Chapter 966: The Potential of Self-love
What is this called?
Not to mention the ladies and ladies who followed him, even Zhu Kongshan herself had a fool in her heart. What does it mean to "Since you are here"? Didn't you, Concubine Li, personally sent me a post?
But even though I thought about it, I couldn't show it on my face. Even if the ladies and ladies behind me didn't have time to go home, Zhu Kongshan was a master in this field. So she smiled and seemed to have not heard the alienation in Concubine Li's words. She stood up and took the initiative to go forward, and said with a smile: "Kongshanda has been thinking about the palace banquet here since he came to pay homage to his second aunt last time. Today, those who came to the palace with Kongshan to celebrate the resumption of his second aunt are all the ladies and ladies who did good deeds in the north of the city with me, and some of them have not come together, and they will say later. I didn't say hello to my aunt in advance, and I hope my aunt will not blame me. There is a tradition of warming up a new house in Pengzhou, and Kongshan is also in good intentions. I hope Changning Palace will be lively and I hope my aunt will live a prosperous life in the future."
Following Zhu Kongshan's words, the ladies and ladies quickly walked forward with a smile and presented the gifts they brought.
Concubine Li knew what Zhu Kongshan meant. She held a palace banquet and invited few people, there were few people in the palace, and there were not many outside the palace. If Zhu Kongshan didn't bring these people, it would be embarrassing and deserted. She initially hoped that Zhu Kongshan would bring more people in, and she also thought that the girl would think of this for her by doing things. But the plan did not change quickly, and the situation was completely different now. Feng Yuheng Xuan Tiange came, and she also brought the daughter of the Right Prime Minister's family, Hebei General Pingnan's family. These four people stood here and raised the confidence of the palace banquet. She no longer needed these small characters brought by Zhu Kongshan to serve as a facade. Therefore, the people who had originally hoped that they could come have now become unnecessary. Even if Concubine Li knew that she would not hit the smiley person, she could not see joy on her face.
Zuo Ren brought a group of palace men to receive the gifts, then looked at Concubine Li who seemed not interested in talking to these people, and then smiled and said: "Mrs. Ladies and ladies, today's banquet is set up in the flower hall. I will take you to the flower hall first!"
Everyone answered one after another, they really didn't want to stay in this main hall. Concubine Li's face was clearly not welcome to them. It was urgent to leave Concubine Li's nose and find a place to study what was going on together.
The ladies and ladies left, but Zhu Kongshan stayed. When she came in just now, she paid attention to the courtyard. Now the main hall has also met, and she has not seen the nobleman Yuan. She knew that nobleman Yuan would come today, but it was not so early! Seeing Concubine Li and Feng Yuheng talking enthusiastically, Feng Yuheng's tone was faint and expression was also faint. Many times she nodded and shook her head, and she didn't even answer the words. It felt like Concubine Li and the people on her side were cold and hot, but when they arrived at Feng Yuheng, they all turned around.
Zhu Kongshan was thinking about what Concubine Li meant. Soon after, Zuo'er also walked back and looked at Zhu Kongshan. Then he reminded Concubine Li: "Empress, everyone has arrived almost. Princess Wuyang has also gone to the flower hall. Let's go there early too!"
Concubine Li nodded and said repeatedly: "Yes, you can't let the princess wait for a long time." After that, she was about to pull Feng Yuheng's hand.
Feng Yuheng pulled his hand away lightly and said to Zuo'er: "Help your empress, it snowed again last night, and it was sliding outside!"
Concubine Li was a little embarrassed, but she still smiled. She passed by Zhu Kongshan while walking, but it was the same as she didn't see it, which was very different from the attitude she had met a few days ago.
Zhu Kongshan followed behind and frowned slightly. He really couldn't figure out why Concubine Li's transformation was so fast. He had not entered the palace since that day, so it was impossible to offend him. If there was any problem here, then it was probably what Concubine Yuan did on the other side that made Concubine Li unhappy? She sighed lightly in her heart, and she was a little worried. She didn't know what Concubine Yuan did, but the eighth prince asked her to please Concubine Li!
The palace banquet is located in the flower hall of Changning Palace, but when people enter the flower hall, they find that there is no normal palace banquet arrangement. Generally speaking, the palace banquet is attended by the host, and guests sit on both sides, leaving a clear space in the middle for singing and dancing performances. Then the table is placed in front of the host seat, with melons, fruits, wine and water on it, which makes the banquet awesome.
But at the moment, there were only tables and chairs in the Changning Palace feast, and there was no fixed order, and there was no place for singing and dancing in the middle. The people who came first sat in scattered places, with no rules at all. There were also fruits and wines on the table, but the fruit was just ordinary apples, a little small, and it didn't look very fresh. There was no wine or tea, and each table had a plate of melon seeds, which looked both shabby and funny. Even ordinary people's banquets would be better prepared than this, right?
Zhu Kongshan couldn't help but sigh again. He had heard that this second aunt was introverted and had little knowledge of the outside world. In the words of noble Yuan, she just couldn't get on the table. But she didn't expect that she was inferior to this! Looking around, there were already people who came first and said wonderingly: "Don't there be singing and dancing in the palace banquet? Isn't this place even impossible to jump?"
Someone immediately answered the conversation: "What are you singing and dancing? In my opinion, I just sat down and chatted, gave the gifts, and left. The concubine Li didn't have the intention of having a banquet at all. To put it bluntly, it should be just to receive gifts, right? I heard that concubine Li was quite poor."
This was not loud, but it was not small either. Zhu Kongshan could hear it, Feng Yuheng could hear it, and even Concubine Li could hear it. But she didn't care, and just wanted to let Feng Yuheng go to the main seat to sit with her.
But Feng Yuheng shook his head and said, "No, today I called Princess Wuyang to come, so I should have sat with her." After saying that, he ignored Concubine Li's enthusiasm and turned around and walked towards Xuan Tiange. Huang Quan followed from behind, but couldn't help but say to Concubine Li: "Concubine Yu is just a regular visitor today, so the empress do not have to be too polite."
Huang Quan's words were a little stimulating to Concubine Li. Zuo'er, who was holding her next to him, could clearly feel Concubine Li's body trembling, and her hands were clenched tightly in her sleeves. Zuo'er was a little scared and quickly comforted: "Empress, I'm right, your attitude towards Princess Yu is indeed too warm."
"What? I like someone, so I can't talk a few more words?" She said this coldly with a cold face. After saying that, she glared at Zhu Kongshan, and the topic immediately changed: "If you don't find a place to sit by yourself, why do you always follow me?"
Zhu Kongshan was really shot while lying down. He leaned over helplessly, and sat down next to his sister who came with him. When the people around him were still talking about the place being arranged like a banquet, she said softly: "We are all girls' homes, so it's not interesting to watch those singing and dancing."
As soon as he said that, someone immediately reminded the lady who had been complaining about the lack of singing and dancing: "Don't pick and choose the most, remember what we did when we entered the palace!"
"I know!" The lady had a bad temper. She shook her sleeves and said impatiently: "Isn't it just to save face for Concubine Li? But what did you say before? Although Concubine Li was a concubine, she had no power and had no great face to invite more decent people to the palace banquet. We came to Changning Palace with generous gifts, but she was a behavior of giving Concubine Li a good face. Even if Concubine Li was not moved, she must have remembered this love in her heart. What's the result? Look, there is no face in others? This face is so great! Not only is the right daughter of the right prime minister, but the legitimate daughter of the Pingnan General's family, but even the Royal Princess and Princess Wuyang are here! Even the banquet of this scale can invite these people, and they will not be able to attract the Queen in a while?"
"You can speak softly." Someone quickly persuaded him, and pointed to Zhu Kongshan, who had no expression on his face. Then he lowered his voice and said, "I've come here, just do my best. Anyway, it's not our fault if you have any mistakes."
Feng Yuheng looked at the room coldly. The concubines who came to admire the lights came to greet her and Xuan Tiange, which made her feel embarrassed. The palace banquet of Concubine Li, to be honest, was too unclassified. What kind of banquet? It was like a tea party, just like a teahouse, where a waiter traveled through it and continued tea from time to time. When the melon seeds were gone, they could quickly grab a few more handfuls, but some apples on the table were all gone, and no one went to continue it. She said helplessly to Xuan Tiange: "Concubine Li is really poor."
Xuan Tiange said disdainfully: "The concubine who embarrasses her the most is probably her! You don't know that before the Sixth Brother was there, when she was there, Concubine Li called Sixth Brother into the palace from time to time. She never walked around on weekdays, but when the Sixth Brother came, she would take Sixth Brother around and show off to others that she had a son, which made Sixth Brother so angry that she once refuted her a few words because of this matter. She even cried and said that Sixth Brother was unfilial."
Ren Xifeng also interrupted, "Concubine Li always attaches great importance to her son. She thinks that her son is worthy of any woman. No matter who it is, as long as the Sixth Prince is a blessing. Of course, being favored by the prince is really a blessing for ordinary people, but there is no such a self-confessing person as Concubine Li. One year, I met the Sixth Prince by chance and said a few words. In the eyes of Concubine Li, it was that the Sixth Prince looked down on General Pingnan's Mansion, and actually sent someone to the mansion to propose marriage the next day. In front of my father, he said that the official concubine was first established and then a concubine was established in two years, which was considered to give face to General Pingnan's Mansion. My father was so angry that he broke the leg of the nanny who came to propose marriage! "
Feng Yuheng didn't expect that there was such a thing. Thinking about Concubine Li's attitude towards her, she finally understood it. It turns out that Concubine Li's self-indulgent disease was not something she had just committed recently. She had this potential for many years!
The few people were talking, and at this moment, a palace servant led the guests in outside the flower hall. It turned out that a lady was leading a boy over two years old. Feng Tianyu exclaimed first, then said, "Isn't that the concubine of the Feng family?"
Feng Yuheng also looked at it clearly at this time. The person who came was Feng Fandai. The one he was holding was the child he took from Baicaotang a few days ago.
Chapter completed!