Chapter 973 The Palace Banquet Begins
Although the palace banquet for the New Year is not as grand as the ceremony for sacrifices to heaven on the first day of the New Year, there is no need for congratulations from officials or congratulations from the emperor and the empress, the joy and joy that should be there must be. At least the emperor and empress have to raise a glass to drink with the guests, and the guests also have to give the gifts they have prepared to the emperor and empress. In many years before, many unmarried young men and ladies were promised marriages at the palace banquet for the New Year.
But today all these were spared. Bai Heran noticed that many female guests had brought gifts in, but in a faint depressing atmosphere, no one broke the deadlock and stood up to show off the gifts.
The dance music has already started, and the dancers' colorful clothes and sleeves are moving gracefully, which makes the atmosphere a little more active. Some people also raise wine to each other and taste the fine wine, but the fine wine is in their throats. When they look at Tianhedi's face, which has never been clear, they just became less interested.
Everyone was thinking about why this year's palace banquet was so dull? Why did the Empress say a word until now? And why did the emperor mention those who did not come to the banquet as soon as he arrived? Also, why was Concubine Kang released from the cold palace again?
Bai Mingzhu's appearance gave the old lady hope again. She began to feel that Bai Heran's previous words were alarmist. What's the matter with her son sleeping with the imperial concubine, and her son was close to the Ye family and Guo family, and his ambition was also quite ambitious, but ambition did not mean he was brave. That was the son she gave birth to, and she would never believe that her son had the courage to attack the imperial concubine.
Now Bai Mingzhu is released, which proves that if Bai Xingyan really slept with the imperial concubine, if this matter really hurts the nine tribes, how could the emperor release Bai Mingzhu? Looking at the position of Bai Mingzhu now, it seems to be on par with the queen. This is not just a cold palace, it is obvious that he still has the momentum to regain favor.
The old lady became more thoughtful, and she began to suspect that Bai Heran was intentional. The purpose of doing this was to disintegrate the unity and harmony of the Bai family, and to make the Duke Wen's mansion fall apart. She provoked the relationship between the Bai family and made everyone become enemies of her, the old woman, and all hated her. Then Bai Heran could cover the sky with one hand in the Bai family, and Duke Wen's mansion was all Bai Heran's world.
When the old lady thought of this, she couldn't sit still and felt that she had a very accurate analysis. This granddaughter was so arrogant and wild. She came back from Luocheng just to take revenge. She didn't want everyone in the Bai family to have a good life.
The old lady became more and more excited as she thought about it. At the end of her thought, she even stood up.
This stop drove the table, and she knocked several dishes on it and turned over the plate. People's eyes focused in this direction again, and some people complained: "What is the Bai family doing? It doesn't stop during the New Year."
Some people even accused in public: "You have to make a fuss and go home, don't make things difficult for others here."
The old lady wanted to talk back, but finally remembered what this place was. She subconsciously glanced at the emperor and sat back in a depressed manner.
Emperor Tianhe didn't care about this trivial matter. He was the emperor, how could he have a dispute with a wife? Even Empress Chen didn't even look at her. The other concubines in the palace took a little look here, but after glanced at her, they all paid attention to Bai Heran. An old lady really couldn't raise their interest.
The old lady didn't care what others thought, but she cared about Bai Mingzhu. When she looked at the emperor just now, she looked at Bai Mingzhu, but Bai Mingzhu also looked at her, but the eyes were full of disgust and boredom, which made her feel cold.
She was completely obsessed with the heart today, or her heart has always been like this, but nothing could threaten her status and her son's life before, so it was not revealed. In addition, she had thought of Bai Xingyan before, and even told Bai Heran to let her get rid of Bai Xingyan.
But Bai Heran didn't really do it! As long as it is not put into reality, it will never be able to predict people's hearts.
Perhaps in the eyes of the old lady, in order to be abused in the past, to avenge the dead mother, she could tolerate her father at home, or torture her father with some means. Because it was all her own business to close the door, Bai Heran did not kill this father.
Her son is unfilial and still hates her heart. She understands all this, so she doesn't mind Bai Heran's revenge.
But then again, there is a certain degree of revenge. She would never be able to watch Bai Heran really kill the person.
In today's incident, the old lady always thought that Bai Heran was wrong, and that Bai Heran's revenge was upgraded. Bai Xingyan was no longer enough to satisfy her appetite. She had already pointed the spear of revenge at the entire Bai family.
Why is this granddaughter so cruel?
She thought about this in her heart, and her eyes turned to Bai Mingzhu again, and even looked at Jun Changning, who was sitting behind Bai Mingzhu.
She was so familiar with Jun Changning's cold face. She could dream of Jun Changning scolding her many times in her dreams, and was hurting her dreams again. When we met again today, she found that Jun Changning's hatred was still so strong, and that her eyes could kill people, so she almost came over with a knife to stab her.
She thought there was nothing wrong with her granddaughter. She was the old lady of Duke Wenguo's mansion. Jun Changning was the sixth princess in front of the emperor. How could she do as a minister?
After thinking about it, I finally realized that Jun Changning hated her not her, but Bai Heran! She was responsible for Bai Heran and suffered the consequences, but she was almost angry to death. Bai Heran turned around and asked her to think about the kindness of being saved. Why?
The older the old lady became more angry and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that she was cowardly. A person of such an old age was actually plotted against by a child.
How can she win this game back?
After three rounds of wine, the atmosphere at the palace banquet finally calmed down a little. When the alcohol came up, the courage became stronger. Finally, some people began to toast the emperor and the empress, and finally some people started to give gifts to the emperor and the empress.
Bai Heran remembered that she had not prepared any gifts today, and she had not prepared any gifts for the emperor or the queen.
She didn't think she was here to attend the palace banquet today. She was preparing to come with the rebellion against the royal family.
But when did this face start to turn? Also, Jun Lingxi has appeared, but where is Bai Yanyu?
She looked up and looked up, jumped over Empress Chen of Tianhe, and was even less in the mood to pay attention to Bai Mingzhu and Jun Changning, and her eyes were directly towards Jun Lingxi. She was looking for an opportunity to let Jun Lingxi come, or both of them went out, so she asked carefully.
Unfortunately, Jun Lingxi never contacted her with her eyes, nor did she deliberately avoid it, but the girl kept lowering her head and twisting her fingers.
Bai Zhenzhen put her chin on her shoulder and said softly: "Sister, Jiang Yue is here! Many people have noticed it. I heard someone say that the person looks very much like Eunuch Jiang from the past. I heard Jun Muchu say that the emperor would recognize Jiang Yue through this palace banquet, but he would not say that he was his own son, but only said that he was his godson. But this godson also needs to be included in the genealogy, so in order to stabilize the court, he must first establish the crown prince. Some people say that Jiang Yue will also compete for the throne in the future, for fear that the royal bloodline is impure."
Bai Heran nodded, "It should be like this."
"But my brother-in-law has left the capital, who will this prince establish?" Bai Zhenzhen was very worried, "The emperor would not be so confused that he gave the position of the prince to his other son, right? Sister, tell me quietly, who is the imperial concubine our father sleeps in?"
She glanced at Bai Zhenzhen: "Do you want to discuss the establishment of the prince or the gossip about her father?"
"Everyone wants to know." Bai Zhenzhen said honestly, "But the establishment of the prince is a state affairs after all. At most, I am just curious. No matter how many there are, I can't get involved. But the trouble caused by our father is closely related to us. Think about it, the emperor sent both of his highness away. What does this mean? Do you want to kill you and me? I think I'm going to die. I have to know why I died. At least I have to know which one he slept with? Sister, let me reveal it."
Bai Heran tilted his head and looked at this sister. She still looked careless, as if she didn't care much about anything, including when talking about such things that were about to die, she was still heartless.
She raised her hand, rubbed Bai Zhenzhen's head, and told her in an almost inaudible voice: "It's the late Concubine Li Xian."
"What?" Bai Zhenzhen suddenly screamed, "Concubine Li Xian?" Concubine Li is not scary, but what is scary is that Concubine Li has a son, but that son fell into the heart of her third sister, and her second sister strongly opposed this good thing.
She had never understood before, why was this obviously a good marriage but her second sister opposed it so much?
She had made many assumptions about this, but she never expected that their father would have such an affair with Concubine Li Xian.
"Sister." Bai Zhenzhen's voice trembled a little, "Sister, are you so strongly opposed to the third sister and the fifth prince because you know about your father and Concubine Li Xian, and you are afraid that one day the matter will be revealed, so you strongly oppose the third sister and the fifth prince. Or..." She took a deep breath and said the fact that she was most reluctant to admit, "Is it because the fifth prince is not the emperor's son at all, but our father's?"
Bai Heran smiled bitterly, "Silly girl, if she just slept with the imperial concubine, then the imperial concubine is dead now. As for me, I take this matter so seriously? If she just slept with the imperial concubine, I have ten thousand ways to let the Bai family escape the crime of killing the clan."
"That's true...haha." Bai Zhenzhen also smiled bitterly, "Sleeping in the imperial concubine is a serious crime. He actually dared to let the imperial concubine be pregnant and give birth to a prince who is not a prince. Our father is really brave. If all this is true, which man in the world can tolerate such a thing? I think our fate is here tonight."
"Princess." A little eunuch came up and gave a gift to Bai Heran, "Princess, the emperor is calling you..."
Chapter completed!