The banquet went very smoothly, with the eldest princess and the eldest princess in charge, even if Zhao Chenan wanted to make small moves, he had to weigh it.

She can coax the eldest princess who treats her as her own, but she can't coax the cold and arrogant eldest princess.

Although today's banquet was not explicitly stated, everyone with a discerning eye knew that it was held by the eldest princess in order to show the future husband of Qinghe County, and inviting the female dependents to come was just a pretense, and everyone present knew it. Among the sons of the family who were invited to come to see the excitement, there were also those who simply came to enjoy the flowers, and there were many people who were in decline and urgently needed to climb the power of the eldest princess's mansion to revitalize the whole family.

In the eyes of everyone, Pei Yue is probably like this.

Pei Yue's grandfather Pei Wenxuan is the teacher of the current prince, Pei Yue's father Pei Changzhou abandoned the pen and followed Rong, and once led the soldiers to make great achievements in the north.

It's just that the fierce battle thirteen years ago made Pei Yue's father stay at the border forever, and it also made the Pei family ashamed.

The Pei family plummeted as a result.

Pei Yue was also not allowed to join the army because of his father. Unlike his father's choice, he was forced to pick up pen, ink, paper, and inkstone and prepare for the imperial examination. If you can win the crown, you can enter the court as an official and redress your father's grievances.

After all, the Pei family is also a hairpin family, even if Pei Yue's family makes a mistake, the other rooms of the Pei family can still hold on. This is also why Pei Yue was able to receive an invitation from the Eldest Princess's Mansion.

It's just that the Pei family is in decline after all, and Pei Yue's position is also very backward. In the afternoon, the sun was setting in the west, and the sun shone in, adding a layer of golden light to the purple robe.

Pei Yue touched the book in his sleeve, it was the "Good Collection" that he and Zhao Wanning picked up together in the bookstore after they met, he had already finished copying it, and he had always wanted to send it to Zhao Wanning in person, but he didn't have the opportunity. Zhao Wanning doesn't go out at all on weekdays, and her maids are the same.

He wanted to see Zhao Wanning again.

At this moment, Pei Yue was sitting in the corner of the flower hall, and with the cover of the crowd, he could go to see Zhao Wanning sitting in the first place.

Compared with a few days ago, Zhao Wanning seems to be a little fatter, and her cheeks are a little rounder.

She sat next to the eldest princess in a big red dress, and the whole person looked small. She was the protagonist of the banquet, but she seemed to stay out of the way, and she was attentive to the food on the table without raising her head.

The two men sitting next to Pei Yue began to whisper.

One of them said: "The county lord of Qinghe is good-looking, but he has already been engaged to someone else, and it would be good if he could marry and be a side room in his home." ”

Another man said, "How could the eldest princess let her biological daughter be a side room?" ”

The man asked earlier, "Why not?" Hasn't the county lord of Qinghe been divorced by General Qi Xiao? Someone willing to marry her should be satisfied. Besides, I heard that the eldest princess didn't like the county lord of Qinghe very much, after all, she was the daughter of the Marquis of Zhenbei. The eldest princess had a lot of trouble with the Marquis of Zhenbei at the beginning, and this Qinghe county lord was a stain on her life. If I were her, I would like to marry the county lord of Qinghe out of the mansion immediately. ”

Pei Yue tried his best to suppress his desire to beat people, and he suppressed his anger and asked, "I don't know what the two brothers call them?" ”

The man who spoke earlier said, "In Xia Wangyao, he is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. ”

Another man also reported to his family: "In Xia Sun Wuchi, he is also a bachelor of Hanlin Academy. ”

Pei Yue sneered: "It turns out that both of them are bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, and they must have memorized the Four Books and Five Classics many times, and the way of Confucius and Mencius should also be familiar with it." Why don't you understand the truth of not seeing, not listening, and not speaking? ”

The two men looked embarrassed.

Pei Yue continued: "The gentleman is not lying, he is honest and honest, and he stands in his body. It seems that the conduct of the two is still to be discussed. ”

Wang Yao blushed angrily and said angrily: "Who is Your Excellency? ”

Pei Yue is neither humble nor arrogant: "A nobody, not enough to worry about." ”

Sun Wuchi sneered: "I know you. Pei Yue, right? Your father Pei Changzhou colluded with foreign enemies in the Battle of Youzhou and almost handed over the four cities of Dajin Beidi to others. Fortunately, the saint is lenient and spares your Pei family. What kind of face do you have as a sinner to come to this feast? Oh, I forgot. Your Pei family is now weak and cold, presumably because you want to marry the county lord of Qinghe and climb to the power of the eldest princess's mansion. From this point of view, you are a good match for the county lord of Qinghe. One is after the unmeritorious sinner, and the other is the stain on the eldest princess's mansion. It's really a natural pair. ”

Pei Yue clenched his fists and tried his best to suppress himself.

The man who had stood out for him in front of Zhao Wanning before came over with a wine glass, noticed the tense atmosphere here, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?" ”

The two of them, who were still making a lot of nonsense, instantly changed their faces and arched their hands: "It turned out to be Brother Qingchuan." ”

Gu Qingchuan is also in the Hanlin Academy now, although he is only a small bachelor, but his father Gu Daren is the current official of the Ministry of Shangshu.

None of the scholars in the entire Hanlin Academy wanted to be officials, and they tried their best to please Gu Qingchuan.

Gu Qingchuan smiled happily: "Pei Gongzi's grandfather is my father's mentor, Pei Gongzi and I have a very personal relationship, and the two of you are now slandering Pei Gongzi like this, it really makes it difficult for me to do it." ”

The two people hurriedly apologized to Pei Yue.

Gu Qingchuan also leaned into Pei Yue's ear and said, "Just dissipate your anger, you have heard more ugly words than this." Don't care. ”

Gu Qingchuan was right. After the Battle of Youzhou, Pei Yue's situation plummeted. Originally, he was the son of the Pei family who was envied by everyone, but he suddenly fell from a height. There has never been a shortage of people in this huge capital who praise the high and the low, and the unpleasant words he has heard in the past thirteen years can not be compared with these two sentences.

But they shouldn't have judged Zhao Wanning.

Pei Yue wanted to continue to make trouble, but Gu Qingchuan stopped him.

"Have you forgotten the purpose of coming to the Hundred Flowers Banquet today? You made a move on the Eldest Princess's Mansion like this, even if you were reasonable, would you dare to say the reason for your move in front of the Lord of Qinghe? ”

Of course Pei Yue didn't dare. Zhao Wanning was that day and last month, how could he let Zhao Wanning hear these foul words.

Feeling that Pei Yue was relaxed, Gu Qingchuan pulled him to his place. Sitting with him was Zhou Fengyang, the son of the Hubu squire, who was already drunk and was taken down to rest by the attendants of the eldest princess's mansion.

Pei Yue's face was still tense.

Gu Qingchuan poured him a glass of wine: "Don't be angry, hurry up and think about how to hand over the book to the county lord of Qinghe." ”

Gu Qingchuan deliberately accented the word "with his own hands", how could Pei Yue not hear the teasing meaning in his words.

Pei Yue ignored him, but silently continued to look at Zhao Wanning with his residual eyes.

Zhao Wanning is obviously not interested in seeing each other.

Finally reborn, with a chance to start over, she didn't want to trap herself in the golden cage of the Princess's Mansion in the capital anymore. The unfortunate family affairs in her previous life also made her suffer a lot. Now that everything has been done all over again, this time, she wants to choose freedom.

She knew that in the eyes of the eldest princess, she was an old girl who had been divorced and couldn't get married, and she was a stain on the eldest princess's mansion. But she also wants to live for herself.

Whoever loves this family affair will become it.

Zhao Wanning lowered her head boredly and poked the golden jade tofu in the bowl with chopsticks, she had never eaten tofu before, but later Pei Yue took her to eat the golden jade tofu once, and she fell in love with this dish. It's just that when I eat this dish after I am reborn, I always feel that the taste is not as good as before.

It is also possible that Zhao Wanning's mood has changed.

"What's wrong? Is it boring? Princess Celestia asked suddenly.

Zhao Wanning shook her head, then nodded.

In her previous life, she had little to do with the eldest princess, who was the first child of the current saint and the queen's mother, and was gifted and intelligent since she was a child. It was probably the first child, and the saint was very fond of this little princess. The eldest princess was weak when she was young, so the queen invited her a martial arts aunt, and later the eldest princess followed the martial arts aunt to travel around, and only returned to the capital when she was young.

After the eldest princess returned to Beijing, her physique was indeed much stronger than before, and her personality became strong and resolute, fearless, just like the saint when she was young. I heard that the eldest princess was familiar with military books, and once recommended herself to the saint to go to the military camp for training. I don't know what she said, but the saint did have the idea of making the eldest princess a general.

Zhao Wanning remembered that at that time, the queen mother had found the eldest princess and wanted the eldest princess to dissuade her. The battlefield is no better than anywhere else, swords and guns have no eyes, and those are really dead. She didn't want her baby daughter, who was conceived in October, to die on the battlefield and end up with a horse leather shroud. She only hopes that the eldest princess can find a wishful husband, become a biological son, and live her life smoothly.

The eldest princess was not able to persuade the saint, but the eldest princess did not go to the military camp in the end. It's all because the old antiques of the Yushitai say that women are not allowed to participate in politics, and the military camp is important, how can women enter without permission?

In the end, the matter was settled.

I just heard that the eldest princess and the queen mother had a big quarrel, and later the eldest princess invited herself out of the palace to build a mansion. There has never been a precedent in this dynasty for a princess to go out of the palace to build a mansion before leaving the cabinet, but the eldest princess is the only one.

After the eldest princess left the palace and built a mansion, there were rumors in the market that the eldest princess was obsessed with men, and Guangluo Junjie, any man who could be favored by the eldest princess, no matter what his background, could become the eldest princess's guest of the scene.

After hearing this, the eldest princess even went to the eldest princess's mansion to make a big fuss, saying that the eldest princess was in bad shape and humiliated the royal face.

Zhao Wanning felt that it was nothing. Men in this world can have three wives and four concubines, why do women have to guard one person hard?

She admires the eldest princess, but the eldest princess is too cold and arrogant and has left the capital since she was a child, and she, Zhao Wanning, is just an unlucky county lord who is not favored, even if they are cousins, they have nothing to do with each other in private.

But Zhao Wanning instinctively felt that the eldest princess was someone who could be trusted. This trust is unfounded, probably because of the blood bond between them.

It's as if the eldest princess took the initiative to help her out this time, thinking that the eldest princess is also a temperamental person.

Zhao Wanning likes to deal with such people very much, no need to be cautious, observe words and looks, and do not need to explain much, flattery.

She is not a deep-minded person, the only thing she wants is her mother's love, but the eldest princess doesn't like her for various reasons. If it was before, she might still be sad and sad, but she died once, and she was finally reborn, so she felt that she was the most important thing.

What she was destined to have, she no longer wanted.