Over to the Garden of Benevolent Peace there was a hubbub of activity. A troop of palace servants had to drag with them dozens of large boxes filled with select dishes and chosen fruits.
While others were busied viewing the arrangement of the tables and setting up braziers inside the exquisitely embellished gold pavilion.
Each and every servant from the Western Quarter had been assigned to various tasks in order to assure the success of this gargantuan garden banquet.
Along with that, a company of actors and a troupe of musicians had been summoned by the Emperor first thing in the morning, and they were just now in a rush rehearsing and getting ready to appear on stage in front of Empress Dowager, Emperor Taizong and Consort Emika, Chancellor Pyun and a handful of selected ministers.
