Chapter 96: August 15
It's the Mid-Autumn Festival again, and the palace is lit up and down, so it's not lively.
Liling took Lianyu and Zhihe to the Imperial Garden for a banquet, and this year's Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet was placed in the Imperial Garden because of Xin Xiuyuan's suggestion, saying that it was more comfortable.
Shu Bushu Shuangli didn't feel it, but felt that Xin Xiuyuan was too rampant, and I heard that Concubine Yao herself did not agree to hold a banquet in the imperial garden, but Xin Xiuyuan directly reported to the emperor, and the emperor naturally nodded and agreed.
Concubine Yao is naturally very unhappy, I heard that Lixiang Palace has broken a lot of porcelain, but Xin Xiuyuan is now a favored harem, and Concubine Yao has no way to take her, but Concubine Yao doesn't like Xin Xiuyuan, but the whole harem knows about it.
When he was about to enter the Imperial Garden, he heard the noisy sound in front of him, and through those sounds, he already felt the scene of staggering and pushing cups and changing lamps.
Li Ling suddenly remembered the Mid-Autumn Festival in the first year she entered the palace, when she was just a Zhaoyuan, and was embarrassed by the eldest princess of Anhuai, and finally Dong Qilin came forward to relieve her, and now two years have passed, it has long been a matter of right and wrong, and the concubine Wen Guifei of the year is now struggling in the cold palace, and Zhuang Zhaorong and Mo Jieyu, who entered the palace together, have turned into a pile of loess and white bones.
In the past two years, she has been promoted twice, once because she was pregnant and had a miscarriage, and once because she stabbed Dong Qilin during the Lantern Festival.
Thinking of this, Li Ling remembered that shortly after the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, she found out that she was pregnant, and if she was born successfully, the child would only be a few months younger than the emperor's eldest son, but it was a pity......
Li Ling sighed inaudibly, and touched her stomach unconsciously, her hatred for Concubine Yao An Wanling and Bai Baolin and Bai Xing deepened a little.
Because the Mo Shang Palace is far away from the Imperial Garden, when the pear Ling arrived at the Imperial Garden, most of the people had already arrived, and when they saw the pear Ling coming, they all got up and saluted the pear Ling.
Now in this palace, except for Concubine Yao, only Pear Ling has the highest position, and Concubine Yao has not come yet, so except for the beautiful appearance of more than seven months with a big belly, the rest of the people have saluted Pear Ling.
Pear Ling thought about something else, so she waved her hand indifferently and sat straight down in the first place on the left of the lower head.
The palace concubines sat in twos and threes, talking to each other, and it seemed that everyone's faces were filled with happy smiles, but behind the scenes, who knows.
Recently, Xin Xiuyuan has been very proud, since she entered the palace last year, she has been very favored, and now she has the power of the palace, and there are a lot of low-ranking people to slap her, and there are a few concubines around her at this time.
Below the pear is Concubine Zhao, but Concubine Zhao has not yet come, and then below is Xin Xiuyuan, Pear Ling looked at Xin Xiuyuan coldly, only felt that Xin Xiuyuan was beautiful, but there was a little bit of frivolity, and a little bit of wind and dust, compared to other concubines from families in the palace, there was less refinement, and the emperor, who was used to seeing beauties, how could he love Xin Xiuyuan so much? Could it be that Xin Xiuyuan really has something unknown to anyone?
In the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, Xin Xiuyuan Pan Xiangyu entered the eyes of the emperor with the posture of a dancing girl, was named a beauty, and also had the title - Xin, and the following year was even more honorable.
Li Ling looked at Xin Xiuyuan, and remembered that in the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, in addition to Xin Xiuyuan being favored by the emperor, Yao Guifei, who was still a virtuous concubine at that time, was found to be pregnant.
What a coincidence.
Ri Ling was stunned by her own fleeting thoughts.
But Concubine Yao was found to be pregnant, and Xin Xiuyuan was included in the harem by the emperor, and since then, she has been favored, coincidentally, Xin Xiuyuan still lives in the side hall of Lixiang Palace, Qinhui Palace, it stands to reason that as a little beauty, Xin Xiuyuan should be the main concubine of Yao Guifei, but the two live in the same palace, but there has never been any intersection, but it seems to avoid suspicion.
Avoid arousing suspicion?!!
What kind of relationship requires two people who live in the same house to have no contact at all? Is it because they are afraid that others will find out what their relationship is, so they are so estranged?
Since recently, it has been rumored that Concubine Yao and Xin Xiuyuan are at odds, but with Xin Xiuyuan's rather arrogant and domineering appearance, I am afraid that Concubine Yao will be at odds from the beginning, why did she have a conflict with Concubine Yao recently?
Thinking about these messy questions, Pear Ling couldn't think of anything for a while.
Xin Xiuyuan noticed Li Ling's gaze, and only felt that Li Ling's gaze at her was a little infiltrating, but after thinking about it, she had never offended Concubine Xian, and looking at Concubine Xian's gaze seemed to be looking at someone through herself.
Look at who?!
Xin Xiuyuan's heart chuckled, could it be that Concubine Xian knew that she looked like ......
Xin Xiuyuan calmed down, and then said to Li Ling, "Sister Xian, what's wrong?" Is there anything on the concubine's face? ”
Hearing Xin Xiuyuan's voice, Li Ling came back to her senses.
"None." Li Ling shook her head slightly, and then continued: "This palace was dazzled by Xiuyuan's sister's flower appearance and moon appearance. ”
Hearing what Li Ling said, Xin Xiuyuan smiled a little, touched her own face with her hand, and then said: "Sister Pu Liuzi, where can I deserve my sister's praise." ”
"Poof!" Someone laughed without giving face, it was Dai Jieyu who was separated from Xin Xiuyuan by a position.
"Dai Jieyu, what are you laughing at!" Xin Xiuyuan and Dai Jieyu competed fiercely for favor, so when she heard Dai Jieyu laughing, Xin Xiuyuan felt extremely angry.
"My sister thinks that Sister Xiu Yuan is beautiful, but she reads less books." Dai Jieyu was a little disdainful, I really don't know how people like Xin Xiuyuan spoil the harem, obviously Concubine Xian was sarcastic about Xin Xiuyuan just now, but Xin Xiuyuan listened to it as a good thing, whether this Xin Xiuyuan is really stupid or thick-skinned.
Dai Jieyu's voice was not small, so many people heard it, and they all looked at Xin Xiuyuan with strange eyes.
"You!" Xin Xiuyuan gritted her teeth fiercely, since this generation of Jieyu entered the palace, she couldn't get along with her everywhere, and one day, she wanted her to look good!
"Alright, don't make jokes on festive days." Seeing this, Pear Ling scolded.
Xin Xiuyuan only glanced at Dai Jieyu hatefully, and Dai Jieyu showed a smile of "what can you do with me", which made Xin Xiuyuan's teeth itch.
There was nothing new in the banquet behind, the pregnant Jia Xiurong and the Wu Imperial Girl left early, Li Zhaoyi said that she was going to take care of the Wu Imperial Girl, and they also left together, the second princess was noisy to sleep, Concubine Zhao also took the child away, and Li Ling also felt very bored and wanted to find an excuse to go back and rest.
But after thinking about it, there was no calm during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so she really wanted to see if anything would happen this year, so she held the mentality of watching a good show and stayed at the end.
It's just a pity that nothing happened until the banquet was over.