C157 Sisterhood

The prince's consort left quickly. After all, it was impossible to leave the garden full of female servants to entertain her alone.

However, before she left, she still introduced some women to the members of the household. Most of them were the wangfei ladies of a certain prince's estate. She gathered the information from her mind and finally got to see some of them.

As for the family members of the court officials, they weren't introduced. However, Su Zixuan still had some impression of them and knew which family they belonged to.

This time, the Autumn Festival consisted of two groups of people: one group was made up of married women, the other group consisted of young ladies. However, Su Zixuan had already been engaged, and the wedding ceremony was nearing.

These were the rules that everyone agreed upon. Generally, people wouldn't give invitations to a girl who was about to be married off. Firstly, it wasn't good for a girl to be married off, and secondly, people would come and go at banquets, so it wouldn't be good if they bumped into some other guy.

However, the Crown Prince's wife was only planning to invite some women for this autumn's feast. Since there were no males, there was no females.

On the other hand, Su Zixuan was there as a god. She would occasionally greet a few female servants, waiting for Li Shiyun to arrive.

When she accepted the invitation, she had thought of all these things, so she greeted Li Shiyun early in the morning.

"Elder sister has been waiting for a long time." Li Shiyun walked over from afar. She had the demeanor of a lady, graceful and calm.

"It wasn't too long ago, sister came at the right time." Su Zixuan spoke in an official tone with her, as if it was the same for normal, personal relationships.

Lady Li, who was standing at the side, also did not understand the fun the two girls were having. "Look at you two, this gathering looks like a noble family girl." Both Su Zixuan and Li Shiyun smiled affectionately and said some intimate words that made Madam Li laugh.

Lady Li cordially chatted with Su Zixuan for a while. With a 'I, this old woman, shouldn't have stopped you young girls from playing, I should have tactfully gone to find my old sisters to play,' she ran off to the side to socialize with the other wives.

Ever since the incident at Longhua Temple, Madam Li's attitude towards Su Zixuan had been especially good, as if she wanted to take her as a husband. However, because of the subtle relationship between the Ministry of Revenue and the imperial merchants, the two families had always been close.

However, everyone could see how good Su Zixuan was. Su Zixuan was willing to reveal the side of her daughter and be intimate with her elders.

"Why is big sister suddenly thinking of such a banquet? Didn't I always dislike it before?" Li Shiyun asked. She didn't plan to come to the Imperial Family to host banquets, but the young lady would always be hosted by the County Lord.

These people all had the arrogance of a royal family. They felt that their status was honorable and that they were looking down on others, making a group of girls of the same age as them dislike the feeling of being looked down upon.

Li Shiyun didn't like it either, but since Su Zixuan wanted to come, she intentionally told her that he wanted her to be his companion. Thus, she came.

"You also know that I've been free recently, so why don't you come out and take a look? Anyway, there will be a lot of these kinds of things happening in the future!" Su Zixuan smiled. Although she had promised Chu Yixuan that she wouldn't do anything she didn't like, it wasn't that simple.

Taking care of the Duke's Mansion and socializing outside was something that the head matron should do, so she couldn't refuse.

"That's true, after all, big sister has been so bored recently." Li Shiyun covered the corner of her mouth and laughed softly. If there weren't so many people by her side, she would definitely laugh even louder.

"How do you know that?" Su Zixuan was a little curious. She hadn't mentioned this matter to Li Shiyun.

"Chun Bi told me. Didn't elder sister tell Ru Yi to send me a letter earlier? She and Chun Bi chatted for a while, and just so happened to clear up the matter."

When Li Shiyun heard this, she also felt it was funny. The daughters of large families like theirs, ever since primary school, were all virtuous women workers. They were never allowed to touch these things.

"Ru Yi, this chatterbox isn't a spy that you placed beside me. He dares to say anything." Su Zixuan pretended to be angry.

"Aiya, my good sister, don't be angry. It's fine even if these two girls have a good relationship, I only forced them out when I saw Chun Bi unable to hold back her laughter." Li Shiyun tried to curry favor with him. She had promised Chun Bi that she wouldn't say anything. It would be wrong of her to ask Ru Yi to go back and suffer.

"Alright, alright, I know. It's just that Ru Yi should say it out now so that she won't reveal everything about me." As Su Zixuan spoke, he also knew that this matter was within his heart, and he wouldn't just say everything out loud.

Li Shiyun didn't say anything else. She decided to ask Chun Bi to apologize to Ru Yi later.

The two of them skipped over this topic and talked about other things. Soon, they reached the main event of the day.

Su Zixuan was pulled over by Li Shiyun to sit in front of the young girls, watching as the maidservants brought up a covered food bowl one by one.

A fragrance that caused people to drool came out from inside, causing a group of people to look forward to it.