Chapter 50 Toast and celebrate birthday

After her sister married into the palace, Prince Yu despised her sister within three months of being new to the palace. He allowed the people in the palace to humiliate her sister at will, and in the end, he even allowed his concubine to harm her sister in order to marry his new wife.

's life.

Her father and brother learned the truth from her sister's personal maid, and came to seek justice for her sister. However, they were humiliated and kicked out of the county prince's palace. Her father's injuries took him back home for half a year to heal. Her brother

He even lost one leg and his future was ruined.

Whenever she thought of this, Zhou Cairen wanted to eat Prince Yu alive. She originally thought that as long as she entered the palace and gained favor, she would have the opportunity to seek justice for her sister, father and brother, but she was not as beautiful as her sister, and her temper was not liked by the emperor.

After being in the palace for several years, not to mention being favored, I even had very few opportunities to see the emperor.

After Lu Wanning heard Zhou Cairen's story about her sister's past, she felt sorry for Zhou Cairen's sister. At the same time, she also felt that Zhou Cairen's remarks on this occasion to a person who had not had much friendship with her in the past were somewhat superficial.

Zhou Cairen may have seen what Lu Wanning was thinking. She pulled away from the past emotions, smiled, and said: "I'm sorry, I have been holding these things in my heart for a long time. I couldn't bear it when I got excited just now.

I can’t stand it any longer, but I’m really tired that you’ve been here listening to my complaints for a long time.”

Lu Wanning shook his head and said, "Nothing."

After that, neither of them mentioned Prince Yu again, nor did they glance in the direction of Prince Yu again. After Zhou Cairen chatted with Lu Wanning for a few more words, he turned his head to the other side and accompanied Qu Cairen.

Gossip started.

Lu Wanning carefully observed the situation between the two of them and found that although they were in the same position and Zhou Cairen entered the palace a few years earlier than Qu Cairen, when the two talked, Zhou Cairen was the one who praised him most of the time.

Conquer talented people.

I can't blame these two people for getting together. Now it seems that Zhou Cairen may have taken a fancy to Qu Cairen and took the initiative to get close to him.

Among the concubines who entered the palace, the highest-ranking ones are Weng Jieyu and Cui Jieyu, but the one who is favored the most now is Zheng Meiren. Qu Cairen is not the highest-ranked, nor is he the most favored.

Yes, but besides Zheng Meiren, she is the one who sleeps with her the most.

It’s not surprising that Zhou Cairen would pick her up. After all, if Zhou Cairen picks up Zheng Mei and Cui Jieyu, these two people may not talk to her. Even if they are willing to talk to her, they will not get along with these two people.

It is easier to get along with Qu Cai than Qu Cai, and he has not aroused much jealousy in the palace so far.

Thinking about it, Zhou Cairen may have given up his hope of winning favor by doing this, and instead placed his hope on Qu Cairen, hoping that Qu Cairen would help her avenge her sister in the future, right?

Just as Lu Wanning was thinking about it, the concubines in the harem arrived one after another. Those who were enjoying the scenery in the imperial garden did not know when they had returned from the imperial garden and sat down in their own seats.

Already.

After Lu Wanning saw the imperial concubine, she looked for Lin and Chang among the married women, and sure enough she saw Lin and Chang.

However, Lu Wanning only glanced at it and then withdrew her gaze. She didn't care about the fact that Lin and Chang entered the palace but only went to see the imperial concubine. What she cared about was that she didn't know whether Tao was living well in the Hou Mansion.

good.

But Lu Wanning knew that if she asked Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Chang about this, they would naturally only say yes and would not say that Mrs. Tao was unhappy at home, so she would ask the two of them to inquire about Mrs. Tao.

The impulse of the situation suppressed me.

Soon, the emperor, the queen, and the queen mother appeared in Cheng'an Palace together, and everyone knelt down in time to salute.

After the Queen Mother and the Emperor said a few words respectively, the birthday banquet officially began. The sound of piano, flute and drum music started. Various songs and dances that the Jiaofang Si had rehearsed for a long time were also presented in front of everyone. One after another delicious dishes were served.

The handsome palace maid held a visit to the table in front of everyone.

After the song and dance ended, the emperor picked up the wine glass, walked to the queen mother, and toasted to the queen mother for her birthday.

Next is Prince Yu. Prince Yu is the Empress Dowager’s brother-in-law and the only brother of the late Emperor.

Lu Wanning only glanced at Prince Yu, who stood up and walked to the open space in front of him with a glass of wine in his hand, and quickly moved his eyes away to look at the emperor sitting at the head.

The emperor is already very handsome, and compared with Prince Yu, he is even more eye-catching.

Fortunately, she was wise and chose to enter the palace. If she had chosen not to enter the palace in order to facilitate the meeting with Mrs. Tao and her younger brother Lu Simo, and was cruelly married into Prince Yu's Mansion by the imperial concubine and Mrs. Lin as their second wife, she would have no place to cry now.

Already.

Luo Chengjing sat at the top, listening to Prince Yu's stammering birthday greetings. While finishing the wine glass in his hand, he casually scanned the expressions of the people below. When his eyes fell on Lu Wanning, he couldn't help but sigh.

Dayton.

On this occasion, many concubines in the harem looked at him overtly and covertly, but none of them had eyes as hot and bright as Lu Wanning's.

Lu Wanning's eyes collided with Luo Chengjing's. Lu Wanning seemed to be frightened, she lowered her head and retracted her eyes, but after a moment, she couldn't help but raise her head and glance secretly in Luo Chengjing's direction.

I don't want to be caught red-handed by Luo Chengjing again.

Lu Wanning blushed again and lowered her head, focusing on the exquisite dishes on the cup and plate in front of her, not daring to look up again.

The corners of Luo Chengjing's lips curled up slightly, and Prince Yu, who looked down at him, was no longer so irritated.

Prince Yu finally finished the long series of messy birthday wishes, and after enjoying the feeling of being watched by everyone, he slowly returned to his seat. Before returning to his seat, he glanced in the direction of Lu Wanning.

It's a pity to think about how such a lively beauty is the concubine of his emperor's nephew? If she were an ordinary person, he would be "close and intimate" no matter what, but now he can only look at it.

I'm so greedy.

After Prince Yu went down, it was time for the princes to toast and celebrate his birthday.

The late emperor had seven sons. The eldest prince was born weak and died of illness before he reached adulthood. In order to fight for the throne, the third prince conspired with the sixth prince to seize the palace and was sentenced to death by the late emperor. Now only the prince who has been granted the title of King Qi is left.

The second prince Luo Chengxian, the fifth prince Luo Chengshao who was granted the title of Prince Ning, and the seventh prince Luo Chengyou of Prince Mu who was born with a limp.

There is no adult prince in this dynasty who must stay in his own fiefdom, and there is no rule that prohibits him from entering the capital when summoned. Therefore, although the three of them have fiefdoms, King Ning and King Mu basically live in the capital all year round. Only King Qi before the emperor ascended the throne.

He went to live in the fiefdom and rarely returned to Beijing.

If it weren't for celebrating the Queen Mother's birthday this time, he probably wouldn't have appeared in the capital.
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