After the rebirth, the cold prince clings to me every day

Chapter 261 New Year's Eve Palace Banquet
Five days later, on New Year's Eve, there will be a New Year's banquet in the palace.

As a family member of the royal family, Shen Mingjiao naturally had to go there earlier.When they arrived at the gate of the palace, let a small yellow gate lead Cui Lingling to the front hall where the palace banquet was, while she first went to Fengming Palace where the queen was.

When they arrived at Fengming Palace, there were already many people sitting in the main hall, all of them were female relatives of some offshoots of the royal clan.

Shen Mingjiao stepped forward to greet the empress, the empress waved her hands: "We are all a family, younger siblings are welcome." After saying that, someone moved a chair under her.

The other female family members of the Zong family couldn't help but feel sour when they saw it. The Tian family has never had family ties, but this statement absolutely does not apply to the present King Jing and Emperor Su.

The two brothers obviously have a large age difference, and they were not born to the same mother, but Jing and Di are closer to King Su than ordinary brothers.

Shen Mingjiao took the tea served by the maid, and saw that the empress frowned slightly, and her expression was not too good, obviously she had encountered something troublesome.

The empress is not a person who can hide her emotions. Several members of the clan's family members present can see it. It is just out of prudence to protect themselves, and no one asks.

Shen Mingjiao guessed what was going on after a little thought.

When the time came, the empress led a few people to the front hall. On the way, Shen Mingjiao sat beside the empress' sedan chair and asked, "Is the empress worried about the prince?"

The queen sighed: "That's right! After Qi Yu learned that His Majesty wanted to choose a concubine for him at the palace banquet today, he refused to agree, so he locked himself in the study without seeing anyone."

Shen Mingjiao remained silent, this is indeed something the prince can do.

"What does the emperor say?"

"Your Majesty has asked the Prince Taifu and several gentlemen from Chongwenguan to go and persuade him. If it really doesn't work, His Majesty said he will tie him up."

Speaking of this, the sadness on her face was even stronger, and she almost shed tears.

"Actually, we're not forcing him to get married. It's just that it's hard to be a parent after seeing him degenerate day by day, but he..."

When it comes to sadness, he choked up a little.She is not a very strong person. Compared with ordinary women, her life can be said to be smooth, except for her two sons.The eldest son died early, and now the younger son is dying for a woman all day long.

Shen Mingjiao handed her a handkerchief: "I understand, Aunt Huang just wants him to come out slowly."

I thought in my heart.Given the degree of infatuation the prince has for Su Qing, he might not be able to let it go for a while.

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When they arrived at the front hall where the palace banquet was held, after everyone greeted them, the queen waved her hand to let the girls be free, and then followed the eunuch into the back hall, presumably to let people inquire about the prince's situation.

Shen Mingjiao took a look, and found that there were unusually many female relatives who came today, especially many young girls who had been well-groomed, and their clothes were fragrant and beautiful, and they were extremely gorgeous.

At this time, seeing Cui Lingling waving at her, she walked over: "It seems that many girls in Beijing want to marry the prince!"

Cui Lingling pushed a plate of peeled melon seeds between the two, curled her lips and said, "Isn't it? You don't know, these women are going to blow the prince up to heaven!"

Because the prince has always defended Su Qing unconditionally, which made her dislike him instinctively.

Think about the next few decades.She was upset that their Red Lotus Sect might want to be filial and loyal to such a master.

But no matter how upset she is, as the saintess of the Red Lotus Sect, she will not take the initiative to do anything.

While the two were chatting and eating melon seeds, a woman's delicate scolding came from not far away:

"Get up, this position is the one I saw first."

The two looked for their reputation, and saw several noble ladies surrounded by a seat near the screen opposite, and in the center stood a mighty red-clothed girl.

The girl was holding a whip in her hand and pointing at a woman in blue who was sitting at the table.

The woman in blue looked at the whip in her hand, shrank her shoulders in fear, but still gritted her teeth and raised her head to meet her gaze as calmly as possible.

"Miss, what do you mean by this? We are both officials and eunuchs, and this lady has not signed, why can't I do it?"

Seeing that she dared to retort, the girl in red got even angrier, pointed a whip at her, and said without hesitation:
"What qualifications do you have to compare with me, my father is a second-rank general, and you are just a concubine who can't stand on the stage!"

When she said this, it can be said that it caused public outrage, not because of the phrase "a concubine who is not on the stage", but because she said that her father is a second-rank general.Hearing these words, there is a sense of using status to overwhelm others, and the status of being here is not low, so naturally he can't hear these words.

All of a sudden, everyone around looked at her with unkind eyes.

The woman in blue heard her humiliating herself like this, bit her lower lip aggrievedly, but still straightened her back: "Can you overwhelm others because of your noble status? Why!"

The girl in red didn't care about everyone's gaze, she seemed to be completely irritated by the woman in blue's words, she raised her whip and was about to whip it down:

"I'm going to overwhelm people with power, what can you do to me! I hate people like you the most. You put on a pitiful face that the whole world bullies you. I heard it just now at the gate of the palace. You and your maid Talking bad about me!"

After finishing speaking, he didn't hesitate anymore, and raised his whip at that pitiful but pretending to be strong face.

There was a burst of exclamation at the scene. On such an occasion, if you say you can do it, you can do it. Everyone only thinks that this girl is arrogant!

Just when the whip was about to fall, a middle-aged lady rushed over, grabbed the girl in red by the arm, and reprimanded in a low voice:
"Shu'er, don't mess around."

After speaking, he smiled apologetically at everyone: "My sister-in-law is young and ignorant. Let everyone see the joke." After finishing speaking, he was about to drag people away,

The girl in red didn't want to leave, she yelled: "Sister-in-law, you don't know, she scolded me, it's really ugly..."

The middle-aged lady stroked her forehead with a headache, and coaxed softly: "Okay, my little ancestor, don't even look at this place! She scolded you, you just go back and clean it up..."

Even so, the words are full of pampering and protection.

The noble ladies looked at each other, but because of the identity of the girl in red, no matter what they thought in their hearts, no one said anything.

Shen Mingjiao withdrew her gaze, "The girl in red is Lu Jingshu, the daughter of Great General Lu. I wonder which family the girl in blue is from?"

Cui Lingling said: "She is Jiang Xueru, the concubine daughter of Mr. Zhongshuling Jiang, but she has been sent under the name of her aunt a few days ago."

She lowered her voice and said, "According to reliable sources, His Majesty pre-selected Mr. Jiang as Prime Minister."

If there is any major event in the court recently, it must be the vacant prime minister position.It has been more than two months since the death of the former Prime Minister Su Huai, but Jing and Di have not yet decided on the prime minister candidate, which makes some high-ranking officials eager to move.

Shen Mingjiao understood, she said why she hadn't seen this Miss Jiang in her previous life!

In the previous life, because of the tug-of-war with Beidi and other reasons, Su Huai was still alive when she died.So naturally there will be no such thing as the Zhongshuling Mr. Jiang?And Jiang Xueru, a concubine, naturally would not have the opportunity to attend such a banquet.

But in this life, because of her and Feng Lisheng's rebirth, Su Huai died prematurely.

She raised her eyebrows: "Master Jiang wants to stuff his daughter into the East Palace?"

If she remembers correctly, Mr. Jiang has a prostitute in his family, but she got married early.
Nowadays, there is a difference in the status of concubines and concubines. If the head mother can entrust the concubine under her own name when she has a daughter, it can only show that the concubine is valuable.

It's just... Based on her understanding of Jing and Di, this Master Jiang may have made a bad move.

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(End of this chapter)