Chapter 241: Palace Banquet (Third Watch)
Eighteen Niang touched her lower abdomen, these days she endured the discomfort, according to the food supplement recipe around the ** county lord, one after another, her face did not mellow, but made him slightly uplifted.
Even if she couldn't see it, she could feel her strength.
Nanzhi took a peacock blue plain brocade skirt, changed it for Eighteen Niang, and chose a silver hairpin, scratched it twice on his hand, and then inserted it into Eighteen Niang's bun.
This silver hairpin is not an ordinary hairpin, but a deliberately polished end to be extremely sharp, in the hands of a person like Eighteen Niang who knows kung fu, it is a murderous weapon.
"Little lady, why don't you let me go with you?" Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, but all the people with heads and faces who stay in Chang'an City will enter the palace for a banquet tonight.
Although Eighteen Niang is a new widow, Zhao Yi named her to go, and wanted to crown the child in her womb as the champion Hou Shizi.
"Let's let Xiping go, you don't know kung fu, but if something happens, I have to save you, my father and mother will also go tonight, Li Zhaoping is also there, what are you worried about? You follow my previous arrangement, first disguise yourself and go out of the city first, and wait in that hot spring village. ”
Tonight, the second prince wants to rebel, Zhao Yi wants to eliminate the rebel son who forced the palace in one fell swoop, and he also wants to kill her, the Li Tang family, by the way, success or failure is in a thought.
If she can't leave Chang'an tonight, she won't be able to see the sun tomorrow.
As for Nanzhi Dongzhu and Beiliu, if she died, someone would naturally arrange for them to leave Chang'an far away, and they would have endless wealth to enjoy.
Nanzhi's eyes turned red and he gritted his teeth, "Little lady, I know." I must be waiting for you on the Zhuangzi. Why don't you bring a dagger, I'll tie it to your lap and hide it for you. ”
Eighteen Niang shook her head, "No need, if it really starts, just grab the weapons of the Praetorian Guard." ”
She has space, the dagger and the Qingyue sword are well hidden, and there is absolutely no problem.
In a few moments, she finished her make-up, put on her hard-soled boots, which made it easy to travel, and walked towards the carriage at the door.
Xiping helped Eighteen Niang get into the car, and nodded solemnly at Li Zhaoping, who was sitting in front of the car.
Li Zhaoping turned his head and smiled, revealing two cute pear vortices, "Sister-in-law, don't worry." ”
Eighteen Niang lifted the curtain on the carriage, took one last look at the champion Hou Mansion, and said to Li Zhaoping: "Let's go." ”
"Rack"! Li Zhaoping shook the reins, glanced at the people behind him with his residual vision, and walked straight towards the palace.
When Eighteen Niang arrived, the familiar ladies and A Dou had not yet arrived, so she found an inconspicuous corner and sat down quietly.
She quietly looked at some of the halls of the ministers for tonight's banquet, and secretly watched the places that were suitable for Tibetans.
looked at the busy Praetorian Guards outside the door again, the fat head was not there, but Xu Wu led a team of people to patrol outside.
Seeing Eighteen Niang coming over, Xu Wu nodded at her and left quickly.
In the whole hall, the red lantern is hung high, and the paper cuts with auspicious textures are pasted on it.
Shen Qin was following behind Wang Guifei, pointing to the arrangement of the night banquet there, and on the other side of Wang Guifei was followed by a richly dressed little woman, Eighteen Niang estimated that it should be the new Concubine Liu, her father was quite powerful in the Praetorian Guard, and he was the leader of the fat head's team.
It's a pity that it wasn't his turn to be on duty today.
When Shen Qin passed by Eighteen Niang, she didn't even look at her, and walked straight over.
After a while, there were more people.
Eighteen Niang saw Shen Ze leading the ** county lord to come, and hurriedly greeted her, "Father, mother." ”
Shen Ze glanced at Eighteen Niang, took out a red bag from his sleeve, and put it in Eighteen Niang's hand, "New Year's money." ”
Eighteen Niang was stunned for a moment and laughed, "Thank you, father." ”
Shen Qin, who was far away, saw it, pinched off one of his nails, turned around, and said to the palace people beside him: "Today's soft-shelled turtle soup tastes very good, remember to send a cup to the champion Mrs. Hou." ”
The palace man's hand shook, and he almost exclaimed, "No." ”
This soft-shelled turtle soup is a cold thing, and the second princess actually asked people to serve it to her pregnant sister, which is really ruthless.
Eighteen Niang sent Shen Ze and the ** county lord to sit down, then got up and went back to her small table, and watched from a distance, only to see that Duchess Lu Guo led her second son to accompany Princess Qinghe, and then Mrs. Xu took A Dou to sit nearby.
Because Mrs. Zheng is the wife of the Zheng family, she must go back to worship her ancestors during the New Year, so she is not in Chang'an.
After a while, on the small table, fresh fruits were served, and the big Ludi red fruits were engraved with auspicious patterns.
Li Zhaoping and Xiping stood behind Eighteen Niang as guards, like two door gods, secretly observing the surrounding environment.
The second prince must be rebelling tonight, and when there is chaos in the palace, where should they take advantage of the chaos to escape?
After a while, Zhao Yi led the second prince and the fifth prince towards the main hall left and right, followed by a third prince with a fat belly and listlessness.
As soon as the three pairs of boots embroidered with gold thread fell into the main hall, all the people rose and saluted them.
The atmosphere suddenly became weird, obviously the two princes were eager to strangle the fifth prince, but the two of them still showed the appearance of brothers, friends and brothers.
Zhao Yi let everyone sit down, and after a while, a group of dancing girls wearing tulle twisted the waist of the water snake and came to the main hall.
The first dish on the menu is soup.
Eighteen Niang took the spoon, stirred the soup, glanced at Shen Qin, put the spoon aside, and did not eat.
Xiping looked at it, but she tightened her hands, and wanted to rush out and tear Shen Qin apart, but Li Zhaoping grabbed her sleeves, she pursed her lips and lowered her head.
After the song was finished, the fifth prince suddenly stood up and said to Zhao Yi: "Father Emperor, it is said that today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and the whole country is happy, and this matter should not be mentioned by the courtiers." It's just that if you don't mention it, the sons will feel uneasy, and the innocent victims who died in vain will also be uneasy! ”
Zhao Yi touched his beard, "What innocent disaster victims?" I have been chanting Buddha every day for a few days, and your second brother is in charge of all the affairs, so I haven't heard him talk about it. ”
Eighteen Niang's heart tightened, and it began!
I saw the fifth prince holding up the file handed over to him by Li Zhaoping, "Father, please see, the son wants to sue the second brother and the second sister-in-law for seven major crimes, the most serious of which is to collude with the Huangji rice grain shop, use poisoned rice for disaster relief, and kill innocent people!" ”