Chapter 128: Change
In the middle of summer, it can be said that it is the most gorgeous season of color, a hundred flowers compete for beauty, the flowers are charming, the imperial garden in the palace is also the most prosperous scenery at this time, and among the flowers, there is only the peony in the peony garden, only the peony is the only one who oppresses the group of flowers, no matter how the other gardens are purple and red, in how to shake and colorful, only the king of the peony garden flowers can keep the sight of the people in the past, the peony.
The empress has always loved peonies, and when the emperor was there, in order to make her laugh, he deliberately set a precedent for her in the palace. And this case, so far, has become a feast in the palace in the middle of summer. In the past, only a few nobles and ladies in the palace had the privilege of enjoying the flowers with the empress, but this year was different.
At night, the palace lights were dim, Princess Min dressed up for an afternoon in order to be able to appear beautifully, and finally, under Ren Xin's repeated urging, she was supported by Xiao Qi and walked out, Ren Xin saw Princess Min walk out for the first time, only to feel that her eyes lit up, Princess Min and her sister, the eldest princess is really more and more similar, especially after dressing up, at first glance, there is a moment of illusion, in front of the eldest princess a few years ago.
"Ren Xin, you see, is it beautiful?" Princess Min pushed away Xiao Qi who was holding her, with some difficulty holding her head full of gorgeous and valuable jewelry, carrying her skirt and turning around in place, beauty is of course beauty, but her smile is bright but a little stiff, Ren Xin was afraid that she would fall herself, so she took two steps forward to help her hold, leaving a hand to help her hold her head, "What is beautiful or not, you never brought so much to clean up today, what's wrong?" Why do you bother yourself like this? ”
"I'm willing~ you take care of me!" Princess Min didn't hear the ideal compliment, she glared at Ren Xin in annoyance, stood up straight, straightened her neck, raised her hand dignified and let Xiao Qi support her, and pretended to go first. Ren Xin reluctantly followed behind Princess Min, there was no way to take her, no one knew what kind of stimulation she was getting today, and she had to dress up to attend the peony banquet.
Ren Xin followed Princess Min to the Peony Garden, as soon as Princess Min appeared, she attracted everyone's attention, everyone got up and saluted Princess Min, and repeatedly praised Princess Min's beauty, which greatly satisfied Princess Min's vanity, and this is what she wanted. Xiao Qi helped Princess Min to sit next to the empress, and Ren Xin also entered the table, she was supposed to sit in the corner, but due to the empress's preference, she was able to sit at the same table with the princes and nobles. Princess Min looked around with a stiff smile on her lips for a week, and then fell on Ren Xin, raising her eyebrows, Ren Xin could roughly understand what she was thinking, she must be thinking now, look, everyone said that I am very beautiful today, I have eyes and no beads~ Ren Xin picked up the wine glass on the table with both hands and toasted Princess Min, meaning: You are beautiful, you are the most beautiful in the world, Ren Xin admires~ In fact, the smile on the corner of Ren Xin's mouth is almost unbearable, Princess Min's expression was natural when she first appeared, and it was also very beautiful. But after such a while, her little neck has already been stiffened by the head of jewelry, and when she turned her head to look at Ren Xin, the head was all mechanically moving, and the smile on her face had already unconsciously turned into a simple arc on the side of her mouth, and the corners of her mouth twitched uncontrollably from time to time, Ren Xin was already embarrassed to complain, why did the already beautiful little girl have to toss herself like this......
Princess Min was very satisfied with the respect that Ren Xin threw to her, stiffened her neck and slowly discussed the beautiful peony flowers around with the empress, Ren Xin only then had the time to see the form of today's peony banquet, unlike usual, today's peony banquet rarely has harem women, on the contrary, most of the important ministers invited are in the court. Ren Xin took a closer look, now she will also look at the situation, the most flamboyant faction in the dinner party is the user Princess Di's faction, they are singing about wine, smiling, obviously, Princess Di on behalf of Da Yin to envoy to the neighboring country is the supreme glory, in their opinion, the next candidate for the throne is naturally Princess Di, if you ask Ren Xin what you think so, then look at the *** next to you to know that the most likely to win the throne at the moment is Prince Nuo and Princess Di, And the biggest supporter of the crown prince, the prime minister, has been in trouble recently, the empress wants to get rid of the prime minister, and everyone has heard of it, which can be seen clearly by looking at the distance between the people and the prime minister, everyone is now dissociating from the prime minister, and the prince and the prince seem to have become less utilitarian.
Everything seems to be calm, no matter who seems to be just enjoying the peony feast, but for some reason, everyone's conversation and laughter can be seen in the turbulent dark waves, peace is only a superficial phenomenon, and there will be changes tonight.
Ren Xin didn't know what Lu Dao thought about it, someone around her toasted, she smiled and raised her glass, and drank it, maybe because she knew the inside story of Lu Dao.
The empress took Princess Min and Prince Nuo to get up and take a walk in the garden, the ministers were free to move a little at this time, and at this time, many people around them came to talk to Ren Xin, and Ren Xin also responded politely one by one, of course, Ren Xin knew that these smiling faces were not shown to her, but to the things she might know, or to the empress behind her. Everyone knows how much Ren Xinzi has been valued by the empress since entering the palace, although she is only a small bachelor in the literature museum, but she can freely enter and exit the empress's imperial study and heard that with the most brutal and willful princess Min can talk regardless of dignity or inferiority, such an honor is not something that ordinary people can get, which is an unattainable distance in the eyes of the ministers.
This kind of thing, Ren Xin has been slowly accustomed to it in the past two years, and there is no shortage of these powerful characters in the palace, stepping on the low and holding the high, falling into the well when you are at a low point, and slapping the horse when you are glorious, the last thing Ren Xin needs is this kind of fragile friendship, and Ren Xin has long been able to easily deal with these people, these things.
In an inadvertent time, Ren Xin unexpectedly found that there seemed to be a 'hot' eye staring at her, and there seemed to be a bit of resentment, she looked strangely in the direction of that line of sight through the heavy head, and found that the person looking at her was the prime minister who was alienated by everyone.
Discovered the source of the sight, Ren Xin wanted to pretend that he didn't see it, but looking at the time, it seemed that Yao Chi and they should also succeed, inexplicably Ren Xin remembered that she was not able to participate in the imperial examination, the culprit was going to be unlucky today, how could she not come forward to comfort a few words?
After Ren Xin exchanged a few words with the people around him, he put down the wine glass in his hand, said goodbye to the cold side of the Prime Minister, and saluted politely, "Why is your lord drinking alone here?" ”
"For what...... Didn't Master Ren hear something? "The Zai's statement is a little unbelievable, as a celebrity around the empress, it is impossible not to know these things.
Of course, it is naturally impossible for Ren Xin not to know the way, she also started to plan to help the empress save people, but Ren Xin still pretended not to know anything, "It is normal for officialdom to have ups and downs, no matter what happens, it will soon be called the past, the lord is high and powerful, he is a generation of old ministers, and there will always be another brilliant day." ”
"Oh? Do you really think so? The prime minister heard Ren Xin say this, and felt a little relieved in his heart, Ren Xin said this, presumably he did not hear any news from the empress that was unfavorable to him. Thinking about it, the prime minister's movement of holding the wine jug also became brisk, and he asked with a smile, "Everyone avoids me, how dare you talk to me without avoiding suspicion?" ”
"Why should I avoid adults? Adults have 'kindness' with me, and 'kindness' has not been reciprocated, but they avoid adults, which is not in line with my principles of life. Ren Xin half-joking, the prime minister didn't remember what he had with Ren Xin over the years, Ren Xin saw that he was puzzled, so he opened his mouth to explain, "I'm afraid I don't remember, Ren Xin was favored by adults when he first arrived in the capital, but it doesn't matter, Ren Xin just remembers, Ren Xin is not a person who will be ungrateful, and having 'grace' will be repaid has always been pursued by Ren Xin." ”
"Oh? Bachelor Ren is still a man of temperament. "The prime minister listened to Ren Xin's meaning and thought that Ren Xin was to show his loyalty, and thought that he would be able to make a comeback soon, and Ren Xin Tiannan Haibei chatted nonsense, and was chatting happily, I don't know where a group of guards came out of nowhere to surround the prime minister and Ren Xin, everyone present was frightened by this sudden scene, and they all didn't understand what was going on in the same place, and the prime minister didn't know why, he looked at Ren Xin in a daze, and felt wrong when he thought about it, these people shouldn't be coming to her, then it should be... …
Ren Xin lowered his eyes and smiled slightly, shrugged his shoulders towards the prime minister, with a look of helplessness, and then lazily retreated a few steps, and the guards automatically made way for her, and then blocked the road, took off the prime minister's official hat and uniform, and took the rope to tie up Wuhuada. At this time, the empress came back with Prince Nuo and Princess Min, everyone saluted, Ren Xin quietly raised his eyes and saw that Mu Zihan was standing by the empress's side intact, and he didn't have to think about it to know that Lu Dao's plan was going well.
The prime minister looked at Mu Zihan in a daze, how could he be rescued...... Xiang Xun came in a hurry, and saw that Mu Zihan was also stunned, but she didn't have much to say, so she had to stand silently beside the empress and watch the changes.
Seeing that the prime minister was distracted, Ren Xin approached the prime minister and whispered, "Do you know that Ren Xin is because of who missed the imperial examination?" ”
There is no such thing as kindness, there is only hatred between them.