Chapter 28 It’s quite beautiful when you’re not timid

Not many people were invited for Li Xiangling's birthday. The banquet was held in the garden of Yong'an Marquis Mansion. Men and women were seated together. Although they were separated by a gauze screen, you could still see the outline through the screen.

Jiang Yunzhuo was pulled away by Li Yi as soon as he arrived. Hua Rong did not dare to follow him and sat down in the women's area. From time to time, she glanced through the screen and saw that he was still there, which made her feel relieved.

The women's section was filled with girls who had good personal relationships with Li Xiangling. They had heard about Li Xiangling's clothes being cut off. As soon as Huarong sat down, the two people who had helped Li Xiangling bully Huarong also came to apologize to her. .

Uncle Zhongyong had a lot of troops, and Jiang Yunfei and Jiang Yunyang were beginning to stand out and have a bright future. In comparison, although Jiang Yunzhuo was a bit dandy, no one wanted to offend him, so Huarong, who was being favored, had a higher status.

Hua Rong was used to being bullied, but she was not good at accepting apologies, and she felt a little uneasy for a while.

Fortunately, after Li Xiangling arrived, everyone's attention was focused on Li Xiangling, and they all took out carefully prepared birthday gifts.

Hua Rong also took out a sandalwood lacquered red carved box and handed it to Li Xiangling. Inside the box was a white jade glass twisted chicken heart pendant.

Jiang Yunzhuo didn't care about these details at all. Hua Rong picked the jade pendant from his house. It was of good quality and expensive, but at first glance, he didn't put any thought into it.

Li Xiangling only took one look and put the things aside, not saying he liked them.

Everyone hurriedly changed the topic to cheer her up. After chatting for a while, the topic finally fell on Hua Rong.

"I heard that your embroidery work is very good. Uncle Zhongyong's house held a flower appreciation party before. Those round fans were made by you, right?"

Hua Rong didn't expect that they could still remember the round fans she had made before. She was a little happy in her heart, but she didn't show it at all on her face. She said respectfully: "Those round fans were indeed made by the servant, but the servant was just a rough maid doing chores before. The embroiderer in the mansion is very skilled."

Someone raised a question: "How can a rough servant girl have the opportunity to come into contact with the master of the house?"

Naturally, Hua Rong couldn't say in front of so many people that Jiang Yunzhuo had been tricked by others. She thought about it and said: "Since it is a chore, what you do is not the same. There are also banquets in the house. When the master of each courtyard celebrates his birthday, the food and drinks may pass through the hands of the slaves. Every quarter, each courtyard will purchase new clothes, and the slaves will also give cloths for the master to choose from. As time goes by, there will inevitably be opportunities to see the master."

"So you have a lot to do, so how did today's banquet go?"

The person who asked this question had a rather contemptuous look in his eyes. He did not really think that Huarong would know how to host a banquet, but he deliberately wanted to make Huarong look embarrassed.

Huarong didn't want to be in the limelight, so she lowered her head and said, "I have limited knowledge and don't dare to make unreasonable comments."

It’s not that I don’t dare, it’s not that I won’t.

Li Xiangling frowned slightly and said in a cold voice: "Just say what you say. Brother Azhui is right next to you. Don't always pretend to be pitiful about being bullied."

For this reason, Hua Rong couldn't refuse anymore. After observing carefully for a while, she said truthfully: "The weather is a bit cold today. Sitting outside is not as comfortable as sitting indoors. The season for eating crabs has not passed yet. We will sit down at the table later." There should be crab paste or steamed crab, chrysanthemum tea and persimmon cakes are both cold in nature, so it is best not to eat them together. It is better to prepare osmanthus tea and ginger-date tea, which have stomach-warming effects."

Thanks to Gao Haishan's difficulties, Hua Rong had to think about things a lot more than others. When talking about these things, she was very organized and not timid at all.

Everyone stopped talking unknowingly. After hearing this, Li Yi couldn't help but bump Jiang Yunzhui's arm: "You are really pretty when you are not a timid girl."