Chapter 15: The Banquet Gets in the Limelight
Bai Lichen over there sensed that something was wrong, and he glanced at the prince standing behind them out of the corner of his eye.
The prince still had a smile on his face, but there was clearly a bit of viciousness and cruelty hidden in that smile.
It seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never let down his guard against him.
Although Mu Qing doesn't like this prince very much, after all, he hasn't figured out the relationship between the prince and other people, and he only knows that the relationship between these two brothers is definitely not as good as it seems on the surface.
It's just that she has some doubts in her heart, why the third prince doesn't look so sick when he is in front of him, but every time he goes out or in front of the prince, he will deliberately cough a few times or make some sick appearance.
"I'm a little unwell, so I won't go shopping with you, you can walk around here by yourself, and we'll go back to the house when the feast is over."
The three princes beside him suddenly spoke and startled Mu Qingjie, and then nodded hurriedly.
Although this third prince looks gentle and elegant, Mu Qing always feels that this man is black after he cuts it, and he must not be provoked.
So every time he walked by Bailichen's side, Mu Qing always felt infinite pressure in his heart.
Before she crossed into this world, she had never participated in any banquets, let alone such an antique flower-viewing banquet.
There was no one around her who made her stressed, so she simply let go of herself and enjoyed the flowers.
It is also ironic to say that everyone at this banquet felt that the third prince was afraid that he would not live long, but no one dared to provoke him.
After all, he is still one of the emperor's favorite sons now, and even with Mu Qing is a little blessed, at least he was not embarrassed by others at the banquet.
"You are the young lady of the Mu family who married into the Three Emperors Mansion before."
Although some people will come to provoke her, since there are bad people, there are naturally good people, and the good people who are talking about this are the daughters of the crown prince and the prince who are now coming to take the initiative to say hello.
Li Xiaoxiao.
Li Xiaoxiao looks like a very iconic beauty, and she is extremely educated, after all, she is the daughter of the Taifu who is famous for her talent and knowledge, and naturally she has also learned a little bit of her father's style.
"Yes, I am the concubine of the third prince, I don't know what my sister is looking for me."
"It's nothing, I just want to take a walk with you at this flower-viewing banquet, and today, the daughter of the Shangshu family of the military department who is better with me seems to be infected with the wind and cold, so I didn't come."
That's a pun intended.
not only gave her a reason to find Mu Qing, but also used this sentence to tell Mu Qing that she is not one of those people who value identity.
For Mu Qing, she made friends with kindness.
In this way, Mu Qing is naturally happy, she has no friends for the time being after she came to this world.
When she thought of the word friend, the first thing that came to her eyes was Bai Lichen's face.
For a moment, Mu Qing shook his head violently, thinking to himself what mess he was thinking?
Although she didn't want to, since she had married into the mansion of the third prince, she was the official concubine of the third prince.
Originally, Mu Qing was very weak, and he didn't want to go to every banquet, because when he participated in this kind of banquet for the first time, he was severely humiliated by his sister Mu Wan.
Because I haven't asked for a good upbringing since I was a child, no matter what aspect of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the young lady present can always come up with the same to compare with her.
It was from that day on, the original Mu Qing had never come to this kind of banquet again, and every time a banquet was held, she always excused herself from illness.
Over time, her reputation was smeared even darker by her showy sister.
Originally, the third prince thought that he, the imperial concubine, would choose to use this banquet to get rid of his past identity, but when he didn't expect to look at the past, Mu Qing looked uninterested, as if he didn't care about this matter at all.
She doesn't care, but Bailichen can't miss a chance to watch a play.
So he walked up to Mu Qing's side, pretended to cough inadvertently, and then mentioned a few words beside her after the person above read the rules of this competition.
"I heard that in the past few years, after this kind of banquet won the first place, you will receive a jade Ruyi with excellent color, if you take it to the shop and sell it, it will cost more than a thousand silver."
In normal times, it would be absolutely impossible for him to say such a thing, so when he did this kind of thing today, Mu Qing didn't doubt at all whether he had any opinions about himself.
Her eyes inevitably lit up slightly, but she still had some entanglements in her heart.
Do you really want to choose to come out...... Do you want to give up your dignity for the sake of Jade Ruyi!
The feast is just a cliché show.
Mu Qing shrank himself in the corner, hoping that his identity would not be discovered, so as not to be interrogated, and it would be even more difficult to end up at that time.
The performance at the banquet was just an old-fashioned way for these ladies to take turns to show their talents, one was to overpower the other ladies, and the other was to get the favor of many official children present.
"It seems that these official ladies have tried their best, and if they want to win the first place, they have to put some effort into it."
Mu Qing, who originally heard these words, still wanted to retreat, but every time he closed his eyes, what appeared in his head was the so-called more than a thousand taels of silver.
and when he was kicked out of the prince's mansion in the future, he would live on the streets because he had no money.
This is not a small amount, in this dynasty, ordinary food only needs a few copper plates, and a silver ingot can eat the best food on a table in a restaurant.
"Since there is this jade Ruyi worth a thousand gold, ah no, I mean that I am also the third princess, how can I be embarrassed by our prince's mansion, you can watch it from the side with confidence."
In fact, it's just for the sake of the jade Ruyi, which is said to be worth a lot of money, and she doesn't care about the loss of the prince's mansion at all.
Bai Lichen naturally knew it, so he didn't say anything, just looked at her with a smile.
This woman is really a fan of small wealth.
After waiting for a long time, the young ladies in front of her were either playing the piano or reciting poems against each other, and when it was her turn, she couldn't remember how much praise the person in front of her had received.
She was still racking her brains about what to perform at this banquet in order to come out on top.
But just as she was about to bite the bullet, a strange female voice came into her ears.