I painted red makeup for Hou Ye

Chapter 2

The palace banquet was set seven days after Ji Yun returned to Beijing.

On this day, Cui Xuan entered the palace with her grandfather and parents. On the carriage, Mrs. Cui told Cui Xuan, "Ah Xuan, this palace banquet is for the purpose of cleaning up General Xie and Marquis Wu An. You must not stir up trouble."

Ji Yun had been granted the title of Marquis of Wu'an not long ago, Cui Xuan nodded to her mother, "My daughter knows, don't worry, mother."

It is inevitable to slander in my heart, Ji Yun used to be the nephew of the Holy Majesty, and now he is the hottest Marquis of Wu'an.

How dare she provoke him!

"Okay, okay, didn't daddy say it, what happened three years ago has already passed, why do you need to mention it again?"

Seeing his daughter curling his lips quietly, Master Cui said hastily.

Cui Wangshi glared at him and said nothing.

The carriage drove all the way to the palace gate and gradually stopped.

After getting off the carriage, Elder Cui Ge and Elder Cui entered the palace first, and Cui Xuan had no choice but to enter the palace with Mrs. Cui Wang.

From time to time on the road, I met a noble lady who was acquainted with Cui Wang, and she praised Cui Xuan. Fortunately, Cui Xuan saw Fu Yao who came to the palace banquet together, and after saying goodbye to Cui Wang, the two girls hugged each other. started to leave.

Cui Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief after walking all the way to the Royal Garden. She never liked dealing with people.

Not to mention that those wives boasted about her, which made her feel even more ashamed.

Fu Yao looked at her, frowned and said, "Why did you suddenly enter the palace today?"

In the past, Cui Xuan never participated in palace banquets, and she didn't like to go to invitations from various prefectures.

It's not that Cui Xuan is arrogant, but that she doesn't want to deal with strangers.Fortunately, the Cui family also doted on her and never asked her to do anything she didn't want to do.

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Cui Xuan rolled her eyes, and was about to speak when she heard a sentence: "Who else can it be for, Marquis Wu'an!"

Fu Yao secretly rolled her eyes, thinking, Cui Xuan didn't like to attend the banquet because of these sloppy girls.

Seeing that Fu Yao was about to step forward to say something, Cui Xuan quickly stopped her.

She just came to attend a palace banquet and didn't want to have any conflict with Xie's family.

The girl who caused trouble is the second wife of the Xie family, Xie Hanyu.

The one who returned to Beijing with Ji Yun this time was Xie Hanyu's elder brother, Xie Jianglin.

The Xie family is now an upstart in the court, it is different now, she must not cause trouble again.

But even though Cui Xuan didn't want to cause trouble, Xie Hanyu stopped in front of Cui Xuan, and said with a light smile: "I have heard that the Cui family's younger sister is both talented and beautiful, and now it seems that she is worthy of the name. This Ji Sanlang doesn't know what to think." Yes, I actually feel that you are not as good as a beggar."

While speaking, she looked Cui Xuan up and down, with disgust that couldn't be hidden in her eyes.

The ladies who came with her burst into laughter again.

Cui Xuan lowered her eyelids, only to hear Fu Yao sneer beside her: "It's not like Sister Xie's family, you look so innocent, I think Ji San thinks you are better than a beggar!"

"Fu Yao!" Xie Hanyu was furious when he heard this.

Cui Xuan glanced at Xie Hanyu, the girl stared at Fu Yao as if she wanted to eat people.

She secretly thought, although Xie Hanyu's appearance is not as good as hers, it can't be said that "appearance is without salt".

But Xie Hanyu always cared about his appearance, so he was naturally angry when people said that.

Fu Yao stuck out her tongue at Xie Hanyu, and snorted softly: "Sister Xie, even though your appearance is poor, there is no need to worry. Women, the important thing is virtue, not appearance."

As she said that, she made an annoyed look again: "But you have no virtue!"

Xie Hanyu is the person who cares most about other people's words, and Fu Yao just grasped this point to say so.

Sure enough, Xie Hanyu raised his hand and was about to hit Xie Hanyu.

Seeing this, Fu Yao pulled Cui Xuan up and dodged aside, while Xie Hanyu's body fell forward.

"Hanyu!"

A voice mingled with anger reached Cui Xuan's ears, she followed the voice and saw Lang Jun in a honey-colored brocade robe.

He has good facial features, but there is a hint of anger on his face, "What are you doing?"

Xie Hanyu pursed her lips, with tears in her eyes: "Brother, it was Fu Yao who humiliated me first, and I almost made her fall to the ground."

"That's a pity." Another voice sounded a little lazy.

Cui Xuan followed the voice and saw Ji Yun who was looking at them leisurely.

Today he was wearing a crow-blue brocade robe, his hair was not tied up, and he looked quite youthful.

Ji Yun continued: "If Mrs. Xie fell to the ground, it must be really interesting!"

After speaking, he sighed regretfully again, "That's why Ben Hou said, it's a pity."

Hearing this, Fu Yao couldn't help laughing.

Xie Hanyu stomped her feet and said angrily: "My little girl has never provoked Lord Hou, why did you tease me like this?"

Saying that, she glanced at Cui Xuan again, and muttered: "Sister Cui's is really true, you deliberately provoked a dispute between me and Amei Fu, maybe you want to provoke Lord Hou to come over, so as to make trouble for me."

She looked like she was going to cry or not, Cui Xuan sneered in her heart, such clumsy behavior was really embarrassing.

It's just that although Xie Hanyu would have disputes with her in the past, he would not be so extreme.

"Shut up, let's go!" The man in the honey-colored brocade robe stared straight at Xie Hanyu.

Cui Xuan put a smile on her lips, and walked towards Xie Hanyu, "Sister Xie's family really thinks highly of me, I have never been familiar with Lord Hou, so it is not certain that he will come to the Imperial Garden, such a crime cannot be borne. "

As she spoke, she raised her voice again, "Besides, I don't think much of Lord Hou, let alone that I came to this palace banquet for him."

Saying that, he stretched out his hand and retreated Xie Hanyu, then leaned towards the two people behind him slightly, and left with red eyes.

Xie Hanyu barely stood firm, but Fu Yao rolled his eyes at Ji Yun and the three of them, stepped on the feet of Xie's brothers and sisters, and ran away after Cui Xuan.

Ji Yun raised his eyes to the man and said, "Xie Fangchi, take good care of your sister."

His voice was slightly cold, and after he finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Xie Fangchi knew that he was angry, so he gave Xie Hanyu a hard look.

He knew that Xie Hanyu would not have disputes with others in the palace for no reason, he must be provoked by others.

But it happened to be Cui's daughter again.
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Cui Xuan walked all the way to the pavilion in the imperial garden, and wiped the tears off her face with a handkerchief.

Not long after sitting down, I saw Fu Yao coming towards me.

Fu Yao sat opposite her and asked her worriedly: "Are you okay?"

Cui Xuan shook her head at her, "It's okay, you don't have to quarrel with her, it's not good for your reputation if it spreads."

There were so many noble girls present just now, Fu Yao should discuss marriage at this age, if word spreads to her future uncle and aunt, it will not be easy to marry someone in the future.

Fu Yao only thought she was unhappy, and comforted her: "Don't worry, I just stomped on the feet of Xie's brothers and sisters and avenged you!"

Cui Xuan twitched the corners of her mouth, and said helplessly: "What does this have to do with Mr. Xie's family?"

In the situation just now, if it wasn't for the appearance of Xie Fangchi, with Fu Yao's temperament, he would have fought Xie Hanyu.

Fu Yao patted her forehead, and snorted softly: "Who knows, Xie Erlang is used to being a good person, don't be fooled by his appearance!"

Cui Xuan shook her head helplessly.

Cui Xuan felt chills as the autumn wind blew on her face.

Now that the Cui family is in decline, the emperor is suspicious, and Xiang Yang is watching them closely.

Originally, he was worried that Ji Yun would be worried about what happened three years ago, but now it seems that he didn't care about it.

Cui Xuan pursed her lips, full of civil and military affairs, maybe only Ji Yun can help the Cui family.

Fu Yao also felt the cold, and the two hurried back to the banquet.

As soon as she sat down, Cui Wangshi asked her: "Are you causing trouble again?"

Before the emperor and empress were seated, there were bursts of noisy voices in the hall.Cui Xuan looked at her mother's almost angry expression, and wanted to tug on her sleeve to explain, but she saw Cui Wangshi glaring at her: "We'll talk when we go back, you just sit down for me."

Cui Xuan felt wronged for a while, and it was like this again, it would be better if she knew that the palace banquet would not come.

She lowered her head, peeled the longan on the table, and ate it in one bite.

Ji Yun, who was not far away, saw her hanging her head to cry or not, and frowned, did Fu Yao coax her well?

He tightened his grip on the wine glass, the prince at the side saw him and bumped into him, "Who are you looking at?"

Ji Yun put away the expression on his face, chuckled lightly: "No one."

The prince glanced at Cui Xuan who was peeling the longan, and said with a smile: "You said you, when the imperial grandmother arranged this marriage for you, you just gave up. If there is no such thing, you will be able to marry her last year." .”

Ji Yun drank the wine in the wine glass, looked at the muttering prince beside him, and chuckled: "Your Highness also knows about that, so please don't mention it."

The prince gave a "tsk", "Why don't you know what's good or bad?"

Ji Yun lowered his eyelids and didn't speak anymore, because the sage and the queen came.

The singing and dancing in the palace was peaceful, but Ji Yun had already lost his mind.

Cui Xuan looked at the empress on the high seat.

The Holy One was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, but his face was haggard.

She thought of the Holy Majesty she saw when she was a child, and it seemed that she was much more majestic than now.Now... Cui Xuan felt that if he wasn't the Holy One, she would be able to defeat him by herself.

Looking at the empress again, the empress drew a pair of willow-leaf eyebrows with moderate makeup.But it also revealed a sense of majesty.

This is Yang Rongguo's daughter, also Yang Defei's aunt.

She had heard people say that the current emperor is weak and the state affairs are all handled by the empress.

Just as she was thinking like this, she saw the empress above looked at her and said with a smile, "It's really strange that Mrs. Cui has come into the palace today."

Cui Xuan stood up, Fushen said: "The minister's health was not very good in the past, so she seldom entered the palace."

She was so polite that it was impossible to find fault.

The queen waved at her and said with a smile: "You sit next to Ben Gong, and Ben Gong will talk to you."

From this point of view, this queen looks like an extremely virtuous elder, but Elder Cui Ge couldn't help but clenched her hands.

Cui Wang quickly said: "The little girl has no rules, I'm afraid I will disturb the empress."

The queen gave her a reproachful look: "I'm still a child, why are you talking about so many rules? Do you have to be restrained like you?"

Cui Wang choked, and smiled at Cui Xuan: "In this case, go and sit next to your empress, and don't disturb your empress."

There was silence in the hall, and the noble ladies were secretly slandering in their hearts, only thinking that Cui Xuan was so lucky to be favored by the queen.

Cui Xuan clenched her sleeves tightly, telling herself in her heart that she was just talking.

Ji Yun's hand tapped the table lightly, the prince next to him glanced at him, and said in a low voice, "I don't know if you're not in the capital, Yang Xiang plans to ask Mrs. Cui to be his granddaughter-in-law, presumably the queen regards her as a daughter-in-law." for a while

(End of this chapter)