Lin Wan hooked her lips and smiled, and said disdainfully, "Do you want us to have a dispute with Prince Lan and Princess Ziyue for you?"

Lan Ziling was stunned, didn't say anything more, turned around and followed Manager Wu into Lin Xiang's mansion. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Lin Wan also stepped into the carriage, lowered the curtain, and whispered to Gale Wind: "Gale Wind, send the message to Spirit Sword and Yi Dao, let them take turns watching her for me, and don't let your guard down at any moment." ”

Gale immediately took the order and whispered, "Yes, Miss." With that, as soon as he lifted the reins, the carriage slowly started.

The carriage of Ximen Yuqing and the others followed closely behind and headed towards the palace together.

Entering the palace, it was not early, Lin Wan, Jin Ruoxin, Ximen Yuqing, Jin Haoran, and Bei Xiaonan directly entered the State Banquet Palace under the leadership of the internal servant.

There were already a lot of people in the State Banquet Palace, almost all the officials had arrived, and the seats on the high platform were almost all seated.

On the first row on the left sat Lan Ziheng, with three empty seats beside him, followed by the eldest prince Zhou Tianhong, the second prince Zhou Tianming, the third prince Zhou Tianzheng, the sixth prince Zhou Tianzhong, the eighth prince Zhou Tianyi and the ninth prince Zhou Tianxing.

The eighth prince, Zhou Tianyi, is eight years old this year, but he looks very stable. Zhou Tianxing is Liu Jinghua's youngest son, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, although he will only be eight years old in the coming year, his eyes are clear, his expression is arrogant, and he already has a bit of a princely momentum.

Lan Ziyue sat in the first place in the second row, and there were also four empty seats beside her, followed by the third princess Zhou Lingwei, the fourth princess Zhou Lingyun, the fifth princess Zhou Lingqian, and the sixth princess Zhou Lingxi.

Zhou Lingyun and Zhou Lingxi were met by Lin Wan in the harem, Zhou Lingqian was seven years old after the New Year, and she was Liu Jinghua's daughter, and Lin Wan saw it for the first time today.

The first row on the right is empty, and the second seat sits the imperial concubine Liu Jinghua, and then the jade concubine, the lady concubine, and the concubine De.

In the second row sat Wei Concubine, the biological mother of the six princes, the fourth princess and Feng Concubine, the biological mother of the sixth princess, as well as several young and beautiful palace concubines that Lin Wan had never seen.

Ximen Yuqing, Jin Haoran, and Bei Xiaonan walked to the three empty seats between Lan Ziheng and Zhou Tianhong and sat down, and Lin Wan and Jin Ruoxin also walked to the empty seats next to Zhou Lingwei and sat down.

Soon after they sat down, Zhou Changan walked in with Lu Qishan and Lu Jinyun, everyone got up to greet them, and then the three of them walked up to the high platform and sat down.

Zhou Changan and Lu Qishan sat on the throne in the middle of the high platform, and Zhou Jinyun sat on the empty seat on the right.

At this point, except for the two vacant seats beside Lan Ziyue, everyone has arrived.

Zhou Changan glanced at the two vacant seats, and asked Gonggong Qi beside him, "Qi Hai, who are those two vacant seats? Why haven't you come yet?"

Gonggong Qi hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, those two seats, one is the princess of Beichen, and the other is the princess Ziling. Prince and Concubine Beichen are pregnant and it is inconvenient to come, so she will not come today. As for Princess Ziling, she said this afternoon that she would go back to the Great Prince's Mansion to get some things, which she would use when performing dances. However, he has not yet returned. His Royal Highness the Great Prince has already sent someone back to find Princess Ziling, and there should be news back soon. ”

Zhou Changan nodded and ordered, "Then let's start first." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. Gonggong Qi bowed down to receive the order, and then turned his head to explain a few words to the palace maids and eunuchs beside him.

The palace maid and the eunuch were ordered to leave, and after a while, they saw the palace maids carrying trays rushing in, and quickly served wine and food to each seat. Then, remove the fruit and tea that you have previously placed and replace them with new ones.

Zhou Changan picked up the golden cup in front of him, welcomed Lan Ziheng, congratulated North Xiao Nan, and then toasted with the hundred officials to announce the official start of the banquet.

On the high platform opposite, the dancers have already begun to dance to the music. Lin Wan kept a low profile and concentrated on dealing with the delicious food in front of him.

Lan Ziheng and Ximen Yuqing beside him raised their wines and invited them to drink and talked in a low voice, while Bei Xiaonan and Jin Haoran also raised their glasses frequently and drank happily.

And Zhou Tianhong, who was beside them, listened to the report of his subordinates and kept frowning.

Just now, my subordinates reported that after Lan Ziling left the palace in the afternoon, he said that he wanted to get out of the car to buy some things, but he entered the clothing shop next to him and did not come out again. The guards didn't dare to follow up, and waited outside the shop for a long time before they dared to go in and ask, but she was the shopkeeper who had already left from behind.

They didn't dare to make a noise, and immediately went back to the Great Prince's Mansion to find it, knowing that Lan Ziling had not gone back, so they were in a hurry, and immediately entered the palace to report to Zhou Tianhong.

Zhou Tianhong frowned, secretly thinking, where would Lan Ziling go? In the capital, who else could she go to besides Lan Ziheng and Lan Ziyue? Could it be because of what happened last night that scared her away?

What happened in the Great Prince's Mansion last night, of course, did not escape Zhou Tianhong's eyes. Although he did not approve of Ximen Yuling's use of force, it was inconvenient to stop him. Even Lan Ziheng turned a blind eye to this, why did he need to offend Ximen Yuling for this?

Zhou Tianhong's eyes swept to Ximen Yuqing, and he saw him and Lan Ziheng talking and laughing in a low voice, and there didn't seem to be anything unusual.

Thinking about it, even if Lan Ziling went to find him, he wouldn't bother with Lan Ziling, after all, he was now pursuing Lin Wan wholeheartedly. If you dare to make something wrong at this juncture, won't you have lost all your efforts.

Zhou Tianhong looked at Lin Wan again, and saw that she was eating with her head buried in food, her appetite was excellent, and she didn't seem to have something troubled. Zhou Tianhong retracted his gaze, he had already ordered his subordinates to secretly search in the capital, hoping that there would be results soon.

Lan Ziyue couldn't sit still, she had originally arranged for Lan Ziling to challenge Lin Wan again today, but Lan Ziling suddenly disappeared.

She didn't know what was going on, but she just heard Zhou Tianhong tell his subordinates to look for it again. Then, it must be to find Lan Ziling.

Lan Ziyue wrinkled her eyebrows and stared at Lin Wan, she had no other suspicions in her heart, she decided that except for Lin Wan, no one would hide Lan Ziling.

Lin Wan knew that Lan Ziyue had been staring at her, and she felt a little bored, but she didn't want to pay attention to her. I really couldn't eat it anymore, so I turned my head to talk to Zhou Lingwei, pretending not to see anything, and didn't take Lan Ziyue's cold gaze to heart.

Lan Ziyue finally spoke, furrowed her brows, and called in a low voice, "Princess Wanxin." ”

Lin Wan still pretended not to hear it, and continued to laugh with Zhou Lingwei. All the people around heard it, and they all pretended not to hear, not wanting to bother with this gossip.

"Princess Wanxin! Princess Ben is calling you, didn't you hear me?" Lan Ziyue raised her voice again and shouted again.

This time, Lin Wan could no longer pretend not to hear, because everyone looked over, and the hall suddenly became quiet.