The carriage stopped in front of the palace gate, and after everyone got out of the carriage, a coachman drove the carriage to a special place to park. Nan Ling Mo walked up to Nan Ling Xiang, took her hand and said, "Fourth sister, you follow the second sister." Nan Lingxiang's eyes lit up, nodded happily, and followed Nan Lingmo inch by inch. Nan Lingmei sneered and didn't speak, but she didn't know that her expression was seen by Mrs. Jiang in the eyes.

Mrs. Jiang was disappointed for a while, and planned to ask Mama to teach Nanling Mei well after the New Year, so as not to lose the face of Zhennan Wangfu if she married in the future.

Mrs. Jiang is a super pro-order, so she doesn't need to queue up, so for the cold weather, the saint also specially sent someone to carry a warm sedan chair, and first sent the old princess and the princess of the imperial uncle - Prince Xian to the Queen Mother's Shoukang Palace to talk to the Queen Mother and Concubine De first.

After checking the posts in turn, there were palace people who took all the ladies to the Yixian Palace. The Chinese New Year's Eve Palace Banquet began at two o'clock in the Shen hour, and there was still half an hour before the banquet began, and all the ladies who arrived in advance were talking in the West Wing Hall of the Yixian Hall.

Nanling Mo kept filial piety for three years, and when he was young, he often followed Jiang's side, stayed in the barracks, and rarely in Beijing. Therefore, there is almost no knowledge of the ladies and ladies in Beijing, only Jing Sa of the Anguo Mansion. It's Nanlingxiang, who has also participated in various poetry meetings before, although she is not very bold, but according to the identity of Zhennan Wangfu, she still knows a lot of first-class and second-class families in Beijing. Therefore, as soon as she arrived at the Yixian Palace, she looked at Nanling Mo with blinking eyes, and Nanling Mo told her two words and she went to find her little friend.

"Do you know, I heard that His Royal Highness King Li is back this year!"

"Yes, isn't it rumored that His Royal Highness King Li has been absent from Beijing? Always traveling. ”

"Yes, after the death of the first emperor, His Royal Highness King Li has not participated in the palace banquet for two years, but I didn't expect to come back this year......"

"And the prince of An Guo is also here!"

All kinds of discussions made Nanling Mo big, and Nanling Mo found a corner to sit down and watched everyone chat. "Mo'er, I'm here!" Jing Sa's treble is still very recognizable, and the nobles who heard the voice automatically got out of the way, Jing Sa still wore her favorite narrow-sleeved dress, and appeared in everyone's field of vision with her towering braids. She was followed by two girls, one was dressed in a light blue wide-sleeved fairy dress, and she looked outstanding and elegant; A girl wearing a light blue narrow-sleeved strong suit, dressed like Jing Sa.

Jing Sa introduced: "This blue-clothed person is Qiao Jingqiu, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Duanshu and the daughter of a scholar of Wenlan Pavilion; This is Lin Chaoying, the daughter of General Pingxi, a general from Yipin, who returned to Beijing with his father and brother this year to report on her work. ”

After Nanling Mo nodded to them, and was about to talk about something, someone outside the hall announced loudly: "Eldest Princess Rongzhen has arrived." Everyone automatically flashed to both sides, and they all bowed their heads and saluted: "The courtiers have seen the eldest princess, and the princess Wan'an." I saw Princess Rong Zhen wearing a princess dress, and the waist and collar were embroidered with a phoenix, symbolizing the status of the eldest princess.

"Get up, you can continue to talk, and don't worry about this palace." Rong Zhen walked into the hall without squinting, as if he was looking for someone, and ignored the nobles who came up to talk to him, and his face was full of the meaning of "don't approach the living".

When the nobles saw that the princess did not pay attention to them, they did not dare to come forward to disturb them, so they could only whisper to each other again. Princess Rongzhen watched for a long time, and finally saw Jing Sa's towering braids, so she got up and wanted to walk briskly but had to maintain the princess's demeanor, walked to Jing Sa's side, and shouted obediently: "Sister Jing Sa, cousin Jing." He looked at Lin Chaoying and Nan Lingmo on the side, and now he was suspicious: "Who are these two?" ”

Qiao Jingqiu burst out laughing and said, "This one in purple clothes is the county lord of Ren'an, our future sister-in-law." The other is Lin Chaoying, the daughter of General Lin. Then they saluted the princess.

"It turns out that you are the seventh sister-in-law!!" Rong Zhen sighed, "You, like my seventh brother, wear masks. Are you also injured? ”

Qiao Jingqiu pulled Rong Zhen's sleeve and glanced at her, Nanling Mo said with a smile: "Princess, I have had a birthmark on the left side of my face since I was a child, and I have grown older as I get older, although after returning to Beijing, my grandmother gave Yu Xuesheng muscle cream to improve a lot, and my father also invited the imperial doctor to come and see, but it will take a year or two to fully recover." This isn't a palace banquet, I'm afraid of scaring the nobles in the palace......"

"It's okay, your mask is beautiful, it looks very charming, and it doesn't affect it at all," Rong Zhen said with a grin.

Although Lin Chaoying is heroic and martial, she has a round bun face and looks very cute. Nan Lingmo watched her talk to Princess Rongzhen, her big eyes flickered, and she couldn't help but stretch out her hand and pinch Lin Chaoying. Lin Chaoying was startled, and scolded with a low laugh: "Damn, Jing Sa!! The friends you bring are all virtuous! Nanling Mo was stunned for a moment, looked at Qiao Jingqiu, and asked, "You did the same?" Qiao Jingqiu held back a smile and nodded, but Rong Zhen covered her mouth and laughed happily, and whispered while laughing: "Seventh sister-in-law, I just saw Sister Chaoying and wanted to pinch her face, but it was not good to do this because of the identity of the princess, but I didn't expect you to do it, hahahaha......"

Nan Lingmo stuck out her tongue in embarrassment, and said with a smile: "Chaoying, you can't blame me, your face looks too much like a bun, it's too cute." ”

When the nobles saw that the eldest princess Rong Zhen didn't pay attention to them but chatted happily with Jing Sa and a few people, they couldn't help but feel unhappy, but they didn't dare to refute it, only a woman in a pink dress with her hair combed to the sky said disdainfully: "Hmph, it's really like things gather and people are grouped!" Vulgar people just love to get together! Although the voice was not loud, Jing Sa and a few of them who practiced martial arts could hear it clearly, Lin Chaoying was angry at the moment, and wanted to rush over to reason, but was stopped by Jing Sa. Nanling Mo looked at Jing Sa, and Jing Sa said in a low voice: "This is the youngest granddaughter of the head of the Emperor Yunlu Academy, whose name is Ye Yixun. Her sister will enter the palace next year with the young lady of the Yong'an Hou family. ”

Lin Chaoying suddenly realized: "There is a sister who has entered the palace, and she is naturally more energetic than others." ”

"Cut, isn't it the granddaughter of my father's teacher, what's the big deal. It is rumored in Beijing that the 'No. 1 talented woman in Beijing' is not her, it is her sister, Ye Yiqian, but it is none of her business. Rong Zhen pursed his lips and said.

Nan Lingmo thought about it carefully, and there was no so-called Ye Yiqian's impression in her mind, probably a new generation of talented women who came out after she was imprisoned in the dungeon! Hehe, it seems that Yun Tianfeng is really dead, he feels that he is an elegant person, so he likes to pay tribute to celebrities and do these things to sell his reputation.

The emperor is a traditional first-class noble family, and Yunlu Academy has also sent a lot of talents to the Great Yan Kingdom, and marrying the granddaughter of the mountain chief into the palace really won over the Qinggui faction.

This is the report of the palace people outside the door: "The time of the palace banquet is approaching, please invite all the ladies to the table." After hearing this, everyone walked towards the Yixian Palace.

Yixian Hall is a place where large banquets are held in the palace, and the construction is magnificent but magnificent. Nanling Mo walked into this familiar palace banquet for the first time after being reborn. In her previous life, three years ago, the palace banquet after her canonization ceremony was also held here, as well as countless various palace banquets in her previous life, she was sitting at the head of the courtiers and daughters. Now the position of the head of the ministers and their dependents has been replaced by the Anguo Mansion, followed by the Zhennan Palace, Huainan Palace.

Time passes, and now the area of the emperor's relatives is no longer the people of the past, and the women's guest area at the bottom right is no longer the princesses and princesses of the past.

The first emperor had a total of five princesses, except for the first emperor who had already married three princesses during his reign. The eldest princess Qinghui Princess Yun Qianqing and the second princess Yahui Princess Yun Qianya were respectively pro-Daxia and Donghai, and the third princess Lihui Princess Yun Qianli was still Shen Ji, the second son of Shen Zhiyao, Marquis of Ningyuan, a year before the death of the first emperor. The two unmarried princesses are the youngest fifth princess of the first emperor, the eldest princess Yun Qianzhen of Rongzhen, who is only thirteen years old, and the sister of Emperor Xiping, the eldest princess of Jinghui, who is now eighteen.

The first of the emperor's relatives is the emperor's uncle and Prince Xian, followed by the second prince of the first emperor, His Royal Highness King Li, the fourth prince His Royal Highness, the sixth prince Yuè Wang Wang, the seventh prince His Royal Highness Yunwang, and then the princess's concubine, the second daughter of the prince Zhaoyan's county lord The county horse and so on.

The eldest prince of the first emperor is also the crown prince Yun Tianluo, and the cloud king Yun Tianhong, and the fifth princess Yun Qianzhen are the brothers and sisters of the same mother. The eldest prince was poisoned and killed in the autumn of the thirtieth year of Kaiwen, and the current princess of the first princess, Princess Luo, was the eldest daughter of the Taishi Mansion, An Shi Yuxian; Yun Tianhao, the fifth prince of Jin, failed in the battle for the crown three years ago and was cut down and banned from the Zongren Mansion.

Nan Lingmo looked at everyone present, thinking of the scene where she participated in the palace banquet as Li Yunqing, and her heart was full of mixed feelings. She was blindly immersed in the memories, from the excitement of the banquet to the final death, the more she thought about it, the more resentful she felt, her angry teeth clenched, her hands were clenched, her joints were white, and her body trembled slightly...... Jing Sa, who was sitting on her left, and Qiao Jingqiu, who was sitting on her right, saw that something was wrong with her, and shouted at her several times in a row, but she didn't respond. Jing Sa saw that she was stunned, and pushed her anxiously, but Nanling Mo still didn't react.

At this time, a notice came from outside the hall: "The emperor has arrived, the queen mother has arrived, and the imperial concubine has ......arrived." Seeing that the emperor was about to enter the palace, Jing Sa couldn't, so he had to pinch Nanling Mo hard, and Nanling Mo reacted and bent down to salute.

As soon as Emperor Xiping and the Empress Dowager walked to their seats and sat down, the emperor spoke: "Although today's Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet is simpler, everyone doesn't have to be formal, let's sit down!" The ministers sat down one after another.

Yun Tianfeng looked in the direction of King Li and smiled: "The fourth brother finally came back for the New Year this year, I haven't seen the fourth brother for two years, and the fourth brother wants to drink freely today!" Fu said to King Le: "It's rare for the sixth brother to sit in the seat today, hey, hasn't the seventh brother arrived yet?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the eunuch's announcement sounded: "Prince Yun has arrived!" I saw Yun Tianhong, who was wearing a lilac Ruyi water-patterned robe, slowly walked into the Yixian Palace.

Yun Tianhong symbolically nodded to the emperor and said, "Brother Huang, please forgive me, my brother is inconvenient to travel, and he is late." The corner of Yun Tianfeng's mouth paused and said, "It's okay, seventh brother, you haven't participated in the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet for five years, and you can have a good drink at the palace banquet this year." ”

Yun Tianhong nodded, let Chase Wind push him to the designated position, and winked at Nanling Mo as he passed by.

Yun Tianfeng said a lot of words of prayer as usual and announced loudly: "The palace banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve begins. I'll have a drink first. ”

Then the ministers also took their glasses and drank them all.