Chapter Forty-Three: A Little Storm at the Banquet

Oh, the family affection of the heavenly family is really the biggest absurdity in the world, the most ridiculous sorrow, inexplicably he became a thorn in the emperor's heart, inexplicably he hindered the eyes of many people, inexplicably he should have died a long time ago, died in the rebellion ten years ago.

When he was a child, when he saw the emperor showing this expression, Xiao Mochen was always very scared and helpless. In his memory, he never smiled at him, all his father's tenderness, all his father's love, and all his expectations were given to his eldest son, and he never even grabbed the corner of his father's clothes.

Everyone in the world says that Concubine Luo is the favorite of His Royal Highness King Xuan, the root of her life, constant friendship, and endless grace.

But how can a man who really loves a woman hate the son she has born? How could he not hesitate to stab her to death on a trumped-up charge? How could she stand by and watch her children persecuted without being moved.

But later, Xiao Mochen understood. He didn't love her at all, she was just another woman's talisman in that terrible battle for succession.

And the woman was sitting in the main seat at the moment, looking at him with a smile, her eyes full of blatant contempt and coldness.

Xiao Mochen was not surprised by such a scene, such a line of sight, he turned his head unhurriedly, a layer of frost crawled on the corner of his eyes, and he lowered his head to take a sip of iced juice, the juice was tasteless.

The whole body seems to be isolated by the air conditioning, where there are staggered and talking, talking and laughing, here there is only loneliness and loneliness, he has never integrated into their world.

In this strange atmosphere, the singing stopped abruptly, the dancing girl retreated in an orderly manner, and a woman came out from behind the purple gauze screen with red sandalwood and gold painted landscape figures.

At this time, the attention of everyone in the hall was attracted.

The woman is dressed in a brocade palace dress embroidered with a big red peony pattern, the slender waist is tied up with a brocade belt, which is more and more ungraspable, and the long tail of the palace dress is spread on the bright carpet of the main hall, like the glorious sunset on the horizon, with her steps, step by step.

The red gold hairpin is inserted between the thick black clouds, and the peacock makes nine tails, each tail is decorated with pearls, and the gold beads are dotted with gold beads, and the fine gold beads are rustling with her steps.

The woman turned around, walked towards the position of the main seat gracefully, and approached to find that at this moment she was holding a double-sided embroidered peony fan, the embroidery was delicate and delicate, covering most of her face. It revealed the young and agile fox eyes, the eyes were full of waves, like a clear stream flowing in the mountains, and when it turned, you could almost hear the light murmuring of the spring, and with just one glance, it swept away most of the scorching heat.

"Baili Xue has seen the emperor."

Until the time "Baili Xue" spoke, except for a few people in the hall, they all looked stunned and empty, and they couldn't return to their senses for a long time.

The last time I saw Princess Beiyi, although she covered half of her face, she was extremely charming and moving, especially the eyes that made people fascinated, which were even more fascinating. Unexpectedly, she even wore Nan Chu's palace clothes so gracefully, just that half of her face poured out a hall of brilliance.

"Princess, please get up!" The emperor raised his throat before everyone came back to their senses.

Only Xiao Mochen and Xiao Molin stood still, because the two of them didn't look at the center of the hall at all.

"Your Majesty." Bai Suxin stood up straight, and his afterglow slightly glanced towards Xiao Mochen's position, seeing that he didn't look at her at all, he couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.

"The song that the princess sings today is only because it is in the sky, and it has been heard in the world several times!" The emperor ignored the face of the queen on the side, and couldn't help but praise Bai Suxin.

"The emperor praised it falsely." Bai Suxin bowed, although his words were modest, but his heart was already full of joy. I'm just a little lower in background, compared to appearance, more talent, which princess of the Baili family can be better than me.

"But why did the princess hold the fan today?" The Emperor asked.

Bai Suxin lowered her body again, and the fan hung a few inches long with a red tassel dangling, and her voice was like a pearl: "Back to the emperor, Xue'er first came to Nanchu, Xu is not accustomed to the water and soil, her complexion is not good, she is a little ugly, and it is difficult to see people, so she insists on a fan to use it as a barrier, and I hope that the emperor will not be strange." ”

"No blame, no blame, haha." The emperor only waved his hand and smirked.

The queen mother next to her laughed twice, and motioned to Father-in-law Hai with her eyes: "Come on, give the princess a seat." ”

"Xie Niangniang."

Bai Suxin got up, and saw her father-in-law holding a mahogany stool and putting it on the table next to the prince, a touch of displeasure flashed in her fancy, and she saw that the position was diagonally opposite Xiao Mochen, and her line of sight was just right, which was comfortable.

As soon as Bai Suxin sat down, Xiao Motian, the third prince on the right, impatiently handed over a cup of tea, and grinned: "The princess's "Luo Shen Fu" is like a fairy sound, and now it is lingering in the ears of this king. ”

The corners of his mouth covered by the fan were slightly hooked, Bai Suxin was more than happy, this song was specially learned for him, I don't know if he likes it too. bent the fox's eyes: "Your Highness Xie, Xue'er is ugly." ”

"It's not ugly, it's not ugly, this king has never seen a woman as shocking as the princess, it's like coming out of a painting, and the beauty is lost." Xiao Motian hurriedly waved his hand eagerly, causing Bai Suxin to laugh, and the laughter went straight into his heart.

Bai Suxin had a smile in his eyes, his eyes were like spring water, steaming out the smell of wine, which made people intoxicated, and Xiao Motian was fascinated.

It turns out that it's really wonderful to be sought after by people.

Bai Suxin took the tea, opened the fan slightly, took a sip elegantly, and put it down again.

In the space where she sat down, the next round of singing and dancing began.

By watching the dance, Bai Suxin looked in the direction of Xiao Mochen unscrupulously.

The appearance of him bowing his head and drinking tea made her heart move.

Unlike other princes, who are dressed in a noble dark bottom inlaid with silver-edged embroidered python robes, with a jade crown, although they are only wearing a white brocade robe, and their three thousand ink hair is simply raised, all of which highlight his noble and cold temperament to the fullest.

It's the first time I've had such a feeling of being unable to take my eyes off a man.

As if feeling that his eyes were a little explicit, Bai Suxin controlled himself slightly, lowered his eyes and smiled: This man is mine.

This song and dance is inevitably too long, Bai Suxin is tired of dealing with the noisy five princes on the right side, and wants to change the topic, but on the left hand side is the half-dead and only staring at the bottom of the plate, His Royal Highness the Prince, and then the "dumb" maid Xiaotan.

Time passed very slowly, and the sun outside had receded a little color, and the song and dance stopped.

As soon as the sound of silk and bamboo stopped, for a while, the hall was quiet again.

Suddenly, the emperor on the throne began to speak again, and he looked at Bai Suxin happily: "Nanchu is a vast land, great mountains and rivers, just Jinling City has infinite scenery, the princess is not far away, I should do the friendship of the landlord, take the princess to play, but the government affairs are busy, it is really impossible to get out, not as well." The emperor paused, his eyes swept over the two rows of seats, and said with a smile: "If you let my prince receive the princess for me, you will be easy to get along with, and it will not be easy to restrain you." ”

Hearing this, Bai Suxin hurriedly got up and saluted the emperor without humility or arrogance: "Xue'er is frightened, so the emperor is worried, since this is the emperor's good intentions, Xue'er should accept it." ”

"I wonder which of my princes the princess wants to accompany you?" The emperor asked.

Before Bai Suxin could speak, Xiao Motian on the side secretly rejoiced, he felt that the princess was only familiar with him at present, so it was natural to choose him, and it was not in vain that he had just spent a lot of time talking.

Who knows, Bai Suxin came to say: "Xue'er is quiet." ”

Just one sentence, the third prince who was complacent just now was petrified.

"I think the fifth prince Yu Xue'er has a lot of eyes." Bai Suxin's words came here, the meaning was very straightforward, she fell in love with Xiao Mochen, traveling together was just a pretense, she wanted more than that.

Not only did other people think it was incredible, how could the princess choose such an unfavored prince, even Xiao Mochen himself was shocked.

He even glanced at her, how could she take a fancy to him?

Xiao Mochen flicked his sleeves, put his hands on his lap, sat up straight, and waited for the emperor's reaction.

The emperor's smile froze on his lips, slightly funny, and the face of the queen on the side was also not good-looking.

The hall suddenly became silent, and the pins could be heard.

The corners of the emperor's mouth twitched, and he put back all the smiles just now, and asked Xiao Mochen stiffly: "What does His Royal Highness King Chen think?" ”

At the moment when Xiao Mochen got up, Bai Suxin only felt that his heart had reached his throat, and the fingers holding the fan were white.

"Erchen thinks it's not good." As soon as Xiao Mochen stood up, he bowed his head, he didn't want to meet his eyes.

"Why?" The Emperor was already angry with his words.

The king is most reluctant to be challenged by others, let alone his disgusted son.

Xiao Mochen still lowered his head and replied: "Erchen's body has always been weak, the red sun is on the head, and he is prone to heat stroke, so he won't block the princess." ”

The emperor twisted his eyebrows and reprimanded: "Rebel! Don't be rude to the princess! The princess is the messenger of peace between the two countries, coming from afar, how dare you touch the princess's will! ”

"Fifth brother!" Xiao Mohan was afraid that Xiao Mochen would anger the emperor, so he gently pulled down the hem of his clothes, after all, for him, the emperor could afford any punishment.

"Father." Xiao Mochen was unmoved. raised his eyes and looked directly at the emperor, and said in a heavy tone: "As the king of a country, you cannot be untrustworthy. ”

"You!" The emperor was angry, staring at the rebel in front of him and speechless for a long time.

He naturally knew what Xiao Mochen was referring to, and because of his soft-heartedness, he gave him a promise from the Son of Heaven, that is, King Chen's marriage, and he was the master himself.

And at this moment, the emperor is slapping himself in the face.

He was angry, and he had a seizure because of his bad reason, but he just stared at this son who had not let him worry since he was a child.

The wrath of the Son of Heaven ambushed millions of corpses and shed thousands of miles of blood. Bai Su was afraid that the emperor would blame Xiao Mochen because of his anger, so he hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, please calm your anger." She said slowly: "This matter is Xue'er's lack of consideration, the emperor's princes are all dragons and phoenixes among people, Xue'er should not favor one over the other, really willfully pointed out the name, since King Chen is unwell, Xue'er should understand, the matter of travel, it is all up to the emperor to decide." ”

Her tone was calm, neither humble nor arrogant, her words were reasonable, and she couldn't hear the slightest complaint, so the emperor was angry and said, "Get out!" I'm annoyed to see you! ”

Xiao Mochen hooked the corners of his mouth, saluted, and withdrew from the hall.

He didn't want to stay in this smoky place for a long time, and he should sit next to Lige at this moment.

"What does Your Highness think of Princess Beiyi?"

"No, I didn't pay attention to her."

"But I can see that the princess likes Her Highness very much."

"What do you have to do with this king!"

As soon as he stepped out of the palace gate, Xiao Mochen stepped up his pace, wanting to see that Lige's heart couldn't bear it, and when he walked to the palace gate, he shouted several times, and Xiaobei was late.

His eyes were red and he was slow to react, Xiao Mochen asked him what happened, and he didn't reply.

With a tight heart to leave the song, Xiao Mochen didn't have the heart to ask him what was wrong, got into the carriage, and asked him to set off quickly.

After the carriage started, Xiao Mochen habitually rubbed his newly changed purse, leaving all the displeasure, gloom, and insults behind, and ran straight towards the sun.