This palace comes from the general's mansion

Chapter 40 Provocation
Shen Yunyan got up, walked to the window and saw that there was no sound outside.

Probably the watcher had hidden his breathing.

Three days later, Xili's envoy arrived at Dongli Palace.

Accompanying him is Xili's prince, Xili Noke.

During this period of time, the imperial palace was full of busy figures of the palace people. In the capital city, there were many more soldiers patrolling and guarding than before.

Shen Yunyan wore a sky-blue smoky skirt and the simplest jasper hairpin on her head.

Such a simple makeup can still easily attract the attention of others.

Empress Wen Zhijin's teeth were itching with anger, but at this palace banquet she had to force a smile and praise her.

Shen Yunyan had just recovered from a serious illness, and her face was still a little pale.

But it was this pale complexion that added some frail beauty to her for no reason.

Shen Yunyan sat down at her own seat. Currently, she is a relatively low-ranking concubine in the palace, so her seating arrangement is also at the end of the banquet.

After Shen Yunyan sat down, Zhuang Mengxian looked at her with a smile: "Yun Zhaoyi looks better."

Shen Yunyan nodded, knowing that she was looking for something to say.

What does it mean that she looks better? During the few days she was ill, she didn't see anyone.

Zhuang Mengxian's position is next to Shen Yunyan's. Although she is a concubine, in the eyes of the queen, she is not as good as the other concubines.

Seeing that Shen Yunyan was a little cold, Zhuang Mengxian seemed unwilling to speak more, so she closed her mouth in embarrassment.

Shen Yunyan doesn't like excitement, and even recovering from a serious illness, she doesn't like such occasions even more.

Sitting there, listening to other people talk is tiring.

Shen Yunyan drank tea silently.

In view of the experience of the last chrysanthemum banquet, she made up her mind not to touch the tea brought by Shen Yunyan from Yunyan Pavilion this time, and the things at the banquet.

This banquet is related to the diplomatic relations between the two countries. If there is any mistake in her, she feels that the Queen Mother doesn't like her attitude at all, maybe she can go directly past the emperor and cut her into pieces.

Although she didn't have a good impression of Xili.

But I don't want to let the whole Dongli lose her head in front of Xili because of herself.

But often people don't look for things, they look for people.

Just when Shen Yunyan held up the cup and asked Mingxue in front and behind to pour water for her, a sour voice came out.

"Yun Zhaoyi really knows how to enjoy the blessings. Why, does this mean that the tea at the banquet is not good? Why did you bring tea here?"

Shen Yunyan looked intently, feeling a little strange.

Mingxue reminded her in her ear: "This is the side concubine of the Ninth Prince, the left concubine."

Zuo Ning, the daughter of the Minister of War.

The person sitting next to her should be Concubine Jiang, Jiang Feiyuan.

Shen Yunyan carefully recalled her short ten years of age, it seems that she didn't offend these two people.

Why is it that one is sneering at her and the other is glaring at her?
She raised her eyes to look at the position of the first queen, and Wen Zhijin didn't react at all, instead she was still smiling.

It was impossible for her not to hear such a loud voice.

The other female relatives who participated in the palace banquet stopped talking and listened to her response?
Shen Yunyan understood, did the queen make it clear that she wanted to make a fool of herself at the banquet?
Taking advantage of the fact that the emperor and Xili's envoys have not yet come, the whole palace banquet is not yet the queen's final decision.

"The concubine on the left is cautious, today's palace banquet is no small matter."

Shen Yunyan opened her mouth lightly, drank the water in the cup in one gulp, and then put the cup on the table with a "snap".

"Heh, Yun Zhaoyi also knows that this is a palace banquet. Isn't the drink at the palace banquet better than the tea and wine brought by Yun Zhaoyi?"

"The left concubine will know the answer if she asks the empress."

The last chrysanthemum banquet was a masterpiece of the Wen family.

She didn't believe it, and Wen Zhijin could still stand by when she brought up this matter.

Sure enough, Wen Zhijin's face changed, she looked at Zuo Ning, full of disapproval.

"Okay, let's talk less."

A sentence that is not painful or itchy, demonstrates the queen's generosity and arrogance.

It was only on this occasion that Wen Zhijin felt superior as a queen.

No matter how beautiful Shen Yunyan is, so what if she has to sit at the bottom and be looked down upon by her.

That Zuo Ning was the one who provoked Shen Yunyan only after seeing the look in Queen Wen Zhijin's eyes, but she didn't expect to be defeated by Shen Yunyan instead.

Seeing Wen Zhijin's displeased face, Zuo Ning lowered her head.

She knew that she had messed up the matter, and in the future, the empress would definitely not let her go easily.

Thinking of this, Zuo Ning couldn't help but feel more hatred towards Shen Yunyan.

Jiang Feiyuan patted Zuo Ning's hand, they both entered the Ninth Prince's Mansion on the same day, but they were both side concubines.

They also heard about some rumors in the palace that the Ninth Prince belonged to him, but they didn't know who that person was.

They are both side concubines, they cherish each other and support each other in the Ninth Prince's Mansion, but secretly they are also competing with each other, and they all want to be the vacant concubine.

"Yun Zhaoyi, Sister Zuo is just telling the truth, why is Yun Zhaoyi so aggressive."

Shen Yunyan is not used to the two of them, today's palace banquet, not only the concubines in the palace came to the banquet, but also the relatives of the first-rank ministers in the court.

If she doesn't care about it, what will others think of her, let alone how they will organize the Shen family.

"Ben Zhaoyi really doesn't like to hear Jiang's side concubine's words. Today is a palace banquet, and you two sisters are all focusing on Ben Zhaoyi. What's your intention?"

"What? In the Ninth Prince's residence, no one listens to your chats, right?"

It was rumored in the palace that the Ninth Prince took these two concubines and was not very close. To put it bluntly, the two side concubines are currently guarding the empty boudoir alone.

For this matter, the emperor also specially called the Ninth Prince to the imperial study to ask him whether the matter was true or not.

Ninth Prince also admitted.

These are all Mingxue told her.

Now Shen Yunyan feels that it is good to have Mingxue around, at least he can hear a lot of information from inside and outside the palace.

Shen Yunyan's blatant sarcasm made Jiang Feiyuan's face change, but after all, she is the daughter of Honglu Siqing, who is one year older than Zuo Ning, and has a relatively calm personality.

Therefore, after hearing Shen Yunyan's words, although her face changed, she did not become ashamed and angry like Zuo Ning.

She just said a little aggrieved: "Yun Zhaoyi, we are all royal daughters-in-law, do we have to talk like this?"

That's right.

Everyone at the banquet nodded their heads and looked at Shen Yunyan with disapproval.

Originally, the Shen family's "collaboration with the enemy and treason" made them dissatisfied, but Yun Zhaoyi didn't know what was good and what was wrong. At the royal banquet, and it was the banquet where the two countries had diplomatic relations, they brought their own tea, and they couldn't let people say that they were both. Gossip.

But no matter how dissatisfied they were, they did not dare to openly defend the two side concubines of the Ninth Prince in front of the empress and so many wives and ladies.

(End of this chapter)