Chapter 124: Birthday Banquet
The box opened, and a heavy, complicated, and mixed breath of the past rushed towards Lin Yingxue. Lin Yingxue was stunned for a moment, first picked up a lifelike puppet from the box with trembling hands, then picked up the small embroidered shoes, and then the kite with a broken wing......
Lin Yingxue picked up the contents of the box one by one, put them down one by one, and 'ticked' until the warm liquid dripped onto the back of her hand, and she realized that she didn't know that she had wet her eyes with tears.
"These seem to be things from Miss's childhood, right?" Seeing this, Di'er on the side also squatted down curiously.
Before Di'er noticed her abnormality, Lin Yingxue hurriedly raised her sleeve and wiped away her tears, "Yes, everything here was prepared for me by my mother." ”
Lin Yingxue reached out and stroked the objects, as if she was caressing her past.
It seems that she hasn't seen the woman in front of her for a long time.
Looking at the tombstone in the distance, Lin Yingxue couldn't help but feel a trace of guilt in her heart - it was because she was sent to the Song family before, so she couldn't come over to visit her dead poor mother, but after returning to the Lin family for so long, she completely forgot about this matter.
As a child, she is really unfilial!
With full of guilt and self-blame, Lin Yingxue stepped forward with a quick pace, but this tomb was far from being as bad as she imagined - it looked clean, and there were even sacrifices placed on the tomb, at this moment Lin Yingxue even wondered if she had made a mistake.
- Her mother's mother's family has long since withered, and there are only a few distant relatives who are not often contacted, Lin Yingxue only vaguely knows the existence of these people, but she has not been in contact for a long time, she can't even remember the names of these people, and as for the subordinates who served by her biological mother's side, they are also dead and left......
So who is so hearted now that she often comes to worship a few years after her biological mother's death?
Lin Yingxue carefully observed the surroundings, and saw that there was not even a trace of weeds around the grave, and the melons and fruits placed in front of the tombstone had not completely rotted, which proved that the person who had been visiting her mother must have appeared recently!
"Miss......" Although Di'er's brain turned a little slower, she could see some clues when she looked closely at the surrounding situation, "I don't know which kind person has been coming to see my aunt, if I see it in the future, the slave must thank that person!" ”
As she spoke, Di'er squatted down and prepared to put the things they brought over, but Di'er was stopped by Lin Yingxue as soon as she moved, "Don't destroy the things here for the time being, let's kowtow to our mother and leave." ”
Lin Yingxue stared at the tombstone in front of her with a serious face, with a thoughtful look on her face.
- Although her mother was favored by Lin Zhengjie during her lifetime, she was just an ordinary aunt, so her mother was not usually very popular and rarely interacted with people, but since this worshipper can insist on worshipping her mother for so long, it proves that this person must have a close relationship with her mother.
Remembering that Liu Er told her before she died that her mother was most likely murdered by the Song family, then she might be able to find any clues from this mysterious old man.
Thinking about it, Lin Yingxue became more and more determined not to destroy this place, after all, she was not sure if her sudden visit would scare the person who had been coming to worship her mother, so for the sake of caution, she must not scare people away without seeing the person who worshipped.
Di'er can't understand what her own lady does most of the time, but she knows one thing - what her own lady does must be right! So Di'er didn't ask much, and the two returned to the Lin family after hastily worshipping.
Xu was stumped by the sudden pregnancy of the second aunt, and the Song family did not come to trouble Lin Yingxue for a while, and Lin Yingxue was also happy to be idle and rested for a few days.
Until the seventh day of November.
Today is Murong Yue's birthday, although it is a day every year, but as the most favored princess today, Murong Yue's birthday banquet is held every year is particularly luxurious and lively.
I don't know if Murong Yue deliberately vented for her - Lin Yingxue and Lin Yingxiang, the two concubines, received invitations to the banquet, but Lin Yingling and Lin Yingmeng's two concubines did not receive the invitation to Murong Yue's banquet, so Lin Yingling and Lin Yingmeng also made a lot of fire in the mansion.
"Fifth sister, I have never been in the palace, if there is anything unruly for a while, the fifth sister must remind me earlier." After getting into the carriage, Lin Yingxiang pulled Lin Yingxue nervously, showing a little uneasy.
Lin Yingxiang actually didn't take the initiative to hurt Lin Yingxue in the real sense, but when she was a child, she was forced by Lin Yingling and others to help bully her twice, so Lin Yingxue didn't have such a big dislike with this sister who has always been quiet and timid.
"It's okay, the second sister doesn't need to be nervous, in fact, the palace is not as terrible as the second sister imagined, if the second sister is really uncomfortable, she will always follow me." Although there is no big contradiction between the two, Lin Yingxue is still a little unaccustomed to this sudden intimacy.
She twitched her hand quietly, but Lin Yingxiang kept clutching her sleeve as if she didn't realize it. Lin Yingxue couldn't break free, so she had to helplessly let Lin Yingxiang continue to pull her.
All carriages and sedan chairs were not allowed to enter the palace, so Lin Yingxue and Lin Yingxiang got out of the carriage at the gate of the palace.
They were already a little late, and the palace gate was crowded with people at this time, and it seemed that they should all be invited to attend Murong Jun's birthday banquet.
"Stop! Where's your invitation? Lin Yingxue and Lin Yingxiang were following the crowd and slowly moving towards the palace gate, but suddenly there was a loud shout from the guards in front of them, although the sound was not loud, but it was enough for a large number of people to hear it.
Lin Yingxiang, who was beside her, stretched her neck a little curiously and looked forward, and Lin Yingxue was also a little curious when she saw this. She stood on tiptoe and looked forward, only to see a man dressed in white in front of her, who seemed to have been stopped by the guards because he didn't have an invitation.
"I want an invitation, what are you giving me this?" I don't know if the man's voice was too quiet, or the man didn't speak at all, Lin Yingxue could only barely hear the guard's voice.
She frowned slightly, and looked down at the guard's hand, only to see that it was a thing that the guard seemed to be holding in his hand, Lin Yingxue couldn't see what it was, but it didn't look like an invitation.
"Yo, you dare to sneak into the palace to attend the princess's banquet without an invitation, I think you are too bold!"
"What are you waiting for, this person has a cold face, he is not a good person at first glance, so let's get him out quickly!"
"Yes, yes, it's all blocking us from entering the palace, how tired it is to stand outside here!"
Soon some people in the crowd began to complain, and most of these people who spoke were ladies with heads and faces, who were used to being pampered on weekdays, and naturally couldn't stand it if they were a little neglected.
When the guard heard this, his already not very good face couldn't help but become even more ugly, "Okay, you get out of here, today is the princess's birthday, I don't care about you, if you get in the way here again, don't blame me for being unkind!" ”
As he spoke, the guard stretched out his hand and prepared to push the man in white, but before his hand touched the man in white, a eunuch from the palace walked out.
"What's the matter, I heard you yelling from afar!" The person who came was a eunuch about forty years old, and it seemed that his status in the palace should not be low, and when the guards saw this eunuch, their faces were full of anger, and they suddenly became respectful.
"Back to my lord, there is a person who doesn't know how to fish in troubled waters and sneaks into the palace, but he was stopped by the small one." The guard replied with a low brow, as if he had changed his face from the fierce look of Fang Cai.
"Really?" When the eunuch heard this, he couldn't help but glance at the man in white with slanted eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking, the middle-aged eunuch's face changed slightly, "Are you also here to attend the princess's birthday banquet?" Do you have an invitation? ”
"Father-in-law Qian, don't bother thinking about it, this person is a stupid person, if he wants to sneak into the palace, he can't get an invitation, and he takes out a sachet to fool the small one, it's stupid!" Before the man in white could speak, the guards on the side were already busy.
The guard thought that after listening to his words, he would definitely be praised by the person in front of him, but what he didn't expect was that as soon as his voice fell, the person in front of him seemed to be taken aback, and his face changed even more.
"What sachet, take it out and show it to the Sprinkle family!" The middle-aged eunuch said urgently.
Seeing this, although the guard was puzzled, he didn't dare to ask more, but hurriedly handed over the sachet in his hand.
Lin Yingxue stood not far away and could see clearly, as soon as the middle-aged eunuch saw the sachet, it was as if he had seen something terrible, and while hurriedly putting the sachet in his sleeve and putting it away, he respectfully welcomed the man in white into the palace.
It seems that the sachet should indeed be Murong Yue's token, otherwise the middle-aged eunuch with some background would never be so respectful to the man in white, but he didn't know where the man in white came from, and he was able to take Murong Yue's private belongings to this banquet.
Could it be that this mysterious man is Murong Yue's sweetheart?
"Fifth sister, let's go too." Lin Yingxue was thinking about it, but Lin Yingxiang on the side suddenly gently pulled her sleeve, and Lin Yingxue came back to her senses and temporarily put the doubts in her heart behind.
Because it was Murong Yue's birthday banquet, the venue for the banquet was in Murong Yue's palace, and the emperor and queen had not yet arrived, so the atmosphere at the banquet was still relaxed for the time being.
Lin Yingxue searched for her eyes, and saw that Murong Yue was greeting the other ladies, so she didn't rush forward to join in the fun, but Lin Yingxiang beside her suddenly waved to the people on the side very excitedly, "Third Highness!" ”
Three Highnesses? Murong Jun? Lin Yingxue looked in the direction of Lin Yingxiang's beckoning, and sure enough, she saw Murong Jun standing not far away chatting with a group of sons. Although most of the sons and brothers who came to the banquet today were dragons and phoenixes among the people, Murong Jun stood in the crowd as if he stood out from the crowd, and compared with Murong Jun, these people seemed to have become foils.
Just when Lin Yingxue was secretly thinking about when Lin Yingxiang became so familiar with Murong Jun, Murong Jun had obviously heard Lin Yingxiang's voice, said hello to the people around him, and slowly walked in the direction where they were.