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Chapter 7 The East Palace Banquet

The next morning, the Eastern Palace indeed sent someone to come.

Yue Luo accompanied the eunuch who invited someone to get into the sedan chair and walked towards the East Palace while shaking. She sorted out the broken hair in her ears and remembered the situation this morning, and couldn't help but smile.

Yuzhu heard from somewhere that she was going to the East Palace for a banquet today, so she got up early one morning and clamored to help her pick up clothes. Yue Luo looked at the big red and green in front of her, and the blue veins on her forehead also jumped twice.

"What do I do with these? I'm not trying to compete for beauty, just pick out simpler skirts."

Yuzhu tightly held a long golden Baidie Cloud Satin dress with a big red silver edge in her hand and said dissatisfiedly: "How can that be? Yue Niang is going for the first time, so she naturally wants to be beautiful. Besides, the clothes are human faces. Yue Niang's clothes are so plain that she makes people look down on us Luoyue Tower."

Yue Luoqi said, "What you said today is not like from your mouth."

Yuzhu cried, "Yue Niang, are you praising me? Why do I sound so awkward?" But she knew that her arms could not twist her thighs, so she could not take Yue Luo, so she could only pout and pick a simple and unique flower-spreading skirt for Yue Luo, and then combed her a dignified and charming bun.

Yuzhu looked at the lotus that appeared in the clear water in the mirror and naturally decorated the red pink beauty, and reluctantly nodded and let her go.

Yue Luo withdrew her thoughts. It was not unreasonable that she rejected the bright and flying red dress.

Women have no grudges when they meet, and they are jealous. She doesn't want to attract people's jealousy. Besides, today's Eastern Palace is destined to be a dragon's nest. Since the prince has the intention to recruit her, he will naturally win a blow.

I heard that the complaint against the Minister of Revenue has been handed over to the Censorate. Such a big case will sooner or later come to the Heaven Ting. It seems that the prince can't sit still.

Most of the people who came to the banquet today were royal relatives. Her identity was awkward. If she was one step away today, the Eastern Palace would naturally like to hear it. Xuanlin could go with the flow and block the disaster for her. Then she would have to firmly grasp the prince's backer in the future. If Xuanlin did both soft and hard work and gave both kindness and power, she would have to be grateful.

But she was not a chess piece that could be followed by others. Today, the prince was afraid that he had set a lot of trouble for her, but if she was afraid of trouble, how could she go to the banquet alone?

From Luoyue Tower to the East Palace, it is not close or far. However, after a few incense sticks of footsteps and a few turns, the sedan chair stopped. The eunuch raised the curtain and bowed, "Girl, the East Palace has arrived."

Yue Luo stretched out her hand and put it on the eunuch's arm and slowly got out of the sedan chair. She raised her head and looked at the two gold-plated characters "East Palace" on the door plaque, then lowered her head and walked over with the eunuch.

When he arrived at the gate, he handed over the invitation. After a while, an old eunuch came up and said with a flattering smile, "The girl is here. The prince is here. The prince is entertaining all his nobles in Beiyuan. The female relatives are all in Nanyuan. I'm sorry to let the girl move and follow the old slave."

The moon sets and says politely, "I am a laborious father-in-law."

The old eunuch quickly avoided the unwillingness to accept her gift and said straight: "Miss is a big deal to destroy the old slave. Please, please, girl."

Although she is the owner of the first floor in the world, she is a woman in the city, and there is a difference between her superiors and inferiors. If you want to talk seriously, she and these slaves are really no different in the eyes of the royal relatives. However, Xuanlin was short of an old eunuch with a somewhat handsome face to guide her. Should she say that the prince respects her or has ulterior motives?

She followed the eunuch and looked at her all the way. Since she had made up her mind and ignored anyone, she just walked with her eyes, nose, nose and heart. Before she could reach Nanyuan, she could hear laughter and laughter.

The eunuch lowered his head and smiled, "Girl, please invite me, I'll have to send it here." After that, he stood still.

Yue Luo knew it in her heart, took out a bag of silver from her sleeve bag and handed it to the eunuch and said, "If you have time, father-in-law lead the way, please take it with you a little bit of your heart."

The eunuch weighed the heavy money bag in his hand and smiled even more, "Look at what the girl said, it is a blessing for the old slave to be able to lead the way for the girl." As he said that, he put the money bag in his arms and knocked it back a thousand times.

Yue Luo's smile turned cold. Although the eunuch said humbly, his eyes were not very respectful. She sighed slightly. Before the official confrontation was formal, she was attacked first.

But it is not that easy for the prince to defeat the enemy without fighting.

She took a deep breath and walked towards Nanyuan. The sun shone behind her, outlining her shadow in a slender and beautiful way.

The moon sets and walks through an arch and walks forward for dozens of steps. The eyes suddenly become wider. Peach trees are planted in the garden. When the breeze blows, the peach blossoms on the trees are scattered one after another, laying a thin flower carpet on the ground. However, the air is mixed with some powdery air, which gives the pure natural beauty a discount.

The moon sets a little late, probably because the eunuch did it on purpose. The layout of the East Palace, the pavilions intertwined, and the corridors were back. The eunuch bullied her for the first time and took her many detours.

Her appearance made the Yingying Yanyan in the garden fall into a brief tranquility. Yue Luo smiled slightly, bowed her knees to salute everyone, and glanced at everyone, and seemed to say hello to everyone, but it seemed to be nothing.

After the ceremony, Yue Luo ignored all kinds of gazes and walked under a peach tree, half tilted his head as if he was just here to enjoy the flowers.

Her beauty was like a small stone thrown into the originally calm lake, and ripples appeared. Everyone whispered to each other and asked in a low voice about the origin of the strange woman.

The prince's concubine Tong Jia was the one who presided over the banquet.

Since Yue Luo entered Nanyuan, she has been secretly paying attention to her every move. The woman was obviously from the market, but she was generous. She looked like a lady from a wealthy family in every move, but she did not feel distorted by the ladies in the capital. Tong Jia remembered the prince's advice and when everyone was suspicious, she smiled slightly and walked towards Yue Luo.

"This must be Sister Yue." Tong Jia's voice was not loud, but it just made everyone around who were curious raised their ears.

Yue Luo turned around and saw the woman in front of her face as if she was powdered and had a romantic figure. The maids beside her were all good. Yue Luo thought about it and guessed the identity of the visitor. She also smiled and bowed.

"The young girl has seen the Empress, and the Empress will be blessed."

Tong Jia helped her up and smiled, "I heard from my elders that my sister has all the lesions. Today, it seems that this is true." As she said, she pulled her hand and sat in the first position on her right.

Yue Luo hurriedly said, "I dare not."

Tong Jia said angrily, "You and my sister, what are you saying, "

The moon sets and has to sit down.

Tong Jia called out her sister one by one. Everyone here was full of human spirits. She must have regarded her as the prince's favored concubine, and brought her out to meet people through this small banquet.

Yue Luo said in his heart, "Good you prince." The first move was to give me a hard time."

She seemed a little embarrassed, "Yesterday the prince came to invite him, but Yue Luo couldn't bear the kindness, and because of the majesty of the Tian family, she had to take the liberty to visit." She paused and said, "All the people here are nobles. Yue Luo is rude in his actions, so please take care of them." After that, she stood up and bowed to everyone again.

Her words were very clever, not only to show her unmarried identity, but also to prove that Prince Ming relied on her identity to force her to submit, but finally showed weakness to everyone and resolved her jealousy. In a few words, the misunderstanding was clarified and the Tong Jia family was embarrassed. She just called her sister very affectionately.

Tong Jia's smile froze. Due to the bad identity, she couldn't scream at all. She said, "So that's it, Miss Yue, please forgive me for my impoliteness just now."

Yue Luo stood up and said, "How dare you blame me?"

Tong Jia regained her smile. Yue Luo was shocked in her eyes. Tong Jia was not a simple person. Her father Tong Jiayue was a first-class censor. She married the prince not only to tie her own interests with the Eastern Palace, but also to win the prince's trust. She has been very favored for so many years. In addition to her family's support for the prince in the court, more importantly, with her own ability to dance, she has brought a lot of foreign aid to the prince in the officialdom.

Tong Jia smiled and said, "Girl, please sit down," she looked behind Yue Luo, "Why don't the girl even take a maid?" Then she turned to the maid standing beside her and said, "Xiao Nian, go and serve Miss Yue well for this palace."

Just as Yue Luo was about to speak, Tong Jia hurriedly said, "Miss, don't refuse."

Yue Luo lowered her head slightly, and the sharp light in her eyes flashed, "Thank you for your kindness."

The banquet was very lively, and Yue Luo's attention was attracted by a loud voice.

"Our master said that the cicadas beside the lotus pond in Yunyin Temple are noisy at night," she deliberately lowered her voice, but it just happened to let the people around her hear her words. "I'm afraid only those cicadas can know who the murderer is."

When the ladies around him heard this, they all started to complain, looking scared but curious, "It's so scary."

"Didn't it meant that the Buddha statue killed the person? Then the next day, the Buddha statue was surrounded by water." Mrs. Yi Ziyi agreed.

But the other wife's focus was obviously not here. "Mrs. Xu, hasn't Mr. Xu always believed in these strange and insane things? How could he tell you this?"

Mrs. Xu gave the talking lady a blank look, "You don't know anything about this. Although my master doesn't believe in these things, our housekeeper believes it very much. I just came back from Yunyin Temple a few days ago. He has to stay there for a while every year. Whenever this time, our family will be in chaos. Sure enough, a big family will not be able to leave the priest."

"Your priest is Xu Cai. I heard that this person used to be a yamen master. He is so powerful. You Lord Xu can choose people." The lady in purple just said to the people around her, with a little disdain.

"That's it" Mrs. Xu said proudly.

Several wives around him laughed softly. Mrs. Ziyi had something in her words, and she was very sarcastic about Xu Qian's picky eyes, which made her sarcastic look very sarcastic.

Yue Luo was so careful when she heard what she was talking about Yunyin Temple, but she didn't expect that she was the wife of Xu Qian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Xu Qian was a smile on the officialdom, but she didn't expect that his wife was like a fool. However, her son, mother, and father, no wonder Xu Zhu was also a fool.
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