Entertainment Food Service Ch. 189
What the hell was this?
Claire took out today's newspaper and handed it to Mo Shaoqing, "This is today's Combs Newspaper, which grandfather reads every day..."
On the first page of Combs Newspaper, there was a huge accompanying picture of two blurry men standing in front of an ornate window.
Mo Shaoqing recognized it all at once. Wasn't this when he and Ans stood at the window and looked downstairs that day? Today's paparazzi were really unusual, and this could also be photographed.
Fortunately for him, the gate was some distance from the castle, so the picture was not clear in the newspaper.
Suddenly, the two of them clearly heard a loud shout from the small living room, "I'm going to announce to the whole empire how wonderful my son's lover is."
It was Mr. Lawrence's voice. Mo Shaoqing and Claire looked at each other and walked to the small study room immediately.
"Indeed it should be," the Duke agreed, "we must not allow our children to be harmed by public opinion. Let's do it this way!"
The Duke continued, "This year's Alice Ball, I have applied to Her Majesty the Queen to hold it in St. Fort Terber. I want to introduce Shaoqing to all the upper classes. The time is set for the day after tomorrow."
Mrs. Ling said worriedly, "But father, will this be too rushed?"
With a completely different attitude from Mrs. Ling, Mr. Lawrence had already made up his mind to hold this ball party, "Not at all, Lawrence family has not held a banquet for a long time, and the citizens may think that our family has long since fallen. A small magazine dares to make fun of our family. It seems that the people behind all this are trying to destroy the prestige of the Lawrence family."
"What ball party?" Mo Shaoqing, who had just come over, didn't hear what he said before. When he came to the small study room, he found that besides Ling Senhao's family, there were some strangers in suits and leather shoes.
A group of strangers stood up and saluted Mo Shaoqing respectfully, and Mo Shaoqing quickly returned the salute.
"Shaoqing, come and sit." Ling Senhao greeted Mo Shaoqing to his side.
"What the hell is going on with all of this?"
"As you can see, both grandfather and father are angry."
Mo Shaoqing felt sorry, he seemed to discredit a century-old family without knowing it.
"It's not that." Different from Mo Shaoqing's dejected expression, Ling Senhao's expression was even faintly excited.
What's going on here?
Ling Senhao explained, "This gossip news, grandfather and father agreed that there is a black hand behind this matter. So they are planning to hold a ball, it's equivalent to announcing your identity to all the people. Let's take a look at the man behind the scenes."
Mo Shaoqing said in surprise, "What?"
He didn't know what the concept of holding a ball party was. How could holding a ball could be regarded as a disguised form to open the relationship to the whole country?
If this was the case, Mo Shaoqing seemed to have foreseen the scene where he would be sprayed to death by anti-fans from various countries in the future. Especially those die-hard fans of the royal family, it was said that there were many in B Country.
"You don't want to go to the Alice Ball?" Ling Senhao asked rhetorically.
Mo Shaoqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Please, I don't even know what this ball is about."
After being told by Ling Senhao, Mo Shaoqing knew what the meaning of the Alice Ball was.
The Alice Ball originated from a ball held by Princess Alice and later Queen Alice in the 16th century for courtship.
After that, the Alice Ball turned into a social ball. It was intended to give some young gentlemen and ladies some opportunities to communicate.
To put it bluntly, it's an annual big blind date party. Or an open marriage ball between rich and powerful people.
Because the Alice Ball had a long history and met the needs of many parents, the influence of this ball was very large.
Unmarried aristocratic ladies, wealthy ladies, and aristocratic noble sons would be strictly screened before they could get invitations, and the invited people were all over the O continent. Of course, there would also be very few outstanding young ladies from other continents invited.
The parents of some noble ladies and lords (the mastermind behind the scene Mr. Lawrence thought of) would also take the opportunity to come to this ball to meet their future daughter-in-law or son-in-law.
Originally, the Alice Ball was held by the major nobles in turn, but with the opening of the society and the loneliness of the nobles, this right was brought back to the royal family. It's held annually by the royal family at the L City Palace, and by the way, it promoted the authority of the royal family.
Therefore, the boys and girls who have participated in this dance would be recognized as real ladies and gentlemen recognized by the royal family. Even if the other half was not found for the time being, after returning, there would be a steady stream of people seeking to marry.
So those rich people who only have wealth and no social status were scrambling to get their daughters/sons to the ball.
It could be imagined how difficult it was to audit every year.
This time, the royal officials had reviewed all the lists and issued an invitation letter, but the Duke of Combs cut off his beard and called the old king directly, requesting that the ball venue be changed to St. Fort Terber.
All credit goes to the original author
Feel free to pinpoint me if there are any grammar error or typos
Please don't use my translation to re-translate in other languages
Post a Comment
0 Comments
For commenting with Name/URL doesn't need to use specific URL, you can copy-paste Guazi's url from address bar (https://guazitl.blogspot.com), you can use your own website or your social media URL