Little Wife Treasure [Rebirth]

Chapter 121

After a little turmoil, the main hall seemed to be calm again. The birthday queen, the Queen Mother Zhao, had not yet appeared, and everyone had to sit in their seats and wait patiently.

But the Donggong lineage appeared in front of everyone at this time, and it seemed a bit late.

The well-informed people had already known what happened in the palace examination, and they had sympathy for His Highness the Crown Prince, but the old foxes in the officialdom were mostly indifferent and cunning people, and they just watched from the sidelines at the time, watching with cold eyes how the East Palace would turn around this time.

……

On the Empress Dowager's birthday, it is natural to say that the Empress Dowager is the first protagonist of the day.

Empress Dowager Zhao is very old and her health is not as good as before. She has a banquet for her whole life this time, but she still doesn't know if she will be able to survive until her next full life.Although Emperor Jin Yuan had the suspicion and suspicion that many emperors often had in his middle age, his filial piety towards Queen Mother Zhao was still pure.

Appearing together with the queen mother Zhao who was dressed up to attend the birthday banquet, Emperor Jin Yuan personally held the queen mother on the phoenix chair and showed the birthday ceremony that had been prepared for a long time in front of everyone.

The emperor's birthday ceremony is a filial piety scripture written by the imperial pen. The big "filial piety" is in the center of the plaque, and the dense small characters are all over the paper in an orderly manner.Not to mention how valuable the emperor's imperial pen is, but seeing the empress dowager Zhao's unrepeatable appearance, everyone in the hall shouted "thousand years, long life, long life, the empress dowager".

The scene was grand and spectacular for a while.

After the emperor triumphantly showed off the birthday ceremony he had prepared, he arrived at the concubines.Most of the concubines' birthday ceremonies were embroidery, and several concubines wrote the filial piety, but they seemed a bit mediocre and dull in comparison with Emperor Jin and Yuan.However, the birthday gifts of the following princes and lords were varied, ranging from gold, silver and jade wares to all kinds of gadgets that could arouse the curiosity of the elderly, but the Empress Dowager Zhao laughed from ear to ear, praising her grandchildren for their kindness.

The birthday gift from the East Palace was included in it, but it was really disappointing for those who wanted to see the discord between father and son in the emperor's family.

Probably no one would like to offend the Empress Dowager Zhao or the emperor at this time, and the birthday went very smoothly. After the ministers had finished showing the birthday ceremony, Emperor Jin and Yuan ordered a palace banquet, with musicians playing and dancing, dancers Dancing in the hall, the courtiers in the hall sometimes confronted the emperor above, blowing rainbow farts between the Queen Mother Zhao and the emperor in a variety of ways.

"I asked a craftsman to set up fireworks outside Guanhai Tower tonight. After the birthday banquet, I would like to ask my mother to work a little longer and move to Guanhai Tower with my son." It seems that there is a hidden intention to retreat, and he hurriedly said.

The Empress Dowager Zhao knew that she, the emperor's son, was full of filial piety, so she cheered up and said, "If the emperor invites you, Ai's family will definitely go."

Emperor Jin Yuan nodded in satisfaction, and then looked down at the main hall. Everyone was bustling, but the atmosphere at the desk of the prince's family was not high, and even his face was sickly, which was not very auspicious.

A trace of displeasure and disgust flashed in his eyes, and Emperor Jin Yuan said coldly: "Since the prince is ill, there is no need to force yourself to come here with the sick body, pass on my words to the prince, and if you are not well, stay with him well." Donggong is recuperating, when will he be well and when will he come out!"

As soon as this remark came out, it was a cover-up order to the prince.

The tone of Emperor Jin Yuan's words was undisguised. The Empress Dowager Zhao listened to it and wanted to intercede with the prince, but she didn't want to destroy the relationship between mother and child because of this. So in the end, Empress Dowager Zhao didn't even say a word.

But as the prince bowed deeply at the table, and hurried away from the hall with his concubine and grandson Xie He, the atmosphere at the birthday banquet was suffocated.

Interested people also quickly realized that the crown prince Xie Zhao might fall out of favor completely, and the position of heir of the Great Jin probably needs to be replaced by someone else.

……

Singing and dancing in the hall raised the peace, and people's hearts fluttered during the banquet.

However, Emperor Jin Yuan seemed to be unaware of the lively thoughts of the courtiers, and only after the singing and dancing ended, he said loudly to the crowd: "My dear friends, you can follow me and the Queen Mother to step on the Guanhai Tower today to watch the fireworks and rosy clouds."

Naturally, the courtiers are all obedient.

The procession going to Guanhai Tower is vast, although there are palace people holding lamps on the road, it is still a bit dim.

Xie Lin took Bai Guo's hand and walked slowly, Bai Guo supported his waist, and suddenly laughed and said: "Does it seem like you are in the mansion, Your Highness is walking around the garden with me?"

"Be careful where you step." Xie Lin held Bai Guo's dry and warm hand, "I will accompany you wherever you go."

Ginkgo's heart was as sweet as honey, and was about to say something, but suddenly lowered her brows and eyes, and carefully tiptoed to look up at the front of the yoke.

"Your Majesty really doesn't talk about affection at all? Do you think His Royal Highness is very sad now?"

Twirling Xie Lin's cuff, Bai Guo still felt aggrieved for Donggong.

Xie Lin said, "What are you thinking so much about?"

Bai Guo pursed her lips, hesitated and said, "I just remembered that in the Marquis of Changping, stepmother and father seemed to be so friendly."

Xie Lin asked: "It still hurts to think about it now?"

Bai Guo shook her head: "It's not uncomfortable now, but now, everything before is like a dream, and when I wake up from the dream, I feel nothing."

Xie Lin then said: "As you said, the current suffering is just a bad dream for Donggong, and the days are coming."

Hearing Xie Lin's "sophistry", Bai Guo didn't know how to refute for a while, so he could only furiously scratch Xie Lin's palm fiercely with his fingertips.

Xie Lin noticed the young man's mischief, so he only smiled all over his eyes, and tightly held the young man's slightly cold fingers.

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Guanhai Building is a small six-story tower. Emperor Jin Yuan said that he wanted to enjoy the fireworks with his courtiers, but he only pointed out that a few confidant courtiers and the prince went up to the top of the sixth floor. The prince's daughter-in-law and his wife stayed on the fifth floor.

And the lower the level, the lower the status.

Similarly, when Bai Guo was left on the fifth floor, Xie Lin was a little worried, so he left Wang Youquan to follow Bai Guo to take care of her.Princess Xiaoyu and Princess Qin Li Xianer, who was finally free, rubbed over. After teasing a few words with a smile, she also asked him with great concern if he needed an extra seat.

But seeing that even the elderly Empress Dowager Zhao insisted on standing up and having fun with all the female relatives, he was really embarrassed, so he gave up on adding a chair.

"Master, you must tell me when you are tired." Wang Youquan said cautiously and fearfully.

Bai Guo has been eating and sleeping well since she was pregnant, and she didn't think it would be a problem to stand for a while, so she smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, father-in-law, I'm fine."

After finishing speaking, he lingered for Wei Liangyin's shadow in the crowd, not wanting to see Wei Liangyin at the stand on the third floor, but he was mixed with a group of aristocratic princes, and he compared him with arm wrestling.

Bai Guo: "..." My cousin is really not inferior to a man!come on, come on, come on!

Watching Wei Liangyin triumphantly win three games in a row, Bai Guo leaned over and looked downstairs, almost unable to move his expression away from excitement.

Li Xian'er and Concubine Xiaoyu couldn't help each other, seeing him in a happy trance, and there was still some time before the fireworks started, so they could only go back to their respective concubines and mother-in-law to talk.

"Stab, stab—"

"boom!"

Unexpectedly, a burst of sparks followed the trajectory of lightning, and the gorgeous fireworks exploded in the sky instantly, colorful but wonderful. Everyone stared at the splendid fireworks in the sky, with shock and exclamation reflected in their eyes.

"so beautiful……"

When Bai Guo raised his head, his eyes were attracted by the fireworks, and he couldn't take his eyes away for a while.

And in the darkness at this time, a hand quickly emerged from behind Bai Guo, and then pushed hard towards his waist.

Bai Guo was stunned for a moment during the huge inertia of rushing forward, but subconsciously protecting his stomach had become an instinct. He was still hugging his stomach tightly at the moment when he rushed to the fence of the viewing platform.

——But the imaginary feeling of weightlessness of falling from a building and the pain of being pushed to the ground did not come.

Wang Youquan vigilantly found that someone was trying to drive inappropriately, and he grabbed the other person's wrist tightly. The person seemed to be frightened, and the force of the pushing and pushing was exhausted by half, then he quickly retracted it, only to be wiped by Wang Youquan. jade bracelet.

At the same time, the inconspicuous round-faced attendant who had been following Bai Guo all the time took a quick step, stopped in front of Bai Guo, and made a human cushion.

"Master! Is master alright?!" The attendant took the ginkgo fruit and asked with a pale face.

Bai Guo opened his eyes, only to see that the attendant had been half-bumped on the half-person-high fence, and his upper body had already leaned back. He hastily stretched out his hand and dragged him off the fence, and asked, "Have you been hit by a fence?" Where did it hit?"

The round-faced attendant only felt that his waist was about to be broken, but he still said forcefully: "Slave has rough skin and thick flesh, it must be fine, master, please take a look at your body and feel uncomfortable? Do you want to call the imperial physician?"

Everyone, including Queen Mother Zhao, was shocked by this accident. At this time, they reflected from the shock and asked worriedly: "What's wrong with Princess Jing?"

"Is it because you are tired from standing up? Do you want to move a stool?"

"Princess Jing has such a big belly, she has already advised him to find a couch to rest, why doesn't she listen?"

"But why did I knock Princess Jing just now like she jumped out? If her feet were soft, she shouldn't be able to fall that far!"

The fireworks were still going on, but everyone lost their mind to watch, even the Queen Mother Zhao said: "If you don't see it, why don't you find a soft stool for Princess Jing to sit on?"

Li Xian'er stood in the crowd, seeing that Bai Guo's expression was not right, she wanted to go up to ask a question, but she didn't want to be caught by Concubine Li: "What are you going to do?"

Li Xian'er opened her mouth: "Your Majesty, I..."

Concubine Li then stopped her, and pouted her lips in the dark: "You don't need to stand out, those servants who follow Princess Jing don't allow their masters to be bullied."

Sure enough, Wang Youquan walked out at this moment, paid homage to Queen Mother Zhao, and said hoarsely: "Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, it's not that my master is soft-footed just now, it's just that someone intentionally wanted to harm others!"

At this moment, Bai Guo frowned and looked at the crowd, and said slowly: "When I was watching the fireworks just now, someone did push me from behind."

When the Queen Mother Zhao heard this, she frowned and said, "Is this really true? But among the wives present here, do you have any grudges against you?"

"How can there be hatred." This is a lady who said hurriedly, "Princess Jing seldom meets with me in Beijing. We are not very familiar with Princess Jing, and many of us have never said a word or two. , how could there be any enmity?"

"That's it." "That's right."

Bai Guo still frowned and looked at the crowd, and the faces of the ladies were even more unequivocal.

Empress Dowager Zhao also said: "Since it's a mistake, Concubine Jing should stop making excuses for herself..." After all, today is the Empress Dowager's own birthday banquet. up.

After all, Princess Jing didn't seem to have suffered any harm, so she just exposed it like this, and everyone was happy.

Wang Youquan seemed to have sensed the Queen Mother Zhao's attitude of wanting to make love, a sneer flashed in his eyes, and then he stretched out his palm, revealing the jade bracelet that he had taken off, and interrupted the Queen Mother Zhao: "Your Majesty, the slave has no skills, just now Sensing that the villain was about to do something wrong, he only had time to grab this jade bracelet from the opponent's hand."

A trace of displeasure flashed in Queen Mother Zhao's eyes, but looking at the jade bracelet in Wang Youquan's hand, she felt a little familiar.

Of course, not only the Empress Dowager Zhao was familiar with it, but the concubines in the palace realized it first: "Isn't this the blessing bracelet that His Majesty just gave to the empresses a few days ago?"

"The concubine also vaguely remembers, how many did His Majesty specially bestow on Mrs. Zhang Guijun, Mrs. Concubine Rong, Mrs. Baofei, and Mrs. Li Concubine?" Someone pretended to be careless and pointed out the owner of the bracelet one by one.

Empress Dowager Zhao naturally also had a share, and after listening to those ignorant concubines, she felt even more headache, and asked the concubines with a cold face, "Whose bracelet is this old prisoner holding? "

Several high-ranking concubines never expected that the fire would burn themselves, and subconsciously excused themselves.

Zhang Guijun was lucky, he happened to be wearing the bracelet when he went out today, he only raised his sleeves slightly, revealing his white and slender wrists.As for Concubine Bao and Concubine Li, their complexions were not very good-looking, they thought of a lot of framing dramas, and hurriedly asked the palace servants to go back to their bedroom to get the bracelet.

But Concubine Rong looked at the faces of several people, thinking that someone was guilty of it, but she said proudly without knowing it: "Prince Yu's side concubine has made great achievements in conceiving, and this concubine has rewarded him with the bracelet today."

After finishing speaking, he called Concubine Xu to come out, and asked him to show the bracelet to have a look.

Unexpectedly, side concubine Xu came out, but said reluctantly: "Madam, I have something to say... You, don't be angry."

Concubine Rong's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly felt bad: "Don't you want to tell Ben Gong that you lost the bracelet that Ben Gong rewarded you just now?"

Concubine Xu secretly scolded the old prisoner for his quick hands and feet, while faltering and saying timidly: "The road to Guanhailou was dark just now, I seem to have lost it accidentally at that time."

"Then send the palace servants to look for it!" Concubine Rong was almost mad by him, and hurriedly directed the eunuchs and maids to search for it.

Such a big battle not only shocked the downstairs, but the upstairs also seemed to be aware of it. Emperor Jin Yuan was worried that something happened to the Queen Mother Zhao, so he sent someone to ask, only to find out that someone had plotted against Princess Jing and wanted to arrest her from the five-storey observation room. Hailou pushed up and down, but fortunately was rescued by the clever servants around him, which saved him from a catastrophe.

"Hmph, what a courage!" After hearing this, Emperor Jin Yuan's face suddenly sank, and he was about to order someone to investigate thoroughly, but saw his son, who had always been calm and reserved to the point of indifference, turned around and disappeared at his feet like a sharp sword. up the sixth floor.

When Xie Lin went down to the fifth floor with a cold face, Bai Guo had already been arranged to sit on a soft stool. Following the appearance of the man, Bai Guo's originally frowning brows quickly relaxed, followed by a bright smile. eyes.

"I'm fine." Bai Guo first raised his hand to hold Xie Lin's palm, but felt that the center of his dry palm was wet with sweat.

The man didn't speak, but kept his eyes down, bent over and pressed against Ginkgo's stomach, as if he was feeling the steady heartbeat of Ginkgo and the child.

"Tsk, I didn't expect His Royal Highness Jing Wang, who has always been said to be impermanent and indifferent, to be so nervous."

A lady couldn't help sighing in a low voice, and vaguely, there were many echoes.

The palace servants who had been ordered by the empresses to pick up the bracelets soon returned, and the jade bracelets in their hands were not lost as imagined, which made people heave a sigh of relief.

At this time, only Concubine Rong's jade bracelet was left, and I don't know where it "dropped".

Empress Dowager Zhao frowned and asked, "What did Concubine Rong say?"

Concubine Rong hated her teeth so much that it happened that Emperor Jin Yuan and King Yu had also come down, she only looked at her son sadly, closed her eyes helplessly and said: "I don't know, I will give the jade bracelet to you. After the side concubine, she and the side concubine have been separated and left."

Empress Dowager Zhao nodded, and turned her head to ask Concubine Xu, but Concubine Xu gritted her teeth and said that the jade bracelet was lost before, but everyone still looked at him suspiciously, which made him lose face .

"I really don't know where I lost the jade bracelet!" In order to defend herself, Concubine Xu knelt down in front of the crowd and said miserably, "I'm just a little concubine, how could I have the guts to frame Concubine Jing?" ? And Concubine Jing and my concubine have never had any grievances or enmities, even if I have a hundred guts, this concubine would not dare to murder the concubine Zheng."

"But only your jade bracelet is missing." Bai Guo said with a cold face, "The prince took the bracelet from the person who framed me on the spot. If it wasn't you, who else would it be?" Although he didn't know That's why side concubine Xu wanted to frame herself.

Concubine Xu seemed to be asked, and she suddenly said: "It's you! It's you who wanted to frame me! I lost that bracelet, so why did it suddenly appear in the hands of your confidant eunuch?! It's clearly the princess, what do you want?" Framed me, making me speechless!"

Bai Guo was stunned by his counter-bite, he didn't understand why Concubine Xu was so capable: "Why did I frame you?"

Concubine Xu smiled miserably and said: "I have always known Princess Jing that you have a very close friendship with the former Princess Yu. Previously, I was pregnant with a son, but because of Princess Yu's frame, I lost my beloved son. Now you... I am afraid that you will not marry Princess Yu. His Highness Xiuqi's anger and jealousy were dumped on the concubine, and the framed concubine was also venting her anger for the former Princess Yu, right?"

Bai Guo was shocked: "You are talking nonsense!"

Concubine Xu said sadly: "You know if my concubine is talking nonsense!"

Bai Guo: "..." I just know that you are talking nonsense!

Seeing that the evidence of the crime was turned against the general, Wang Youquan showed a guilty and dignified expression on his face, but Xie Lin just looked at Concubine Xu quietly, there was no mechanism in his dark eyes, as if he was watching dead.

Concubine Xu noticed the man's gaze and shivered unconsciously.

King Yu stood up to act as a peacemaker, and said with a look of embarrassment: "Third brother, I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding? The third brother and sister were also shocked just now. I'm afraid we can't make it clear tonight, or Just don't spoil the emperor's grandmother's birthday banquet."

Xie Lin glanced at him indifferently: "No."

King Yu didn't expect that he would reject him, and he said in a daze for a moment, "What did you say?"

Xie Linman said casually: "Since my concubine was both shocked and wronged, it's better to explain it to me today, otherwise I may not be able to sleep well tonight in Prince Jing's Mansion."