Chapter 434 Elaboration
In another sense, this is a kind of cleanliness, which is the spiritual and physical cleanliness of Her Royal Highness to the king who is her husband. But who wouldn't mind a woman in the world? Seeing her husband and other women turn the clouds and rain, but she is powerless to stop it, and she is not qualified to stop it, this is the greatest sorrow of being Her Royal Highness the Queen.
And Her Royal Highness feels that the position of the king is not very free, although he holds power and sits on the country, but he is not bound by these imperial concubines, and in some respects it is not as good as the imperial concubines to live a leisurely and stable life. After all, some royal concubines from noble backgrounds do not fight or grab, and even if they are not favored in the palace, they will not be bad, but the king on the other hand is like a spinning top, busy every day.
As if sensing the king's thoughtful gaze, Her Royal Highness glanced at the other party with a shallow glance, and then she looked at the Imperial Concubine Li who was standing in the hall, and her words were not angry and arrogant: "In this way, Imperial Concubine Li means to ...... This matter has something to do with the imperial concubine? β
Hearing Her Royal Highness the Queen's question, the ministers and nobles at the banquet felt that the situation was complicated, and they looked at Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine in a gorgeous crown, this beautiful woman was wearing a bright golden peacock palace dress, and the clouds and mist temples were wearing precious and delicate jewels, all of which showed the emperor's special favor for her......
Then there is a 60% chance that the king will favor the imperial concubine. After all, Princess Li's family is becoming more and more powerful, and they are also looking at it, and those people have never understood what it means to be restrained, and they are very reckless every day, if they are high kings, they will naturally not let go of such an opportunity today, so as to take advantage of this to knock on Princess Li's family.
Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine heard Her Royal Highness's question, hooked her lips and did not say much, she glanced at the Imperial Concubine Li with a smile, and then smiled elegantly and poured half a glass of wine for herself, but did not drink it, just quietly put it in front of her eyes, admiring the palace Huaying in the reflected amber wine.
Her Royal Highness the Queen didn't say this to help Concubine Li, Nan Zuisheng looked at Concubine Li's appearance that she couldn't wait to argue, and secretly sighed in her heart. If Imperial Concubine Li was so eager to put all the negative words on the head of Her Royal Highness, it would only cause disgust and suspicion in the king's heart.
After all, in the palace, in addition to the Supreme and Noble Her Royal Highness the Queen, there is only Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine who is a thorn in the flesh of the Imperial Princess, although the former has no prominent background but is pampered, and the latter does not have too much pampering but has a prominent background, the two can be said to be incompatible, and it is bound to completely break out in the days to come, and the fight is alive and dead.
What kind of character is Concubine Li, Nan Zuisheng knows by looking at her dazzling makeup dress and the red gold phoenix pattern nine treasures worn around her neck. It can be said that there is no more high-flying concubine in the entire palace than the princess Li, although Her Royal Highness the imperial concubine is deeply favored, but there is a degree of advance and retreat, even if there is a reputation for ruthlessness, but the words and deeds on weekdays are not faulty.
It's no wonder that these two people are only seeing the same situation, although the princess Li is from a noble background, but she has a lot of inconveniences in the palace without the favor of the king, if it weren't for the support of the family behind her, I am afraid that she would have lived cautiously long ago, walking on thin ice, where would she be as dazzling and arrogant as today?
Thinking of this, Nan Zuisheng quietly lowered his thick eyelashes and continued to listen to Concubine Li's argument. As for Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine, she kept silent as Nan Zuisheng thought, and no longer participated in the verbal dispute with Imperial Concubine Li. There is no doubt that Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine's silent decision is very wise, and at least it can make the king favor her a little more.
People always sympathize with the weak.
If Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine relied on her noble rank and royal favor to shine like in the harem, then it would inevitably leave an extremely bad image in front of these powerful ministers and nobles. But if you do the opposite, stay silent, and let Imperial Concubine Li argue fiercely alone, then you can bring out the unspeakable words of Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine to the greatest extent.
Let Empress Li first leave a reputation for being domineering and ruthless in front of everyone, then the subsequent plans will be easier and smoother. While thinking, Nan Zuisheng raised his eyes to look at Xu Shen on the left side of the palace, only to see that the corners of Xu Shen's lips were slightly hooked, admiring the rebuttal of Princess Li with great interest, and the bright starry eyes showed a mocking expression.
Although Concubine Li is clever and eloquent, her not-so-clever mind cannot save this talent, but only makes her look more embarrassed and has other intentions.
After all, if you are a little smarter, you can think that it is impossible for Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine to forcibly pour wine to an imperial concubine in front of many people at the palace banquet, and what she did was just to provoke Imperial Concubine Li, but Imperial Concubine Li, a guy with insufficient brains, bit the hook and fell for it, giving Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine this opportunity.
It's ridiculous to say, but it's a pity that the family from which Princess Li was born has some outstanding children, but today because of the overly arrogant temper of her relatives, she has planted a heel in front of the king. And instead of thinking about the way back, Princess Li was led by Her Royal Highness's inquiry, and she refuted it more and more excitedly.
It's stupid.
After raising her eyes and glaring at Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine viciously, Empress Li looked at the graceful and luxurious Queen: "Returning to Her Royal Highness, today's incident is really not deliberate on the part of the concubine." When she said the word 'deliberately', her eyes were like a quenched dagger and slashed Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine again, and the posture was as if she wanted to swallow the other party alive, which made the Jade Concubine deeply feel miserable.
Originally, Concubine Yu still admired Concubine Li's skillful and eloquent skills, but she didn't think that today's ability has become the biggest shortcoming of Concubine Li.
The palace skirt embroidered with red peony was gorgeous and dazzling, and the beautiful eyes of the princess Li widened, and her charming and delicate face revealed undisguised anger and suspicion: "Otherwise, how dare a mere maid forcibly pour wine on the concubine?" And the concubine has no grievances with her, I don't know who she was instructed by to deliberately provoke the concubine, which made the concubine lose face and dignity at the palace feast. β
Concubine Li's words can be said to be sonorous and powerful in every word, but when they fall into the ears of Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine, they are extremely ridiculous. What is forcibly poured into alcohol? What is an instigation instruction? Isn't this remark of Imperial Concubine Li at the palace feast to discredit the royal family's dignity and majesty?!
Concubine Li's mother was already pale when she heard this, and at this moment she couldn't wait to push away the banquet and pounce on it, covering her daughter's mouth fiercely. Those words can be described as words like knives, tearing the graceful and elegant coat of the royal family fiercely, on the surface, it sounds like the princess Li has been wronged and is defending herself, but it is in the ears of the king...... I'm afraid it's very different.
This implies that the king and the queen have no way to restrain them, which connived at these concubines to fight openly and secretly, and deceive me.
Originally, these treacherous clouds in the palace were not uncommon, and everyone knew it in their hearts, after all, these dark and scheming things were really not suitable for the open, but in order to clear herself, Princess Li couldn't wait to move these words to the king, and she said it so sonorously and powerfully.
Suddenly, Nan Zuisheng clearly noticed that the eyes of the king with a gorgeous face had become dark and dark, and the previous appearance of no sorrow and joy had also changed in an instant, and it had changed into an unfathomable probing expression.
This is a red flag.
"What instigation instructs these instructions, this palace can't understand." Compared with the anger and excitement of the Imperial Concubine Li, Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine is much more elegant and calm, she gently shook the peacock feather fan in her hand, and her carefully depicted eyebrows revealed a charming but not vulgar manner.
Hearing such an understatement from His Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine, Imperial Concubine Li became more and more angry, only to see her cheeks flushed staring at Her Royal Highness, and the begonia in the cloud sideburns almost slipped on the gilded jade brick: "The Imperial Concubine dares to say that this matter has nothing to do with you?" Even if you dare to say it, the concubine won't believe it! β
Under the anger, Empress Li even omitted the honorific titles of 'Your Highness' and 'you' to the Imperial Concubine, she stared at the other party's beautiful face viciously, like a hungry beast, looking at her fierce and resentful appearance, Her Royal Highness had no doubt that if she was not at the palace feast at this time, then Empress Li would definitely pounce on herself and swallow it.
"Do you believe it or not, what do you have to do with this palace?" Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine held the carved marigold and shook the amber liquor in it at will. She didn't bother to participate in this low-level and naΓ―ve rebuttal behavior of Imperial Concubine Li, and it was easy to leave a negative image in the king's heart, so she decided to wait and see how things changed.
Looking at Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine's calm and breezy demeanor, and her elegant and calm demeanor, Imperial Concubine Li almost gritted her teeth with resentment, she stepped forward and stared at the other party angrily, gritted her teeth and slowly asked, "What do you have to do with it?" Why doesn't it have anything to do with you?! Imperial concubine, why is this purple-clothed maid so coincidental, and why is it so coincidental to come to the position of the concubine to offend the concubine, why is it so coincidental that she has to start pouring wine from the position of the concubine? β
Before the words fell, Imperial Concubine Li's voice trembled slightly, and after taking a deep breath, she continued: "This is too much of a coincidence, Your Royal Highness!" When she said the last sentence, Concubine Li almost squeezed these words out of her teeth, which made people feel creepy when they heard it.
Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine smiled when she heard this, and her smile was a little sarcastic: "Since this is the case, it is up to you to explain to Imperial Concubine Li why you started pouring the bar from the position of Imperial Concubine Li." At this point, she glanced at the purple-clothed maid beside her, and then casually played with the peacock feather fan in her hand, no longer looking at Empress Li.
The purple-clothed maid walked into the hall, stood beside Empress Li, and bowed on her knees, then lowered her eyebrows and said slowly: "The slave maid didn't think too much about it at the time, but the position of the Empress Li was closest to the slave maid, so she poured wine to the princesses in turn from Empress Li. β
The purple-clothed maid grasped the balance between her words very well, neither telling too much about her grievances, nor exaggerating the facts too much, just telling the situation so plainly, and in just a few words, it was far better than the angry and excited Concubine Li, so that many powerful ministers and nobles at the banquet tapped their jaws one after another, and secretly acquiesced in their hearts to the facts explained in the mouth of the purple-clothed maid.