Chapter 18: Princess Helana

When Cai Wei and Nangong Yi returned to the Linshui Pavilion in the Imperial Garden, noon had passed, but the banquet had not yet begun.

After Cai Wei and Nangong Yi came back, they immediately attracted everyone's attention.

In the men's seat, all the sons looked at Nangong Yi with envy, as if they thought that he had just enjoyed a happy fish and water, and they were all envious of his Yanfu.

Several princes who were close to Nangong Yi smiled meaningfully at him, with ambiguous smiles, as if they had some tacit secrets between them.

Nangong Yi didn't explain everyone's inquiries and hints, he returned to his seat unhurriedly, with a shallow smile on his handsome face.

This smile is easy to think of the pride of a man after being satisfied, especially Nangong Yi's temptation to everyone, he laughed at it, smiled and said nothing, which made everyone's suspicion even more certain.

On the seat, Huo Yuan's face was as usual, still with that personable and gentle expression, but at this time, there was already an uproar in his heart.

Her clothes have changed!

Although no one else noticed, they couldn't escape his eyes.

The dress she came to wear today was originally carefully selected by him for her and given to her by the hand of the Duke of Anguo, and he couldn't be more familiar with it.

Now, what she is wearing is not the original Yunfei makeup satin woven colorful flying saucer gown, although the current dress is similar to the dress he prepared for her, but her original dress was carefully selected by him for her, and he could see it at a glance.

and her skirt, it is not the original flower-sprinkled Ruyi moire skirt, but a flower-sprinkled bat moire skirt, which is slightly darker than the skirt he chose for her, and it can't be seen without looking carefully.

However, he could see it.

In his eyes, the entire Imperial Garden and all the people in the Imperial Garden were just her foils. His eyes are only hers, and no slight change in her can escape his eyes......

Her clothes and skirts had changed, even her hair had been recombed, and her lips were as red as agate, slightly pouting, and they were already swollen......

How so? Why is this happening?

In his heart, there was a sharp pain, so that his breathing was no longer smooth, and his expression was no longer calm, and the hands on his knees were too tightly gripped, and there were also green tendons protruding on the back of his hands.

"Nangong Yi..."

He whispered his teeth......

After Cai Wei returned to her seat, she deliberately ignored everyone's inquiring eyes, and said to Wu Xiangyun kindly: "Sister Xiangyun, I've been waiting for a long time, I just delayed for a while, there's nothing wrong here, right?" ”

Wu Xiangyun shook his head, bit his lip and said, "It's okay, it's just that Concubine Xian Niangniang came to visit, and later heard that the queen's mother was in poor health, so she rushed to Yukun Palace to visit......"

After speaking, a pair of big eyes looked around, and saw that several young ladies at the same table deliberately turned their faces to the side, Fang leaned over and said in a low voice: "Cai Wei, are you okay, have you been bullied?" ”

"What?"

Cai Wei was stunned, speechless and choked.

Why did she think that?

Since she thinks so, does everyone else think the same way?

It's over, her reputation and reputation are all ruined!

"I mean, have you been given by the King of Qin, given, given to ......"

Xiangyun's face turned red, her already small mosquito-like voice stopped, and she stopped shyly, unable to say the rest of the words.

"Nope!"

Cai Wei whispered in a firm and categorical tone.

She thought angrily, when she finds an opportunity, she must settle accounts with that guy, it's all him, which makes her suspicious, maybe everyone thinks so, but she can't explain it one by one, it's really hard!

Xiangyun breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's okay if you don't have it, I'm scared to death, I think you've been bullied!" ”

Du Wanqiu is not as simple and deceitful as Xiangyun, she slanted Cai Wei's swollen lips, covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and chuckled.

"Congratulations to my sister, congratulations to my sister, my sister can be favored by King Qin, and she will have a bright future in the future, my sister is here to congratulate my sister in advance!"

Du Wanqiu's voice was not too loud, but it was not small enough for the people around her to hear.

When all the young ladies around heard her words, they all looked at Cai Wei, with different expressions on their young faces.

Some envy, some despise, and some envy.

Suddenly, Cai Wei had a feeling that she had been betrayed by a villain, she looked at the various eyes that shot from all directions, and was about to open her mouth to refute, when she suddenly heard a sneer.

"Cut! What is promising? It's just a thing that was used by King Qin as a fan for fun, a talented daughter, once she climbed into bed, she dared to think of His Royal Highness King Qin, it was really shameless, and she really thought she was the daughter of Houmen! ”

A mean and explicit insult made Cai Wei suddenly surprised, and the young ladies were all silent and surprised.

This is the inner courtyard of the palace, where the Son of Heaven lives, and the most particular about etiquette and rules, who dares to be arrogant to this? Speak obscenities at the queen's feast, and there is no king's law?

Cai Wei turned her head and looked in the direction where the voice came from, and saw a young woman dressed as an alien, looking at her with her chin raised, unruly.

The woman looked like she was seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in a Xianbei country, fair-skinned, and pretty, but in her unruly eyes, because she was a little more ruthless, she destroyed the original beauty a lot.

"This is Princess Helana of Xianbei Country, she has always admired His Royal Highness King Qin, she has a very bad temper, you have to be careful"

Xiangyun secretly pinched Caiwei's hand and warned in a low voice.

Cai Wei nodded, smiled at Xiangyun, turned her head to look at Princess Helana, and asked, "Dare to ask the princess, what is a fan?" What is a crawler? The folk girl is lonely and unheard, and she doesn't understand the meaning of the princess. ”

Helana sneered: "Hmph! What to pretend, the powder head is a woman like you, and climbing the bed is what you just did in King Qin's bedroom! ”

"Powder, that's it.... A woman like me? ”

Cai Wei touched her face, thoughtful.

"A woman like me? Does the princess refer to my youth and beauty? Hehe, but, the princess herself is also very young and beautiful, and the princess herself is a fan, so why praise me? ”

Cai Wei said with a smile, waved the handkerchief in her hand, and said, "Princess, you are obviously a fan!" ”

Helana choked with anger and said, "Shut up, you are not allowed to insult my princess." ”

Cai Wei was surprised: "Princess, why did I insult you?" People are obviously praising you for being a fan, why do they insult you? ”

"Poofβ€”"

Xiangyun couldn't help but laugh.

There were also a few young ladies of the family who were also amused by Cai Wei's words, but as soon as they grinned, they saw Helana 'snap' on the table, stood up suddenly, and immediately shut up in fright, and no one dared to laugh anymore.

Xiangyun also hurriedly lowered his head and coughed vigorously, covering up his gaffe just now.

This princess Helana has a great background, she is a princess from Xianbei country, and Dajin and Xianbei are in-laws and allies, so this princess has a very high status in Dajin, and idle people dare not provoke her.

Five years ago, the crown prince Nangong was ordered by the emperor to marry He Lanxue, the eldest princess of Xianbei Kingdom, as the crown princess.

Originally, Princess Helana planned to wait for her sister to finish marrying and then return to Xianbei Kingdom, but because she saw Nangong Yi at the wedding banquet, she fell in love with him at first sight, regardless of the opposition of the ministers who came with her, she resolutely stayed in Dajin and kept saying that she wanted to marry him.

Helana is domineering, arrogant and rude, with a good face, not long after coming to Dajin, she revealed her true nature.

For such a woman, Nangong Yi naturally avoided it and refused to marry anything.

The emperor and queen saw that Helana was so unacceptable, and they refused to point her to the king of Qin, so she stayed in Dajin for five years, and failed to marry Nangong Yi as she wished and became the princess of Qin.

In theory, five years of hard work failed to make her wish, and she should give up.

However, to this day, she still has not given up on Nangong Yi, and over time, her thoughts about Nangong Yi have become an obsession that must be made of him, and as time goes by, this obsession becomes deeper and deeper.

Therefore, every woman who has a little to do with Nangong Yi will be retaliated against by her.

Helana walked up to Cai Wei's table and looked at her condescendingly, and when she saw Cai Wei's delicate face, the expression on her face suddenly cracked.

"Mu Caiwei, you!"

She pointed at Cai Wei's nose and gritted her teeth and scolded angrily, eager to break her body into thousands of pieces and scatter her bones and ashes!

Over the years, although King Qin has rejected her countless times, he has never found another woman, and there is no room girl or anything in the house, which makes her never give up, and has been staying in the Great Jin Kingdom, waiting for the day when loyalty is caused and gold and stone are opened.

She waited hard for five years, from a thirteen-year-old green onion to an eighteen-year-old woman, she never gave up, and kept waiting for her eyes.

It's a pity that what he was waiting for was the cruel fact that he ambiguously dragged this woman away in public.

He took the and took her to his dormitory, where he pampered her fiercely.

This's lips are still swollen, and the pursed red and swollen lips are like a demonstration against her, looking in her eyes and hurting in her heart.

However, this is not to blame King Qin, he has always been a good man who is clean and self-conscious, and he has never spoiled that woman, today's incident is to blame this cheap fox girl, it is to seduce His Royal Highness King Qin, so that His Royal Highness King Qin is like this, so she must teach her a good lesson!

Cai Wei was scolded by her, but she didn't mean to be angry at all, she said slowly: "Princess, anger is easy to make people old, your age is not young, if you lose your temper like this, it will not only make you look older and uglier, but also easy to be looked down upon by others!" ”

"What do you say? What did you say? Kind of you say it again? ”

Helana looked at Cai Wei in disbelief, she couldn't believe her ears.

Is this slut scolding her? Scolding her for being old and ugly and uncultivated, she, how dare she?

Cai Wei picked up the teacup, took the tea lid and gently flicked the tea leaves inside, and said unhurriedly: "I said, those who can stay here are all famous ladies, please don't use foul language, so as not to pollute the ears of the young ladies and let everyone look down on the princess's virtue." ”

"You.... Daring! ”

Helana was furious, couldn't hold back any longer, stepped forward, raised her hand violently, and wanted to slap this slut.

The moment she raised her hand, a cold aura suddenly hit, she subconsciously turned her head, and saw the other side of Linshui Pavilion, Nangong Yizheng looked at her with cold eyebrows.

That look was very different from the polite detachment when she rejected her in the past, even though she was separated from a pavilion, she could still feel the coldness emanating from him.

He was warning her not to do anything to the slut.

This realization made her heart hurt like a needle, her palm stopped in mid-air, and she paused for a long time before she was unwilling to let go.

"Slut, you wait for me!"

Helana left this cruel sentence, flicked her sleeves, and returned to her banquet with hatred.

"Okay, I'll wait!"

Cai Wei said with a disdainful sneer.

When Du Wanqiu saw Helana attacking Cai Wei, she was so frightened that her heart was about to jump out, she lowered her head, and lowered her sense of existence without saying a word.

This princess of Xianbei Country is notoriously bad-tempered, and because Prime Minister Ning is in love with Nangong Yi, she was jealous and beat Miss Ning, which has been widely spread in the aristocratic circles of the Great Jin Kingdom.

A princess from a foreign country dares to beat the daughter of the prime minister, it can be seen how rude and capricious this princess is!

If she is really mad at Mu Caiwei, it would be strange if she didn't pump her tendons and skin her!

She is not afraid that Mu Caiwei, a little slut, will be cramped and skinned, she wishes she would be cramped and skinned, what she is afraid of is that Princess Helana will be angry with her, so that she will also be beaten by the princess, if that is the case, she will really have no face to show up in the aristocratic circle in the capital!

After Helana left, she dared to raise her head, still palpitating.

Cai Wei was drinking tea comfortably, and when she saw her raise her head, she smiled at her: "Let my sister be frightened!" ”

Mu Caiwei's smile was full of ridicule, seeing that Du Wanqiu was ashamed and angry, she pulled the corners of her mouth in embarrassment, and said, "It's okay, my sister is fine." ”

Cai Wei put down the teacup and sighed, "Hey! Is there something wrong, who knows? Anyway, I offended the two princesses, and if any of them holds a grudge and wants to take revenge on me, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for us sisters to get out of this royal garden! ”

Du Wanqiu shrank for a moment, and then said with a smile: "My sister is really good at laughing, even if any princess wants to trouble her sister, and her sister is protected by His Royal Highness King Qin, what is there to be afraid of?" ”

Cai Wei smiled: "I don't have anything to be afraid of, I'm afraid that I will affect my sisters, I heard that these two princesses are not easy to mess with, they have suffered a loss in my place, and they will not give up, but unfortunately they can't do anything about me, so I have to find my sisters to be angry, sisters should be careful!" ”

Du Wanyue hurriedly said: "Why should we be affected by you, if the princess is looking for trouble, she will naturally be looking for you, what does it matter to us?" ”

Cai Wei chuckled lightly and said coolly: "Oh? Is it? That's because I'm overthinking.... ”

After speaking, he turned his head to talk to Xiangyun, and no longer paid attention to the Du family sisters.

Du Wanqiu originally planned to beg Caiwei to talk to King Qin, begging King Qin to protect Mu Caiwei at the same time, and protect her by the way, so as not to let the two unruly princesses be angry with her.

However, because Du Wanyue was quick to talk and offended Mu Caiwei, although she was not angry on the surface, she looked indifferent and alienated from them, and it was clear that she didn't want to talk to them anymore, so she didn't dare to disturb, so as not to annoy her and it would backfire.

Here, Du Wanqiu was annoyed, and suddenly saw a big eunuch with a few little eunuchs coming over to report, saying that the queen mother was about to arrive, and everyone was ready to take over.

"It's finally here."

Cai Wei said in her heart, and stood up with everyone, ready to greet the queen mother.

"The Queen Mother has arrivedβ€”"

As the guard of honor approached, one of the attendant eunuchs shouted.

Everyone knelt down in unison and saluted, shouting: "Queen Mother Chitose Chitose Chitose!" ”

Empress Mo sat on her shoulder, with a bright yellow cover, surrounded by a bright yellow translucent gauze tent, on which the nine-tailed golden phoenix was embroidered, which could be hung on both sides like a bed tent.

Today, the wind is beautiful, and there is a warm spring breeze, which is very comfortable, Queen Mo's veil tent has not been put down, and everyone can see her face.

"Excuse me! Today is the Shangsi Festival, and it is rare for everyone to have a happy gathering, and there is no need to pay homage with national rites! ”

Empress Mu slowly opened her mouth.

"Thank you, Queen Mother!"

And when they had saluted, they all stood up.

Due to the low status of the Anguo Mansion, Du Wanqiu sisters and Cai Wei were arranged to stand behind the young ladies, and after getting up, Cai Wei boldly and secretly looked at the queen mother.

The queen mother was born very beautiful, about thirty years old, somewhat similar to her son's appearance, and she was also very well maintained, nearly forty years old, but as radiant as a young woman in her twenties.

She wore a dark red gold thread embroidered cloud pattern phoenix robe, apricot yellow gold wisp moon flower long skirt, wearing gold pinched jade red gold double-headed phoenix bending and shaking, gold silk tired phoenix bead hairpin, dot cui auspicious cloud inlaid gold beaded phoenix tail hairpin, red gold inlaid ruby large peony flower, glazed eight treasures pressed hair, etc., wearing emerald green and transparent jade earrings on her ears, a pair of gold inlaid nine dragon play bead bracelets on her wrist, ruby rings, lining her graceful and luxurious, dazzling.

"There are some trivial matters in this palace today, so it's a little late, so let's wait for a long time!"

Queen Mo said lightly, helped Luoxue's hand, and lowered her shoulder.

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