The Fugitive White Moonlight of a Powerful Minister

  Wen Ning's back froze.

  If she was not married yet, and she was still the daughter of the Minister of Honglu Temple, she would not allow her to hesitate when she met King Rui who said this, and she had to kneel down and bow to him immediately.

  But according to her current status, King Rui made it clear that she deliberately humiliated her in front of everyone, and even used her to humiliate Pei You...

  Wen Ning caught a glimpse of many officials coming and going, frowning.

  This King Rui is really not a good guy.

  Don't dare to provoke Pei You directly, knowing that he doesn't like him, and if you provoke him, you may not be able to step down, so you come to recruit her, a woman who is raised in a boudoir and who has never seen the world.

  If she was so frightened that she knelt down and offered a big gift, wouldn't Pei You's face be completely humiliated by her?

  Wen Ning kept her eyes down, watching Pei You's hand stretch out, the back of her hand warmed up, and he gently pulled her to stand up straight.

   Without waiting for him to speak, she took the lead and said: "Husband, so the brotherhood between you and His Highness King Rui is so weak?"

Her voice was soft, and she blinked her ignorant eyes: "The Fourth Highness treated me so enthusiastically last time. The New Year's Eve banquet has always been a family feast. What about the elders?"

   "Husband, don't be angry, I'll kneel down to Cousin Rui Wang, and do a prostrate salute."

  Pei You looked at Wen Ning tugging at his sleeve, speaking softly with an innocent face, and was about to hold her behind to protect her, but the awe-inspiring coldness was replaced by a smile in his eyes.

  He always underestimated the little girl.

  This countermeasure is much better than his.

"Cousin of King Rui, don't be angry." Wen Ning turned to raise her pitiful eyes, and said to King Rui, "My cousin is new here and doesn't know the rules in the palace, so I'll kneel down and salute you. "

   King Rui's face was red and white, and he wanted to embarrass Pei You in front of everyone. According to what he knew about Pei You, he would definitely protect this little wife behind him, and ridicule him, and then ask the officials to label him as contemptuous of imperial power.

  Of course, if this "Mrs. Shizi" who came from a small family wanted to calm down and be fooled into worshiping him, that would be a great satisfaction.

   I don't want this Wen's daughter to hide behind Pei You, nor to be bluffed into kneeling and saluting.

   I don't know whether it's really stupid or just pretending, but in a few words, he actually told her that he doesn't distinguish between young and old, and he insisted on making her "cousin" kneel down.

   Still looking so cute and pitiful.

  With so many pairs of eyes watching, if he really made her kneel down, wouldn't it be that he doesn't understand etiquette and bullies a "ignorant" weak woman? !

   King Rui was heaving a sigh of relief, but he had no choice but to help Wen Ning up, who was about to fall.

   "This king is just joking with my cousin." He gritted his teeth, and his smile was not so good-looking, "Why does my cousin take it seriously?"

   "It was just a joke." Wen Ning patted her heart, "I said that Cousin Rui Wang is reasonable and understands righteousness. How could he deliberately make things difficult for me and my husband, right, Cousin Rui Wang?"

   King Rui: "..."

   It seems that people have been **** off, but there is no evidence, what's going on?

   "Husband, it's okay, let's go!" Wen Ning raised her smiling face, took Pei You's hand and left without giving King Rui another look.

  Being left where he was, he felt like he was being tricked, and also felt that he could not be tricked by a weak woman: "..."

   After walking far away, Wen Ning burst into a "puchi" laugh, and raised her face to ask for credit: "How? How was my performance just now?"

  Pei You was noncommittal, and looked sideways at Wen Ning: "So, when you fooled me back then, you were also so proud behind your back?"

  Wen Ning: "..."

   Much better than this.

   But is this the truth?

"The front door is Zhaoxia Palace, Linglan, let's go first." Wen Ning greeted Linglan who had fallen far away, and gave Pei You a blessing, "I wish you a happy drink and a full meal, see you later. "

   led Linglan and slipped away.

  Pei You looked at the fleeing figure, laughed lowly, and took Gu to another direction.

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  Zhaoxia Palace is adjacent to Chaolu Palace. Wen Ning felt guilty when she saw the familiar palace. If she had known today, she shouldn't have acted too much in front of Princess Zhaohe that night.

   I don’t want Princess Showa not to be present today.

  The person sitting at the banquet was, as Wen Ning expected, not the empress, but... the biological mother of King Rui, the concubine Xian.

   No wonder King Rui is so high-spirited today, as if he is about to be crowned prince.

  Being honored by Mrs. Pei You Shizi, this time her seat is very close to the front. Among the wives of the same age, only one is in front of her.

  Although she didn't know her very well, she could guess her identity.

   Probably the daughter of the Xie family who married King Rui, the concubine of King Rui.

Sure enough, not long after she sat down, noble ladies frequently came to the side table to chat. The queen and queen, from makeup to clothing, from clothing to appearance, everything is pre-determined, and they only praise people as fairies descending to earth. .

  There were too many people, and Wen Ning was at the next table, trying to take a closer look to see if she was really such a celestial figure, but there was no way.

  Linglan squatted down in a timely manner, blocking the people next door, and poured tea for Wen Ning.

   Really, it almost knocked her girl's table.

  Wen Ning wanted to laugh seeing her angry expression.

  Isn’t that the case in the palace? These people hear that the wind is rain. Emperor Jiahe will set up the East Palace sooner or later, either King Rui or the fourth prince. On such an important occasion as the New Year's Eve banquet, King Rui's biological mother is asked to act as the queen. What does this mean?

  Once King Rui is established in the East Palace, the one above will be the future queen mother, and the one next door will be the next empress.

   Isn't it just a matter of trying to curry favor?

   Just in time, she was still worried that too many eyes were on her today, and if she made a mistake, she would lose the face of the Duke's mansion.

   "Miss, look at Miss Zhao." Linglan whispered beside her.

  Wen Ning looked up, Zhao Xizhi was in the second row opposite her, staring at her gloatingly with her chin raised.

  It's really... haunting.

  Wen Ning glanced at the butterfly hairpin on her head, wasn't it the one she bought at Zhufang Pavilion a few days ago?

  Three thousand taels, deliberately wearing it for her to see?

   How silly.

  Wen Ning pretended to raise her hand, and touched the hairpins on her head, just as her sleeves fell down, revealing a green and transparent jade bracelet on her wrist.

   She randomly took out anything from her body, and it was more than three thousand taels.

   Sure enough, Zhao Xizhi's gloating face immediately turned into a face of anger, and her little face turned pale with anger.

  Wen Ning deliberately showed her a smug smile, which made her even angrier.

   Forget it, it's meaningless to fight her childishly.

  Wen Ning bowed her head to drink tea again.

  It's a pity that Duan Rushuang can't enter the palace this year, Wen Lan's rank is not enough, and He Luan is not qualified enough to enter the palace, otherwise she wouldn't be so boring.

  Seeing this, Linglan poured her another glass of wine.

  In this kind of weather, it is best to drink some hot wine to warm up. But Wen Ning thought about it, she still had to share the bed with Pei You tonight, so forget it.

  She picked up a piece of peach blossom cake on the table and ate it.

  Seeing that the banquet was about to begin, there were finally not so many people at the next table, so Wen Ning had to take a look at Princess Rui.

  Beautiful skin, apricot eyes and red lips, she does look good, but she is still far from the daughter of the Xie family she imagined.

   You can't blame her.

   If she remembers correctly, her boudoir name is Xie Ying, and she was not originally from the direct branch of the Xie family. Now the head of the Xie family, that is, Xie Changyuan, the chief assistant of the dynasty, has a son and a daughter, and the daughter is the queen of the dynasty, Xie Nanzhi. The son, who used to be quite prestigious among the common people, now often brings Shen Jin General Xie who is on a par with him.

   That General Xie has made a lot of military exploits at a young age, and he was the first to form the Southern Expedition Army. It's a pity that he died in a battle in northern Xinjiang fifteen years ago, and failed to leave a son and a half daughter behind.

  At that time, Xie Changyuan was already old, so he simply adopted a son and a daughter from a side branch into the house. The daughter was Xie Ying, and the son passed away from a serious illness when he was in his teens.

  Since then, Xie Changyuan has been depressed, and the name of chief assistant is only hanging on, and he hasn't asked about court affairs for a long time.

  So Xie Ying took the title of the first daughter of the Xie family, but she didn't have the appearance and bearing that the first daughter of the Xie family should have, which is not surprising.

  Ben was raised in the middle of the journey, how can it be compared with the eldest daughter of the empress's kind.

  Wen Ning lowered her eyelashes and continued to eat cakes, but from the corner of her eye, Zhao Xizhi walked over gracefully holding a wine glass.

   Fortunately, I was toasting Princess Rui next door, not to trouble her.

  Just letting out a sigh of relief, I heard Zhao Xizhi squeeze her voice and say: "My lady has such an orchid temperament, she doesn't need to show herself with things outside of her body, but if she speaks too low-key, some people may... forget her identity."

  While speaking, his eyes lightly glanced at Wen Ning's head.

  Wen Ning immediately understood what she meant, and subconsciously glanced at Princess Rui's hair.

   After sweeping this, he was stunned.

   Previously, she only focused on looking at Xie Ying's face. The jewelry on her top of her hair didn't look like much at all, but if you look closely, it seems... not as delicate as hers?

  She was looking at Xie Ying, and Xie Ying was also looking at her.

  Wen Ning immediately picked up the unused wine and toasted her friendly.

  Don't want Xie Ying to sweep into her hair, a trace of coldness flashed in her eyes, she directly turned her face away, ignoring her raised wine glass.

  Wen Ning: "..."

   Feeling bored, put down the wine glass.

   Did you offend someone without saying a word?

  When she chooses clothes and jewelry, she actually deliberately pays attention to it, not to be too luxurious, stealing the limelight from the main lords in the palace, and not to be too low-key, making the Duke's Mansion shameless.

  So she was in the middle of the bunch of things that the eldest princess rewarded her.

  The jewelry she wears on her head is the jewelry from the inner court. That's right, she specially chose it to avoid mistakes, and the craftsmanship is naturally excellent. But among all her jewelry, she is not outstanding.

  Look at Xie Ying's reaction, she is a majestic Princess Rui, so she doesn't have jewelry of this level?

   Forget it, no matter what she thinks, she doesn't have to curry favor with her.

   Just at this time, the side dishes were served, and the concubine Xian raised her glass and said a few polite words, and asked everyone to use their chopsticks to start the meal.

  Wen Ning symbolically raised his glass and took a sip of the wine, then lowered his head to eat the food.

   But Xie Ying, who was offended by her just now, did not let her go.

   "Sister, eat slowly. Although my sister eats less food in the imperial dining room, she has climbed up to Pei Shizi and became the wife of Shizi. There will be many opportunities in the future."

  Wen Ning was picking up a peanut and putting it in her mouth, she almost choked on hearing the words.

…no.

  Although she is not from the direct line of Zheng'er Bajing, she is the daughter of Xie's daughter from the No. 1 family. Can she...don't be like Zhao Xizhi, with such a small structure?

  Xie Ying continued: "If my younger sister is worried that she won't be able to enter the palace in the future, she might as well persuade her husband more, think about what surname is in this world, who should be offended, and who should not be offended."

   Come on, it’s true that the surname is Chu in this world, but it’s not your Chu Xun who won in the end.

  Wen Ning had never dealt with Xie Ying in her previous life. After all, when she married Pei You, even King Rui was gone, and there was no mention of Princess Rui.

  But she has a different reverie for Xie's daughter. She thinks that Xie Ying is not as dignified and generous as the empress.

   Yes, such words coming out of her mouth made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Speaking of which, my younger sister has two older brothers. One has just been promoted to Dali Temple, and the other is still working in the Ministry of War. They are both official positions that can kill everyone if a brick is thrown in the capital. My sister should not think about herself. For the sake of the two brothers."

   Xie Ying smiled and said: "The Wen family was lucky for what happened last time, but next time, you may not be so lucky."

  In Xie Ying's opinion, why should she be polite to Wen Ning?

Her natal family is the largest family of the Xie family, and her husband is King Rui who is the most likely to inherit the throne. She will become a queen in the future. One queen mother is her own aunt, and the other queen mother is her husband's biological mother. She will be Dayin's most secure queen, bar none.

  Why should she be wronged in front of a wife with a different surname?

  She didn't even have a set of jewelry made by the inner court, so she dared to wear it in the palace to show off because of the eldest princess's favor?

  Wen Ning frowned when she heard her mention of her two elder brothers.

  I hate people threatening her with the Wen family.

  Just as she was about to speak and go back, the concubine Xian who was seated above seemed to have noticed the movement here, looked over and said, "Sit down, but is it Pei Wen?"

  Wen Ning had to stand up, Fushen replied: "Exactly."

  Keeping his eyebrows down, he planned to go to the palace for a formal meeting.

  Unexpectedly, before taking two steps, Concubine Xian said leisurely: "No need. I haven't even seen the empress, so I don't need to see this palace."

  Wen Ning: "..."

  What does this mean? The empress is ill, aren't you here?

   I don't see what she just called her for?

   There was a moment of silence in Zhaoxia Palace, and everyone's eyes fell on Wen Ning who stood up. Even Wen Ning, who thought she had a thick skin, felt a little embarrassed.

  She made a fist and finally sat back.

   If you don't see it, you won't see it, and she is happy not to salute her.

   But I'm still so angry!

   Concubine Xian clearly saw that King Rui suffered a disadvantage in Pei You's hands, so she intentionally embarrassed her!

  In addition to the table next door, it is really not a family, do not enter a door.

  Wen Ning ignored the eyes of others, and ate vegetables by herself. When she was full, she might as well go find Pei You.

   There are so many annoying people around, it's really hard to deal with.

   Just as he was thinking about it, a group of palace men came in from the palace. The head of the palace was very strange. He could only tell by his clothes that he was the chief **** in the palace, and judging by the attitude of the people around him, his status was not low.

   After giving a small gift to the concubine Xian, she walked towards the side table.

  Wen Ning didn't know the person who came, but Xie Ying knew her very well. When she saw someone approaching her, she stood up with surprise on her face: "But aunt wants to see me?"

  The father-in-law lowered his eyes slightly: "My lady, please sit down."

   Then he flicked the whisk and bowed to Wen Ning: "Empress, please come to Fengyi Palace to see Mrs. Shizi."

  The sound was sonorous, and the whole room could hear it.

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