Chapter 9: The Feast

Although he knew that Xiao Lu was a foolish character, Xiao Xuan really didn't expect Xiao Lu to be so difficult. =

The queen's birthday banquet was full of clans and noble daughters. After the three rounds of the banquet, the atmosphere at the feast was just right. No one expected that after three glasses of fruit liqueur, the eldest princess would suddenly get up and attack the two and a half children who followed into the palace in the second room of the Zhenguo Mansion.

Xiao Lu accused Sister Chu of rushing into herself, and Duan Shaolan even hit the palace maid and the inner prison beside her.

Because Xiao Lu opened his mouth to speak, Shengle stopped in the middle of the feast.

"It's me who has no way to teach my son, and I apologize to the eldest princess for the two children." Lord Duansu hurriedly stood up and walked out from behind the table. "The two children entered the palace for the first time, and they were not very familiar with the etiquette in the palace, so they inadvertently bumped into the eldest princess, and asked the eldest princess to forgive their sins."

"Brother and sister, I said that you are true. Since the two children are entering the palace for the first time and don't understand etiquette, you should take care of them carefully. How could the two brothers and sisters not only collide with the eldest princess, but also play fists and feet in the palace. Mrs. Zhenguo said with words in her words. In the final analysis, the concubine is the concubine, and it can't be on the table. ”

"Celestia, I was wrong." Sister Chu stumbled up behind Lord Duansu and said with tears in her eyes.

She is young and frail, and she has never seen such a scene except in her own room and occasionally accompanying the county lord of Duansu to go back to the Xian Wang's mansion to sit on weekdays. She looked up at Xiao Lu, who was high up and full of fierce eyes, and couldn't help but feel a sense of panic, and tears fell in her eyes.

"Mother, sister." Duan Shaolan also stood up.

The queen glanced at Xiao Lu with displeasure, and her heart was also the kung fu that she had been raising in her palace for two years. Mama Li's ring ruler has been broken I don't know how many handfuls, but it hasn't changed her character at all.

However, the cousin in the second room of his own house has been too beautiful all these years, and the cousin who only followed the concubine and the biological mother when he was a child suddenly rose out of the crowd when he became an adult. He was unwilling to rely on the prince of Zhenguo to seek shade for him to enter the court, but entered the official career through the imperial examination, not only won the favor of Emperor Chu, but also entered the eyes of King Xian, and even made King Xian willing to marry the county lord of the family as his main room.

Now even Zhen Guogong values him more.

Fortunately, the county lord of Duansu did not have any children after marrying into the Zhenguo Mansion, and only raised two children born of concubines.

Otherwise, I am afraid that it will be difficult for my brother-in-law to sit firmly in the position of the son.

Today's matter, she is also willing to give the second room where the county lord of Duansu is a dismount in front of everyone present.

"Duansu, I said that you are too simple-minded and benevolent." Therefore, although the queen was unhappy with Xiao Lu, she also stood on Xiao Lu's side to speak. "You are too indulgent to these two concubines, you are kind enough to bring their brothers and sisters into the palace, but they don't know how to cause you such trouble."

"Yes." Xiao Lu heard the queen's meaning, as if she was standing on her side, and said proudly. "I don't have high requirements, let them kowtow to me three times, and let me hit the board ten times and I'll let them go."

"Celestial Princess, both children already know that they are wrong." After listening to Xiao Lu's words, Lord Duansu's face couldn't help but turn pale. "They collided with the eldest princess, and it was natural for the eldest princess to kowtow and excuse herself. It's just that Sister Chu is less than four years old, and she was born with a weak disease, so I'm afraid she won't be able to stand ten strokes. Please have mercy on the eldest princess, for my sake, at least save Sister Chu's board. ”

"Eldest princess, my sister in the family is young and ignorant." Duan Shaolan saw that his mother-in-law's eyes were red, and his sister Sister Chu couldn't help crying in fright, the young man immediately lifted the hem of his robe and knelt down and kowtowed six times, and when he raised his head again, his forehead was already stained with blood. "Please allow me to take those ten strokes of the board for my sister."

"She has a weak disease, what does it have to do with me if she can't stand the board?" Where can Xiao Lu take care of these, she only cares about the rare majesty, and she must fight these boards. "When their brother and sister collide together, I will suffer these ten boards together!"

Princess Xian, who was also at the banquet, didn't want to speak, but Princess Xian also knew that her daughter Duansu was a charitable princess, and the two children were raised in front of her daughter as soon as they landed. The daughter lost her first child, and poured all her maternal love on those two children.

And the two children also regarded the lord of Duansu as their biological mother, which was not in vain for their daughter's motherly heart.

The county lord of Duansu also often takes the two children back to his mother's Xianwang Mansion to talk, Duan Shaolan Xiao's father is talented and young, Sister Chu is also well-behaved and likable, and everyone in the Xianwang Mansion also likes the two children.

It's nothing for Duan Shaolan to admit this board, but Sister Chu is her daughter's family, and recognizing this board is to lose face in front of the female dependents who are counted in the Manchurian capital. Not to mention that this child is not yet four years old and is naturally frail, if he really suffers from these ten boards, he may not even be able to save his life if he is frightened by a combo. The daughter has regarded these two children as her own flesh and blood, and if these two children really have three longs and two shorts, I am afraid that their daughter will be seriously ill again.

"Well, let me be fair." Princess Xian was supported by her daughter-in-law and was just about to open her mouth to intercede for the Duan family brothers and sisters, but the eldest princess of Yongshou, who was sitting on the top seat, took the lead in opening her mouth. The collision in the mouth of the eldest princess was originally just a small matter, and the two brothers and sisters also kowtowed and admitted their mistakes, so why bother to make a fuss about this board. Besides, the brother and sister are both raised under the knees of the Duansu County Lord, and they should also give the Duansu County Lord and the Xian Wangfu a face, don't you say, the queen? ”

The queen was suddenly pointed out by the eldest princess of Yongshou, and she also came back to her senses and looked at the two princesses and princesses of Xianwang who had stood up below.

Yes, the county lord of Duansu is not only the wife of his own brother-in-law. She is also the daughter of the first emperor's younger brother King Xian, and the county lord near the clan.

Although Duan Shaolan was a teenager, he practiced martial arts when he was young, and receiving ten strokes of the board was just an itch in his boots. But Sister Chu is indeed a child, and if she can't survive, she will lose her life. Her own brother-in-law and the county lord of Duansu all regard her as a palm bead, she really wants to lose her life, she is afraid that she will not be good at both ends, and she will add trouble to herself.

"Lu'er, stand down." The queen thought about it for a moment, frowned and looked at the menacing Xiao Lu, and said slowly. "Since Brother Lan has kowtowed to you on behalf of Sister Chu and admitted his mistakes, you don't have to pursue it anymore."

"But the queen mother, he not only beat the people who served around me, but also united with Xiao Xuan to count me down." Where is Xiao Lu who knows that she will accept it when she sees it, even if the queen asks her to step down, she is still reluctant to back down. "Xiao Xuan also used the words of giving me clothes to imply that I was not as good as her in the palace."

"How?" The queen listened to Xiao Lu's words, and then looked at Xiao Xuan, who was still sitting on the side of Emperor Liu's concubine, who was still sitting below, and had disappeared at this time, only to feel that things were getting worse and worse. "I said that you should not pursue this matter anymore, how can you implicate your sister again."

The queen watched Xiao Lu and Xiao Xuan grow up, and she didn't know how many times she had doubted in her heart, she also grew up eating water and rice in the palace. How is the difference between the two sisters so big, Xiao Lu is stupid and stupid, not to mention that her personality is still domineering, Xiao Xuan is smart, docile and likable, and there has never been a half sentence of her in the palace from Emperor Chu to the palace maid and the inner eunuch.

This matter had already come to an end, but I didn't expect Xiao Lu to be able to involve Xiao Xuan again. At this time, Xiao Xuan, who was originally sitting on the feast, suddenly disappeared, afraid that he had already gone to Emperor Chu to complain.

"The eldest princess said this, I really have to distinguish one or two for Xuan'er." Emperor Liu's concubine had already heard a report about what Xiao Xuan had done in the Imperial Garden, so she spoke slowly. "The eldest princess is shouting and shouting at the children of the officials in the imperial garden, which is a bit excessive. In order to calm the situation, Xuan'er will come forward to protect the brother and sister. Xuan'er saw that the eldest princess was angry for the rare Yuehua brocade on her body, and took the initiative to invite the eldest princess to Yihua Palace to choose Yuehuajin as a gift. The concubine didn't know what went wrong with Xuan'er and her party, and she was accused by the eldest princess like this?! ”

"The Yuehua brocade on my body is a rare horse for my mother over the years, but Xiao Xuan said that there are a few ashes in the treasury of Yihua Palace, and she and the imperial concubine are unwilling to use it as a dress." Xiao Lu didn't choose to say anything, Concubine Chen got up and pulled her with a blue face, she stretched out her hand and struggled and cried. "I know that my mother and I are not as good as their mother and daughter in the palace, but she can't abuse me like this, how to say that I am also her eldest sister. We are all the daughters of our father, why can she bend her waist to take things and abuse me with words. ”

Because of Xiao Lu's trouble, everyone in the hall had different faces. Concubine Chen looked at her daughter blindly messing around, and her face turned even redder. Today's feast is to congratulate the queen on her birthday, and the queen's face on the throne is even more ugly.

'Smack! ’

The eldest princess of Yongshou was angry, raised her hand and brushed the tea cup on the table in front of her to the ground. The sound of porcelain shattering interrupted Xiao Lu's crying at once.

"Since the eldest princess knows that she and your mother's status is not as good as my granddaughter and daughter, she should have a little self-knowledge." The eldest princess of Yongshou wet her hands, and Han Yuanlan, who was sitting next to her, lowered her eyebrows and handed over a clean handkerchief to wipe her hands. "The Marquis of Anding's Mansion has declined, but my Eternal Life Eldest Princess Mansion and the Liu clan have not yet declined. My two sons don't need me to make up for their own income, and my eldest daughter is the princess of the Mu Wangfu in Yunnan, so I don't need to worry about it. The imperial concubine is my young daughter, so I naturally want to take one or two of my private subsidies, and I just hate that I can't let people move all the treasures in my house to them. So it's no wonder that the world says that girls have to be pampered by blood, and it seems that even the princess from our royal family is no exception, so that they will have to do their best for a moon brocade in the future. ”

"The eldest princess is angry." Concubine Chen slapped Xiao Lu in the face fiercely, forcing Xiao Lu to kneel down with her. "Why don't you kneel down and plead guilty to your aunt and grandmother!"

"What's going on?" At this time, Xiao Xuan came back, but she came back with Emperor Chu. Emperor Chu looked at the people in the hall and asked in confusion.

"Probably the big sister is unhappy" Xiao Xuan walked up a few steps and was so affectionate that she took Emperor Chu's hand and coquettishly. "Father, I really don't blame me."

"Xiao Xuan, don't pretend to be a good person!" Xiao Lu was angry, and shouted violently with tears in her eyes.

"Father, look, big sister, she scolded me again." Xiao Xuan seemed to be startled, and leaned on Emperor Chu's arm and lowered his head and wept. "I have explained the ins and outs to my father, I just look at the girl named Sister Chu is small and pitiful, and the big sister is just a small piece of her dress, thinking that it is really not good for my sister to shout and kill on the birthday of the queen mother, thinking that it would be better to turn a big thing into a small matter, so I stepped forward to say something to plead for the brother and sister."

"Duansu, take your child and sit down." Emperor Chu glanced at Xiao Lu with a slightly gloomy expression, and turned his head to say to the Duansu County Lord. "I heard Duan Chengwen say that your Sister Chu likes pearls, and I will ask Wu Chuan to send a Dongzhu to Sister Chu home to play with."

Duan Chengwen is the name of the master in the second room of the Zhenguo Mansion.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." After listening to Emperor Chu's words, the county lord of Duansu relieved his sorrow and thanked him, and helped Duan Shaolan, who had been kneeling on the ground and did not get up, to return to the table and sit down.

"The eldest princess has no form, and sent to Qingjingxuan to calm down for half a year. Concubine Chen was not strict with her daughters, and she was confined to the palace for two months. Emperor Chu's face was cold, and he turned his head and nodded to the eldest princess of Yongshou before saying to Xiao Xuan. I see that your mother must be counting you down again, do you want to go with your father to avoid it? ”

"Still can't do it, my mother doesn't like me to run to the front to annoy my father." Xiao Xuan frowned, looking distressed. "But fortunately, the mother concubine is soft-hearted, and I'll just finish the count, I'm not afraid."

"Okay, then you can go to your mother." Emperor Chu glanced at the empress as he spoke, and then left with a smile.