Chapter 13 Mid-Autumn Festival Chrysanthemum Banquet (1)
In the Nanyong court, the only adult princes who survived under the knees of Emperor Nanyong were the second prince, the fifth prince, and the seventh prince with a low biological mother. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe biological mother of the Seven Princes is just a palace maid, and she died in childbirth when she gave birth to the Seventh Prince, and since then the Seven Princes have been raised under the name of the queen, but her personality is cowardly, and she is frail and sickly, so she is not threatening. The second prince is the queen of the main palace, and the fifth prince is the concubine Shugui. Emperor Nanyong's health deteriorated day by day, so the struggle in the imperial court between the faction leading by Prime Minister Murong and the faction supporting the second prince led by Mr. Nange intensified. The so-called letter between Mr. Nange and Dongfan intercepted some time ago shook Nange's solid position in the heart of Emperor Nanyong, and the five princes, who were basically stable because of the support of Nange, instantly turned from advantage to inferiority.
Recently, Shenmu Rong has found out the actual evidence that the South Pavilion has a private army, and is thinking about testifying against the South Pavilion together tomorrow morning, but without the South Pavilion, the Five Princes' faction will naturally collapse and break down. Who knew that just now, the key witness suddenly disappeared! If there is no such person, even the written evidence will not be enough to convince Emperor Nanyong to completely convict Nange.
When Murong Yizi went to the study, Shenmu Rong and the others were already waiting anxiously.
"What's going on!" Murong was furious and smashed the tea table. Obviously, everything is well calculated, how can something go wrong at this critical moment!
"I guess it must be Nange who received the news and kidnapped the person." Shenmu Rong said in a deep voice.
Thinking of Nange's abnormal things tonight, Murong Yizi frowned, could it be that the play he performed tonight was just to distract their attention and rob people?
"Prime Minister, the top priority is to think about how to snatch people back." It was Lu Anxi, the head of the household, who spoke out.
Murong Yizi glanced at the people present: "If you have any opinions, just say it." ”
"I think that since we already have solid evidence in our hands, we just need to let one person play the role of proof, and it doesn't have to be that person."
Shenmu Rong sighed and shook his head: "Lord Liang, you don't know, that person originally defected to me for the future, he is a smart person, although he helped collect evidence, he is ......"
Murong Yizi has known Shenmu Rong for many years, so he naturally knows what he means: "Could it be that you only have half of the evidence in your hand?" ”
Kamiki Rong nodded helplessly. In other words, if they can't save that person, then everything they had planned before would be in vain.
"But if that person falls into the hands of Nange, will there be a way to live? I'm afraid it'....... now," one of the ministers said with palpitations.
"Definitely, before Nange got the other half of the information, he was safe." Shenmu Rong said affirmatively.
"Then we ......"
Everyone chattered and discussed, but in the end it ended in nothing. Seeing that the great opportunity was about to be lost again, everyone beat their chests and feet.
At this time, Murong Yizi, who had not spoken, spoke up.
"Calm down, this matter is not without room for reversal." Murong Yizi smiled strangely, "There is still a trump card in this phase." ”
The next day, the fact that Murong of the Prime Minister's Mansion danced and fell into the city spread all over the streets and alleys of Yongdu. For a while, the Prime Minister's Mansion received many greetings and invitations, all of which wanted to invite the Mo family to bring Miss Xiangfu and Miss Shu to the banquet together. In addition to the two sons and one daughter from the Mo family, there are only two concubines in the Prime Minister's Mansion, Miss Shu, who is naturally talking about idle dancing. One of the most important is that the queen personally sent someone to send an invitation, and three days later, at the Mid-Autumn Festival chrysanthemum banquet, in addition to inviting Miss Murong as usual, she also specially named the Mo family to bring Murong to dance. When Mo Shi received the invitation, he was so angry that he smashed the precious glazed porcelain vase as soon as he returned to the room, thinking that it was still useful for Xiangye to keep dancing, and he couldn't move her, Yan Hua was still lying unconscious on the bed, not to mention how aggrieved she was.
Mingyang Palace.
"Sister, you can't go to the Mid-Autumn Festival!" When Huo Minglin, the little prince of Mingyang Palace, received the invitation from the palace, he threw it to the ground.
Huo Qianqin, the county lord of Niyang, whom he called "sister", was calm, not ashamed or annoyed, as if this was really just an ordinary dinner.
"You want to disobey the Queen?" Huo Tianqin raised his eyebrows.
"Anyway, you can't go, even if you resist the decree, you will say that I won't let you go!" Huo Minglin said as a matter of course, seeing that his sister still had no intention of resisting, his heart was also anxious, "Sister! This Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is clearly for the second prince and the fifth prince to choose concubines, and when the time comes, that Shenmu Rongfan will definitely not be well-intentioned, if you just point out a husband, you will cry without tears at that time! Huo Minglin persuaded "bitterly".
Who knew that Huo Tianqin glared at him: "How can you call the queen's maiden name?" doesn't look like a prince. ”
Huo Minglin was scolded and pouted aggrievedly: "Sister-"
"Even if I don't go, do you think the queen will have no other way to marry me?" She and Minglin lost their mother at a young age, after the death of her father, it was she who carried the Mingyang Mansion with a heavy army on her weak shoulders, and finally waited until Minglin succeeded to the throne as an adult, how could the people on the other side of the palace be willing to drain the fat of Mingyang Palace? If it doesn't mean anything, I can't wait to marry her, and there are others after the queen! If she doesn't go, she will be truly slaughtered.
"Alright, alright! Three days later, you can give me some peace at my dinner, don't make trouble for me, I know the rest, don't worry about it. ”
With the greeting post sent by the queen herself, Mo Shi is how to punish Gu Tianyu in his heart, he also has to be a ninja. Gu Tianyu has never gone out since she returned to the courtyard from the ancestral hall, others are only nervous that she is going to participate in the chrysanthemum banquet, but they don't know that she has been planning how to take Murong Yanhua's life unknowingly for the past three days, and the shame he brought to her that night made her have nightmares every night.
Finally, on the day of the chrysanthemum feast, when the Mo family sent someone to pick up Gu Tianyu, she was already dressed and radiant, and she couldn't see that she had such an unbearable experience three days ago. When she saw Mo's, Gu Tianyu had a decent smile on her face, but for some reason, Mo's always felt weird, obviously a very normal smile, but every time she saw Xian Wu's beautiful eyes, she always felt shuddering, it's just that, it must be her hallucination, how dare a little dancing girl fight against her?
"You get in the carriage at the back, and after entering the palace, you will see more and listen and talk less, so as not to lose the face of the Prime Minister's Mansion." After saying that, Mo Shi and Murong Yan'er left in a car, without waiting for Gu Tianyu at all. Gu Tianyu raised his eyebrows, a cruel smile appeared on his face, and in just that moment, he returned to his original dignity and got into the carriage.
After entering the palace, the Mo family first took Murong Yan'er and Gu Tianyu to greet the queen, and it happened that the second prince Huo Mingtai was also there.
"See the queen mother, see the second prince."
"Excuse me!" Shenmu Rongfan's gentle voice sounded in Gu Tianyu's ears, "Presumably this is Miss Xianwu, right?" ”
Seeing this, Gu Tianyu was slightly blessed and replied: "The courtier Murong danced idly and saw the queen's mother. ”
"Sure enough, it is the beauty of the country, and the people raised by the Murong family are really extraordinary." The queen's face was kind, but her eyes were full of consideration and calculation when she looked at Gu Tianyu.
Huo Mingtai, who was accustomed to seeing beauties, couldn't help but be amazed by Gu Tianyu's beauty, he had never seen such a gorgeous woman after graduation, thinking of the alluring dance that was rumored in Yongdu, he couldn't help but look forward to the woman dancing in front of him.
"I heard that Miss Xianwu dances a must, I don't know if at tonight's dinner, this prince will have the blessing to enjoy the girl's dance?" Huo Mingtai's tone was undisguised with a sense of flirtation, and the queen couldn't help frowning when she heard it, although this idle dance was just a relative of the Murong family, after all, it was a person from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and it was not appropriate for the emperor to be so practical, and he was not a dancing girl.
"Emperor, don't mess around, Miss Xianwu is not a dancing queen, how can she dance at will?"
"Queen Mother-" Huo Mingtai was a little unhappy that the queen didn't give him face in front of outsiders, it seemed that the prime minister's wife didn't have a displeased face at all, it seems that this idle dance is not a matter of attention, and it is not impossible to return to the house.
"Queen Mother, you see, Brother Tai ignored Yan'er after seeing Sister Xianwu, Yan'er didn't follow." Murong Yan'er pretended to be dissatisfied and complained to the queen, interrupting what Huo Mingtai wanted to say. Just kidding, Murong Xianwu can't dance in front of Brother Tai, otherwise that little girl will definitely hook his soul. She would never allow such a thing to happen!
"Silly Yan'er, how can Tai'er be willing to ignore you. You don't know that your brother Tai likes to watch singing and dancing, I heard that the idle dance skills are first-class, even the dancing girls in the palace can't be compared, Tai'er was curious and didn't talk to you for the first time. It's boring for you juniors to stay with me, Tai'er, take Yan'er to play! After saying that, the queen gestured to Huo Mingtai with her eyes.
Huo Mingtai rolled his eyes, he is not an ignorant person, everything is important to the overall situation, although he is interested in idle dance, but the woman's status is low, at most she can only play, and Murong Yan'er still has to please.
"Yes, the minister retired first." After saying that, he left with the elated Murong Yan'er.
The queen's words just now were clearly praising Gu Tianyu's dancing skills, but in fact, she deliberately belittled her identity and compared her with the dancing girl. also implied a warning, signaling her not to think so much that she didn't belong to her.
Mo Shi watched Huo Mingtai take Murong Yan'er out, and he was naturally in a good mood, but Gu Tianyu still smiled consistently, as if he didn't hear the queen's voice. Mo looked at her like a fist on cotton, sullen.
"Come on, take Miss Xianwu to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the chrysanthemums." As soon as the queen's words fell, a maidservant girl stepped forward to take Gu Tianyu away. After Gu Tianyu saluted, he also left with the maidservant smoothly.
After her figure disappeared, the queen got up and invited Mo Shi to the inner room to talk.
"Wan Ning, what the hell is going on with the idle dance?" Wanning is Mo's name, and Mo's and Shenmu Rongfan were close friends in the boudoir before they left the cabinet, and they called each other by their names in private.
"Hey, I don't know where Xiang Ye found it, Xiang Ye said that Xiao Nizi is very useful, and I am not allowed to touch her. But when I think of a woman from an unknown source who stole the limelight from Yan'er and hurt me Hua'er like this, I feel very uncomfortable. ”
"Oh, I see. I said what are you anxious about, since it is useful for Xiangye to keep that person, you don't have any crooked thoughts, so that Murong Cheng will not be dissatisfied with you. When her use value is gone, what to do with it is not a matter of your words? "The queen is a little helpless, Mo's small-bellied chicken intestines have not been able to change after so many years, and it will be bad if it continues like this. She had to make some caveats.
"By the way, Niangniang, I think the second prince seems to be interested in that little girl, will it ......?"
"No!" The queen said sharply, "Tai'er's concubine can only be Yan'er, you can rest assured." ”
With the queen's guarantee, Mo is much more at ease.
"I came to you this time to talk to you about the county lord of Niyang. The palace plans to persuade the emperor to marry Yan Ke and Ni Yang, you go back and talk to Yan Ke, so that he can be prepared. ”