Chapter 15: Luncheon Together
Su Lan looked at Xiao Ling, who was expressionless, and was even more angry in his heart!
Obviously, he Ling Wang despised her, but he looked like he was fine! Why should she sulk here!
"When I went to look for His Royal Highness King Ling the day before yesterday, His Highness said that he would not go to the banquet! How did you change sex today? Su Lan deliberately squeezed him.
Xiao Ling looked at her expressionlessly: "Princess, let's go." After saying that, he took the lead and got into the carriage.
Su Lan followed angrily.
Xia Dong and Qingmei had no choice but to sit outside the carriage, the two of them thought about Su Lan's strange behavior today, and thought that it was too embarrassing to be with Her Royal Highness the Princess.
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"Erchen please give the queen mother," Su Lan and Xiao Ling said in unison.
"Well, Ling'er has come with the princess, let's get up." The queen looked at the two of them with a smile: "I haven't seen Princess Ling for a long time, I feel even more beautiful and moving!" ”
The queen went up to help the two of them, and a trace of jealousy flashed in her eyes, thinking that when she was young, she had never been so beautiful, and she had never seen someone so jealous of her over the years, except for Concubine Chen.
Thinking of Concubine Chen, a vicious look flashed in the queen's eyes.
Xiao Ling looked at the queen and said with a natural expression: "Queen Xie." ”
On the luncheon, the queen looked at the ladies in the palace gracefully and luxuriously: "Today's luncheon is specially for the palace to receive the ladies and daughters, and the newlyweds who came with their husbands and sons-in-law today, the palace wishes you to grow old and have a good time for a hundred years!" ”
"Thank you Queen Mother, Queen Mother is blessed, and there will be thousands of generations!" The crowd replied.
Xiao Ling and Su Lan sat together, the people around them were extremely decent, and the dishes were all eaten in small bites, and even the drinking was covered with their sleeves, Su Lan was a little uncomfortable, because in the Chu State, there was not much difference in the treatment of men and women, and the folk customs were relatively casual, and there were not so many rules at the dinner.
Xiao Ling looked at her a little cramped, thinking that she was not very suitable for the style of this dinner.
Xiao Ling leaned over slightly to her, lowered his voice and said softly: "You can eat as much as you want, don't worry too much about the rules of this luncheon." After speaking, he also poured Su Lan a glass of wine intimately.
Su Lan looked at him with some surprise, she thought that a proud son like Xiao Ling would dislike her and couldn't even adapt to the banquet etiquette!
Su Lan was actually a little hungry, and after hearing him say this, he didn't care so much, and directly stretched out his chopsticks to eat meat.
"Princess Ling is hungry?" The queen watched Su Lan keep eating and asked jokingly.
"Hehe" a brightly dressed lady said with a smile: "Queen Mother, the people of Chu are bold, but the land is not very fertile, presumably there are no such delicious dishes in Chu State!" The tone was slowly mocking.
Su Lan looked at the queen and replied to the queen's words first: "The words of the queen's mother, the sons and daughters listened to the words of His Royal Highness, so they dared to eat so presumptuously, His Royal Highness said that I don't have to restrain myself, besides, His Royal Highness said that I am the princess of the Chu country, and it is harmless to have the customs and habits of the Chu country, and the queen is a magnanimous person, and she will never worry about the dinner table with juniors like me, so the sons and daughters eat like this." Just ......"
Su Lan paused, raised his eyes to look at which lady, and asked with a smile: "This lady doesn't seem to think so." Besides, this lady is afraid that she is joking, Chu is a big country, and it has a national calendar of more than 200 years, is there no delicacies in a big country with a national calendar of 200 years? ”
It has only been a hundred years since the founding of the Southern Kingdom, and when she said this, she was actually sarcastic that if the Chu State had no delicacies, wouldn't the Southern Kingdom be even worse?
Xiao Ling watched Su Lan say one by one, His Royal Highness, using him as a cover, how could he have said such things to her?
Just looking at Su Lan's clever defense, he actually felt a little cute?
What the hell! Xiao Ling hurriedly took a sip of wine to suppress his ridiculous thoughts.
The lady was blocked by Su Lan and didn't know how to answer, so she had to say depressedly: "It's my woman who has a shallow vision, and what Princess Ling said is very right." ”
The lady was defeated, and Su Lan noticed that there was a young girl sitting next to the lady, who had the posture of captivating the country and the city, but she was glaring at her fiercely.
It's really strange, Su Lan thought to herself, this woman should be the daughter of that lady, obviously they were the ones who provoked the trouble first, and she still looked like I had bullied her!
"Indeed, the state of Chu has been founded for a long time and has a profound heritage. Looking at Princess Ling, you know that there is a bit of wildness that ordinary people can't reach. The queen's words seem to be praising Su Lan, but in fact, she is belittling Su Lan for being uneducated.
Because the horses of the Chu State are also very famous, and many people also raise horses, as soon as the queen said this, she compared Su Lan with horses.
Su Lan just wanted to stand up and refute, but he didn't expect Xiao Ling to be one step ahead of him.
"The queen mother is just joking, although the war horses of the Chu State have always been very famous, but the sons and princesses have been getting along for more than a month, and they also know that the Chu State has raised such virtuous and talented people!" Xiao Ling stood up, looked ahead, and said expressionlessly.
The queen was speechless for a while, and nodded stiffly: "Indeed, indeed, it must be that King Ling and the princess get along very well after this month!" ”
"Thank you for your concern." Xiao Ling nodded and sat down.
At this time, Su Lan felt a look full of grievances.
She looked around and found that the sad look was cast at King Ling by a beautiful woman before, Su Lan glanced at Xiao Ling, hehe, I see.
Bai Ruru looked at King Ling with complaining eyes, she pulled her handcuff angrily, why! Why did Brother Ling help that woman speak!
Aren't they just marriages! Could it be that Brother Ling has fallen in love with her? No! That's impossible! Bai Banru is so jealous that she is about to go crazy!
Bai Banru's mother, Qi Yue, discovered her abnormality, pressed her hand, and said softly: "Calm down and watch the show slowly." ”
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