Chu Xiaocheng sent a carriage to pick up Duan and Gu Banqin, and Duan walked out of the room after dressing up, so that Gu Banqin saw such a Duan for the first time.

In my impression, Duan's appearance is that she likes to wear very old-fashioned clothes, with excellent appearance, but she is extremely undressed up, it turns out that she has been hiding all these years, Gu Banqin finally knows why Duan's can make Chu Yanzhang worry about it for more than ten years......

Secretly rubbed behind Duan's and asked softly in Duan's ear:

"Mother, tell me the truth, how old are you this year?"

Duan's age, according to the time when he was in the Gu family, should be thirty years old, but looking at Chu Xiaocheng's age, it is obvious that Duan's family lied about age.

Her real age, now it seems, is really a mystery, Gu Banqin suddenly felt so amazing, such a legendary woman is actually her mother!

Unexpectedly, Duan glared at Gu Banqin, and then chose not to hear it, completely snubbing Gu Banqin's gossip heart, until Duan got into the sedan chair, and he couldn't satisfy Gu Banqin's curiosity.

The palace of Chu State, without the golden splendor of Daqi, looks simple and atmospheric, has a heavy heritage, no matter what, this palace is original, unlike after the rebellion of the Helian family, advocating frugality, even the palace did not build a large number of buildings, directly following the number of local tyrants in the north of the country.

Most of the palace concubines of the Chu State wore black and red clothes, and the Chu State respected black, and only people with high status were eligible to wear black.

When Gu Banqin and Duan's arrived at the main hall, the hall was already full of people, and as far as the eye could see, the glamorous palace concubines and delicate girls in Yishui'er, not to mention, in the years of separation from Duan's, Chu Yanzhang was really not very idle, and it was not too much to describe him with a group of wives and concubines and a full hall of children and grandchildren.

As far as the concubines on the table can be counted, Gu Banqin roughly counted, there are at least eight or nine concubines above the third grade, and the ones who are kneeling next to them should be their respective children, the princes are kneeling in the front row, and those kneeling next to the mother concubine should all be princesses or something, rough statistics, there are five or six princesses.

Duan's seat was arranged in the guest seat, that is, on the left side of the second order of the emperor's platform, Gu Banqin followed behind Duan's to Chu Yanzhang, who was wearing a crown and a black and gold dragon robe, and bowed down, and turned his eyes after a hurried glance, it was a middle-aged man with a lot of bearing, sitting next to him, the graceful woman with a smile on her face should be the queen Chu.

After the two saluted, Chu Yanzhang waved his hand, and a mellow and loud voice sounded in the hall:

"Mrs. An Shen is my old acquaintance, and when she first returned to Chu State, everyone should respect her and not offend."

After a sentence, the whole family knelt up straight and replied loudly, "No." ”

Duan also knelt up straight and bowed down.

Gu Banqin was behind the Duan family, looking at everyone's eyes in their eyes, in fact, everyone knew that the Duan family and Chu Yanzhang were tired, and the eyes of one or two of them were all full of the connotation of 'I understand'.

After Chu Yanzhang finished speaking, after everyone agreed, the palace returned to a strange tranquility, everyone looked at each other, as if no one was willing to take the initiative to speak, in the end, it was still Queen Chu who had experienced a hundred battles and could see it, and pointed to Gu Banqin behind Duan's with a smile and said:

"This must be Mrs. Anshen's righteous daughter, right? Raise your head and let Hongu take a look. ”

Gu Banqin's heart sank, yes, when everyone had nothing to say, she actually took it out for the Chu family as an excessive, stunned and didn't move, Duan secretly coughed lightly, turned her knees, and said to the Chu family for Gu Banqin:

"The queen forgives me, Yue'er is a people's girl, she has never seen such a big battle, and she is afraid for a while. Yue'er, don't come forward to say hello to the mother and the emperor. ”

Gu Banqin remembered that the Duan family gave her a new name here, called Su Yue, regardless of whether the name was good or bad, the Duan family asked Gu Banqin to go and greet them, which was enough to make Gu Banqin stunned.

Duan glanced back at Gu Banqin, and glanced at Gu Banqin with his eyes, Gu Banqin tensed his back, and after kneeling a few steps, he went to the center to give Chu Yanzhang and Queen Chu a big salute, his voice was crisp and trembling, like a country girl who had never seen the world.

"The people's daughter Su Yue sees the emperor and the queen."

After Gu Banqin finished saying this, he heard a few unfriendly cold snorts from His Royal Highness, Chu Yanzhang knew Gu Banqin's identity, and looked at her left and right, Chu Shi saw this, coughed lightly beside him, and said to Gu Banqin:

"Looks good, how old are you?"

Gu Banqin whispered back: "Hui Niangniang, the folk girl is eighteen." ”

Chu Shi nodded, it seemed that he should just ask Gu Banqin by the way, but a palatial woman next to Chu stood up, pointed at Gu Banqin and said:

"This Mrs. Anshen is so outstanding, even the righteous daughter she has received is so outstanding, she is not inferior to the county lord and princess from a rich background, Mrs. Anshen is so blessed."

This is Zhang Guifei who speaks, and she is the biggest below the queen, this tone is clearly to make trouble, comparing Gu Banqin with the county lord and the princess, it must be the rhythm of hatred.

"Niangniang's words have tormented the people's daughters, the people's daughters are shallow, their status is low, and they deserve this praise."

Even if Zhang Guifei wanted to make trouble, Gu Banqin couldn't let her make trouble, what should be clarified still had to be clarified, just at that moment, Gu Banqin thought about whether to simply pretend to be an ignorant woman.

But after thinking about it, Chu Yanzhang and Chu Xiaocheng both knew her true identity, if she behaved too much as a village woman, it might have the opposite effect of scheming.

After Zhang Guifei heard Gu Banqin say a word of self-humility, she really raised her eyes and looked at Gu Banqin differently, smiling sweetly and movingly, but she secretly had a murderous intention: "Look, what am I talking about, in the end, it is the righteous daughter of Mrs. Anshen, this little mouth is powerful, and what she says is really listening, and I don't know who I learned it from." ”

Gu Banqin greeted the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of this Laoshizi concubine in her heart, and she didn't have the courage to find trouble with the Duan family, so she was embarrassed here.

If Gu Banqin said one or two inappropriate words at this time, needless to say, this concubine Zhang would definitely hold on to it, and it is very likely that she would simply use Gu Banqin to give the Duan family a dismount.

But Zhang Guifei obviously miscalculated, who is Gu Banqin?

The ancestors who pretended to be stupid. At the beginning, she was a little Baolin in Helian Hongyi's harem, and when she was not yet mixed, she was already quite proficient in using this trick.

Just didn't understand Zhang Guifei's stinging words, and smiled delicately, just as Zhang Guifei praised her.

Zhang Guifei looked at Gu Banqin, and naturally hoped that she would make or say some unruly actions and words, but this girl looked young, and she still had goods in her stomach, not only was she not fooled, but she used silence and a smile to make her narrow.

Chu Shi glanced at Zhang Guifei with cold eyes: "Okay, okay, knowing that you can speak well, why bother with a child." Let's go back, this righteous daughter accepted by Mrs. Anshen, it seems that this palace is very good. Your Majesty, do you say yes or no? ”

Chu Yanzhang's eyes kept glancing at Duan's body, and after hearing Chu's words, he coughed dryly, snorted, looked Gu Banqin up and down twice, and raised his hand to let her return behind Duan.

Gu Banqin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and an episode ended like this, and the banquet officially began.

Singing and dancing food was delivered, Gu Banqin's eyes lit up when he looked at the food in front of him, but he didn't dare to eat more, sighed faintly, and recalled that when he was sitting next to Helian Hongyi, Helian Hongyi liked to drink, and the food was basically solved by Gu Banqin alone.

Duan heard Gu Banqin's sigh and knew that she might have something in mind, so he reached out and patted the back of Gu Banqin's hand, which was considered comforting.

Gu Banqin smiled back and told Duan Shi with his eyes that he was fine.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Gu Banqin always felt that after a banquet, Queen Chu didn't stare at Duan for as much time as Gu Banqin, so scared that Gu Banqin didn't dare to look up at her, for fear that her identity would be exposed.

I also wondered in my heart, why did the Chu family keep staring at her, since Chu Yanzhang promised the Duan family not to tell Queen Chu her identity, then there was no reason to say it, and Chu Xiaocheng naturally couldn't say it, but if it wasn't so, what was the reason?

After three rounds of drinking, Chu and Duan toasted, intentionally or unintentionally pointed at Gu Banqin and asked Duan:

"This palace looks at Mrs. Anshen's righteous daughter and wants to make her the master and give her a marriage, I don't know what Mrs. Anshen thinks?"

"Ahem, ahem."

A sentence of marriage made Gu Banqin choked on tea.

Queen Chu is really a talent, if she doesn't make a sound, it's just a blockbuster, when Zhang Guifei spoke to Gu Banqin just now, Queen Chu didn't follow behind and said, Gu Banqin thought that this was a conscience, but she didn't expect that the degree of bereavement was even more exaggerated than Zhang Guifei.

Duan's was also so angry, his hands clenched his fists, and he secretly tightened his body, Chu Yanzhang glanced at Empress Chu sideways, and then his gaze fell on Duan's face that was not very good, the hall was quiet for a while, Empress Chu looked at Duan's like this, the corners of her mouth hooked a smile, and urged:

"What? Mrs. Anshen thinks this proposal of this palace is not good? ”

Before Chu Yanzhang could speak, Chu Xiaocheng came out and spoke: "Queen Mother, who said that she is now Mrs. Anshen's daughter, but after all, she is a commoner, and rashly giving her a marriage is too long for her, right?" ”

As soon as Chu Xiaocheng spoke, Gu Banqin knew that it was going to be bad, although he had good intentions, but it could be seen from his words that he was usually not close to Queen Chu, because he didn't even know Queen Chu's character at all.

In this case, in fact, as long as you wait for Queen Chu and the Duan family to fight, whether it is Chu Yanzhang or Chu Xiaocheng, as long as these two men speak in public in favor of the Duan family, then this matter is not a problem of nature in the eyes of the Chu family.

Sure enough, I saw that the Chu family turned his gaze to Chu Xiaocheng and looked at it for a while, and then lowered his eyebrows, turned his gaze and fell on the Duan family, and the temperature dropped by at least two gears: "The long face is also a long face for Mrs. Anshen, and the King of Wenwu even has to take care of this?" ”

Empress Chu is obviously preparing to tear the rhythm, Gu Banqin believes that as long as Chu Xiaocheng speaks again, Empress Chu will definitely go berserk, and it is terrible for a woman who has lost her mind to go berserk.