Fortunately, after she came out from the Third Prince's place, she had already discussed with Mother Yuan that she would discredit Shen Ruyi at today's banquet!

Otherwise, I really can't swallow this!

Shen Jiaojiao thought about the things she had arranged and laughed coldly.

She wanted to see, once the truth was revealed and the news that Shen Ruyi's innocence was exposed in public, would the people of the Gu family still worship Shen Ruyi like this!

From now on, Shen Ruyi can forget about marrying Gu Qinghua.

Even if I marry an ordinary person, no one will want me!

Just for now, just bear with it for now.

But in fact, everyone in the Gu family was also dissatisfied with Shen Ruyi, but they just endured it and didn't show it on the surface.

On the kang, the old lady looked at Shen Cangyun and couldn't help but whispered, "Prime Minister, there are so many people here today, why did you let Ruyi come in dressed like this? She is the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion after all, she is wearing a coarse linen dress and a phoenix hairpin on her head, how can this be accepted?"

Isn't this clearly telling others that Shen Ruyi's life in the Shen family is hard, and that she relies entirely on the phoenix hairpin to survive?

Shen Cangyun was also furious when he heard this.

But at this critical moment, it is not good to get angry over a small matter, so he said: "Ruyi recently took the old beggar as her master. She wears this dress when practicing martial arts and collecting herbs. It may be for convenience, or it may be that the old beggar specifically asked for it."

The old lady frowned slightly and lowered her voice and asked, "Where is the hairpin?"

"She's wearing this thing. If something happens that we can't control, it will be difficult to deal with..."

As she spoke, she couldn't help but look at Shen Ruyi, showing a loving expression and trying to get her to take the hairpin away, "Ruyi, the empress from the palace is coming today, you should take off the phoenix hairpin on your head, so as not to offend the noble. If you are punished to kneel, your injured body will not be able to bear it."

Shen Ruyi then raised her head and looked at the old lady.

"Don't worry, old lady. No matter who comes to the palace today, they can't get past the late emperor. This hairpin was given by the late emperor, but he didn't say you can't wear it outside."

As he spoke, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "I think even if Concubine Li came, she wouldn't mind this."

The hairpin is her amulet.

She would only take it off if she got kicked in the head.

The old lady looked unhappy.

When Shen Ruyi wears this hairpin, people will be afraid of her.

The reason why she asked her to take off the hairpin first was to be prepared for any eventuality - if a quarrel occurred, they could pretend to have forgotten the hairpin and put pressure on her.

But unexpectedly, Shen Ruyi refused to take it down and even turned the tables.

But since Shen Ruyi had said so much, the old lady couldn't insist and could only roll her eyes at Gu Qinghua with an unpleasant expression.

Gu family, this is not about getting married.

This is like marrying an ancestor home and having everyone in the house serve her!

Gu Qinghua felt proud. Not only did he fail to understand the old lady's meaning, but he also followed Shen Ruyi's words and showed off, "Ruyi is right. The Phoenix Hairpin was bestowed by the late emperor. Even the emperor would think of the late emperor when he saw it, let alone other people."

"Besides, if Ruyi takes off this hairpin, doesn't it mean that Ruyi doesn't take the late emperor seriously?"

As he spoke, he glanced around the room.

Today, he wanted to let people see that the wife he, Gu Qinghua, was about to marry was Ziwei's lucky star, someone who could not be touched!

Let’s see who in the Gu family dares to compete with him in the future!

The old lady of the Gu family: "..."

If this wasn't her own grandson, she would have knocked his head off with her cane!

Can he understand what people say?

But there are some things that cannot be said openly.

On the contrary, Gu Qinghua's showing off made the faces of several illegitimate sons sitting not far away look ugly - originally, their own offspring were both talented and intelligent, and had been valued by the Second Prince and Concubine Li, but they did not expect that Shen Ruyi would suddenly appear with an imperial phoenix hairpin on her head, and instead praised Gu Qinghua, a waste!

Several people looked at each other, their expressions were not so natural.

Gu Qinghua glanced at them from the corner of his eyes, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he licked harder, "Ruyi, do you want to eat something first? If you do, I'll buy it for you right away."

Those people were so angry that they wanted to vomit blood, but they didn't dare to say anything more.

Shen Ruyi felt that Gu Qinghua looked a little disgusting, so she glanced at him and refused, "I'm not hungry. When does the birthday banquet start?"

I hope he can still smile at the birthday party.

Her face didn't look that good either.

Gu Qinghua thought she was not feeling well, and hurriedly said, "It will be soon. The guests are already over there, waiting for Grandma and us to come over. Are you not feeling well? Do you want to lie down and rest for a while?"

“…”

Shen Ruyi took a deep breath.

For the first time, she realized that being pestered by Gu Qinghua was as annoying as a fly.

"unnecessary."

Shen Ruyi's tone became stiff.

On the kang, the old lady couldn't stand it anymore. Seeing this, she said directly: "If that's the case, let's start the banquet earlier. I think it's almost time."

Shen Yuewan came back to her senses and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll help my mother over."

Having said that, he went forward to serve the old lady.

She didn't want to get entangled with Shen Ruyi anymore.

You're just asking for trouble.

The old lady got off the kang and held her daughter-in-law's arm as she walked out the door. But when she reached the door, she turned back and pulled Shen Ruyi's hand, "Ruyi, you go with grandma..."

As she spoke, she smiled politely, "You and Qinghua's wedding is only three or four days away. You should not mind calling me grandma, right?"

"No problem."

Shen Ruyi stood up and smiled at her.

But the smile didn't reach his eyes.

Gu Qinghua came over from the other side and approached, "Ruyi, you are injured, walk slowly."

Behind him, the other members of the Gu family rolled their eyes and followed.

Since when did the Gu family start to curry favor with one person?

Still a young girl!

There was a smile on everyone's face.

But everyone was unhappy.

Even more unhappy were the people from the Shen family.

Shen Cangyun felt a tightness in his chest as he watched this scene.

In order to curry favor with Shen Ruyi, the Gu family actually left the prime minister behind and no one cared?

Could it be that in the eyes of the people in the Gu family, he, the prime minister of Northern Qi, is not as useful as a little girl?

Thinking of what Li Xiangyi said, that she helped him before only because of Shen Ruyi, a surge of hatred rose in his chest.

He stared at Shen Ruyi's back, his pupils shrinking.

She is not his daughter.

It's his enemy!

It was not until Shen Jiaojiao's voice rang in his ears that he came back to his senses, "Daddy, what are you thinking about? They are all gone, should we go over there?"

Shen Cangyun froze for a moment. He lowered his head and saw Shen Jiaojiao was about to cry. He couldn't help but lower his voice to comfort her, "Jiaojiao, your aunt didn't ignore you on purpose. She was forced by the situation. After this critical moment, you will still be everyone's favorite girl."

Although I said this, I still felt very uncomfortable in my heart.

He knew better than anyone that from now on Shen Jiaojiao would never be able to catch up with Shen Ruyi no matter how hard she tried.