The Hundred Flowers Hall is the place where this banquet is, the middle of the Hundred Flowers Hall is hollow in the shape of hibiscus flowers, the stars can be seen at night, the four seasons of flowers are always prepared in the hall, it is the lotus water lily that is selected in the whole hall in summer, and the bellflower, the beauty cherry blossom is decorated, it is very good-looking.

The hall is surrounded by a hundred flowers-shaped palace lamps to decorate the lighting, and the breeze blows through the ears under the flowers palace lamps, with the fragrance of flowers spreading in the hall.

Thinking that the queen and Princess Jinrou would be waiting for her in the main hall, Xia Yunshang did not dare to delay, and took Zijuan to the main hall after tidying up, while Hongyu and the others stayed in Qiyunzhai.

Xia Yunshang walked into the main hall, and saw the queen and Shangguan Jinrou talking to Shangguan Ruian in the main hall. Then he stepped forward to respectfully greet "my niece Yunshang has seen the queen mother and the royal sister".

"Hurry up, today is Shang'er's birthday, it's the protagonist, you can't be late, let's go to the Baihua Hall now." The queen said with a smile, holding the hand of the palace maid and slowly standing up.

"Yes" Everyone did not dare to slack off, and walked through the main hall with the queen to the Hundred Flowers Hall.

"The queen mother, the eldest princess, the princess Jinrou, and the princess Yunshang have arrived."

The Hundred Flowers Hall was already full of guests, and the queen and her party came to greet each other. "The ministers meet the queen mother, the eldest princess, the princess of Gulun, and the holy princess of Gulun."

"Everyone is exempt, today is the birthday of the niece Yunshang of the palace, and the palace is also happy, you don't have to be restrained." The queen said with a smile and sat on the right hand of the main seat. The old lady of Zhenguo Gong Xia belongs to the elders of the two dynasties, and she sits in a high position and sits in the main position.

Xia Haoyu and Xia Yunxuan sat on the left hand of the old lady. The eldest princess, Shangguan Jinrou, and Xia Yunshang sat on the right side of the queen, and sat on the right hand side of the main seat. Xia Shaowen's position was a little awkward, and he sat down with Xia Yunxuan, while Mrs. Xin and Xia Yuqi didn't have the heart to be here now.

Everyone in the hall also took their seats.

Mrs. Xia put the unhappiness just now, and said with a happy face: "Today is the fifteenth birthday of the old man and granddaughter, and I specially invite all my colleagues to gather together, and the old man thank you for appreciating the light." As he spoke, he raised his glass and said to the crowd, "Everyone, please." ”

"Grandpa Guo is polite." Everyone raised their glasses and drank. Finish drinking.

In an instant, maids dressed in colorful clothes rushed in with dishes in their hands, and a group of women dressed in colorful xia clothes came to the center of the hall, dancing to the sound of silk and bamboo wind music. The atmosphere in the hall gradually warmed up.

"Brother Huang, my brother respects you." Shangguan Jinrong smiled and looked at Shangguan Jinxiang beside him, Shangguan Jinxiang is in the position of the eldest prince, and is the prince of the emperor's favorite concubine Bai Guifei, although the status is noble, but because Bai Guifei is the princess of Liao, after a foreign country, and this dynasty has not been passed on since the founding of the country There is no example of being located in a foreign country. However, he had no chance with the throne, and he was only obsessed with the landscape, which was pleasant.

"The second emperor brother is polite, the second emperor brother has been away from Beijing for a long time, which makes the royal brother think about it." Saying that, he glanced at Shangguan Jinrong, and Shangguan Jinrong saw that the third prince's face was cold.

"Brother of the Third Emperor, I haven't seen him for many years, and I am becoming more and more heroic." Shangguan Jinrong looked at the third prince, Shangguan Jinqi, with a smile.

"I haven't seen you for many years, but the second emperor brother hasn't changed much." Shangguan Jinqi picked up the wine in front of her and returned coldly.

Shangguan Jinrong smiled indifferently and raised his glass to drink. Shangguan Jinqi's mother, Concubine Duan, came from Ningguo Houfu, and she has always been cold and lonely, and she has a faint intention of seizing the heir. The atmosphere between the two is delicate.

"You said that this Yunshang sister is fifteen years old, and there is still a year to go, who will the emperor marry?" Chu Xiuwen asked with a grin.

"It's hard to say, now that she's a princess, in the future, what's going on with us anyway." Xie Jianxiong said teasingly.

"Your sister will be fifteen next year, right?" Xia Yunxuan asked, it was Xie Jiayao who was asking.

"Well, how?" Xie Jianxiong looked at Xia Yunxuan with a wicked smile, "I can interject about my sister's marriage, who are you?" ”

"Don't make a fuss." Chu Xiujie is colorful

"Okay, you guys, make all these jokes, be careful of annoying them," Li Chengqi said with a smile

"It's better to Brother Chengqi and Brother Lin Xin, one child is running all over the ground, and the other is about to be born in a blink of an eye, unlike us." Chu Xiuwen muttered, "You two must drink this glass of wine." And Xia Yunxuan don't pestle over there, come and drink. ”

"Xiuwen, I see that you can't pour this wine, both of them are wife slaves, where do you dare to drink, Brother Lin Xin is even better." Xie Jianxiong also said very happily.

Shangguan Jinxiang and Shangguan Jinrong looked at a few people with a smile. Shangguan Jinqi snorted coldly and ignored it, and watched the song and dance and drank wine.

On the other side, the ladies and ladies also talked to each other, this is the circle of the aristocracy, and several princes and princes opposite. The eldest prince has married the imperial concubine, and he is still married to a noble woman from the Liao Kingdom, and if he wants to marry a daughter, he can only be a side concubine. And the second prince and the third prince have no concubines, and there is a possibility of winning the heir, even if they can't take the position of the concubine if they marry the two, they can also be the concubine in the future. And the other sons are also very good. The ladies secretly competed and compared. And the ladies also have their own ideas.

Chu Mengyao looked around and asked in a low voice, "Big sister, why didn't you see Mrs. Fang and Xia Yuqi?" So our plans? ”

Chu Mengxi frowned slightly, now that things are almost arranged, there is a lack of someone to execute, who to find? Chu Mengxi hurriedly swept over and saw Li Yuyan, who was staring at several princes with love in her eyes, smiled slightly, isn't this just a fool.

"Yan'er, I don't see this glass of wine for a long time, I respect you." Chu Mengxi smiled and picked up a glass of wine, touched Li Yuyan's wine glass, and said to Li Yuyan, who was committing a nymphomaniac

Li Yuyan turned her head, looked at Chu Mengxi impatiently and said, "Hmm" and drank the wine carelessly.

Chu Mengxi held back the disgust in his heart, and said with a smile, "Li Gongzi is really a righteous and benevolent person, he saved the princess last time, and then helped me, I really don't know how to thank him." ”

"Saved the princess? Which princess? Li Yuyan asked in surprise.

"It's my third sister Xia Yunsheng." Chu Mengyao said proudly, thinking in her heart, if it weren't for my aunt asking me to listen to Chu Mengxi, I really didn't want to pay attention to her, she didn't look very good, and she didn't have a background like ours, what was arrogant!

"My brother saved the princess, how come I don't know." Li Yuyan said in surprise

"Thinking about it, Li Gongzi didn't want to take credit, and he was worried that it would damage the princess's reputation, so he didn't say much." Chu Mengxi said

"And what did the princess say?" Li Yuyan asked.

"I think the princess is also grateful to Li Gongzi, today I saw the princess and Li Gongzi standing opposite each other by the lotus pond, and it seems that they are still holding ......" Chu Mengxi said as if he realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly covered his lips with a handkerchief, and said, "I think I'm a little drunk, don't mind Sister Yan'er." ”

"Holding what?" Li Yuyan asked anxiously, her tone rose unconsciously, the ladies around her looked sideways, Zhen Linyi glanced at her lightly, Li Yuyan knew that she was out of shape, so she lowered her voice and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"Don't you know if you ask Li Gongzi about this?" Chu Mengyao muttered.

Li Yuyan immediately rejoiced when she heard this, if her brother saved the princess, and the princess knew that she had affection for her brother, isn't this a scene in the script? Then the prince is mainly married to his brother, and there is no need to be afraid of any mother-in-law or concubine in that kind of background, and his status in the aristocratic circle will not be the same.

Li Yuyan couldn't wait to go over and ask immediately, but unfortunately the men and women were at different tables, and there were so many kings and grandsons and nobles present, so she could only wait anxiously for the banquet to disperse.

The banquet was coming to an end in harmony, and the old lady Xia got up and said: "Thank you for your presence today, the old man is inconvenient to entertain, there are more young men and women today, and my old man is not good to detain them, let the children go to the lotus pond to play, there are already melons and fruits, please go and enjoy the fireworks?" ”

The officials and wives all felt that this was an opportunity for their children to show themselves and enhance their feelings, so how could they let it go, and they all responded happily.

"It is good to have Queen Lao as the host." Old lady Xia looked at the queen and said with a smile

"Old lady Xia is polite, and I feel happy to be with the children. Sister Ryan, let's go together. The queen looked at Shangguan Ruian and said with a smile

"That's very good." The eldest princess responded with a smile, and ordered the maids to come forward and light the lamp to guide the way, and be careful. The young men and women sitting in the group went to the lotus pond by themselves and walked together.

Li Yuyan was worried that she couldn't ask her brother what happened in the afternoon, and now she just found an opportunity. Hurriedly walked to Li Chengyin's side.

"Brother, are you with the princess this afternoon?" Li Yuyan pulled Li Chengyin to the back of the crowd and asked anxiously.

"How do you know?" Li Chengyin asked suspiciously, "Did Chu Mengxi tell you?" Li Chengyin knew that Chu Mengyao admired him and would not say it easily, and Chu Mengxi, besides, there were only a few people who knew about today's events.

"Leave this alone, tell me quickly, are you with the princess in the afternoon?" Li Yuyan was anxious to know the result, where else did she care, and said anxiously

"Yes, it was ...... at that time" Li Chengyin was about to explain, but was interrupted by Li Yuyan.

"Did the princess give you anything? Or did you give the princess something? Li Yuyan asked

"This can't be regarded as a princess's gift, I picked up the princess's purse." Li Chengyin said with some embarrassment, this sister of his own, hey

"What about the purse?" Li Yuyan was even happy when she heard the purse, and went directly to search Li Chengyin's sleeve, which attracted the surrounding Miss Gongzi to look sideways.

"Hey, don't make a fuss, here you are." Li Chengyin knew Li Yuyan's temperament, and it was not easy to scold him on such an occasion, so he could only take out the January Ji Cai Butterfly Su embroidered purse from his sleeve, Li Yuyan immediately snatched the purse when she saw it, and said: "Brother, I'll keep this purse for you, rest assured, I will definitely be careful." ”

Li Yuyan put away her purse without waiting for Li Chengyin to agree, and began to think about how to let the princess marry her brother, and went to Chu Mengxi with joy.

Li Chengyin looked at Li Yuyan, who left happily, and there was always an uneasy emotion lingering in his heart.