There were more and more palace people coming and going outside the palace, Su Jingye let go of his hand and turned around, pretending to be okay and walked into the palace.

The palace is beautifully decorated, and as soon as you enter the door, you will have a fresh fragrance. At the banquet, many ministers of the DPRK and China and the royal family were also invited. It was not so much a birthday banquet for Su Jingye, but more like an opportunity for the emperor to win over his ministers.

"His Royal Highness King Jing." An official who had never seen it and looked like he had just been promoted, as soon as Su Jingye stepped into the banquet, he came over and arched his gloves.

This person seemed to have a good relationship with the other officials present, and Su Jingye's current situation did not allow him to offend people at will, so he could only pretend to be familiar with that person.

"Your Highness, you're back." Su Jingye was talking with the official, when he suddenly saw a woman in palace clothes, walking gracefully towards him.

"Your Highness doesn't remember me?" The woman tilted her head and looked at Su Jingye with a coquettish smile. Su Jingye thought for a while, and then remembered that she was the daughter of King Chu, the king of the opposite sex of my dynasty, and the lord of Anning.

An Ning has been likable since she was a child, and she often follows behind Su Jingye, but she hasn't seen her for a long time, and Su Jingye almost can't remember what she looks like.

"It turned out to be the county lord of Anning, it's been a long time." Su Jingye smiled politely, rejoiced for a while, and walked in front of him: "Exactly, I haven't seen you for a long time, Your Highness is becoming more and more outstanding." ”

"The county lord of Anning praised it falsely." An Ning's thoughts, Su Jingye is not unclear at all, but he has someone around him now, and he must keep his distance from other girls. It's just that Su Jingye didn't pay attention to it, and the matter on his side had long been seen by the queen who ordered the palace people to serve carefully in the southwest corner.

Seeing the situation, the official had consciously retreated, and it was rare for An Ning to talk to Su Jingye, so he naturally refused to leave like this.

"The emperor has arrived!" With the eunuch's loud shout, the palace, which was originally a little noisy, immediately quieted down. Dozens or hundreds of officials and palace people knelt down in unison, shouting in their mouths: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live." ”

"Today is a family banquet, and the family doesn't need to be polite." The emperor walked in with his right hand behind his back, and with a wave of his sleeves, everyone who knelt down immediately thanked him.

"Your Majesty, you're here." The queen tidied up her clothes and walked slowly to the emperor's side, and the emperor happily took her hand: "There is this birthday banquet organized by Empress Lao for Jing Ye, Jing Ye." ”

Su Jingye stepped forward in response: "The son is here, see my father." ”

The emperor nodded: "It's rare to come back, let's sit down and have a good meal." Let's have a seat. ”

The emperor gave an order, and everyone returned to their places, and although An Ning was a little unhappy, he could only go back and sit.

The banquet was as always, except for the mutual toasts of a few people nearby, and the compliments of the people below to the emperor, there was only solemn and boring singing and dancing.

Su Jingye also thought that it would be so easy to pass, but the queen smiled lightly and shattered his hope.

"Your Majesty, King Jing has been away from Beijing for so long, and he must have suffered a lot outside. Now that I'm finally back, there is no one around to take care of me, which is a little desolate. ”

The emperor looked at her: "Then according to the queen's meaning, what do you want?" ”

"King Jing has passed the weak crown, and he can get married a long time ago." The queen toasted him with a glass of wine, and the emperor took it and sighed: "It's a pity that there are no women of the right age in the court." ”

"Your Majesty forgot, the daughter of the King of Chu, An Ning, is just the right age." The queen smiled even more, "Moreover, Your Majesty didn't see it, the two of them got together before the banquet and talked happily." ”

"Oh, yes." The Emperor laughed a few times, "If this is really the case, it is also a good match." ”

As early as when the queen mentioned her, the county lord of Anning deliberately listened with his ears up, seeing the emperor's meaning, as if he really planned to match her to Su Jingye, and he was immediately overjoyed.

Su Jingye couldn't sit still, and when the emperor asked him, he immediately stood up and replied: "Father, the emperor can't marry the county lord of Anning." ”

When the prince heard this, he immediately turned his head to look at it.

"Why is that?" A few days ago, when Jiang Liuyu's sale of Yuzhi paste reached the emperor's ears, the emperor also heard about her and Su Jingye. The emperor was very curious about what such a commoner daughter could let his son do for her.

"Erchen, Erchen has no achievements, I am afraid that I have wronged the county lord." Su Jingye met the emperor's gaze, and his face was full of red city.

"What His Highness said is wrong," the one who spoke was the official who came to talk to Su Jingye at the beginning, "Your Highness is still young, and you will definitely be able to make a difference in the future, if Your Highness really wants to marry the county lord, why not marry the county lord while he is in his prime, so as not to delay the county lord waiting for you for so long." ”

Behind this person, it is either the prince or the queen, otherwise it would be impossible to be so bold. Su Jingye quietly wrote him down, and looked at the emperor's meaning, as if he felt that what he said was reasonable, and couldn't help but be a little flustered.

"Don't hide it from your father, your son already has a sweetheart."

"Is there a woman better than Lord Anning? Then you will say it, and if that is the case, I will marry you in your place. ”

The emperor was happy to watch the excitement, but Su Jingye bowed his head and said nothing.

Jiang Liuyu's identity will definitely be ridiculed by the people at the banquet, plus the prince has been keeping an eye on her, if she says it like this, it will bring her a lot of trouble.

"She hasn't agreed to her son, so it's inconvenient for her to reveal her identity." After thinking about it, Su Jingye could only use these words to prevaricate the past.

"If you don't say it, then it's gone." The emperor deliberately misinterpreted his meaning, and when he was about to open his mouth to give him a marriage, the queen smiled lightly and pulled him, "Your Majesty, you haven't asked about An Ning's meaning." ”

"That's right, Anning, I ask you, I promise you to King Jing, are you willing?" Su Jingye didn't know what the queen meant, and only hoped that An Ning would refuse.

Who knew that An Ning's eyes were shy, and he lowered his head with a red face, "An Ning obeys the arrangements of the emperor and the queen." ”

"It turned out that it had long been a concubine, but I delayed you for a long time." The emperor laughed loudly, "Today's double happiness is coming, and I have decided to marry the county lord of Anning to King Jing." ”

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to His Royal Highness King Jing, congratulations to Lord Anning." A group of courtiers who had been sitting for a long time stood up and congratulated in unison. An Ning was extremely happy when she heard this, only Su Jingye was bitter in her heart. The prince gloated and raised his glass and drank a few glasses with those around him.

After this congratulatory exchange, the emperor left the banquet, and the banquet was lively again. An Ning secretly suppressed her joyful thoughts, and inadvertently noticed that Su Jingye was pouring herself a drink, and she couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"Your Highness marrying me, is it embarrassing for you?" An Ning bypassed several tables before coming to him, because of the emperor's marriage, no one dared to say anything about her such a move.

An Ning poured him a glass of wine, Su Jingye directly put down the wine glass, looked at An Ning directly, and stared at her embarrassed.

"Why do you want to marry me, you won't be happy with me."

An Ning turned her head, "I don't care. ”

"I already have someone in my heart." Su Jingye sighed. An Ning hurriedly shook her head, "I know, but I won't mind." ”

"Just as His Highness has that woman in his heart, so is Anning, with His Highness in his heart."

Su Jingye walked away helplessly: "Women in the world are obsessed, they are not like her, they dare to fight by themselves." ”

An Ning couldn't catch up with him again, so he could only stand behind him in a daze, meditating on the meaning of his words.

Su Jingye took the pot of wine, walked to the stone steps outside the hall, and sat straight until the time came, and the banquet gradually dispersed.

The moon hung high in the sky, and the voices of people around him were far away, making the night return to the same silence as before.

"Isn't this His Royal Highness King Jing who was just given a marriage, why is he drinking here alone, isn't he too happy to be married, and he can't sleep." The queen waited until everyone dispersed before she came out slowly, and heard that Su Jingye was sitting alone on the side door, and came over to ridicule her.

"Erchen has always wondered what the queen's purpose is for doing this." Su Jingye stood up and looked at the queen with great resentment.

"Heh, what purpose can this palace have," the queen sneered, "This palace's move is for the sake of His Royal Highness King Jing." ”

"If you marry An Ning, you can not only round out An Ning's infatuation with you since childhood, but also win over King Chu, isn't this a double win."

"I never thought about who I was trying to woo, I married An Ning, and I could only make both me and her miserable." Su Jingye squeezed the wine jug tightly, and a few green tendons burst out of his hands.

"That's the purpose of this palace." The queen couldn't help but sneer.

Su Jingye felt that she was very inexplicable, "I told you and the prince a long time ago that I am not interested in the storage position, why do you still regard me as a thorn in your side." ”

"One person below ten thousand people, do you think we really believe that someone will not be moved?" The queen wiped the tip of her nose with a handkerchief, and then pulled out a small porcelain jar from her bosom. Su Jingye recognized that it was the Yuzhi paste that Jiang Liuyu brought into the palace that day.

"Even if it's not for this, this palace wants to tell King Jing that this oath is not so easy to keep."

"It's my business, and it has nothing to do with her." Su Jingye looked at the Yuzhi ointment, and somehow, he was a little worried.

"Hongu knows." The queen achieved her goal and happily put away the small porcelain jar, "I just need King Jing to bother, how to explain it to her." ”

"I don't care what you want to do, as long as you dare to touch her, I will never give up with you." Su Jingye had a cold face, but the queen didn't care about his threat at all.

"yes, then we'll see." Saying that, the queen led the grandmother beside her, passed by Su Jingye, and suddenly turned around again, "By the way, the palace has not congratulated King Jing on his beauty, and I hope that King Jing and the county lord will grow old together." ”

With that, the queen happily returned to her bedroom. The lights of the palace gradually dimmed, and Su Jingye pinched the wine jug and smashed it to the ground in anger, cracking the ground to pieces.