"How is it?" Ji Xun also scooped a spoonful of cake into her mouth, savoured it carefully and squinted her eyes and said: "Miss Wei, does this birthday cake suit your taste?"
"It tastes great." No wonder the children from the Jinyang Marquis' Mansion in the previous life, and even Shen Feng, Qin and others, all praised this thing highly.
Not only does it taste good, but it also has a good meaning. If possible, she would like to let her family have the opportunity to taste it on their birthdays in the future.
"Isn't that easy?" Ji Xun said with a smile, "You can ask my elder sister for a simpler recipe. Apart from perishable ingredients like cow's and goat's milk, you can also bring back some from us if you are missing anything else."
As the two were talking, they saw a pair of sisters who had just come down from the high tower after Wei Yunlan, running past in a hurry, without even having time to take the cake handed to them by the palace maid.
He ran towards the small temple next to the square like a gust of wind.
Such a commotion naturally attracted the attention of others.
"What's going on?"
"The ones who ran over seemed to be Xue Ruo and Xue Qi from the Marquis of Nanying's family..."
I heard someone talking in my ear.
Wei Yunlan also recognized the identities of the sisters just now. She still remembered the two sisters. Today at the palace gate, the sisters praised the silk clothes she was wearing and asked her where she could buy them.
When the two men ran past just now, they were still some distance away from her, but perhaps because of the evolution of space and her keen five senses, she seemed to smell a faint smell of blood passing by.
It should have come from one of the sisters in the Marquis of Nanying's Mansion.
It was different from the usual smell of injury and blood, and it seemed to have a slight smell of rust.
With his eyes slightly stunned, Wei Yunlan realized why the two sisters ran away in a hurry.
There are always a few days every month when women have to deal with inconveniences. If the date comes early and they are not prepared, it will be even more troublesome.
For example, in an occasion like today, encountering this situation, it is easy to imagine that the two sisters in the Marquis of Nanying’s Mansion must be extremely anxious at this moment.
Fortunately, Qi Meng Kingdom is not as dogmatic and rigid as Dayong, and the people are much more open-minded. Otherwise, if this situation happened at Dayong’s palace banquet, it would inevitably be criticized behind the back.
Just as Wei Yunlan was thinking this, he saw two women dressed in aristocratic attire sitting not far away, pointing in the direction where the two young ladies of the Nanying family had just left, muttering something with a look of disgust between their brows.
As expected, no matter where you are, such things are bound to happen.
Wei Yunlan frowned subconsciously. The two of them noticed the look Wei Yunlan was giving them, so they stopped talking, smiled awkwardly, and stopped muttering.
Ji Xun noticed Wei Yunlan's gaze and her furrowed brows, and whispered, "Don't bother with them, they are just gossipers."
Then he glanced in the direction where the Nanying sisters left, and saw another noblewoman walking in that direction. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The Marquise of Nanying has already gone there. I guess there's no need for anyone else."
"Miss Wei, let's take a seat." Ji Xun and Wei Yunlan returned to their seats.
The dinner has come to an end.
Outside the palace, cheers from the people could be heard faintly. It must be the cake that had just been sent out from the palace, and now it was being distributed to them.
A birthday dinner is truly a celebration with the country and joy with the people.
The dinner came to an end, and Wei Yunlan was personally escorted out by the palace maid beside Ji Yun. Before leaving the palace, the palace maid whispered to Wei Yunlan that the queen would send a car to pick her up into the palace tomorrow.
The night is deep, and beneath the seemingly calm surface, there is a turbulent undercurrent hidden in the royal capital.
The next morning, before entering the palace, Wei Yunlan heard what happened at night.
"The largest mansion two streets to the north, close to the palace, was surrounded by heavy troops at night." The speaker was Chen Yan. Even though they moved to their own house, they still retained the habit of leaving someone to guard at night.
The last person to take the night watch was Chen Yan.
Two streets to the north, the residence closest to the palace...
Wei Yunlan recalled carefully and remembered that location.
"Isn't that the Duke of Bern's Palace?"
Most of the noble mansions in the capital of Qimeng Kingdom were located around the royal palace. The higher the status, the closer the mansion was to the palace.
The four dukes of Qimeng Kingdom all have mansions in the royal capital, which are only two streets away from Wei Yunlan and the others. The nearest one to the north is the Duke of Bourne’s mansion!
At the dinner yesterday, she also met the Duke and Duchess of Bourne.
I didn't notice anything wrong with them at the dinner...
No, there are.
Wei Yunlan's eyes deepened, and he suddenly remembered that after the two white tigers were subdued, Duke Bourne had proposed to execute the white tigers.
Could it be that the sudden attack of the white tigers was caused by Duke Bourne?
It should be.
When the pair of white tigers broke free from their restraints and fled, they were clearly heading towards the seats of the Qimeng nobles on the right side of the circular platform.
If she hadn't stopped him halfway, the first person to pounce on him would probably be...
The Duchess of Bonne!
Wei Yunlan took a breath of cold air.
If this is true, then the Duke of Bourne is really playing a big game.
What a vicious heart!
I just don’t know if the flamboyant Duchess of Bourne knows that she almost had a brush with death. The one who put her to death was none other than her husband, whom she relied on.
…
"Miss, the carriage sent by the palace is here."
Suihe went inside to report.
The person who came to pick up Wei Yunlan was none other than Prince Anlu, who was already familiar with everyone.
"The king has been a little confused these past two days, so the queen's wife specifically asked me to come pick up Miss Wei, which would be safer." An Lu explained.
"Then I'll have to trouble Your Majesty." Wei Yunlan took Suihe and got on the carriage.
When passing the road section that Chen Yan mentioned, he couldn't help but lift the car curtain and look in the direction of the Duke of Bourne's Palace.
"Miss Wei also knows what happened last night, right?" An Lu was not surprised.
Last night, the King and Queen ordered the siege of the Duke of Bern's palace and the capture of the Duke of Bern, without any intention of avoiding public attention.
Wei Yunlan nodded slightly.
I didn't want to ask more about such palace secrets.
But An Lu spoke directly out like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.
"Last night, a group of people were arrested in the capital, and a lot of useful information was obtained during the interrogation. Wang's wife said that these things don't need to be concealed, and they will be made public in the next two days."
Andrew's tone was quite sad: "I didn't expect that Duke Bern had been communicating with Luoyan Kingdom in private. The accident yesterday was caused by Duke Bern and Luoyan Kingdom working together, intending to frame Yanzhao Kingdom and provoke disputes between the two countries."
"Duke Bern is really cruel and ruthless. Miss Wei, do you know that if you hadn't acted in time yesterday, their goal would have been to let the white tiger bite the Duchess of Bern to death..."
"Everyone in the capital knows that Duke Bern loves his wife so much that he is willing to recognize the Duchess's previous child as his own. Once the Duchess dies, Duke Bern will definitely hold on to Yanzhao State. Then there will be a dispute between the two countries."
"Speaking of which, it's all thanks to you, Miss Wei!"
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