Chapter 16: Entering the Palace
Liu Yaoyao slept until the third pole of the sun before waking up.
She scratched her head, how could she sleep so deeply?
She reached for the self-defense knife, keenly aware that the position of the knife had changed.
Someone was here last night!
Liu Yaoyao was shocked, got up suddenly, and saw a big burden at the head of the bed, and when he opened it, it was a dress and jewelry, as well as a letter.
She opened the envelope, and inside was a title deed to the capital.
"It must be Xiao Shao!" Liu Yaoyao muttered to herself.
All day, Mao Yue looked at Liu Yaoyao's eyes with ridicule, and Liu Yaoyao ignored it.
Liu Yaoyao changed into the dress sent by Xiao Shao, and Almond pulled her hair, drew her eyebrows, and put on rouge.
"Miss, you're so good-looking." Mao Yue, who was eating candy, couldn't help but admire.
Liu Yaoyao looked in the mirror, and the scars on her face were cleverly hidden by almonds.
The face of the original owner is as its name suggests, the face is gorgeous and pleasant, and wearing a goose-yellow palace dress, there is a sense of slimness.
"It's time, it's time for me to go." Liu Yaoyao carried her skirt and walked outside quickly.
Xiao Shao's carriage stopped in front of the Liufu Gate, and Yin Ri saluted Liu Yaoyao and said respectfully: "Miss Liu, the prince is waiting for you in the carriage." β
Liu Yaoyao was stunned as soon as she got into the carriage, and saw Xiao Shao wearing an official uniform and a jade crown, a little less evil and a little more cold and noble.
This man is so damn beautiful!
Liu Yaoyao hurriedly looked away, and her heartbeat was a little faster.
Xiao Shao put down the book in his hand and said lightly outside: "Let's go." β
"Thank you for the clothes and title deeds given by the prince." Liu Yaoyao said dryly.
"Hmm." Xiao Shao did not deny it.
The carriage was very large, and the two of them were relatively speechless, and they were a little embarrassed.
Liu Yaoyao simply lifted the curtain and looked at the scenery outside the window, while Xiao Shao closed his eyes and recuperated.
After a long time, the carriage stopped outside the palace.
After Liu Yaoyao got out of the car, he looked up at the towering palace wall, exhaled, and unconsciously reached out to pick up Xiao Shao.
Xiao Shao, who was about to get out of the carriage, was stunned for a moment, and his eyes became unfathomable.
"Miss Liu, the prince is a big man......" Yin Ri sweated for Liu Yaoyao.
Xiao Shao glanced at Yin Ri lightly, then put his hand on Liu Yaoyao's arm and jumped off the carriage.
stunned many onlookers and their families.
"In the palace, don't ride horses, we're going to start walking." Xiao Shao's voice was cold.
"Okay." Liu Yaoyao withdrew his gaze and walked parallel to Xiao Shao.
"Lord Wang, this brick is really beautiful."
Liu Yaoyao is like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and she feels new to see everything.
Xiao Shao said: "The palace is made of gold bricks, its specifications are two feet two, the particles are delicate, the texture is dense, and it can be used as the sound of gold and stone, which is more valuable than gold, so it is called gold bricks." β
"I see." Liu Yaoyao couldn't help but smack her tongue.
They walked on the palace road for a long time against the cold wind, and then they came to the Zichen Palace, where the banquet was held.
When they arrived, there were already many people sitting in the Zichen Palace, and it was originally full of people, but when they came in, it was strangely quiet for a moment before it resumed its liveliness.
As soon as Liu Yaoyao entered the door, she felt everyone's exploration and hostility towards her, and their fear and disgust for Xiao Shao.
Liu Yaoyao turned a blind eye to those sights and followed Xiao Shao to the position.
"King Xiaoyao, only husband and wife can be at the same table at the banquet, this young lady can't sit here." A little eunuch walked up and said stiffly, "It's not in order." β
"This is the king's fiancΓ©e, why can't she sit still?"
"You don't need to be here to go down." The third prince, Xiao Jinchao, smiled at the two of them, with some gestures of goodwill.
Xiao Shao ignored it, and only turned his head to the palace maid behind him and ordered, "Go and get a soup woman." β
"Yes."
After a while, the palace maid presented the soup woman who was filled with water, and Xiao Shao put it in Liu Yaoyao's arms, Liu Yaoyao was a little surprised, tilting her head to look at him.
Then, her eyes were full of smiles, and they were a little gentle.
This scene all fell into the eyes of a beautiful woman, who rubbed the handkerchief in her hand in a mess, and a pair of eyes almost burst into flames.
Liu Yaoyao seemed to be aware of it, raised his eyes to look, but didn't see anything.
"The emperor has arrived, and the queen mother has arrived." The eunuch's shrill voice sounded outside the hall.
Everyone immediately ended their greetings, returned to their seats, and saluted the emperor and the queen mother, not daring to make unnecessary noises.
"Today is the birthday of the Queen Mother, no more than the court, the secretaries don't have to be restrained, they are all casual." Emperor Jing Yuan's voice was very transparent.
"Congratulations on the Queen Mother's birthday." The ministers saluted again and then sat down again.
It is a birthday banquet, and singing and dancing are indispensable, and after three rounds of drinking, the atmosphere is also a lot more relaxed.
The palace maids sent up exquisite dishes one after another, and Liu Yaoyao was already very hungry, but when she saw that everyone picked up chopsticks and pinched them twice, the dishes were removed.
She remembered that she had read in a book before that at a royal banquet, a dish could not be sandwiched more than three times.
Life is not easy, and I sigh at the end of my life.
"Sister, are you not hungry?" A little child tugged at the corner of Willow's clothes.
Liu Yaoyao looked down and saw a little boy about five or six years old looking at her pitifully.
The corners of Liu Yaoyao's eyes twitched, and she denied it, "No." β
"Don't pretend, I saw you staring at that sauce pork, and you were about to drool."
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Liu Yaoyao self-examined, is her expression already so obvious?
"My name is Xiao Xu." The little boy took advantage of people's inattention and secretly stuffed a piece of dim sum into Liu Yaoyao's hand, "This is made by my nursing mother, lotus seed cake, very delicious." β
Liu Yaoyao squinted her eyes in satisfaction, and the fragrance of lotus seeds was fully retained in the cake, which melted in her mouth and left a fragrance in her mouth.
She couldn't help but reach out her hand, "Another piece." β
"It's gone." Xiao Xu spread his hands.
"If you don't give it to me, I'll tell the emperor that you steal it."
"You threaten me? You ate it too. Xiao Xu said aggrievedly.
"You have no proof." Liu Yaoyao teased.
"Okay, I'll give you another piece."
Liu Yaoyao was about to pick it up, Xiao Shao stretched out his hand and took the lotus seed cake away, and said unhappily, "Nine Emperor Princes, do you want this king to ask Taifu to teach you the rules?" β
Xiao Xu stuck out his tongue and hurriedly sat upright, not daring to say more.
"Don't make a fuss." Xiao Shao frowned slightly.
Liu Yaoyao hung her head silently, "I don't like to watch dancing, it's boring." β
"In the palace, don't eat other people's things." Xiao Shao looked at Xiao Xu warningly, and added coldly: "Don't give others anything to eat casually." β
Xiao Shao looked at the lotus seed cake in his hand, then at the top of her fluffy hair, and wrinkled his brows, "Don't take it as an example." β
The lotus seed cake appeared steadily in Liu Yaoyao's hand.
She looked up in surprise, but Xiao Shao was already sitting upright, watching the performance intently.
Liu Yaoyao followed his gaze and found a beautiful woman playing the pipa in the hall, the woman was still holding the pipa and half covering her face, looking at Xiao Shao with half resentment and half admiration.
With that kind of look, even the woman was a little crispy when she saw it.
Liu Yaoyao quipped: "Lord Wang, confidant? β