Chapter 186: Birthday Banquet

Wanxiang put down the half-read account book and asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?" ”

"When the slave maid came out of the General's Mansion, she went to Hexing Building with the maid of the General's Mansion to sit for a meeting, and originally wanted to inquire about the situation in the General's Mansion according to the princess's wishes.

As a result, the entire street was talking about the rights and wrongs of Ping'an Nanwangfu. ”

"What is non?" Wanxiang asked Qiu Di with interest, she really couldn't think of any rights and wrongs in the palace that could be passed on to the outside.

But when Aki Di finished speaking, Akika's face began to become ugly.

……

The Qingming Pool in the east courtyard is full of smoke, and the glazed pots are held in wooden plates and flutter on the water, and the petals swirl around the incense.

Xiao Huaijin hadn't returned home for three days, Liang Cuo also went to Yucheng, and Fuyu refused to go out, and the courtyard was cold.

Wanxiang casually picked up the petals on the water surface, rubbed them in her hand, and threw them on the surface of the water, thinking about the distance between Qionghuatai and the back door.

Qiu Di knelt beside him and waited, listening to the people in the water and asking, "Haven't you heard from Beixun yet?" ”

"Princess, it's only been three days. Even if the imperial city to Beixun is fast, it will take nearly two days and one night, not to mention that you have to start checking people. ”

Wanxiang thought carefully and replied: "Even if there is a Miao Yuan constraint, it shouldn't even be impossible to understand such a thing." ”

"Wouldn't that be too hard to find?" Qiu Di thought about it carefully, and suddenly knelt on the ground: "Princess! Aki Ogi didn't! Aki Di absolutely not. ”

Wanxiang picked up the glass cup, a wide scar appeared on her slender arm, she took a sip of wine and asked, "You don't have anything?" ”

"The slave didn't ...... Didn't do anything to the letter! The princess is discerning! ”

After listening to this, Wanxiang turned around and lay on the shore and looked at Qiu Di seriously: "When did I say I doubted you?" ”

"There are only slaves and maids in the imperial city who know how to collect Beixun letters, except for General Liang, but now General Liang is far away in Fengyang.

The slave and maid are not the people sent by Beixun, even if the princess does not suspect it, the letter did not arrive when it should have arrived, either Beixun's problem or the slave's problem. ”

"Then I can say it's you?"

“…… Never. ”

Wanxiang stretched out her hand to touch the scar on the back of her neck, and she had already figured out what was going on: "In addition to you, there is another person who is familiar with the imperial city and Beixun, and she knows almost everything about me." ”

"Then this person is a curse, and the princess will get rid of it quickly."

Wanxiang lowered her eyes and looked at the water, and looked left and right about him: "The prince has been busy these days, and Suiguo has a birthday, he always has to go, right?" ”

"Yes. The princess is also going? ”

"Of course I want to go."

Even if the Suiguo Mansion is strong and middle-class, more than half of the people in the imperial city have gone to the banquet in the palace, and the sons and daughters of each family have followed their own parents to the banquet, not only for the sake of etiquette, but also for each family to see, it is best to take the opportunity to marry two surnames.

Those housewives who are often stuffed in the backyard get together to look at each other's children, and at the same time, there are more short mouths of the east and west families, no matter how noble the background is and how full of poetry and books, it is not exempt from vulgarity.

Especially when they saw Xiao Huaijin and Wanxiang getting off the carriage from different directions, they talked even more: "Look, isn't that the princess of the regent?" Coming alone? ”

"I heard that the regent stayed in Qingyuefang for three days, but he refused to go back to the palace, and probably didn't want to see her. No matter how big the palace is, he doesn't want to nest in the same courtyard wall with her.

Probably because women can't go to places like Qingyuefang casually, so they come to Suiguo Gong to try their luck? ”

"Hahaha...... Why does she still have a face? ”

The woman who sat on the side for a long time and didn't speak finally spoke: "You think she is an ordinary woman?" Before King Pingnan set out for Beisai, there were rumors that the woman was not from a pure white family.

She has no father or mother, and her roots grow up in the land of fireworks. How can you care what kind of place Qingyuefang is? ”

"No wonder he will raise noodles in his own house, I heard that he is still a boy, tsk...... In my opinion, she is such a person, and her nature is difficult to change. ”

"You can't eat things indiscriminately, and you can't talk nonsense. After all, we didn't see it, did we? ”

"Mrs. Qi of Pingnan Wangfu sat honestly on Qionghuatai, and the boy's dog rushed into her yard and bit like crazy, and Mrs. Qi's personal maidservant nurse beat the dog to death."

After saying that, she lowered her voice, covered half of her face with a fan, and continued: "As a result, the princess rushed into Mrs. Qi's courtyard, scratched the faces of the people of the Qi Mansion with broken porcelain, and killed Mrs. Qi's personal maid to vent her anger.

The maid was thrown into a mass grave, and the boy's dog was actually buried in a coffin, you say ridiculous is not ridiculous. ”

"She really dotes on that boy, the regent killed the thieves for the first emperor, can she bear to kill her yet?"

"Isn't Mrs. Qi from Qi Houfu? Nothing to do when you wait? ”

"The regent has a lot of power in his hands, and the saint has to give three points to shout 'uncle and grandfather', and others are too late to stammer, what can be done?"

They hid their faces and smiled, and she could tell from a distance that they were laughing at herself, but she was not annoyed or afraid.

Qiu Di followed behind him and said, "Princess, why don't we go back?" ”

Wanxiang found a place to sit down and shake the fan: "There are so many fresh and bizarre things in this imperial city, wouldn't it seem like a weak heart if I didn't come?" The master didn't say anything, and he couldn't turn around and leave. ”

"But the prince ......"

Seeing Qiu Di's speech, Wanxiang said: "If you have something to say, just say it, and it's boring." ”

"The prince didn't even say a word to the princess, did the prince also believe those words?"

"Husband and wife should have their own duties, he should do the things in the front yard, and I should take care of the things in the back yard. Now that there is a fire in the backyard, even the prince will be smoked, and he should be angry. ”

Wanxiang excused Xiao Huaijin, and sat on the side and watched.

She sat there alone and looked very lonely, and the passers-by next to her only saluted and fled in a hurry when they saw her, only the Duchess came to say hello, and then went to greet others.

None of the ladies who came and went planned to sit down and talk to Juanxiang. may be hindering Xiao Huaijin's face, and no one dares to say anything disrespectful to her face.

The singer in the pavilion was holding the pipa and singing, and Wanxiang could hear it.

Xiao Huaijin stood opposite, with a pool of water lotus flowers in the middle, and her face was much more beautiful. Xiao Huaijin didn't know what she was thinking, and she wanted to know why she didn't come to ask herself: why didn't she go home for three days.

But she sat there like a picture, with a smile in her eyes and chatting with Aki.

As she was talking, she heard someone being dragged out of the room just now, and she remembered the mole on the corner of the woman's mouth.

She was dragged out and shouted, "What are you doing? Do you know who I am? My husband is Runingbo! My dad is ...... Woo......"

Before he finished speaking, he was covered with his mouth. People gathered around, wanting to see who dared to arrest people at the banquet in the Guogong Mansion.

The housewife of the Guogong Mansion hurriedly chased after her: "Wait! Who are you? Today, my country's government held a banquet, and the distinguished guests who openly took me away didn't even say a word, which is not in line with human feelings, let alone reasonable, right? ”

An old man with a silver crane embroidered on his robe came over and pulled the mistress and signaled her to stop talking, it seemed that it should be the Duke of Suiguo.

"Guest?"

Wanxiang listened to the sound close to her ears, and when she turned around, Xiao Huaijin didn't know when she came over, her hand was already on her waist, and she held herself tightly in her arms.

The arrogant regent, the well-behaved princess, they leaned together and loved each other, so that those rumors did not go away.

Originally, Wanxiang was a little surprised, but when she thought of so many people in the Guogong Mansion, her face always had to last. He told the Duchess of Guo: "It has been more than two years since the assassination of the Marquis of Beixun Yuan, and the real culprit has finally been found in the mansion of the Duke of Suiguo, which is also gratifying." ”

Then Xiao Huaijin looked at Sui Guogong and bowed his hand with a very humble attitude: "It should have been on the spot to correct the Fa, but today the Guogong Mansion is very happy, I am afraid that the place will be dirty and accidentally disturb Sui Gong's birthday banquet, and I ask Sui Gong to forgive me." ”

The old Guogong was worried that because of the words of the lady at home, the Guogong Mansion would also be implicated, and when he heard Xiao Huaijin hand over the steps, his heart was half relieved: "It's the ignorance of the insiders, it's better to commit it or take it quickly, the prince has done everything for the people of Limin, and he doesn't have to be confined to the subtleties." ”

Xiao Huaijin smiled, lowered his head and said to Wanxiang: "The cook of the Guogong Mansion was originally retired from the palace, and the delicacies on the table are very delicious, and the plum soup is even more appetizing to relieve the heat, can you taste it?" ”

Wanxiang raised her eyes to look at the people around her, and suddenly smiled.

Thinking that a quarter of an hour before the woman was boasting in the court, and that a quarter of an hour later the whole family of the man would be put to death.

Most of the people in the courtyard lamented in their hearts that Ru Ningbo would harbor evil intentions, and some people would be suspicious.

There are also some people who know in their hearts that the reason why Runingbo was killed was only because his wife criticized the regent's heart behind his back.

And this part of the talent is really smart people.

Wanxiang has followed Xiao Huaijin for so many years, so she naturally knows his intentions, and watched the Suiguo Duke and his wife take the guests to the front, and asked the singer to change a happy song to block the bad luck.

Seeing that the people were gone, he took Xiao Huaijin's hand and sat back on the stone bench by himself, and Xiao Huaijin also sat aside: "You don't ask, why didn't I go back to the house in the past three days?" ”

"The girls in Qingyuefang are all full of poetry and books, and they are talented, and they can understand people's hearts and understand words, so no matter who is bored, they will be a little more relaxed."

"Since the princess doesn't care, I won't be returning home for the next few days."

Wanxiang shook the fan and looked at the water: "The palace is the prince's palace at the bottom, if you refuse to go home and float out for the sake of others, wouldn't it be a joke to say it?" The prince saw that I was upset, so I moved out.

If you like any girl, you will receive it at the house. There is no shortage of sensible people in the court, and if they know that the prince likes it, they will also find a way to send it to the prince. Close the door of the mansion and do whatever you want in the backyard, don't let others think that the prince doesn't know how to clean himself. ”

"And where do you want to go?"

Wanxiang stood up, looked down at Xiao Huaijin and didn't answer his question: "I thought that the prince was lingering in Qingyuefang and didn't know that the Guogong Mansion was holding a banquet, and he didn't dare to ask someone to invite the prince, so I came with a sticker."

I don't want to bring trouble to the Guogong Mansion and the prince, so that the Guogong Mansion and the Pingnan Wangfu have become the laughing stock of others, which is really worth the loss. That's it. ”

As soon as he was about to leave, his wrist was grabbed, and he was pulled into his arms by Xiao Huaijin, regardless of the comings and goings, he only bit his ear with Wanxiang: "Speaking of interpreting comfort, she is still Miss Wei Rui of Qingyuefang, if you are angry, you will kill her."

Naturally, I turned a blind eye. ”

He smiled, as if waiting for Juanxiang to get angry.