The main hall is brightly lit.
However, tonight's dinner is set up in the garden, after all, we are going to perform an opera.
The stage was temporarily set up and was completed yesterday.
The actors were selected from a well-known theatrical troupe in Beijing. When Ye Zao arrived, most people hadn't arrived yet.
She lives close by and should have arrived first, but because of her low status, it's not good for her to come late.
Nature is no longer dressed in daylight attire, wearing a common pink flag dress, because it's nighttime, so she puts on a half-new and half-old cloak.
On her hair was a silver hairpin, but it was exquisitely crafted and far superior to the ones she had worn before.
In Ye Zao's words, it is simple yet elegant, and low-key.
Before long, everyone arrived.
Chang's family is following Li Ce Fu Jun today. In between, Li Ce Fu Jun walks in the front, and she follows like a servant girl.
"Pay respects to Lady Fu and wish her good fortune." Everyone busied themselves in making obeisance.
Mr. Li nodded and waved his hand, indicating that he had been called up.
It's not too much trouble after all.
Ye Zao was taken aback for a moment.
However, Li suddenly stared at Yun Gege: "Wow, Yun Gege's outfit is really bright and beautiful, the floral pattern on this dress is nice. The accessories are not bad either, but as a gege, dressing up like this is also considered unruly, go back and change."
Yun Gege herself is good-looking, and today she indeed dressed up properly.
It's also not bad, just so-so.
However, Ce Fu Jin was wrong. How dare she say it's not wrong now? After all, there wasn't an opportunity last time for Fu Jin to see if it was or not.
However, someone who dares to frame a kind-hearted concubine must also be strong-willed. At this time, Fu Shou didn't show any resentment: "Yes, I'll go and change now."
Saying so, he took Ya Tou back with him.
Li hummed a sound, apparently unimpressed and unhappy with her expression.
It's just that opportunities are often missed, and it wasn't until today that they began. Yun Gege can no longer bear the suffering, and Li Shi is also not in a hurry.
Yun's family had just left when Madame Fu arrived.
The empress naturally knew what had just happened, but she didn't ask a single question and didn't care why Yun Gege wasn't there.
Just laugh and ask everyone to sit down, wait for Fourth Master to arrive, then we can start the banquet and the play.
Yun Gege still managed to arrive before Fourth Master.
Although this was an opportunity for a chance encounter, however... she didn't dare anymore.
She changed into a half-new pink cheongsam, with a single character on her head, and replaced the simple gold jewelry. This time, it can be considered plain and unpretentious, and there is no fault in etiquette.
Li looked at her and ignored her.
When the Fourth Master arrived, everyone stood up and asked for his well-being again.
"Everyone sit down, let's start the meal, and begin the play! Where is the playbill?"
Su Peisheng hastily handed it over.
Fourth Master glanced at it a few times and nodded, "The Legend of Fong Yim-hing" is also one of the plays that women love to watch.
The Empress Dowager pointed at Wang Baochai, and the Secondary Consort pointed at one of the five girls who were paying their respects. It was now even.
After all, three rounds of opera will be sung until midnight, it's not good to light up again, and the princesses don't have this privilege.
On stage, after the actors knelt down to greet the audience, they began to perform. Fan Lihua was okay, with many fighting scenes and few emotional ones. Ye Zao was still passable.
When it came to Wang Baochai, Ye Zhen was already drowsy, and what she hated most was this act.
It's really foolish to stubbornly cling to a poor life for eighteen years.
It wasn't easy to disperse the crowd, but after Fourth Master said a few words, he lifted his foot and returned to the front yard.
The empress dowager was embarrassed for a long time, and although Li Shi was also unhappy because the fourth master did not go to the East Wing, she became happy again when she saw the empress dowager like this.
Leaning against the edge of the bed with a flower in her hair: "Oh, this long and endless night is really making it hard for me to sleep alone, my lady. I'll take my leave now."
Having said that, he turned and left.
This remark is either about herself or Fuhuan, everyone knows in their hearts, no one dares to laugh directly, but they can't help but think that even if the child was lost, this concubine still suppresses the concubine.
The imperial concubine's luck was bad, and she coldly snorted: "All of you disperse now, it's late today, don't come to pay respects tomorrow."
Everyone bustled to thank Madame Fu and then left.
Ye Zao missed the most sleep-deprived time and instead didn't feel sleepy. He was so energetic that Ah Yuan and Ah Ling found it amusing.
"Why doesn't the girl like 'The Legend of Wang Baochuan' so much? Isn't it pretty good?" asked Ah Ling.
"What's good about this? You like it this way? A good girl from a good family, followed a poor guy and that's it. He lost you for 18 years, and you still won't go back home? Eating bran and choking on vegetables waiting for him to finally return, but he married a princess! Sounds nice, taking you back to enjoy wealth, the princess and she are both wives, but how do you distinguish between their status?"
"Wang Baoqian was helpless and had no one to rely on, and the servants could bully her. Do you know the ending of this play? Wang Baoqian suffered for 18 years, ruining her health, and after being taken back home, she only lived for 18 days before passing away. Is this good?"
"People just beautified that man. What's not leaving or abandoning, not despising a wife who has fallen on hard times. But they forgot, the young lady of the Wang family back then wasn't someone who had fallen on hard times either, she was also a talented and beautiful woman."
Ye Zao shook his head.
Two girls listened and wanted to retort, thinking that women are not all like this?
But just thinking about the man in the play having a princess as his wife makes me feel... quite wronged.
"But it's really like this, and there's nothing we can do about it..." Ah Ling said.
Ye Zao smiled: "It's really like that, there's nothing to be done. It depends on whether you want to do it or not. Don't blame that man either, Wang Baoqian is willing herself, there's no way around it, go to sleep."
Ye Zao shook her head, these words were useless when said to these pure ancients.
"Ah, good that you're feeling sleepy, it's late, hurry up and sleep. You always say that if you don't sleep well, your skin won't look good." Ah Ling also put aside these matters, after all, they were too distant.
After Ye Zao fell asleep, the two maids also went to wash up and prepare for bed.
As for the play, it doesn't matter, I just won't like this play anymore from now on.
Although it was common for ancient men to have one wife and many concubines, how many women truly liked their husbands having many women?
It's all just a scam.
If you don't feel jealous, then you're deceiving yourself!
In her dream, Ye Zao dreamed she became Wang Baochuan and almost suffocated!
She begged to return to the Wang family, divorced that man, and found another one. She lived a pretty good life for eighteen years. However, after eighteen years, that man came back in tattered clothes, saying he had waited for eighteen years and was willing to serve Wang Baoqian together with her husband...
Woke up after, Ye Zao Lei was ruined, this plot is enough...
A Yuan and A Ling called out several times before she came back to her senses: "Oh, it's time to get up?"
Two maidservants stood face to face, thinking Ye Zao hadn't slept enough, and smiled as they came forward to attend to her.
All day long, Ye Zao was shocked by this dream, it's really so mysterious!