"Your Majesty! The emperor's concubines can't keep up with their short legs, your majesty, you are a little slower! ”

Jiang Ning was dragged by Mu Jingzhao and stumbled, and was almost dragged to the ground several times.

She gritted her teeth, scolding in her heart that this man didn't know what was wrong, and that he had just straightened his hair with a smile on his face not long ago, and in the blink of an eye, he looked like he was eager to throw himself into the pond.

Sure enough, it is like a companion tiger, Jiang Ning sighed secretly.

She trotted closely behind Mu Jingzhao, barely able to keep up with the other party's pace.

"Your Majesty, you are a little slower!"

Countless times, Jiang Ning's swear words have come to his lips, and finally he endured it because he was worried that Mu Jingzhao would not give money.

"Your Majesty!" She shouted again.

Seeing that the other party was still unresponsive, Jiang Ning couldn't bear to pinch the back of Mu Jingzhao's hand with his nails.

Mu Jingzhao gasped and withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.

Jiang Ning was relieved, bent over, supported his knees with his hands and gasped for breath.

"What for?" Mu Jingzhao raised his hand and saw five clearly recognizable nail marks near the tiger's mouth on his right hand.

The nail marks were deep, the hollows were slightly white, and the translucent skin was scraped to the side, oozing a little red blood.

Jiang Ning looked up, and his cheeks had already begun to flush.

"If you ask me what I do, I'm like asking what you want to do?"

The anger full of anger was vented a little, and Jiang Ning felt speechless, and shrunk his neck stupidly, for fear that Mu Jingzhao would settle accounts with him.

However, Mu Jingzhao didn't speak for a long time, just looked at Jiang Ning, who was sweating profusely, with some confusion.

It seems that it was only at this time that he finally realized the abnormality of his behavior with some hindsight.

Even he didn't know where that anger came from, what was the trend that made him make such a move.

He looked at Jiang Ning's complaining expression, his unkempt hair and sweaty head, and he felt that his behavior was inappropriate.

"I'm sorry."

Jiang Ning's eyes widened in shock, and he straightened his waist in an instant, and was about to open his mouth to make Mu Jingzhao lose money.

Unexpectedly, Mu Jingzhao took a step faster, and grabbed Jiang Ning's wrist to drag her away.

However, this time his movements were obviously much softer than not long ago.

"Don't worry about asking me for compensation, my treasury is almost empty."

Jiang Ning rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that the other party can really talk nonsense.

Despite this, she still didn't say anything, and just let Mu Jingzhao drag her forward.

"You don't have to be too nervous later, you just need to remember that you are the real prime minister's daughter."

Jiang Ning nodded, and his mind probably passed through what the eldest lady he had seen in his memory book looked like.

This kind of imitation can be said to be a piece of cake for her.

"If someone asks you something and you don't know how to answer it, just nod and smile, and don't worry about anything else."

Jiang Ning couldn't help but nod again, and silently wrote down everything Mu Jingzhao said.

Although Mu Jingzhao's style of doing things really made her a little confused.

But she probably understood in her heart that a large part of the other party did this to keep herself from showing her feet.

So I swallowed all the complaints in my heart.

In the blink of an eye, Mu Jingzhao dragged Jiang Ning to the door of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and the old eunuch Li Zinian saw the two and hurriedly stepped forward.

"Ouch, my long live lord, you told the slave to go and see the mother, why did you go for so long."

Li Zinian complained about Mu Jingzhao, but his eyes unconsciously swept over Jiang Ning, who was full of embarrassment.

Immediately, he lowered his head slightly, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a somewhat malicious smile.

"Have you all arrived?"

Li Zinian nodded again and again.

"I've been waiting for a long time."

"Hurry up and prepare the sedan chair."

"Yes."

Li Zinian responded, and then ran away quickly.

Mu Jingzhao pulled Jiang Ning over and carefully helped her comb the broken hair on her forehead, "Don't be nervous, everything is fine." ”

After arranging Jiang Ning's hair, he tilted his head and looked at her carefully for a moment, and then gently patted her on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, everything is going to happen."

Jiang Ning saw his serious look, and he nodded equally seriously.

Inexplicably, she had a wonderful illusion in her heart that she and Mu Jingzhao were a pair of lovers who had just fallen in love, and they were about to meet the elders in the family together.

However, this illusion only lasted for a short second in her mind.

After all, there is a moat between himself and Mu Jingzhao.

This is a chasm that cannot be crossed in any way.

"Let's go."

Mu Jingzhao said, and pulled Jiang Ning into the hall without saying anything.

"You've been waiting for a long time." Mu Jingzhao said this and stood still in the hall.

In the hall, all the people who came to the banquet had already been settled in their respective seats, led by three men who were nearly middle-aged.

One of them, thin and plainly dressed, did not have the slightest appearance of a dignitary.

He stood behind the other two, his eyes unconsciously looking at Jiang Ning, who was standing beside Mu Jingzhao.

Such a gaze made Jiang Ning a little uncomfortable, she looked in the direction of her gaze, and the moment her eyes made contact, the other party quickly dodged as if she had been electrocuted.

Thinking that it should be Jiang Qingyuan, Jiang Ning made a decision in his heart.

The forces in this harem have always been deeply involved with the previous dynasty, and I don't know how many eyeliners have been planted in the harem.

It has long been known that Jiang Ning is in charge of the concubine's birthday banquet.

In addition, Mu Jingzhao and Jiang Ning entered the hall hand in hand in front of everyone so generously, and everyone present thought that they had made a decision about Jiang Ning's identity.

When everyone saw Mu Jingzhao, they hurriedly got up from their positions and bowed to Mu Jingzhao.

"The emperor is auspicious."

Mu Jingzhao waved his hand, "Hurry up and be polite." ”

"I haven't seen him for many days, but the emperor is still as heroic as ever." A short and fat middle-aged man stepped forward and bowed to Mu Jingzhao.

The man's face was full of oil, and his smile drove the fat on his face to squeeze his eyes into two narrow flesh slits, and a well-embroidered official uniform was supported by the fat all over his body without wrinkles.

Covered in the stench of oily copper, thinking that it was the queen's father Shen Tong, Jiang Ning thought absentmindedly.

"Uncle praised it falsely, but my uncle is still young, and his demeanor has not diminished back then!" Mu Jingzhao smiled brightly.

Such an occasion made Jiang Ning uncomfortable for no reason, so she turned her face away and didn't look at the polite greetings between the two.

"Where is the subordinate so ignorant? Don't quit yet! ”

Just when Jiang Ning's gaze unconsciously swept over a tall and energetic middle-aged man, she was scolded for no reason.

Jiang Ning didn't feel anything special about the other party's scolding, he only felt that he was disgraced all day long, and even if he was mistaken, he could still say it.

"This is my Concubine Ning." Mu Jingzhao opened his mouth to defend at the right time.

Unexpectedly, this simple sentence instantly drew everyone's attention to Jiang Ning.

(End of chapter)