Zhao Ning followed Zhao Rao to Yikun Palace. Lu Shuanger was arranging the banquet for tonight. Thinking of finally meeting Zhao Yong tonight, she felt both anticipation and conflict in her heart. Since Zhao Yong came back, she did not stay overnight in Yikun Palace. I heard that he brought a woman back from Jin Kingdom and made him a nobleman, and now he is in the nobleman Liu's palace every day, if she doesn't want to make Zhao Yong love her again, soon, she, the noble concubine, will be in the palace There is no place to stand.
I don't know if Zhao Yong has met Lu Yaoyao, why there is no movement after he came back, didn't he fall in love with Lu Yaoyao? I thought he would snatch Lu Yaoyao like he would snatch someone else's wife.
It seems that she still underestimated Zhao Yong. He is not the kind of fool who is obsessed with women. In front of the country and beauty, he values Qi State more, and he does not want to make enemies with Jin State.
"Your Majesty, the Eldest Princess is here with Princess Ning." A court lady came into the hall to report to Lu Shuang'er.
Lu Shuang'er raised her eyebrows slightly. She didn't like Zhao Rao very much. Although she was the highest-ranking concubine in this palace, she had less power than the eldest princess. The emperor asked her to take care of the affairs of the palace, but in fact the palace Many people here listened to the words of the eldest princess, and she was actually an embarrassing existence as a noble concubine.
"Zhao Rao brought Zhao Ning here?" Lu Shuang'er put down the list in her hand, "Let them come in."
I heard that the two princes are fighting fiercely outside recently. The eldest princess wants to help the eldest prince, and she seems to be trying every means to win over the minister. Today, she has time to bring Zhao Ning to her place. It really is the sun coming out from the west. How long has she been waiting? I haven't seen Zhao Rao in the palace.
Could it be that he intends to use Zhao Ning
Then there is a play to watch.
Lu Shuang'er thought gloatingly, and saw Zhao Rao walking in with a smile on her arm.
She raised her eyes to look at Zhao Ning, and found that Zhao Ning's eyes looked a bit like Lu Yaoyao, "Princess, the banquet is only held at night, you come here at this time, the emperor is not here in this palace."
"I've seen the imperial concubine." Zhao Rao was not angry when she heard such sarcastic words, and saluted Lu Shuang'er with a smile.
Zhao Ning saluted, and stood obediently beside Zhao Rao. He still couldn't help but glance at Lu Shuang'er, thinking that compared with the Empress Concubine Lu Guifei, it was the difference between cloud and mud, not that she was not good-looking, but Lu Shuang'er is also very delicate and charming, but compared with Lu Yaoyao, she is completely incomparable.
"This is Princess Ning, right?" Lu Shuang'er looked at Zhao Ning with a smile, "You are so beautiful, have you suffered a lot outside?"
"No, in fact, I didn't suffer much outside." Zhao Ning pretended to be weak and timid. This is what Lu Yaoyao taught her. If you don't know the depth of the other party when you come to the Qi Palace, you should show your weakness , Don't let the other party see your depth.
She felt that what Lu Yaoyao said was right, so when she came to Qi State, she always acted very weak.
Lu Shuang'er secretly smiled in her heart, she didn't endure hardships outside, so why come back? "All three princesses, sit inside. This hall is preparing for the banquet tonight, and people come and go without saying a word."
They went to the side hall and sat down. Lu Shuang'er asked someone to serve tea and cakes. She smiled and looked at Zhao Ning, "Princess Ning, I heard that you have always lived in the fishing village? Is there anyone else?"
This time Zhao Yong came back with a woman, and she still doubted whether it had something to do with Zhao Ning, but she couldn't find out the details, and she didn't dare to be too blatant, otherwise it would definitely cause Zhao Yong's displeasure.
"I was the only one left in the family. When my mother passed away, I was almost ten years old. The elders in the village took good care of me." Zhao Ning folded his hands on his knees, looking very nervous.
Lu Shuang'er nodded lightly, "So it's like this, I heard that you saved the emperor of Jin, and he recognized you as the princess of Qi?"
Zhao Ning looked up at Zhao Rao, Lu Shuang'er really dared to ask anything, she herself was the imperial concubine of Jin Kingdom, any woman would want to hide her past identity, she seemed not afraid of being suspected by others.
"Yes, besides the Emperor Jin, there is also the Empress." Zhao Ning lowered his head and replied.
"Oh? How about Lu Yaoyao?" Lu Shuang'er smiled, so that no one could see the disgust towards Lu Yaoyao in her tone.
Zhao Ning was stunned for a moment, she didn't understand what Lu Shuang'er meant by this? "Empress, she... is very good. She must have given birth to the little prince. When I came, she was in her final month of labor."
Lu Yaoyao's face suddenly darkened, is Lu Yaoyao pregnant? It turned out that she was going to have a baby, no wonder Zhao Yong didn't move at all!
What a mistake!
Holding the teacup in his hand, Zhao Rao asked with a smile, "The imperial concubine deserves to be from the Kingdom of Jin. She cares so much about the emperor and empress of the Kingdom of Jin."
"It's just a small chat." Lu Yaoyao twitched her lips, "Princess Ning seems to like Jin Guo very much."
"I like the state of Jin, and I also like the state of Qi." Zhao Ning pretended to be naive, pretending not to understand what Lu Shuang'er meant.
Lu Shuang'er looked at the nails on her hand, "Princess Ning, when Prince Shen was in Jin Kingdom...where did he go?"
Zhao Rao covered her mouth and smiled, "Ma'am, why are you asking Ah Ning all these weird questions today? Where did Uncle Wang go in Jinguo? How did Ah Ning know? She didn't follow Uncle Wang."
"That's right, imperial concubine, I don't know where Uncle Wang has gone." Zhao Ning said in a low voice.
Lu Shuanger still wanted to find out the identity of Liu Guiren from Zhao Ning.
"I know!" Zhao Xin said triumphantly, "Uncle Wang was still out of tune when he was in the capital, and he would go there all day long..."
"Xin'er!" Zhao Rao gave her a sharp look, and said seriously, "How can you, a junior, talk about the elder's affairs casually?"
Zhao Xin pouted resentfully, "I didn't want to discuss it either."
Zhao Rao said with a smile, "Your Majesty, I still have to take Aning to other palaces to pay my respects to other empresses. You are still busy here, so we won't bother you."
"Alright, anyway, there will be more opportunities to meet in the future." Lu Shuang'er nodded with a smile. In fact, she still has a lot of questions she wants to ask Zhao Ning. Since Lu Lingzhi was taken to Medicine Valley, she has no information on many things. Now, there is no news from Jin Guo, and her own brother Lu Tingzhi even refuses to see her, so she is very anxious.
"The imperial concubine, let's go first." Zhao Rao said with a smile.
After saying goodbye to Lu Shuang'er, Zhao Rao led Zhao Ning out.
Zhao Xin looked at Zhao Ning with some jealousy, why did the eldest sister treat her so well, isn't she just a pawn