with all the splendor and extravagance; a perfunctory and sloppy banquet that did not live up to its name was enough to get rid of her.

The third princess picked up the wine glass in front of her, took a big sip, pulled Su Xi, who was sitting on her left, over and fed her the wine. Bai Junzhe, who was sitting on her right, was so angry that his eyes popped up. Yu Xinyao loved it most when these lovers were jealous of her. She touched Bai Junzhe's face and asked with a squint, "Do you want it too?"

Bai Junzhe didn't say anything, only communicated with his eyes, then slowly pushed the cup in front of him towards Yu Xinyao.

Yu Xinyao's heart began to panic. This action, this look, why did they look so much like her Mo Lang.

She looked at Bai Junzhe with seductive eyes and said, "Mo Lang, come and feed me."

She was already a little drunk before the party even started.