Chapter 219: The Palace Banquet
Getting up early in the morning, Chu Xiaoxiang opened her eyes, but she didn't see Helianchen, she thought that Helianchen must have gone to practice swords, this is his usual habit.
When she got dressed, she put on a simple but crisp hairstyle, turned around and walked out towards the door on the right.
She didn't see Helian Chen outside, Chu Xiaoxiang was confused, she reached out and grabbed a maid in her yard, and asked, "Where did the horse go?"
"Back to Her Royal Highness the Princess, Master Ma has gone to the early court." The palace maid responded neither humbly nor arrogantly.
Chu Xiaoxiang nodded, she raised her hand and waved to signal the palace maid to retreat.
The palace maid bowed slightly and turned to leave.
Helian Chen, who had left the early dynasty, came to the imperial study, and saw that in the imperial study, Ji Ranyu and Qiao Qian'er were flirting, and suddenly he felt embarrassed for the first time, redundant.
"Who?!"
Ji Ranyu felt that there was a third person's breath in the imperial study, and immediately looked down vigilantly, seeing that the shadow under the refraction of the sun was slowly getting closer and longer, until the whole person appeared in the sun, Ji Ranyu slowly relaxed his guard.
"Qiyan, is there something wrong?"
"Your Majesty, Weichen has something to report!" Helian Chen said respectfully.
"Oh! What is it? "
Chu Xiaoxiang and Helian Chen helped him find the Soul Rejuvenation Grass and saved Qiao Qian'er, it was impossible for him to treat him like before.
Helian Chen briefly told Ji Ranyu about his specific plans and strategies for the peace of the world, including the academy that Chu Xiaoxiang suddenly opened on a whim.
"That's good!"
Hearing Helianchen's story, Qiao Qian'er couldn't help but look at Helianchen a few more times, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that her fellow countryman's vision was really good!
However, her vision is not bad!
"You think he's right!"
Qiao Qian'er nodded vigorously, she didn't realize that what she said made someone very surprised, and even when she saw Helian Chen, she felt uncomfortable.
"Do you think the strategy told by Weichen is very good?!"
Helian Chen turned his head to look in Qiao Qian'er's direction and said.
Also as a man, how could he not know what Ji Ranyu's expression meant, once upon a time he also had such an expression, and he felt uncomfortable almost when he saw Chu Xiaoxiang and other men standing and talking together.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the concubines feel that these strategies are indispensable if they want to let the people live and work in peace and contentment." Qiao Qian'er said seriously, Ji Ranyu, who was listening to Qiao Qian'er on the other side, couldn't help but be stunned.
"The Emperor's ......"
Qiao Qian'er felt that the emperor had been staring at her all the time, and she was a little unclear.
"Ahh Ji Ranyu, who was pushed, subconsciously screamed, he looked around blankly, fortunately there were only three of them in the imperial study at this time, otherwise it would be too big!
"Your Majesty, do you think this proposal is okay?"
"Yes."
"That means it's time to implement the proposals."
Ji Ranyu nodded.
He had no way to refuse all her requests, so he had to carry them out.
"Qiyan, you go down and execute." Ji Ranyu announced lightly.
"Yes, Weichen will go." Saying that, Helian Chen quickly left the imperial study, he did not go to the Ministry of Rites and Works, but went back to the princess's mansion first and discussed it with Chu Xiaoxiang.
Back at the princess's mansion, Helian Chen went straight to Chu Xiaoxiang's bedroom, but saw Chu Xiaoxiang practicing yoga in the courtyard.
The reason why he knew that it was yoga was only because Chu Xiaoxiang had told him about it yesterday.
"Chen, you're back."
Chu Xiaoxiang was doing a handstand, and just when she saw Helian Chen walking towards them, she immediately lowered her legs and walked in front of him.
Helian Chen nodded.
As if sensing that something was wrong with Helian Chen, Chu Xiaoxiang walked to Helian Chen's side and said to him, "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" Helian Chen did not immediately answer Chu Xiaoxiang's words, but looked at her with confused eyes.
"I feel weird about you today, I won't let my brother bully you."
If it was really Ji Ranyu who bullied Helian Chen, then she had to settle this account with him first.
"Why do you think your brother will bully me, am I so easy to bully in your eyes?" Helian Chen looked at Chu Xiaoxiang funny, and suddenly admired Chu Xiaoxiang's imagination.
"Isn't it? Otherwise, why would you do this? "
Chu Xiaoxiang didn't understand it very much, and as soon as she came back, she was silent, how did she know what he was thinking, what happened, all she could guess was her brother who was a crazy demon, because some things didn't like him.
"Fool, I'm just too tired to run back and just want to take a breath, besides, Qiao Qian'er is back, your brother is all his mind on Qiao Qian'er now, how can he care about us?!"
Hearing Helian Chen's words, after careful analysis, it seems to make sense.
"Tell me, what's wrong?"
As soon as Chu Xiaoxiang's words fell, the housekeeper brought in a person from outside, a man wearing palace clothes.
"Slave see Her Royal Highness the Princess, Master Horse, Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose."
"Get up." Chu Xiaoxiang said in a light tone.
She's really upset, they're chatting, and an inconsequential interjection comes in, and she's only a ghost if she's comfortable!
"What's the matter with my father-in-law?" Chu Xiaoxiang looked at her father-in-law expressionlessly and said.
"Her Royal Highness Princess Qiqi, the Queen Mother said that a palace banquet will be held in three days, and I hope that Her Royal Highness the Princess will remember to be there." After speaking, the father-in-law bowed and took his leave.
Chu Xiaoxiang heard her father-in-law's words, raised her right eyebrows upward, and looked at her father-in-law's departing back lightly, and when that back was getting farther and farther away, she withdrew her gaze, turned around and looked at Helian Chen again, and said, "What do you think is the matter with the queen mother's banquet at this time?"
It's not a year's festival, and suddenly a banquet is held, which makes people have to think deeply!
Helian Chen: "......"
"Chen, I don't know why, I have a feeling that this banquet is probably a Hongmen banquet, and it is for Qiao Qian'er." Chu Xiaoxiang said with some concern.
Helian Chen: "......"
How could Helian Chen not know what the reason for the Queen Mother to suddenly hold a banquet, but, would that person let her participate?
"Your Majesty, just now the father-in-law in the queen mother's bedroom came to spread the word, saying that a banquet will be held in three days, and those mothers in the palace and courtiers outside the palace can also bring their wives and children to participate." The father-in-law knelt on the ground and reported to the superior who was above him.
Ji Ranyu paused with both hands, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he seemed to understand why the Queen Mother did this.
"Let's go down."
"Huh~"
After the father-in-law retired, the imperial study fell into a quiet atmosphere again.
All of a sudden, on the night of the banquet, Chu Xiaoxiang specially picked out a water blue light gauze dress, and the hairstyle was designed for her by Qingtan, and when everything was ready, she slowly stood up and walked towards the door.
Helian Chen was already waiting outside the door, and when he saw Chu Xiaoxiang walking out, he was amazed.
His Xiang'er always gives him a lot of surprises, just like her at this moment, so beautiful that he can't wait to hide her, not let anyone see her, and covet her beauty.
"What a daze! What if it's too late?! "
Chu Xiaoxiang is very helpless! She sat in the dressing room for an afternoon, and finally got freed, but as a result, Helian Chen was in a daze.
"Fool, let's go."
Helian Chen dotingly raised his hand and scraped the tip of her nose, reached out to grab her palm, and pulled her to the carriage together.
The carriage soon stopped in the palace, and when she saw her carriage, the courtiers with their wives and children stepped forward to salute her and said, "Weichen knocks on Her Royal Highness the Princess, Master Ma, Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose."
"Get up."
Chu Xiaoxiang's makeup today is very exquisite, and people can't always take their eyes off it, just like now, every time she takes a step, those greedy eyes and amazing gazes move with it.
How could Chu Xiaoxiang not pay attention to these gazes, but what she was more concerned about now was, where was the Queen Mother?
When she arrived at the Empress Dowager's dormitory, the eunuch standing outside the palace told her that the Empress Dowager was resting now and would change her clothes to attend the banquet later.
Chu Xiaoxiang didn't doubt him, so he turned around and left helplessly.
"How do I feel that the Queen Mother is deliberately ignoring me?"
Chu Xiaoxiang's self-talk made Helian Chen can't help but lock his eyebrows deeply, such an obvious treatment is not difficult for people to think elsewhere.
"Don't think too much, let's go to the main hall and wait for them first." Helian Chen said softly.
Chu Xiaoxiang nodded.
When the two arrived at the main hall, the hall was already full of people, and when they saw them coming in, they saluted her one after another: "Weichen knocks to see Her Royal Highness the princess, and the horse master is Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose."
"Get up." Chu Xiaoxiang responded lightly as always, in the face of such a phenomenon, she has long been accustomed to it.
Chu Xiaoxiang and Helianchen walked to the top and sat down at the bottom of the position, Helianchen sat next to her, and the two sat next to each other for a while, and then they heard their father-in-law come out of the hall and report: "The emperor has arrived, and the imperial concubine has arrived."
Imperial Princess?!
This is equivalent to the title of the queen, my brother is really handsome, Chu Xiaoxiang bumped He Lianchen with his elbow, and looked at it together with Helian Chen.
The courtiers sitting below all saluted Ji Ranyu and them, and Ji Ranyu glanced at it lightly and said, "Get up."
When those courtiers raised their heads and looked up and saw Qiao Qian'er, everyone was shocked.
Didn't this man have already been put to death? How did it come back to life?
Many questions were silent after the Queen Mother entered the hall.
The Queen Mother walked up the steps slowly, her eyes kept staring at Qiao Qian'er, eager to drill Qiao Qian'er out of a few holes.
Qiao Qian'er sat next to Ji Ranyu, how could she not feel the too sharp eyes of the Queen Mother, but she couldn't do anything, she could only try her best to escape this gaze.
"Queen Mother, sons and daughters greet the Queen Mother!"
There should be etiquette, no less at all, this is Ji Ranyu's current voice.
Even if he wasn't comfortable, he couldn't make himself too visible.
The atmosphere suddenly fell into an eerie silence, and the people around didn't dare to say a word, they all closed their mouths and lowered their heads, burying their sense of existence deeper and deeper.
"Queen Mother, why don't you have a banquet?! I'm so hungry! Chu Xiaoxiang deliberately pursed her lips and said coquettishly.