The secret guard looked at the soaking prince Li Junhe with some trepidation, the person who was supposed to serve was found lying on the edge of the palace, and he had died after snorting, and the eldest prince was gone, and then they traced it and found the eldest prince who was already soaked.

Li Hejun shook the water on his body and said indifferently: "Go check." ”

"Yes." The dark guard agreed, and at this time, a group of palace maids walked from the edge of the courtyard, and the dark guard left under the instructions of Li Hejun.

The palace maids here all knew the eldest prince, and when they saw the eldest prince standing by the pond soaking wet, they all exclaimed: "Slaves and maids should die." The eldest prince glanced at them with some annoyance, and said coldly: "Shut up and take this king to change clothes."

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The palace maids all shut up for a while, and the palace maids who took the lead guided the eldest prince to the other courtyard to change into other clothes, and asked the other palace maids to report what they saw to the head of Concubine Ling's mansion. Li Jun Heben wanted not to let others know about it, but he felt that in this mansion, so many people saw it, even if he didn't say it, he couldn't hide it for long.

Since this is the case, let everyone know the news that they were almost killed, and today is a banquet set up by Concubine Ling, if Concubine Ling wants to get rid of the guilt, she will naturally take the initiative to help him investigate the mastermind behind the scenes, and save a lot of trouble.

Annex

Shen Nianchu returned to her grandmother after changing into the prepared clothes, and there were three more people to get to her, so she still had extra time to eat.

Shen Qian looked at Shen Nianchu's greedy appearance, and said with great disgust: "Second sister, this is the palace, you look like we didn't give you food in the General's Mansion." Where is the appearance of everyone's ladies? ”

"You care about me." Shen Nianchu was eating happily at the moment, how could he care what others thought. Shen Qian glanced at her and pulled the seat aside slightly, she didn't want to make herself very cheap because of Shen Nianchu.

Shen Nianchu actually knew in her heart, in addition to the fact that the food was really delicious, but also because only in this way could she dispel the idea of her grandmother marrying her.

Just when she was thinking about what talent she would perform later, she saw the child she had just rescued walked to the front of the hall under the guidance of the palace maid. Kneeling in front of Concubine Ling: "Please Ling Niangniang." ”

"He'er, you're late, get up. Your brother has been waiting for a while. Come and take a seat" Concubine Ling hadn't received the message yet, she originally thought that Li Junhe would not come to this kind of banquet, but she didn't expect him to come.

"Xie Ling Niangniang." Li Junhe stood up, walked to the side of the third prince Li Nanmo and sat down. At this time, the female official on the side walked up to Concubine Ling in a panic and told Concubine Ling what the palace maids had just discovered.

Concubine Ling's face changed abruptly, the fifth prince is the adopted son of the current queen mother, although she is not compatible with the queen mother, but she will not kill her adopted son.

And now this person is committing a black hand in the banquet he has set up, if the fifth prince dies, even if she didn't do it, she will be suspicious. And if a person dies in her courtyard, he is afraid that others will not be able to say it.

Now that everyone is here, if there is a commotion at this time, I am afraid that it will not end well, and it will also cause everyone's speculation. If someone with a heart informs Your Majesty of today's events, even if Your Majesty believes in himself, I am afraid it will be difficult for him to make his own decisions.

Thinking of this, Concubine Ling's face became even more ugly. But she quickly restrained her gaffe, instructed the female official to investigate the matter privately, and ordered the palace maids to be imprisoned so as not to leak the news.

After finishing the order, Concubine Ling smiled apologetically at Li Junhe, except for the palace maid of her own family, she can't talk nonsense about this matter, and she has to think of a way to let this child not talk about it for a while.

Shen Nianchu looked at the scene in front of him dumbfounded, it turned out that he was really the fifth prince. It is said that the biological mother of the fifth prince is an unfavored concubine, who originally thought that the prince could fly on the branch and become a phoenix, but how did he expect that the five princes died of madness when he was eight years old.

At that time, the queen mother was pregnant, and it was inconvenient to raise the five princes, so she could only let him study with the concubines temporarily. Later, the queen mother had an accident and miscarried, and after her body was well recovered, she adopted the fifth prince.

Although the current five princes are three years younger than Shen Nianchu, if you don't look carefully, you can't see the age gap. It's just that the innocence of children can't be seen on the faces of the five princes, and there seems to be only the indifference and calculation of adults. Sure enough, it is not a good thing to be born in the emperor's family, and a good child is educated to be like this.

Shen Nianchu shook his head with some regret, feeling that it was a pity for such a beautiful child. Before she could react, the palace maid came over to remind her to prepare, and she would be the next to perform.

Shen Nianchu hurriedly stood up and followed the palace maid to the edge of the stage. Before going on stage, she had already asked the palace maid next to her to help her prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, other things can't work, it's still okay to write calligraphy or something.

It was her turn to take the stage, the palace maids moved the things prepared in advance to the stage, and Shen Nianchu walked to the middle of the stage and saluted Concubine Ling and the princes and nobles present.

"General Shen's Mansion, Shen Nianchu, fifteen years old. Dedicated to a piece of calligraphy. The palace man on the side shouted loudly.

Before coming up, Shen Nianchu thought that since it was a peach blossom forest, it should be good to write a poem with peach blossoms. She slowly wrote on the paper: Peach blossoms are born in spring, and Baishi is haunted today. Shake the ** radish branch, half shake the blue sky and moon.

After finishing the writing, she asked the palace people next to her to present the paper in front of everyone. Everyone sighed at the good poetry, but this word was reluctant, and it was still slightly inferior to the other ladies.

Concubine Ling already had the choice of the princess in her heart, so naturally no one else could look down on it. However, Concubine Ling felt that this Shen Nianchu was quite well-behaved, although the words were average, but the poems were okay. If she wants, it is also possible to be the side concubine of the third prince.

Shen Nianchu saluted and went down, she was not good at poetry and songs, she could remember such a sentence, she felt thankful, where else could she think of anything else.

Shen Qian said with a mocking face: "I thought you had a lot of ability, and you still want to be the focus of others?" Joke. ”

Shen Nianchu ignored Shen Qian's ridicule, just glanced at her lightly, and sat back in his seat. The performance is almost over, and it's the turn of the prefectures to vote for the girls they like, Concubine Ling asked everyone to take a break and enjoy the peach blossoms, and come back later to see the answer.

In fact, looking at the answers are all disguises, who doesn't know that today's lottery head must be obtained by the eldest lady of the Shen family, but I am afraid that others will say that it is unfair, so I have to check the vote according to the rules.

Shen Nianchu walked in the peach orchard bored, not knowing when he would be able to go home, at the moment he just felt very hungry, and he didn't have any other ideas, and he didn't know how these people were so ink, obviously they all saw the high and low, and they had to pretend to go down to discuss, it was really boring.

As soon as Shen Nianchu walked across the small bridge, he saw a woman of her age being pushed to the ground next to the bridge, her maid ring was pulled by other maid rings and not allowed to go up, and there were two girls standing next to her who kept scolding her. Shen Nianchu couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly stepped forward to help the girl up.

The energetic girl who was scolding on the side saw Shen Nianchu going to help the woman sitting on the ground, and pulled Shen Nianchu's arm very unhappily and said, "What are you, dare to take care of Miss Ben's affairs?" Do you know who Miss Ben is? ”

"Hell knows who you are, get out of the way." Shen Nianchu unceremoniously brushed aside the girl's hand and helped the woman on the ground up. The girl looked frightened, and now stood there motionless with tears in her eyes.

The girl standing on the side saw that Shen Nianchu didn't care much about herself, and said a little angrily: "I'm Feng Xinyue"

"And then?" Shen Nianchu helped the girl who had just fallen to the ground to tidy up her clothes, and the girl slowly recovered from the fright and whispered thank you.

"And then? I am the niece of the queen's mother, and my father is a national soldier! How dare you be so rude to me? Feng Xinyue was very annoyed, who would not give face to herself, and the girl in front of her actually despised herself.

"Since you are the niece of the queen's mother, and look at your current behavior, I am afraid that you have the sage of the defiled mother." Shen Nianchu glanced at Feng Xinyue with disdain, this big-tempered person can only rely on the fact that he is the daughter of the uncle of the country to be so free, and he doesn't seem to have any ability.

"Heh, what a joke, what are you that you dare to teach me a lesson?"

"Dare to ask the girl, what are you, humiliating others here at will?" Shen Nianchu was not a fuel-efficient lamp, so he immediately scolded her back.

"I'm not a thing! She saw that this girl did not salute, and she spoke disrespectfully. I taught her to give her face. Do you care about it? "Shen Xinyue didn't like this girl in the first place, she was Liu Cheng, the daughter of the prefect of Yueli, and even civilians dared to come here to participate in the beauty pageant.

"Well, you're not a thing." Shen Nianchu replied following her words.

"You! How dare you say I'm not a thing! What a guts! Feng Xinyue stepped forward angrily and pointed at Shen Nianchu's nose and scolded, when did she suffer this kind of anger when she was pampered since she was a child.

"What do you mean, your mother didn't teach you to be polite?" Shen Nianchu stretched out his hand and slapped Feng Xinyue's fingers, why are the people here all unreasonable people? Sure enough, she is still a big sister, gentle and virtuous, and knowledgeable and courteous, which makes people feel pleasing to the eye.

Feng Xinyue was angry, no one had ever dared to treat her like this, she screamed and shouted Yahuan's name, asking them to come over and press Shen Nianchu to the ground.

The girls looked at each other, and the clothes of the people who came looked not bad, they should also be famous daughters, and if they moved, they should not move, and they were afraid that they would also have to eat the board. Feng Xinyue saw that everyone didn't come forward, and was so angry that he scolded them for being cheap slaves.

"What are you arguing about?" A majestic voice came from one side.

Shen Nianchu glanced sideways, and a mama with a strong aura and no anger and self-authority walked over. Judging by the costumes and faces, it should be the old man in the palace. And when this grandmother appeared, Feng Xinyue, who had just opened her teeth and claws to clean up people, instantly became honest.

She looked closely at the other people, and they all seemed to know this mama, and from their faces, they were very afraid of this mama. Mama came over and saluted, and said to Feng Xinyue: "Miss, this is not the Guogong Mansion, and I can't tolerate you making such a noise." If you still remember the queen, please pay attention to your words and deeds. ”

Although Feng Xinyue was very displeased, she could only answer cautiously: "Mama Liu, it's not that I'm messing around, it's these two sluts who don't respect me and deliberately mock me." ”

What? This is really a good kung fu. Shen Nianchu bowed to Mama Liu and said, "Mama, we also met this young lady for the first time. ”

Maybe it was the first time I saw someone who was not afraid of herself, Mama Liu looked at Shen Nianchu carefully and didn't speak for a long time. She actually knew in her heart that this young lady in her family had been favored since she was a child, and she was too arrogant. It's just that she has to defend her in front of outsiders: "This is Shen Nianchu, the second lady of the Shen family, right?" ”

Know your name? It seems that she is also there for the performance just now. "Yes," Shen Nianchu replied.

"My girl is impatient and has no malice. I think it's just a misunderstanding today, so it's better for Mama to be a peacemaker, okay? "This is not my own yard, and I can't let others hold the handle, so Mama Liu can only tactfully ask for peace.

"It's not impossible to give up, it's just that your girl has to be convicted of this girl, and she also inadvertently bumped into your girl, and I implore the girl not to pursue this matter." Shen Nianchu was still thinking about the girl next to her, if she left, Feng Xinyue would definitely be angry with her.

"Don't you think about it!" Feng Xinyue shouted angrily.

"Girl." Mama Liu was majestic for a while, and Feng Xinyue's arrogance immediately disappeared. Mama Liu turned her head and said with a smile to Liu Cheng, who was hiding behind Shen Nianchu, "Let the girl be frightened, go back and rest." Please walk slowly. ”

Shen Nian saw that they were all released, so he pulled Liu Cheng and left. The two walked to the clean place with Yahuan, and Liu Cheng said with a grateful face: "Thank you Second Miss for your rescue." ”

"How did you offend her?" Shen Nianchu still felt a little curious.

"It's not that I offended her, it's just that my background is low, and she thinks I don't deserve to participate in this banquet." Liu Cheng said with a wry smile, in fact, according to her family's identity, it was not her turn to attend this banquet, but the person who posted it had made a mistake in the post before, but at that time she had already been taken to the palace gate, so she was also allowed to participate.

It is precisely because of this misunderstanding that Liu Cheng also helped Shen Nianchu a lot in the near future.

"Idiot." Shen Nianchu was about to ask about the wrong post, when she heard a man's voice next to her, and she turned her head to see that it was the fifth prince Li Junhe.

Shen Nianchu asked unceremoniously, "Who are you scolding?" ”

Seeing this, Liu Cheng on the side saluted very uneasily, thinking that Li Junhe was coming to trouble her. But after half a ring, she realized that Li Junhe seemed to be targeting Shen Nianchu.