Chapter 19: Borrowing Flowers!
Chapter 19 Borrowing Flowers for the Buddha!
Second Prince Zhao Mian and the Imperial Concubine sat on a high platform.
Zhao Yi was flanked by the two, a separate set of case tables that were clearly a level higher in class than the others.
Huang Ying served by his side, pouring wine and laying out food while pinching his shoulders to relax.
When the heroine came in, she caught a glimpse of Zhao Yi on the high platform.
In the past, when Zhao Yi attended banquets, he never sat on the high places, and every time, he sat beside her.
The heroine found Zhao Yi annoying at that time, always speaking coldly and never giving him a good face.
Now looking up to Zhao Yi, the heroine was like a lifetime ago, and she was actually a bit uncomfortable.
The heroine withdrew her gaze and walked towards the position under the high platform according to her previous practice.
Before she could get close, the maid serving at the side stopped her.
“Miss Su, your place is not here.”
Hmm?
The heroine froze for a moment.
She frowned, “In the past, I always sat there when I attended banquets!”
The maid’s face did not change, “Miss Su, your seat is at the back.”
The heroine’s face grimaced.
She was just about to get angry when she suddenly heard someone talking next to her.
“Isn’t Su Changyuan a royal historian of the imperial court, how come the daughter he taught doesn’t know any manners at all?”
“That’s right! Her father is just a small fourth rank official, how dare she want to sit at the top?”
“She doesn’t think that she was able to become the head of the top in the past by virtue of her own strength, right?”
“Who says it isn’t! Without the Sixth Prince, what is a mere talent girl?”
“Shhh! Keep your voice down, don’t let the Sixth Prince hear you!”
“What are you afraid of! The Sixth Prince has already asked for a decree to withdraw from the marriage, and is only waiting for His Majesty’s Royal Pen to authorize the termination of the marriage to take effect!”
“What a good man the Sixth Prince is, the Shengjing City can’t find a more loving man than him. It’s a pity that this Su Shallow doesn’t know how to cherish it, and even hooked up with a monk, it’s simply hurtful and degrading to the family!”
“The Sixth Prince is still magnanimous, if it were me, I would have already decapitated this bitch!”
When the female master heard the surrounding chatter, her face turned pale and her body shook, almost falling directly to the ground!
Words taught a thousand times won’t do, things taught once will do.
The heroine used to listen to her father, Su Changyuan, and those matchmakers talking about the harm of women’s impurity, although her heart was anxious, but she did not really feel it.
Now she was being criticized by everyone, and the harsh words were like bone-scratching knives, stabbing at her vital areas one by one!
The heroine only felt chills in her heart and pain.
She was scared.
And finally understood her father’s good intentions!
Can’t withdraw from the marriage!
The heroine took a deep breath and finally made up her mind in her heart.
Zhao Yi was only keeping his distance from her, and these people dared to talk about her behind her back like this.
If she really withdraws from the marriage in the future.
How could there be a place for her in the huge Shengjing City?
Thinking of this, the heroine resisted the urge to turn around and walk away, silently walking to the last corner amidst the contemptuous and mocking eyes of those people.
Sitting down in front of the case table, the heroine felt an unprecedented humiliation!
In the past, when she was with Zhao Yi, the heroine was the center of the crowd wherever she went, when had she ever been subjected to this kind of cold shoulder?
The heroine lowered her head, feeling the strange gazes around her like a thorn in her back!
Soon, everyone was all seated.
The second prince served cups of boiled wine, and everyone began to enjoy the food.
The heroine finally breathed a sigh of relief at this point.
She picked up a piece of venison carefully cooked by the imperial chef and ate it into her mouth, the delicious food did not make her mood better.
The heroine gently chewed a few times, and the food was as bad as chewing wax.
“Ugh!”
The heroine sighed in her heart.
Before she had time to feel sorry for herself, in the banquet hall, a crisp bell suddenly rang.
The heroine’s face changed slightly.
This was the “Wake-up Bell”, the host family was reminding the guests that the exciting program was about to begin.
At the Second Prince’s banquet, there was always only one program.
Drinking!
But before they drink, the guests present gifts to express their blessings.
Drinking couldn’t be considered a program, so giving gifts became the main event!
The heroine used to mock this very thing.
In the entire Shengjing City, the only one who treated receiving gifts as a program was the Second Prince.
The female lead was the most famous talented girl in Shengjing City, always treating money like dirt, unwilling to be tainted by the stench of copper.
Therefore, she never prepared gifts when attending banquets.
Zhao Yi arranges everything for her!
The heroine had gotten used to Zhao Yi’s arrangements, and over time, she had forgotten about gift-giving.
Now that Zhao Yi had fallen out with her, there was no one to help her prepare.
The heroine is left empty-handed and doesn’t know what to do!
Just then, a gasp came from the crowd.
The heroine followed the sound and saw Yao Qing standing at the bottom of the high stage, respectfully bowing towards Zhao Mian and his wife.
Behind her was a huge bronze mirror.
The copper mirror was encrusted with one hundred and eight bowl-sized pink colored dongzhu.
Although the heroine didn’t know anything about pearls, she had heard of the name Dongzhu.
There were many different types of pearls, and the most precious varieties were led by the Eastern Pearls, and the pink Eastern Pearls in the Eastern Sea were the most precious of the precious!
Ordinary pink pearls are already worth a lot of money, Yao Qing behind the copper mirror on the pink pearls are each the size of a bowl, and the shape and size of the exact same, all are rare treasures.
Not only that, all the pink beads on the mirror form a “longevity” character.
This mirror is not only worth millions of dollars, but also has an extraordinary significance!
Zhao Mian couldn’t stop smiling and picked up the wine cup and drank furiously.
He didn’t know if he was really satisfied with the gift or if he was just taking the opportunity to drink a few more cups of wine.
Zhao Mian kept on emptying the wine goblet in front of him before stopping, nodding his head in satisfaction, “Shopkeeper Yao has a heart!”
Yao Qing respectfully returned the salute, “Red powder is given to a beautiful woman, and a precious sword is given to a hero! These dongzhu can only realize their value in the hands of someone who knows how to appreciate them like you, Second Prince, in the hands of my daughter it can only be a pearl in the dust!”
Zhao Mian laughed: “Shopkeeper Yao is flattering! Someone come, give the Rouge Dan I brought back from the palace to Shopkeeper Yao!”
The Second Imperial Concubine loved these dongzhu and explained with a smile, “Shopkeeper Yao, the Rouge Pill was refined by the Myriad Sound Realist of the Xuanzhen Guan, although it’s not as good as the legendary Rouge Pill that can make your face look eternal, it’s still quite useful!”
Yao Qing’s eyes lit up, “Thank you, Your Highness!”
Zhao Mian nodded and was just about to let Yao Qing go back when Yao Qing suddenly spoke up.
She turned her head to look at the heroine in the corner and said with a smile, “I heard that Miss Su is the number one talented girl in Shengjing City, I wonder what gifts she has prepared today?”
The female lead’s body violently trembled.
She did not expect Yao Qing to suddenly point out to her, and her face instantly lost its blood color.
When the people around her saw her like this, they talked about it.
“She wouldn’t be unprepared, right?”
“It looks like it!”
“To attend the Second Prince’s banquet and not bring a gift?”
“Su Changyuan’s face has been disgraced by her!”
The heroine heard the murmurs and pursed her lips, gritting her teeth to keep the tears from falling.
She swept her gaze towards Zhao Yi on the high stage.
Zhao Yi was drinking from his wine glass and didn’t even glance this way.
Undeterred, the heroine turned her head again to look at the other side, at the male lord sitting at the head of Grand Imperial Prince Zhao Coronation.
The male lord sat cross-legged, spinning his scripture beads in his hands, directly ignoring her!
The female lord was completely desperate.
She was just about to make amends to Mr. and Mrs. Zhao Mian when she suddenly saw the sunlight coming straight in through the window.
Sunlight, copper mirror.
The heroine’s heart stirred and she bowed towards Zhao Mian, “Your Highness, Second Prince, may my daughter borrow the white paper for a moment?”
PS: Seek collection, seek to catch up.
(End of chapter)