882 New Year's Eve Banquet, Singing and Dancing in the Palace
Su Rou can dance in public, but Yao Hua cannot. The identities of Yao Hua and Su Rou are very different. Yao Hua is a precious princess of the Xiling royal family, but what about Su Rou?
Let's not talk about the Su family being just a third-rate family that relied on women to make their fortune. Su Rou herself was just an unloved concubine with a low status. If she danced in public, she would at most be criticized. But Yao Hua was different...
If she were to dance in public, or for the emperor of another country, it would be a disgrace to her own country. But if she refused, she would offend Dong Ling to death.
What should I do? What should I do?
Yaohua's face turned pale, her hands clenched into fists, and she kept telling herself to stay calm, stay calm, and think of a solution quickly. But the more she said so, the more she couldn't calm down, and her body couldn't help shaking.
She knew that Nanling Jinxing did it on purpose and was targeting her.
Princess Yaohua felt cold all over, and suddenly realized that there was no one who could help her in this huge banquet hall. She raised her head to look at Dong Ling Zichun, only to see that Dong Ling Zichun, like everyone else, was looking at her expectantly, hoping that she would come out and dance.
Haha~ Yaohua smiled bitterly and suddenly realized that her life was so sad.
The emperor saw Yaohua remained silent for a long time, and said, "Princess Yaohua, are you willing to dance for the friendship between Dongling and Xiling?"
The emperor is even more ruthless than Su Rou, and directly threatens Yaohua with the peace between the two countries...
Just when Yaohua was being bullied by Nanling and Dongling, a major event also happened in the Xiling Palace.
Compared with the swordplay at the New Year's Eve banquet in Dongling, the New Year's Eve banquet in Xiling was much calmer. Except for the eldest princess and Mr. Yinli's family, no matter how unhappy everyone else was in their hearts, they all looked happy. They followed the steps of the emperor's speech, eating and drinking, appreciating singing and dancing, and the courtiers' praise. However, when they were appreciating the singing and dancing, something unexpected happened.
A dancer danced in front of Emperor Xiling and offered him wine. The emperor would certainly not refuse when a beauty offered him wine. He was about to take the wine glass from the beauty's hand, but at this moment, the emperor's pregnant concubine suddenly screamed in pain and fell to the ground.
"It hurts so much, Your Majesty. It hurts so much." The favorite concubine held her stomach and screamed in pain, blood flowing from between her legs.
"My beloved concubine, my beloved concubine, are you okay?" Emperor Xiling kicked the dancer away, squatted in front of his favorite concubine, and picked her up: "Someone, come quickly, call the imperial physician, call the imperial physician quickly."
"Your Majesty, I'm in so much pain, I'm in so much pain, my child, Your Majesty, my child..." The favored concubine leaned in the emperor's arms, screaming in pain, her beautiful eyes filled with tears. But even though the favored concubine was in so much pain and crying like this, she was still beautiful.
"Don't worry, my beloved concubine. I'm here, nothing will happen." The emperor held his beloved concubine's hand tightly and kept comforting her.
If you look closely, you will find that the beloved concubine in Emperor Xiling's arms is vaguely three-quarters like Feng Qingchen, or rather, like Feng Qingchen's mother.
Rumor has it that Emperor Xiling likes Lu Yimo, and it doesn't seem to be false.
The blood kept flowing, but the imperial physician still didn't come. Anyone with a little experience would know that the Emperor Xiling's favorite concubine had lost her child.
Finally, after much anticipation, the imperial physician arrived, and the emperor accompanied his favorite concubine back to the palace.
"Queen, I leave this to you." The emperor left in a hurry after saying this, regardless of the ministers who were present in the hall. This shows how much he values the child.
"I obey your command." The queen knelt down expressionlessly, and stood up after the emperor walked away. She raised her eyes slightly, showing her majesty, and glanced at Concubine Yu not far behind her. A hint of coldness flashed in the queen's eyes, and soon disappeared.
The queen stepped forward and announced that the New Year's Eve banquet was over and asked everyone to leave.
After such a thing happened, no one dared to stay. The ministers unexpectedly left in panic one after another, leaving only the royal family members, who also left the palace one by one at the queen's insistence.
Xiling Tianlei had a gloomy face and looked towards the harem worriedly. He always felt that something was not right today, but the harem was a place that he could not enter even though he was the prince. He could only leave with a deep sense of uneasiness.
The Queen had been standing there, watching everyone leave, or rather, she was watching Mr. Yinli leave. After Mr. Yinli left, there was no trace of tenderness in the Queen's eyes, and she coldly ordered that the dancer who presented the wine, as well as all the palace maids and eunuchs at the banquet tonight, be taken away, and the harem be sealed off, not allowing anyone to enter or leave.
The Queen's behavior indicates that she is going to conduct a thorough investigation into the miscarriage of the Emperor's favorite concubine.
Concubine Yu looked at the queen's cold and arrogant back, and for some reason, a trace of uneasiness flashed through her heart.
It would take some time for what happened in the Xiling Palace to be reported to the Dongling, but what happened in the Dongling Palace could be reported on the same day.
At the New Year's Eve banquet, the Ninth Prince left halfway without disturbing anyone and quietly came to the Feng Mansion.
Having learned from the lesson during the day, the Ninth Prince did not rush in directly. Instead, he asked the secret guard maid to go in and say something first, while he stood outside waiting for Feng Qingchen.
The cold wind blew, and the black hair fluttered in the wind. Under the candlelight, it seemed to be stained with a faint halo. The Ninth Prince just stood there, and everything around him became the background. When Feng Qingchen came out, he saw the Ninth Prince shining in the dark night.
"Ninth Uncle, why are you here?" The New Year's Eve banquet in the palace had not yet ended.
"I will stay with you until the New Year." The Ninth Prince walked towards Feng Qingchen, and faced Feng Qingchen. He lowered his head, looked into Feng Qingchen's eyes, and suddenly said, "I'm sorry!"
"Ah?" Feng Qingchen looked up, unable to believe what he heard: "What?"
The Ninth Prince was saying sorry to her? Was there something wrong with her ears, or was this world a fantasy?
"You heard it right. What I said were these three words: I'm sorry." Actually, it's not that difficult to say these three words: becoming a monk, the Ninth Prince thought to himself.
"Uh..." Feng Qingchen was really frightened and scratched his ears: "Am I dreaming?"
Ninth Prince, he actually went out of his way to apologize to her for what happened during the day. How amazing!
"Pa..." The Ninth Prince flicked Feng Qingchen on the forehead, and Feng Qingchen screamed in pain.
"Does it hurt?" The Ninth Prince knew what was going on. Feng Qingchen gritted his teeth and said, "It hurts so much."
"If it hurts, it means you're not dreaming." The Ninth Prince had a serious look on his face. Feng Qingchen felt very upset, but when she thought about the Ninth Prince saying these three words on his own initiative, she had to say it didn't matter.
"It's okay. I was also wrong about what happened during the day. You are right that saving people is one thing, but I still have to pay attention to what I should pay attention to. However, saving people always comes first." Feng Qingchen muttered softly.
She is not a great person and does not have the ability to change the environment, so she can only adapt to it. Besides, the Ninth Prince has such a good attitude. Even if she cannot change the environment, she can slowly change the Ninth Prince.
The Ninth Prince chuckled and did not comment on this.
The scene today was very shocking to him. He was totally unprepared, which was why he lost his composure like that. However, he did not intend to tell Feng Qingchen.
Seeing Feng Qingchen's silly smile, the Ninth Prince said maliciously, "Zi Chun asked me to tell you these three words 'I'm sorry'. He said he was sorry for making things difficult for you because of Yaohua's miscarriage. He will let me see you and I must say sorry to you."
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