Expensive marriage: The concubine is begging for peace again today

Chapter 263
King Yu was lucky, everyone was busy with celebrating the New Year and preparing New Year's goods, the matter of him being grounded and fined, was discussed for two days and then stopped.

On New Year's Eve, officials from all the prefectures and above the second rank brought their family members into the palace to participate in the palace banquet.

After breakfast, the concubine went to the palace accompanied by King Jin and Jiang Changning.

After the ceremony, Jiang Changning was sitting in a corner with the pregnant concubine De Wang and concubine talking and laughing. At this moment, Zhao Xifang came over, stared at the two of them unkindly, and said, "Don't be complacent, both of you."

After saying that, she turned and left.

Jiang Changning and Princess De Wang Shizi looked at each other in blank dismay for a moment, then Princess De Wang asked, "What does she mean?"

"You're mentally ill, don't talk to her." Jiang Changning could feel Zhao Xifang's hostility towards her, but he didn't understand why this hostility came from.

Could it be that Zhao Xifang is also interested in King Jin?
King Jin is really a scourge!

The two didn't pay much attention to Zhao Xifang, and continued to chat about the Yue opera that the Jiangnan troupe came to Beijing to sing recently.

"I heard that the new play "Liu Yi's Biography" will be sung on the third day of junior high school. Call Shang Bingqing and the others to listen to the play together." Said Princess De.

"It's cold, you have a big belly, so don't worry about it. When you can invite people, invite the team to the house and let them sing a few songs for you. It's fun."

"That's the only way to go." De Wang Shizi rolled her eyes, "When do you plan to conceive again?"

"My son is only one year and two months old, do you need to give birth in such a hurry?" Jiang Changning pouted.

"Two hugs in three years, my little sister-in-law." Princess De Wang Shizi laughed.

Jiang Changning raised his eyebrows, "I'm not in a hurry, let nature take its course, and give birth as soon as I get pregnant."

"I just hope that my baby is a boy, and I can rest for a while." Princess De said, touching her stomach.

Jiang Changning couldn't answer these words, the stuff in his stomach, until he was born, no one would know the gender.

Just like Changshan Prince's concubine, experienced people say that she has a round belly and can't eat sourly. She was pregnant with a girl, but gave birth to a boy.

The two chatted for a while, Wen Bingqing, Zeng Zhaofu and other female relatives of Xungui's family also came in.

In winter, it was getting dark early, Shen Shizheng, the light was getting dark, and it was already twilight. The ladies of the palace came and invited the female relatives to move to the banquet hall for dinner.

Everyone greeted each other and built relationships, and time passed quickly.

At this time, a court lady was holding a tray, looking left and right, as if she was looking for someone.

Walking without looking at the road, he bumped into Jiang Changning's body, the tray overturned, and a cup of tea on the tray fell on Jiang Changning's body.

Fortunately, wearing thick clothes in winter, this cup of hot tea did not scald Jiang Changning.

"What's the matter with you?" Zeng Zhaofu asked sharply.

"Princess Jin, this slave did not mean it." The maid was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Jiang Changning stared at her with deep eyes, Sejun has become the late emperor, whose idea was this court lady to make a fuss about?

What do you want to do again?

"Get up, you don't need to kneel, take me to change clothes." Jiang Changning did as she wished, wanting to see who it was and what tricks he wanted to play?
Wen Bingqing and Zeng Zhaofu looked at each other, "We will accompany you."

This trick of pouring tea on people to lure them out is very old.

Well, it doesn't matter if the trick is old, as long as it works.

"Thank you." Jiang Changning smiled at them, and then urged the maid, "Let's go."

The palace maid looked at Wen Bingqing and then at Zeng Zhaofu. She had no qualifications, and she dared not let these two follow her. She gritted her teeth and said, "Princess Jin, please come with your servants."

Going out of the palace through the side door, and after walking for a while, the maid turned around and knelt down again, "Princess Jin, the servant doesn't want to do this either, it was Princess Yi Ya who forced the servant to do this."

Jiang Changning didn't expect it to be Princess Yi Ya, and couldn't understand why she would do this, so he asked directly, "Where did she ask you to take me?"

"Chenghu Lake over there."

Jiang Changning frowned, "She doesn't mean to push me into the lake, does she?"

"This servant doesn't know, Princess Yi Ya just asked the servant to lead the princess, and other people will do the rest."

"Ning Ning, let's go over and have a look." Zeng Zhaofu was bold.

"No." Jiang Changning did not want to take risks, "A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall."

Wen Bingqing agreed, "Ningning is right."

"No matter what game she sets up, as long as I don't join the game, her efforts will be in vain." Jiang Changning laughed.

Finding an empty room nearby, asked the court lady to bring a brazier, Jiang Changning took off his outer clothes, dried them, put them on again, and the three of them returned to the banquet hall.

"I'll go find my prince." Jiang Changning said to the two of them.

"Go and do your work." Wen Bingqing said with a smile.

Jiang Changning randomly found a servant and asked him to send a message to invite King Jin over.

"What's the matter?" King Jin looked worried.

Jiang Changning pulled him by a corner and recounted what happened just now, "Can someone check it out, what does Eldest Princess Yiya want to do?"

"I'll arrange someone to investigate. You stay in the hall and don't wander around."

"The meeting will start in a while, and I can't leave even if I want to."

Jin Wang went to find someone to investigate the matter, Jiang Changning entered the palace, and continued to chat with De Wang Shizi and the others.

While chatting, I saw Princess Yi Ya coming in, looking around as if she was looking for someone.

Then, her eyes met Jiang Changning's, and her eyes widened instantly.

Jiang Changning looked away calmly. She didn't go to Chenghu Lake, which surprised Princess Yiya.

After a while, there was the sound of a whip, which was the sound of the emperor's traveling whip.

After everyone stood up according to their status and grades, the servant said loudly: "The empress dowager is here, and the emperor is here."

The imperial concubine who fought against the empress dowager was restrained, and the empress dowager was still ill. Only the empress dowager brought the emperor to attend the New Year's Eve banquet.

Everyone saluted and greeted the Queen Mother and the Emperor, and the Emperor tried his best to put on a serious look with a stern face, "Everything is flat."

Then the emperor said another clichéd auspicious words, "Let's go!"

The palace maids filed in with food boxes, and the New Year's Eve banquet officially began.

The imperial meals were exquisite and delicious. Jiang Changning, who only ate some pastries at noon to satisfy his hunger, was hungry. He concentrated on eating for a while before looking up to enjoy the song and dance performance.

"Is this year's dance newly choreographed?" Jiang Changning asked.

"Si Lefang has new musicians and dancers, and they choreographed it." King Jin put a piece of Xuedong pheasant in Jiang Changning's bowl.

This year's banquet is a two-seat banquet, and Princess Yu and Princess Jin are seated at the same table. King Yu is grounded, and the Queen Mother did not allow him to come to the banquet. Zhao Xifang is seated with Princess Concubine Ningxia.

King Jin went out for a while on the way, and when he came back, Jiang Changning saw that his face was quite ugly, as if suppressing the overwhelming anger, he asked in a low voice, "My lord, what's wrong?"

"We'll talk about it when we go back." King Jin held her hand.

The dinner lasted for an hour, and when the banquet was over, snow fell in the sky again, and everyone was disturbed, and they walked out of the warm hall, adding to the chill.

(End of this chapter)