33 The Flower Festival 1 (1/2)

Liu Hui Yin lived her life as it was before. Keeping the fact that she had started the commotion in the west side courtyard from Liu Buwei and only went to Hui Shi to tell half of the truth and let her mother do the cleaning up of the mess she made.

Chen Ru, along with the maids and servants did not spoke of the matter after having Hui Shi threatening and reprimanding them from speaking of the matter openly. While Ziqi was threatened over and over by Hui Shi's people residing inside Ziqi's courtyard, using her family and her little brother as hostages, to not pursue the matter and for as long as the child inside her womb was alright, Ziqi could only comply and nurse herself and her child.

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The spring was almost coming to an end and the commoners were starting to worry about the upcoming scorching sun of summer.

Everyone knew that when summer hits the land, it will cause great disaster to both the crops and industry and along with it will be the prices of every goods increasing greatly. The problem of pricing did not pose as a threat nor a problem to the wealthy and noble people. However to the commoners and poor, it would pose as a great calamity for them to have the price increase as they could not afford any goods by the time it increases.

And before the summer comes, the bustles in the street did not cease as countless of people started to line up to buy the goods in its lowest and original price, keeping it hidden until the disastrous season comes to an end.

And other than the upcoming season, there was something that everyone was happy to begin and celebrate every year, the Flower Festival; where the people would gather around Zhen Hua, the biggest garden in the palace and the only two days in a year that a commoner could enter the outermost of the palace to sight see the blooming and colorful flowers.

Every year, the Flower Festival would be an event to have a feast, dance, sight see and also to enjoy the flowers but it was not only that, as the nobles and wealthy people would boast their riches by decorating their residences grandiosely however, no one would be able to defeat the way the people in the palace decorate the entirety of the palace as to boast their ground and boost their power to the people's eye.

That was why instead of calling it the Flower festival, it was more like a festival to boast and boost one's ego and pride.

The milkiness and purity of the snowdrops was covered under the feet of the peerless beauty of Jiao Yu. With the usual paleness of her skin and the black silk of hair waving behind her as the wind gently caresses it, it was expected that everything that was beneath her and beside her would be concealed and blur.

”Jing Chu.” Jiao Yu called as she tucks the unkempt hair behind her ear.

The scene before the maids and servants were something to behold and was a first as this was the only time they could stare and get a long glimpse of their young miss' beauty without the veil covering it nor the doors of her courtyard enclosing it. Even Jing Chu and Bai Chen could not help but feel mesmerize with their young lady's beauty and be charmed by it every single time they see it.

Jiao Yu looked behind her. An entourage of several maids and servants, including Jing Chu and Bai Chen lined up behind her. She did not understand the slight expression of bliss on their faces and called once again, ”Jing Chu... Come here.”