"Then your father has such great official authority."
An Ruowan looked at Qin Xianglian with a smile but not a smile, "I don't know about this matter, but if it really comes to His Majesty and the Queen, who will be punished?"
Qin Xianglian changed slightly, pursed his lips tightly and refused to speak.
"If this slap hits you, I wonder if your father will cherish you and hit you lightly?" An Ruowan said with a smile.
The woman next to Qin Xianglian protected her, "Don't scare us! We were just talking casually, how could we bring it to the attention of His Majesty and the Queen!"
An Ruowan looked at her, "She was the first to say that she wanted her father to beat me up. Why are you allowed to say whatever you want, but not me?"
The woman opposite was silenced by An Ruowan. She took Qin Xianglian's hand and the two of them left in a hurry.
Seeing the people walking away, Chu Ziyi snorted, "You should have let me take action just now. I can't do this without teaching these people a lesson!"
"If you really make a move, it will be our fault," An Ruowan comforted Chu Ziyi, "If they really catch you at fault, you will inevitably be punished by the Queen."
"It's not the first time, so they don't dare to mess with me!"
Looking at the lively and flamboyant Chu Ziyi, An Ruowan was slightly stunned. She shook her head, "It's not that they are afraid of you, but they don't dare to provoke General Weiyuan."
"But after all, Qin Xianglian is the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Civil Affairs. If you two really get into trouble, General Weiyuan will also be in trouble in the court."
"What's more, the imperial court is currently in a state of discord, with constant struggles between factions. You don't want the general to fall into this whirlpool, right?"
After hearing what An Ruowan said, Chu Ziyi was silent for a while, "In the past, I only felt that these twists and turns in the officialdom were really annoying. I thought it was good that my father became a general, and he no longer had to worry about officialdom. I didn’t expect that I couldn’t escape even though I went around and around.”
"But Wanwan, how do you know so much?" Chu Ziyi looked at An Ruowan with curiosity, "You didn't stay in the capital before, but you seem to know a lot of things in the capital."
That was thanks to her previous life. After marrying Mo Ziqing, she had somewhat understood the twists and turns in the officialdom. As long as she was not careful, she would never be able to turn around again.
An Ruowan made an excuse and said, "I used to go to my cousin's house a lot. Sometimes my cousin would talk to me about these things. The more I heard them, the more I would remember them."
Chu Ziyi believed what she said, held her arm, and walked around the courtyard again before the two of them went back.
In the royal garden.
Shen Qinghai had been next to Gu Beichen early in the morning, "My lord, why didn't you see your little princess today?"
Gu Beichen held the tea cup in his hand and glanced at him, "You have nothing to do? Come to me."
"My sister is dealing with the Queen Mother." Shen Qinghai lowered his voice as he spoke, "The Queen Mother just came back from paying homage to the Buddha and is pulling my sister to scold her."
Gu Beichen slightly retracted his hand holding the tea cup, and asked with a normal expression: "Why is this?"
Shen Qinghai curled his lips helplessly, propped up his chin and said casually: "It was not because of the plague. The Queen Mother felt that my sister did not go to worship the Buddha with him, and the Buddha felt disrespectful, so the disaster came."
As he spoke, Shen Qinghai couldn't help complaining, "If my sister really goes to worship Buddha, and a plague breaks out in the capital, the Queen Mother will have to say that my sister is dishonest!"
Listening to Shen Qinghai's complaints, Gu Beichen closed his eyes and said nothing, silently drinking the tea in the cup.
"Brother Beichen!"
Princess Pingning nervously came to Gu Beichen's table again, "The Lantern Festival will be held in a month. Can Brother Beichen come with me?"
Shen Qinghai was watching the show with a teasing smile. From the corner of his eye, he saw a flash of color outside the imperial garden and sneaked out from Gu Beichen.
"Royal sister-in-law!"
Shen Qinghai appeared next to An Ruowan and glanced at Chu Ziyi, "You're here too."
Chu Ziyi had always disliked the "idiot" Shen Qinghai, and she even had a bad face towards him. Now that An Ruowan was around, she just rolled her eyes at him.
However, Shen Qinghai was thick-skinned enough that he didn't care about Chu Ziyi's attitude towards him at all. He smiled at An Ruowan and said, "Sister-in-law Huang, if you don't go over, Brother Beichen will..."
Before he finished speaking, he looked in Gu Beichen's direction.
An Ruowan followed his gaze and happened to see Princess Pingning approaching him and saying something.
"Ping Ning is going too far. She knows you are with the prince now, but as a princess, why does she have no sense of propriety at all!" Chu Ziyi was angrily beside her.
An Ruowan was particularly calm. She walked over and saluted Gu Beichen, "I have met the prince."
Gu Beichen raised his eyes, and most of his original cold and gloomy expression faded.
However, Princess Pingning stood up, pinched her waist and said coquettishly: "An Ruowan, when you see me, why don't you salute me?!"
"The princess is really a noble person who forgets things."
An Ruowan looked at her with a faint look, "Now that I have been made a princess by Your Majesty, I am on an equal footing with you, Princess Pingning. Why should I salute you?"
"you!"
Princess Pingning's face turned red with anger, she pointed at An Ruowan and said, "My princess has a distinguished family, but you are just an abandoned daughter who was kicked out by the prime minister's palace! How can you compare with this princess!"
"But you are both princesses, how can you distinguish between superiority and inferiority?"
Shen Qinghai suddenly appeared at this time and stood aside curiously, "They are all princesses personally granted by His Majesty. Is it possible that Princess Pingning has something more than my imperial sister-in-law?"
Seeing Shen Qinghai speak for An Ruowan, Princess Pingning's tears fell down, "Shen Qinghai! How can you speak for her, how can you call her the emperor's sister-in-law?!"
Shen Qinghai blinked innocently, "The prince is also my brother. The woman he likes is An Ruowan, and she and she are already engaged, so I naturally want to call her the emperor's wife."
If Princess Pingning hadn't still remembered the rules, she would have screamed on the spot. When did she have an engagement with Prince Rong? !
"Okay, please stop saying a few words."
An Ruowan said from the side: "The Hundred Flowers Banquet is about to begin. Don't make too much noise. Ziyi, let's go sit over there."
"An Ruowan."
Gu Beichen suddenly called out to An Ruowan.
An Ruowan turned around and looked at Gu Beichen, "What else does the prince have to say?"
Gu Beichen stared at An Ruowan carefully with his deep eyes, "Come and sit down."
He asked her to sit down. An Ruowan was slightly startled, but he didn't expect that Gu Beichen would directly ask her to sit next to him in front of Princess Pingning.
"Brother Beichen!"
Sure enough, Princess Pingning couldn't bear it anymore and screamed: "Would you rather sit with this country man than sit with me?!"
