In Jinxiu Palace, Concubine Zhen was talking with Concubine Wan about the Queen.
Mu Nanyan pricked up her ears and listened.
"By the way, sister, I wanted to ask you last time, was it the Queen who did your face?"
In recent days, Zhenfei has been visiting her palace frequently, and their relationship has gradually become closer.
She only knew the general situation, but was not very clear about the details.
Concubine Zhen paused and said slowly, "It was the Queen. She ordered someone to put drugs in the plum blossoms."
"She knew very well that I loved plum blossoms, and there would always be a bouquet of plum blossoms in my room every day."
"The new maid didn't know the rules and actually accepted the flowers she sent."
"This kind of method is hard to guard against, and the result turned out to be like that." Zhen Fei felt helpless.
Sure enough, the queen is not as selfless as she appears to be.
He had set his sights on her before, and now he is turning his attention to Concubine Zhen.
People like this are often more terrifying, and she has to deal with them carefully.
"So that's how it is. This method is really vicious." Wan Fei sneered at this.
If the medicine had been more potent, or if Zhenfei had not received the treatment, her face would probably have been ruined.
"The Queen is planning to hold a plum blossom banquet recently and invites young ladies from noble families to attend. Have you heard about this?"
Wan Fei nodded, and Zhen Fei continued, "This is just a fake banquet, but it's really about selecting a concubine for the prince."
The prince is just sixteen years old now and will be seventeen next year.
There are only a few concubines in the mansion, and those concubines come from poor families and are not candidates for the Crown Princess at all.
The Queen's intention was to select potential candidates for the Crown Princess through the banquet and then hold a grand wedding for the Crown Prince next year.
At the banquet, she would observe the words and deeds of the young ladies from aristocratic families, and if she liked any of them, she would keep them for a chat.
Then arrange a meeting with the prince.
Of course, the prince will also appear at the banquet, and the queen will help him screen whichever one he likes.
As women in the deep palace, they would never look at things so simply. They knew that the queen would definitely take a fancy to the power behind the young lady from aristocratic family.
"I guess the Queen is going to do something weird again." Wan Fei's voice was a little tired.
The prince is such a useless man, I wonder which unlucky woman would marry him.
[Prince, such a lecher, those girls are in trouble]
[How come I remember that Yun Qingyue was also among those invited in the book]
[Yun Qingyue is beautiful, what if the prince falls in love with her?]
[The second brother will do whatever it takes to get her back, but he is afraid that the queen will secretly make trouble]
She was afraid that the Queen would resort to despicable means such as drugging her in order to choose a Crown Princess.
Then those innocent women will be harmed.
Mu Nanyan's words reminded Wan Fei.
No, she had to remind Yun'er not to let Yun Qingyue go.
Yun'er finally found someone she liked, but the Queen snatched him away from her. She would not allow it.
"This prince is not a good guy. Those daughters of officials and young ladies from aristocratic families are going to be in trouble." The late concubine sighed deeply.
Zhenfei looked at Wanfei mysteriously with a somewhat obscene smile.
"Don't worry, the prince will definitely find someone he likes."
Concubine Zhen and the Empress had never gotten along, so she didn't mean well by saying this.
It seemed that Concubine Zhen had done something secretly. Wan Fei couldn't help but look forward to it.
[I really want to know what Concubine Zhen arranged for the Queen]
[Damn it, why did you only say half of the words?]
However, after a few days, we will know what Zhenfei did.
She wants to eat the melon first.
The twenty-second day of the twelfth lunar month was the day when the Queen held the Plum Blossom Banquet.
The Queen took great pains to host the Plum Blossom Banquet, and she spent a lot of energy and financial resources on it.
The banquet was held in a side hall next to Kunning Palace. The hall was magnificent and prosperous.
It was freezing cold, so the queen had people prepare many braziers. The temperature in the palace was very high, so even if you were wearing thin clothes, you wouldn't feel cold.
At this time, the queen was sitting in the first seat and the prince was sitting beside her.
"Greetings to Her Majesty the Queen, may Her Majesty live a thousand years."
"Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. May you live a thousand years."
They all bowed down together, and the sound was as clear as the singing of orioles.
The queen smiled and said, "Stand up. Today is the Plum Blossom Banquet. There is no need to be so reserved."
After the women stood up, they sat down one by one.
Their positions are arranged according to their rank, with those with higher ranks being closer to the higher positions, making it easier for the queen to know who has higher ranks.
There was a bouquet of blooming plum blossoms on each of their tables.
The fragrance of plum blossoms wafts everywhere, making the entire hall fragrant.
Looking at the beauties with rosy faces and beautiful looks, the prince stopped eating and looked at them straight.
"Yun'er, how about it? Do you like any of the women that your mother has arranged for you?" the Queen said in the Prince's ear.
She was very happy today, as she had carefully selected these.
The prince's eyes swept across the women's faces one by one. Their looks and temperaments were different. Some were gentle, some were cold, some were bright, and some were charming. He liked them all.
"Yes, mother, I like it very much." The prince smiled so much that his eyes almost narrowed into slits.
"Then you must take a good look at them and choose the Crown Princess from them."
Not only can there be a Crown Princess, there can also be a concubine.
Suddenly, the prince's eyes swept across a person and stopped moving, as if he was frozen under a spell.
Why is she here? The prince flashed a trace of disdain.
The Queen kept an eye on the Prince and saw that he looked unhappy, so she asked him, "What's wrong?"
"Why is Mu Qinglan here?" The prince pointed at the people in the crowd.
The man seemed to sense his gaze and smiled at him, and the prince almost vomited.
This girl named Mu Qinglan is only sixteen years old this year and is the prince's childhood sweetheart.
But she was different from other young ladies from aristocratic families. She was very fat, almost as fat as a ball.
Before, when she was not in her current state, the prince would always hang around her and try to make her happy.
The two have been together since childhood and have a good relationship.
Just when Mu Qinglan thought she would marry the prince, she fell seriously ill at the age of ten and became increasingly fat.
Although the disease was cured, my figure will never be restored.
Later, she gradually lost confidence in herself.
At the beginning, the prince did not stay away from her and would take care of her.
Once, she accidentally heard the prince say to others that he wanted to vomit when he saw her, and her heart sank.
She was so heartbroken that she couldn't eat. Even so, she still couldn't lose weight.
Finally, she couldn't stand the prince's contemptuous look anymore and had a quarrel with him.
From then on, the prince became obsessed with beauty. No matter which woman she was, as long as she was beautiful, he would find a way to get her.
Some people refused to surrender, so he would force them, and some of them even lost their lives.
As soon as he saw Mu Qinglan's fat body, he felt extremely disgusted.
Why is she attending this plum blossom banquet now?
He really couldn't understand it.
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