Chapter 191: The Empress Dowager's Decree (2)
When the county lord of Qinghui heard that Zhou Hexi's name was not on the list of people who participated in the palace banquet, he was only angry. Later, I heard that the Queen Mother gave the Zhou family a decree and invited the Zhou and Xi sisters to a banquet together, and I felt strange.
Princess Longyu told her that this time the crown prince and the prince successively selected the concubine scene was very grand, and it was also a major event that the royal family had not had for many years. Moreover, her old man had already started to move a few days ago, and now she has entered the Longevity Palace, just waiting for the palace banquet to begin.
After speaking, Princess Longyu also instructed her to pay attention to her identity and decency at that time, and not to do anything that would damage the royal face.
The lord of Qinghui County responded expressionlessly.
After saying a lot, she still didn't know why Empress Dowager Li wanted to give an edict to the girls of the Yi'an Hou Mansion, whether she would have ulterior motives, or whether she had already made arrangements for Zhou Hexi's fate, etc., and she was still confused.
The palace banquet lasted for three days, and on the first day, the garden was visited to enjoy the flowers, and the ability to talk and respond to changes was compared. On the second day, the talent is played, and on the third day, the candidates are basically decided, and the palace not only has to set up a banquet, but also sings a big opera, arranges singing and dancing performances, etc. And she, as the prince's aunt, naturally wants to participate.
It's just that she wants to sit in the elder seat, nominally playing a role of careful observation, but in fact it is a decoration.
Who the prince and prince marry, it is really not her turn to be the master of the roundabout aunt, and her princess mother, the aunt and grandmother of the prince and the prince, may be able to influence one or two decisions.
However, thinking about it along this line of thought, if Zhou Hexi is looked down upon by a certain prince, won't he call her aunt at that time? Thinking of this, the county lord of Qinghui felt a sense of separation in his heart, no, Monday is her second brother's, and the two of them will also be Jinlan sisters.
The day before the palace banquet began, the county lord of Qinghui found an opportunity to meet Zhou Hexi and told her all the information she had tried her best to hear.
The first thing is Queen Xiao's malice towards her. The news that the lord of Qinghui County heard was that the lord of Musha and Queen Xiao got married when they were still in Xiliang, and the specific Liangzi was not clear, and the two were always at odds, so for so many years, Empress Xiao would turn a blind eye to the children of her former sisters.
The second is why Queen Xiao didn't invite her. To say that no matter how tired this aunt is, she shouldn't deliberately lose face in the Yi'an Hou Mansion on such a grand occasion, it is really the prince who is not like it, and directly proposed to Queen Xiao that she should be the crown princess of the Zhou family, which annoyed the queen mother, and even took her to the entire Yi'an Hou Mansion even more unkindly.
The third is the decree of the Empress Dowager Li. As the grandmother of the crown prince and the princes, in order to show the importance of choosing a concubine, the queen mother checked the queen's arrangements in detail, and found that there was no Zhou family in the Yi'an Hou Mansion in the invitation list, so she immediately lost her temper and fell directly into the queen's face in front of the concubines, and stabbed the matter to His Majesty afterwards...... That's how Yi Zhi came about. In other words, this invitation is the result of the fighting methods of Empress Xiao and Empress Dowager Li.
Zhou Hexi was undoubtedly shocked, the discord between the sisters caused Queen Xiao not to treat her well, and she didn't expect others to treat her, the key is that without her knowing, she actually fell into the eyes of the prince......
It's really fortunate that Queen Xiao hates her, and she is really grateful that her mother married Queen Xiao in the first place, otherwise, if she was really chosen to become the crown princess...... Zhou Hexi felt that it was better to hang up directly last time.
It's not that she hates the prince very much, the point is that she has never thought about marrying.
Counting the days, she has only been here for a few months, and she has just finished dealing with the mess and then channeling the eating atmosphere here, and finally the eating atmosphere has changed, and she suddenly hangs up again...... Now, I have found a new way to live, and I actually have to face the question of who to marry!
Brain pain.
Fortunately, the prince's mother didn't fall in love with her and escaped a catastrophe!
Zhou Hexi just breathed a sigh of relief, only to see the county lord of Qinghui snapping his fingers and saying: "In addition to the crown prince, there are four positions in the back: the fifth princess, the sixth princess, the seventh princess and the eldest prince's step-concubine. ”
Zhou Hexi: "......"