The First Daughter Reborn: The Snake Queen is not easy to mess with

Chapter 96 Hongmen Banquet (2)

"Auntie, why are you looking for Meizhen to come over today?" Qi Meizhen said to the queen coquettishly, deliberately showing her intimacy to Meng Yizhen.

Meng Yizhen ignored Qi Meizhen's obvious provocation as if he had never heard of it.

While secretly watching Meng Yizhen's performance, the Queen replied: "Gunnie misses you, why? Don't you miss Auntie?"

"Empress, the Crown Princess and the two Miss Lou from Zuo Xiangfu have arrived."

Before Qi Meizhen could say anything, she was interrupted by Eunuch Yan's sudden report, and when Eunuch Yan said this, Meng Yizhen frowned slightly, not knowing what the queen did today.

Following the queen's order, Meng Yiwan, Lou Anhe and Lou Anqiao walked in together, and saluted the queen at the same time.

"Get up, everyone, sit down."

Lou Anqiao saw Meng Yizhen at a glance and sat beside her without thinking. Together, the two nodded lightly and stopped asking each other.

"Everyone is here today."

The queen looked at the group of female relatives below and said with a chuckle.

Qi Meizhen didn't seem to know the Queen's purpose for doing this, so she asked suspiciously: "Auntie, what's the matter with you suddenly asking us all to come here?"

The queen glanced at Meng Yizhen without a trace, then looked away, and said to everyone: "Today, the palace is very boring in the palace. It just so happens that the king orchids in the palace have bloomed one by one recently, and they look really beautiful. How about going to the palace to have a look?"

There's no reason why you don't want to order from the queen. Since everyone has come, I follow the queen to admire the flowers.

But when everyone got up together, the queen said to Meng Yizhen: "Yizhen, you left some things in this palace that you need to take. The others will follow Eunuch Yan to the garden to enjoy the flowers."

"Yes."

The rest of the people responded, only Qi Meizhen looked at the Queen hesitantly, but the other party didn't look at her again, so Qi Meizhen could only give Meng Yizhen a resentful look, and then reluctantly followed a group of female relatives to the imperial garden walk in.

After the rest left, the queen petted Meng Yizhen with a smile on her face, hooked her hands and said, "Yizhen come and sit beside me."

Meng Yizhen nodded, walked slowly to Qi Meizhen's position just now and sat down, lowered his head and said, "I don't know what the queen empress and the ministers will bring when they come down?"

The queen chuckled, and said slowly: "Qi'er always mentions you in front of me, and I have heard about you for more than ten years. I have always regretted that I didn't marry you into the prince's mansion that time."

Hearing the Queen's sudden words, Meng Yizhen's heart twitched slightly, but he said politely on his face: "The minister's daughter and His Royal Highness have nothing to do with each other. It's no wonder that His Royal Highness has married his younger sister as his concubine, and the minister's daughter is also a concubine. I sincerely wish the two of you can be together for a long time.”

Meng Yizhen's words were deliberately alienated, but the queen deliberately ignored this alienation, and then said: "Although there are some mistakes, it is not impossible." After speaking, the queen slowly pulled Holding Meng Yizhen's hand, looking at Meng Yizhen lovingly, he continued: "I have liked your smart appearance since I saw you twice, and it happens that there are no such wonderful people around me."

Saying so, the queen took out a transparent jade pendant from her sleeve, just looking at the complicated lines, she knew that the jade pendant was not an ordinary thing, but the queen put the jade pendant in Meng Yizhen's hands, and said Said: "This jade pendant is always carried by me, and I will give it to you today."

Even a fool should understand what the Queen meant.

She wants to draw herself to her side, and if she accepts this jade pendant, then she agrees to stand by the queen's side, and if she does not accept it, it means that she rejects the queen.

Meng Yizhen looked at the extremely tactile jade pendant in his hand, and slowly curled up his fingers. The queen watched with a satisfied smile on her face.

But at this moment, Meng Yizhen picked up the jade pendant, got up and knelt down in front of the queen, and handed the jade pendant in front of the queen, the smile on the queen's face froze instantly.

"My daughter-in-law is just an unfavored daughter-in-law who cannot bear the favor of the empress. This jade pendant is too precious. My daughter-in-law please ask the empress to take it back."

The queen never thought that Meng Yizhen would reject her so simply, it was still so blunt.

Because they didn't react for a while, the two stalemate like this for a while, the queen's eyes flickered slightly, and she said: "Is it true that Yizhen doesn't think about it anymore?"

Meng Yizhen lowered his head, the queen couldn't see the slight curve of her mouth, she simply shook her head and said: "My servant can't afford the empress's gift."

The matter has come to this point, the queen didn't say anything else, she put the jade pendant back into her sleeve, and then asked her to help hold a box of unknown things. This time, she walked to the imperial garden. Some of them were admiring the flowers, while some were sitting there bored in every possible way. Seeing the two coming, a group of people hurriedly gathered around the queen, blessing themselves.

Then the queen took the brocade box from Meng Yizhen's hand, opened it, and inside were packed square things, which smelled faintly.

"This is a pastry brought in by the envoys. It is said that it has the effect of nourishing the eyes. Today, I will take it out for you to taste." The queen seemed not at all unhappy because Meng Yi really refused, and said to everyone with a smile.

Everyone hurriedly thanked the queen, and then the queen distributed one piece to each of them, and specially gave the last piece to Meng Yizhen, who thanked the queen without showing any emotion.

And when the flowers were almost finished, Meng Yizhen still didn't understand the effect of the queen calling so many people. When a group of people were about to go home, suddenly a group of black-clothed masked people flew out from nowhere. People, surrounded several people.

For a moment, several weak women screamed in fright. The queen was calmer than the others, looked at the man in black with a serious expression and said, "What do you want?"

The leading man in black smiled, and before he could say anything, a group of imperial guards rushed in and surrounded the man in black. Seeing this, the men in black panicked and withdrew as soon as they said it , and started fighting with the imperial guards, outnumbered, the group of men in black were killed in an instant, and the whole army was about to be wiped out. The man in black behind Meng Yizhen suddenly took Meng Yizhen into captivity. , the dagger was straight on Meng Yizhen's neck, threatening everyone.

"Don't move around, or I will kill her!"

Meng Yizhen saw with his own eyes a gleam of light flashed in the Queen's eyes, and then he ordered to the imperial guards: "Dare to attack in the palace, the matter is of great importance, I will capture this person alive!"

After finishing speaking, the man in black took a step back nervously. Meng Yi could clearly feel the dagger cut his flesh, and she understood the Queen's intention in an instant.

But in front of the royal family, her life, Meng Yizhen, was like an ant.

Seeing the imperial guards approaching the man in black step by step, the man in black could not retreat, he gritted his teeth and raised the dagger to cut straight at Meng Yizhen's neck, but at this moment, a blue figure shot at Meng Yizhen. The dagger was kicked away, and Meng Yizhen was pulled into an embrace.

Then the man in black was captured alive, and the moment he was captured alive, he bit the poison in his mouth and died after taking the poison.

"Are you OK?"

A worried voice came from above his head, and Meng Yizhen came back to his senses slightly, raised his head subconsciously, saw Li Yuchuan's worried eyes, subconsciously took a step back, left Li Yuchuan's embrace, and saluted Li Yuchuan Said: "Thank you, His Royal Highness Eighth Prince, for saving your life."

Meng Yizhen's deliberate alienation made Li Yuchuan a little injured, and after touching the blood slowly flowing from Meng Yizhen's neck, he worried more than his reason, stepped forward and walked up to Meng Yizhen, gently squeezed Meng Yizhen's chin, and Meng Yizhen slapped Knocking off Li Yuchuan's hand, he took another step back and said in a cold tone, "Your Highness, the Eighth Prince, please respect yourself!"

Meng Yizhen's subconscious repulsion was undoubtedly a stab in Li Xiaochuan's heart, which was bleeding at this time, but the person concerned turned around coldly and left Li Xiaochuan's side as if he had never heard of it.

Because of the attack, several people had to go home separately. Lou Anqiao was worried about Meng Yizhen, so he insisted on sending Meng Yizhen back home. On the way, he also saw the wound on Meng Yizhen's neck, and couldn't help frowning and said: "Yizhen ,You are hurt."

Meng Yizhen shook his head and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's all skin trauma, just go back and bandage it and it will be fine."

After finishing speaking, Lou Anqiao suddenly sighed, and said angrily: "The empress is really deceiving people too much today. She knows that the man in black is holding you hostage, but she gave such an order and put your life at risk. , People who don’t know will think that the queen bought a fierce and upright one to harm you.”

After Lou Anqiao finished speaking, there was a sudden silence in the sedan chair.

After finishing speaking, Lou Anqiao's entire face turned pale, and he looked at Meng Yizhen in disbelief and said, "Yizhen, this, can't it be true?"

Meng Yizhen smiled. "who knows."

Lou Anqiao swallowed his saliva after hearing this, and stopped talking. After arriving at Prime Minister You's Mansion, Lou Anhe suddenly stopped Meng Yizhen who got up and was about to get off the car, and said worriedly: "Yizhen, be careful yourself. .”

Meng Yizhen replied with a reassuring smile and said, "I will, thank you Anqiao."

After speaking, Meng Yizhen got out of the car.

After getting out of the car, the expression on Meng Yizhen's face turned cold in an instant. He didn't know whether it was because of the injury or something else. He remained silent until the red light saw the wound on Meng Yizhen's neck and screamed. Only then did Meng Yizhen feel a little moved.

"Miss, didn't you go to the palace? Why did you get hurt?" Hong Deng began to cry as he spoke.

Meng Yizhen sighed and said, "Don't cry, hurry up and find something to bandage your lady."

Only then did the red light come to his senses, wiped away his tears and hurriedly threw them out.

Recalling everything in the palace, Meng Yizhen instantly understood what the empress meant. The empress probably regarded her as a thorn in her side and would get rid of her if she couldn't get it. Looking at what the empress meant, it seemed that she wanted to marry her to the prince For a concubine.

(End of this chapter)