After the concubine ceremony, Changle Palace and Liuyun Palace held banquets at the same time.
The palace people filed in carrying plates of delicious food.
Today Yun Si is the absolute protagonist. She should have stayed in Changle Palace to entertain the ladies inside and outside the palace.
However, as soon as the ceremony of conferring a concubine ended, Yun Si was led out of Liuyun Palace by Xie Yan and sneaked in quietly through the back door of Changle Palace.
Xie Yan took Yun Si to hide behind the curtain of Changle Palace and peeked at the courtiers and relatives in the hall.
Xie Yan lifted a corner of the curtain, and all the heads in the hall fell in front of Yun Si's eyes.
Yun Si groaned, quickly covered her face with her sleeves and turned around.
The more than two hundred courtiers and relatives attending the banquet in Changle Palace were all men!
They are all foreign men that Yun Si should not see!
Xie Yan saw Yun Si's reaction and sneered: "Aren't the imperial guards men? When eating local snacks outside the palace, aren't those vendors men?"
"When the Imperial Guards competed, you watched intently..."
"Why are you pretending to be a lady now?"
Yun Si was stunned when she heard Xie Yan's words. Yes... why didn't she feel anything wrong when she was watching the Royal Guards' competition or eating snacks at the stalls?
Yun Si frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly realized. Whether they were guards or vendors, they were all people she could never come into contact with as a married woman!
Therefore, seeing them did not touch Yun Si's "male and female defense" string.
Courtiers are different from clan members. These are the people who come and go with the Prime Minister's Palace on a daily basis. They are the people who Yun Si has been taught and instilled to pay attention to the "great defense of men and women" since she was a child.
When Yun Si saw them, her childhood teachings suddenly awakened, and she subconsciously felt something was wrong.
But thinking about Xie Yan's words, it actually makes sense. She had seen both the Imperial Guards and the small traders, so what was wrong with seeing the courtiers and clan members?
What's more, His Majesty was by her side, and it was His Majesty who opened the curtain to let her see!
Yun Si suddenly felt confident. She turned back and looked at the crowd in the hall attentively.
"Your Majesty, what do you want me to see?"
Xie Yan just blurted out, "Looking at the Imperial Guards with eyes fixed on me", and he immediately regretted it and wanted to bite his tongue! How could he say such sour words?
Unexpectedly, Yun Si didn't hear it at all...
Xie Yan should have been happy, but for some reason, he felt even more angry!
Suddenly, several inconspicuous palace maids and eunuchs entered the palace, bringing not only food and drinks, but also the shocking news that "Concubine Yun Gui is the Yun Si who just finished her funeral."
Yun Si soon saw the clues. These maids and eunuchs who spread the news specifically went to people who liked to talk about right and wrong, and people who had no dealings with the Prime Minister's Mansion and Princess Rui!
Yun Si gently pulled Xie Yan's sleeve: "Did your Majesty arrange it?"
Xie Yan: "Hush, the show is about to begin."
Yun Si saw with her own eyes that the news was like a hurricane, sweeping through the entire hall in an instant.
At first, people whispered and looked at Prime Minister Yun and Xie Changze with contempt from time to time.
Prime Minister Yun and Xie Changze both sensed something was wrong. Did their worst fears...did they really happen?
"Prime Minister Yun's legitimate daughter has obviously entered the palace and became a concubine. Why do she have a funeral and pretend to be dead?"
"Tsk, tsk, it's so unlucky to hold a funeral for a living daughter! How can you confuse matters of life and death? Isn't he afraid of actually cursing his daughter to death?"
"What is he afraid of? With Prime Minister Yun's temperament, I'm afraid he has already persuaded his daughter to die as a martyr!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I never noticed in the past that Prime Minister Yun is so hypocritical! How hypocritical! How disgusting!"
"Prince Xie and his father-in-law, who had no fate, are really the same species. On the day of the funeral, Prince Xie was dressed in mourning and his eyes were red from crying. I thought he was a man of love, but I didn't expect that he was all pretending!"
Everyone's words were like sharp knives, piercing into the hearts of Prime Minister Yun and Xie Changze again and again.
But every sentence is true!
The truth they most fear to hear!
Xie Changze looked shaky and about to faint.
Prime Minister Yun is old and looks even worse.
Xie Yan admired the appearance of the two people behind the curtain, his eyes flashing with joy.
"Well, Old Man Yun is going to pretend to be faint."
As soon as Xie Yan finished speaking, Yun Si saw with her own eyes that Prime Minister Yun's body was shaking more and more violently, and he fell to the ground with a thud.
Yun Si looked at Xie Yan with a complicated expression. Xie Yan actually knew her father better than she did.
Xie Yan was obviously prepared. He gestured towards Liao Mingzhi behind him. Liao Mingzhi immediately went to call the imperial doctor. The imperial doctor applied the acupuncture, and the effect was immediate. Prime Minister Yun woke up with a "Hey!"
In fact, it was the imperial doctor who struck the most painful part of the acupuncture. Prime Minister Yun couldn't help crying out in pain, so naturally he couldn't pretend anymore.
All the courtiers and relatives attending the banquet in Changle Palace are human beings. Seeing that Prime Minister Yun was pricked with needles after he fainted, how could he not understand His Majesty's attitude?
When Prime Minister Yun woke up this time, everyone was not just talking from a distance.
Those who did not deal with the Prime Minister's Mansion and Prince Rui's Mansion went directly to Prime Minister Yun and Xie Changze to discuss it, and told them loudly!
"If I were Prime Minister Yun, I would definitely retire and return to my hometown. I would have no shame in staying in the capital for a day!"
"Then why are you willing to give up? Prime Minister Yun is now the head of the state!"
"What kind of abbot? Prime Minister Yun gave birth to two daughters in total, one is dead and the other is in exile! Concubine Yun in the palace has nothing to do with him hahahaha!"
Then, Prime Minister Yun's nemesis walked up to him in a swaggering manner and asked loudly: "I have something unclear, and I'm here to ask the Prime Minister!"
"Since the funeral has been held, why is there a concubine ceremony?"
"Since there is a concubine ceremony, why did you dare to hold a funeral before?"
Prime Minister Yun was speechless and had trouble speaking——
Because he was deceived by His Majesty!
Your Majesty deceived him so miserably!
Prime Minister Yun has finally seen through it all, there is no such thing as a good banquet. His Majesty held the concubine ceremony just to ruin their reputation!
Xie Changze was even worse than Prime Minister Yun, and people looked at him with more mocking eyes.
His newlywed wife was snatched away by His Majesty without saying a word. Such a man is naturally despised.
Prime Minister Yun and Xie Changze were in the main hall, suffering like ants on a hot pot.
They thought this was the hardest part, but they didn't expect that there was a deeper level of hell.
His Majesty arrived gracefully and looked at the two of them condescendingly: "Today, the Prime Minister and Nagasawa each wrote a poem to praise the noble concubine."
Xie Changze trembled all over under Xie Yan's gaze, and his mind was filled with the mocking words and sarcastic looks of the people around him...
How could he write poetry here and now?
Xie Changze could not compose a single word.
Prime Minister Yun searched his intestines and stomach and choked out two lines of poetry. As soon as he said it, the people around him burst into laughter.
The arch-rival taunted loudly: "Prime Minister, your poem is worse than the one written by Enlightenment's son!"
Prime Minister Yun and Xie Changze looked ashen.
Today, Xie Yan completely tore off their face.
First let everyone laugh at their moral character, and then let everyone laugh at their talents.
From now on, how can they have the nerve to stay in the capital?
