I am cultivating myself in the palace

When Qingyan arrived at Qingchun Palace, it was already a bit late.

The palace was full of princes and ministers who came to the banquet, and the banquet would officially begin when the protagonists of the palace banquet, Feng Yi and Emperor Yin, appeared.So when Qingyan came in, she naturally greeted the latecomers with staring salutes, which made her scalp tingle. Fortunately, she had participated in similar palace banquets several times in her previous life, and she had no idea where she should sit. Counting, he took a hasty glance, and sure enough, he saw Mu Zheng in the first few seats, and hurriedly slipped over with his head down.

Dayin's meals are divided into meals, especially this kind of palace banquet. Everyone has an independent small food table in front of them. Husband and wife usually sit next to each other. Qing Yan just sat down on his knees when he heard a message from his ear. Mu Zheng reprimanded slightly dissatisfied: "Why are you so slow!"

Qingyan gave him a squinting look: "Anyway, no one is waiting to fall into my arms, why am I walking so fast?"

Mu Zheng was choked up by her, and he couldn't hold back on his face: "Nonsense."

Qing Yan shrugged: "Yeah. The concubine always talks nonsense. Anyway, in the middle of the night, lighting a lamp and climbing a tree to pick flowers, such a crazy thing, ordinary people can't do it, as long as the prince is happy."

Mu Zheng looked at her mocking expression.I was so angry.

Of course he knew what Yue Qingyan meant. Just now when she made such a fuss in the courtyard, Shu's acting was naturally exposed. Although everyone didn't tell the truth, but Mu Zheng is not a fool, what happened is natural I know it well.It's just that this game was ordered by the queen mother after all, so even if he knew it, he couldn't say anything. What's more, this arrangement is actually very beneficial to him. The Shu family and the Wei family, the queen mother's natal family, are related by marriage. He is also the mainstay of the court. If he can form an alliance with the Shu family, it will be of great help to him. Therefore, although after this incident, Mu Zheng no longer feels the surprise of the Shu family when he first saw him, and even looked a little embarrassed, but he did not. Reject the other party's throwing arms and hugs.It's just that it's inconvenient to tell Yue Qingyan about the various considerations in it, and even if he said it, he would be ridiculed by the other party, so he could only forcefully reprimand him: "This is not something you should care about, keep your eyes open." duty!"

Qingyan is really about to laugh, it's her duty, she would like to ask what her duty is, seeing him as Prince Yan being played like a monkey, that's fine, since Prince Yan is willing to make his mind faint, then Let him go blind, she didn't bother to care, so she curled her lips indifferently, shifted her attention to the delicious food on the table, and swallowed her saliva following the conditioned reflex--too rich!

I saw the small food table in front of me, which was filled with all kinds of meals.Because the food table is relatively small, according to the menu proposed by the queen, it can’t fit at all. The palace people can only serve dishes every once in a while, replacing the dishes that have been tasted with new dishes. This process usually lasts for the entire banquet until the meal. The dishes on the table were changed three times, until the fruit was finally presented.However, in order to pursue the effect, the first wave of dishes is always the most eye-catching. Yushanfang has tried its best to make the works, which are naturally delicious in color and fragrance, making people salivate at a glance!

Qingyan couldn't resist the temptation either, her eyes were about to glisten.As a result, Mu Zheng became upset--is this the end?Shouldn't she have complained more!Her husband hugged another woman in front of her, why did she react so calmly? !

Seeing that the woman's heart and eyes are full of delicious food, the man's heart is itching with hatred, and it's not easy to get angry, so he can only snort heavily.Start to find fault: "Did this king not give you food, the dignified princess looks like a starving princess, what a shame!"

What?Qingyan twitched the corner of her mouth, she was just looking at the dishes, is that okay?Why is this man so insane?Qingyan endured the full desire to complain, and said to herself, since she is not allowed to watch, then she just doesn't have to watch, what a big deal, anyway, the banquet will be held soon, and these are all hers!

Thinking of this, she raised her head bored.His gaze swept over the faces of the guests attending the banquet. Emperor Yin hadn't come yet, and everyone was bored. Those who were familiar with each other near the seats gathered together and whispered. Others' eyes were floating around. Thinking about something, some people were in a daze.Qingyan scanned around, finding everything she wanted or didn't want to see.

Empress Ji has arrived, sitting at the head on the right side of the throne, listening to a palace maid's report, I don't know what the palace maid said, the queen's expression seems a little displeased.Afterwards, she ordered a few words in a low voice, and saw that the palace servants had to get rid of it, and after a while, they moved another food table and placed it on the left side of Emperor Yin.

Qingyan was stunned for a moment, this meant to add someone, this position.Could it be which imperial concubine or empress?Because it is for the celebration of the soldiers, Emperor Yin's palace banquet is mostly ministers, and the concubines in the harem are currently only attended by the empress and concubine Rong. Looking at the empress's arrangement, perhaps Emperor Yin summoned another high-ranking concubine at the spur of the moment. .

Qingyan really didn't know much about Emperor Yin's harem.Not interested either, Liu glanced over slightly.The seat at the head and right of Emperor Yin was reserved for the hero Feng Yi, and there was no one there at the moment.

Concubine Rong took the fourth prince and sat on the third seat from the right. She is the concubine who gave birth to the emperor's heir. Although she is only a concubine now, no one knows that Emperor Yin loves her, so she also sits in the front seat.The fourth prince nestled in her arms obediently. For some reason, Qingyan always felt that this child was more lethargic than the one she saw in the imperial garden last time, and his eyes were not as vivid as before. Could it be because of physical discomfort?

The position of the Shu family is far behind. Shu's father Shu Bihuai, the magistrate of Qizhou, happened to return to Beijing to seek a job. Qizhou had a bumper harvest this year, and Emperor Yin was very happy, so he also rewarded him to bring his family to the banquet. Madam Shu was ordered to sit in the middle and bottom seat of Qingyan's row, and several female family members of the Shu family sat in the side seats in the second row behind them.

Qingyan tilted her head to look, and saw that Mrs. Shu still looked like a calm and decent lady, sitting with lowered eyebrows and downcast, looking quite dignified and elegant, Qingyan frowned and took a closer look, and realized that this He added a piece of clothing to cover the neck, shoulders and thighs that were deliberately exposed to Mu Zheng in the courtyard.She said why it looked different from just now!

Qing Yan felt a little funny, Shu Shi was really thoughtful, Mu Zheng had to be revealing in front of Mu Zheng, but he had to maintain the appearance of a decent noble daughter at the palace banquet, this life was really hard!

She shook her head, stopped looking at Mrs. Shu, and turned her eyes to one side. Second Miss Shu was sitting on one side with a little nervousness. Qingyan saw her small face aggrieved, and she didn't know whether it was because she had been scolded or she was not used to palace banquets. restraint.The palace people were serving dishes to the side seats one after another, and they didn't know what they put on her table. The little girl's interest was hooked by the new dishes placed in front of her knees. Staring at the food table, like a puppy staring at a dog's bone, she couldn't help but smile.

Mu Zheng next to him kept looking at Qingyan out of the corner of his eye, and seeing her laughing, he followed his gaze.It turned out that Qingyan was looking at Shu Shi, so he misunderstood her smile as a mockery, and his expression turned bad again.

Just when he was about to have a seizure, he told the woman to sit down honestly, don't look around, she didn't look like a princess at all, when Yue Qingyan suddenly poked out a black and white cat's paw from his arms, groping to hook her The fish tail on the food table was not hooked even once, and the owner of the claw was not discouraged at all. He tried two more times, successfully scraped off a piece of meat, and then quickly retracted.Then I saw the woman's skirt tremble a few times, and a cat tail of the same color slipped out.

Mu Zheng's eyes were straight - this!Where did this woman sneak a cat from? !It's fine if you do it, why did she bring it to the palace banquet? Does she think this is her bedroom and boudoir! !

He didn't want to say anything about it. Over there, Yue Qingyan's attention was still focused on Miss Shu Er, and he didn't even know that the greedy cat in his arms had been exposed, until she was smashed on the head by broken silver, and she was holding her hands reflexively. Turning her head back, she was about to ask whoever was throwing things around, when she saw Mu Zheng staring at her with a dark face.

"What is that thing in your arms!" The man leaned closer, pretending to be a husband and wife whispering intimately, and lowered his voice, "Where is the cat?"

Qingyan was taken aback, and quickly covered it: "No, no, you read it wrong!"

"I saw it stealing fish! Its tail is still dangling outside!" The man gritted his teeth: "Yue Qingyan, what are you thinking in your mind! How can you bring a cat to the palace banquet!"

When Qingyan heard this, her eyes fell on the food table in front of her, and she really found that there was a piece of meat missing from the tail of the braised fish.

"Well, you little bastard, you actually grabbed the fish from me!" She angrily grabbed the cat's tail and stuffed it back, but when she looked up, she saw that Mu Zheng's eyes were already clouded, and she shrank her neck immediately: "Huh? There are reasons, which have already been brought in anyway."

This is not Feng Yi's fault. After talking to Feng Yi on the palace road, Qingyan floated all the way to the Qingchun Palace in a daze. She had already stepped into the gate of the palace, and she suddenly remembered that she still had a bird in her arms. Cat.

This cat is really well-behaved, just curled up in Qingyan's clothes without moving, not barking or making trouble, it is still small, and it can't be seen that the clothes are too big, Qingyan resisted everyone's gaze, and didn't want to retreat, so he had to Bite the bullet and came in, thinking that if the cat could keep doing this, it wouldn't be a problem, but I didn't know that the little things are also greedy, and when the food is present, I immediately abandoned my beliefs!

Over there, Mu Zheng was still about to reason with her, but Qing Yan's eyes were sharp, and he let out an ah, and decisively diverted his attention: "The emperor is here!"

Sure enough, I saw Emperor Yin striding in, one step behind him, followed by the calm-looking Major General Feng Yi of the Black Banner Army, but to Qingyan's surprise, the Empress Dowager followed in with the support of Princess Fengyang .