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The group of people crowded forward. At the corner of the main yard, Song Shu's body slightly trembled as she looked at the veranda beside her.

Song Qingyu looked over and saw Song Yiyan rushing over. She didn't even bother to change out of her clothes as she quickly walked over while holding her skirt.

Within a few dozen meters, she quickly walked forward. Song Qingyu also didn't want to go with Song Yiyan. He was initially happy, but he didn't expect Song Yiyan to come back.

Next to her, a gust of wind blew. Song Qingyu heard her soft voice saying, "Greetings, second sister."

At the same time, a "pa" sound was heard.

A resounding slap filled Song Qingyu's ears. Song Qingyu was shocked and saw that Song Yiyan's palm landed heavily on Song Shuren's face.

Blood dripped from the corner of Song Shu's mouth as she trembled and retreated a few steps. "Second Sister, I …"

"You seductress, I already made you give up on that idea and you still dare to go beg Grandmother. Why do you want to step on my head!?" Even if I, Song Yiyan do not go, I will not let you go! "

"That's not it. I was just thinking that if second sister doesn't go, third sister will also take care of concubine …"

"You still dare to talk back!"

With another slap, Song Shu was so shocked that she closed her eyes and hid in Caiyue's embrace.

"Second sister, you've gone too far." Song Qingyu held Song Yiyan's hand, "Since you're not going, it's not wrong for Fourth Sister to take over."

Seeing that it was Song Qingyu, Song Yiyan gritted her teeth and kept her hand, "I was angry too. Elder sister, you don't know. I just heard Sun mama say that there's no need for me to go, so I got anxious. I'm just worried that Fourth Sister is still young and inexperienced. "

The meaning of Song Yiyan's words was very clear.

"Since second sister is back, Shu-er will go back first."

Song Shu covered her face, lowered her head, bowed to Song Qingyu and Song Yiyan, and then quickly left with Caiyue.

Song Yiyan sneered, and said coldly towards the direction that Song Shuren had left in, "Do you even know who you are?"

The old woman beside him also smiled in a flattering manner, "That's right, that's right." If it wasn't for the protection of the old master, the second master would have been a nobody. To think that you would want to participate in the palace banquet. You truly overestimate yourself. "

"The First Lady has been kind to them, and they still want to climb the ranks of the dragon and take advantage of the phoenix. "Tsk tsk."

Song Yiyan was a lot more comfortable listening to him, "It's Fourth Sister, be careful when you speak." She straightened her clothes and smiled, then took Song Qingyu's arm, "Big sister, right? We are the direct descendants. "

The corners of Song Qingyu's mouth twitched.

"Of course."

Entering the palace together, Song Yiyan was not ignorant of the rules as she had imagined. Upon entering the palace, she had become much more restrained. It was obvious that the Song Manor had taught her many court etiquette.

She used to have no feelings for the Ninth Prince, but she had suffered at his hands again. This time, she had come to suppress the other young ladies in order to get the upper hand.

Deep within the palace, the carriage suddenly stopped.

The palace maid in the lead lightly lifted the curtain. "Two misses, we have arrived."

Song Qingyu was first invited out of the horse carriage and was immediately stunned on the spot. All the horse carriages stopped at the side in an orderly manner and were led to other places by the eunuch within the palace.

As for the maidservants of the various residences, they could no longer come forward. They had to wait in the carriages. Nannan could only stay.

There was a path, with a red carpet in the middle, leading straight ahead.

In front of him was an arched gate, and he could only see the rockery in the yard. Following which, all sorts of lanterns were hung on the side of the yard, both back and forth, and all of them were confused.

As it was early in the day, the lanterns shone faintly under the sunlight. Every lantern had wind chimes tied to it, and when the wind blew, it made a crisp sound.

Beneath the lantern was a row of tables. Behind the table was a row of ladies in dark clothes.

There were already many ladies across the table. Some held pens in deep thought, while others stared at the lanterns with rapt attention. Verdant verdant. Due to Song Yiyan's delay, the Song family arrived a little late.

Song Qingyu raised his eyes and saw that there were nearly a hundred people here this time. Basically, all the young mistresses who were able to get on the stage were all invited over.

Instead of the banquet as he had expected, it was a grand and grand gathering of lanterns.

Song Yiyan followed closely behind Song Qingyu and could not help but ask, "Sister, what's going on?"

Song Qingyu shook her head. To be honest, she didn't know either.

The young palace maid laughed lightly, "Ladies, please choose a lamp. Each lamp has a poem enigma on it, using the poem's enigma to compose a poem. The winner will be rewarded. "

Song Qingyu frowned slightly as he thought about how the Queen was seriously choosing an imperial concubine for the Ninth Prince.

But how could this Ninth Prince be worthy of a distinguished young miss?

Song Qingyu sighed inwardly. Song Qingyu was about to look around when he was invited to the lantern. However, he found that the four palace maids in front of the gate seemed to be looking for something.

Song Qingyu did not dare to be careless as he looked at a few of them seriously.

"Elder sister, what do you think?"

Song Qingyu was stunned for a moment. When she turned around and saw Song Yiyan's relaxed look, she picked up a crystal lantern and took off the piece of paper with the lamp's riddle on it.

"Big Sis, the answer to this riddle is Hibiscus. Do you want me to give it a try?"

Everyone was startled. They never thought that someone would answer so confidently just now. Taking a look of disbelief, he realized that it really was Hibiscus.

But this little girl in front of him actually wanted to give this question to her elder sister.

Song Qingyu smiled and said, "Thank you, second sister. Although I like the hibiscus, I like the style of the lamp more."

Song Qing Yu said as he tore down the note.

Everyone saw that Song Qing and Yu chose an exquisite small lantern. This kind of lantern was very common, but careful people would find out that there were 5 of them. The five lanterns were not easy to answer.

Everyone was sighing and not making a sound. He silently treated these two as competitors.

Song Qingyu didn't want to attract attention, but since Song Yiyan wanted to act, she had no choice but to give an excuse.

He carefully studied the riddle of the lamp and unintentionally noticed the gaze of the palace maid towards him. Song Qingyu frowned slightly as he noticed that although there were many lanterns here, they were repetitive in style.

As the evening came. There were three colors for each lantern, determined by the color of the paper that the lantern was waiting for.

He was wearing the most ordinary white, and there were five lanterns like him. No one else had chosen one, only Song Qingyu and an unfamiliar woman in the front row had chosen one.

The empress was very cautious. Since she was the one who'd chosen the concubine, she'd definitely have her own plans.

Song Qing thought and made a simple poem to fool him. Just as she was about to write, the palace maid in front of her smiled, "Miss Song, do you know the riddle of the lantern?"

Song Qingyu said timidly, "This humble girl only has a short knowledge, I just think that this riddle should be the frost leaf."

A few palace maids were startled, "Young miss is awesome, it's indeed Frostleaf." As the palace maid spoke, she unconsciously nodded to the few palace maids in front of the gate.

Hearing this, Song Yiyan tilted her head, wondering why Song Qingyu would approve of any of her answers even if she were to answer any of her questions.

His gaze naturally shifted over and landed on Song Qingyu's riddle.