Chapter 127

After several days of rain, the weather finally cleared up on the day of the Lotus Appreciation Banquet

-Ling Jingyan put on her new clothes and put on the six pieces of jewelry she picked out two days ago

She turned around in front of Ling Jingshu, “Ah Shu, how is it, does it look good?”

Ling Jingshu stifled her laughter and complimented in a serious manner, “Of course it looks good

I saw a head full of pearls and emeralds from afar, and it was so bright and shiny that it made people dizzy”

Wait, is this complimenting her or making fun of her?

Ling Jingyan thought seriously for a moment, then pounced on her with open teeth and claws, “Good, how dare you make fun of me, see how I can clean you up”

The two of them laughed and fooled around for a while

Ling Jingshu reached out her hand and pulled out a beaded hairpin a hairpin for Ling Jingshu, and removed the jeweled collar from her neck

Then she pushed her to the mirror, “Now take a look, isn’t it much fresher than before?”

A young girl in her youthful age, youth is the greatest beauty

If you wear too much jewelry, it will look tacky

Ling Jingyan looked at it for a while, and had to admit that what Ling Jingshu said was the right thing to do, “Alright, alright, I’ll just listen to you”

Turning her head again, she said to Ling Jingshu, “What about you, are you still not even wearing a new dress today?”

Ling Jingshu laughed carelessly, “Princess Changping specially organized a lotus appreciation banquet, if I dress too casually, it would be disrespectful to Her Highness

-New clothes always need to be worn, you wait for a while, I’ll come after I change into new clothes”

Ling Jingyan nodded, secretly feeling strange in her heart

Ah Shu had never dealt with Princess Changping before, but every time she mentioned Princess Changping, her tone was always somewhat inexplicably subtle

After waiting for a few moments, Ling Jingshu quickly changed into her new clothes and came outHow is it, does it look good?”

Ling Jingshu followed Ling Jingyan’s earlier example and spun around

Ling Jingyan looked at Ling Jingshu with a somewhat strange expression, as if she was holding back some difficult words that she just couldn’t say

Ling Jingshu realized in her heart, and intentionally smiled at Ling Jingyan with a raised eyebrow, “What’s wrong?

Wasn’t you stunned by my dumping!”Ah Shu, don’t joke around”

Ling Jingyan exhaled a long breath

Confusion surfaced on her face, “You were born with a beautiful and moving face, and even if you don’t intentionally make up, you are still a complete beauty

You deliberately wore this autumn scented dress because you wanted to look old-fashioned

Don’t draw attention to yourself, right?”

Ling Jingyan looked serious, and Ling Jingshu also put away her joking mind, nodding her head without hiding it and admitting, “Yes, I do have this intention”Last time at the Hui Chun Hall, Countess Fu Min made things difficult for me at every turn

It was because of this face of mine

The Crown Princess had a bad first impression of me, also because of this face of mine

Princess Changping didn’t have a good face when she first saw me, still because of this face”A woman’s beauty is a gift from the heavens, so I shouldn’t complain

But I really hope that this face doesn’t cause any more attention or trouble for me”

This feeling of wanting to sympathize with her and wanting to beat her up at the same time was really complicated and sour!

Ling Jingyan gazed at Ling Jingshu with a complicated and contradictory gaze and said honestly, “The color of Autumn Fragrance is indeed a bit old-fashioned, and very few young maidens wear this color of dress

But you look surprisingly good in a dress of this color”

So it’s not striking or something

It’s simply impossible ah!

Ling Jingshu sighed long and hard, “Yes!

When I looked in the mirror just now, I also realized this serious fact

But if I changed into bright clothes, wouldn’t I be even more eye-catching?”

What if she wanted to punch her even more?

Ling Jingyan also sighed long and hard, “Ah Shu, for the sake of us being cousins, I’ll grudgingly forgive you for mindlessly hurting me”

According to the custom of the Great Zhou Dynasty, after the royal prince and princess grew to the age of ten in the palace, they would have to leave the palace to build a residence

Changping Princess is extremely favored by the emperor, in the construction of the Princess House, some “slightly” beyond the Princess regulations, the House of Internal Affairs did not say anything

The emperor also just as no such thing

As a result, Changping Princess’s mansion covers an area of even more than the elder brother An Wang Kang Wang, only slightly smaller than the Crown Prince’s House in the East Palace

Mansion carved beams and painted pavilions, everywhere luxurious and exquisite

Staggering

Only a back garden, it covers an area of hundreds of acres

In the inner city of Luoyang, this is simply extravagant to the extreme

Princess Changping loved peonies, and the garden specially circled out a large piece of empty land to make a peony garden

It was a pity that the peony season was over now, so there were no peonies to enjoy, but only the lotus leaves and flowers in the lake

The lake is not very big

It covers an area of about ten acres and is located in the northwest corner of the garden It is specially designed to draw living water into the lake, and the water is crystal clear

Inside raised many varieties of valuable fish

The lake is surrounded by green trees, and in the center of the lake is a three-story viewing pavilion

The lotus appreciation banquet is located on the pavilion

If you want to go to the viewing pavilion, you can walk over the wooden bridge over the lake, or you can get on a light boat and let the beautiful palace maids or handsome chamberlains row the boat, which is a different kind of fun

When Ling Jingshu and the others arrived at the lake with the steward, there were people on the lake who happened to be on the light boat

Ling Jingshu casually asked with a smile, “Cousin Yan, do you want to ride the boat?”

With Ling Jingyan’s fresh and lively nature, she would want to ride the boat

Unexpectedly, this time, Ling Jingshu guessed wrong

Ling Jingyan shook her head, “Forget it, let’s just walk over the wooden bridge”

Not waiting for Ling Jingshu to ask further questions, she gave an honest explanation, “Ever since I met the bandits on that midnight boat ride, I had nightmares for many days in a row

I have a psychological shadow over boat rides

So, let’s just walk there!”

Ling Jingshu was dumbfounded, no matter how she thought about it, she couldn’t imagine that this would be the reason

However Cousin Yan, I was the one who was caught by the bandits that night, and I was the one who almost lost my life

If there is to be a shadow it should be me too!”

Ling Jingshu half-joked, half-joked, “I’m fine for good reason, why are you afraid of the boat ride?”

Ling Jingyan honestly conceded, “Don’t look at me as jumping up and down, but I’m actually the smallest of guts

Anyway, I don’t dare to take the boat anymore”

It was fine not to take the boat!

Ling Jingshu raised her voice and said to the chamberlain in front of her, “We won’t take the boat, we’ll just walk across the bridge”

The chamberlain was quite surprised, “Are you ladies really not taking the boat?

It’s early summer, sitting on the boat, with a stroke of the wooden pulp, swinging away the layers of lotus leaves, there’s a different kind of beauty”

The ladies who came to the Princess’s residence for the banquet were all traveling by boat to the Viewing Pavilion

Who would be willing to brave the sun and walk across the wooden bridge?

Ling Jingshu smiled and said, “Thanks for the reminder, but we’re not used to taking a boat, so it’s better to walk over”

The chamberlain did not say anything more to persuade her, and led Ling Jingshu and her party to the wooden bridge