Chapter 504: Chapter 504

After the bell had tolled, the palace banquet finally ended, it took about half an hour before Rong Heng and his company returned.

He also brought back many delicacies from the palace banquet, as Ming Yue secretly informed her.

"These are desserts from the ladies’ banquet that Consort De has specially prepared for you, all things girls love to eat, the desserts made in the Imperial Kitchen are quite good, take your time to enjoy them."

Tangyuan had already eaten her fill, and having these snacks would only add to her weight, so she only took out two yuan to taste, and indeed, the Imperial Kitchen’s desserts were delicious.

The men didn’t like these desserts, and actually, Tangyuan didn’t like sweets; she always felt they were too cloying, but it was his thoughtful gesture, so naturally, she could not refuse and was very touched to accept them.

Afterward, they asked her how she had spent New Year’s Eve, talked about some interesting happenings at the state banquet, and then each went to sleep.

The next day was Chinese New Year’s Day, according to tradition, Rong Heng still had to go to the palace, so she had to spend another lonely day at home.

Feeling bored, she decided to take a stroll on the street, the butler along with several guards followed her, stating that it was their master’s order, although disappointing, she did not stop them.

Compared to the Beijing of Yan Country she remembered, the Beijing of Nanling Country wasn’t much different, but both were more bustling and prosperous than the Beijing of Dongru Country.

On Chinese New Year’s Day, everyone wore new clothes and greeted each other with smiling faces. Today, due to the festive occasion, she specially donned a new dress of lotus and He color, although her figure was still somewhat bulky, it was much slimmer than before. Posing as a maid, she refused the horse carriage prepared by the butler and asked them to keep their distance.

The streets on Chinese New Year’s Day seemed more lively than usual, with the cries of various snack sellers rising and falling. She had decided not to cook today and just enjoy these street foods, one moment buying a crispy pancake, another holding a stick of candied haw, then going to buy a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts; the guards trailing her even helped carry them, increasingly feeling like a modern woman shopping.

She wasn’t short of money, all of which Rong Heng had given her. She had saved quite a lot when she was away, and now in Beijing, her spending money hadn’t ceased, even before she went out today, the butler had offered to give her money, meaning the accounts of Prince Heng Mansion were hers to command.

She was surprised Rong Heng granted her such great power but still refused. She merely wanted to eat and look around, and as for jewelry and clothes, she lacked none, so her admiration was purely aesthetic, without the desire to purchase.

Back when she was Empress, she had seen all sorts of fine things, but who were they for when you were in the Cold Palace?

Now, she regretted not having collected everything in Yikun Palace into her space and sold it before she left; that way, she could have bought more medicinal materials and goods.

It was such a pity, but given any chance for revenge, she would not let Ning Xu, that scum, get away.

Thinking so, she casually entered a clothes shop by the roadside because it seemed quite crowded, and she wanted to have a look.

However, having been inside for quite a while, nobody attended to her, perhaps due to her plain apparel today; this was fine as well, no one disturbed her, allowing her to purely admire the current fashion elements.

Although she had no desire to be a designer, that did not mean she wouldn’t be one in the future, so while shopping, she also used a pupil camera to capture things she saw and liked, keeping them as memories on one hand, and sources of material on the other... Google seaʀᴄh N0v3l.Fiɾe.net