During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the palace held a banquet to entertain the noble ministers and their relatives in the court. However, even such an important scene did not see the queen attend, it was Concubine Wen who organized the banquet, and Concubine Wen and several concubines were also with the emperor throughout the whole process, which was undoubtedly telling everyone wordlessly that the queen was hopeless to regain favor.

During the banquet, the crown prince and the princess and his wife forced a smile, and the eldest prince Chu Ninghao was enthusiastic and stole the limelight.

Due to the filial piety period of the Queen Mother, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was not arranged to add dance and music.

Before the banquet ended, Qi Jingtong asked Qi Ying to take Qi Ying to a no-man's land in the Imperial Garden.

"I heard that my sister was grounded a few days ago?" Qi Jingtong took Qi Ying's hand and asked.

Qi Ying nodded silently in reply.

"Why is that?"

"It's my sister who is useless, so my sister is worried about me." Qi Ying's face showed a guilty look, and he replied lightly, and then said to himself: "When my sister gave birth to the little emperor's grandson, my sister failed to enter the palace in person to congratulate her, please give my sister a sin!" ”

"My sister is serious, my sister doesn't know that my sister can't help herself at that time, how can she blame! Fortunately, my sister is out of trouble today, and I will have to come to the East Palace to sit in the future more freely, and our sisters haven't talked about the old for a long time. ”

"Yes, my sister will definitely go if she gets the chance."

Listening to Qi Ying's words, Qi Jingtong was surprised, and asked urgently, "What?" Is it inconvenient for my sister to go out of the house now? ”

"Yes! The entrance and exit of the inner courtyard of the palace are strictly controlled, and there are many restrictions on the entry and exit of female dependents in the palace. ”

Qi Jingtong was suspicious, her face changed slightly, and she didn't say anything more.

Seeing that Qi Jingtong no longer continued the topic, Qi Ying didn't explain more, after all, sometimes the more he explained, the more suspicious he was of covering up.

What Qi Ying said above is indeed half-true and half-false, because she is not ignorant of the current Beiyuan Dynasty situation, and she also knows very well what Qi Jingtong is looking for her so urgently, but let her help the prince win over King Su's mansion, Qi Ying knows very well that she can't control the decision of King Su and Chu Yanxu, and she has the heart but is powerless. Qi Ying felt that instead of waiting for Qi Jingtong to make a request and then explain that she was powerless, it was better to tell her that her situation in the palace was insignificant, even if it was better for Qi Jingtong to think that she was useless than to make her think that she was unwilling to help.

When Qi Ying was about to return to his seat, he was startled by Chu Yanxu who suddenly jumped out.

Chu Yanxu pulled Qi Ying aside and said eagerly, "Where did you go?" ”

"I'm so bored and panicked, go and relax." While speaking, Qi Ying pulled back the hand held by Chu Yanxu, and told him with actions that she was not done with him about being grounded by him.

Chu Yanxu sighed slightly, "Why don't you tell me if you feel bored?" What to do if a person comes out and gets lost? ”

"I don't want to" Qi Ying replied with two words expressionlessly, then turned around and walked towards the seat, leaving Chu Yanxu with a cold back.

Looking at Qi Ying's cold and distant back, Chu Yanxu suddenly became angry, his lips were pursed, and he slowly walked to the seat and sat down after a while.

At this time, Qi Ying's angry brain Chu Yanxu grounded her, how could Chu Yanxu not be angry that Qi Ying didn't understand his good intentions.

In this way, at the Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet that should be reunited, Qi Ying and Chu Yanxu were holding back each other's strength. On the way back to Su Wangfu, although the two sat in the same carriage, but the narrow space of the carriage could not shorten the distance between the two, after getting into the carriage, both of them chose a position farthest from each other to sit down, along the way the two always closed their eyes and recuperated, stunned did not look at each other.