Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Early that morning, Yu Qingyi took a carriage to Fuhua Mountain west of the Capital, but when she arrived, she discovered that quite a few carriages had already stopped at the foot of Fuhua Mountain.
"Madam! Those are all the officials' female relatives the Crown Princess invited to worship Buddha together!"
Yu Qingyi stepped down from the carriage, and Green Mist spoke softly.
Today, Yu Qingyi wore her hair in a gold-thread pearl-studded coiffure, adorned with a morning-sun five-phoenix dangling-pearl hairpin. She wore a narrow-sleeved jacket of brocade patterned with gilt hundred flowers, with a lotus-blue feather-gauze cloak lined in red fox fur over it. Her entire outfit made her look extraordinarily dignified, noble, and splendid.
Yu Qingyi looked at Green Mist and Red Cloud beside her, both dressed just as exquisitely, and said softly, "After we meet the Crown Princess, be sharp!"
"Yes!" The two curtsied with docile bearing.
Although they had both come from the jianghu, These Years they had not spent any less time learning etiquette and rules from the old maids.
The bearing they ought to have, the etiquette they ought to perform, the rules they ought to follow—they All Have practiced them.
In recent days, they had followed Yu Qingyi to various banquets in the Capital, and in front of numerous officials' female relatives, they had not committed the slightest breach of etiquette.
After a Moment, on the official road below Fuhua Mountain, a pair of red-robed eunuchs came slowly on horseback. Immediately after, one team after another of eunuchs and guards arrived at the foot of the mountain. Finally, eight eunuchs carried over a golden-topped, bright-yellow phoenix-embroidered sedan, advancing at a measured pace.
The sedan stopped. Eunuchs and maids stepped forward and helped a richly