She lowered her eyes to cover up the sarcasm that flashed in her eyes, and slightly raised the corner of her lips with an imperceptible sneer. The hands hidden in her sleeves unknowingly clenched tightly, even the fingertips stung her palms without noticing. I don't know.
Xiao Heng's heart is indeed unpredictable. Even she, who has been his pillow for many years, cannot guess it. How can Shen Rui, a minister, guess it?!
With the big full moon banquet, Xiao Heng might have forgotten that at this time last year, he had already made plans to poison her!
At that time, he would often call Concubine Duan to sleep with him. She only thought that he wanted to share the rain and dew, but she didn't know that he had murderous intentions for her!
Even Chen Ronglai, Xiao Heng's eunuch in charge, announced the abolition of the decree and later forced her to death with poisoned wine, but he still stayed in Concubine Duan's palace!
Concubine Duan, the fifth prince is full moon... It turns out that the fifth prince was conceived after her death. How ridiculous! Xiao Heng's heart is so cold!
He sent someone to force her to death, and in the blink of an eye he was in love with other women as before, as if her existence was just a joke! How could he care about the past love between husband and wife?!
Wei Zijin took a deep breath and ordered himself to calm down. After an unknown amount of time, he raised his head and pretended not to care and said to Shen Rui: "The emperor held a full moon banquet for the fifth prince like this. Does he already have a candidate for the prince in his mind?"
Shen Rui frowned slightly, shook his head and muttered: "No matter whether the emperor already has a candidate in mind, it should not be discussed by us ministers below, lest gossip spread to the emperor's ears and make Long Yan furious!"
Shen Rui was always cautious as an official, otherwise he would not have become a popular person around Xiao Heng. Wei Zijin knew that he could not ask more things from his mouth, so he nodded and replied: "Tomorrow I will go to the palace with Lord Shangshu to attend. The fifth prince’s full moon banquet, I wonder if Lord Shangshu has prepared the fifth prince’s full moon ceremony?”
Shen Rui nodded slightly and said with concern: "I have already sent someone to prepare the full moon ceremony. You don't have to worry. You don't look good. You should rest early tonight. I'm afraid you will have to work very late at the full moon banquet tomorrow!"
When he said this, in order to avoid staying in Lixiang Garden and disturbing Wei Zijin's rest, he planned to turn around and leave.
"According to the rules, the family members also need to prepare a full-moon ceremony. Why didn't Lord Shangshu inform me about the fifth prince's full-moon banquet earlier so that I could be prepared!" Before Shen Rui could leave, Wei Zijin spoke again, his voice low. Without hesitation, his face returned to its previous calmness.
Shen Rui was stunned for a moment, then said apologetically: "It was because I didn't think well enough that I forgot to tell you this matter in advance..."
He thought he could persuade the emperor to give up the idea of holding a big full moon banquet, but he didn't know that the emperor had already made up his mind. Recently, the inner palace of Shangshu Mansion had been uneasy, which made him upset, so he mentioned that Wei Zijin also wanted to prepare a gift. Forget it completely!
Seeing Shen Rui's troubled look, Wei Zijin thought for a moment and slowly said: "The full moon banquet is a festive event, and I happened to embroider a purse for Leer with gold thread. Why not just use this purse as a gift, and inside it." Putting two pen ingots on Ruyi's gold ingots is both interesting and not ostentatious. I think the children will be happy. What do you think, Master Shangshu?"
Shen Rui nodded with a smile and admired Wei Zijin's unique gift: "This is very good!"
He didn't expect Wei Zijin to be able to embroider purses with his own hands, but when the words came to his lips, he still swallowed them!