Lu Qing sat next to Qu Dong'er, absently thinking about why Ji Qin and the others hadn't come out yet, and whether something had happened to Lan Ge'er.
Just as she was about to send Mandong to take a look behind her, she saw Lan Xin staring at her with an unclear smile.
Lu Qing: "..." I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling in my heart.
I saw Lan Xin striding up to Ning Huayue and saying loudly: "I'm late, please forgive me."
Ning Huayue was also confused: "Why did you come so late? Have you given all the orders in the dining room?"
"My slave has already given the order." Lan Xin paused and glanced in the direction of Lu Qing. The little bit of success hanging in the corner of her eyes and eyebrows was very ugly. She said, "But on the way back, I met Concubine Wei's maid. Then The maid clumsily poured a basin of water at the door, and the servant sent someone to clean it, so there was a delay."
Ning Huayue looked at Lu Qing randomly.
Lu Qing stood up under the gaze of everyone: "Just now, Brother Lan's diaper was wet. I asked the maid and nanny to take Brother Lan to change his diaper. Maybe it was Brother Lan who lost his temper again, so the maid became a little panicked. Please forgive me. .”
"Brother Lan is just a child no matter how angry he is. He is not sensible, and the maid must be sensible." Ning Huayue sat on the main seat in high spirits, "Since Concubine Wei is not good at discipline, I will discipline her for you this time. .”
"Lan Xin, let her kneel down where the water was sprinkled, and then get up after the family banquet is over."
Lan Xin raised the corners of her lips: "Yes, empress, I'll go right now!"
Lu Qing took a deep breath: "Thank you, Princess. I'll go see how Brother Lan is doing."
Ji Qin is the most attentive person, and she believes that there must be a villain among them.
Ning Huayue nodded, too lazy to care about her.
Lu Qing walked very fast, and when she saw Ji Qin kneeling at the door with his hands covered in embarrassment and blisters, she felt suffocated.
"What's going on?" She knelt down and looked at Ji Qin's hand carefully, and she almost guessed what was going on in the next moment.
Ji Qin shook her head. The maids coming and going were all from Yihongyuan, so she couldn't say more.
"Master, you can go to the banquet with the young master in your arms. The prince will be here soon." Seeing that Lu Qing was worried about her, Ji Qin squeezed out another smile and said, "I'm fine, I can go back to Jinxi later." Hospital."
Lu Qing calmed down, her eyes sore.
Lan Xin dared to bully Ji Qin unscrupulously, didn't she just think that the master behind Ji Qin was incompetent?
After all, Lan Xin and the others looked down on her in Yihongyuan.
Ji Qin urged again: "I'm really fine, slave. You should go quickly."
It's okay to kneel down. She took it lightly today. She will learn from it and she will never give Lan Xin such a chance next time.
Lu Qing lowered his head. There were still water marks on the floor. The maids in Yihongyuan didn't clean it at all, or they did it on purpose.
In such a cold weather, the water on the ground will freeze into ice after a while. Ji Qin doesn't know if she can bear it.
She wiped the water marks under Ji Qin's knees with a handkerchief in vain, and then gave Ji Qin her hand stove: "Put it in your clothes and hide it."
Ji Qin lowered his head, with crystal tears on the tip of his chin.
**
This is Ning Huayue's first time hosting a family banquet in the palace.
In the past few months when she was Princess Jin, although there were festivals of various sizes, she didn't have the heart to care about them at that time. In addition, her relationship with Yan Fuguang was really tense, so she never had dinner together during the festivals.
After Empress Xu's advice, she faced her identity as Princess Jin and made up her mind to stay in this position.
As evening approached, Yan Fuguang came over due to time constraints.
On the day that everyone was looking forward to, he was wearing silver-gray uniforms, with no joy in his brows.
Ning Huayue Xiaoyi gently enlivened the atmosphere: "Today is the Lantern Festival. I have been preparing for a long time and asked the kitchen to prepare this dish. My lord, please taste it later and see how good the skills of my new chef are." Sample."
She raised her eyes and looked up at Yan Fuguang, with a charming smile on her lips.
Yan Fuguang sat down lazily, tapping his knuckles on the armrest of the chair: "Have a banquet."
Ning Huayue hesitated, and her tone was deliberately soft and flattering: "I will let someone prepare the meal. By the way, I also prepared good wine and presented it together."
At the beginning of the family dinner, the nanny held Brother Lang and said a few auspicious words.
Yan Fuguang glanced at the sleepy little guy, and his face brightened slightly: "You are all rewarded. Brother Lan's gift will be delivered to you later." Then, he told the nanny: "Okay. , take Brother Lan down to sleep, don’t disturb him."
Ning Huayue maintained her smile, waited for the nanny to step away, and filled up the wine for Yan Fuguang herself: "It won't be long before Brother Lan will be able to speak."
Yan Fuguang hummed lightly.
"This is the rose dew that my brother found, and I specially sent someone to bring it to the prince to taste." Ning Huayue smiled, "I have long heard that the prince likes fine wine, don't you want to try it?"
Yan Fuguang glanced at the wine glass, raised it and drank it in one gulp.
Ning Huayue breathed a sigh of relief, smiled even more, and filled the glass of wine again.
Immediately afterwards, she picked up a meatball and put it into Yan Fuguang's plate, and said considerately: "It will be uncomfortable to drink on an empty stomach. My lord, please eat some vegetables. This meatball tastes good, and the cook added some yam in it." Mud, tastes like..."
Yan Fuguang didn't move the chopsticks, but asked her: "What's in it?"
Ning Huayue didn't know why: "...Yam puree, what's wrong?"
"Remove this dish from Wei's table."
He has a good memory and clearly remembers that Lu Qing was tortured badly last year for eating yam.
Ning Huayue's face was full of confusion: "What did you say?"
Yan Fuguang repeated again, staring at Lu Qing not far away, as if trying to control the chopsticks in Lu Qing's hand with his eyes.
Ning Huayue stopped laughing, put down her chopsticks, and said in a cold voice to Lan Xin beside her: "Go and remove the meatballs from Concubine Wei's table."
Lan Xin took the order.
Lu Qing didn't have much appetite. She was thinking about Ji Qin and didn't move her chopsticks a few times.
Qu Dong'er, who was standing next to her, comforted her a few words and kindly advised her: "It's really delicious. Eat a little. Only when you eat delicious food will you feel better. These meatballs are good, and they are a bit more than what the dining room originally made." The taste..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Lan Xin came behind Lu Qing and said firmly: "The princess asked the slave to remove the concubine's balls."
As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand to pick up the plate of meatballs. His movements and tone were not polite at all, but as tough as robbery.
Lu Qing gently raised her eyes to look at Lan Xin, and moved imperceptibly when she picked up the plate and brushed it against her arm.
Snapped--
The plate slipped and fell into large and small pieces at Lu Qing's feet.
Lu Qing quickly tugged on the sleeve of Mandong, who was standing on the other side.
Lan Xin was stunned for a moment, her eyes widened and she was about to speak, but Mandong preempted her: "Concubine, how are you?! Are you okay! Sister Lan Xin accidentally broke the plate, were you injured by the fragments? !”
"No, I don't have this slave..."
The room was so big, and the noise quickly attracted everyone's attention.
Lu Qing stroked his heart and said with fear: "I'm okay, I wasn't hurt, I was just shocked."
Yan Fuguang frowned and glanced at Ning Huayue.
Ning Huayue took a deep breath and scolded: "You clumsy thing, why don't you kneel down and apologize to Concubine Wei!"
Lu Qing glanced at the debris on the ground without showing any expression.
Lan Xin gritted her teeth and knelt down, with sharp pieces of porcelain digging into her knees: "...please forgive me, concubine..."
Lu Qing then said: "The princess is serious. It is common for maids to make mistakes. Since I am not injured, it is better not to embarrass her and let her get up."
Qu Dong'er, with a troubled expression on his face, interjected: "The princess' rule is strict, sister, please don't beg for mercy, lest you break the princess's rules."
Lu Qing wanted to laugh, but had to hold it back: "Yes, I forgot. Thank you sister for reminding me."
Ning Hua Yue was so angry that she couldn't vent her anger, so she could only say sternly: "Kneel down for two hours and reflect carefully!"
Lu Qing sighed and looked at Lan Xin helplessly, as if to say: Look, I also want to let you go, but there is really no way.
After the interlude, the banquet continued.
Qu Donger also came over and scolded Lu Qing: "You will suffer if you are too kind-hearted. If the maid makes a mistake, she will be punished. This is the rule. You don't need to beg for mercy."
Lu Qing looked at her helplessly: "Yes, I understand. You should eat quickly. It won't taste good when it's cold."
She couldn't understand how Qu Dong'er could survive peacefully in the backyard.
