Early on the morning of the Golden Autumn Crab Feast, Wen Qingzhu was dressing up in Luoying Pavilion.
Shaoyao outside put away her umbrella and walked in.
A gust of cool air blew through the bead curtain on Wen Qingzhu's back.
Lu Tao just inserted the last beaded hairpin for her, and Shaoyao took out a letter: "Miss, General Wei said that two people from the Wei family are going to attend the crab feast today, and Miss Yao'er personally sent the letter, saying that there was something wrong I need to explain."
Wen Qingzhu took the letter, opened it, and frowned slightly.
The conservatives of the Yue family actually came to the capital, and Aunt Qiaoyu found traces of those people's activities around the Wei family.
"Burn it." Wen Qingzhu closed his eyes, feeling in his heart that today's crab feast would not be peaceful.
After getting dressed, Yang Dong sent a carriage to greet Wen Qingzhu in person.
When we got in the car, the light rain stopped and the sky became a little brighter.
Arriving at the gate of the palace, after going through layers of inspections, Wen Qingzhu finally arrived at the Wugutai.
There were not many people at this time, but Concubine Wei specifically asked her to come early.
After a while, a nun from Jingping Palace came over.
"Miss Wen, Concubine Wei is dealing with the banquet. She asks you to go to Fengyang Pavilion first."
The nanny in front of her was the one who was following Concubine Wei. Wen Qingzhu nodded and followed her.
When leaving Wugutai, Wen Qingzhu always felt like he was being spied on.
I looked back, but found nothing.
Not long after leaving the Wugutai, when passing by a garden, a burst of angry curses suddenly came from next door.
"You bitch! You actually soiled the princess's clothes. This is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Even if you sell your life, it won't be worth the money."
Wen Qingzhu followed the nanny in front and glanced sideways.
It was Jiang Yijia and Ziyu who stopped Luo Chan and the others.
Except for Luo Chan, the two maids serving Luo Chan all knelt down.
When she looked over, several slaps fell on Maid Luo Chan's face.
Luo Chan's face was a little pale, and she held her sleeves tightly without saying a word.
Hearing the movement here, Luo Chan and Jiang Yijia both looked over.
Wen Qingzhu didn't squint his eyes and didn't have anything to do. He followed his grandma and left in a leisurely manner.
Looking at Wen Qingzhu's leaving figure, Luo Chan couldn't help biting her lip.
Seeing that Luo Chan seemed a little unwilling, Jiang Yijia sneered: "What? Do you think Wen Qingzhu will come to the rescue when there is injustice? I tell you, it doesn't matter if your father loves you. I can't touch you, nor can I touch the people around you. ! Come here! Give me a hard beating!"
When they arrived at Fengyang Pavilion, Jiang Dejia was already waiting for her.
"Your Majesty, meet the princess." Wen Qingzhu saluted and said hello.
Jiang Dejia quickly helped her up and pulled her to the table to sit down: "Why are you so polite?"
After turning around and retreating, Wen Qingzhu also signaled Lu Tao and Shaoyao to retreat.
At the same time, he nodded towards Shaoyao.
Shaoyao understood this and found a side door to leave Fengyang Pavilion.
inside the house.
Jiang Dejia said seriously: "Qingzhu, today's situation may be very complicated, and I will need your help then."
"Did you find anything here?" Wen Qingzhu looked at Jiang Dejia suspiciously. She seemed to have gotten accurate information.
Jiang Dejia nodded, then stretched out his finger to write a word on the table.
Seeing this word, Wen Qingzhu opened his eyes wide, then slowly raised his head and met Jiang Dejia's eyes.
"My mother and concubine have considered this matter over and over again and told my father last night. My father stayed up all night last night." Jiang Dejia's tone was a little heavy, and his eyes were a little sad.
Seeing that she was so depressed, Wen Qingzhu reached out and held Jiang Dejia's hand, comforting her and saying, "It's okay, Your Majesty will make arrangements."
About half an hour later, Shaoyao hurried back with a nervous expression.
Seeing this, Jiang Dejia got up and left, leaving the place to them.
When no one was around, Shaoyao whispered: "Miss, Jasmine has been poisoned and is not in a good condition. I took Qianjin Pill, but the effect is not very great."
"Did you see any reason?" Wen Qingzhu didn't know why, but subconsciously thought of Wen Qinglan.
Shaoyao hesitated for a moment and said uncertainly: "I feel like a poison, but it's not like a poison at all."
"That's right, Jasmine isn't on duty today, right?" Wen Qingzhu was now sure that it was indeed Wen Qinglan who did it.
But this is good. If we can confirm that it is Wen Qingzhu, it proves that Wanbi knows that the last incident was a trap set up by her and Concubine Wei.
Wen Qingzhu waved and Fu Er gave some instructions to Shaoyao.
At the end, he handed her a small medicine bottle: "Give this to the Luomei people secretly, and she will help us."
Shaoyao nodded, turned around and left.
Not long after, a eunuch came to invite people, saying that people from the Wugutai had begun to arrive.
Jiang Dejia and Wen Qingzhu went out together.
When they were about to reach the Wugutai, Jiang Yijia suddenly stopped them.
"Sister Dejia, Miss Wen, it's been a long time no see." Jiang Yijia looked at them with sharp eyes.
Especially when he looked at Wen Qingzhu, he almost wanted to eat her.
Wen Qingzhu bowed respectfully: "I have met Princess Yijia, and I don't know if Her Highness stopped me. Is there something wrong?"
"How dare I stop you! It's just what I taught the Luo Mei people just now. Did you see it?" The smile on Jiang Yijia's face became bigger and bigger, with a kind of paranoid madness.
Wen Qingzhu smiled: "Did Her Royal Highness teach the Luo Mei people a lesson? I don't know. After entering the palace, I followed my grandmother to Fengyang Pavilion, and I didn't meet anyone along the way."
"Really? This is best."
Jiang Yijia stared at Wen Qingzhu's eyes for a long time, and after making sure that she was not being perfunctory, she turned around and went to the Wugutai.
Concubine Wei was the host of this banquet. Her status was the same as Concubine Li, and she was in charge of the Phoenix Seal, so she naturally became the woman sitting next to the emperor.
Jiang Dejia's status rose with the tide, and his position was assigned to the lower seat on the left.
After sitting down, someone from the palace immediately came forward to pour tea.
Wen Qingzhu didn't pay attention at first, but she suddenly smelled a familiar and strange fragrance.
Her expression suddenly condensed, and she raised her eyes to look at the palace servant who was pouring tea in front of her.
The palace man lowered his head and could not see his face clearly.
Wen Qingzhu asked with a smile: "What kind of tea is this? It has a faint fragrance? It doesn't have the leaf fragrance of ordinary tea."
The palace man stepped back respectfully and explained: "This is a new tea from the south of the Yangtze River as tribute."
After saying this, the palace man never raised his head.
Wen Qingzhu could only see the lower half of her face, but not her eyes.
Jiang Dejia heard the sound and looked over. When he saw the palace man, his eyes became serious.
After the palace man left, Jiang Dejia immediately sent people around him to investigate the palace man just now.
Wen Qingzhu, who was sitting next to him, picked up the teacup and shook it gently.
The light green juice had the fragrance of everyday tea leaves, but Wen Qingzhu, who had a keen sense of smell, still smelled a trace of strange fragrance.
Thinking of this, Wen Qingzhu couldn't help but smile.
Jiang Dejia had been looking at her from the corner of his eye since just now.
Seeing Wen Qingzhu's unusually inexplicable smile, he couldn't help but ask: "Do you know who the palace man was just now?"
Wen Qingzhu inspected the people at the banquet, and his eyes finally stopped on the invited scholars.
Three of them, including Ning Xiu, had escaped disaster last time.
"Isn't the newly promoted youngest candidate next door to you?" Jiang Dejia looked over and looked at Ning Xiu's childish face, feeling a little strange.
Wen Qingzhu said with emotion: "Yeah, I didn't expect that not only did he win the exam, but he also came to the crab feast by accident. These people in the capital failed to catch him under the exam. I must have decided today." I won’t let him go.”
Jiang Dejian could understand what Wen Qingzhu meant, and turned to look at Ning Xiu, feeling a little worried in his heart.
It's not a good thing for him to be praised so highly at such a young age.
Soon, news came back about the palace servant who had just poured tea for Wen Qingzhu.
There was nothing unusual.
Wen Qingzhu understood clearly that it was Jiang Yuancheng who had intervened.
If it were so easy to find out, then Jiang Yuancheng was not Jiang Yuancheng.
After sitting for a while, Wen Qingzhu suddenly felt something was wrong.
She looked around and finally realized that not everyone from the Lei family seemed to be here.
Except for Mr. Liang, no one in the eldest princess's family was seen.
Wen Qingzhu wanted to ask, but Concubine Wei and the emperor came over.
She held on to this thought.
After looking at everyone inside and outside the venue, Wen Qingzhu always felt like he was missing a lot of people.
All the people who must have been there in the past seemed to be absent.
For example, Pei Zhixuan.
The banquet started soon, with chrysanthemum tea and Chengyang Lake hairy crabs being served.
Jiang Yue thanked everyone, and then praised the newly admitted candidates. Finally, Eunuch Fang brought two candidates up.
The candidates representing this term accepted the emperor's teachings.
There was one person among them, although Wen Qingzhu didn't see him, he was mentioned in the letter sent by Yao'er.
This young man who is about the same age as Ning Xiu is called Wei Hai, and he is Wei Feng's nephew.
Among the descendants of the Wei family, he is undoubtedly the most outstanding.
He seems to have a calm temperament and is relatively simple-minded.
When he saw the emperor, he knelt down seriously and bowed like a scholar.
Jiang Yue's eyes lit up when he saw how serious he was, and he couldn't help but praise: "As expected of a descendant of the Wei family, I will work hard in the future."
After patting Wei Hai on the shoulder, Jiang Yue turned around and praised another member of the Fu family.
However, the tone was a bit lighter, and there wasn't that much expectation.
This scene fell into the eyes of everyone, and different people had different ideas.
But everyone invariably looked towards the Fu family.
The Fu family remained calm, eating and drinking as they should, without any change due to the strange looks.
When the beauties from the song and dance studio came up, everyone slowly shifted their attention.
Looking at the beauties in front of him, Wen Qingzhu narrowed his eyes.
These beauties have good figures and standard dancing postures, but why are their movements so powerful
Wen Qingzhu asked someone to pour a new bowl of water and took out the stiff pastry.
While drinking water, I swallowed the hard cake.
If he had known that these people would still appear here, Wen Qingzhu would have asked Shaoyao to make a new one.
Seeing Jiang Dejia take out the cake, he asked with concern: "Are the cakes arranged by the palace not delicious?"
Looking at the two pieces left on the table, I looked really bad.
Jiang Dejia felt that it was not the reason why the pastries in the palace were not delicious.
Wen Qingzhu smiled and handed it over: "If the princess wants to see a more exciting performance, you might as well have a piece."
Jiang Dejia looked at the pastries on the table and hesitated.
However, thinking of the previous palace maid, Jiang Dejia still picked up a piece.
But as soon as she took a bite, her movements stopped.
But thinking that there was something in Wen Qingzhu's words, she still finished eating without changing her expression.
The program changed one after another, but the expected things did not happen.
Wen Qingzhu was feeling strange when Qinghu suddenly came from behind.
She whispered to Wen Qingzhu: "Miss Wen, our county master is here and she wants to see you."
Qing Hu's voice was not too quiet. Jiang Dejia also heard it and nodded directly: "Go ahead, I'm here."