Chapter 4: The Palace Banquet

The Queen Mother and Bai Zhen hadn't arrived yet, and on the high platform, Queen Chen looked at her with a dark face, and snorted coldly at the corners of her mouth: "Who should I be, it turned out to be Sister Shen, she is really a rare guest." ”

Chen Yijin's appearance is average with her personality, bright and atmospheric, bright and moving, but unfortunately she often has a black face, Bai Zhen rarely has a good face for her, I am afraid it is related to her intolerable temper, and she is blind to the warmth of her childhood sweetheart.

"Poof, although Shen Guifei is a few years older than us, she can't be your sister. ”

Sitting in the first place below is Liu Guifei, who is good at dancing with long sleeves, good at winning people's hearts, and has been fighting openly and secretly with Queen Chen.

Liu Guifei's words caused the people to laugh secretly.

These words are ironic that Shen Ruojiao is old, looking at the entire harem, only she is over ten years old but still on the list of the Ministry of Rites.

Of course, Shen Ruojiao could hear it, but she was too lazy to speak quickly, smiled at the two of them indifferently, and led the moon to the opposite position of Liu Guifei and sat down.

As long as it doesn't hurt her family, no matter what outsiders say, she doesn't really want to pay attention.

The neglected Empress Chen's face turned blue and white for a while, and she was about to have a seizure, when she heard the eunuch in charge shouting in a dragging voice: "The emperor has arrived, and the queen mother has arrived." ”

Shen Ruojiao stood up and saluted with the others, and only raised her head after Bai Zhen lazily said goodbye.

This look up happened to collide with Bai Zhen's playful eyes.

Fortunately, Bai Zhen's eyes didn't stay on her for long.

The young emperor was dressed in a dragon robe, and his aura was magnificent, and he helped the queen mother to walk on the high platform.

The first emperor died of illness, so the queen mother is not very old, and there are not many traces of time on her face, and the beauty of the queen mother is the kind of beauty that is graceful and luxurious in a high position, exuding a noble temperament from the inside out.

Bai Zhen's facial features are five points similar to the Queen Mother, with sharp edges and corners, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a heroic spirit, because of his perennial martial arts, his body is almost the same as that of a young man, although he is smaller than her, but he is a head taller than her.

Shen Ruojiao has always felt that Bai Zhen's eyes are particularly good-looking, the eyelashes are very long but not feminine, and the natural curvature of the tails of the eyes looks not angry but mighty.

It's just that these eyes often give people a sense of oppression.

Like now.

After Bai Zhen sat down with the Queen Mother, his eyes fell directly on Shen Ruojiao again.

Just by glimpsing it with her peripheral vision, she could easily feel the sharp sense of scrutiny.

Shen Ruojiao wondered in her heart, could it be that her attendance at the banquet was too abnormal and attracted Bai Zhen's attention?

At the beginning of the banquet, Shen Ruojiao looked at the delicacies in front of her, silently looked away, and began to observe the concubines present, without any desire to move.

Because of the poisonous Lantern Festival, she was wary of these foods that she didn't know how many people had passed.

She swept the corner of the banquet, and the concubine, who would be poisoned and died soon, was talking and laughing with the concubine on the side, and she thought that she should find an opportunity to remind the concubine.

The hall pushes the cup and changes the lamp, and it is happy, but someone wants to break this harmony.

Empress Chen noticed that Concubine Liu Guifei was also wearing a peach-pink palace dress today, and her phoenix eyes turned and looked at Shen Ruojiao: "Sister Shen really deserves the praise of the world, this pink color is very provocative, but not everyone can hold it up." ”

As soon as a clear-eyed person heard it, he knew that he was shooting someone's shadow in the sand, Liu Guifei was born in Jiangmen, and her skin was naturally not as delicate and fair as the delicate Shen Ruojiao.

Like Shen Ruojiao, she was granted this title under the shadow of her father, but she was careful and arrogant, and she felt that Shen Ruojiao's low-key behavior was a sign of incompetence.

You can look at the harem, all of them are beautiful and fragrant, charming and outstanding.

In fact, Liu Guifei's skin is just a little darker, but her face is heroic, and she has a bit of the beauty of the Western Regions. But Queen Chen didn't make fun of her with her dark skin, but she really minded it.

That was when Liu Guifei first entered the palace, she went to Bai Zhen every day, so more than a month later, once in Tao Ran Garden, she came forward to salute with joy, who knew that Bai Zhen only glanced at her, and asked hesitantly: "Which palace are you from?"

This matter quickly spread, and Concubine Liu's face was gloomy, and there was no movement for a long time.

Liu Guifei hated it in her heart, but there was a smile on her face, but the smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes: "Shen Guifei is naturally beautiful, naturally she looks good in everything, and it is easiest to come to the clothes bureau to do an errand in Hancui Palace." ”

Facing the ridicule on Empress Chen's face, Concubine Liu Guifei secretly shot back.

Shen Ruojiao has also heard of this matter.

Empress Chen has extremely strict requirements for the clothes woven for her by the Clothing Bureau, from the materials, colors to patterns, they must be strictly selected, so the main weaving Clothing Bureau has been picked.

Previously, the Si Yi Bureau spent 20 days carefully embroidering a hundred birds and phoenix robe for her, and when the gift was presented, the phoenix robe that condensed the efforts of more than a dozen embroiderers of the Si Yi Bureau for 20 days was scolded as worthless, just because the phoenix robe was not inlaid with Nanzhu, Queen Chen was so angry that she dropped the teacup, boiled water and sprinkled the hand of the Si Yi Bureau, and ordered the Si Yi Bureau to replace the pearls on the phoenix robe with Nanzhu within three days.

Such a style of acting can only be done by Queen Chen, who has always been rude and domineering.

However, Shen Ruojiao felt that Empress Chen did have such willful capital, her father was the former prince and the current prince, she and Bai Zhen grew up together since childhood, and when Bai Zhen was still the prince, the two were given marriage by the first emperor.

Childhood sweetheart, Ming Media is marrying, but unfortunately Bai Zhen's feelings for her are not warm.

In terms of appearance alone, Empress Chen is bright and atmospheric, and her smile is like the sun in March, but unfortunately the smile is uncommon in her, Shen Ruojiao often thinks that if Empress Chen is not such an irritable person, she should have a better relationship with Bai Zhen.

Because of the matter of the Siyi Bureau, Queen Chen had already been beaten down by the Queen Mother, and now she was brought up again in front of Bai Zhen, provoking the relationship between her and Bai Zhen that was not as good as before.

Empress Chen was anxious and angry, her face sank, she threw the jade chopsticks in her hand heavily, and scolded in a coquettish voice: "Seiko is the responsibility of the Clothing Bureau, where do you need Liu Guifei to stand out for them, what, is Liu Guifei dissatisfied with the master of the harem?"

Liu Guifei sneered contemptuously and was about to raise her lips to fight back.

"Okay, what kind of system did the Holy Driver quarrel like this before. ”

The Queen Mother's face sank slightly, and she looked impatient.

She can't see these little girls competitive, childish, young and immature, fighting back and forth, it's not that she can't get into Bai Zhen's eyes, it's not that she can't let her hold her grandson.

It's such a boring group of girls.