When the three of them got out of the car, they handed the sign to the guards at the gate of the palace, and a special little eunuch led them into the palace, Zhou and Shu Manyin followed the little eunuch all the way without squinting, but Shu Fangyin behind her was not so peaceful, she had never seen such a magnificent place, although she lowered her head, she couldn't stop looking around. The little eunuch who was leading the way on the side also saw Shu Fangyin's small movements, and couldn't help but feel a little disdainful.

Look at the eldest lady of the Shu family, even if the style of the whole body is not worse than the lady in the harem, the second miss of the Shu family is obviously different from her, she is really just a concubine, and she can't be on the stage.

After walking for nearly a stick of incense, the two arrived at the Imperial Garden, and as soon as they entered, they saw that there were already a lot of people here. As an upstart, Zhou is also a first-class lady, since there are many ladies and ladies who come to talk and make friends, Shu Manyin looks at the scenery of the palace and the one she lived in her previous life, but the scenery is the same but the fate is completely different, and she can't help but feel sad.

At this time, a lively voice sounded: "Sister Shu is late today." Shu Manyin turned around and couldn't help laughing: "The two sisters came early today. ”

The people who came were Su Ruoxi and Su Ying, two sisters. Su Ruoxi is the concubine of Su Ge's hometown, and she has always been good friends with Shu Manyin, she walked over from where she was in place, followed by her sister-in-law Su Ying.

"It's not that we came early, it's that Sister Shu is lazy today." Su Yingjiao said with a smile.

Shu Manyin also smiled, Su Ge's hometown has three children, the eldest daughter Su Ruoxi, the concubine Su Ying and the sister-in-law Su Zijian, I have to say that Su Ge Lao is indeed a very positive family style, the three children are all dragons and phoenixes among the people, and there is no pickling in the family, and the three children also get along harmoniously, although Su Ying is a concubine, she is not bad at all.

"My sister and I wanted to visit a few days ago, but we heard that my sister fell into the water and fell ill, but now she is getting better?" Su Ying asked.

"It's been good for a long time, don't you see if I'm fine." Shu Manyin also deliberately turned left and right.

"Sister Shu is now a famous talented woman in Beijing, I and my sister still want to go together to see the ten thousand Buddha embroidery paintings embroidered by my sister, but unfortunately my mother is afraid that she has been stimulated by her sister these days, and she forces me to learn embroidery with my sister every day." Su Ying said with a grin.

"Obviously, you embroidered the swallow into a finch, which made your mother step up your embroidery, but it was Sister Shu's body, I think you owe your mother to clean it up." Su Ruoxi made a gesture to point at Su Ying's head, which frightened Su Ying to dodge left and right.

"By the way, Sister Shu, did you come here with your aunt today?" Su Ruoxi obviously saw from a distance that there were three people coming, but once she arrived here, there were only two people left, and she couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"There is also my sister-in-law Shu Fangyin who came over, but I was afraid that I met a sister who was good friends and went over to speak." Shu Manyin saw that Shu Fangyin's figure was missing from her side and her mother's side, and she didn't care much, she just arrived at the Imperial Garden, but she didn't worry about what she was doing.

"Although I haven't seen Sister Shu's sister-in-law, I've heard my mother say it." Su Ying's expression was obviously a little embarrassed, but when she heard her mother say what happened at the banquet that day, she couldn't help but feel a little slander at Shu Fangyin.

"Don't talk about this, Sister Shu knows the purpose of today's banquet?" Su Ruoxi saw that Shu Manyin didn't care much, so she quickly changed the topic, and asked in a low voice.

"I don't know." It's not that Shu Manyin is reluctant to say it, it's because of the ambiguity of this will, and she can't vainly evaluate the royal affairs, so as not to cause death.

"It's strange, how can so many women from various families be summoned on the day of the sacrifice to the heavens and prayers?" Su Ruoxi was a little puzzled.

"Anyway, it's better to be careful, I'm afraid it's a little unusual." Shu Manyin didn't want the sisters she knew and befriended to be dragged in, so she could only remind the two of them euphemistically, which made the Su sisters more vigilant.

And after Shu Fangyin followed Zhou and Shu Manyin into the imperial garden, she could honestly follow Zhou at first, but the people who came to talk to Zhou were all the wives of each family, and no one was willing to pay more attention to a concubine, especially this concubine still had some inappropriate words and deeds, these ladies were all sophisticated people, so they would not offend Zhou without opening their eyes at this time, so Shu Fangyin stayed for a while and felt that no one cared about her and left her alone.

It didn't take long for her to meet Li Jiaonu and her sister-in-law Li Kexin, who were enjoying red fish in the flower hall.

"Sister Li." Shu Fangyin took the initiative to say hello when she saw the two.

"Yo, you're coming along." Li Jiaonu threw the fish food in her hand and turned around to see that it was Shu Fangyin, this tone was a little bad, she still remembered that at the Shu family's birthday banquet, this Shu Fangyin sold herself in a blink of an eye.

Shu Fangyin was a little indifferent when she heard her tone, but she didn't say much, and still said with a shy face: "Sister Li is really lovely today, my sister looked at her from a distance and thought she was the mother of the palace." ”

"Hmph, the sycophants are slippery." Li Jiaonu knew what she meant, but she just didn't want to see her, and left after stabbing her, leaving Li Kexin in the flower hall.

"I've seen Sister Shu." Li Kexin is the concubine of the Li family, she is timid by nature, she doesn't even dare to say much when she meets her own sister-in-law, and she just listened to the words of the eldest sister and wanted to look at the second sister with Li Jiaonu here.

"Sister Kexin is also a handsome person, it's the first time I've seen it, my sister shouldn't always hold back at home, we sisters should also move around more, and take care of each other in the future." Shu Fangyin pulled Li Kexin, feeling a little late to see each other.

"Sister Shu is also very beautiful." Li Kexin was already shy, and she would be praised by Shu Fangyin like this, and her face was flushed.

The two girls got together, and as soon as the impasse was opened, there were countless topics to talk about, fat powder, jewelry, clothes, flowers, food, etc., but they also had a good time.

Everyone waited in the imperial garden for a while, and then saw the queen mother coming with the crown princess, and everyone saluted.

The queen chuckled: "Get up, I just want to get together, you don't have to be so restrained, this meeting is a great gift to the sky, and now I invite you to move to the Zhonghe Hall with the princess." ”

Shu Manyin saw the crown princess Sun Qionghua, but she had some different ideas, in her previous life, she helped the princess Chi Du to ask to help him deal with the crown prince Chi Ze, the crown princess Sun Qionghua was naturally in his plan, and then the prince failed, and the princess was pregnant for seven months, and she was also executed. However, the crown princess is actually gentle, and now when she sees the old people again, especially the person who can be regarded as her own death, Shu Manyin feels a little guilty.

At this time, it made Shu Manyin feel that something was wrong, in this life she no longer intersected with Wei Chi Duwen, but Wei Chi Du asked that she would inevitably have a fight with the prince, if she could, she was willing to try her best to save the crown princess.

Fortunately, the Imperial Garden is close to the Zhonghe Palace, and soon after arriving at the Zhonghe Palace, the crown princess arranged the position, and the nature of each family and each grade is regulated, and the Zhou family itself is Mrs. Hou and she is a first-class lady, and the natural position is high, but only the eldest daughter and the lady can sit in the front row, and the second daughter and the concubine can only sit in the back row according to the official position and the division of the concubine, so that a certain position has been opened between Shu Manyin and Shu Fangyin.

"You still need to sit for a while, and the palace still needs to worship the sky with the emperor, and this is arranged by the crown princess." After the queen explained to everyone, everyone saluted and sent the queen off.

The crown princess smiled Yan Yan: "Ladies and sisters of various families, this ceremony to worship the heavens will not start for a while, but fortunately, the queen mother has ordered someone to prepare a vegetarian snack early, and everyone will cushion first." ”

"Thank you, Crown Princess." Everyone returned the salute.

After a while, all kinds of pigmented snacks were presented one by one, such as coconut glutinous rice, jujube paste, honeycomb cake, five-fruit cake, and all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Sitting next to Shu Fangyin was Bai Taotao, the third lady from the Ministry of Rites, and the two also met after they sat down, Bai Taotao and other palace maids waited for the snacks, and said softly: "Sister Shu, there are so many dim sums, people like them when they look at them, where are they willing to eat." ”

Shu Fangyin also agrees in her heart, although Shu Mansion has no worries about food and clothing, but these snacks can only be eaten by people in the royal family, where can Shu Mansion be compared with the dim sum in this palace.

Not long after, there was a burst of bells from the Jiaotai Palace, the simple and desolate bell was to cleanse the hearts of some people, about an hour later, the eunuch sang outside the palace: "The emperor has arrived, the queen has arrived." ”

Everyone in the palace knelt down and saluted. The queen helped the emperor to walk to the dragon chair, and when the ministers also entered their positions, she heard the emperor say: "Everyone is exempt from courtesy." ”

Shu Manyin sat down after thanking him, raised his head, and unexpectedly looked at the captain Chi Du's eyes, this is not strange, Wei Chi asked that it was the prince, the position was already arranged forward, plus he was deliberately looking for it, so it was normal to be able to meet Shu Manyin's gaze. It's just that Wei Chi asked a little puzzled that he originally felt that Shu Manyin's body was gentle and tight, but the moment he saw himself, it seemed that people couldn't figure it out, or it would be more appropriate to become cold.

And Shu Fangyin, who was hidden behind the crowd, was also secretly looking at Yu Chi Du and asking, she always knew that Yu Chi was handsome, but she didn't expect that even when she was with several other princes, Wei Chi Du asked was still prominent and abnormal, seeing him pursing his thin lips and straight posture, Shu Fangyin felt a little dizzy.

"Father, the son wishes his father a good health, the age is better than the green pine, expand the territory and accept the land, Yao Shunyu and" The prince saw that his father had sat down, so he got up and prayed to his father.

"Okay, well, you have this heart, what is my heart." The old emperor glanced at the hall: "Lao Jiu didn't come today?" Hmph, he's a comfortable prince, but I'm very envious. ”

All the ministers know that the Nine Princes have a strong relationship with the emperor, and the old emperor has no intention of blaming him, and the Nine Princes don't like the court, and they never see him a few times, but no one cares.

"I invited him again and again, and he refused me again and again, and I won't see him come to see me once this year, if you do, you can help me talk about Lao Jiu." That's what the old emperor said, but which minister dares to go to the tiger whiskers of the ninth prince.

At this moment, a voice outside the hall spoke: "Brother Huang, have you ever heard the phrase "Don't talk about people behind your back?" Everyone was shocked.