The prince's voice was cold, making people shudder.
Concubine Shu could only lower her raised hand and said angrily: "This crazy woman dares to insult me? I am teaching her the rules."
"Empress De Fei suffered from hysteria after being banished to the cold palace? Are you arguing with a madman?"
The prince's eyes were full of exhaustion and disappointment: "Today, the imperial sister is holding a banquet in the cold palace, and the mother and concubine are invited to the banquet?"
Concubine Shu's arrogant and domineering attitude made the fourth prince very worried about whether her mother-in-law would be able to escape today. But the prince only said these words, and Concubine Shu suddenly felt like an eggplant beaten by frost.
She was still waiting to explain, but the prince looked tired: "My son, I have a few words to say to my mother and concubine!"
With a look from the prince, the leader of the guard who was in charge of the inspection today, and Yang Qing, the steward of the cold palace, stepped back knowingly. The fourth prince was afraid that Concubine De would yell something again, so he hurriedly stepped forward, covered her mouth, and dragged her to retreat.
After the palace wall was completely withdrawn, and even Liu Cairen and the palace maids and eunuchs who followed Concubine Shu retreated and hid behind the bamboo bushes by Taiye Lake, the prince spoke coldly.
"My son is here to attend the palace banquet hosted by the emperor's sister according to the emperor's decree."
The prince asked Concubine Shu: "Does the concubine want to go to the cold palace?"
After Queen Wang was thrown into the cold palace, the prince was like a kite with its string broken. The string was no longer in her hands, making Concubine Shu unpredictable.
Such a prince makes people fearful!
Realizing something was wrong, Concubine Shu said in a trembling voice: "What do you mean?"
"As my mother and concubine wished, my father asked my son to tell me if I would like to move to the cold palace."
The prince's words made Concubine Shu feel a huge shock in her heart, her pupils shrank sharply, and a cold air surged up from the soles of her feet, instantly occupying her limbs.
"Father also said that it is enough for a son to have a legitimate mother!"
The prince glanced at Liu Cairen, who was hiding behind the bamboo bushes and poking his head out: "If the mother and concubine are instigated by others again and affect the children, the mother and concubine know that the children never dare to disobey their father."
The words spoken by the prince with a calm face were as strangling as the cold winter wind. Seeing the prince flinging his sleeves and leaving, Liu Cairen, who was horrified by his glance, hurriedly ran out from behind the bamboo bush where he was hiding to help Concubine Shu.
Concubine Shu was about to turn around and leave when she saw a female officer leading a heroic old lady to the entrance of Leng Palace. The person supporting her was also dressed as a royal lady.
Although they were a little far away, the old lady's energetic voice came from far away.
"Quick, quick, by going to the palace for the banquet today, I can finally meet the rumored tenth princess. I also want to see the medicine garden in Shangyang Palace."
"Did Mom really want to see the medicine garden and the ten princesses? Ever since the general returned home and said that eating the longevity fruit grown in the Shangyang Palace Medicine Garden can extend your life, you have been thinking about it for a long time."
The old lady was not angry even after being exposed, and laughed heartily: "You are still greedy, thinking about the pork dish Huai'er's father said."
Laughter drifted from the woods in front, and the group of people disappeared at the entrance of Leng Palace. Standing under the wall, Concubine Shu saw the granddaughter of Zhang Shangshu's family, accompanied by the maid, appearing at the entrance of Leng Palace.
The little girl, who was about the same age as the tenth princess, smelled the fragrance wafting from the cold palace and stood under the wall and took a deep breath.
"Wow, it smells so good!"
She had a bright smile on her face: "Yingying knows that the tenth princess will not forget Yingying. She has delicious pork dishes and invites Yingying to the palace again."
After Zhang Jiazhen was demoted from the capital due to the embezzlement case, Zhang Yue rose rapidly in the court and was promoted from Minister of War to Zhongshu Ling. Don't look at the fact that the tenth princess invited only a little girl from the Zhang family. I heard that this little girl was extremely favored by her grandfather. .
After the family members of General Zuo Yulin and Zhongshu Ling Zhang Shuo entered the cold palace, they were followed by the family members of the former Prime Minister Yao, the Duke of Chu Jiang Jiao and his family, the master craftsman Jiang Shidu, the Minister of Industry Liang Dong, the richest man in the capital Wang Yuanbao, etc. The courtiers appeared at the entrance of Leng Palace one after another.
So in the end, when they saw Princess Qingyang and Princess Yuzhen coming with them, supporting each other, they got off the sedan and stepped into the cold palace. Concubine Shu stood at the foot of the wall and was already numb.
Today's pig-killing banquet invites not only the harem and concubines, but also many courtiers and their families.
Without the emperor's permission, how could Concubine Liu Xian and the brats from Ganlu Hall dare to host a banquet in the Leng Palace with great fanfare?
"Leng Palace is really lively today!"
Concubine Shu lowered her eyes with a sneer and looked at the attentive Liu Cairen with an unkind look: "Sister, will you go to Qingfeng Hall to talk to me again?"
Concubine Shu, who came to the cold palace to watch a joke, became a big joke herself. She led her people away in disgrace. The fourth prince, who covered Concubine De and squatted under the wall pretending to be dead, breathed a sigh of relief.
The fourth prince looked at her, and Concubine De lowered her head: "I cursed!"
"No, no, you were right this time!"
The fourth prince took out a piece of sesame peanut candy from his pocket and gave it to the concubine: "The imperial sister secretly gave this to the son. It's so delicious. The son will give a piece to the concubine as a reward."
Concubine De was a little dumbfounded holding the sesame peanut candy!
“It’s wrong to call people names, but it’s right to call bad people names.”
The fourth prince taught her: "Concubine Shu came to Leng Palace today because she wanted to disrupt the palace banquet hosted by the emperor's sister. This palace banquet is very important, as it affects whether the queen can leave Leng Palace."
"Only when the Queen Empress leaves the Cold Palace, can the Mother Concubine leave the Cold Palace. Therefore, the Mother Concubine should listen to the words of the Imperial Sister and the Queen Mother more in the future, and cannot go against them. She must always remember to protect the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother just like today. Princess."
There is a warm shed set up near the wall of the Lenggong Palace next to Taiye Lake. The overripe Tianluo melons in the warm shed are just used to clean the pig intestines that Li Shixu wants to keep.
Li Sixu, who had accompanied Queen Wang to pick Tianluo melons, heard the seductive voice walking away across the wall and shrugged helplessly.
"If Concubine De hadn't scolded her today and attracted the prince's brother, Concubine Shu would have disturbed the courtiers and family members who came to the banquet today. She would have moved to the cold palace just like the prince's brother scared her!"
Li Sixu laughed hoarsely: "This silly fourth brother asked his mother and concubine to scold Concubine Shu for us, and then asked the prince brother to come to the rescue. He thought he had done something great."
"The prince's brother is also pitiful. His position is like walking on thin ice, but there is a biological mother who uses him as a talisman to drag him down. Wu Chongyuan is very scheming and bribes the people around the concubines to instigate him. This trick has been tried and tested."
Li Sixu picked an old Tianluo melon and put it in the basket, blinking at the Queen Wang: "The prince brother said today that he came to the banquet on the order of his father. Sisi guessed that his father asked him to come to the cold palace to persuade him. Mother leaves."
"The prince's brother is caught in a dilemma between his aunt and his biological mother. Does the Queen Mother really not want to see the prince's brother?"
Li Sixu advised Queen Wang: "The rift between the prince's brother and Concubine Shu is already very deep. I think that at this time, the queen mother should not push the prince's brother further and further away!"
Her princess worked hard to pave the way for her, and it was time to leave the cold palace!
Queen Wang looked into her clear and translucent eyes and nodded in agreement: "Okay, Queen Mother, go meet your prince brother."
