The prince's wedding banquet was surrounded by a lively and awkward atmosphere.
Everyone watched the prince happily changing glasses with everyone, and everyone could see the forced smile on the prince's face.
Faced with this embarrassing situation, the moment the princes and nobles sat down after toasting with the prince, everyone could not help but look at other tables. Except for the emperor, the queen did not come, but the other princes were there.
In their own minds, everyone began to calculate the possibility of other princes ascending to the throne in the future.
The fourth prince is the same age as the prince, his biological mother is Concubine Duan, and his family background can rival that of Empress Zheng.
The seventh prince is the smartest and smartest among the emperor's many princes. He has been praised by the emperor many times. His biological mother's family background is only slightly inferior to that of the Zheng family.
The Eighth Prince...
Everyone compared all the princes in their minds, but the eighteenth prince was missed.
The eighteenth prince hid in the banquet.
Just now he took the initiative to raise a glass to the prince to express his congratulations, but the prince ignored him.
Zhao Chengji has always been treated as a dog-legged slave by Zhao Chengzhi.
Especially today, Zhao Chengzhi got married in such an angry situation and still had to force a smile. When he came to Zhao Chengji, he was too lazy to pretend.
Many people were not surprised by this scene, and even Zhao Chengji himself had an indifferent attitude, as if he was used to it.
He naturally took back his toasting hand and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
Others don't know, but he likes such arrogant Zhao Chengzhi.
Zhao Chengzhi can regard everyone as an enemy, but he will not regard him as an enemy.
On the surface, he looks like the dog beside the prince, but in fact, he is a wolf that is dormant and finishing.
He could curl himself up like a dog, waiting for the moment to explode and kill the opponent.
Your Majesty, the Queen will not come to the wedding banquet?
Haha, this is just an appetizer, the fun is coming later.
Thinking of this, Zhao Chengji filled himself up with wine again. While drinking, his eyes did not forget to fall on the prince and ministers who had their own thoughts.
Men and women were seated separately, and Su Nianyun could not see the undercurrent surging in the men's seat.
On the ladies' side, there were several concubines from Queen Zheng's mother's family leading the way, so it wasn't too cold.
Su Nianyun felt bored staying at the table, and Princess Qingyang always glared at her from time to time, so she simply excused herself and stood up to leave.
"Hey, have you seen that Su Nianyun came here on her own..."
As soon as Su Nianyun walked away, the female relatives began to whisper.
"That Chen Shao'an is a civil servant now and has no official position. Even if he is married to a princess, he is not qualified to appear at the prince's wedding banquet. What's more, she is only the adopted daughter of the queen mother. She can appear here. Thank God.
Already."
The atmosphere of today's wedding banquet was special. Everyone did not dare to talk about the royal family's disputes and cause trouble for their own families, so they could only focus on the most controversial Su Nianyun, and get some outlets from her to vent their pressure.
"At the beginning, Su Nianyun insisted on marrying Chen Shaoan because of the Queen Mother's respect for her. I thought there was such an earth-shattering relationship between the two?"
"It turns out that Chen Shao'an not only has no talent and no official position, but also raised a wife early. The Queen Mother was afraid that she would suffer and gave her a lot of dowry, and the Chen family must have squeezed it dry!"
The speaker was also a newly married woman. Being able to sit at a table with the princess and his wife, her husband's family was certainly not that simple.
However, her husband is much older than her.
The two of them are an old husband and a young wife, and there is absolutely no interest between them as a couple.
In addition, when she got married, the entire capital was praising Princess Nianyun for breaking through the cage for true love, which made her feel too dissatisfied with her life.
These dissatisfactions overflowed from her life and were finally transferred to Su Nianyun.
So at this time, she tried her best to ridicule.
"But that's not the case. A few days ago, Mrs. Chen opened a beauty noodle shop, and the facial fat she sold was so smeared on people's faces. This incident alarmed the Jingzhao Mansion, and the Chen family lost a lot of money!"
"Is there such a thing?" Some harem women had never heard of this paragraph. They immediately pulled the speaker and asked him carefully, "What is going on? Let me tell you in detail!"
The female family members of the official family, locked up in the back house all day long, are even more gossipy than the ordinary people in the market.
"Then Mrs. Chen is really a smart person but a smart person. She is interested in making money from jade-faced agar-agar, but she doesn't want to carefully develop a beauty formula, so she actually makes some baseless things..."
Unable to withstand everyone's kind requests, the woman who knew the inside story told everything about what happened in the beauty's face.
"...Finally, a tiger cannot be compared to a dog, and the jade-faced agar-agar is not something she can just imitate!"
"Speaking of Jade Face Agar, look at my face. I have been using Jade Face Agar's products since it opened. Isn't it smoother and smoother than before?"
"When you say that, it's true. Look at mine. I always use the gold one."
"It's just that there are only ten sets released this month, which is not enough for me, and I have to compete with others..."
"And the new rouge they recently released, after applying it, your face instantly becomes rosy and natural."
Whether it is in the palace or the mansion of a wealthy person, everyone now knows that jade-faced agar-agar is useful.
As they talked, everyone started competing to see who could buy more jade-faced agar-agar.
This is not to blame for them going off topic, it is a woman’s nature to love beauty.
Moreover, it is indeed the jade-faced agar that is so easy to use that makes everyone flock to it.
I think when peach blossom noodles were at their peak, there wasn't such a high level of discussion.
Qingyang, who has always had a bad temper, rarely sat silently at the table without making a fuss.
Originally, she wanted to hear these people criticize Su Nianyun more to relieve her boredom, but instead, listening to it turned into a beauty and beauty exchange meeting for them.
She wanted them to change the topic again, but she couldn't say anything.
Today, the Queen Mother gave her special instructions, asking her to control her temper and speak as little as possible, so as not to cause any trouble for the prince's brother.
She could see the situation in the palace. After this battle, the queen mother's prestige was not as good as before.
Qingyang realized the crisis. She could do nothing to help her mother, so she could only suppress herself as much as possible.
Especially since the annoying Shunyang has been imprisoned, this is the moment for her to make her mother feel relieved.
With her mother's instructions, even though she didn't want to hear what these women said, she still forced herself to sit here and continue to listen.
Su Nianyun originally went out to take a breather, but when she came back, she heard everyone talking about her. She didn't want to disturb their enjoyment of using her as a talking point, so she raised her feet and left again.
"Chunhua, can we leave early?" Su Nianyun asked, sitting in an empty pavilion across the wall from the banquet.
If you continue to stay here, it is better to go home and be with Jing'er.
Chunhua shook his head and said, "Princess, please bear with me any longer. It's already the second half of the banquet."
"Besides, no one else has left early yet. If we leave at this time, it is not in compliance with the rules. Secondly, it will more easily attract the prince's attention."
"You're right," Su Nianyun shook his head, "Then I'd better wait."
When there are ten or eight people leaving, it will be less conspicuous to leave among them.
It takes a lot of courage to be the first one to leave. If you offend the prince, you will be retaliated against.
Zhao Chengzhi is not a broad-minded person.
After all, there is still some time before he loses power, and it is not cost-effective to offend him at this time.
At this time Chunhua stopped a passing maid.
"Princess Nianyun just had a few too many drinks during the dinner. She will take a nap here to sober up. You go and bring her some hangover soup."
"Yes." The little maid nodded and hurried down to prepare.
In this way, it can be considered as an excuse for the princess not to return to the table, so that the princess can rest here more.
Separated by a wall, Su Nianyun listened to the hustle and bustle of silk and bamboo next door, feeling a variety of emotions in her heart.
This is not only the final glory of the Central Palace and the East Palace, but also the prelude to their decline.
Looking up at the stars in the sky, Su Nianyun tried her best to relax herself. She was still in a sea of suffering, so naturally she had no time to sympathize with those who shouldn't sympathize.
The starlight in the sky only had time to fall into her eyes for a moment before it was immediately covered by a dark shadow, and a silver mask appeared in her dark pupils.