Chapter 42: I can't control your life or death, and I don't want to care about it
On July 17, the thousand autumn day of the empress of the Southern Dynasty, the palace began to prepare for this palace banquet ten days before the order of Concubine Ling.
The Qianqiu banquet is set up in the Taihe Palace, and the palace layout, the preparation of dishes, the selection of banquet wine, and the classification of utensils can be said to be a grass, a tree, a flower and a tree need to be carefully prepared before they can be used.
On the same day, first the royal relatives, hundreds of officials and wives and young ladies of various families paid homage, and then hundreds of officials entered and everyone had a banquet.
This time, there was no drama troupe or dancing girl to help the fun, and the ladies who prepared the show after the banquet will perform one after another.
After the banquet was over, the queen specially arranged for the wives and young ladies to go to the imperial garden to enjoy the lotus.
It wasn't until night, after everyone watched the lanterns in the palace, that the Qianqiu banquet was over.
Queen Lu's Thousand Autumn Day.
Su Youning, who didn't sleep well all night, woke up early, changed into a decent palace dress with the help of Ruyi, and then sat in front of the bronze mirror to dress her up with auspiciousness, looking at the slightly immature face in the bronze mirror but combing the hair bun of the royal relatives entering the palace, she pursed her lips and said.
"Jixiang, dress up plainly today, don't be too ostentatious."
Jixiang nodded and muttered quietly.
"The princess is clearly so good-looking, and she is not allowed to dress up."
Su Youning smiled bitterly and shook her head slightly, how did Ji Xiang know that today's Qianqiu banquet was not simple, it was best for her not to attract attention, and then she wanted to visit the shrine today, and I didn't know if I could see Qin Su!
It's just that Su Youning didn't know that after a little powder, she had an indescribable sense of elegance and coldness in the palace dress, which made people fall into it at a glance.
In front of King Yu's mansion, the carriage that indicates His Royal Highness King Yu is already waiting outside.
Su Youning knew in his heart that even Chu Yu, who was not dealing with Queen Lu, was going to attend today, and under the guidance of Steward Liu, Su Youning got into the carriage.
Today is a palace banquet, and Su Youning only brought Ruyi, who acted more steadily.
On the carriage, Chu Yu had not yet arrived, Su Youning was still sitting in the old place, and after a while, the curtain was lifted by Zelan, and the little servant carried Chu Yu in a wheelchair into the carriage.
Su Youning and Chu Yu looked at each other, this was the first time the two had seen each other since Su Youning's retaliatory needle prick last time.
Chu Yu's eyes were cold, and he only glanced at Su Youning and looked away.
The last time he pricked the needle, Chu Yu realized that Su Youning was vindictive, but Chu Yu restrained his anger because he could sleep peacefully after using Su Youning's homemade sandalwood for several days.
However, although Chu Yu didn't act harshly to Su Youning, after she left the inner compartment, Chu Yu was so angry that he swept all the things he could see on the ground with one palm, and the room was in a mess.
Even Zelan, who rushed in to check the situation, was inexplicably rewarded by Chu Yu with a rolling word.
It can be seen that Chu Yu was very angry with Su Youning!
Back in the carriage, after the little servant settled Chu Yu, Zelan lowered the curtain, and Su Youning spoke softly.
"Concubine, see Your Highness."
Su Youning thought to herself, if the situation is critical today, maybe she will have to rely on Chu Yu for first aid, and it is better for the two to reconcile than to enter the palace like this.
Chu Yu snorted coldly and ignored Su Youning.
Su Youning pursed her lips, as if she wanted to break the awkward atmosphere between the two, and her tone was flattering.
"Your Highness, have your legs gotten better in the past two days?"
Chu Yu put his hands on both sides of the wheelchair casually and hung down on his lower abdomen, looking sideways at the outside of the carriage, he listened to Su Youning's words that intentionally eased the atmosphere, recalled that the pain in his legs had indeed improved in the past few days, and subconsciously glanced back at Su Youning.
When he got into the carriage, he just glanced at it and didn't look carefully, and at this moment he found that today's Su Youning was dressed up extremely elegantly and beautifully, as if she was born to wear such clothes, with her slightly playful and quiet expression at the moment, the picture of the two figures overlapping in his mind hit again.
Chu Yu's expression that had just eased immediately became cold, and his tone was a little colder than before.
"Su Youning, today's Qianqiu Banquet Hall knows what you are thinking, but you had better die hard, I can't care about your life or death today, and I don't want to care about it."
As soon as the words fell, Chu Yu leaned back slightly, closing his eyes as if he were recuperating.
Su Youning was choked, so angry that she could only clench the handkerchief in her hand, gritted her teeth, and secretly thought: Good you Chu Yu! It's best not to fall into my hands!
A quarter of an hour later, the carriage arrived at the palace gate.
The guards at the gate of the palace recognized at a glance that it was the carriage of the Yuwang Mansion that came at this moment, and immediately let it go after respectfully saluting.
Su Youning looked at the scenery along the way with the curtains blowing in the breeze.
Different from the last time she went to Kunning Palace, this time the majestic palace city, red walls and blue tiles, she had no intention of watching such a beautiful scenery, today's Qianqiu Banquet didn't know what kind of situation it would be, Chu Yu didn't work at the critical moment, thinking of this couldn't help but make her a little trance.
The carriage is parked outside the Taihe Palace, the Taihe Hall is very magnificent, it is composed of three parts of the front hall, the middle hall and the apse, the front hall is the most luxurious and magnificent, it is the main position of the palace banquet, the middle hall is the place where the emperor and the concubines rest, the area of the apse is larger, and there are many wings, it is the place where the attendants or palace maids rest.
Chu Yu and Su Youning are both relatives of the royal family, and they need to enter the shrine together.
The person in charge of welcoming the visit was Lin Suya, the first-class wife of the Prime Minister's Mansion, who was also Lu Huanting's mother and the current queen's sister-in-law.
Su Youning naturally didn't recognize it, so she got out of the carriage and only followed Chu Yu inside.
Lin Suya recognized at a glance that the person in the wheelchair was Chu Yu, the Third Highness, and the woman wearing palace clothes walking beside her was naturally Princess Yu.
She raised her chin slightly, looking up and down at the woman beside Chu Yu from a certain distance, she looked soft and weak, and she was dressed very elegantly, such an immature woman was actually Su Youning who made the queen angry and lost face.
Immediately afterwards, Lin Suya frowned and coldly ordered the palace maid who followed her a few words.
Everyone in the palace knew what kind of character the person in the wheelchair was, and after hearing Lin Suya's instructions, the eldest palace maid whispered.
"Mrs. Lin, that is His Royal Highness King Yu, what if he angers and destroys the queen's Qianqiu banquet?"
The two palace maids didn't dare to do what Lin Suya ordered, after all, their own little life was only rare for them!
Lin Suya's eyebrows flashed with a hint of calculation, and she whispered again.
In the end, they had to intimidate a few more words, and the two palace maids nodded.
Su Youning was about to follow Chu Yu inside, when suddenly, two palace maids from the Kunning Palace stood in front of the Yu Wangfu group.
The two palace maids saluted respectfully at the same time.
"Slaves and maids, see His Royal Highness King Yu."
"Dare to ask if this is Princess Yu?"
Chu Yu didn't speak, his left hand turned the white jade wrench on the thumb of his right hand, and he didn't seem to care about what others asked.
Su Youning pursed her lips and stepped forward to salute in return.
"The one next to the slave maid is Princess Yu, I don't know what advice the two aunts have?"
A palace maid hung her head slightly, not forgetting to glance at Chu Yu's expression at this moment, seeing that he was calm and didn't care what they said, she hurriedly spoke.
"Today's queen mother's banquet, Princess Yu is the first princess among your royal highnesses, so please Princess Yu follow the slaves and maids to visit the palace first."