Chapter Forty-Eight: The Wedding Banquet in the Palace
On the shore of the lotus lake, the breeze is slow, and the banyan willows on the shore are dancing with the wind, which is beautiful and beautiful.
Shuo looked at Wu Ling sitting next to him with a smile on his face, his heart was full of joy, because he really didn't expect that Wu Ling would agree to come to the banquet with him yesterday.
In fact, since the fire broke out in the mother's harem three years ago, Wu Ling has not paid much attention to him anymore.
At that time, he rushed into the fire, was smashed by the pillars of the hall, and was almost burned to death, but when he woke up, he found himself lying unharmed in the courtyard of the imperial palace, and he heard the waiter say that Princess Duanjing rescued him.
However, Wu Ling was no longer in the imperial palace at this time, and only sent him over and returned to the emperor's mansion.
After that, he hurriedly returned to the Emperor's Mansion, but saw that Wu Ling seemed to be a different person, he had seen himself dodging everywhere before, but now he didn't show up at all.
Since then, he has rarely seen her for ten days and a half months, and even if he did, she would coldly perfunctory herself and leave coldly.
When the queen mother died, Shuo Ben didn't have so much thought about Wu Ling, but as time slowly passed, it has been three years now, and Wu Ling is still cold, not smiling at herself, and not showing any emotions.
She didn't even attend any banquets and funerals in the palace, and she became the seventh princess who had no sense of existence again, and he seemed to have become a stranger in her eyes.
This made Shuo feel very unhappy.
But since Wu Ling came with him to the palace banquet today, does it mean that she has changed back to the previous Wu Ling? Won't you be so repulsive about yourself anymore?
Thinking of this, Shuo suddenly smiled and felt a lot relieved.
Wu Ling has been paying attention to the person next to him who has been watching him smile, I don't know what he is thinking, smiling so happily.
Shuo is like this, with a smile on his face all the time, warm like a gust of wind.
He looked at Wu Ling's appearance, which made Wu Ling feel that he was the treasure of heaven and earth.
The Treasure of Heaven and Earth......
The queen mother also said this, but the queen mother only loved her spiritual power and loved her specialness.
In the past three years, Wu Ling has experienced countless bloody storms, and she has already seen through it and wants to open it.
The queen mother is no longer the woman she saw at first sight in the mountains, as beautiful as a fairy, nor is she the woman who will gently call her good daughter.
She has changed, completely changed, power and desire have been carried away, and hatred and oppression have occupied the heart that was once as gentle as water, if she still loves anyone, it is Rui.
Her only, biological son, Rui.
That's her roots, the people she spoils.
All the favor he once shared, after all, was returned to Rui, turned into power and glory, and paved the way for Rui.
Wu Ling smiled bitterly...... What the result would be was unknown, but she vaguely knew that no matter how hard the queen mother tried, it might end up in vain.
At this time, Wu Ling was sitting on the shore of the Lotus Lake, and there were carved dragon tables around the lakeside, and the emperors and princesses were sitting in the banquet, as well as a few officials, who seemed to be important ministers.
There was a banquet in the palace, because the five emperors Yun Xiu, a month ago, got a pair of dragon and phoenix twins, and became the first emperor to add a grandson to the emperor among the emperors.
The emperor was already worried about the refusal of the two saint-honored emperors to marry the emperor's concubine, and one of the two sons focused on state affairs, and the other was not even sure of him, the father, and urged several times to no avail, so he stopped urging, thinking about when he would set up the emperor's son, and he would definitely ask him to give birth to ten or eight to enjoy himself.
But before the emperor was decided, the five emperors gave him this pair of treasures, even if it was not the emperor's blood with silver eyes, but it was still his grandson, the emperor was ecstatic, holding the two children and kissing was not enough, simply told the ministers, on the day of the full moon of the baby, they set up a banquet on the lotus lake in the emperor's palace to share the joy.
Although it is early summer, the lotus has not yet bloomed, but the green lotus leaves have already drilled out, and the fragrant lotus leaf fragrance has penetrated into the nose of everyone along the gentle wind, which makes people feel more happy.
The emperor and the queen sat on the highest place, the emperor held the two children in his arms to play with joy, and the emperor and queen also smiled gently, stretching out their slender white fingertips from time to time to tease the little baby's soft cheeks, making the little baby giggle.
Behind the emperor, there are many small tables, and next to them sit various concubines and young emperors.
The dancers sang and danced softly, and everyone's faces were full of joy.
"Seventh sister!" A cry of joy dragged Wu Ling's wandering mind back. Even if you don't have to look at it, you know that such a cheerful sound must be a stream.
Wu Ling turned his head to look at the stream, and behind him, followed by a long and muscular man, it was Cang.
In the past three years, Wu Ling has been immersed in her own world, so it seems that she has not seen the stream for a long, long time.
Time flies so fast, even the five emperors have already given birth to a pair of twins, and Cang has become stronger and stronger, like a man, and more like a general.
However, the Sixth Emperor Zixi, who was only more than two months younger than the Fifth Emperor's Son, had not changed at all, he had not grown at all, he was still the same naughty elf boy, with a pair of black water eyes blinking and blinking, full of novelty.
Come to think of it, Xi is the same age as herself, and she is twenty years old this year, but why is she still like this small child? Standing in front of the tall Cang, he is more like a naughty kitten protected by his owner.
"Seventh sister, long time no see, how are you?" The stream opened, still with an immature juvenile timbre, as if time would never leave a mark on him.
"I'm fine, what about you?"
"Me too, the vicissitudes of life took me to swim all over the famous mountains and rivers, rolling in the mountain cols, catching fish in the big rivers, and having a good time! It's just that the sun has been so hot lately, you see I'm tanned! As he spoke, he pursed his lips and pointed to a tiny sunspot on his face and complained.
Wu Ling looked at the small, barely visible spot and pursed her lips and smiled.
"The fifth brother has a child, and the seventh sister is a girl's family, so she should quickly bring me a big nephew to play!"
"Hmm." Wu Ling nodded, but the bitterness in her heart spread for no reason.
I saw that Xi didn't wait for Wu Ling's answer, Yun Zi sat down in front of the carved dragon flower table next to Wu Ling, and couldn't help but pick up the pastry and start eating, and didn't forget to stuff a few pieces into the Cang's mouth on the other side, and smiled as gently as ripples in the lake.
"Huh? Why didn't Shangguan Yu arrive today? ”
I don't know who said this, which made Wu Ling's heart suddenly beat more.
"I don't know who said it, Shangguan Yu died at home yesterday, I don't know if it's the fire ...... that day again" The one who spoke was the old man who wanted to blackmail Shuo to drive away Wu Ling yesterday, and he was also looking at Wu Ling angrily at this time, as if to say, 'Everything is her sin'.
Wu Ling didn't know what she had to do with him, so she let him target him like this.
Xu is old people, and his mind is delicate, Wu Ling has to say that this old minister is really smart.
Hearing that Shangguan Yu was dead, Shuo's hand shook obviously, and the bamboo shoots on the chopsticks fell on the table, and the smile on his face disappeared in an instant.
"No, I went to Lord Shangguan's house yesterday evening, and I didn't see anything unusual about him!" A young man spoke.
"Then you mean the old man is lying?"
"Not really...... It's just that I really saw Lord Shangguan at home safe and sound last night. ”
Hearing this, the emperor frowned, and immediately looked at Wu Ling.