I was taken aback and hurriedly stepped forward, Pei Yuanhao had already raised his head, his cold gaze was like a sword, I subconsciously turned my head to avoid it, but I saw Pei Yuanxiu looking at me with wide eyes, as if he was a little surprised.

I walked to the center of the banquet, knelt down and said, "Long live the slave and maid to meet the emperor, long live the queen, and meet the queen's mother." ”

"Who are you and what are you doing there?"

"Slave maid—"

I was just about to speak, but I saw Yao Yingxue stand up and say: "Hui Niangniang, she is the maid of the concubine, because her hand was injured a little, and the concubine let her rest and not use it." But just now, the concubine felt a little cold, so she asked someone to get a stove, and she sent it. ”

"Oh, that's right." The Queen nodded.

I knelt in the center of the night banquet with my head down, and the surroundings were quiet, I don't know how many pairs of eyes were looking at me at the moment, and I just wanted to leave here quickly, and I was about to send the stove to Yao Yingxue, but I saw Queen Yin get up and walk towards me.

She reached out and lifted my chin, looked at it carefully for a while, suddenly smiled, and said: "To say that the third prince in this palace is the best at picking people, Yingxue is a big beauty, but I didn't expect that even the maids around her are so smart." ”

As she spoke, she turned her head to look at the princes sitting on both sides: "You guys, you should also learn." ”

"The queen mother complimented her."

As soon as Pei Yuanhao opened his mouth, it was like a cold wind blowing, and the originally lively atmosphere of the entire night banquet was a little cold.

At this time, a person said: "There are more beautiful women around the third brother, and the father and queen mother, you also underestimate the third brother's ability." ”

The person who said this was Pei Yuanchen, the fourth prince who was sitting next to the prince, and beside him was the sixth princess Pei Yuanzhen, the two of them were siblings, because their mother Zhao Shuyuan was the dowry of Queen Yin, and served the emperor during the queen's pregnancy and was canonized, so their mother and son were obedient to Queen Yin and the prince, and they were particularly attached.

Pei Yuanhao raised his eyes coldly: "Fourth, what do you mean by this?" ”

"It's not interesting, third brother, I'm praising you."

"Praise me?" He sneered: "The third brother wants to praise you, He Qingzhou was raided, and his son should have been sent three thousand miles to do forced labor, why was he brought to your mansion and became a waiter?" ”

Pei Yuanchen's face changed suddenly: "You-"

The people around me were also taken aback, including me, who was kneeling in the center. The fourth prince Pei Yuanchen's habit of breaking sleeves has long been heard of in the palace, but he didn't expect it to be true, and even the emperor, who has been drinking, frowned and said: "Fourth, you are too disobedient, you dare to cover up even the son of a criminal minister!" ”

Pei Yuanchen hurriedly got up and said, "Father, the son doesn't dare!" ”

"Don't dare? Then you say, what's going on with He Qingzhou's son! ”

Pei Yuanchen's face was red and white for a while, and he couldn't catch it, when the crown prince Pei Yuanxiu stood up and said with a slight smile: "Father doesn't need to be angry, there is a reason why the fourth brother did this." ”

"What is the reason?"

"My father also knew that the gentry in the south had always resisted the imperial court and did everything they could, He Qingzhou used poetry to satirize, and the crime was unforgivable.

"Oh?"

"The fourth brother did this, but he used this matter to tell those people that Zi said that Shiyun's dignity was given by the royal family, and only the dignity of the heavenly family was inviolable."