Chapter 44: The Eldest Princess's Mansion New Year's Banquet I
The eldest princess is the eldest sister of the emperor, and she is now nine out of sixty.
The eldest princess is very trusted by the emperor, although she no longer appears in the public eye in recent years, but her influence on the royal family, at least on the emperor, has not weakened because of her 'retirement'.
But the eldest princess didn't like the concubine room for her own reasons, even if it was the emperor's concubine, she didn't like it either. The concubines in the harem also knew the likes and dislikes of the eldest princess, so they never participated in the banquet of the eldest princess.
As for the Queen, she never participated.
For these reasons, in the royal family, among officials, wives and concubines will not appear at the banquet of the eldest princess, and only the royal juniors and the children of officials participate every year.
Therefore, the New Year's banquet she held was an opportunity for the juniors of the royal family to get married to the eldest princess, and for the children of the officials, it was a big opportunity to show their faces and tie up with the juniors of the royal family.
Early in the morning, when the sky was bright, the capital was lively, and the streets extending in all directions were full of carriages heading to the eldest princess's mansion.
The banquet usually starts in the evening, and to put it bluntly, it is to enjoy the performance of the children of each family, then have dinner, and then enjoy the performance of the Maiko and the courtesan, and everyone exchanges feelings in private.
But no one wants to miss the opportunity to have more contact with the eldest princess, so it is like this every year: one day when the eldest princess's mansion holds a banquet, early in the morning, the eldest princess's mansion is full of friends.
So it gradually became that the banquet in the eldest princess's mansion was the only one in the capital that started in the morning.
The eldest princess's mansion is separated from the palace by several streets, not that the emperor made the eldest princess's mansion so far away from himself, but according to the law, the princess's mansion is followed by the princess's mansion, and the eldest princess's mansion is already the closest mansion to the palace among all the princesses' mansions.
Early in the morning, in the palace, the princes and princesses who had not yet opened a separate mansion set off for the eldest princess's mansion all dressed neatly.
The prince and princess travel, Yanxi has a clear rule, the prince goes first, and the princess moves again. Princesses also have age differences, and there is no distinction between favored and unfavored, and they all have to follow this rule.
Prince, let's put it aside. Among the princesses, those who are not married and have to leave from the palace, except for the weak eighth princess, Helian Xinyi is the oldest, so her carriage is at the forefront of the princess formation.
A few streets away, and the children of the heavenly family are traveling, and the road has long been cleared and unimpeded. The speed of the carriage did not take much time, and it was supposed to arrive in less than two quarters of an hour.
It's just that when passing by the entrance of the street where the Xianwang's Mansion belongs, he was looking at Helian Xinyi outside through the window, and he saw the door of the Xianwang's Mansion in the middle of the night, riding a horse in civilian clothes, carrying their direction to the other side of the street.
She didn't care, she just pursed her lips to show her disdain for him.
But another gorgeous and cute little girl who was riding with her was also poking her head out of the window, and she also saw the back of Midnight, and immediately exclaimed happily, "Tenth Emperor Sister, Tenth Emperor Sister, it's the nineteenth brother, it's the nineteenth brother!" But where is Brother Nineteen? Doesn't he go to the Imperial Aunt's? ”
Helian happily said this, and Helian Xinyi reacted. That's right, didn't the old ancestor deliberately send an order to the Xianwang Mansion to ask Xiao Nineteen to attend the banquet of the imperial aunt this year?
This stupid person must be cowardly and want to run away.
Helian Xinyi was angry, and immediately shouted outside, "Stop." ”
As soon as her carriage stopped, a long line of carriages with no end in sight was parked behind her buttocks.
The personal palace maid poked into her head and asked, "Princess, what do you command?" ”
"Let the royal sisters go to the imperial aunt first, and this princess will go to the Xianwang Mansion and go with the nineteenth brother." She was going to arrest the cowardly escaper, but she hadn't forgotten that the carriage still had the imperial concubine in her place.
"Xinran, why don't you go to the imperial brother's mansion first, and go to the imperial aunt with the imperial brother?" She doesn't feel at ease when she hands it over to others, and if she lets her own brother, there will be no problem.
The princes and princesses in the palace would go to the imperial aunt early in the morning, but the princes and county kings who opened another mansion already had their own positions, and they usually went in the evening according to the normal banquet time.
Anyway, now that she has gone to the Eldest Princess's Mansion, Xinran may not be able to really have fun, if she puts Er Ke or the Ninth Brother, not only will someone protect her, but she will also have less responsibility.
Outside, the palace maid had already asked someone to pass the word, and the carriage turned around and drove in the direction of King Xian's Mansion and the two palaces of Ping and Yi.
Seeing that he was about to arrive at the Pingwang Mansion, Helian happily grabbed Helian Xinyi's skirt pitifully, "Sister Shihuang, I miss Brother Ye, will you let me go together?" ”
Helian Xinyi saw that she was riding a horse at midnight, and she had reached the corner of the street, and she didn't have time to say anything more to Xinran, so she ordered the carriage to chase after her quickly. Anyway, when I chased Xiao Nineteen, I went to the imperial aunt together, and it shouldn't matter if Xinran couldn't get off the carriage now.
But when her carriage caught up around the corner, she saw Midnight and two of her men enter another alley.
How can I do it, and keep chasing.
That's it, it's always almost a little bit around the alleys in the middle of the night, but fortunately her carriage is not ostentatious, if it is a normal princess's sitting, now that the sky is open, the people passing by must not be scared to death.
followed the midnight and went further and further, and Helian Xinyi, who was a single cell in the brain, also found something wrong. The nineteenth brother seems to be deliberately walking the trail, as if he is ready to do something secret.
Now it is no longer a matter of catching the nineteenth brother to attend the banquet, and she still has a sense of excitement to catch the unknown opportunity of the nineteenth brother.
Helian Xinyi is an unreliable princess, she loves to play, and she prefers to play exciting, otherwise she wouldn't stick to the Nine Emperor Uncles all day long, not because of the Nine Emperor Uncles, something exciting often happens!
By the time she stopped at midnight in the corner of a remote alley, Helian Xinyi had already changed into ordinary clothes in the car, which she was ready to use in the car when she was ready to escape from the palace to play, but she didn't expect it to come in handy now.
asked people to park the carriage in a corner that could not attract people's attention, and ordered Helian to be glad not to get out of the car, and the palace people who protected her were not allowed to follow. Only then did she take advantage of her three-legged cat, and pinched her hands and feet to approach the corner where she stopped at midnight.
In the middle of the night, Hanji and Hailong also dismounted, and all three of them did not fix the horses, but let them go.
The three horses are all flying dragon horses, even if they let go, they will not run around, but they are instructed by Hanji, and they walk slowly and gracefully towards the outside of the alley, but they do not go out of the alley, and stop when they reach a stone mill.
Coincidentally, Helian Xinyi was hiding in the stone mill, squatting under the stone mill, and a horse's hoof just stopped next to her face.