Chapter 17: Kindness (Ask for Collection, Ask for Recommendation)
Like this kind of palace banquet, the younger generations who come are from the descendants of each province, and the ladies enter the palace to participate in the banquet and get in close contact with the princes, and they are all dressed up in flowers, trying to be favored by the princes and become the daughter-in-law of King Yan once.
So they participated in the banquet, and the most important thing was to come for those princes.
Qin Wan's gaze fell on the position at the top of the female dependent, that should be the position of the ninth princess, and she was not there today.
Thinking of the direction in which Murong Lan left just now, I thought that those princes and princesses should also know the thoughts of these young ladies of the family, and they felt tired, so they didn't come.
With the arrival of the first batch of dancers, the palace feast also officially began.
The queen's gaze seemed to look at Qin Wan intentionally or unintentionally, and finally when her eyes fell on the silk handkerchief on Qin Wan's right hand, her pupils suddenly shrank.
After the dance was over, the queen said, "Bang'er, what's wrong with your hand?" ”
Qin Wan stood up and bent his knees and said, "Back to the queen's mother, the courtier's injury ......" She stopped talking, biting her lower lip and looking at Qin Susu timidly.
Someone understood her gaze and also looked at Qin Susu, who was stunned and looked down at the table as if nothing happened.
"The queen mother, the courtiers are guilty." Qin Wan said, and suddenly knelt down, "Just now in the imperial garden, the courtier and the fourth sister had a dispute, and inadvertently smashed the jade bracelet that the queen mother had just rewarded. ”
When the words fell, what was holding on Qin Wan's hands was the fragment of the jade bracelet she had just picked up.
Qin Susu was stunned for a moment, then blinked innocently, and said: "Obviously you broke it yourself, I'm afraid that the queen mother will blame, I saw it with my own eyes, I didn't expect the second sister to frame me for this matter, and stood up and curtsy and said: "The queen mother, the courtier is really wronged." ”
The queen's deep gaze fell on Qin Wan's body, and after that, her gaze fell on the silk handkerchief wrapped in Qin Wan's hand again, and she recognized it at a glance that it was Murong Lan's silk handkerchief, if it was really as Qin Susu said, Qin Wan was a woman who framed her sister at will, Murong Lan should not help.
Compared with the two parties, whose words are more credible, I have already considered in my heart.
The queen asked, "Then tell me, why are you arguing?" ”
Qin Wan lowered his head and said, "I think it's the wrong time for the courtiers to find it...... Blame the fortune teller for his nonsense...... The fourth sister was young and mistakenly believed the fortune teller...... Just after talking about this again, I quarreled with my fourth sister...... She gave me a nudge and ......"
Qin Wang's words were intermittent, but the meaning that should be conveyed and the words that should lead people to reverie are a lot of words.
Rong's face stiffened, Qin Susu's back was cold, and he hurriedly said: "You don't talk nonsense, I don't have it at all!" You're lying! ”
Hui Guifei interjected: "Each has its own words, is there any evidence?" ”
Qin Wan shook her head, but nodded again, she took out the butterfly jade pendant from her sleeve and said, "When the fourth sister pushed me, I pulled off her jade pendant in a hurry. ”
Hearing this, Qin Susu looked down, only to find that the jade pendant on her waist was missing.
Damn, it's really careless, Qin Susu ran out of ideas for a while.
Rong smiled, looked at Qin Susu and said, "Susu, you said before that you lost your jade pendant, but that one?" ”
With one sentence, Qin Wan was pushed into the abyss.
Qin Susu hurriedly said: "Yes, my mother is the one I lost, why was she picked up by the second sister?" ”
Rong said: "Bang'er, there will inevitably be some bumps and bumps between sisters, this is harmless, if you deliberately take a jade pendant that fell off to frame your sister, but it's not yours." ”
Concubine Hui covered her mouth with an embroidered handkerchief and said with a smile: "Everyone is afraid of breaking the bracelet that the queen appreciated, but even if you are afraid, you shouldn't lie." ”
Qin Wan lowered his head, gritted his teeth and said aggrievedly: "If the concubine thinks so, then the courtier has no way to explain, the concubine thinks that what I broke is what I broken, and the queen gave the things to the courtiers, but the courtiers failed to protect them thoroughly, and asked the queen to punish the crime." ”
Confession, but reluctance to recognize, is also seen by everyone.
Hui Guifei's delicate face froze, yes, yes, no, no, if she thinks so, it is, as if she forcibly imposed the blame on her.
Just as she was about to speak, Qin Zhaoyue stood up and said leisurely: "The jade pendant that the fourth sister dropped before is in my hand, and the jade pendant in the second sister's hand was indeed brought out by the fourth sister this morning." ”
As soon as the words came out, the hall was in an uproar.
Qin Zhaoyue said this sentence at this time, undoubtedly denying everything that Fang Cai Rong said.
Why did Qin Zhaoyue help Qin Wan?
Not only did Rong and Qin Susu not expect it, but even Qin Wan himself didn't think of it.
Hui Guifei said: "Yue'er, do you know what you're talking about? ”
Qin Zhaoyue said: "Back to the noble concubine, of course the courtiers know." She turned her head as she spoke, stared at Qin Susu and said, "The fourth sister should apologize to the second sister." ”
Qin Susu's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief: "Eldest sister......"
Now that things have been reversed, even if everyone present is skeptical of Qin Wan's words, but Qin Zhaoyue's words are not believed by everyone.
Because Qin Zhaoyue is the eldest daughter of the Rong family, she will not frame her mother and sister for no reason.
Don't say it's the Prime Minister's House, which family here, a beggar lady suddenly came to the house, and asked yourself who can treat it as if she had been raised by her side since childhood?
What's more, she is still the daughter of a concubine, everyone knows that Wei was the maid next to the Rong family back then, with a family background like the Rong Mansion, a concubine of the Rong family would like to turn her back on the children born to the master?
Therefore, even if there is a pressure from Concubine Hui, Qin Susu does not recognize it, but the ladies in the mansion can also guess Qin Wan's situation in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
It's just that this Qin Susu is too young to become a climate, no matter how much he doesn't like it, he shouldn't be in the palace, arguing with him under the queen's nose, and he just broke the jade bracelet that the queen personally appreciated.
On the palace banquet, the atmosphere was inevitably a little awkward for a while.
"It's just a jade bracelet, if it's broken, it's broken, it's not a big deal, if you want to give another reward, just give another reward." King Yan coughed lightly and came out in time to play a round.
Who King Yan wants to protect, the queen can see clearly.
The corners of the queen's lips curved, and she followed King Yan's words, and said kindly: "What the emperor said is that a jade bracelet is just a jade bracelet, if Bang'er really likes it, don't say it's one, if you want a hundred, the palace will also reward you." ”
Saying that, he turned his head to look at King Yan and said: "When the Wei family saved the palace, this favor has not been repaid by the palace, and now that it has found its daughter, the palace wants to reward the Wei family with what it failed to reward back then." ”
This request was reasonable, and King Yan agreed, saying: "Wei saved the queen's life, and he should be rewarded." As he spoke, he asked the chamberlain to prepare a decree: "Go to the treasury and get a hundred good silk silks, a pair of jade ruyi attacked by the feudal kingdom, and another ...... A thousand taels of silver. ”