The boat docked at the shore. Yingge helped Wen Qingcheng ashore, and the little maid led Wen Qingcheng and the others to the Yuming Garden where the banquet was held today.

There are not only camellias in the Yuming Garden, but also plum blossoms of various colors, but camellias are still the main flowers. Many rich ladies have come to the yard, but the eldest princess has not come yet. Everyone is enjoying the flowers and chatting in the courtyard.

"Miss Ye, this is the Yuming Garden. Her Royal Highness the Princess will hold a banquet here soon. Her Royal Highness the Princess has not arrived yet. Please enjoy the flowers here first. I have to go and take in other guests."

"Thank you. You go and do your work first. We'll just stroll around." Wen Qingcheng said.

Wen Qingcheng and her friends walked along the cobblestone path and came to a small pavilion. It was a quiet place far away from the crowd.

Jin Jiarou also came, followed by a group of maids. She looked up and noticed that the girl in the pavilion was wearing a light green luster brocade dress. Her shoulders were as sharp as a knife, her waist was as soft as silk, and her skin was as white as cream. There were only two transparent jade hairpins in her head. Her soft and shiny black hair fell behind her head like a waterfall, making her look like a fairy walking out of a painting.

Jin Jiarou was curious about whose daughter this was. Why had she never seen such a beautiful girl before? As one of the Four Beauties of Kyoto, she was not happy to see someone whose beauty could compare with hers.

Ye Jinqian also came over, followed Jin Jiarou's gaze, and introduced eagerly: "This is my father's daughter in the countryside, Wen Qingcheng, whom you have seen."

The girl in the pavilion turned around, and Jin Jiarou recognized that it was Wen Qingcheng. Of course she recognized her, and she would never forget the doting look that Mo Jinghong gave Wen Qingcheng, and the way he defended her.

Jin Jiarou walked over with her maid and winked at her. The maid understood and said arrogantly to Wen Qingcheng's back, "Hey, go get an embroidered cushion for the young lady."

Wen Qingcheng pretended not to hear it, since he didn't call her anyway. "Hey, are you deaf? Wait for me to report to your head aunt and sell you out."

Wen Qingcheng turned around slowly. Jin Jiarou's eyelids rose and fell. She quickly looked at Wen Qingcheng and sneered, "Oh, it's Doctor Wen... Oh, no, I should call you Miss Ye now. You are dressed too simply today. I didn't look carefully just now and thought you were a maid in the villa. Sorry."

Jin Jiarou just wanted Wen Qingcheng to know that she was just a country girl, very poor, and she didn't look like a prince even when she put on the dragon robe, so that she would feel ashamed.

Ye Jinqian looked at Wen Qingcheng with an expression of anticipating a good show, trying to see embarrassment and awkwardness on her face.

Wen Qingcheng waved her hand to show that she didn't care, and said with a smile: "It's okay, there are so many people who only know clothes and not people, do you think everyone cares?"

Jin Jiarou's face suddenly turned ugly. This was clearly a mockery of her. How could Mo Jinghong like such a cunning country girl? She must have used some despicable means to make Mo Jinghong have to have her.

Wen Qingcheng was too lazy to talk nonsense with them, so she said goodbye with a smile and took Zhu Ling and Yingge to the flower forest. She saw camellias blooming one after another, as bright as the morning glow. Various rare varieties that were not usually seen appeared here in clusters. Wen Qingcheng liked camellia very much, so she knew all the varieties of camellia. After a quick look, there were Eighteen Scholars, Thirteen Taibao, Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, etc.

All that could be seen in the garden were rich ladies and daughters in gorgeous clothes, gathered in groups of three or five, talking and laughing like silver bells from time to time.

Wen Qingcheng didn't know anyone, so she took Zhu Ling and Ying Ge with her to appreciate the camellia quietly. At this time, a lady in pink and a lady in blue came to a camellia near Wen Qingcheng hand in hand, and they smelled it. The lady in pink reached out and plucked a few petals and put them in her palm.

The young lady in blue said coquettishly, "Sister, the color is so beautiful. Let's take some back to make rouge." After that, she put the petals into her mouth as if she was going to chew them.

Wen Qingcheng said hurriedly: "You can't eat it."

The two looked over at the sound, and Wen Qingcheng continued, "Camellia contains colchicine, which is toxic to the human body. If ingested by mistake, it will cause vomiting and diarrhea."

The lady in blue was so scared that she quickly spat out the petals in her mouth and said, "Thank you, sister."

The pink-dressed lady asked, "We didn't know this flower was poisonous. Thanks to this sister for her knowledge. Whose family is this sister from?"

Without waiting for Wen Qingcheng to speak, Jin Jiarou and the others also walked over and said, "It's normal that we don't know. This lady is a female doctor, so she naturally understands pharmacology."

"Female doctor?" The lady in pink and the lady in blue looked at each other in disbelief. Because the guests invited by Princess Liyang to the flower viewing banquet were all from the well-known families and famous ladies in Kyoto, how could a female doctor sneak in?

The lady in blue smiled awkwardly and said, "Practicing medicine sounds interesting." After that, she lost the desire to chat with Wen Qingcheng.

Jin Jiarou said: "But Wen...Oh, no, Miss Ye, she is not a doctor now. You haven't seen her. She used to live in a county. She came to Kyoto to look for her relatives in the past two years. Now she is the eldest daughter of the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion, and she is also loved by the Prince of Qin. She really has a bright future."

Zhu Ling clenched her fists in anger. It was this Jin Jiarou who punished her and made her kneel in the snow, which brought up her old illness. If it wasn't for the girl's rescue, she would have died long ago. Now when she saw Jin Jiarou, she hated her in her heart, but she didn't show it. This Jin Jiarou deliberately embarrassed her girl, and now she said these words, wasn't she just trying to make people think that her girl used some tricks to get to the top.

The two ladies in pink and blue couldn't help but look at Wen Qingcheng again. The lady in pink asked, "Isn't the eldest lady of the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion Jinqian?"

"Jinqian is now the second young lady, and the eldest young lady is this girl, who was originally the country wife of the Marquis..." Jin Jiarou wanted to talk about the Marquis of Yongyi's Mansion and explain Wen Liang's past, but Wen Qingcheng interrupted her and said, "Miss Jin is really warm-hearted. She described the situation of our Marquis' Mansion in such detail, just like the warm-hearted aunt at the head of our hometown village."

Jin Jiarou's face darkened visibly. He compared her to a village woman. Jin Jiarou was always proud. In front of so many people, she felt an unprecedented insult. Jin Jiarou immediately frowned, "Wen Qingcheng, how dare you compare me to a village woman!"

Wen Qingcheng pretended to be ignorant and said, "Miss Jin, why are you angry? There's nothing wrong with being a village woman."

Zhu Ling almost wanted to laugh. Her girl was really amazing. With just a few words, she made Jin Jiarou so angry.

"Miss Jin, our young lady means no harm." Zhu Ling said with a smile.

Jin Jiarou was having trouble finding a way to vent her anger, and she recognized Zhu Ling as the maid she had made kneel before. Her pretty face darkened immediately, and she looked at her with angry eyes. The maidservant under Jin Jiarou said sternly, "The master is talking, and you, a servant, have no right to interrupt!" Then she rushed forward and raised her hand to hit Zhu Ling.

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