A banquet made two jokes.
One is that a commoner girl Ling Mu'er publicly rejected the second prince's request for marriage; the other is that the new Jin Xian Wang Su Ce once again rejected the prime minister's daughter Lan Qianying.
Presumably, without waiting until dawn tomorrow, these two incidents will spread throughout the streets and alleys of the market, and become the laughing stock of everyone after dinner.
All the seals were over, and the banquet officially began. There were singing and dancing in the center of the stage, and there was a lot of excitement behind the stage.
The prime minister felt ashamed and accepted the comfort of the ministers who had been friends with him in the past.
The eldest princess sat next to the son-in-law without losing her temper, wishing that thousands of sharp swords could shoot out of her eyes and stab him into a hornet's nest.
"Okay Su Zhengxiu, tell me clearly what you mean by what you said today?"
After drinking a glass of wine, Su Zhengxiu said calmly, "Qianqian, do you really really want Ce'er to be happy?"
"Of course!" The eldest princess replied without thinking, "I have always raised Ce'er as my own child, and his marriage is the most worrying thing in my life. Do you think I care?"
"Since you care, you still want him to become the second us?" Su Zhengxiu asked.
The eldest princess who was about to refute opened her lips but found that she didn't know how to speak.
She stammered: "You, what do you mean by that?"
"Ce'er has his own heart. I believe that all the discerning people here today can see the truth. Besides, if he is happy with Lan Qianying, how could he refuse to marry in public? If you force them to be together like this, it is different from us back then." What's the difference?"
"But we are currently..." The eldest princess wanted to explain, but found that she couldn't convince herself of this reason.
Back then when she found out that Su Zhengxiu had another old love, she had a quarrel for a while, and the two of them were very unhappy, and those years were even more painful. She is a mother, and of course she will not let her children follow her old ways.
"But that Ling Mu'er is just a grassroots person, you..."
"Since Ce'er likes it, let him go. She's just a little girl, what kind of trouble can she cause?" Su Zhengxiu grabbed the hand of the eldest princess, pointed at today's protagonist who was drinking with his chin, "Besides, With the second prince, they are impossible."
The eldest princess wanted to say something, but her eyes changed a few times, and after a long while, she finally smiled thoughtfully.
Lan Qianying was humiliated in public today, not to mention how uncomfortable she felt. Finally, when the banquet started, she quietly ran in front of the eldest princess. Before she could open her mouth, tears fell like broken beads.
"Princess, you, you must be the master of Qianying!"
The first beauty cried pear blossoms with rain, even though the eldest princess was a woman, she was heartbroken by this scene.
"It was Ce'er who was wrong today, and you were wronged, so what do you want to do, why don't I compensate you for Ce'er?" Picking up the handkerchief to wipe off the tears from her face, the eldest princess said.
Lan Qianying hurriedly waved her hands, "Don't dare, how dare Qianying ask the eldest princess to make amends, it's Ling Muer, it's all her fault!"
Thinking of the woman who disturbed the situation, Lan Qianying was so angry that she couldn't find her whereabouts in the crowd. She was so angry that her eyes were murderous, and she still had the gentle and dignified appearance in the past. I seduce Brother Ce because I am pretty, but she is not satisfied with the second prince, she cheats on her three times and disobeys womanhood, such a woman will ruin Brother Ce if she stays by her side!"
She stomped her feet anxiously, "Eldest Princess, you promised me the title of Princess Xian."
Originally, the Eldest Princess wanted to comfort her a few words, but she immediately lowered her face when she heard her last words.
"So you are willing to follow Ce'er after all the humiliation, because of this?"
Lan Qianying realized that she was too impatient and said the wrong thing, she quickly shook her head, "No, it's not that the princess misunderstood, I...I am brother Zhenxin Yuece, we grew up together as childhood sweethearts, and my brother countermeasure is serious."
"Whether you're serious or not, and whether or not it's related to Ling Mu'er, you've seen what happened today. Ce'er would rather sever ties with me than have anything to do with the prime minister's mansion. Besides, the emperor still Personally decree to dissolve the engagement, I'm afraid I really can't help you."
The eldest princess returned to her seat, as if she had nothing to do with herself.
Lan Qianying, who originally wanted to get some benefits from the eldest princess, was very angry. If she hadn't been told from her childhood that she had to be patient at this time, she really wanted to turn against this old woman, but what to do, they can't do it yet Frozen.
Lan Qianying said pitifully, "Princess, what do you mean by that?"
"Ce'er hates me, you've seen it, and I've said everything I should say today. As a mother, I really can't help it, Qianying, I can only wrong you in this matter."
After the words fell, the eldest princess found a random reason to chat with the son-in-law, as if she had forgotten that there was a living person.
Feeling the pointing and pointing of the people around her, Lan Qianying only felt that she was like a clown today.
From the corner of her eye, she saw Ling Muer, who was chatting and laughing with Su Ce not far away, she clenched her handkerchief into a fist, "You are responsible for all this, just wait for me!"
Shangguan Shaochen, who was drinking, took one cup after another, staring straight ahead with his eyes, wishing to see through the two people in front of him.
Feeling the powerful aura emanating from his body, Nangong Yizhi shivered, "Cousin, when did you become a coward?"
Bang, the wine glass was pressed heavily on the table by Shangguan Shaochen, he turned his head in a daze, squinted and said, "What did you say?"
Almost scared to death by his sudden gaze, Nangong Yizhi hurriedly straightened up, "I, don't I love you? No one thought that a girl who could catch up to the military camp would refuse your marriage offer. If you don't work harder, your future sister-in-law will really be poached away."
From the corner of his eye, Shangguan Shaochen stared at Su Ce and Ling Muer, who were talking and chatting opposite him. Seeing the two of them talking and laughing happily, the anger in his body was expanding and growing, and it was about to explode. Can't live.
Standing up abruptly from the seat, when he walked to Ling Muer's side, he clasped her wrist and walked out without saying a word.
"Shangguan Shaochen, what are you doing?" Ling Muer was shocked by his rudeness, "You hurt me."
"Why refuse?"
In a corner where no one could see, he pressed her against the wall, and his anger at a close distance extinguished all her good mood.
"I am free. If I want to refuse, I can refuse. There is no reason!"
Ling Muer angrily turned her head to leave.
How could Shangguan Shaochen give her a chance to escape, he was full of anger and didn't know how to explode, so he asked in a cold voice: "Didn't you say you like me? Isn't it my fiancee? You should be happy that I personally bestowed marriage to the emperor, is it possible?" You never planned to marry me at all?"
There was unspeakable sadness in his eyes.
It seemed to be lost, but it also seemed to be angry. In short, looking at Ling Mu'er felt very uncomfortable.
But thinking of his sudden behavior, she was very upset, "The day before you set off for the border, we were still discussing the date of marriage, do you think I have thought about it?"
"Then why did you refuse?" Shangguan Shaochen was taken aback, he didn't know how to describe the feeling at the moment.
This little woman is always touching his heart, but damn he just can't figure her out.
"Because you don't know what respect is at all!" Ling Mu'er said angrily, "I've told you more than once that I don't like the palace, and I don't like that deep palace compound, how much effort have you put in to restore your identity? , and plan to continue to plan, I don’t need to say it clearly, Second Prince?”
The Second Prince's voice seems to have pulled the distance between her two abruptly.
"You want freedom, but it's not that I can't give it to you. After marrying me, I won't restrict your actions. You can do whatever you want in the capital, so what?" He stared straight into her eyes, Even he himself couldn't believe that he made such a compromise for a woman.
I don't know why he just wants to keep this girl by his side. After seeing the emperor's actions today, this feeling is even stronger.
"Not so good!"
Rejecting her proposal without hesitation, Ling Muer looked up at him boldly, "You think what you give me is what I want? But you never know what I really want. I like you very much , I really, really want to marry you, but that was in the past, you were just the commander of the imperial guards. Besides, I, Ling Muer, have always wanted to be big!"
"Ha." Shangguan Shaochen smiled, it turned out that this little woman cared about this.
He stepped forward step by step, hooked her chin with his rough fingers, and his eyes became much gentler, "So, are you jealous?"
For some reason, I just wanted to tease her, "You have to know that you are just a commoner girl, even if the emperor admires you, you are not qualified to be the second prince and concubine, but I can give you a reason to convince me. "
Seeing the teasing in Shangguan Shaochen's eyes, Ling Muer really wanted to raise her fist and hit him with a bruised nose and a swollen face.
He is really not cute after amnesia.
Slapping his teasing hand off suddenly, Ling Muer turned passive into active, forcing him into a corner step by step, and grabbed his collar fiercely with both hands, such rude behavior immediately stunned Shangguan Shaochen .
"You woman..."
"Is there a reason for wanting it? Alright, then you should listen carefully today. The person I, Ling Muer, wants to marry, whether it's the emperor of the real dragon or a beggar on the street, I will only be the only one in his heart. Of course, maybe you will say that I Even if the side concubine can get your exclusive favor, then I can tell you that even if you give me all the thousands of favors, but let me share you with many women, I would rather not have this kind of exclusive favor!"
"Miss Ling, the empress invites all the female relatives to appreciate Dongmei, please hurry up." A nun shouted to her from a distance.
Ling Mu'er looked up, and saw that all the women at the banquet had followed behind the queen, and Lan Qianying in the crowd was looking at her with an evil smile.