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After Senior Servant Liu said these words, Xu Mingwei secretly looked at everyone's faces and retracted her expression. There was a tinge of respect in her eyes, unlike her previous arrogance.

The empress must be worried that the Eldest Princess would be bullied, so she made her loyal servants show their might before the noble ladies and the Eldest Princess, so that everyone would stop acting prudently. She was truly pitiful to her parents.

Unfortunately, even if she regretted it now, it was too late. She already came in, so there was no reason for her to send him out of the palace. Not to mention that she had no face, it would be difficult to even talk about marriage. Even the entire family would be implicated by her, and she might even be held responsible for her father's actions. Xu Minglan usually acted willfully and recklessly, but he understood this principle, hence he was afraid and regretful right now.

Just thinking about it made Xu Mingwei tired. As expected, people who engaged in politics had hearts stronger than others.

The only time she remembered the two families having met was when she was three years old and the new flower seeker had been listed as a son-in-law and had been engaged to marry the daughter of an assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry. It was probably because the wedding had been hastily arranged that the guests had forgotten to avoid the land mines. At the same time, they had handed out invitations to the Yang Mansion and the Xu Mansion; even if they found out, it would be too late to retrieve them. The encounter on the wedding day between these two hateful old geezers could have gone down in history. No wonder they were political enemies and enemies. Even when they participated in the wedding banquet, they had a tacit understanding with each other. Wearing a water colored wide robe and holding a jade carved girl in one hand, they met in a sedan at the entrance. The moment they met, the entire Flower Searching Manor was so quiet that even a needle drop could be seen. At that time, the two old men looked at each other for a long time, then they tacitly looked at the flower scout, remembered the gift, and entered.

Fortunately, during the feast, the people of the Exploring Flower Manor finally remembered to separate the two old men. At least they didn't cause any trouble.

At that time, Xu Mingwei remembered that the old man from the Yang family had shouted out the name Jin Xi. The only reason she left an impression on him was because the young girl's face was colder than her own. Firstly, Xu Mingwei still had some doubts that she was wearing the same clothes, but after eating this wedding banquet, other than her expression being a little worse, she looked no different from a normal child.

That year, the flower seeker walked on the official road. Not only did the Yang Faction not like him, but the Xu Faction also didn't have a place for him. He was talented enough to offend two big shots in the imperial court with a marriage.

Senior Servant Liu spoke a few words with Wang mama, who was in charge of handling the daily affairs of the noble ladies in the palace, then had the palace maids lead the noble ladies back to their own residence.

The others were also astonished by the magnificent sea of flowers before them. No one had expected the scene behind the purple bamboo forest to be so spectacular. For a moment, their eyes were filled with admiration. They were all born into wealthy families, and it wasn't that they hadn't seen gardens with exquisite designs. But for a garden as beautiful as this, even if the ladies were proud of it, they still had to admit that this was the difference between a heaven's house and a subject's house.

The leader, Wang mama, had received orders from the Senior Servant Liu to bring the seven girls from the back garden. The first few words were just a foreshadowing. What happened after that would truly start from the bottom of their hearts.

Eldest Princess wanted a dutiful and obedient reading partner, not the granddaughter of an elder or the first-in-line daughter of an assistant minister.

Along the way, she also placed all sorts of treasures at random. Although she had seen many good things like these at home, most of them had already been carefully packed, and would frequently be cleaned up, unlike this palace where even the most precious things were only decorative playthings, not even worth a ten thousandth of the master of this palace.

There was no longer any arrogance on Xu Minglan's face as she looked at this and that with her eyes. She wasn't talking about having something to take for herself, she was just simply admiring it. Outside of the palace, a round glass bead was extremely expensive, and there were very few beautiful ones, but inside of this palace hall, there were different colored beads in a large bowl, placed in the corner of the long corridor. Xu Minglan was curious about the use of letting it go like this, was it just for the sake of looking good? Taking advantage of the mama's lack of attention, she took a closer look at the large bowl and discovered that there was a hidden lamp inside. Once the lamp was lit at night, the glass pearl would reflect the light.

Even though it was hard to find a pearl outside, it was merely an object to aid in lighting up the palace. Xu Minglan was secretly speechless in her heart. She knew that the Xu family was already a monstrous wealthy family, but that was not the case with the Xu family that she had lived through since she was young. In terms of food and clothing, she did not exceed the limit, and she was not much different from the other families in the capital.

After a long journey of shock, the girls finally arrived at their resting quarters. Fang Hua Palace was divided into a main hall and two secondary halls. The main hall was reserved for the Eldest Princess, so the ladies stayed in two different secondary halls. Speaking of which, it was a coincidence that the palace did not put Xu Mingwei and Xu Minglan in the same place. Instead, it was the tall girl and the two twins that stayed with her at the Western Palace, while Xu Minglan, Yang Jinxi and the remaining girl stayed at the Eastern Palace.

Xu Mingwei understood that she was saying that the Emperor summoned them into the palace early so that they could not connect the dots.

The servant smiled and said gently, "I am called Zhao Yang, little master can call me Xiao Zhao."