Since Lu Zhongzhi fell into a coma, Yu Yu has never gone out again, during this period, the Cheng family brothers and sisters and the Du family brothers have made a special trip to visit, Du He explained the affairs of the Guozi Prison to her, and Cheng Xiaofeng gave her some lectures on the courses of the Literature Museum in the past few days.

Bachelor Xie, who was in charge of writing the book, came to visit the patient, and specially asked Yuyu to talk to her, and gave her two books to read, but didn't say anything else.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the eighth day of the new year that Lu Rongyuan, who had already received the invitation but had been thinking about it for a long time, called her and informed her that she would go to Furong Garden with Lu Shuqing tomorrow to go to King Wei's birthday banquet.

Knowing that it was a disguised concubine selection banquet, when Lu Zhongzhi was sick in bed for a short time, where did she have the heart to participate in this troublesome banquet, she said bluntly at the moment:

"Uncle, I don't want to go."

Lu Shuqing also stood on the side, listened to her words, and did not squeak, Lu Rongyuan persuaded:

"This invitation has been sent, and it is mentioned in black and white that you and I can't get out of it, your grandfather is like this, according to the common etiquette, we should not go, but you two juniors don't go, how can it work, the congratulatory gift has been sent to the Wei Wangfu in advance, you just need to go to a banquet in the evening."

Seeing that she was silent, Lu Rongyuan sighed lightly, sat up from the chair, and said:

"Then you can stay at home, Shuqing, you go alone."

After saying this, he strode out of the house, and Yu Yu was about to leave, but was stopped by a cold word.

"It's really capricious."

Yi Yu turned around and looked at Lu Shuqing, because the smile on her face was similar to Lu Zhi's, and after a doubt, she said, "What do you mean?" ”

"Literally," Lu Shuqing retreated to the chair that Lu Rongyuan had sat on just now and sat down, looking at her, and between her words, there was no usual intimacy:

"What is your identity as the King of Wei? His birthday banquet is not a trivial fight, if he is absent, he will be taken by someone with a heart to say, it will not give Wei Wangfu face. Do you think that we are still the daughter of the Huaiguo Mansion, once we lose our grandfather, the name of the Mansion, but in fact, it will be reduced to a third-rate. At present, my grandfather is critically ill, and we are not as good as before in the eyes of outsiders, but you say that you will not go to this kind of banquet, you will not go, it is not willful, what is it? ”

Lu Shuqing spoke to her for the first time in this tone, and the accusation in the words could not be more obvious, after hearing this, Yi Yu did not feel annoyed, but thought about it seriously, and smiled bitterly in her heart, where is she willful, but she failed to put Li Tai in the position of King Wei for a while, Li Tai, who is cold and impersonal in the eyes of outsiders, is like another person in her eyes, an acquaintance with a somewhat cold temperament, and she is also ......

Thinking of this, the emotions that were suppressed in her heart came to her head, her eyes darkened, and she said, "I know, I will go." After that, he found his own one from the two invitations that Lu Rongyuan had just put on the table.

Hearing that Yi Yu had changed her mind so quickly, Lu Shuqing was a little surprised, and couldn't help but think about it when she looked at her back as she turned to leave.

Yi Yu didn't go to Chaoyang Courtyard, but returned to her courtyard, wrote a list and told Ping Tong to go to the big kitchen to find something, and she rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find the set of medicinal tools she used when she was in the secret house, as well as some leftover medicinal materials for making nightmare antidotes.

The soul-calming pill with a refreshing effect, during the Fifth Academy Art Competition, she had given Lu Zhixiao half a bottle, and the rest was exchanged for a box of snow refining cream with Li Tai. Lu Zhixu ran out of it, and thought it worked well, so when she mentioned it to her last night, she thought about making some more spare.

Yao Huang gave her a lot of gadgets, and several of them have been of great use, except for this remnant version of the soul suppression, it is said that in the written test of etiquette, in the actual temple, if it weren't for the anti-thief phosphor that attracted a tree of crows, she might starve to death in the well.

Knowing the benefits of these small prescriptions and getting benefits, she often carries two or three kinds with her, anyway, the porcelain vase with her little belly can't take up any space, and a lotus bag can hold three or four things.

Because there was no need to bleed, after Pingtong found something, she didn't avoid her, and put things out in the living room and tinkered with them.

And this behavior of not avoiding suspicion made Pingtong, who knew that Yu Yu had detoxified Li Tai, was greatly touched, and when Yu Yu opened her heart to her, she secretly decided that she would be more careful in the future, this is a digression, so I won't say much for the time being.

At this time, Yi Yu, who was staying in the room to make medicine, because she hadn't gone out for days, didn't know that in the past few days, in the circle of nobles in Chang'an City, there were several negative information about her, which made Yi Yu have been faintly rejected before she had a formal banquet to join it.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, at noon, the sun is not high, it is not a good weather, but it is not cold, the old man Lu has been in a coma for five consecutive days, whether it is the master or the subordinate of the Huaiguo Mansion, few people are in a good mood, and Yiyu is no exception.

In the afternoon, she came back from Chaoyang Courtyard, and saw Lu Zhi, who had not seen anyone all day yesterday, in the warm hall, and her first sentence was-

"It's back, there is King Wei's birthday dinner in the evening, I don't remember it."

Lu Zhizheng was sitting at the table and didn't know what to write, and said, "Remember." ”

"Well, then I'll go take a bath first, and you can clean up early."

"I'm not going."

"Huh?" Yi Yu had already walked to the door, and turned his head again, not knowing what kind of character Lu Zhi was making, "You can't go away, right?" ”

Lu Zhi took the time to look up at her and said, "Why not?" I haven't received an invitation again. ”

“......”

Seeing her surprised, Lu Zhi was in a slightly better mood, smiled at her, and said, "You go and clean up, since you go out, dress up beautifully, the Hibiscus Garden is going to be lively tonight, and there will be no fewer young ladies who go." ”

Of course, she knew that there would be no shortage of young ladies, but after being repeatedly reminded of the purpose of this banquet, she was inevitably unhappy, took out a vial containing the soul suppression pill from her lotus bag, put it in front of Lu Zhi, and turned around and went back to the room.

Lu Zhi sensed that she was making an awkward noise, raised his eyebrows, and carefully put away the medicine bottle.

Half an hour later, after bathing, in the room with the girl's fragrance, Yiyu held a book borrowed from the big library, sat down in front of the makeup mirror, and said:

"Keep it simple."

Hearing her words, Pingtong and Pinghui looked at each other, and both found disapproval in each other's eyes, although the two of them did not go out of the gate in this mansion, but they were well-informed, knowing the meaning of this birthday banquet, and they didn't want to leave the jade behind at this banquet, but because there were other people in the house, they didn't say much, but they had a plan in their hearts, one went to rummage through the cabinets to pick up clothes, and the other began to straighten out some damp long hair.

Two quarters of an hour later, Yu Yu changed into Pingtong's matching clothes, and turned around in front of the mirror, as she had explained before, the hairstyle was simple, the hairpin ring was only worn with a set of three, and the lake blue dress was also decent, except for the quail-egg-sized red jade on her chest, which was a little conspicuous, the others were not outstanding, but she always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't say what was wrong.

"Isn't it too thin?" Come to think of it, it might be this. She is actually not afraid of the cold, but after the last time she was cold, she was used to wearing an extra one.

Ping Tong secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It's not thin, it's rude to wear too much for a banquet like this, the banquet is placed in the Imperial Banquet Palace, there is a fire buried in the palace, it is very warm, Miss is wearing a fur cloak on the road, and then take it off when you enter the banquet." ”

As she spoke, she asked the little maid to fetch the cloak and tie it for her, so she felt hot in the house again, and seeing that the sky was dark, Yu Yu didn't care about it anymore, glanced at the mirror again, and led Pingtong out of the door.

When I arrived at the gate, I was not surprised to learn that Lu Shuqing left first in a carriage, and Yu Yu had fully confirmed that the eldest lady of the Lu family really lacked a good impression of her.

The Imperial Banquet Palace, located in the west of the Hibiscus Garden, is a three-storey red and white building, the birthday banquet of the King of Wei is placed here, so that the palace has become the protagonist in the garden tonight, the lanterns are on, the densely woven red carpet starts from the Yanying Bridge outside the Hibiscus Garden, and spreads to the front of the main entrance of the Imperial Banquet Palace, and there are octagonal lanterns that are hung up early all the way, and the blessing red of the clear water points out the way to the visitors.

In the bright palace, there are hundreds of group seats on the left and right, on the empty white jade slab in the center, there is a three-color carpet, a group of plump dancing girls are stepping on it barefoot, and the northwest corner is playing percussion, in addition to the court musicians, the other half is actually a group of female musicians invited from Shuyun Pavilion.

At this moment, half of the seats were full, and with the communication of the eunuchs outside the palace, the guests who entered the palace one after another walked to the front of a large exaggerated carved silver-footed case due north, and bowed to the man sitting behind him.

In addition to the normal conversation at the banquet, there was no shortage of whispers in the delicate voice of the girl, all of which came from the seat on the right banquet, and two of the three sentences were inseparable from the host of the banquet.

As tonight's birthday star, at this moment, the young King Wei, who was wearing a brocade robe with gold on a black background, sat in the most independent position in this banquet, which naturally attracted the attention of a large number of girls who had seen him and those who had not seen him, and even the cold look on his handsome face could not stop the hot eyes of those girls with pink faces.

Who doesn't know what this banquet is doing tonight, in Chang'an City, which advocates the supremacy of talent and appearance, Li Tai, the king of Wei who has not yet been married, has almost been fantasized by more than half of the marriageable girls in Beijing, and it is rare to see the real person of the king of Wei now.

"Shangshu Mansion, the second son of the eldest grandson, the eldest eldest lady, the second eldest grandson, the third eldest grandson - here!"

Hearing this announcement, the people who came to the banquet changed their indifferent posture and looked at it one after another. (！ )