Qing Wan didn't know what the relationship between the two was, but she felt a little unbearable when he looked like that. She couldn't help but stand up, smiled apologetically at the other person and said, "I'm sorry, my little mink has offended the prince."
"Is this yours?" Ji Chenxue raised her head, looked at the silver mink in her hand, and then at the green wand in front of her, and then said with a puzzled expression: "Who are you? Why has this prince never
I’ve seen you.”
Qing Wan took the silver mink from the opponent's hand, bowed down, and replied in a neither humble nor overbearing manner: "My dearest son, Qing Wan, a civilian girl. My father is an ordinary businessman. This is the first time for a civilian girl to attend the Qionghua Banquet.
Only this prince has never seen a common girl."
"Aren't you the daughter of an official family?" A trace of surprise flashed in Ji Chenxue's eyes.
"No." Qing Wan shook her head, not showing any signs of inferiority or cowardice because of her identity.
"Then why are you able to appear here?" In my memory, the standard for selecting concubines is that they must be ladies of the family, or at least the children of fifth-grade ministers and foreign ministers. Why did they make an exception this time and invite a businessman's daughter?
"Ah Jin and I brought her here." Next to her, Mu Liuting helped clarify the confusion.
"Are you Ah Jin's friend?" Ji Chenxue was stunned, and couldn't help but look at Qing Wan with a bit of inquiry.
This was not the first time that Qingwan was looked at with such eyes today. It seemed that anyone who heard that she was with those two people would want to look at her from head to toe, from the outside to the inside, and study her carefully.
Qingwan secretly glanced at the man next to her, suppressed the panic in her heart and said: "The daughter of the common people has never seen the Ninth Prince before. She only had a chance encounter with the Crown Prince Chengjun. The Crown Prince did not dislike it, so that's why
Invite the women of the country to attend the Qionghua Banquet."
As soon as Ji Chenxue heard that it was Mu Liuting who brought him here, the expression on his face became normal, and he nodded and said: "I see, since you are Xiaoting's friend, then you can stay!"
"Ahem... I'm your cousin." Someone nearby protested rather dissatisfied with his title.
Ji Chenxue snorted coldly, raised her chin arrogantly, and said disapprovingly: "My mother-in-law said that I should have been born before you, but it was because you were born prematurely that you were half a month older than me.
That’s all.”
"That's also older than you."
"I don't admit it..."
Seeing the two people arguing over such a thing, Qing Wan couldn't help but feel stunned. She stared at the two people blankly, not knowing how to react for a moment.
Don't these two people need to worry about the occasion? In front of so many noble ladies, they don't know how to restrain themselves.
Don't they know that their behavior is really childish?
"Ajin, he bullied me!" In the end, Ji Chenxue was naturally defeated. Unwilling and pitiful, she looked to someone on Qingwan's right for help.
"That's enough!" Someone finally reacted, put down the wine glass in his hand, raised his phoenix eyes lightly, with cold eyes, glanced at the two childish guys without anger, and reminded in a faint voice: "Qionghua
It’s time for the party to begin.”
"Xue'er, come and sit next to Concubine Mother." Princess Hengqin, who had been paying attention here, saw this and hurriedly waved to Ji Chenxue.
Someone refused childishly: "No, I want to sit with Ah Jin." As he said that, he looked left and right next to Ji Lanjin, and after looking for a long time, he saw that there was something left next to Qing Wan.
After half a seat, he finally sat down next to her.