Feng Yuheng couldn't help but feel annoyed when she heard the news. The palace banquet hadn't even started yet, so why couldn't the ladies outside hold back? Anyone who could come to the palace banquet today was from a prominent family. Even if Fu Ya got the invitation through a special channel, there was still the Yao family behind her. Even someone dared to beat someone up outside the Rui Gate...
"Who is the one who hit him?" she asked Fangyi, "Do you know why he hit her?"
Fang Yi whispered, "The person who brought the news said that the one who beat people was the daughter of the prefectural governor of Luotian Prefecture. If I remember correctly, her surname should be Mu."
"Luotianfu?" Feng Yuheng frowned. In her memory, Luotianfu was in the south of Dashun, adjacent to Lanzhou. "It seems that many people from the south have come this time."
Fang Yi continued, "As for why, that person didn't explain clearly, and I was in a hurry to chase the princess, so I don't know the details."
Feng Yuheng nodded, "Thank you, auntie. I'll go to Ruimen to take a look." After that, she said to Xuan Tiange, "Take Miss Feng...Lian to the Imperial Garden first. I'll be back soon."
Xuan Tiange pushed Feng Zhaolian to the maid beside him and said, "Let the servant take him there. I have nothing else to do, so I'll go with you. I really want to see how arrogant the daughter of Luo Tianfu is. She actually dares to bully us."
Feng Yuheng saw that Xuan Tiange's fighting spirit had been aroused, and knew that he could not stop her, so he had to do as she said and handed Feng Zhaolian to the servants. The two of them took Huang Quan and hurried to Ruimen.
Feng Zhaolian didn't care. He and Xiangrong were not that close friends. However, he really wanted to open his eyes to the imperial garden of the Dashun Palace. What's more, if he stayed in the palace, what if he had the chance to meet the Seventh Prince?
He had this idea, and on the other side, Feng Yuheng and Xuan Tiange were walking hurriedly. As they walked, Xuan Tiange remembered something: "I entered the palace early today and saw the two ladies of your Feng Mansion in the Queen's palace. Well, speaking of it, they stayed in the palace for a while under the pretext of attending to the Queen's illness, but now that the Queen is in good health, even the palace banquet can be organized, shouldn't they go back?" The more Xuan Tiange talked, the more he felt something was wrong, "I didn't think those two were good before, at least they helped you a lot in the Feng family. But now they are back in the palace, what does this mean?"
Feng Yuheng didn't have any special emotions about this. She just told Xuan Ge: "Let's not care about this matter. The Cheng sisters have their own rules. They have their own reasons for staying in the palace. Since they haven't told me yet, it means they can't tell me, or there is nothing special to say. It's human nature that they simply feel that the Feng Mansion is a bad place to stay. In short, the Queen will give the Feng family an explanation sooner or later. I'll just wait."
Xuan Tiange heard her say this, but she didn't dwell on it anymore, and turned the topic back to the Seventh Princess of Ancient Shu. She said, "The princess from Southern Xinjiang came to Dashun at the time of the moonset, and came so quietly. I don't believe that she didn't have any other thoughts." She moved closer to Feng Yuheng and whispered, "I heard that Ancient Shu is interested in marrying my Dashun to eliminate the negative impact caused by their prince's proposal to Princess Qian Zhou. I just don't know who the princess of Ancient Shu likes."
Feng Yuheng was not surprised by the marriage, but if a princess from ancient Shu married into Dashun, she would definitely marry a royal family member or a relative. Who she fell in love with was really worth guessing.
While they were thinking, the two of them had already reached the gate of Ruimen. When a palace servant saw them arriving, he was about to rush over to pay his respects, but was stopped by Feng Yuheng, who only whispered, "It's okay, don't make a fuss, Princess Wuyang and I just came to take a look."
The palace maid retreated tactfully and informed the guards quietly, so that everyone pretended not to notice the arrival of the two people, allowing them to walk out normally.
The Rui gate was a bit chaotic at the moment. Xiangrong was standing in front of the gate with her face covered. Next to her stood a tall girl, about fifteen or sixteen years old, with one hand on her waist, looking at Xiangrong arrogantly. The people in line squeezed to the front to watch the fun. The ladies gathered together, but no one noticed whether Feng Yuheng Xuan Tiange walked out of the door or was originally in line at the back.
Feng Yuheng saw that the half of Xiangrong's face that was covered seemed to be slightly swollen, but the child was stubborn and did not shed tears. He just stared back at the tall woman and responded to her cold words: "This is the palace gate. Miss, please think more about your family. You hit me without knowing right from wrong. If such a thing spreads to the palace, what good will it do you?"
Xuan Tiange said to Feng Yuheng: "That's her. Her surname is Mu. Look at the name tag hanging around her waist. It says Mu."
Feng Yuheng then noticed that the woman had a wooden sign hanging around her waist with her family name written on it. She then remembered that everyone who entered the palace for the banquet today had to hang such a wooden sign to show their identity. Naturally, she and Xuan Tiange were exceptions.
While he was thinking, Miss Mu's voice came, sharp and piercing: "Spread to the palace? Tsk! Even if it spreads to the palace, do you think anyone will speak for you? Although my Luotian Prefecture is not the southernmost border, it is also the last provincial capital in the south. Go and ask about the importance of Luotian Prefecture to Dashun, and also ask about the importance the emperor attaches to my father. Who do you think you are? If it were in the past, the daughter of the left prime minister, although a concubine, I would give you some face. But now, your useless father is nothing, a poor man, and you still want to use your previous identity to compete with me?"
Xiang Rong frowned: "I never intentionally provoked you, it was you who came to my door."
"I hit you? I'm being lenient! This is just in front of the palace gate. It's a good day and it's not suitable to see the fierce light. Otherwise, I will definitely have someone beat you to death on the spot. Let's see if you can still talk back to me!"
At this time, someone reminded Miss Mu: "Although the Feng family has been defeated, there is still Princess Ji'an!"
Miss Mu's face changed, but she immediately sneered, "Princess Ji'an? What is a princess? She just relied on men to get to the top. Do you really think she is a powerful figure? She was just lucky when she was young and got the ninth prince's marriage. It's also your highness's bad luck to have such a wife from a declining family. But it doesn't matter. It's normal for a man to marry more wives and concubines. I want to see how long Princess Ji'an can be so arrogant." After saying that, she glared at Xiangrong again, "You rely a lot on your sister, right? What a pity, why didn't she come out to save you today? Didn't she come to help you out? I heard that Princess Ji'an can use a whip, I really want to see it for myself!"
As soon as Miss Mu's words came out, the onlookers stopped talking. Although they had talked about Feng Yuheng in private, it was just a harmless statement made by girls with jealousy. But Miss Mu's curse was too ugly, who would dare to agree with such words? It was really that Luotian Mansion was too far away from the capital, and the news was too uninformed, so that the daughter of the Luotian prefect's family actually had such a superficial understanding of Princess Ji'an. At this time, some people had quietly walked back to their original positions and continued to line up, not wanting to watch any more. They could already foresee that this incident would soon reach Feng Yuheng's ears, and then the princess would definitely whip Miss Mu with a whip until her parents couldn't recognize her.
There were many people who thought this way, and Miss Mu felt that the people around her were gradually sparse. Those who originally supported her and laughed at the Feng family girl also shut their mouths and stayed away from her. She couldn't figure it out, "She's just a princess from another family, why are you so scared?" Seeing that no one answered, she couldn't hold back her anger, and she took it out on Xiangrong again. She took a step forward, raised her hand, and slapped Xiangrong on the other cheek without any courtesy.
This young lady from the Mu family might know some kung fu, her movements were fast and powerful, and by the time Xiangrong reacted, the palm wind had already reached her, leaving her with nowhere to hide. She subconsciously closed her eyes, waiting for the slap to fall.
But she didn't wait until the pain on her cheek came, but suddenly heard the murderer in front of her scream "Ah", the palm wind stopped suddenly, and when she opened her eyes again, it turned out to be Miss Mu's body tilted for some reason and fell to the ground. Fortunately, a servant beside her helped her up, so she didn't fall to the ground.
But the screams of that lady were incessant. Besides that, Xiangrong clearly saw that the palm of the hand that the other party had just raised was bleeding for some reason, which was shocking to see.
At this time, from the direction of Ruimen, another woman's voice was raised. She sighed first, and then said, "These are the finest East China Sea pearls that my seventh brother brought back from the east a few days ago. They are wasted like this."
Everyone turned their heads in surprise, and Xiangrong was pleasantly surprised to see that the person who spoke was none other than her second sister Feng Yuheng. And standing next to Feng Yuheng was Princess Wuyang Xuan Tiange.
She felt relieved at that moment. With these two here, today's matter should finally be over. But thinking about the abuse that Miss Mu had just said to Feng Yuheng, she didn't know how much Feng Yuheng had heard. If she had heard it all, wouldn't Miss Mu be beaten to death by her second sister?
The little girl began to worry again. It would be unlucky if someone died at the palace gate on the day of the Moon Festival.
But it was obvious that Feng Yuheng and she were not thinking on the same line at all, let alone on the same point. She just wanted to avoid too much trouble, but Feng Yuheng was twisting a hairpin in his hand and continued to say pitifully: "Tian Ge, look, such a good pearl hairpin is ruined, what a pity."
Xuan Tiange nodded, "Yes, it is said that although the pearl on this hairpin is small, there is only one of it, and it came from a thousand-year-old clam king in the East China Sea. My seventh brother was reluctant to give it to me, so he gave it to you, but you actually broke the pearl off and used it as a stone to hit people. Tsk tsk, what a waste."
Feng Yuheng said helplessly: "I wanted to throw this hairpin away, but it is a sharp weapon after all. If I accidentally pierce Miss Mu's eyes, or even take her life, it will be very bad during the festival."
"But you knocked the pearl into the flesh of her palm. It's disgusting. We can't keep it even if we dig it out." Xuan Tiange joined in, and the two of them spoke back and forth like a crosstalk.
Feng Yuheng thought for a moment and said, "It has to be dug out even if it's disgusting. I have another use for it after digging it out! Someone, come here - dig out the pearl in Miss Mu's palm for me first!"
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