Chapter 486

The book in his hand was raised to zhen'er. Liu Ruyan said briskly: "their empress is very cold. She can't get out of bed and attend the banquet. Can they force me to go with illness?"

With a sneer, thinking of the faces of those ministers and concubines, Liu Ruyan sneered, "who gave them such a big face."

Jane answered silently in her heart: of course, your majesty.

Of course, she didn't dare to say this in front of Liu Ruyan, but when zhen'er saw this, she knew she must be unable to persuade, so she shook her head very reluctantly. Zhen'er should say, "yes, what does the empress want to eat? It's not much use for your lunch."

"No, I'm not hungry."

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In the evening, the banquet in the palace was held on time. He glanced at the empty Queen's seat. Lian Chengming's face became more and more ugly, so he waved to father-in-law Xu: "go and see why the queen hasn't arrived yet."

"Yes," said father-in-law Xu. When he hurried to the Yu'an hall, he met zhen'er who happened to come. "Miss zhen'er, you came by chance. The queen is ready. Your majesty is waiting. You can't keep your majesty waiting. You have to hurry."

Zhen'er looked up at father-in-law Xu in embarrassment, leaned over and said, "father-in-law Xu, please pass a message to your majesty. This... The wind and cold of the empress have increased, and her body is weak, so she can't go to the banquet..."

"What, what?" father-in-law Xu was stunned. His smile suddenly froze on his face. He remembered Lian Chengming's unhappy face just now. When he was about to tell zhen'er to go to pass the news together with zhen'er, he found that zhen'er didn't know when she had left. At this time, he had passed the pavilion not far away, and his body shape gradually disappeared.

As soon as father-in-law Xu patted his thigh, he felt that his eunuch career was coming to an end, so he had to go back and report.

Lian Chengming's future is grim. Liu Ruyan's seat was specially ordered to be moved by Lian Chengming, with thick cushions on it, because Liu Ruyan dislikes the uncomfortable seats in the palace every time. All the chairs in Yu'an hall are covered with thick cushions from top to bottom, soft and solid, very comfortable. Even the seats at this banquet are the same.

But now that position is empty

Father Xu noticed that Lian Chengming's eyes fell on the seat many times, and his face was gloomy without looking at it once, so he was more restless standing behind Lian Chengming.

After the performance of the singers, a servant girl came up from the bottom and bowed down to Lian Chengming and said, "Your Majesty, in order to congratulate the foreign countries on the founding of the Central Plains, my mother specially prepared a small gift for your majesty and foreign envoys. Please allow me to join her on the stage."

The hand holding the glass raised, "sure."

The foreign envoy's eyes fell on Lian Chengming. After hearing this accurate word, he laughed and his eyes lit up, waiting for the next performance.

Father-in-law Xu raised his eyes and recognized that it was the servant girl in the cloud concubine palace. He was secretly worried about Liu Ruyan. Empress, empress, why should you be angry with your majesty? If someone else robbed the limelight, you won't have time to regret at that time.

Dancers from both sides filed in, all dressed in pink long sleeved clothes and graceful posture. People on both sides surrounded the city in a circle, surrounded by cloud concubines in pink and white skirts.

At the same time, someone raised peach petals and fell to the ground, which set off the clothes and eyes of the dancers. In addition, the graceful dance made foreign envoys and ministers applaud in unison.

"I've heard that there is a versatile empress Yun in your Majesty's back palace. Now it's really true."

The ministers whispered in twos and threes and spoke highly of Yun bin.

"Yes, I look at the cloud concubine, but she is much better than the empress. Look, the empress didn't attend today. She hasn't been well for a little cold for more than a month. It's really..."

"I haven't seen your majesty down for several times. I don't know the meaning of pretending to be ill."

"Shh, you can't talk nonsense. Your majesty still cares about the queen. Be careful to get angry when you say this."

During the debate, Yun Bin's dance was over. With the landing of the petals in the sky, the dancers withdrew and left Yun bin alone on the stage to salute lianchengming.

Lian Chengming waved his hand expressionless: "good performance, reward."

However, he never looked up from beginning to end.

Naturally, Yun bin didn't notice this. She just stared at Lian Chengming wholeheartedly. She saw that Lian Chengming had been only looking down to drink, but there was still a glimmer of hope in her heart. Her dance was so wonderful that she would always attract Lian Chengming's attention.

"Thank you, your majesty." Yun bin smiled happily and went down to change clothes with the servant girl around him.

Seeing Lian Chengming's reaction, the ministers also smiled, "look what I said. Your majesty has a heart for the cloud concubine. I think the cloud concubine can do well as the queen."

"Who's right? Your majesty appreciated the cloud concubine so much this time. It couldn't be guaranteed. In a few days, the Queen's seat was changed."

"Let's just wait and see. The one in Yu'an hall is so willful and mischievous that he doesn't have his own good fruit to eat."

"That is, since ancient times, there has been no truth that kings have chased concubines away. It is really disobedient."

The news of the banquet spread bit by bit, and there were different opinions in the palace. They all said that the cloud concubine was deeply affirmed by Lian Chengming and was expected to replace Liu Ruyan in the future.

When the news reached Yu'an hall, zhen'er couldn't remember it. She kept nagging in Liu Ruyan's ear: "madam, the maid said not to be angry with your majesty. You can't say anything well. You see, now someone takes advantage of the weakness, and your majesty hasn't come to us for a long time..."

With that, zhen'er stepped forward to Liu Ruyan, took Liu Ruyan's hand and asked, "madam, your majesty won't really be angry with you?"

Liu Ruyan, who was looking at the book, pulled out the things in his ears and looked at zhen'er with a confused face: "what did you say?"

"Madam, have you listened to the maidservant well? Now the cloud concubine is full of strength. I heard that the cloud concubine is going to the imperial study every day!" zhen'er couldn't help worrying and dragged Liu Ruyan's arm for a while. "The ministers said that the cloud concubine will replace you in the future. Why don't you worry at all!"

Liu Ruyan couldn't help sighing, pulled zhen'er's Octopus like hand off his arm and comforted him: "I'm not worried. What's your worry? After all, it's the ministers who say that if your majesty says so one day, it's not too late to worry with me."

Holding his chin and looking at the book in front of him, Liu Ruyan was bored. "The queen is not easy to do. Why is everyone rare? It's really strange..."