"Big cousin, you sit on my side, Yu'er just arrived in the capital and doesn't understand anything, third cousin Xijing, can you help us if you bother big cousin?" Qi Yu blinked his eyes and scratched his head, pretending to be cute.

Duan Rufang lowered his eyelids and secretly laughed at Qi Yu's stupidity, the position of the birthday banquet in the palace is exquisite, the people sitting at the front are all young ladies and sons from the big officials and big families in the capital, the lower the rank is, the lower the Qi family sisters, the Qi family sisters arranged the position in the second row because of the Duan family's sake, Qi Yu pulled Duan Ruhua to the same height as them at this time, if it weren't for Duan Ruhua's elegant and calm appearance for so many years, I am afraid that I would have to turn my face with Qi Yu on the spot.

"You can't change positions at will at the birthday banquet, and Cousin Yu'er shouldn't be willful. Duan Ruhua hid the displeasure and anger in his eyes, laughed and reprimanded Qi Yu in a low voice, then turned around and stopped looking back, covered by his long sleeves, his fingertips embedded in the flesh, and printed half-moon-shaped finger marks.

A woman from a lowly family like the Qi family dared to compare her, she really didn't know how thick the sky was!

Concubine Yi chattered in her position for half an hour before it ended, and there was a sound of footsteps outside, and the queen was wearing a red brocade robe, and before the eunuch could report, she said with a smile: "The palace and the sisters are uninvited, and the sister of Concubine Yi and the seventh princess should not be treated!"

Concubine Yi quickly got up and saluted, "The concubine sees the queen's mother, the concubine has tormented the concubine and Xiaoqi, the concubine has already set up a seat for the concubine and the sisters, please sit up." "The queen is one level higher than her, so because of this, Concubine Yi has to be in the corner.

The queen led a group of palace concubines here, and after everyone saluted, they were a lot of reservations, after all, the first to sit was the lord of the harem, and the male guests sat upright, but the female guests were extremely excited, and the queen and the palace concubines came to say goodbye, and several princes and princesses in the palace will also come.

The crown prince is at the right age, there are only a few good women, the side concubine and the main concubine are already in the air, even if they know in their hearts that the position of the crown princess will not be their turn to sit, but the position of the side concubine can still be fought for, the prince's mother is strong, the emperor is favored, and nine times out of ten it is the future saint, this opportunity must be grasped in advance.

"Huh, Concubine Xing's sister is also here?" Concubine Yi was chatting with Concubine De beside her, when she suddenly heard a few coughs, and then she found that Concubine Xing who was sitting in the corner, Pei Ruxue's health has not been good, she has almost disappeared in the harem over the years, and she is rarely seen.

"The imperial doctor said that the concubine's body is much better, and she should move around more, and it just so happens that today is the birthday banquet of the seventh princess. After Concubine Xing finished speaking, she coughed, and her miserable little face turned red.

Concubine Yi was not very happy in her heart, Concubine Xing dragged her sick body to congratulate her daughter on her birthday, this cough was really annoying, and it was not a good sign, but Concubine Xing was the niece of the Queen Mother, and Concubine Yi couldn't be provoked, so there was nothing to say, so she said dryly, "Sister pay attention to her body", and went to chat with the queen and others, and no longer paid attention to Concubine Xing.

Concubine Xing's eyes fluttered, she kept covering her mouth with a handkerchief, and her lowered eyebrows quickly glanced at the seat below. The maid beside her knelt down to help her arrange the meal in front of her, and said in a low voice: "The third lady of the Duan family, Duan Rufang, who introduced the Nanyang county lord to the queen mother, is the woman who sits in the middle in the middle and wears turquoise clothes. ”

The maid paused, and then said: "She is still a concubine, and she compares her sister-in-law Duan Ruhua to the bottom, which is really powerful." ”

With that, he got up and stepped aside.

Concubine Xing picked up the teacup to hide the deep meaning in her eyes and did not speak.

About an hour later, a father-in-law hurriedly walked in outside the door, leaned down beside the queen and said something, the queen's eyes lit up, she quickly got up, and walked towards the outside of the hall with a smile: "You will greet the emperor and the ministers with me." ”

For a while, the crowd in the hall got up one after another, saw the emperor's bright yellow dragon robe from a distance, and knelt on the ground together-"See the emperor, long live the emperor, long live long live, long live—"

The emperor was followed by Zhaoyi Duan Rubi, as well as a number of ministers.

The ministers are all wearing court clothes, only the prime minister and Rong Qiyi are green and red, which are both burning and eye-catching.

greeted the prime minister and the palace concubine one by one, and everyone returned to their respective positions under the emperor's orders.

The emperor sat down on the high seat and touched Xiao Shanshan's head with a smile: "Xiao Qi is happy today?"

"That's natural, my father is kind to Xiao Qi, and Xiao Qi is grateful to my father. Xiao Shanshan and the emperor's joy are not very close, so Xiao Shanshan abides by etiquette, after all, not everyone has a "good" face like the late second princess Xiao Pingyao.

The emperor laughed a few times, "Your royal brothers and sisters will come here in a while, and they have prepared a lot of good things for you!"

"The royal brother and the royal sister are very good at Shanshan. Xiao Shanshan replied incorrectly.

The emperor and Xiao Shanshan said a few words casually, Yue Zhaoyi saw that the emperor came with Duan Rubi, and felt very uncomfortable, and when the emperor finished speaking, Yin and Yang said in a strange way: "Bi Zhaoyi is really lucky, we are all here with the queen's mother, why is it only Bi Zhaoyi who happened to meet the emperor, and the concubines also want such a fate." ”

Yue Zhaoyi expressed her love for the emperor without leaving a trace, so the emperor was very useful, so her yin and yang weird tone was ignored by the emperor, and instead explained to her: "Rubi went to find me because of Lao Jiu's business." ”

"Sister Rubi is really interested in the Nine Emperor Princes. Yue Zhaoyi smiled slightly, staring at Duan Rubi with a pair of eyes, if Duan Rubi hadn't been prepared, otherwise she would have been frightened by her words, and the matter between her and Xiao Yan must not be exposed before the emperor died!

"Since the Nine Emperor Princes are under the name of the concubines, the concubines must be dedicated. Duan Rubi's motherly and gentle image won a lot of favor from the emperor, and the two of them were stunned and didn't fight for a high or low.

The emperor and the queen were in Yafeng Palace, and no one dared to whisper in this palace all of a sudden, and the emperor stayed for a while and knew that he couldn't let go of this group of young people here, so he led a group of gray-haired, and the ministers left.

After Yan was drunk, he was only weak, and the emperor kept him.

Concubine Yi and the others also left first, and the rest of the people in this Yafeng Palace were their peers, and the scene suddenly became a lot more harmonious.

Xiao Shanshan whispered something to the maid, after the maid came back, she was holding a "White Snow Tower" in her hand, the huge flowers were delicate, and she knew that they were carefully cultivated at a glance, Xiao Shanshan put the flowers in her palm and raised her chin

"Today's birthday banquet in this palace, I am very happy, everyone celebrates together, this time this palace wants to play some tricks!"

Xiao Shanshan raised her hand and patted it, several palace people came in with a flower drum in their hands, kneeling on both sides of the palace, Xiao Shanshan smiled: "This game is called drumming and passing flowers, it is a game that the palace heard from the folk, after a while, the palace people began to beat the drum, we began to pass the flowers, when the drum stopped, the flower in whose hands, that person will give the palace birthday gift on the spot, if the palace is satisfied, forget it, if you are not satisfied, you have to punish." ”

Xiao Shanshan's maid Xue'er turned sideways, revealing a small box behind her, "The punishment will be picked out by the slave maid for you at will for a while, and what you pick depends on luck." Don't be angry, the princess's birthday, just have a good time. ”

"Xue'er is right, do any of you still have any questions?" Xiao Shanshan couldn't wait to look at someone in the male guest seat, and her hand was already ready to move.

Naturally, the crowd had no opinion.

The drum beat for the first time, and the white snow tower peony flower began to teleport from top to bottom.

Duan Rubian also listened to this game for the first time, and he didn't care about Rong Qi's "eyebrows and eyes", and quietly waited for the first peony flower to come.

Luckily, the first flower did not stay in the palm of her hand, but was picked up by the woman who was two places away from her.

The woman was at a loss as if she had received a hot potato, and was prompted by the people around her before she took out a set of red agate jewelry, and was interrupted by Xiao Shanshan before she could say anything about her birthday: "Who are you in this palace?

This is not accepted.

The woman's face turned pale as she watched Xue'er take a piece of rice paper from the small box and hand it to Xiao Shanshan.

Xiao Shanshan ordered someone to read aloud: "Take off the two clothes on your body." ”

The room was full of silence.

No one expected that there would be such a punishment in those notes.

It's summer now, and I'm wearing less, and some girls take off the two layers, and their innocence will be ruined.

"What are you doing in a daze? You refuse to take it off? I refuse to let people help you in this palace!"

Everyone in the banquet was silent, no one spoke, and some of the male guests turned their heads away, closed their eyes, and looked away from indecent behavior.

The woman bit her lip and hesitated for a long time, then took off a gauze and a long sleeve.

The robe inside covered everything that shouldn't be exposed.

Seeing that the woman obediently did so, Xiao Shanshan let her go back to her position, and shouted excitedly to continue.

The woman passed the flower in her hand away, and a trace of hatred burst out from her eyes.

Xiao Shanshan clearly deliberately humiliated them, her birthday gift red agate was obtained by her grandfather with great difficulty, and the jewelry that had already emitted fluorescent light at night was difficult to buy, she would punish herself without asking, obviously she wanted to see their jokes!

Sure enough, the birthday gifts sent by the back did not pass one after another, and they were also humiliated, Xiao Shanshan was complacent, feeling very proud to see this group of people go abroad, but she didn't know that she had offended half of the guests in the entire Yafeng Palace.

Seeing that the punishment behind it was getting more and more excessive, and when everyone was about to hold back, a shout came from outside the door - "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived—His Royal Highness the Third Prince has arrived—His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince has arrived—the Sixth Princess has arrived——......"