Coming to the front hall, Ning Hong, Chen, and Ning Jian were already seated.

As soon as they saw Ning Zhao, Ning Hong and Chen's faces sank. Only Ning Jian took her hand warmly and let her sit beside her.

However, during the meal, it was the other three who were talking happily, and Ning Zhao was like an outsider being left aside.

If it was Ning Zhao in the past, he might still be depressed because of this matter. But now she doesn't care about this cold family affection, and eats with her head down.

Ning Jian suddenly shifted the conversation to Ning Zhao on the side.

"Tomorrow my grandfather is going to the palace to attend the palace banquet, let me go with me, sister, you will also enter the palace with us tomorrow?" Ning Jian sandwiched food for Ning Zhao and looked at her expectantly.

Ning Zhao put aside the dishes she was holding, ate another mouthful of food, and then said slowly, "I'm not interested in palace banquets. ”

She doesn't even know how many times she has held things in person, and she feels tired of it in this life. What's more, Ning Lian is so diligent, can he have a good heart?

The smile on the corner of Ning Lian's lips stiffened: "How can it be, you used to like to stick to me and go to various banquets with me, why are you suddenly not interested?" ”

"I'm not feeling well, forgive me." Ning Zhao's tone was lukewarm, and he didn't look at Ning Jian the whole time.

Ning Jian obviously didn't expect Ning Zhao to react like this, and looked at Chen for help with some anxiety.

Chen looked at Ning Zhao's lack of prudence, sneered, and said, "If she doesn't want to go, don't go, lest she enter the palace and lose the face of our Ning family because she doesn't know how to be polite." At that time, the palace banquet was full of dignitaries, and she had never seen much of the world as a concubine, if she accidentally bumped into a nobleman or even the emperor, how many heads would she have enough to cut off? ”

As soon as he heard the word "emperor", Ning Hong, who had been silent on the side and had not spoken, also spoke: "Zhao'er, you have to go to this palace banquet, have you forgotten the emperor's life-saving grace to you last time?" You should always thank Your Majesty. ”

"Thanks?"

Ning Zhao paused, raised his eyes to look at him, the light in his eyes was broken, and the mockery was very meaningful, "Do you want to take the opportunity to let me turn around with the emperor to see if the emperor will accept me into the palace as a concubine?" ”

was exposed in public, Ning Hong's expression froze, and then he threw down his chopsticks angrily, pointed at Ning Zhao's nose and roared:

"I let you go into the palace to thank the emperor, and I didn't let you jump into the fire pit, why are you so rude, and dare to contradict your father? Anyway, you have to go to the palace banquet tomorrow night, if you don't go, you won't want to see your mother in your life! ”

As soon as the words fell, the surroundings were eerily quiet.

Ning Zhao silently looked at the person in front of her who was nominally her father, her eyes sank little by little, and her dark eyes were deep and bottomless, and they actually exuded a trace of coldness for no reason.

She could resist Ning Hong to the end, but she couldn't put the Dou clan in danger. She is now powerless, and she has no ability to help the Dou family, or even herself, escape the clutches of the Ning family.

Chen and Ning Jian watched the confrontation between them coldly, thinking that Ning Zhao would still be stubborn and inviting, which attracted Ning Hong's more brutal suppression, but they were surprised to find that the sharp thorns she revealed gradually subsided.

Ning Zhao lowered his eyebrows and said softly, "Okay, tomorrow my daughter will enter the palace with my sister." ”

Her timely softening also extinguished the anger in Ning Hong's heart, he smiled with satisfaction, and gave Ning Zhao a few chopsticks: "This is Daddy's good daughter, tomorrow I will ask someone to buy a set of clothes for you to attend the banquet, and then prepare some decent jewelry for you." After all, it is the daughter of our Ning family, and we can't lose to others in terms of appearance......"

Ning Zhao didn't move his chopsticks again, and the other three gradually lost their words, each with a ghost in their hearts.

The next day, Ning Hong really sent a maidservant girl to send a dress made of good materials and a complete set of decent heads.

When the maidservant came, she didn't forget to ask Ning Zhao for her guilt, saying that she met the maid beside Ning Zhao on the way here, and was stopped and questioned, so she delayed for some time.

Ning Zhao didn't take it to heart, and after sending the maidservant, he asked Qingchan to dress up for him, while he was thinking about how to make Ning Hong's wishful thinking fall through when he entered the palace.

Suddenly, a light voice from behind her interrupted Ning Zhao's thoughts, and she turned around to find Qingchan holding a hairpin and comparing it with a pair of earrings.

"What's wrong?" she asked. ”

"Second Miss, this hairpin is so strange," Qingchan said and handed the hairpin and earrings to Ning Zhao, "This hairpin and earrings are in the same set of heads, the earrings and the hairpin on your head are both pale green jade, but this hairpin is gray jade, it doesn't look like a set." ”

Ning Zhao's gaze also fell on the gray jade of the hairpin, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he recalled the words mentioned when the maidservant sent the things before, and instantly understood the reason.

The corners of her lips hooked slightly, and her tone was light: "It's okay, just wear it like this, after all, it was sent by my father." ”

Qingchan put the hairpin in her bun.

Through the bronze mirror in front of him, he could vaguely see that the color of the hairpin was dull, and it looked inconspicuous with the entire makeup.

But it was precisely because of this inconspicuousness that Ning Zhao fell into Ning Zhao's arms.

She had lived in the palace for several years in her previous life, and knew that the old emperor was taboo gray.

Moreover, the previous blessing ceremony was also because the old emperor was now sick at an old age, and the Yan Kingdom was in an eventful autumn, and the war continued, so the old emperor was even more superstitious about those feng shui yin and yang theories.

And the hairpin must have been secretly changed by Ning Zhao at the order of her maid, wanting Ning Zhao to be disgusted after entering the palace because he had committed the emperor's taboo.

As everyone knows, Ning Zhao's plan coincides with her plan. This made Ning Zhao more reasonable, and in the future, he could push it all to Ning Zhao.

Ning Hong was afraid that before he and his baby girl were in cahoots, Ning Lian didn't want to see her "get ahead" and become a good pig teammate.

In this case, why might she just do it, so that Ning Hong would be completely dead.