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263 Prince An's birthday(1/2)

The air conditioning emitted by Gu Yan made everyone look back and show a flattering smile in unison. This smile seemed to have been practiced, and even the angles raised at the corners of their mouths were almost the same.

Before they could speak, Gu Yan spoke first.

"I have been studying for almost a month, so it's time to go out and walk around. The day after tomorrow is Prince An's birthday. You can go back tomorrow night to prepare, and come back after attending the banquet the day after tomorrow."

Everyone was not happy at all when they heard this, but looked at Gu Yan in horror.

The master has that kind intention? It's impossible, absolutely impossible. She's just a devil. How could she let them go out? This person is definitely not a master. The master must have someone transfer it.

Gu Yan gave them a blank look, "What? Don't want to leave? Don't go if you don't want to go. You'd better study hard in the mansion."

After the words came, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Okay, that's right. This is the real master. The master is not so kind!

Gu Yan was lazy to care about them and turned around and left the courtyard.

The next night, everyone who had been studying for a day returned home one after another, and Gu Yan also began to choose clothes and jewelry under the supervision of Tang.

Mei Xiang spread a set of water-blue embroidered moonlight brocade on the bed and asked with a smile: "Miss, how about this skirt? With orchid jewelry head, it must look very good."

Gu Yan's mouth twitched slightly, "A peony and an orchid, are you sure you can match it together?"

Juxiang glared at Meixiang, making Meixiang feel aggrieved, and pouted and put away the blue Yuehuajin.

Juxiang occupied Meixiang's position and stood in front of Gu Yan with a set of red embroidered plum blossoms.

"Miss, please wear this outfit."

Red is the lady’s favorite, and this set is definitely suitable.

Gu Yan shook her head, "The red is pretty good, but the plum blossoms on it are not suitable for wearing at this time. Let's wait for winter before talking about it."

Ju Xiang lamented, and regretfully carried her clothes and went aside, changing into the fragrance of books.

Shuxiang was carrying a dress with red gold feather gauze fabric. There was no color on the hem, but only scattered layer by layer. The upper body was a naked shoulder strapless with golden edges embroidered auspicious clouds, and a large sleeve shirt with half-body red gold feather gauze.

The golden feather yarn is thin and not transparent, and is a fabric newly developed by the Tang family. It is named after the thin fabric and its own gold color under the sunlight.

This is the first batch of fabrics produced in spring. In addition to leaving one red and purple for Gu Yan and Tang, the other five were sent to the palace. Emperor Wen of Wei only gave two of the empress and the empress dowager, and the remaining one was put into the private warehouse, and Gu Yan took it back.

Gu Yan looked at the newly cut skirt and nodded.

Now the Tang family has its main fabrics in both winter and summer. Both of them are very rare. They can't produce a few pieces a year. They are considered the most expensive fabrics in the Wei Dynasty.

"Just it."

Shuxiang chose the right clothes for Gu Yan the first time she chose, which made her feel very novel and she felt a sense of indescribable weirdness in her heart.

The next day, Prince An's birthday was on the day. As the only family with Prince An, the Gu family went out to help early in the morning. When they arrived at Prince An's mansion, Prince An and his wife were greeted happily. Those who didn't know thought that Gu An's family was the life-saving benefactor of Prince An's family.

In fact, it was almost the same, because when Tang looked at the chaotic palace, he knew why Prince An and his wife wanted to see their family so much. It turned out that they really asked them to help, not to be polite.

Princess An rubbed her forehead and said helplessly: "Mrs. Gu, I have no choice. You know that Prince An's mansion has never held a banquet in so many years in order to avoid suspicion. My prince and I go to the palace to celebrate their birthdays every time. This time the banquet is all because..."

Princess An's eyes flashed slightly, and she did not dare to look at Tang.

Tang was a little curious. Why did Princess An say it well and not say it anymore? Is there any reason here?

Princess An felt even more embarrassed when she saw Tang Shi's curious look, but she didn't ask. She had to approach Tang Shi and whisper in her ear: "These two children have lost all the emperor's private warehouses, and the emperor has no money to hold a banquet for the prince."

When Tang heard this, he immediately sat up straight, picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea, suppressed the fright in his heart, and smiled at Princess An awkwardly.

Princess An also smiled at Tang awkwardly. She was really embarrassed. In Princess An's opinion, Gu Yan was a good child, but she had to take care of her son, otherwise she would not have done such an extraordinary thing.

In Tang's opinion, it was because her daughter led her son to do something bad. She could not be a mother even if she made a mistake. After all, most of the good things have entered the Gu family's warehouse, so she really has to do something for Prince An's mansion.

So Tang decided to help Princess An organize the banquet so that the princess would not lose face.

Now Princess An was even more embarrassed. Her son had brought the good daughter to pieces. She didn't care and helped her. Their family was such a good person!

In any case, Tang began to take over the stewardship of the royal mansion. Tang did not allow Gu Yan to rest when he worked. He directly took the person to the main hall and ordered someone to call the officials from the royal mansion and prepare to assign them to do things.

Princess An doesn't manage much. Although the housekeeper is in her hands, the one who is actually in charge is Butler Gu. Butler Gu has been in the royal palace for many years and can't resist the banquet no matter how capable he is, so both of them are confused and can only learn from each other.

Tang is very quick to do things, and I don’t know how many times the banquets she hosted in person. Although she hasn’t done anything after returning to Beijing, she is familiar with them in Changzhou and border areas. The process of the banquet is similar, but the number of people and specifications is just a matter of the number of people. These are not a matter and it is easy to handle.

After the people arrived, Tang separated the people and threw them half to Gu Yan, and half stood in front of her to obey the orders.

"See this in the order of dishes delivered in the kitchen. I have written it, and the tableware is all ready, right?"

"If you want to go back to your wife, it's not yet. I am the warehouse manager. I know the best about the things inside. There are many kinds of food, and I don't know which ones to use."

Tang frowned, "Separate, by grade, the royal family uses white jade porcelain with gold edges, white porcelain with first to third grades, celadon from fourth to sixth grades, celadon from celadon, right? That should be the most."

“Yes, there are many celadon bowls.”

"Then let it be. You should hurry up and have someone go to the warehouse to move with you. The kitchen cook is not free, so you can ask the two little maids to take the two mothers to clean it."

The warehouse manager went out, and Tang arranged seats to put the closest ones together. Those who were too low in grades were far away from the main hall, and even if there were relatives, they would not be able to sit together, which would make others disgusted. In addition, the families of ministers who had rift in the court tried to separate as much as possible, and the factions had to be cleared, so as not to fight halfway.

Tang ordered the orderly and soon the process was almost done. When he saw that Gu Yan had finished processing, he was drinking tea.

"It's over?"

Gu Yan raised her eyes and glanced at Tang, "Yes."

"So fast?"

"It's all done, it's not that I can't understand human words, just keep giving instructions."

Tang stared at him, "Then you have to ask? Isn't this in our mansion? How easy is it?"

"If you don't do it, just rub it down. What's the use of disobedient people? Just bring it up when we leave. At this time, if you find fault with me, you're just trying to kill him. If you don't kill him, you'll sell the face of the royal family."

Princess An looked at Gu Yan with shiny eyes. The more she looked, the more she liked him. She smiled and said, "Yan'er said she didn't need it. She said she was not good, she would definitely be bad, and she would not use it again in the future. So she used Yan'er's new one to bring it up."

Gu Yan was stunned and looked up at Princess An.

"Don't the princess mind?"

Princess An smiled and said, "No, I don't mind at all, you're right."

Gu Yan was a little confused.

Damn! What's the matter with this? Princess An was so full that she was over? Why did she trust her so much?

Princess An didn't say anything, but just looked at Gu Yan with a smile on her face, making Gu Yan feel uncomfortable all over.

After a while, Mrs. Chang and Mrs. Liu also arrived, Princess Qing and Wang Si's wife also came. Several people worked together, and the manager who came to report the emergencies made them pass it in a few words. Princess An was envious of her.

Several ladies sat in the main hall and praised Gu Yan again and again. They made Gu Yan feel embarrassed and pulled Liu Jia away first.

The backyard of the royal mansion is much larger than that of the Gu family. There are a lot of flowers in the garden, and the strange flowers and plants are numerous, making people dazzled.

Liu Jia asked a few strange flowers that he had never seen before. Gu Yan answered them one by one, and then walked to some places to look at the scenery. He thought it was meaningless, so the two went to the pavilion to rest.

Today, Princess An specially asked Gu Yan to entertain the ladies of each family, but Gu Yan could not refuse and could only respond. Therefore, when several ladies from the Gongfu family came, Gu Yan acted as a little master to entertain him.

Everyone was stunned when they saw Gu Yan entertaining them, and then they understood.

Gu Yan is half of Prince Luo’s master. Lord Gu has a good relationship with Prince An, so it is normal for her to help here.

Gu Yan welcomed everyone to eat, drink, chat and talk. When someone came, he got up to greet him. Regardless of whether he was close or not, Gu Yan treated everyone equally, and went to pick him up and greeted him to the back garden in person.

After running for more than a dozen trips, Gu Yan was so tired that she didn't want to say anything, and her face became gloomy.

Liu Jia swallowed his saliva and touched Gu Yan's arm with his elbows, "What's wrong with you?"

Gu Yan let out a long sigh, "The face is frozen. This is really not a job for humans."

When Liu Jia heard Gu Yan's swearing, she quickly glanced around. Seeing that no one around noticed them, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and angrily slammed Gu Yan's waist and eyes.

"Sound down, do you want everyone to hear it?"

Gu Yan looked up at the surroundings and replied indifferently: "It's okay, there's no one here."

Liu Jia rolled her eyes and said, "Okay, stop talking, it's time for people to hear that it's time to pour dirty water on you."

Gu Yan nodded secretly, "Don't worry, I know it."

The two of them stopped because a lady from the mansion came to the pavilion and was raising her legs to the pavilion.

Gu Yan and Liu Jia looked up and saw that the person who came was Cheng Yanrong, the daughter of the second wife of the Duke of Huguo Mansion.

Gu Yan remembered her. She also spoke to her at the birthday party of Old Qu, wanting to compete with the girls in embroidery instead of her. At that time, she was attracted by her strong temperament. She wanted to say something, but she forgot it, but she didn't expect that she met her again today.

"Please treat Princess Huairou."

Cheng Yanrong squatted and bowed to Gu Yan, but Gu Yan didn't accept it. She took half of the gift and squatted and bowed to Cheng Yanrong.

"Ms. Cheng."

Liu Jia had already gotten up and followed Gu Yan to salute Cheng Yanrong. Cheng Yanrong took his favor and nodded to Liu Jia, "Ms. Liu."

After the three of them saw the gift, Cheng Yanrong glanced around, walked to the stone table and nodded at Gu Yan, "Princess, can I rest here?"

Gu Yan nodded, "Of course, please give me a gift, Miss Cheng."

Cheng Yanrong smiled at Gu Yan, and the cool air in her eyebrows became less and more popular.

Cheng Yanrong sat on the stone chair, took the tea handed over by Mei Xiang, held it in her palm and whispered: "You must be careful."

Then he smiled at Gu Yan again, as if he was saying "thank you" to Gu Yan.
To be continued...
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