On the day of July 15, it was also Xiao Heng's birthday, Dongfu City walked on the water last night, early in the morning, Xiao Daocheng passed the message, and the birthday banquet was held in Hualin Garden.

Xie Zheng can go to the banquet with Huan Ling as he wishes, but he still needs to pretend to be a man, so as not to be recognized by Xie Yu, Yuzhi served her to change into men's clothes, combed her hair bun, and retreated to the room, Xie Zheng sat in front of the dresser, quietly took out a dagger from the drawer on the side and hid it in his sleeve, and then looked up at himself in the mirror, staring intently, seemingly in a daze, but he didn't know what he was pondering.

At this time, Yuzhi called outside the door: "Lady, Qionglin has prepared an ox cart, and the county marquis has sent someone to urge you to leave." ”

"Got it," Xie Zheng responded, then got up and went out, Yuzhi sent her to the door of the mansion, and reminded her repeatedly: "The lady must be more careful when she goes." ”

Xie Zheng always smiled and replied to her: "You don't have to worry, I have my own measure." ”

The ox cart stopped outside the palace gate, Huan Ling stood aside, he was wearing the crane silk robe given by the emperor today, wearing a three-beam Jinxian crown, and stepping on soap boots, such a dress seemed to be very solemn, because he was a county marquis, there was no need to participate in the court meeting, so this court dress was rarely put on.

Xie Zheng saw him wearing it for the first time, and when she saw him for the first time, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, she walked and said with a smile: "The county marquis is a pretty gentleman, and today he wears this court dress, and he looks more and more handsome." ”

Huan Ling smiled, but he looked a little shy, but Zeng Qionglin quipped when he heard this: "Should Xie Niangzi also admire the county marquis?" ”

"Also?" Xie Zheng was stunned for a moment, Huan Ling suddenly felt his face blush and his heart beat, and immediately glanced at Zeng Qionglin, scolding him in his heart for talking too much.

Zeng Qionglin thought that Huan Ling admired Xie Zheng, and wanted to know if Xie Zheng also admired Huan Ling, but he didn't want to open his mouth and asked, which was really rude, so he hurriedly rounded up and explained: "I mean, the county marquis is very handsome, there are countless admirers, but there are many women outside crying and shouting to marry, I thought that Xie Niangzi was the same as them......"

Xie Zheng smiled lightly and replied, "Not really. ”

Huan Ling's heart was half cold when he heard it, but his face was still happy, but Zeng Qionglin was happy, angry, sad and happy on his face, as soon as he heard that Xie Zheng had no intention of Huan Ling, his smiling face suddenly disappeared without a trace.

He thought that Huan Ling and Xie Zheng were in love with each other and didn't know it.

"It's not early, the birthday banquet is about to start, we still need to enter the palace quickly," Huan Ling said, then turned around and got into the ox cart by himself, and did not help Xie Zheng up first as usual, Xie Zheng saw that he was not in a good mood, so he didn't say much, just followed him to get into the car and sat down on his left side.

Zeng Qionglin sat on the seat and drove forward as always, but the two people in the car didn't say a word, and after a long time, Xie Zheng finally couldn't help asking: "The county marquis doesn't seem to be very happy, is it Deyin who just said the wrong thing?" ”

Huan Ling's face was still extremely cold, and he only replied: "You didn't say the wrong thing, I thought too much." ”

Xie Zheng was silent, and the two fell into an embarrassment again.

A moment later, the carriage stopped, and suddenly heard a sonorous voice outside: "Who is coming?" ”

Xie Zheng lifted the corner of the curtain and looked out the window, it turned out that he had arrived at the outer gate of the imperial city, and the Yulin supervisor guarding the gate was checking the passing vehicles, she put down the curtain, withdrew her hand, and turned her head to look at Huan Ling quietly, but saw that he still had a cold face, looking like a mortal should not approach, she was also interested, and did not disturb him again.

Zeng Qionglin said: "Inside the car is the Marquis of Yongxiu County, entering the palace to go to the birthday banquet of Princess Taichang." ”

The Yulin supervisor asked again: "Do you have any documents?" ”

"Yes," Zeng Qionglin took out the document from his sleeve and handed it to the Yu Lin Supervisor, who looked at the document in his hand, and then approached, opened the curtain of the ox cart and looked inside, and saw the person wearing a crown in court clothes, knowing that it was the Marquis of Yongxiu County, but he didn't know who the person next to him was, so he asked, "Who is this?"

Huan Ling said: "He is Benhou's doorman. ”

The Yulin Supervisor nodded, then retreated, and shouted to the other Yulin Supervisors who were guarding the door: "Release!" ”

The ox cart continued to drive forward, and after passing this Jinyang Gate, it was considered to be in the imperial city, Xie Zheng opened the curtain again, but looked to the west, she frowned, and clenched her fists, and her eyes were red for a while.

There are four gates on the south side of the imperial city, namely Guangyang Gate, Xuanyang Gate, Jinyang Gate and Qingming Gate. Xuanyang Gate is the main gate of the imperial city, Jinyang Gate is in its east, Xie Zheng looked west, what he saw was Xuanyang Gate, three years ago, she was there, besieged by more than 100 crossbowmen led by Shen Wenhe, and was cut out by Xiao Yifu himself, that is, there, from a high-ranking Sima, reduced to a person who did not have a yellow book and a personal post, but could only impersonate the identity of others.

Xie Zheng's tightly clenched fist trembled slightly, his eyes were full of hatred, Huan Ling had already noticed it, and immediately held her hand to comfort her, and said softly: "You and I are here to go to the banquet today, don't be distracted by the previous events." ”

Hearing this, Xie Zheng's heart felt a little warm, she put down the curtains, breathed a long sigh of relief, and looked down at Huan Ling's hand on her fist, Huan Ling knew that it was rude, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, Xie Zheng said: "Three years ago, if it wasn't for the county marquis to ask Mr. Sun to save me, I am afraid that I would have died a long time ago, how can I have today." ”

"And this heart......" She raised her hand to hold her heart, and sighed softly, "Now that I think about it, I still can't help Xie Zheng......"

The ox cart stopped again, this time it was not to be investigated, Zeng Qionglin opened the door curtain, and smiled inside: "It's time to get off the door." ”

Inside the gate is the palace city, and all cars entering the palace should stop here.

Huan Ling got out of the car first as usual, Xie Zheng followed, to her surprise, when she got out of the car, Huan Ling actually reached out to help, could it be that he was no longer angry with her?

At this time, there were a lot of vehicles parked outside the gate, Zeng Qionglin led the ox cart to the corner, Xie Zheng and Huan Ling stood outside the gate and waited for him, but when they turned around, they saw Yin Luo driving away, it was the car of the prince's mansion, presumably Xiao Zhen was in that car.

The ox cart stopped not far in front of the two of them, Yin Luo had already seen her, hurriedly stopped the car, turned back and called inside: "Your Highness, ...... ahead"

The door curtain was lifted, Xiao Zhen poked his head out from inside, and when he saw Xie Zheng, he was also stunned, he got out of the car first, and then saw Xiao Changmao and Xiao Ziliang come out one after the other, he took the two children down, and finally helped Pei Huizhao get out of the car.

Xie Zheng and Huan Ling saluted Xiao Zhen and Pei Huizhao, and Xiao Zhen only said: "The Marquis of Yongxiu County does not need to be polite." ”

Then he said to Pei Huizhao: "Huizhao, you take the two children to go in first, and Lone will come later." ”

Pei Huizhao bowed his head, and walked towards the door with a child in one hand, but when he left, he glanced back at Xie Zheng, that Langjun she had seen, just the day before yesterday, he had been to the house, but she didn't know what the identity of that Langjun was, seeing that he was wearing regular clothes, not court clothes, since he was not a prince and minister in the court, how could he attend the birthday banquet of the eldest princess?

Xiao Zhen looked at Xie Zheng, thinking that he went to the Hou Mansion yesterday to find her Xingshi to ask for guilt, he felt sorry in his heart, he hesitated for a while, and asked: "Most of the people who came here for the banquet today have seen Yanghou, are you not afraid of getting into trouble?" ”

Xie Zheng only sneered, "What does Your Highness mean by this, is it because I look like Xie Yu, I shouldn't show up?" ”

"They are not as easy to talk as Lone, if they recognize your face, I am afraid that you will not be able to explain, and they will arrest you," Xiao Zhen showed a slight worry in his eyes, his worry did not come out of thin air, what he said was not to scare Xie Zheng, the "they" in his mouth really did not distinguish between right and wrong.

Xie Zheng also knew that he kindly reminded him, but he didn't care, and said with a smile: "What if you recognize it, Xie Yu has been dead for three years, and he has already entered reincarnation, can he still come back from the dead?" ”

Xiao Zhen smiled and didn't say anything more.