coobybook Chapter 115 Banquet in the Palace
Chapter 115 Banquet in the Palace
In the middle of the night, there were sounds of punching and kicking in Helin Courtyard.
Not long after, Su Qingwan saw the miserable-looking captain of the guards.
Su Qingwan: “…”
Who did this? Why did he tear the captain's clothes?
"Fourth Miss, I'm here to deliver a letter to you." The captain of the guards covered his eyes, looking aggrieved.
Who could have thought that he was just coming to the Marquis' Mansion to deliver a message, but he was beaten up like this.
Su Qingwan couldn't help laughing, "You came here in the middle of the night, you must be beaten, is there any news about that matter?"
The chief guard nodded and said, "The Concubine Xian will hold a palace banquet in two days, and those women will also attend."
"Two days later, it's still in time." Su Qingwan said. Seeing that he was still covering his eyes, she asked Zhenzhu to give him a bottle of ointment.
The captain of the guards expressed his gratitude before leaving the mansion.
When he returned and saw Li Yuncheng, he told him what had happened to him.
"I didn't expect that the people around the fourth young lady are not simple people. I was almost blinded." The chief guard felt aggrieved. If he had known this, he would not have made this trip.
"This fourth young lady is indeed not simple!"
According to what the captain of the guards said, he was targeted as soon as he entered the Marquis' Mansion, but was not captured until he entered Helin Courtyard, and the security defense at Helin Courtyard was the most stringent.
"My Lord, today the whole capital is talking about the affair between Prince Rui and Second Miss Su. I see that Fourth Miss doesn't seem to be sad at all."
"She won't be sad because of these little things, you can go down." Li Yuncheng raised his hand and asked people to leave.
The captain of the guards bowed and left, but he was thinking in his heart, a woman's fiancé is deeply in love with another woman, is this a trivial matter?
……
Two days later, Su Qingwan was pulled out of bed by Linxiang early in the morning to wash and dress up.
However, this time she asked Linxiang to dress simply because she didn't know what would happen at the palace banquet.
"Miss, take this with you and just smash it when the time comes."
Xiaonian handed the prepared jade pendant to Su Qingwan. He had tampered with it so that the medicinal powder in the jade pendant would spill out after it was broken.
"it is good!"
Su Qingwan took the jade pendant and hung it directly around her waist.
Since they were going to enter the palace this time, Xiaonian could not enter, so Su Qingwan still brought Zhenzhu and Linxiang into the palace.
She got on the carriage, and the vehicle swayed slowly towards the palace.
After seeing the carriage go away, Jiang returned to Helin Courtyard anxiously.
I can't accompany my daughter to the palace this time, so she must not be impulsive!
There were many carriages parked in front of the palace, making it look a bit chaotic.
These were the women who came to attend the palace banquet. The number of those invited was far greater than the number of women who were kidnapped.
Everyone thought that Concubine Xian held the palace banquet to select a concubine for the Seventh Prince, so most of the unmarried women who attended the palace banquet had dressed up carefully.
But these people were a little surprised when they saw Su Qingwan coming.
Isn't she the fiancée of Prince Rui? Why is she attending the palace banquet of Concubine Xian?
Su Qingwan ignored these people. After getting off the carriage, she saw Han Yue at a glance.
"Sister Yue'er." Su Qingwan walked towards her with a smile.
"Hmph!" Han Yue snorted, pouted and turned her head to the side.
This bad girl cut her wrist in the middle of the night, thinking that she wouldn't notice it after bandaging it. Does she think she is a fool?
However, the ointment she left for herself was very useful. After applying it, the wound no longer hurt.
"Sister Yue'er, are you unhappy?"
Su Qingwan grabbed her wrist and shook it.
"Then do you want to tell me the truth?" Han Yue raised her wrist and let Su Qingwan see it.
"Sister, do you want to hear me make up a true story?"
"Make it up?" So you really want to lie to me! "You really don't want to tell me? You didn't use my blood to make blood curd?"
Han Yue thought about that scene and found it hard to accept.
Su Qingwan couldn't help but burst into giggles.
"Sister, what are you thinking about? If other noble ladies hear us, they will laugh at us."
Han Yue knew that none of the noble ladies would eat that stuff, but she was more curious about what Su Qingwan was doing.
"Miss Han, Miss Su Si, please follow me."
A palace maid led the two people into the palace.
They also had such female relatives before and after them.
The virtuous concubine scheduled the palace banquet at Jinqutai, which was not far from the palace gate, so she did not arrange for the inner court's carriage to pick her up.
After arriving at the place, the palace maid withdrew.
Su Qingwan and Han Yue were sitting next to each other, which made it convenient for them to talk.
"Actually, I didn't tell you because I was afraid of scaring you."
Seeing that Han Yue wanted to continue asking, Su Qingwan explained.
"I'm not afraid, just tell me." Han Yue said.
She is a lonely ghost from another world, what is she afraid of?
Who is scarier than her?
Seeing that she really had no intention of being afraid, Su Qingwan also took precautions against the possibility of scaring Han Yue, so she said:
"Sister is poisoned. I will help you detoxify."
Han Yue narrowed her eyes.
"If it was just poisoning, would you need to knock me out? And when did I get poisoned?"
"Sister, you were poisoned by a Gu poison. How should I put it? There is a kind of worm in your body..."
Before Su Qingwan could finish, Han Yue had a look of sudden enlightenment on her face:
"Parasite!"
???
Su Qingwan didn’t understand what Han Yue was saying, but as long as there were bugs, it was fine.
"Almost, but you're fine now." Su Qingwan said with a smile.
"Phew! It's all right now. Thank you, Sister Qingwan."
Han Yue didn't expect that people at that time used bloodletting to expel parasites, and she didn't know whether it would work.
The two of them started chatting about family matters again. When they were talking about which perfume powder in the capital was the best, someone stood in front of them.
"Heh! Why are you here to attend the palace banquet of the Concubine Xian? I have never seen anyone as blind as you."
Su Qingwan and Han Yue looked up at the person who was speaking at the same time.
This is the brainless Miss Zhong, the granddaughter of Academician Zhong.
"Miss Zhong, if you dare to say another word, I will scratch your face and make you hide at home and never dare to go out again."
Su Qingwan said with a smile.
"Hmph, how dare you! I'll tell the Concubine Xian."
"Go quickly!" Su Qingwan raised her chin and said with disgust.
Zhong Li was so angry at Su Qingwan's disdainful attitude that she stamped her feet, but she couldn't really go to the Concubine Xian to tell her that Su Qingwan shouldn't have come to the banquet.
So no matter how much he liked Su Qingwan and Han Yue, he just glared at them and quickly went to sit at the next seat.
Su Qingwan saw that the person sitting next to Zhong Li was one of the missing women, so she couldn't help but take a few more glances.
The woman was wearing a light blue palace dress made of Tencel and a shawl sprinkled with gold foil.
She wore pearls in her earrings and a butterfly feather hairpin decorated with gemstones on her temples. She looked very quiet and seemed not to like talking much.
"This is Xu Shuyun, the daughter of Minister Xu of the Ministry of Works." Han Yue said to Su Qingwan.