The imperial capital of the Zhou State is vast, divided into the outer city and the inner city, the outer city is divided into four districts, the southeast and the northwest, the north and the south are respected, respectively live the imperial relatives and dignitaries, the east is some rich businessmen who have no official position, and the west is the residence of some ordinary people.

The residence of each official has certain regulations according to the official position, and it is not allowed to expand beyond the system at will.

Cong Sipin's official position was not big in the imperial capital, and naturally it was not the smallest, so the Ruan Mansion only occupied a small piece of land in the southern part of the outer city.

The imperial city is naturally different from the Ruan Mansion, the imperial city is the center of the imperial capital, located in the inner city, from the outside, the blue wall Zhu Gate, each of the four corners has a city gate, the square wall, the square sky, the palace is lined up, pavilions and pavilions, is the most sacred and solemn place in the minds of all people.

In the evening, the royal family wants to hold a palace banquet, and at this time, there are naturally cars and horses outside the palace gate, but under the intervention of the guards, it is orderly and does not seem crowded at all. The carriages of the Ruan Mansion were lined up behind the long line, and there were many carriages from other mansions behind them, except for the sound of the carriages and the sound of horses' hooves, no one made a sound, which looked particularly solemn.

In addition to Ruan Tianxue and his wife, only the three Ruan Yuanshan sisters received the invitation this time. Divided into three carriages, Ruan Tianxue has an official position, so he naturally monopolizes a carriage, and the Lin family also has a command, which is also a carriage alone.

The three Yuan Shan sisters shared a carriage, compared to Ruan Yuanyu's dress, Ruan Yuanshan and Ruan Yuanxiu both looked a little elegant, different from Ruan Yuanxiu's indignation, Ruan Yuanshan was happy to be an invisible person.

The gate of the imperial city is particularly tall, and it is said that the north gate is even more magnificent, because most of the people who come in from the north gate are relatives of the emperor, and compared with the north gate, the south gate is much more low-key.

The city gate is about seven or eight zhang high, five or six zhang wide, the whole body is made of the strongest blue bricks, the city gate is inlaid with dozens of huge door nails, the whole body is fiery red, it seems to tell the people, how magnificent this imperial city is.

And on the left and right of the gate is squatting a hideous bronze lion statue, the whole body is polished and shining, I don't know if it is Yuan Shan's illusion, looking at the eyes of this lion statue, Yuan Shan suddenly felt a wave of dizziness, frightened Yuan Shan hurriedly panicked to gather his mind. This lion statue seems to have been carved with a special formation.

This kind of formation is the most superficial formation in the immortal cultivation world, and it actually doesn't have much effect on immortal cultivators, but for mortals, it can make them unconsciously feel a solemn feeling of awe in their hearts.

But Yuan Shan didn't have any mental preparation to look at the lion pupil at first, and almost got lost in the formation. After all, Yuan Shan hasn't studied the formation too much so far.

Therefore, Yuan Shan changed the mentality of just coming to this imperial city to watch the excitement at the beginning, and began to be alert from the bottom of his heart. Because there is a formation here, does it mean that there are zài immortal cultivators in the imperial city?

Although there are very few descriptions of other immortal cultivators in the ancestor's codex, it seems that the relationship between the immortal cultivator and the immortal cultivator is not so friendly from the description of the ancestor.

Later, Yuan Shan thought about it and understood, after all, the resources for cultivating immortals are limited, and everyone is a competitor, where can we really live in peace? What's more, it's common for you to die if you don't agree with each other, and there are even killers for their own selfish interests.

In the world of cultivating immortals, even the closest relatives can't be completely trusted. When she had this realization for the first time, Yuan Shan was still depressed for a long time, thinking that becoming an immortal cultivator would be superior to others from now on, but the high place was not very cold, which meant that in the future, there might never be someone like Ruohua who was dedicated to her good.

After a short period of melancholy, Yuan Shan straightened his mind, but he didn't dare to release his divine sense to explore the worldly wealth in advance. Instead, I honestly waited to enter the city and feel the magnificence. At the same time, I was secretly on guard in my heart.

Following the command of the guards, the carriages drove into the city one after another, and soon the carriages of the Nguyen Mansion also entered the city. The city has its own arranged chamberlains to receive the ladies and gentlemen, but the carriages are all parked in the corners of the city.

There is no imperial order in the imperial city, and no horse-drawn carriage is allowed.

The three of Yuan Shan and the Lin family followed an inner chamberlain to the inner palace where the concubines lived, and Ruan Tianxue, as a foreign man, was not allowed to enter the inner palace, unless the palace banquet was set up in a certain palace in the inner palace. And Ruan Tianxuan is an official in the court, and he also has a place to go.

Yuan Shan had never participated in a palace banquet in her life, but she had guessed some according to some common sense, so she seemed to follow behind Lin with extra caution.

"Mother, the imperial city is so beautiful!" Ruan Yuanyu's eyes were not enough to see, and she couldn't help but whisper to the Lin family, seeing the footsteps of the chamberlain, the Lin clan hurriedly stopped her from continuing to speak with her eyes, the three sisters were all entering the imperial city for the first time, if the chamberlain felt that Ruan Yuanyu was not as good as the two concubines as the concubines of the first house, it would be a big joke.

Ruan Yuanyu received the hint from Lin's eyes, and pursed his lips slightly, knowing that the imperial city was not as good as at home, so he had to follow Ruan Yuanshan and Ruan Yuanxiu's appearance and look down at his feet.

Yuan Shan only felt that she had followed the chamberlain for a long time before she came to a gorgeous palace, and when she entered the door, she heard the sound of women talking and laughing.

Yuan Shan lowered her head slightly, but she had already swept past the group of guests, most of them were the official wives who were gorgeously dressed and rich, as well as their daughters. However, I don't know whether it is intentional or not, these girls who are as young as flowers are all dressed up in flowers.

Sure enough, on such an occasion, there is no girl who doesn't want to shine. Even those concubines who looked as timid and cowardly as themselves were all carefully dressed, and there were really few who were elegant.

If it weren't for Ruohua to bring a cluster of red plums to himself, such a plain and elegant would probably attract a sideways eye. Yuan Shan secretly rejoiced in her heart.

After the chamberlain who led the way brought Yuan Shan and the others here, he bowed slightly and withdrew.

Although the Lin family is only an official wife from the fourth grade, he also has a circle of his own acquaintances, and as soon as he entered the door, several ladies greeted him.

"Shuxian, you're here." A woman in a dark green palace dress took Lin's hand as soon as she came up, and she looked very familiar. While the woman was talking to the Lin family, she looked at the three Yuan Shan sisters without looking for a margin.

After talking to the Lin family for a while, he pulled Ruan Yuanyu and praised him, and Yuan Shan and Ruan Yuanxiu were also well-educated by the Quarin family, and all the girls in Ruan's mansion were top-notch.

"My girl didn't cause you trouble at your house." A woman in a blue palace dress was the last to talk to Lin, and Yuan Shan knew that she was Luo, the mother of her sister-in-law Feng, and she was also Lin's best handkerchief.

Seeing that Lin smiled slightly, he pulled her aside intimately, "Huifen is my good helper, don't talk about her like that." ”

With Yuan Shan's ear power, he naturally heard some things that should be heard and what should not be heard.

There was a delicate little girl standing behind Luo, the girl pouted and seemed to be sulking, Lin and Luo talked for a while before looking at the little girl: "Huilian, what's wrong?" Come, come to my aunt. ”

The delicate little girl pursed her mouth and walked obediently in front of Lin. Roche scolded with a smile: "You ignore her." ”

Lin glanced at Roche with disgust, pulled the little girl aside, and after a while, he didn't know what Lin told her, so he saw her burst into tears and laughed. Pulled Ruan Yuanyu to play.

Ruan Yuanxiu seems to have familiar concubines from other mansions, only Yuan Shan bowed her head and silently followed behind the Lin family, at this time, the owner of this palace does not seem to have appeared, specifically which lady in the palace lives or specializes in receiving foreign guests, Yuan Shan is unknown.

It's just that because of the two bronze lions at the door, it's not easy for Yuan Shan to release his divine sense to investigate without authorization for the time being.

Just as Yuan Shan was distracted, a sharp and piercing voice came.

"The queen has arrived!"

The paging of the chamberlain made the chaotic chatters of the women in the hall disappear without a trace. Everyone stood silently and waited for the most noble woman in the imperial city.

At this time, four palace maids wearing goose yellow jackets came in from both sides of the main entrance, and then a woman wearing a bright yellow phoenix robe came out unhurriedly with a maid's hand, only to see that this woman was wearing a bright yellow phoenix robe, wearing a phoenix, a goose egg face, snow-white skin, black eyebrows, red lips, a pair of red eyes, at this time she seemed to be in a good mood, and the corners of her mouth were slightly smiling.

However, I don't know why, Yuan Shan always felt that there was a strange gas wrapped around this queen's body, which was somewhat similar to the lewd man last time, blue-gray and a little black, in short, it was very weird.

Yuan Shan hurriedly gathered her mind and tried her best to reduce her sense of save, but the queen sensitively discovered herself and looked over. There was some doubt in his eyes, and he quickly turned to other places without waiting for Yuan Shan to be secretly guarded.

Yuan Shan has not seen the queen in her previous life, but she only knows that the current saint is almost the year of confusion this year, the queen is his wife, at least in her thirties, the emperor and the queen have been very affectionate for many years, and have two sons and a daughter, the eldest son is the current prince, and the second son, His Royal Highness King Cheng, has also reached the age of fifteen. However, when they saw the queen with their own eyes, they found that she looked no more than twenty-five or sixteen. It's weird.

Regardless of Yuan Shan's doubts, the queen had already sat on the main seat, and everyone knelt down to salute the queen.

"Queen Mother Chitose Jin'an."

"You ladies and ladies don't have to be polite, sit down, now this Chuxiu Hall will rest for a while, and the emperor will have a banquet in a while." The queen's voice was gentle and magnetic, which made people feel very good when they heard it.

When the ladies heard this, they all laughed and sat down.

Yuan Shan noticed that the women who participated in the palace banquet this time were at least above the fifth grade, and according to the Lin family's orders, the position was ranked behind, although it was not the last, and it was already far away from the main seat.

The queen spoke cordially to some ladies and ladies who were close to her, which was not at all different from her majestic appearance, which made people unconsciously feel good.

Anyway, let's do it when the opportunity arises, Yuan Shan touched the storage ring on his finger, feeling a little relieved.

Sure enough, he didn't sit for long before he heard the sharp voice of the chamberlain, announcing that His Majesty had invited the ladies and ladies to the Qianyuan Hall for a banquet.

Qianyuan Hall is one of the main halls of the imperial city, and is used as the palace of the annual banquet, which shows the importance of the royal family to the palace banquet. Today's saint is a middle-aged man who is slightly rich, but his temples are slightly white, and he is squinting his eyes at this time, looking not energetic at all, but he was gently pushed by the queen before saying: "All Aiqing is exempt, let's start the New Year's banquet." ”

At this time, the festive palace music played, the palace maids held exquisite food, and the huge palace gradually resounded with small congratulatory sounds.

Although Yuan Shan's current identity is an immortal cultivator, she has never seen a "holy face" in her two lives, and she has a fear and respect for the superior in her bones, so she didn't look carefully at Emperor Zhou sitting on the dragon chair at first.

The dinner party was carried out without any suspense, nothing more than the performances of talented women who have been in the limelight in Beijing recently, including those who play the piano, write, dance, etc.

Among them, Yuan Shan was most impressed by Sun Taifu's granddaughter, Sun Yuyan, known as the "talented girl", who really had a feeling of "beauty is like this, and a gentleman seeks it", followed by Xu Jingyun, the daughter of the right minister, who is known as "the first beauty in Beijing".

This Xu Jingyun is beautiful, but Yuan Shan, whose eyesight is different from ordinary people, actually saw that this Xu Jingyun's body was wrapped with a trace of blood, which shows that behind this delicate and beautiful girl on the surface it seems that it is not so simple.

As for the "gas" that can see around others with his own eyes, after a period of research, Yuan Shan found that most of these people who are surrounded by dark "gas" do not seem to be good people.

For example, the four who followed him, three of them had extremely evil qi on their bodies, and their bodies were wrapped in blood light, and the other was wrapped in a strange blue-gray gas, and there was a lot of blood light.

Ordinary people generally have no obvious gas, and some people are covered with golden light and so on. It looks a little weird.

Although Yuan Shan didn't know what these gases represented, at least in Yuan Shan's opinion, the blood light should represent human life.