The hall was silent, as if you could even hear the sound of a needle falling on the ground.
Pingyanghou clenched his fist unconsciously, his eyes were as deep as the sea.
Obviously the two young men in front of him didn't do or say anything, but Marquis Pingyang felt as if there were two unattainable mountains standing in front of him.
In his heart, he probably still thinks too highly of himself, thinking that he has eaten more salt than these two young people have eaten rice, so he always underestimated them before...
Since Xiao Yi and Guan Yubai are ambitious and capable, the two of them may have already considered what he said just now, and they are likely to be far more strategic than I thought, and their strength is unpredictable …
Thinking of Kui Lang's death, Marquis Pingyang's pupils shrank slightly. It was obvious that the military newspaper sent to Wangdu indicated that the Southern Frontier Army had arrived at the capital of Baiyue, but since he arrived at Luoyue City, he found that there seemed to be no wind in the city. Either the military newspaper is fake...
Or, could it be that Baiyue has already fallen into the hands of King Zhennan and his son? !
The more Pingyang Hou thought about it, the more likely it was.
He looked at Xiao Yi again, and at this time, his eyes were full of unconcealable fear.
This Xiao Shizi really hides too deeply and is too difficult to deal with...
Marquis Pingyang took a deep breath, and tried again: "My lord, Dayu is now dying of illness. Dare I ask if my lord intends to help the court to 'clean up the government'?"
The last four words of Marquis Pingyang were almost squeezed out from between his teeth, and his body stiffened even more involuntarily.
"Eliminate the government" is a euphemism, what he really wants to ask is whether Xiao Yi is planning to rebel? !
Regardless of whether Xiao Yi really intends to rebel, this question may irritate him!
Xiao Yi hooked his lips into a smile, which seemed to be full of interest, but also seemed to be cold, which made Pingyang Hou even more nervous.
"How does Lord Hou think of me in southern Xinjiang?"
Xiao Yi asked back with a smile, disdainful in his heart: their southern border is high and the sea is vast, he and Xiaobai are free here, what is Dayu worthy of his concern? !
But his simple nine words had another meaning in Pingyang Hou's ears.
How about southern Xinjiang? ! How can this remote place in southern Xinjiang be compared to the capital of the king and the prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River!
Marquis Pingyang was overjoyed, as long as Xiao Yi was dissatisfied with his current situation, it was his chance to persuade him; as long as Xiao Yi was willing to support King Shunjun, then the situation in the court would be different!
Pingyang Hou pondered for a while, and said: "My lord, I think that my lord's heroism is great..."
But he was only halfway through when he was suddenly interrupted by a refined male voice:
"Master Hou thinks who in Dayu can be the master of this Marquis and the son?!"
Guan Yubai looked directly at Pingyanghou with his warm eyes, and there was still a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, as if what he was talking about was not an important court event, but something elegant about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Hearing this, Hou Pingyang's eyes widened in disbelief, his brows were full of shock, and the word "ridiculous" almost blurted out.
The subtext of this official language is clearly referring to the princes of Dayu, he and Xiao Yi don't like any of them, and neither of them are the masters of Ming Dynasty!
Guan Yubai is so courageous!
His words can almost be said to be outrageous!
However, what made Pingyanghou even more incredible was that Guan Yubai spoke for Xiao Yi without hesitation or scruple, as if what he meant was what Xiao Yi meant, and Xiao Yi...
Marquis Pingyang looked at Xiao Yi again. This Xiao Shizi is overbearing and arbitrary, and he will not be easily swayed by other people's words at all, but Guan Yubai can represent him, and Xiao Yi's expression seems to be taken for granted.
He seems to have made another mistake.
This realization made Pingyang Hou feel a turmoil in his heart.
He thought it was Guan Yubai who had surrendered to Xiao Yi, just like he had surrendered to the King of Shun County. The two were in a master-slave relationship, but it was only at this moment that he realized that he was wrong.
These two people seem to go hand in hand, and the relationship between them is by no means as simple as I thought before!
Marquis Pingyang was startled and uncertain, his mind was in a mess like a mess, he couldn't figure it out and it was still in chaos.
He came to Bixiaotang this time to leave a way out for himself, but he didn't expect it to end like this.
He revealed such a big secret that Xiye was about to attack, but he still got nothing, but it was still not enough to please Xiao Yi.
Did he just leave like this
Pingyang Hou was very unwilling in his heart, but he didn't know what else to do for a while.
I still need more chips!
Pingyang Hou left with a heavy heart, he had to think carefully about what to do next.
Fortunately, he still has time, before the emperor's next decree arrives in southern Xinjiang, he still has some time...
Ping Yanghou felt like a prey being roasted on a charcoal fire. He knew that there were blazing flames all around him, but he was deeply trapped in the fire and had nowhere to escape!
He can only hope that time will pass a little slower, and a little slower...
On the contrary, King Zhennan was very anxious, and he only hoped that life would pass as quickly as possible, and that he would be able to give Xiao Jinsun a full moon wine in 20 days.
In Zhennan Wang's longing for the day and night, winter goes to spring, and with the arrival of spring, all kinds of flowers bloom on the branches, and everything is thriving.
Finally, it was March 20th, and King Zhennan calculated that the days were about the same, so he immediately distributed invitations, inviting all the prefectures in Luoyue City to come to the palace on March 25th to participate in the grandson's double full moon banquet.
All the mansions in Luoyue City were in commotion in an instant. The palace was finally going to hold a banquet for the grandson. They wanted the grandson to be safe in the future. For a while, all the mansions began to rack their brains to figure out what full moon gifts should be given to the grandson.
After Zhennan King sent out all the posts, Que'er only learned about this, and hurriedly went to Bixiao Hall to report to Shi Zifei.
"The post about Double Full Moon Wine was posted this morning?"
Nangong Yue was helping the little guy tidy up his swaddling clothes, she couldn't help but startled, and looked up at Que'er.
Que'er responded: "My lord ordered the incident office to write a post last night and sent it out early in the morning."
"..." Nangong Yue looked at Xiao Yi hesitantly. She and Xiao Yi discussed it. She originally planned to wait an extra month for the Hundred Days Banquet, but Zhennan Wang disrupted the original plan.
Xiao Yi directly hugged the baby in Nangong Yue's arms, patted him to put him to sleep, and said casually: "Ah Yue, you just don't know. Whoever posts the post will entertain him!" As long as Nangong Yue doesn't Don't worry, Xiao Yi doesn't care what his father is doing.
Nangong Yue thought for a while, and said: "Since the father posted a post, let's advance the banquet." After all, King Zhennan was in a hurry to hold a banquet for the sake of the baby, so it was according to King Zhennan's intention.
Xiao Yi has always been a husband and wife, and when the imperial concubine speaks, he immediately obeys the good, and takes his wife's opinion as the principle of doing things.
A few days passed in the blink of an eye amidst laughter, and on March 25, Nangong Yue was finally able to give birth to her double confinement.
Baihui and the others boiled hot mugwort water for their master early in the morning, and poured buckets of it into the waist-high bathtub. After a while, steaming mist filled the surroundings, accompanied by the faint medicinal fragrance of mugwort leaves. into the tip of the nose.
Nangong Yue almost couldn't wait to soak herself in the hot water, feeling like she was alive.
In the past two months, although she has never taken a bath like this, she still wipes her body with a white towel soaked in warm water and changes her clothes every day. Sweaty, sticky all over.
She washed three full buckets of water and soaked herself red all over, and only then did she feel relieved.
Although it's only been two short months, her figure has recovered a lot. Except for a little plump breasts and a little bulge in her lower abdomen, the rest of her body has basically returned to prenatal, and her complexion is even better than before. Bai Li Touhong, thanks to this short time, Lin Jingchen came to check her pulse from time to time and prescribed prescriptions one after another.
Que'er and Huamei hurriedly helped Nangong Yue put on a brand-new rose-red butterfly wearing flower-carved silk gown, and helped her dress up again...
Xiao Yi watched the maids dress up as his concubine with great interest from the side, and was eager to try, but he still had some self-knowledge about his skills, so he held back thinking that the future would be bright.
Although it's not yet Si time, the guests who came to participate in the double full moon banquet in the morning have already begun to arrive one after another, and the maids come to report the situation in the palace from time to time, but Xiao Yi is not in a hurry at all, and is relaxing in the Bixiao hall, Anyway, this banquet was hosted by his father, so he should take the trouble to receive those guests.
Today's banquet for male guests was held in the main hall on the first floor of Xingsu Building in Wangfu.
General Tang and several middle-aged generals who are loyal to King Zhennan have arrived, and they are surrounding King Zhennan, complimenting each other one word at a time. This one congratulates King Zhennan on getting the eldest grandson, and the other said, "On the day the grandson was born, God If there is auspiciousness, the grandson must be blessed", another said, "the grandson will grow up to be like his ancestors, wise and powerful" and so on... All of them said that Zhennan Wang's face was full of red and happy.
As time passed, more and more visitors came, and when it was Sishi, those young generals also arrived in twos and threes, and the banquet was bustling.
In the early days of Sishi, Xiao Yi and Lily, who was holding Dahong Kesi's swaddling baby, arrived, and immediately became the focus of everyone, and there was an instant commotion in Xingsu Building.
The King of Zhennan thought that Nizi came late, but as soon as the baby Jinsun appeared, he lost all anger, and hurriedly waved for someone to hug Jinsun to his side. , From fingernails to hair strands, I praised it again...
King Zhennan was finally satisfied, so the child was carried to the side of the young generals, and in an instant, he was surrounded by three layers inside and outside.
Fu Yunhe, who was on the third floor, raised his voice and said, "Brother, my little nephew is so beautiful!"
"That's right, that's right." Yu Xiufan immediately agreed with a smile, "I think the eyes and nose look like a big brother, as if they were carved out of the same mold!"
"And the shape of the face..."
Those young generals exaggerated one sentence after another, completely unaware that the faces of a certain father and son were a little stiff, or gloomy.
Zhennan Wang glanced at those young generals displeased, and felt that none of these young people had eyes. His precious Jinsun Mingming was only three or four points like Xiao Yi, a rebellious son, and more like his grandfather!
Xiao Yi was equally displeased, and also felt that his younger brothers had bad eyesight at such a young age. Obviously, the stinky boy was born with such hard work by Ah Yue, so of course he was a little more like Ah Yue!
The Xingsu building was noisy and lively, full of joy, but the round white dough in the swaddle was also bold, looking at everyone curiously with a pair of black and white eyes, not frightened at all.
Immediately, someone complimented Xiao Shisun with a wink, which made King Zhennan and Xiao Yi stand out proudly, and also made many soldiers in this line of Sulou secretly exchanged words. a glance.
No one in the army knows that the son and the prince have always been at odds, but now the father and son, who seem like enemies in the previous life, seem to have a much more harmonious relationship...
It seems that with the birth of the little grandson, the Zhennan Palace will usher in some new changes, and for the Southern Border and the Southern Border Army, only when the Zhennan Palace is stable can they be stable and prosperous!
The generals became more confident, and soon they drank and punched, and the atmosphere became more and more lively, and Baihe and the others took advantage of this to quickly carry the little grandson to the inner courtyard. After reuniting with Nangong Yue, the group left A flower hall for female guests.
In the flower hall, a group of female guests had already taken their seats, Xiao Fei and Zhou Roujia avoided coming out to meet the guests because they kept their filial piety for the Xiaofang family, and the guests were entertained by the side concubine Wei and Xiao Sanye's wife Xin.
The arrival of the two hosts made the female guests stand up one after another. They first saluted Nangong Yue, and then Mrs. Tian and Mrs. Yao came up to greet Nangong Yue. The topic naturally revolved around that precious little guy.
Seeing that the little grandchildren are white, fat and strong, one knows that they are well-raised. Those wives are all motherly, and their compliments are one after another.
Seeing these wives and girls surrounding the radiant Nangong Yue and the little baby like stars and moons, Mrs. Qiao, who was sitting beside her, had an uneasy expression on her face, but she could barely squeeze out a stiff smile.
She originally thought that the reason for the delay in holding the full moon banquet in the palace was because this grandson was either weak and sick, or short-lived... Unexpectedly, this child seems to be very good, and seeing his younger brother Zhennan Wang beaming today, I am afraid that even The nephew Xiao Yi also won the favor of his younger brother because of the birth of his grandson, and he has been "ascended to heaven" since then.
The more Mrs. Qiao thought about it, the more unwilling she became, a heavy haze flashed in her cloudy eyes.
At the same time, Mrs. Tian and others quickly surrounded Nangong Yue and sat down. Mrs. Tian was sitting on Nangong Yue's right hand side, looking at the baby in Lily's arms who had fallen asleep soundly at some time. Mrs. Tian Said jokingly at the side: "Mother, you see that the little grandson really has collapsed in front of the mountain and his face has not changed. He will be as brave as the grandson in the future. I am blessed in southern Xinjiang!"
Flattery! Mrs. Qiao gave Mrs. Tian a disdainful look, curled her lips, and said in her heart: A little baby who can't even speak, can't walk, can see what tricks he can do!
It's a pity that no one cared about what she thought at all. Mrs. Tian agreed with her daughter-in-law with a smile, and then turned to Nangong Yue: "Concubine Shizi, did the little grandson get a name?"
A simple question made Nangong Yue dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning.
She forgot to name the baby!
She was misled by Ah Yi again, and she completely forgot to name their baby, and every day, Ah Yi called the baby "Stinky Boy" on the left and "Stinky Boy" on the right.
Nangong Yue looked apologetically at the sleeping baby, and said to Mrs. Tian with a little embarrassment: "...the prince hasn't given him a good name yet."
The wives thought that this grandson would be the heir of the next generation of the palace, so of course the names had to be carefully selected, but they didn't care.
The servant girls Baihui and Que'er secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but on the other hand they couldn't help laughing. The concubine Shi Zi has everything in mind when doing other things, and once the younger grandson is involved, she will follow the son of the world to make a fool of herself. They also don't know whether to lament the son's master's profound skill in "making trouble", or to lament that the son's concubine cares about it and causes chaos.
After the congratulations from the female guests, the banquet officially began. One by one, maidservants in blue and blue dresses came in with a red lacquered wooden tray, and began to serve dishes well-trained and agile.
The dish was only half served when a little servant girl came running out of breath and said on her knees: "Concubine Shi Zi, Your Highness the Third Princess is coming... this way."
Thinking of the posture of the three princesses, the little maid was sweating profusely, but with so many guests in the audience, she didn't know what to say or not.
All of a sudden, there was a commotion in the flower hall, and the female guests all looked at each other in blank dismay. These three princesses are distinguished guests, logically speaking, they should naturally go out to greet them.
But the concubine...
Thinking of the fact that since the third princess came to Luoyue City, the concubine Shi Zi had never taken the initiative to visit the third princess at the inn. Obviously, she had her own considerations, so those female relatives did not dare to act rashly. Only Mrs. Qiao was delighted, and there was some gloating in her originally resentful eyes .
Soon, a young and pretty young woman walked aggressively into the yard and strode towards the flower hall.
There was another commotion in the hall, and the female guests were all shocked.
The young woman was wearing a snow-white dress with a simple crescent moon bun on her head and a white flower. She was pure white without any other colors.
The news that Kui Lang's body was found has already spread in Luoyue City, and everyone knows that the third princess is a widow now, but she came to attend the double full moon banquet of the little grandson in such a filial dress. It is clear that the comer is not good.
Most of the female guests were in shock, Mrs. Tian's mother-in-law and Mrs. Yao secretly exchanged glances, planning to play by ear.
Soon, the third princess stepped into the hall, and her eyes locked on Nangong Yue on the main table, her eyes were cold and decisive.
Ever since she came to Southern Border, she has been perfunctory time and time again by the Zhennan Palace, so that now that Kui Lang is dead, she is not only reduced to a widow, but also may become an abandoned son of her father at any time...
Every time thinking of these things, the three princesses felt uneasy.
She can't sit still, she came today to take this opportunity to put pressure on the Zhennan Palace in front of the southern Xinjiang government, let them deal with Baiyue, only in this way, in the future, she can show her merits in front of her father , can let the father see that she is not useless.
"Concubine Shizi!" The third princess said in a cold voice with a sullen face and filled with righteous indignation, "The Zhennan Palace despised the court and did not do well, which killed my palace..."
It's a pity that Nangong Yue is not interested in listening to her at all.
"Begonia," Nangong Yue interrupted the other party calmly, and ordered, "The palace does not welcome uninvited guests, and I will not send guests off to my concubine!"
"Yes, Shi Zifei." Haitang eagerly took orders, "Madam, please."
Haitang deliberately showed her skills, but she just dodged, and she appeared in front of the three princesses who were several feet away like a ghost, and then stretched out her hand to make a petition.
"Baby maid, dare you!" The third princess scolded with a gloomy expression.
However, her strong-willed appearance didn't work against Haitang at all. Haitang grabbed the third princess's wrist and clamped her like iron tongs. She smiled and said, "Excuse me for being rude..."
"Bold!" This time, Mrs. Qiao stood up suddenly, and pointed at Haitang in disbelief, "How dare you be rude to the princess, you lowly servant girl?!" This is almost lawless.
"Madame Qiao's words are wrong." Mrs. Tian said with a smile, "His Highness the Third Princess is a widow. She should have avoided such an occasion today..." She smiled kindly, but everyone knew her as soon as they heard it. The three princesses don't understand etiquette.
The three princesses were so angry that their foreheads fluttered for a while. These southern Xinjiang people are indeed barbarians!
"Your Highness, calm down." Mrs. Qiao comforted the third princess, and glared at Nangong Yue, the culprit, her eyes were about to burst into flames, and then told the nurse beside her, "Go to the prince quickly..." She didn't believe Zhen The Southern King will let the eldest concubine drive away the three princesses.
But the nanny had only walked half a step before she was stopped by a woman. Nangong Yue looked at Mrs. Qiao and said calmly, "Since the eldest aunt wants to leave, the niece and daughter-in-law will not stay."
The implication is to see off guests.
In the flower hall, it was quiet again.
Nangong Yue didn't care about it at all, and ordered without hesitation: "Pass down the order of this concubine, and the Zhennan Palace will not accept invitations from His Royal Highness the Third Princess in the future."
She spoke casually, but her tone was decisive, making no one dare to question the determination in her words.
The three princesses stared blankly. Unexpectedly, under the eyes of everyone, Nangong Yue would dare to ignore her request, and even issued an expulsion order against her majestic princess. She clearly wanted to ignore the face of the royal family.
Is this Zhennan Palace going to rebel? !