Chapter 06 Impact
Queen Chen protected her belly with one hand and lifted up with the other hand, knocking the wooden box that Shen Suixian had raised to the ground.
A wooden axle rolled out, slowly spreading out with silk.
Wu Chun took a glance and saw that the silk was attached to a layer of rice paper, on which was painted a picture of autumn chrysanthemums, with dots of ink and chrysanthemums covering the mountains in autumn colors. It was obvious that it was not drawn by ordinary people.
The problem was the color of the chrysanthemums.
The use of lead white as an ingredient made the autumn chrysanthemum picture look cold and dull. Putting it at a birthday banquet, it really had an unclear meaning.
The open-air round platform, which was originally full of singing and dancing, suddenly became silent. The dancers all knelt on the ground, lowering their heads and not daring to speak. The women in the harem who participated in the banquet were also few and far between, wishing they could bury their heads in the ground.
Wu Chun also knelt down.
Among the princes, Shen Sui bowed slightly and saluted to Queen Chen in a neither humble nor arrogant manner; Shen Gong knelt down, but he didn't look serious; Shen Heng stepped forward and said, like the eldest son, "Queen, calm down. The body of Feng is the most important thing. Don't disturb the fetus."
Shen Yu frowned, "What's going on?"
Queen Chen said, "To answer your Majesty, it's my birthday today, which should be a happy day, but Shu Zi presented a picture of white chrysanthemums, which shows his rebelliousness!"
Wu Chun vaguely remembered that Shen Sui also angered Queen Chen in her previous life, but at that time Wu Chun was just a prince's consort who had just married to Daliang and had learned the rules and regulations in a confused way. During the banquet, she was always very careful about etiquette. Queen Chen was furious, so she was naturally very scared and prayed that nothing would happen to Shen Sui. She didn't know where her mind went, and she forgot about it soon after the banquet.
Everyone present felt a chill in their hearts!
Shen Sui is so brave!
Shen Yu's face darkened a little, "Sanlang, tell me what's going on?"
Shen Sui's cold voice rang out, "My father, I dare not disobey. It's just that the Empress misunderstood my intention. Everyone knows that white chrysanthemums represent mourning, but few people know that white chrysanthemums, because of their color, also symbolize noble virtues. I send this picture to praise your virtues."
"I also hope that in the future, your Majesty will behave frankly and dignified, and have noble and upright character."
"What's more, chrysanthemums have many petals. I sincerely wish your Majesty a long life."
Some people breathed a sigh of relief, but some people figured out many deeper meanings in Shen Sui's words.
Others presented gifts such as jewelry or necklaces, or items characteristic of their hometowns. The more elegant ones, like Shen Heng, presented birthday calligraphy and paintings, and they could not go wrong in choosing auspicious patterns.
No matter how you look at it, Shen Sui seemed to have other ideas.
However, Shen Sui spoke these words in a calm tone, without any panic or confusion, and he did not feel guilty at all, as if he really meant to express praise.
Everyone knew that the Third Prince and the Queen had always been at odds.
Thinking of this level of people, the biting coldness in his body deepened.
Shen Sui is always like this, making it hard to figure out what he is thinking.
Queen Chen's eyes widened, "How dare you say such a thing? You obviously have evil intentions! I don't know if you mean to me or to the heir in my belly!"
Shen Yu's face was not looking good either. He comforted the queen, "Today is your birthday. You should be happy. It was not easy for you to be pregnant. So don't be angry. I think Sanlang may not be as disrespectful to you as you said. The baby in your belly is the most important."
As an emperor, he is usually very busy with affairs. When he has time to rest, he naturally does not want to see the quarrels in the harem. Even if he dislikes Shen Sui, it is not appropriate to make things difficult for him at the Queen's birthday banquet. Besides, the Queen is pregnant.
Empress Chen could see it, so she calmed down and said to Shen Sui coldly: "Since you say so, let's stop today, you can leave now."
"Yes." Shen Sui returned to Wuchun.
The emperor said "Everyone get up and leave", and everyone dared to return to their seats.
Unlike those people who were still nervous, Wuchun returned to her seat, grabbed the cakes and ate them, a mouthful of osmanthus cake, a sip of tea, and then a mouthful of dragon beard cake, with relish, as if it was not her husband who was frightened just now. Others
saw it and muttered in their hearts: She is worthy of being a woman from southern Xinjiang, she is really bold, and she is not afraid of being implicated by the third prince.
When Shen Sui looked at Wuchun, there was a hint of smile in her eyes, and she pushed the cakes in front of her to Wuchun.
"Tsk, Third Brother and Sister-in-law are so loving..." Shen Ying, who was sitting opposite, saw this and whispered to the palace maid with her bulging cheeks, her face as wonderful as a silk shop. Most girls of this age like to read gossips.
Only Wu Chun knew in her heart that in the eyes of outsiders, Shen Sui was 70% fake, and the remaining 30% was real.
Wu Chun smiled and pushed back the plate that Shen Sui pushed over, "This cake is delicious. It would be a pity if Your Highness doesn't eat it."
Shen Sui didn't like sweets. In Wu Chun's impression, he had hardly seen him eat cakes.
Wu Chun picked up a piece of jujube paste cake and put it to Shen Sui's mouth. Two shallow pear-shaped swirls appeared at the corners of his mouth, and his smile was sweeter than the cake.
Shen Sui raised his eyebrows slightly, and ate from Wu Chun's hand, "Thank you, my beloved concubine."
Under the table, Shen Sui pinched Wu Chun's hand, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Stop playing tricks."
"Your Highness dares to challenge the Queen, even if I do something wrong, don't you still protect me?"
Wu Chun withdrew his hand, and Shen Sui's hand was empty for a moment, with five fingers still stretched out, and then curled up and put back into the sleeve.
Shen Sui said, "You are not unaware of the feud between Chen and me. Since you are my principal wife, if you do something wrong, I will naturally protect you, but it also depends on what you did and who you did it to."
The implication is that you should mind your own business.
In the past, Wuchun would have been trembling with fear, hugging Shen Sui with her soft body and acting coquettishly towards him.
But now, Wuchun took a sip of tea and said coldly: "Whatever your highness wants to do, how can I interfere? I don't have the courage to interfere."
At this time, the emperor probably saw that everyone couldn't enjoy sitting here because of Shen Sui's previous disturbance, and was also worried that Empress Chen had just had a miscarriage, so he allowed everyone to walk freely in Shou'an Palace, and he took the empress to the small pavilion in the palace to rest, and summoned the imperial physician.
Wuchun put down the tea and sat on the seat without moving. There were still many cakes in front of him that he hadn't eaten.
Seeing that Wuchun had no intention of getting up, Shen Sui left first, and no one knew where he went.
Many people stood up and began to greet each other. Most of the people at the banquet were the emperor's concubines. They started playing mahjong while chatting, and they kept saying things in their conversations. When they saw Wu Chun eating alone, they had no intention of asking her to join them.
Most of the Daliang concubines disliked her for being crude and barbaric, so how could they look up to her?
It was understandable. In their opinion, her current behavior was indeed quite unsophisticated.
Wu Chun found it boring and began to look for Xiao Huaiwen.
Xiao Huaiwen walked out from the corner under the steps and did not even look at them when he walked around the concubines.
The black back gradually went away.
It passed Shen Ying.
Under the mottled shade of the trees like swimming fish, Shen Ying was playing shuttlecock with the palace maids, and the colorful shuttlecock rose and fell.
Wu Chun stared at her and Xiao Huaiwen with his eyes wide open.
The two gradually approached.
Xiao Huaiwen saw Shen Ying kicking shuttlecock and tried to avoid it, but as soon as she turned her step, Shen Ying accidentally kicked the shuttlecock off-center, and the shuttlecock flew toward Xiao Huaiwen's face!
Shen Ying's smile froze instantly, and she exclaimed, "Ah!"
The flying shuttlecock was caught by powerful fingers.
Xiao Huaiwen bowed to Shen Ying and handed the shuttlecock to her with both hands, "Your Highness, be careful."
Shen Ying took the shuttlecock embarrassedly, "Thank you."
Xiao Huaiwen left.
Wu Chun didn't know why, but when he watched the two of them getting along, his heart was pounding, as if he was as nervous as when he saw Shen Sui in his previous life.
He was afraid that something would go wrong with them.
But...how did a little princess and a leader of the imperial guards come into contact?
Not long after Xiao Huaiwen left, Shen Ying suddenly lowered her head, picked up a jade pendant from the twisted roots of a tree, and looked at it over and over again, while asking people around her if they had seen it before.
Wu Chun slapped the table, this is Xiao Huaiwen's thing, isn't it?
Then she ran over with her skirt lifted, and along the way she received many cold stares from the virtuous and virtuous Daliang concubines.
Wu Chun didn't care.
Seeing her running over, Shen Ying asked curiously, "Sister-in-law, are you here to look for our third brother? He seems to have left a long time ago."
Wu Chun said, "I... I'm not looking for the Third Prince. I've seen the jade pendant in your hand. When I was kneeling on the ground just now, I caught a glimpse of the light reflected from the waist of the general. Women in the palace would not wear jade pendants of this shape. I think it was dropped by the general."
Shen Ying immediately felt like she was holding a hot potato, "That's terrible, we have to return it quickly. But General Xiao usually doesn't pass through this palace. He only appears here to protect my father. And he can't look around casually, and he won't enter the harem. How can I return it..."
Wu Chun has a way to deal with this kind of thing!
Wu Chun's clear almond eyes glanced around, then he leaned over and whispered to Shen Ying.
The obedient little princess listened, her eyes gradually widened, "Sister-in-law, you are so brave... You must have done this kind of thing many times..."
Wu Chun coughed twice, "But isn't this the only way now?"
Shen Ying turned around and said to the palace maids, "Sister-in-law and I have something to say, you guys should leave first. Wait..." Shen Ying suddenly pointed at two taller palace maids, "You, follow me." The
two palace maids followed, and the others walked away. Shen Ying then pulled Wu Chun, went around to the small path, and passed through the locust tree forest that was so big that it took three people to hug it. There was no one around, and the red walls and green tiles were cool and serene.
Shen Ying whispered a few words to the maids. The maids opened their mouths and wanted to speak, but were forced back by Shen Ying's serious and indifferent expression, and replied "yes".
After a while, the two of them brought a ladder, turned a few forks in the road, and headed north. Finally, they stopped at a dead end and set up the ladder.
It was calculated that Xiao Huaiwen should take a day off today, and after attending the banquet, he would naturally go to the Forbidden Garden.
If he was faster, he might be able to catch up!
Wu Chun asked Shen Ying to go up first, so that if the little princess had any accidents, she could help her from below. However, Shen Ying hesitated in front of the ladder.
Climbing the ladder and climbing over the wall...
is not in accordance with the rules.
"How about you go first, sister-in-law?"
Wu Chun sighed, "You Daliang women have such a boring life."
After saying that, she climbed up lightly, her skirt brushing over the cirrus-cloud-patterned tiles on the palace wall, and with a kick of her legs, she sat on the top of the wall.
Shen Ying saw her light movements, and the playfulness of a young girl came up. She jumped up to try, but when she looked up, she saw Wu Chun's back was motionless.
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
Seeing that Wu Chun didn't respond, Shen Ying climbed up puzzledly. The process was easier than she thought.
As soon as she sat on the wall, Shen Ying finally understood why her sister-in-law was so stiff.
The little princess looked down, touched the tip of her nose, and smiled with a bit of embarrassment: "Oh, third brother? What a coincidence."
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