The dinner party is just around the corner, but nothing can go wrong at this juncture.
Although Zhu Sijia was very resistant to Yan Xing's touch, in order not to delay the business, she bit Yan Xing's jaw hard while raising her foot to crush his boots, struggling with all her strength, trying to get him to let go of her. .
Unexpectedly, Yan Xing's mouth was bleeding from her bite, but he refused to let go.
Yan Xing's eyes were red. In the cold and dark rockery cave, his eyes were the only ones with bright pearls. Warm blood slid down his tiger's mouth and dyed his snow-white cuffs red. He said with a trembling voice and choked with sobs:
"She replaced that bowl of medicine. I never thought of harming you in such a cruel way. I really want you to live. Fortunately, God treats me well and allows me to have a new life. I have a chance to redeem my sins, but why can’t you wait for me?”
Zhu Sijia took advantage of his distraction, pushed him away with all her strength, and said plausibly: "Is it possible that King Yi has stayed in the Ministry of Punishment for a long time and become confused? Do you know how sinful it is to molest a palace concubine according to Qin law?"
"In the dark sky, King Yi actually mistook me for the future Princess Yi, and even dragged me into the rockery to do evil things. You are in love with my concubine. How can you behave in the palace? I can't discipline you, but you are wrong. I don’t recognize people well and mistakenly identified me as my sister.”
"I can completely pretend that what happened today never happened, but if the prince continues to pester you, don't blame me for being rude."
She pressed her back against the rockery wall and squatted on the spot, hugging herself tightly with her hands to prevent Yan Xing from getting any closer.
Yan Xing did not expect that in just a few words, she not only cleverly avoided his question, but also pushed him to another level that was despised by the world——
The majestic King Yi of Qin actually mistook the emperor's sister-in-law for his fiancée, and even touched her and poured out his heart to her.
Yan Xing suddenly laughed out loud, fearing that he would not be able to attract anyone: "Scarlett, I wish you Scarlett, I did not admit my mistake. I didn't expect that you would become so sharp-tongued in your next life. Okay, great."
"Today was supposed to be the second day you married me as your princess."
When has Scarlett ever been so eloquent?
However, due to his status in his previous life, he did not dare to offend him, but he relied on his stubborn temper to fight with him in Prince Yi's Mansion for more than ten years, and finally became a walking corpse.
What he liked was this charming stubbornness in her.
Including the way she was squatting on the ground, glaring at him with her fierce little face, like a little rabbit that had fallen into a wolf's mouth and refused to give in.
Yan Xing continued to go his own way: "After you left, I served as the regent of the Qin Dynasty for thirty years. I miss you day and night, all the time. Scarlett, no matter how good you are in acting, you can't escape my eyes. Eyes of vicissitudes of life.”
"As the saying goes, life and death are uncertain in ten years. What's more, you and I are destined for two lifetimes combined. We have a long future."
The palace is not his Prince Yi's palace. Yan Xing understands the principle of stopping at the point. After finishing speaking, he straightens his messy clothes and walks out of the rockery first.
As long as it messes up her mind today, that's enough.
He didn't believe that Scarlett would accept her fate and be a tamed canary in the palace.
She must be trying her best to plan her revenge, and Yan Xing was still looking forward to how she would take revenge on him.
The acacia bell tied to Yan Xing's body jingled among the rocks in the rockery with his swift footsteps, sometimes far and sometimes near, as if it was there and not there, as if it could linger around her.
Zhu Sijia simply covered her ears and refused to listen.
It was not until the sky turned completely dark and the sound of the acacia bell disappeared completely that Zhu Sijia stood up, carefully sorted out the clothes that had been messed up during the struggle, neatly took out a handkerchief, and wiped all the grease off her lips.
It's too late to go back to Changle Palace to make up for it now, the top priority is to go to the banquet.
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The palace banquet was over and when the banquet was dismissed, Yan Xiu asked Zhu Sijia to go back to Changle Palace first. He also wanted to reminisce with several vassal kings who had come from afar.
There were not many vassal kings in the Qin Dynasty, and the Yan family still valued the kindness of flesh and blood. Therefore, Emperor Taizu set a rule that every year during the Laba Festival, vassal kings from all over the country would bring their families to Beijing to meet the emperor, and then return to their fiefdoms after the Laba Festival to celebrate the New Year.
However, Yan Xiu's birthday happened to fall during the New Year period of the first lunar month, so since he ascended the throne, the vassal kings had to stay in Beijing to celebrate the New Year before returning to their fiefdoms.
Several feudal princes have mansions in the capital, which eliminates the need to crowd into the palace, otherwise there will be many troubles.
Coincidentally, Zhu Sijia was also born in the first month of the year, but half a month later than Yan Xiu's birthday. She silently prayed that Yan Xiu would not stop doing nothing and just let the princes from all over the country stay to wish her birthday.
Although there were many unpleasant things that happened before the banquet, the Laba Banquet was successfully held this time, and I wish Scarlett was proud and proud. Not long after she relaxed, she became nervous again.
The Laba Banquet was just a small opening at the end of the year, and there were countless banquets waiting for her to organize. It seemed that she would be busy non-stop before the Lantern Festival.
It is very difficult for an ordinary mistress to manage the entire household and preside over the central government, let alone manage tens of thousands of people in the palace?
Zhu Sijia never liked socializing, so today she had to force herself to go back to drink to make up for her laughter. She was exhausted now.
Zhang Yin and her daughter are also present at the palace banquet today.
After the banquet was over, Zhu Siyi couldn't wait to run from the women's seat to the opposite side and held Yan Xing's hand. She was wearing the same lovesickness bell as his. When she ran, she looked like clear spring and broken ice, which attracted the attention of everyone in the palace.
"Yuanzhi, after you get out of the palace, before the curfew, how about you accompany me to the West Market for a walk?"
When she said this, she looked at Zhu Sijia intentionally.
Apparently, Zhu Siyi had also heard the rumors about Yan Xiu hanging around the harem every night. In her eyes, Zhu Sijia had become an abandoned woman, a helpless yesterday's flower in the cold winter.
Her intention was obvious.
Everyone's eyes couldn't help but shift to Zhu Sijia.
Zhu Sijia, however, looked at Zhu Siyi openly and honestly. With all her tricks, if she didn't cooperate, wouldn't she let her do this scene in vain?
Yan Xing smiled lovingly at Zhu Siyi. There was no trace of falsehood in his smile, as if all the promises and tenderness he had expressed to Zhu Sijia in the rockery before the banquet were all in vain.
He squeezed Zhu Siyi's hand: "Siyi, I still want to accompany Your Majesty to have night talks with the vassal kings who have come from afar. I really can't get away today, how about tomorrow?"
In the eyes of outsiders, they were a couple who broke away from the world. Their previous actions would have been despicable to ordinary people, but Yan Xing was a prince and Zhu Siyi was a noble daughter, who dared to speak nonsense?
Therefore, a lady came up to the two of them and joked: "Prince Yi and Miss Zhu are really in harmony. There are still nearly four months until your wedding, and you are already so intimate that it is difficult to tell them apart."
Zhu Sijia was no longer interested in the next content. She twitched her lips and prepared to return to Changle Palace, but was stopped by Yan Wei.
"My brother has met the emperor's sister-in-law." Yan Wei held an earring, "This is the earring that the emperor's sister-in-law left on the rockery in the imperial garden. My brother has now returned to Zhao in perfect condition."
