Chapter 12: The Banquet Storm

Yong'an waited outside, listening outside the door when the master said that he would set up a study for the princess, he knocked on the door lightly, and said respectfully: "Lord, princess, the slave has something to do." ”

After hearing the answer of the master in the room, Yongan pushed the door in, and after he entered the door, he sent a golden invitation to Su Qingmo, and said: "Miss Qingrui asked the slave to send the princess an invitation card to Princess Anping's mansion, and Miss Qingrui also said that the people from Princess Anping's mansion are still waiting outside the palace gate to wait for the princess's reply. ”

Mu Yuanjing took the invitation card from Yong'an's hand, opened it, looked at it, and handed it to Su Qingmo, "If you want to go, you can go, don't worry if you go, Anping doesn't dare to embarrass you." ”

Su Qingmo said with a smile: "How can I not go, since I got married, I have never been to any banquet in Beijing except for the last family banquet, and now that the princess is invited, if I don't go again, I am afraid that even the prince will be criticized." ”

Mu Yuanjing smoothed the hair on Su Qingmo's cheeks, and said with a smile: "In this case, it will be hard for the princess, and I will pick you up after the banquet." ”

Su Qingmo smiled and nodded, "Borrow the prince's pen and ink." ”

After writing a reply that he would go to the banquet on time in three days, Su Qingmo handed the reply to Yong'an, and asked Yong'an to return it to the servants of Princess Anping's mansion.

"Can you tell me what kind of person the princess is?" After Yongan left, Su Qingmo asked.

Mu Yuanjing thought about it seriously, there were very few things about Princess Anping in his memory, and the reason was very simple, he didn't pay much attention to anyone who acted stupidly and often behaved.

If you don't pay attention, you can't remember, let alone understand, just like Princess Anping's younger brother, the eighth prince, Yongding Wang Mu Yuanyi, Mu Yuanyi is just synonymous with stupidity in Mu Yuanjing's impression.

Su Qingmo waited for Mu Yuanjing for a long time and didn't wait for an answer, so he simply gave up and decided to return to Moxiangju and let Qingzhu investigate Princess Anping.

The three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Princess Anping's banquet was scheduled for the beginning of the year.

Su Qingmo put on the princess's standard clothes, accompanied by Qinghe and Qingzhu to the outside of the palace, Qingzhu helped Su Qingmo to get into the carriage waiting outside the palace gate in the morning, the curtain of the carriage had just been opened, Su Qingmo looked at the people sitting in the car and said in surprise: "How can the prince be here." ”

Mu Yuanjing helped Su Qingmo sit firmly, and said lightly: "It's just okay today." ”

Yongan slandered outside the car, "The prince can only deceive the princess, although the prince does not have to go to court every day after being in charge of the hidden world, but one day is not a bunch of things waiting for the princess to deal with, today I am willing to set aside time to accompany the princess to the princess's mansion, in the final analysis, I am still worried that the princess will be bullied by Princess Anping." ”

The carriage carried the two to the princess's mansion, and Su Qingmo looked at the passers-by coming and going on the street through the curtains that were lifted from time to time.

Unconsciously, she has been married for nearly a month, and she has gradually become familiar with the life in the capital, and gradually familiar with the identity of the princess.

Thinking of the information about Princess Anping that Qingzhu investigated yesterday, Su Qingmo sighed lightly in his heart.

Princess Mu Yuanrou of Anping is twenty-six years old, is the first child of the Emperor, although it is a girl, but because the princess's mother was quite loved by the Emperor at that time, Mu Yuanrou's identity has also risen with the tide, and since then she has developed Mu Yuanrou's arrogant and domineering temperament.

Mu Yuanrou has been reckless in Beijing for more than 20 years, and even Ma Baiheng snatched back the princess's mansion on the street.

At the beginning, the story of Mu Yuanrou robbing people on the street was well known, and people who were a little more well-informed knew that the concubine Bai Heng originally had a marriage contract, but the Bai family did not dare to say much because of the identity of the princess and the favor of the emperor.

On the second day after Bai Heng was robbed into the princess's mansion, he withdrew the marriage contract for Bai Heng, so during that period of time, the Bai family always couldn't raise their heads among the nobles, and it wasn't until the Emperor Taishang gave Mu Yuanrou and Bai Heng a marriage that the Bai family raised their eyebrows.

Now Mu Yuanrou and Bai Heng have been married for three years.

Mu Yuanjing looked at Su Qingmo, who was distracted, and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

She always kept things in her heart and refused to tell him, and Mu Yuanjing was also helpless.

The Linchuan Palace, the Princess's Mansion and the Princess's Mansion were not far away, so before Su Qingmo could speak, he heard Yong'an say outside: "Lord, Princess, the Princess's Mansion has arrived." ”

The first to get off the carriage was Mu Yuanjing, and then Su Qingmo was helped out of the carriage, and the two waited in front of the princess's mansion for a while, only to see the housekeeper of the princess's mansion walk out of the mansion, "Meet the king of Linchuan, the princess of Linchuan, the princess doesn't know when the princess of Linchuan will come, and she can't greet the princess and princess in time to forgive me." ”

How could Mu Yuanrou not know when Su Qingmo would arrive, she just deliberately hung Su Qingmo, but she didn't expect Mu Yuanjing to come with her, and she didn't expect that today's incident would be remembered by Mu Yuanjing.

Mu Yuanjing couldn't see any emotion on his cold face, so he just said lightly: "It's okay." ”

The housekeeper wiped the unwarranted cold sweat from his forehead, and said with a smile: "The prince please, the princess please." ”

Mu Yuanrou didn't hold a banquet today for any special reason, just wanted to see the drama by the way, diaphragm should be Su Qingmo.

The housekeeper tried his best to ignore the pressure behind him, and guided people to a secluded road in the house according to the master's wishes.

Su Qingmo glanced at the surrounding environment, and had some doubts in his heart, "This is the way to go." ”

The butler led the way ahead and replied according to the instructions: "If you go back to the princess, another road in the palace is being repaired, and the servant takes the prince and you on another road, although it is a little far away, but it can also lead to the garden where the opera is heard." ”

Mu Yuanjing glanced at the butler's back and did not speak.

There was a rockery at the end of the road, and the housekeeper introduced: "Lord, princess, go around the rockery and walk for a while to the garden where you listen to the play." ”

A few people just bypassed the rockery, not far in front of them came the voices of two girls, one of the plain-clothed girls saw Mu Yuanjing beside Su Qingmo's eyes widened slightly, as if surprised, Su Qingmo was puzzled, the plain-clothed girl actually said stupidly: "Lord." ”

Su Qingmo looked at Mu Yuanjing, Mu Yuanjing noticed her gaze, approached her and asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

"Don't you remember me?" Without giving Su Qingmo a chance to speak, the plain-clothed girl looked at Mu Yuanjing intently and asked.

Mu Yuanjing looked dustless and noble, and said lightly: "Who are you?" ”

A pool of tears quickly welled up in the girl's eyes.

Mu Yuanjing frowned, always feeling that the situation in front of him seemed to have been seen somewhere.

Yongan really couldn't bear to watch this girl being hit by her master again and again, so she approached Mu Yuanjing and whispered: "Lord Wang, this is Zhou Yueyun, the second girl of the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”

Zhou Yueyun was expecting her sweetheart to remember her, but Mu Yuanjing didn't even look at her, but instructed the butler of the princess's mansion who was waiting on the side: "Lead the way." ”

Su Qingmo looked at Zhou Yueyun hesitantly for a moment, and then was led by Mu Yuanjing to continue walking, and not long after the few people left, they saw a small garden.

There is a stage in the garden, and there are tables and chairs under the stage, all of which are of the specifications of a table with a chair, and there are already some people sitting in the garden.

Princess Mu Yuanrou of Anping watched from a distance as the housekeeper led someone over, and was about to say two words to fall on Su Qingmo's face, when she saw Mu Yuanjing behind Su Qingmo, and the other party looked at her with a pair of calm and waveless eyes, forcing her to swallow the words into her stomach in an instant.

She got up and walked in front of Su Qingmo and Mu Yuanjing, and said with a smile: "I never thought that the sixth emperor brother would also follow, are you afraid that your princess will be wronged by the imperial sister?" ”

"What do you say?" Mu Yuanjing asked unceremoniously.

Mu Yuanrou was so stunned by Mu Yuanjing that she couldn't go up or down, and she slowed down for a while and continued: "Today I invited all female dependents, and I'm afraid it's not appropriate for the Sixth Emperor Brother to be here." ”

Yongan seemed to see that the master was storing poison in his mouth, if nothing else, Princess Anping would be angry with her master today.

Sure enough, Mu Yuanjing said 'oh', "It turns out that the colt is not a man in your eyes." ”

Bai Heng, who was standing aside and wanted to say hello, his face turned red, he was forced by Mu Yuanrou to bring it.

I have to say that Mu Yuanrou really loves Bai Heng to the core, and she can't wait to be separated wherever she goes.

It stands to reason that Bai Heng is not suitable to be present on such occasions as female dependents, but Mu Yuanrou doesn't care what others think, and insists on placing Bai Heng among the female dependents.

Mu Yuanjing's words were very piercing in Mu Yuan's soft ears, and as soon as the words landed, she felt a rush of fire gushing out of her chest, but she had to endure this breath when she looked at Mu Yuanjing's indifferent appearance.

Her father has taken the throne, and the current ruler will no longer let her do whatever she wants, but in the end, she is unwilling, and she can't help but think that if her younger brother returns to Beijing and ascends to the throne with her help and support, she will definitely get back the anger she suffered several times today.

Mu Yuan softly held a smile and said softly to Bai Heng: "Let's go back and rest first." ”

As if what he had been waiting for was this, Bai Heng got Mu Yuanrou's consent, hurriedly saluted Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo, bowed his head and left the garden quickly.

Mu Yuanrou watched Bai Heng leave, turned her head and smiled at Mu Yuanjingpi, "The horse has already left, what else can the Sixth Emperor Brother say." ”

Mu Yuanjing didn't pay attention to her at all, he looked at Su Qingmo on the side and asked softly, "Do you want to stay?" ”

On the day of the palace banquet, Su Qingmo was a little aware that Mu Yuanjing might not be as clear as he seemed on the surface, if he wanted to anger a person, it would be really effortless, and today in the princess's mansion, her thoughts were confirmed, and she had to sigh that Mu Yuanjing really had a good appearance of deception.

She looked at Mu Yuanrou's increasingly ugly face, thinking that if she didn't stay today, Mu Yuanrou would definitely find an opportunity to invite her in the future, and the trouble would be even less at that time.

"The concubine stayed to chat with the eldest sister, and the prince went back to the house first." Su Qingmo said to Mu Yuanjing with a smile.

When she went out, it was really as she said, and the rules and manners did not leak the slightest flaw, Mu Yuanjing thought to himself.

"This king is waiting for you in the car." Mu Yuanjing nodded, and then turned to leave.

After Mu Yuanrou, who was ignored throughout the whole process, waited for people to leave, she endured her anger and instructed the housekeeper: "Bring Princess Linchuan to the table." ”

The housekeeper led Su Qingmo to sit on Mu Yuanrou's right hand, and when Su Qingmo sat down for a short time, the housekeeper led a girl to sit on Mu Yuanrou's left hand side, and the girl's eyes looked at Su Qingmo from time to time after she sat down.

Only then did Su Qingmo find out that the person turned out to be the girl named Zhou Yueyun who he met next to the rockery.

A hint of schadenfreude slipped out of Mu Yuanrou's eyes, and she took Zhou Yueyun's hand and asked Su Qingmo, "Do you know who she is the sixth brother and sister?" ”

Su Qingmo wanted to see what Mu Yuanrou's purpose was, but he didn't answer, Mu Yuanrou continued to laugh and said: "Yueyun is the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, a real noble daughter of the family, she should have been with the Sixth Emperor Brother, but who thought that the Emperor actually gave you a marriage for the Sixth Emperor Brother." ”

There was something in the words, Su Qingmo could hear it, but she didn't believe it.

With Mu Yuanjing's character, if he really likes this Zhou girl, I'm afraid that he won't agree to the marriage with the Su family.

As if she was afraid that she would think too much, Mu Yuanrou made a gaffe and comforted: "Sixth brother and sister, don't be careful, the royal sister has no intention of aside, just a little regretful, alas, the young Mu Ai can't afford to marry after all." ”

Su Qingmo looked at her one-man show, and the thoughts in her heart finally reached synchronization with Mu Yuanjing, Mu Yuanrou's mind was afraid that she was a little unconscious, she would not be stupid enough to think that she could separate her relationship with Mu Yuanjing with just a few words.

Su Qingmo smiled, and said indifferently: "Thank you for worrying about the concubine, although the relationship between the concubine and the prince has not been since childhood, but it will definitely not be less than others in the future, do you say yes, Tuesday girl." ”

She looked at Zhou Yueyun fixedly.

Zhou Yueyun was speechless by Su Qingmo's pure black eyes, she did like the king of Linchuan, but she was not like Mu Yuanrou who was a childhood sweetheart.

The ladies in the garden couldn't hear the conversation between Mu Yuanrou and Su Qingmo a little farther away, but everyone who was close heard it, and although they disdained Mu Yuanrou's actions in their hearts, no one dared to express their dissatisfaction in their hearts.

Mu Yuanrou looked at Zhou Yueyun who lowered her head, and secretly hated her for being useless, just when the opera on the stage opened, she let go of Zhou Yueyun's hand and watched the play.

The good plays came on one after another, during which Mu Yuanrou never opened her mouth again to find Su Qingmo's unhappiness, and Su Qingmo was able to watch the two scenes quietly, and when the play on the stage sang "Wang Baochuan", something happened suddenly.

When Tsing Yi on the stage sang, "I live in a cold kiln for you and endure poverty, I will look at the Huayi Jinlou for you coldly", a woman dressed in white appeared out of thin air behind Tsing Yi who was singing.

Her long hair was draped haphazardly, and her body was clinging to Tsing Yi's back, and from a distance, it looked like Tsing Yi was singing with a woman in white on her back.

As if sensing Su Qingmo's gaze, the woman in white slowly turned her head, and a pair of eyes dripping with blood and tears appeared in front of Su Qingmo's eyes.

Su Qingmo was sure that no one present could see this terrifying scene except her, and she even breathed a little lighter.

Tsing Yi on the stage continued to sing, while the woman in white still looked at Su Qingmo motionlessly.

Su Qingmo put his right hand on the table and knocked lightly three times, using the code that he had discussed with Qingzhu when he was in the palace, and after Qingzhu received the code, he quietly picked up a peanut on the table while the attention of the people around him was on the stage, and hit Su Qingmo's waist with his fingertips.

Su Qingmo suddenly exhaled in pain.

Mu Yuanrou looked at Su Qingmo's appearance in a cold sweat and thought that someone had poisoned Su Qingmo to frame her, so she hurriedly ordered the housekeeper to find the house doctor.

Su Qingmo said weakly: "Don't bother the eldest sister, the concubine is unwell, so I will leave first." ”

Without waiting for Mu Yuanrou to react, she let Qingzhu and Qinghe leave their seats and walk outside the princess's mansion with half help.

Before leaving, Su Qingmo looked back at the stage, those creepy eyes were still staring at him.