Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 207: Celebrating Longevity (3)

"The Empress Dowager’s birthday banquet will arrange a marriage for the King of Ink, to the Minister of Justice’s legitimate daughter Song Miaoqiu, and the concubine will be Situ Yudie, the sister of the Situ Estate’s master."

The fingers that had been playing casually paused momentarily before resuming their motion as the voice continued, "Investigate if there’s any transaction between them."

"Yes, Young Master, and, and also the Empress Dowager intends to arrange marriages for the Young Master and the Crown Prince as well," Tian Yi said cautiously, his eyes fixed on his master. He couldn’t tell if his master’s expressionless face was a prelude to a storm or if he truly wasn’t worried. Fine beads of sweat formed on his forehead, slowly trickling down his cheeks.

Dugu Chen’s cold face slightly curved into a faint smile as he said, "Make them disappear during the birthday banquet, and then release them afterwards."

"Yes, Young Master." He turned to leave, finally letting out a sigh of relief to himself.

The long-anticipated Lantern Festival had finally arrived.

"Miss, which dress should you wear today?" Baihe furrowed her brows and pouted, indecisivley glancing from side to side.

"Just wear the ice blue one. The red one is too eye-catching. It’s best to keep a low profile at such a critical moment," seated in front of the dressing table and looking through the bronze mirror at the clothes in Baihe’s hands, feeling that blue was more suitable for the occasion.

Upon hearing this, Baihe reluctantly put down the red dress, picked up the blue gown, and stood aside, ready to help her mistress dress.

Yingsu checked her mistress’s hairpins over and over, before finally turning to the mirror, she asked, "Miss, you’re ready, take a look?"

Feng Xuxu looked at her reflection in the bronze mirror, her hair elegantly draped to one side and a pale blue Mandala flower adorning the other, with teardrop-shaped gemstone earrings dangling from her ears, she couldn’t help but praise, "It’s very beautiful, I like it a lot."

"Miss." Baihe, holding the dress in her hand, began assisting her mistress to get dressed. After she was done, she put on a floor-grazing gauze coat over the dress. Just as she finished dressing, a maid reported at the door that the Young Master was already waiting at the gate.

Feng Xuxu put on a specially made cloak and then led Yingsu out of the Peony Garden.

"Cousin." Arriving at the gate, she saw her cousin deep in thought and called out to him as she approached.

Jueqing turned around to see his radiant cousin before him and said with a bittersweet smile, "Cousin, you look really beautiful."

"Hehehe, if we don’t leave now, cousin, it will be too late," It was evident that his compliment had pleased her.

"Let’s go." Seeing Feng Xuxu board the carriage, Jueqing leapt onto his horse, tightened the reins, nudged the horse’s sides, and began heading in the direction of the Imperial Palace.

The carriage was slowly advancing towards the Imperial Palace when it suddenly stopped.

"Yingsu, go and see what the matter is." Feng Xuxu drew back the curtain and looked at the congested street, instructing Yingsu to check the situation ahead.

"Yes, Miss." She stepped out of the carriage and went to investigate.

"How dare you drive your carriage like that? Don’t you see our carriage in front of you? Are you blind?" A manservant approached the rear of the carriage, pointing angrily at the damaged corner and reprimanding the coachman behind.

Situ Yudie had not expected that even a simple outing would end in a carriage collision. She disdainfully instructed the coachman, "Give him some silver to let us through. It’s just a carriage; what’s the big deal?"

"Yes, Miss." The coachman got down from the carriage, approached the manservant, threw a silver ingot on the ground, and said sarcastically, "It’s just a carriage, see? This is for you, from our miss. Take it and clear the way quickly, we need to go to the Imperial Palace for the Empress Dowager’s birthday celebration."

The young lady sitting in the carriage, upon hearing a servant act so arrogantly, was irritated beyond words and whispered instructions to the maid beside her. The maid nodded and disembarked from the carriage.