Chapter Seventy-Six
"What banquet?" Yao was completely confused.
She didn't receive any notification that she was going to attend a palace banquet.
"I don't know either." Mrs. Jin shook her head; she was unaware of the matter.
"Huh?" Now it was Lin Ziyi's turn to be puzzled.
Thinking back to what Eunuch Liu had said that day.
Could it be that this banquet is only for her and Li Zhiwei?
"Sister Lin, Sister Li, who notified you to attend this banquet?" Madam Jin looked at the two of them with some suspicion, wondering if they had been tricked.
"Eunuch Liu, who serves the Emperor, said it himself, so it can't be wrong, right?" Just as he was enjoying the candy ball that Li Zhiwei had prepared, he suddenly froze on the spot.
If it were someone else, I might be fooled, but that person is Eunuch Liu!
"I heard it from Eunuch Liu after he read out the imperial edict," Li Zhiwei quickly added.
“Since it was Eunuch Liu who said it, there shouldn’t be any problem,” Yao said seriously after thinking for a moment.
“Eunuch Liu is a favorite of the Emperor, there’s no need for him to fabricate stories. However, you two should be careful when entering the palace,” Madam Jin kindly reminded her after thinking for a moment.
"Oh dear, what you're saying makes me even more anxious," Lin Ziyi said, putting down the candy ball in her hand.
"Don't worry, Lin sister. Think about it, the Emperor didn't call anyone else, but specifically the two of you. Maybe it's because Prince An and your husband did something that pleased the Emperor." Seeing Lin Ziyi's worried look, Madam Jin smiled and comforted her.
"Sister Jin, if you were to say that Prince An made a contribution, then that would be possible. But my husband is just a Taichang Shiqing, only in charge of sacrificial rites. How could he possibly catch an assassin?" Thinking of this, Lin Ziyi shook her head. It wasn't that she didn't think Wei Jing'an was capable, but rather that she herself felt it was impossible.
The group stayed at Li's house for a while longer, talking with Li Zhiwei, before taking their leave.
Lin Ziyi returned to the Wei family home, and after much deliberation, she felt uneasy.
"Has the master not returned yet?" Wei Jing'an thought of how he had been missing recently.
Lin Ziyi had mixed feelings.
However, today, after learning that neither the Xie family nor the Marquis of Yongning had been invited, and not seeing Wei Jing'an, she felt uneasy.
She felt a surge of resentment, especially since she hadn't seen Wei Jing'an today.
Thinking of this, Lin Ziyi sat in the courtyard with a dark face, and waited until Xu Shi (7-9 PM) before seeing Wei Jing'an slowly return.
"Oh, so you know how to come back! If I didn't know better, I would have thought you couldn't find your way home." Lin Ziyi suddenly spoke up, startling Wei Jing'an.
"Madam, why aren't you asleep yet?" Wei Jing'an asked Lin Ziyi, puzzled.
"If I were asleep, how would I know that my husband doesn't come home until the moon is high in the sky every day?" Lin Ziyi said to Wei Jing'an in a sarcastic tone.
She really couldn't understand what Wei Jing'an could be so busy that he wouldn't be home until late in the evening.
Given his position at the Court of Imperial Sacrifices, unless there were major sacrificial ceremonies in Lanno Kingdom, he wouldn't be returning at this hour.
"Madam, I've been quite busy lately." Wei Jing'an felt incredibly embarrassed.
It's all his fault for taking on this job.
He was constantly being dragged away by Eunuch Liu...
Thinking about the things he had to do every day, Wei Jing'an blushed.
But when Lin Ziyi saw this, she assumed that Wei Jing'an had someone else.
Thinking about it, it's not like the Wei family didn't have concubines.
Over the years of their marriage, their relationship had always been good, and she assumed it would continue to be so.
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