Chapter 99: A Coincidental Encounter
"Master, why don't you eat it? I have seen that your diet has not resisted in the past few days, why is this situation again today? Is it uncomfortable again?"
In Poria Xuan, she was coincidentally serving Min Qingrou for lunch, but she saw that Min Qingrou couldn't eat her chopsticks after eating a few bites, thinking that she was uncomfortable again.
Min Qingrou shook her head and said, "I'm fine, I'm just thinking, what should I send to the emperor during the state banquet?"
"I heard that the congratulatory gifts given at the state banquet every year are all raised by His Royal Highness King Cheng! Speaking of which, the emperor has never seen anything? This congratulatory gift is really optional! His Royal Highness the prince has worked hard one by one, and the gift is too luxurious, I am afraid that the emperor will teach him a lesson, and the gift is too simple, and I am afraid that the emperor will not be able to look at it! The princess in our house is worried about this matter every year, and this year it will be your turn to worry about it!"
When it comes to giving gifts at state banquets, there is a stomach of complaints to be made.
Their mansion is really different from other mansions, King Qi has never bothered about this matter, this matter has always been handled by Princess Thyme. And in order to please the emperor, Thyme always finds his way to get some expensive and impractical things to offer.
King Qi has never been noncommittal about this, whether the emperor is satisfied with this gift or hates him, he has never taken it to heart.
However, when she heard a grumble from Yuanqiao, Min Qingrou smiled bitterly.
In fact, the crooked style of giving gifts at this state banquet is really not the head of King Cheng, but the idea of Princess Cheng Dugu and the moon.
Thinking of this, Min Qingrou sighed.
At the beginning, she was still the princess of Cheng, and she also knew that King Cheng always wanted to please the emperor so as to stabilize the identity of the prince in order, so she tried her best to plan for him.
At the state banquet that year, she and the thirty most skillful embroiderers in Kyoto stayed up for three months to make a splendid dragon robe for the emperor. The dragon robe is made of 300 meters of twisted gold thread, 100 meters of peacock and green feathers, and the robe body is embroidered with a total of 95 longevity characters, representing the ninety-five supreme, and each character is woven with gold thread. It is also embroidered with bats and ruyi patterns, which means longevity. In addition, there are nine dragon patterns on the front and back, and the dragon body is emerald green, woven by peacock green feathers, which is luxurious and atmospheric.
In order to make this dragon robe, her eyes were boiled up, and when it was evening or rainy days, her vision was blurry.
It is precisely because of this gift that King Cheng won the favor of the emperor, and once became the emperor's most important prince, so to speak, he almost became the candidate for the crown prince.
And she was also greatly praised by the emperor and was known as a model of women in the Yaori Dynasty.
It's a pity that somehow later, the emperor suddenly stopped being diligent in summoning Situ Chi, and Situ Chi had no choice but to use his heirs to put himself on the throne.
But God didn't obey people's wishes, after he had a miscarriage, Xuanyuan Wuzhen also had no children, and Situ Chi's dream was shattered again!
At the beginning, she didn't know why the emperor suddenly stopped summoning Situ Chi, but now she understands that it was her aunt Dugu Yanyu who fell out of favor in the palace, and the emperor was angry because of this, so he was cold to Situ Chi.
Situ Chi naturally counted this account on her head, which led to her tragic end.
But if it weren't for this, she wouldn't be able to see Situ Chi's true face clearly. It's all predestined, right?
Situ Chi's abandonment of her for power was not the thing she hated the most, what he hated was that he was ruthless, and he just beat her to death regardless of the love of husband and wife, and actually watched Xuanyuan Wuzhen mutilate their own flesh and blood!
Tiger poison does not eat children! He Situ Chi is not even as good as an animal! Where is he worthy to be a prince?
Thinking of this, Min Qingrou's heart lit up with a raging flame.
Situ Chi, I was able to help you ascend to the throne at the beginning, and now I can pull you off the horse! Wait and see! This state banquet will require you to make a big mistake!
Chinese New Year's Eve is here in a blink of an eye, and on this big day of universal celebration, the palace is full of traffic, which is really lively.
Min Qingrou and Situ Yue got up, Situ Yue changed into court clothes, Min Qingrou also changed into a gorgeous dress for the first time, and the two entered the palace from Chengtianmen in a sedan chair, and came to Changning Palace, where the princes were temporarily resting on the eve of the state banquet, and chose a more secluded Xinran residence to settle down temporarily.
followed by Shen Miaoling, who was also placed together. Situ Yue went to Jinglan Zhai to ask Concubine Lan for peace, and Min Qingrou found Shen Miaoling out of boredom and walked together in the garden of Changning Palace.
"Sister's complexion has been much better recently, I heard that you and the prince are using food therapy to recuperate, I wonder if it's true?
Shen Miaoling looked at Min Qingrou's increasingly ruddy face and couldn't help asking.
Min Qingrou smiled and said: "Where can there be that kind of miraculous effect? This diet therapy is just an auxiliary, I think my body can be better so quickly thanks to my sister's tonic prescription! By the way, there are a few flavors of medicine in that prescription that I always can't get together, and it took a lot of effort to find it last time, so don't you have to finish it again! Sister can find more for me?"
"Why did my sister eat so fast? Didn't I send you a two-month dose last time?"
Shen Miaoling was stunned for a moment and asked suspiciously.
"Isn't it because the prince is too anxious? Last time, he said that he wanted the master to take on the heavy responsibility of extending the heir! The master felt that his body was too thin, so didn't this change from the previous one post a day to two stickers a day?"
The fate on the side covered his mouth and snickered.
"What, sister, this decoction is drunk twice a day?" Shen Miaoling's face suddenly changed slightly, and she asked anxiously.
"Yes, sister, what's wrong with you?" Min Qingrou looked at Shen Miaoling's face, pretending to be puzzled on the surface, but a glimmer of light flashed in her eyes.
"Sister is so confused!How can you take medicine indiscriminately? You take such a large dose, if something happens, won't your sister become a sinner?" Shen Miaoling said with a worried face.
"Sister, don't make such a fuss! Isn't it just a matter of taking a few more patches of tonics? It's okay! Do you think I'm not doing well now?"
Min Qingrou replied with a pretended to be relaxed.
As the saying goes, medicine is poisonous! You must take medicine regularly and quantitatively, and you can't just take it according to your own wishes, otherwise it will be too late to regret it if you eat it badly!"
Min Qingrou was slightly stunned, then smiled and took Shen Miaoling's hand and said, "Good sister, I know! I know that you are all for my good, I will eat one post a day in the future, and I will never eat more, okay?
Shen Miaoling breathed a sigh of relief, seemed to hesitate, and then said: "Sister, I think it's better to stop taking this tonic for a month!"
"Stop for a month, Miaoling, there's no need for this, right?" Min Qingrou pretended to be indifferent.
"It must be stopped, sister, since the medicinal materials are out of stock, then don't eat them this month! I will find all the medicinal materials next month, and then send them to my sister!"
Shen Miaoling said very firmly.
"Oh, well, it's all up to my sister. Min Qingrou nodded without objection.
"Sister......
Shen Miaoling looked at Min Qingrou, and suddenly stopped talking.
Min Qingrou asked puzzledly, "What's the matter?" Miaoling, do you have something to say to me?"
"No, it's nothing!" For a moment, Shen Miaoling's eyes showed a trace of complicated emotions, and then quickly dissipated.
"Sister, if you have any difficulties, just talk to your sister, my sister can have today thanks to my sister's care! Didn't we say it was okay at the beginning? I will remember my sister's kindness to me for the rest of my life!"
"Sister...... Thank you!" Shen Miaoling's eyes once again revealed a touch of complicated emotions, and she gently called Min Qingrou, but only said a word of gratitude.
Min Qingrou immediately took Shen Miaoling's hand affectionately, and said with a smile: "What are you polite to me?" Let's go, let's go to the front and have a look!"
Shen Miaoling obediently let Min Qingrou take her hand and walked forward quickly, but after taking a few steps, she heard a giggling laugh, and then a familiar coquettish voice sounded.
"Dead girl! Just your mouth is sweet! Slap the ass again, beware of me screwing your mouth!"
"Concubine Zhen, how dare the slave and maid pat your ass! What the slave and maid said is the truth! My master is now addicted to practicing dance all day long, and he doesn't care about anything, he doesn't care about anything! The day before yesterday, the prince went to eat a closed door! The prince brushed his sleeves away angrily! Concubine Zhen, you can rest assured! This palace will not be your world sooner or later?"
Xuanyuan Wuzhen covered his mouth and giggled, "I said that the master of your family doesn't know whether he is really stupid or fake smart, and he actually forgot to sleep and eat for a dance music, and he didn't even want the prince! This is just right, I'm afraid that she won't like it! Do you know how much effort I took to find that neon dress and feather song? The more she is fascinated, the better, and the prince will be mine alone in the future!"
The more Xuanyuan Wuzhen spoke, the more excited he became, and he didn't notice that there was anyone behind the flowers, so he recklessly bumped into it!
"Ahh
"Ahh
Two exclamations sounded at the same time, Xuanyuan Wuzhen and Min Qingrou, who didn't stop their steps, collided and fell to the ground in embarrassment!
"Blind your dog's eyes! dare to hit Concubine Zhen's mother, are you impatient?"
The maid who had just replied to Xuanyuan Wuzhen immediately screamed and scolded her.
"Smack!"
A loud slap hit the left side of the girl's face mercilessly!
Shen Miaoling took it back, swept her eyes and covered her face with a look of disbelief and said lightly: "It's you who is blind, this!
"King Qi's side concubine, slave maid damn it! slave maid Cheng Wangfu Qin Concubine maid Hanmei to Rou Concubine Niangniang say goodbye!"
After listening to Shen Miaoling's introduction, the maid's face immediately changed greatly, and she fell to her knees with a thud!
"King Qi's side concubine, isn't His Royal Highness King Qi's side concubine Yun Rong? When did it become you? What do you say your name?"
Xuanyuan Wuzhen was quickly helped up by the personal maid Xiangxue, and after straightening her clothes, she looked at Min Qingrou, who was also helped up by fate, with a surprised face.
"Concubine Zhen, this is the soft side concubine of the Qi Palace. Shen Miaoling saw that Min Qingrou hadn't come back to her senses yet, so she answered for her.
"Who are you?"
Xuanyuan Wuzhen glanced at Shen Miaoling.
"I am Concubine Ling of the Qi Palace. I have heard that the Chengwang Mansion is strict in governing the government, and even the emperor has praised it, but I didn't expect that it has only been a few months since the death of Princess Cheng, and the maids in this palace are so unruly! What a pity, it's a pity that Princess Cheng died too early, otherwise wouldn't it be chilling to see the current situation of Chengwangfu?"
"You, what do you mean by that?" Xuanyuan Wuzhen suddenly turned blue and white when he heard this, and glared at Shen Miaoling with unwillingness.
"It's not interesting, but I want to advise you, this slave can't be too favored, otherwise one day climb to the master's head and shout, lose face and it's a small matter, if you ruin your reputation, there will be no princess to bother to save it!"
"Hmph! I don't need you to intervene in the affairs of the Wangfu! But a little concubine with a low status dares to come here to be big?"
Xuanyuan Wuzhen glanced at Shen Miaoling with disdain.
"Concubine Zhen, I'm sorry! Sister Miaoling is straightforward, don't you mind!"
"Hmph, I won't be like her!" Xuanyuan Wuzhen glanced at Min Qingrou, who looked timid and cowardly, and snorted lightly from his nose.
"Sister, I don't think it's too early, let's go back! lest the prince go back later, and he won't be in a hurry if he can't find us!"
Shen Miaoling no longer looked at Xuanyuan Wuzhen, and turned her head to Min Qing as if nothing had happened.
Min Qingrou nodded obediently and said, "Okay, let's go back!"
"Wait!"
Just as the two of them were about to leave, Xuanyuan Wuzhen suddenly called out to them!