"Thank you, Queen Mother." When Ms. Lu was kowtowing to express her gratitude, Ms. Su also returned to her banquet. At this time, Mingyu said softly, "Why are Concubines Chun and Guiren Lu sitting together?
I remember that the list sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that I was sitting at the same table with Concubine Hui and the others." After that, she turned her eyes to Mrs. Gao and said, "Concubine Hui, do you know about this?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Gao, who had been silent all this time, stood up and said, "As you said, it was originally true, but I later thought that a table of five people and a table of three would be a bit unbalanced, so I changed the pure concubine to
I came to the table with Mr. Lu without informing the Queen in advance, so please forgive me."
Ling Ruo and Hongli noticed Gao's crimson brocade silk flag outfit, and their eyes sank in unison.
Mingyu's expression softened slightly, but she was still a little displeased, "Concubine Chun is the master of the first palace after all. Concubine Hui, your arrangement is inappropriate."
Mrs. Gao's expression changed, she took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I know, I will try my best to think carefully in the future."
Before Mingyu could say anything, Xianyue had already stood up and said, "Madam, if you have anything to do, we'll talk about it after the family banquet. I just thought of a drinking order, how about we make a drinking order to add to the fun?"
Ling Ruo's eyes flashed and she took over the words: "Let's do the drinking order, haha, the Ai family just wanted to say it, but I didn't expect Concubine Xian to take the lead. Come, let's go through the drinking order together and see who gets punished first."
After they talked about it, Su's matter was naturally exposed and no one mentioned it again.
After the family banquet, everyone left one after another. When Mrs. Gao was about to reach Jingren Palace, a figure ran up to her and said respectfully: "The Queen Mother has spoken, please ask Concubine Hui to go to Cining Palace. The Queen Mother has something to ask."
"
After Mrs. Gao saw the person clearly, she said, "Eunuch Yang, do you know why the Queen Mother summoned me?"
Yang Hai lowered his head and said: "Please forgive me, Concubine Hui. I just came here under orders to summon you. I don't know anything about the rest."
Ling Ruo sent someone to summon her, so Gao didn't dare not go. However, what she didn't expect was that when she walked to Cining Palace, she actually saw Xiayue and Su, each with a Cining Palace in front of them.
The palace servants led the way, they must have come here as a metaphor, but they just summoned the three of them at once. What was the reason?
While thinking about it, Mrs. Gao followed Yang Hai into Nuan Pavilion. Shui Xiuzheng twisted a face towel and handed it to her. After Ling Ruo wiped her face, she said to the three people who were saluting her: "It's really useless to drink so much wine.
I felt uncomfortable all over, and even my head felt dizzy."
Mrs. Gao said flatteringly: "Huang'e Niang, Wenzhu is the best at making sobering tea. Why don't you let her cook some for Huang'e Niang?"
"Concubine Hui is interested, but the Ai family has already asked An'er to cook, so I don't need to trouble you anymore." Ling Ruo handed the towel to Shui Xiu and said, "Do you know why the Ai family called the three of you here today?
"
Gao was the first to say: "I forgive you for being ignorant and not knowing the emperor's intentions."
Ling Ruo smiled and turned her gaze to Su who was standing next to her, "Chunbi, what about you, have you guessed a little bit?"
Su's eyelids twitched and she said softly: "I dare to speculate that it must be related to the previous banquet."
Ling Ruo nodded approvingly, "Chunbi is indeed smart. You have already guessed the Ai family's intentions without saying anything."
Su Shi was not sure what she meant by this sentence, so she immediately said: "I am just making a random guess. I didn't expect that I could get it right by luck."
Ling Ruo smiled harmoniously, but what she said next shocked Su Shi, "At the banquet before, when you offered tea instead of wine to the Ai family, was it really just a toast, or did you want to take the opportunity to sue Concubine Hui and Concubine Hui?"
What’s the status of Mr. Lu?”
Su bit the tip of her tongue hard, using the severe pain to suppress the panic in her heart, and said with an aggrieved face: "I have absolutely no intention of doing this, and I don't know why the Queen Mother would ask such a question. Please give me a clear warning!"
Ling Ruo glanced at her coldly and said, "Chunbi, do you think the Ai family is old and can be fooled by you?"
If it was so serious, how could Su dare to continue like this? She hurriedly knelt down and said: "The Queen Mother, please calm down. I have always respected the Queen Mother and I never dare to have such thoughts."
"Really? But what the Ai family saw was not like that." Ling Ruo stared at Su and said, "The purpose of toasting to the Ai family is to tell the Ai family that Concubine Hui changed your dishes to
Vegetarian dishes, and Mr. Lu is very dissatisfied and complains about it and refuses to use chopsticks, right?"
Mrs. Su tightly clasped her hands hanging in her sleeves and said, "I don't think so. Concubine Hui changed the dishes to vegetarian dishes in order to get rid of the allergy on my face as soon as possible. As for Lu Guiren, I want her to
I feel really sorry for following my concubine on a vegetarian diet. It doesn’t matter if she complains a few words. Why would I sue for this? I’m really unjust.”
"Whether you have been unjustly accused or not, the Ai family knows very well." Ling Ruo paused and said, "Pure concubine, the Ai family will not force you to admit what happened just now, but you can remember one thing clearly for the Ai family. As a concubine
, the most important thing is to keep one's own duty; the most important thing is to be smart, do you understand?"
Mrs. Su only responded and did not dare to say anything. Mrs. Gao saw all this and slightly curved her mouth, revealing a faint and happy smile. Before she could hide her smile, Ling Ruo's voice came to her ears.
, "Huifei!"
Mrs. Gao felt a chill in her heart, quickly calmed her expression, stepped forward and said, "My son and I are here."
"The reason for the vegetarian dishes is because Concubine Chun is allergic. The Ai family won't tell you. I just want to ask you why you arranged Concubine Chun to sit at Guiren Lu's table. As the host, she should sit at the same table with you and Concubine Xian."
Mrs. Gao lowered his head and said: "Returning to the emperor's mother, as my son said at the banquet, I want the number of people at the two tables to be balanced and look good, so I made this arrangement."
Ling Ruo took the sobering tea from An'er, drank a few sips and said, "Then why don't you balance the number of people at the other tables?"
Just when Mrs. Gao was thinking about how to answer, Ling Ruo waved her hand and said, "Okay, don't give the Ai family any excuses here. The Ai family is too lazy to listen. The Ai family doesn't care what happened between you and the pure concubine. Anyway, this is it."
The Aijia don’t want to see anything like this again in the future, especially in front of so many people, do you understand? Otherwise, the Aijia won’t mind losing your right to co-manage the Sixth House.”
Mrs. Gao's face turned blue and white as she said it, but she didn't dare to refute, "Yes, I have written it down."
Ling Ruo nodded slightly, but did not take his eyes away from her. Gao felt uncomfortable being stared at by her. When he was secretly speculating, Ling Ruo said again: "What's wrong with your clothes?"
Mrs. Gao was startled and never realized it until Xianyue reminded her from the side: "It is really inappropriate for Concubine Hui to wear such bright clothes just after the mourning period of the late Emperor."