Chapter 165: Celebration Banquet (1)
Seeing Xiangping pulling Gu Qingge away, Zhou Xianyu smiled and turned to look at Xiao Jinxuan with satisfaction, but when he saw the other party's dress today, he couldn't help frowning.
"Xuan'er, why didn't you wear the palace skirt I prepared for you, although this dark purple set is also very suitable for you, but it is inevitable that it is too solemn, you are already calm, and it is more tranquil to wear some light-colored clothes."
Xiao Jinxuan, who had been sitting there quietly with her head down since Zhou Xianyu came closer, heard this, laughed, and said softly:
"If Your Highness doesn't like to see it, don't look over, Jinxuan doesn't feel that she is wearing this dress today, what is not suitable for wearing this today, as for the one sent by His Highness, I don't think it is suitable for me."
Hearing this, Zhou Xianyu, who was still smiling just now, couldn't help but darken his expression, pulled the corners of his mouth, and said very lowly:
"It turns out that Xuan'er doesn't like the palace dress I prepared for you, so it seems that my dress today must be as difficult as your eyes, but it doesn't matter which one you wear, as long as you like it."
Zhou Xianyu's voice that could not hide his disappointment made Xiao Jinxuan feel uncomfortable in her heart.
She couldn't help but look up at the other party, but when she saw clearly that Zhou Xianyu was dressed today, she hurriedly turned her face away, and almost didn't shed tears.
I saw Zhou Xianyu, who likes to wear cloud brocade black and gold clothes all the year round, but today he changed into a Panlong court dress with purple brocade and black gold patterns.
Except for the four-clawed dragon on his chest, both the color and texture of the clothes are exactly the same as the palace skirt given to Xiao Jinxuan.
Seeing Zhou Xianyu, all he was pretending to be himself, even a set of clothes was so attentive, and even in order to accommodate her to wear purple clothes, the other party even changed her usual preferences, Xiao Jinxuan's nose was very sour, but her voice became more and more cold:
"Your Highness, although this purple court dress is worn on your body, it is not suitable for you, just like me Xiao Jinxuan, after all, it will not be your favorite black and gold dress, I want to be quiet, can Your Highness go, if you really like to stay here so much, then Jinxuan will leave."
Seeing that as soon as Xiao Jinxuan finished speaking, she really got up and left, Zhou Xianyu looked at her at a loss, a look of injury flashed in his eyes, but he still hurriedly said:
"No need Xuan'er, sit down, I don't quarrel with you, in fact, I don't understand your thoughts, I don't understand it at all, you always deliberately alienate me and drive me away from you, because you are worried that you will hurt me, but do you know? In my eyes, you have never been a disaster, you are at the foot of Meishan Mountain in Yangzhou, the smart and ruthless Miss Xiao Si, the Xiao Jinxuan who makes me love and annoyed but helpless, don't be difficult for yourself anymore, okay Xuan'er, don't torture me anymore, even if one day I really die because of you, I Zhou Xianyu has no regrets, do you understand these! ”
Tears rolled in her eyes, Xiao Jinxuan bit her lip tightly, but she couldn't say a word, so she knew that if she opened her mouth at this time, her tears would definitely fall first.
At this moment, Zhou Xianyu's appearance of fading cynicism and serious words hit Xiao Jinxuan's heart heavily.
She didn't care about it, threw herself into Zhou Xianyu's arms, and told the other party all the grievances and thoughts in her heart.
She is really tired, she has reached the point of physical and mental exhaustion, obviously she loves each other, but she can't rely on each other, even if it is just a caring look, a word of longing, Xiao Jinxuan doesn't dare to look at it and say a word.
Others only think that she cares too much about the calamity star and the saying that it harms people, but only she knows that she is simply a ghost reborn, and she is a person who can't have a heart, let alone be emotional.
Otherwise, her life will change, and she won't care about her own life and death, Xiao Jinxuan doesn't care at all, but if she hurts Zhou Xianyu by half a point, she can't forgive herself in her life.
Therefore, taking a deep breath tremblingly, Xiao Jinxuan tried her best to let her voice return to her usual and said quietly:
"Whether it's a disaster star, deliberately alienated, Your Highness, count me begging you, stay away from me, don't lean over again, I really don't want to hurt you, there are so many good women in this world, why do you always want to provoke me, Zhou Xianyu, why do you always want to provoke me, there is no result between us, it was like this before, it is like this now, and it will still be the same in the future."
I told myself that I must not cry, but after enduring it for a long time, when Xiao Jinxuan said this, tears still fell down in strings to the broken pearls. With her desperate look now, it can't help but make people feel distressed when they look at it.
Zhou Xianyu's six senses are keen, so even if Xiao Jinxuan lowered his head stiffly, he still found that the other party was crying, and he immediately felt distressed, and he didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly said:
"Xuan'er, don't cry, it's all my fault, it's that I can't speak, it's that I'm too anxious, don't you just want to stay quietly by yourself, this king will leave now, promise me not to cry, okay?"
Zhou Xianyubian coaxed with distress on his face, and his body slowly retreated, although he was reluctant to do anything in his eyes, but in order not to provoke Xiao Jinxuan to tears, he still had to leave.
After he left, Xiao Jinxuan couldn't hold back the pain in her heart anymore, and immediately fell on the guest case, and cried silently.
Let the tears soak her sleeves, but she can't care about it at all, she just wants to vent all the bitterly suppressed feelings.
Xiao Jinxuan couldn't stop crying here, in fact, there was a person who was silently watching her from beginning to end, and this person was Zhou Xianrui, who had arrived at Jinhua Hall one step earlier.
Looking at the slender figure lying on the guest table, trembling slightly, Zhou Xianrui knew that the other party was doing this for his seventh brother, and he couldn't help crying.
After seeing Xiao Jinxuan that night, how Zhou Xianrui, who was crying in his study, immediately felt a little anxious, and after thinking about it for a while, he said to Shen Wenqing, who was sitting on the side and came to the banquet:
"Wen Qing, this king seems to have something to ask you, just now I saw that the seventh brother went to the fourth lady's place, it seems that the two of them have a conflict, please go and see the fourth miss, this king is worried that she is depressed, don't make any mistakes."
After getting married, the prince, as a concubine, sat at the same table with her husband when she participated in the palace banquet, and now seeing that the banquet was about to start, Zhou Xianrui actually asked himself to visit Xiao Jinxuan, Shen Wenqing was surprised in his heart, but after all, he replied respectfully:
"Don't worry, in this case, the concubine will accompany the fourth lady tonight, if the time is right, the concubine will enlighten and comfort her, after all, the fourth lady is elegant and dignified, if she can really marry the seventh brother, I am also happy to see it as a sister-in-law."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Wenqing stood up, and after saying goodbye to Zhou Xianrui, he walked towards the place where Xiao Jinxuan was seated.
When she was far away, Shen Wenqing didn't think there was anything wrong with Xiao Jinxuan, but when she came closer, she heard the other party's sobbing sound that she tried to suppress, and immediately her face flashed with unbearable color, frowned and sighed softly, and sat down next to the other party.
Taking out his brocade hand, Shen Wenqing patted Xiao Jinxuan's arm, and said in a gentle voice:
"Fourth Miss, don't cry, the palace banquet is about to start, cry at will in this palace, if you are looked at by someone with a heart, this is also a great disrespect, and you will be punished."
In the palace, the biggest is naturally the emperor of the Ninety-Five Supreme, so if it is not for the death of the emperor, it is easy not to cry casually, otherwise this is a mistake of cursing the saint and adding bad luck, if it is really investigated, this crime is quite serious.
Xiao Jinxuan, who was crying alone, didn't expect Shen Wenqing to come over, raised her reddened eyes and looked at each other, she took Jinpa, and smiled gratefully.
Xiao Jinxuan has a calm temperament, except for Zhou Xianyu's affairs, she has basically never lost her temper.
Now that there is Shen Wenqing, who is not familiar with others, she is stirred up by this, and the sorrow in her heart is suppressed, and the tears gradually stop.
glanced at Shen Wenqing apologetically, she fiddled with the Jinpa twice, and said in a hoarse voice because of crying:
"Princess Rui told you to laugh, this brocade made me dirty, wait for Jinxuan to go back and clean it, and return it to you."
Hearing this, Shen Wenqing smiled indifferently and took Xiao Jinxuan's hand very kindly.
"Don't always princess, the princess calls me, you are friends with my prince, and the seventh brother is also a good fate, it's okay for you to call me sister in the future, I will only call you Jinxuan, anyway, sooner or later, we are a family, we don't need to see each other."
When Xiao Jinxuan heard this, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then shook her head and said with a wry smile:
"The princess is gracious, but Jinxuan doesn't dare to lose her proportion, not to mention that I and His Royal Highness are not the kind of relationship that the princess thinks, there is nothing between the two of us, and there will be no intersection in the future."
If it weren't for the affection, why would she cry again, Shen Wenqing thought so in her heart, but she didn't say anything, after all, Xiao Jinxuan's mood is not good now, and she doesn't want to mess up the other party's mind at this time, otherwise if she loses her temper at the palace banquet, the consequences will be a little troublesome.
Just when she was about to say a few words of persuasion, Xiangping, who had been away for a long time, saw that Zhou Xianyu was no longer here, so she immediately pulled Gu Qingge and trotted back.
When he got closer, when he saw that Shen Wenqing was actually there, Xiangping immediately said with a smile in his eyes:
"Sister-in-law is here, won't she sit with us today, that's really good, Xiangping likes to stick to you the most."
Xiangping was a rough heart, so as soon as he saw Shen Wenqing coming, he was immediately busy greeting and talking.
But Gu Qingge has always been careful, so as soon as she came back, she saw Xiao Jinxuan's reddened eyes, and she knew in her heart that the other party had cried.
A few steps forward, she asked tentatively: "Sister, what's the matter, the circles under her eyes are so red, but I've cried, what happened, can you tell me?" ”
As soon as Zhou Xianyu left, Xiao Jinxuan cried like this, and Gu Qingge instinctively felt that something must have happened between the two of them.
couldn't help but feel a little happy in her heart, Gu Qingge was even thinking, if these two people had a conflict, wouldn't she have a chance, even if she knew that she shouldn't think so, but she just couldn't control her heart.
Xiao Jinxuan shook her head, only saying that the wind was blind, Gu Qingge naturally didn't believe it, just when she wanted to ask, Emperor Ming and Empress Xue arrived, and the concubines of Yiying were also present, and immediately she had to get up with everyone to salute, and Gu De continued to ask carefully.
After Emperor Ming sat down, he looked at the civil and military officials and nobles below, and immediately laughed loudly, told everyone to stand up without courtesy, and said in a majestic voice:
"Today, I think all of you Aiqing know that I set up this banquet to celebrate the king's repulsion of Beirong and reward the return of the army. But a celebration banquet, this reward is far from enough, so I decided to take advantage of today's double happiness to find a good match for my royal son, and give marriage in public! ”