As expected by Yang Heng, the news of his visit to Yilan Palace and his party reached the ears of the Queen and Concubine Mao in a blink of an eye, and soon the First Prince and the Second Prince also knew about it, so they couldn't help trying to figure out what the meaning of his move was. , What is the emperor's attitude
The eldest prince was the most direct. He ran to Yang Heng's mansion that day, and warned him in a vicious voice that he had better keep his own place and not have any inappropriate thoughts. Yang Heng showed a surprised and innocent blank expression, which made the eldest prince vent his evil anger More than half.
Such a baseless embroidered pillow, even if the emperor wanted to support him, he had to be able to stand firmly by himself. The eldest prince curled his lips, feeling that it would be superfluous to make a special trip, so he picked up the eldest son's pillow. She reprimanded Yang Heng heavily before getting up and leaving contentedly.
Yang Heng personally sent him out of the house in fear and fear, watching his carriage drift away, the expression on his face slowly became unpredictable.
The second prince did not bother Yang Heng, he had already discussed with the empress the plan for the birthday party, as long as the plan is successful, what others do now will be in vain.
Soon the days came to December 26th, early in the morning, the women in Beijing entered the palace in batches to pay their respects in formal attire according to their grades. The central door of Ningyi Palace was wide open, and the newly dressed court ladies led the wives in to salute the queen one by one, and then led them to Huilan Palace to rest and wait for the birthday banquet in the evening.
Huilan Palace is the place where important celebrations are held in the harem. Generally, the canonization of concubines or the birthday celebrations of empress dowagers and queens are held here. The palace occupies a larger area than Ningyi Palace where the queen lives. In addition to the main hall where the celebration is held, there are also many rooms for the rest of the wives who enter the palace to watch the ceremony. Of course, those with high grades can occupy a room exclusively, while those with low grades can only squeeze with others.
The congratulatory gifts from all over the world were placed in the main hall of the Huilan Palace, where the women of the house of worship opened their eyes. There were clever female officials explaining and introducing the various auspicious meanings of the gifts. Several side halls also had a stage and musicians, musicians, dancers, etc. Provide opera, singing and dancing entertainment.
The queen was dressed in a dark blue Zhai dress and a nine-dragon and four-phoenix crown, sitting on the throne of Ningyi Palace, looking at the wives who were kneeling on the ground and bowing to her outside the gauze curtain, with mixed feelings in her heart. She has paid too much for this backseat in her life, she deserves such honor, she should be very happy, but sitting here today, there is always a haze and uneasiness lingering in her heart, as if Something bad is about to happen... The Queen clenched her hands under Di Yi's clothes tightly, trying to completely crush this weird and ominous feeling.
This is the imperial palace, with strict guards, what can happen? Is she thinking too much
She is the queen now, and will be the queen mother in the future. This kind of glory will continue until the day she enters the imperial mausoleum. To achieve this goal, the premise is that her son must become the prince. If today's plan goes well, then their mother and son will be one step closer to their goal.
Her face was dignified and serene, and her heart was like a sea of turbulence. A trusted female official came to her side and whispered: "Mistress Qizuo, Yilan Palace will come soon, and everything is ready."
The queen nodded numbly, the plan is about to start...
Early this morning, Bai Fuling was pulled up by her mother and dressed up, saying that she was going to Ningyi Palace to salute the queen. Originally, as Bai Fuling's unmarried noble daughter, she was not a direct blood relative of the current Duke Zhong, so it was not her turn to enter the palace to celebrate the queen's birthday, but she was in the palace now, and the queen sent a female official to name her She attended the birthday banquet, maybe she had to obediently show her face and salute.
Ningyi Palace and Yilan Palace are next to each other. Bai Fuling followed Princess Antai and Mu Peilan to the front of Ningyi Palace full of resentment. Princess Antai's status is much higher than ordinary wives, and she was invited in as soon as she arrived. Mu Peilan was the princess who was proclaimed by the late emperor. Although she was not as good as Princess Antai, she also belonged to the privileged class. Bai Fuling stood next to her mother in the small square in front of Ningyi Palace and waited for a while, then the two mother and daughter jumped in line and entered.
But just for a while, he was also surrounded by other women in the square again. The wives secretly exchanged gossip, and found that Bai Fuling was actually the person the queen wanted to meet, and they all speculated about the queen's intentions. A few days ago, the First Prince and the Second Prince played successively, and the news that they were vying to make Bai Fuling the side concubine had already spread among boudoir circles in the capital. Now that the Empress actually wanted to meet Bai Fuling in person, the meaning was worth guessing... Are you going to meet your future daughter-in-law? The son went to compete with the eldest prince for the choice of side concubine, and the empress must be unhappy.
The queen behaved normally, and she did not appear particularly close or alienated after being greeted by Bai Fuling's mother and daughter, which was basically the same as her attitude towards other wives. After going through the process, the female officer led Ningyi Palace to take a sedan chair to Huilan Palace. Go, no one noticed, when the queen watched the mother and daughter of the Bai family leave, there was a flash of treachery in her eyes.
Huilan Palace is quite a distance from Ningyi Palace, so cars and sedans were parked in front of Ningyi Palace and kept going back and forth between the two palaces to pick up wives to Huilan Palace to rest and wait. These sedan chairs are very small in shape, can only accommodate one person, and are divided into grades.
Princess Antai sat in the highest class. The car was decorated with colorful feathers, resplendent and resplendent, and the car had a larger interior space. The car that Mu Peilan took was a little inferior, and the one that Bai Fuling took was the one for married women above the fourth rank. Besides, there was another one for married women below the fourth rank.
Bai Fuling came out of Ningyi Palace, and Banxia and Danzhu, who were standing beside her, greeted her. Bai Fuling opened the rattan box in Banxia's hand, carried out the little raccoon flower, and then sat in the sedan chair. Danzhu and Banxia Xia followed the sedan chair and set off together.
Bai Fuling has been on high alert ever since she left the area of Yilan Palace. She knew that if someone wanted to harm her, today would be the best time, so when she was alone, even if she was sitting in a sedan chair, she would hug her. You can rest assured only by watching the little raccoon.
She is not a fool, knowing that the palace is full of dangers, she still takes chances. She will not be in danger of her life before she turns eighteen, but that doesn't mean she won't encounter some disgusting things.
Although no one told her clearly, but she is not a real loli, how could she not know the second prince's idea of attacking the overlord, this palace is the queen's world, it is really convenient for him to do anything.
Bai Fuling hugged the little raccoon, and said to herself: It's better if you don't come, otherwise my little raccoon will start killing today!
She doesn't want to hurt people's lives when it is not necessary, but if someone bullies her, she will never be merciful.
The two little maids didn't know it, they just thought she was a child and couldn't do without their pets, and didn't think too much about it.
The three cars arrived in front of a relatively narrow passage, and the car that Bai Fuling was sitting in fell to the end, and the car that was getting slower and slower was separated from the car in front of Mu Peilan by a few feet.
The car passed by a side road, the person pulling the cart suddenly turned around, and pulled the car onto the side road, Danzhu and Banxia were stunned, and were about to speak to remind them, when suddenly someone hit the back of the head hard, and the two women fell silent fell to the ground.
At the same time, another sedan chair with a similar shape rushed up to replace Bai Fuling's original position. Mu Peilan in front of her poked her head out to take a look, and saw her daughter's sedan chair was in front of her. In the back, behind the car, two little maids can be vaguely followed the car with their heads bowed. Everything seemed to be the same, and they retracted into the sedan chair.
The sedan chair went on for more than ten zhang, Mu Peilan suddenly trembled all over, waved the curtain of the sedan chair with one hand, and shouted: "Stop!"
She suddenly woke up, and when she looked back just now, the two court ladies who were walking quickly with their heads bowed, had beaded flowers on their hair, which is a common style in the palace. This morning, Bai Fuling felt that the beads on their heads did not match the dresses on their bodies, so she took two new pairs from the jewelry box and gave them as rewards.
Bai Fuling always likes the people around her to be well-dressed. Ban Xia and Danzhu happily put pearl flowers on their heads at that time, not to mention that the pearl flowers rewarded by Bai Fuling are ten times more high-end and exquisite than the uniformly distributed jewelry in the palace. Not only that, even if she rewarded a pair of bamboo hairpins, these little maids would not have the guts to take them off and replace them with others.
Now the bead flowers on the heads of the two little maids following the sedan chair are wrong, there is only one reason, they are not Pinellia and Danzhu.
When Mu Peilan thought of this, she didn't care about the palace rules and manners, she jumped out before the car stopped completely, turned around and ran to the car behind, and waved the curtain in front of the car with her palm.
Sitting in the sedan chair was a strange woman, dressed in the costume of a fourth-rank married woman, looking at Mu Peilan in horror. The eunuch pulling the sedan chair also had to stop hastily.
Princess Antai heard the commotion behind her, so she also stopped the car and walked over to see what happened.
Mu Peilan found out that her daughter was really gone, her face was very ugly, and regardless of the frightened woman in the sedan chair, she grabbed the eunuch pulling the cart with one hand, and asked sharply: "The sedan chair that was following me originally? Woolen cloth?"
The eunuch trembled all over and said: "Slave, slave, I don't know, when slave, slave followed, I saw your sedan chair, Madam..."
Mu Peilan knew that she would not be able to ask him anything for a while, Princess Antai had already said: "This lady has offended you, please wait here and take another car." She asked Yilan Palace who was following behind the car. The chief eunuch glanced at it, and the father-in-law quickly stepped forward to help the wife out of the sedan chair, and then directed the other young eunuchs to arrange the sedan chair and bring the eunuch pulling the cart and the two maids who followed the cart back to Yilan Palace to take care of them. .
Mu Peilan and Princess Antai glanced at each other, and they both saw deep worry in each other's eyes. Princess Antai couldn't care less, and immediately ordered people to look for Bai Fuling along the original road. Now that she has disappeared not long ago, she should be found soon. of.
At the same time, Bai Fuling also felt that something was wrong. She opened the curtain and looked forward. There was no shadow of the sedan chair in front of her mother. She was about to stop drinking when the eunuch pulling the cart in front of her suddenly stopped. , plopped forward and fell to the ground.
Bai Fuling was caught off guard and almost rushed forward due to inertia.