Chapter Twenty-Three: The Family Feast
There was a 'squeak' in the inner hall of the Chaolu Temple, and Fran was stunned, and immediately left the wisteria chair and stood up.
"Is the princess awake?"
"Come in."
Fran breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and hurried into the inner sanctum.
"Has anyone been here?"
Rong asked Fran while arranging his makeup in front of the bronze mirror.
"Only Xin'er came once, saying that the prince had sent a message from the palace to let you enter the palace for dinner today."
As Fran spoke, he also carefully checked Rong Rongci for any traces of impropriety, and Rong Rongci smiled at Fran's careful appearance.
"There's no need to check, since you're going to enter the palace, it's really not solemn enough to wear this body, are Yuehuajin's clothes ready?"
Fran stood aside and smiled, "Then there are still waits." ”
Rong Rongci sighed lightly: "Then take that double cloud goose." ”
"Yes."
After a while, Fran had already taken a silk double-walled cloud goose costume to serve Rong and put it on, and carefully combed a sky-high bun for her, and put a gold-inlaid pearl and jade hairpin.
Seeing that Fran took the clothes he had changed and wanted to go down, Rong Rong's mind flickered and stopped Fran.
"Fran, you say... Should Xin'er tell me the news from the prince? ”
"The princess means ......"
"Come here."
As he spoke, Rong Rong summoned Fran to his side, and whispered a few words to Fran.
Fran's eyes lit up, she smiled, nodded, and stepped back.
Soon it was time to enter the palace, and the carriage attendants had already waited outside the palace gate, Rong Rongci and Fran entered the carriage together, and the group went to the palace gate.
"There are too many guards......
Rong Rongci lifted the curtain and glanced at the huge guards outside the carriage, a little embarrassed.
Fran was extremely satisfied: "That's good, look at this posture, I see which assassin who doesn't have long eyes dares to come!" ”
"Poof..."Rong Elegiac laughed out loud: "Are you worried that you are in the carriage, afraid of being affected?" ”
"Not really! I'm worried about your safety, Princess, right? ”
"Yes, yes, you're worried about me, worried about me..."
Fran glanced at Rong Rong with a rather sad look, and then leaned to Rong Rong's side.
"You haven't told me why you pretended to be drunk that day?"
Rong Rongci glanced sideways at Fran, and also lowered his voice: "You can see that I am pretending to be drunk?" ”
Fran looked proud: "Princess, you pretend to be very similar, you don't see it, but I know that you are really not drunk with a thousand glasses, how can you faint after drinking only so much wine." ”
"You're smart." Rong Rongci flicked Fran's cheek: "I know that I am pretending, and I cooperate so well." ”
Rong Rongci stopped and listened to the movement outside, and the groom was driving the carriage one by one, and from time to time she let out a few short foley sounds urging the horses, and then she continued to speak.
"On the day I met Mrs. Hou, I saw the little junior brother Kongquan at the pawnshop at the mouth of the alley of Pingde Street."
Only then did Fran remember that Kongquan was Rong Rong's little junior brother, no wonder he always felt that the name was a little familiar, but he had never seen it.
"Originally, after I came to Shangyin, I should have arranged it properly and then sent someone to send a message to let them come, but they came so long in advance, it was really risky, it can be seen that there was something more dangerous than Shi Shiran coming to Shangyin like this, and sure enough, I was assassinated before I could contact them."
"I need to find an opportunity to meet with them and ask them clearly, but my departure from the house is too conspicuous, so I have to hide the news of inviting him to see me in the hollow hairpin, and find an opportunity to pass it on to them. Coincidentally, Su Zhibai gave me such a great opportunity that day, and Kongquan deliberately bumped into me, so I went into the pawnshop and became the hairpin. ”
Fran's expression lit up when he heard this: "It turns out that the young man is the empty spring?!" ”
"Yes." Rong Rongci nodded: "I just didn't expect Gu Linyan to come." ”
Hearing the words 'Gu Linyan', Fran had a strange look in his mind again, and he wanted to say something with Rong Rong, but he didn't know how to say it well.
The carriage was quiet for a while, and Rong Rongci seemed to have something on his mind, staring at the pattern of the curtain in front of the carriage a little distracted.
When the group arrived at the Xuanyi Gate, there was already a steadily dressed maid at the east gate, and when they saw Rong Bang quit and got out of the carriage, they hurriedly stepped forward.
"I've seen the Princess Regent."
As he spoke, the maid made a formal salute, half-bent her knees, and Rong Rongci hurriedly stretched out her hand to support her.
"Nie is polite, and I bother you to come and pick me up in person, the concubine has a heart."
Hearing Rong Rongci's words, Nie Ru's expression was slightly stunned, as if she was a little surprised that Rong Rongci still remembered her.
Rong Wangci caught a glimpse of her expression and smiled: "The box of plasters that the concubine gave me last time was really good, I only used it twice, and the red rash on my face disappeared on the second day, it is really an elixir." ”
"The princess is polite, the slave maid just obeys the order, and the princess also keeps the slave and maid in mind, she is really ashamed."
"If Nie is in charge, if you don't serve the concubine in the palace wholeheartedly, it will be difficult for my prince to feel at ease when he is outside."
Hearing the word 'prince', Nie Ru's expression did not change, but a strange glimmer flashed in his eyes, and Rong Elegy looked at it in his eyes and remained silent.
"Please lead me over, so that the prince and the concubine will not wait for a long time."
Hearing this, Nie Ru nodded hurriedly, and led Rong Rongci and Fu Lan into the palace through the east side door.
This dinner was considered a family banquet, and it was held in Concubine Yu's Shou'an Palace, and the people present were all acquaintances.
Rong Wangci met the emperor, Concubine Yu and Concubine Wan Guifei one by one, and then sat down next to Su Zhi.
At the banquet, everyone politely said a few words and served the food, except for Wan Guifei who spoke from time to time, which caused the emperor and Concubine Yu to laugh again and again, Su Zhi and Rong Rongci ate silently, and the two whispered a few words from time to time.
"Lord Wang, why did you suddenly remember to call me into the palace?"
Su Zhi glanced at Rong Rongci with a smile: "What, don't you want to come?" ”
Rong Wangci's left hand on the table quietly moved down, hiding under the table, and the emperor couldn't notice it, and hit Su Zhi.
Su Zhi's eyes were as heavy as ink, and he grabbed Rong Wangci's hand and didn't let her take it, Rong Rongci struggled a few times, but he couldn't help it, so he had to turn his head and stare at Su Zhi.
"Lord Wang!"
Hearing Rong Rongci's anger, Su Zhi restrained his smile, let go of his hand, and stopped teasing her: "It's what Concubine Wan meant." ”
Rong was slightly stunned, a little surprised, and raised his eyes to look at Wan Guifei on the seat.
She still keeps talking, making the big guys laugh, but under that clean and hearty laughter, will it also be a nine-song exquisite heart?
The palace was dazzling, but the regent's palace was quiet at the moment, only a few faint candles flickering in the night wind, and what was hidden in this silence and darkness was not peace and tranquility, but malice that was about to move.