Chapter 824

The palace banquet began quickly. The newly enthroned emperor Xiao Yu said a few words of praise to the courtiers, and then said a few major events this year, and wished the next year a good harvest and good weather. Finally, the banquet officially started.

Both the queen mother and the queen were in a bad mood. Thinking of the emperor's previous look, the queen mother clearly did not allow Zhao's daughter to become pregnant. Thinking of this, the queen mother couldn't eat anything anyway.

The queen was not happy because she saw that there were two factions among the courtiers. In the past, the courtiers in the court basically supported her son, but now many people faintly favored the second prince, King Ming.

Thinking of this, the empress hated Xie Yunjin and Lu Jiao even more in her heart. They were both sluts. If it weren't for them, how could her son be like this? I'm afraid he would have become the prince of the Great Zhou long ago. What kind of king was he.

The more the queen thought about it, the more irritable she became, but thinking that she had just been relieved, she had to endure it.

The courtiers at the head of the Grand Highness did not pay much attention to the Empress Dowager Zhao and the Empress. They stood up to toast the emperor one after another, and Xie Yunjin was no exception, holding a wine glass to toast the emperor.

Seeing him, Xiao Yu said with concern: "Xie Qing has bruises on his face, it's better not to drink, and replace the bar with tea."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

The courtiers saw that Xiao Yu was very gentle towards Xie Yunjin, and thought of the fact that the emperor gave the second prince to Xie Yunjin to raise, this shows that Xie Yunjin is the emperor's confidant.

All the courtiers looked at Xie Yunjin with indescribably bright eyes.

Halfway through the palace banquet, Empress Dowager Zhao left due to her discomfort, and the emperor sat for a while longer before getting up and leaving, but before leaving, he reminded everyone to eat and drink enough before leaving the palace.

The two mountains above their heads were gone, the courtiers relaxed a lot and toasted each other, the atmosphere was much more relaxed than before.

King Jin Xiaozhen and King Ming Xiao Wenyu got up one after another, but King Jin was going to greet the courtiers, and King Ming was going to greet Xie Yunjin and Lu Jiao.

Lu Jiao looked at him and asked with concern: "Is the prince all right?"

Xiao Wenyu looked at Lu Jiao with a smile and said, "It's okay, Madam Xie, don't worry, I will pay more attention to my health in the future."

Lu Jiao nodded and said no more.

Xiao Wenyu paid Xie Yunjin another word of concern before turning around and walking to his seat.

Many of the courtiers came up to him to toast, because Xiao Wenyu was injured and could not drink more, so he accepted the wine from the courtiers with tea instead of wine. Although he was handsome, his eyebrows and eyes were extraordinarily gentle, and his smile was like a spring breeze , courtiers are very happy to get close to such King Ming.

Compared with King Jin's pretentious appearance of a corporal, the courtiers are more willing to approach Xiao Wenyu, because King Ming looks natural, unlike King Jin, who always puts himself in a high position and greets them, as if a god descended to the mortal world. There is still a little pride in his bones, as if it is such a big deal to greet them by himself.

When the queen and Xiao Zhen saw the state of the courtiers, the faces of the mother and son were indescribably ugly.

The two of them gouged out Xiao Wenyu from time to time, but Xiao Wenyu didn't bother to pay attention to them. After dealing with the courtiers for a while, he felt a little weak, got up and greeted the courtiers, and then led them away.

Seeing him leaving, the queen's eyes darkened, and she quickly gave a look to the eldest lady beside her, who nodded slightly and walked out.

Lu Jiao has been paying attention to the movement of the Queen's mother and child, looking at the Queen's appearance, worried that she will plot against the Four Treasures, so she immediately turns around and tells Ruan Zhu to go out with her, and if King Ming is in danger, remember to protect him.

Ruan Zhu responded, and stood behind Lu Jiao calmly, and only quietly withdrew when no one was paying attention to her.

Because Xiao Wenyu was injured, His Majesty granted him permission to sit softly in the palace tonight, so at this time, he was sitting in a soft sedan chair all the way back to his palace, but was blocked by someone on the way.

"It hurts."

Someone fell down on the palace road, and because of Xiao Wenyu's tenderness, he came over suddenly. The person who fell was struggling to get up in a panic, but the panic became more and more chaotic, and it took a long time to struggle to get up.

In the soft sedan chair, Xiao Wenyu raised the curtain and looked out. Under the palace lantern, she saw a woman wearing a palace brocade skirt and a red cloak inlaid with rabbit fur. The pure white rabbit fur made her face look like a delicate flower. She looked soft and beautiful, with a pair of almond-shaped eyes shining like autumn water, and one couldn't help but feel pity in his heart when he looked at it.

It's just that when Xiao Wenyu looked at this woman, the first thing he thought of was why such a good woman suddenly appeared on the palace road, and she happened to fall down. If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. This woman is probably famous.

Xiao Wenyu didn't have any feelings of pity and tenderness, he raised his eyes and looked at the opposite woman coldly, and suddenly said coldly: "Who is this, dare to walk around in the palace, come here, drag him away."

After Xiao Wenyu finished speaking, two eunuchs rushed out behind him, rushed over like wolves and tigers, and dragged the woman aside.

The woman was looking at Xiao Wenyu pitifully at me, and seeing the jade-like face of the young man, her heart was beating fast.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, the young prince actually ordered someone to drag her away.

Isn't she beautiful? Isn't it pitiful enough? Why is the second prince so confused.

The woman burst into tears instantly, and struggled while crying and said: "Ming Wang, you can't, you can't do this, I am a concubine who was drafted into the palace, and I am His Majesty's concubine."

Xiao Wenyu's sedan chair had already been carried over, and when he heard the woman's cries, he ordered directly outside: "Send her to the palace of the father, and say that this woman stopped the king's tenderness halfway. "

After hearing Xiao Wenyu's words, the woman became dumb for a moment, unable to utter a word, she was so frightened that she trembled like a broken leaf in the wind, she begged while shaking, "Ming Wang, please forgive me, please please, please forgive me, Prince Ming."

Didn't you say that the second prince is benevolent and generous? How did he get here and kill her directly?

If she had known this earlier, she would never have agreed to the Queen's instigation, woo woo.

It's a pity that no one took pity on this woman. She was dragged by two eunuchs all the way to the emperor's palace.

In Xiao Yu's palace, the atmosphere was indescribably dignified, and the Empress Dowager Zhao was furiously facing the opposite emperor.

"You don't want the daughter of the Zhao family to salivate on the prince, have you tampered with Concubine Zhao?"

Xiao Yu looked at the Empress Dowager Zhao on the opposite side, with an angry look on her face. Although Xiao Yu knew that the Zhao family was more important in the Empress Dowager Zhao's heart, and even his own son was just a tool for her to take over, but seeing the Queen Mother Zhao like this, He is still sad.

It took a long time before he opened his mouth and said: "Mother, this is the Xiao family's country, not the Zhao family's."

After hearing Xiao Yu's words, Queen Mother Zhao shouted angrily: "My Zhao family doesn't want to rob the Xiao family's country. Could it be that the child born from a girl from the Zhao family is not surnamed Xiao? He is also your son."

"But he is also Zhao's tool, just like me."

(end of this chapter)