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Wen Ning's spine froze.

If she hadn't married yet and was still the daughter of the Minister of Honglu Temple, she would not be allowed to hesitate when meeting King Rui who said such a thing, she would have to kneel down and bow to him right away.

But according to her current status, King Rui made it clear that she deliberately humiliated her in front of everyone, and even used her to humiliate Pei You...

From the corner of her eyes, Wen Ning saw many officials stop and frown.

This King Rui is really not a good guy.

He didn't dare to provoke Pei You directly, knowing that he didn't like him, and if he provoked him, he might make himself unable to step down, so he came to recruit her, a woman who was raised in a boudoir and had never seen the world.

If she was so frightened that she knelt down and offered a big gift, wouldn't Pei You's face be completely humiliated by her?
Wen Ning kept her eyes down, watching Pei You's hand stretch out, the back of her hand warmed up, and he gently pulled her to stand up straight.

Before he could speak, she took the lead and said, "Husband, so the brotherhood between you and His Highness King Rui is so weak?"

Her voice was soft, and she blinked her ignorant eyes: "The Fourth Highness treated me so enthusiastically last time. The New Year's Eve banquet has always been a family feast. What about the elders?"

"Husband, don't be angry, I'll kneel down to Cousin Ruiwang and do a prostrate salute."

Pei You watched Wen Ning tugging at his sleeve, speaking softly with an innocent face, and was about to stop the movement of pulling her behind her to protect her, the awe-inspiring coldness all over her body was replaced by a smile in her eyes.

He always underestimated the little girl.

This countermeasure is much more clever than his.

"Cousin of King Rui, don't be angry." Wen Ning turned to raise her pitiful eyes, and said to King Rui, "My cousin is new here and doesn't know the rules in the palace, so I'll kneel down and salute you. "

King Rui's face was both red and white, and he wanted to embarrass Pei You in front of everyone.According to what he knew about Pei You, he would definitely protect this little wife behind him, sneer at him, and then ask the officials to label him as contemptuous of the imperial power.

Of course, if this "Mrs. Shizi" who came from a small family wants to calm things down and be fooled into worshiping him, that would be a great satisfaction.

I don't want this Wen's daughter to hide behind Pei You, nor to be bluffed into kneeling and saluting.

I don't know if it's really stupid or just pretending, but in a few words, he actually told her that he doesn't distinguish between young and old, and he insisted on making her "cousin" kneel down.

Still so cute and pitiful.

With so many eyes watching, if he really made her kneel down, wouldn't it be that he doesn't understand etiquette and bullies a "ignorant" weak woman? !

King Rui was hesitating, but he had no choice but to help Wen Ning up when he was about to fall.

"This king is just joking with my cousin." He gritted his teeth and smiled not so prettyly, "Why does my cousin take it seriously?"

"It was just a joke." Wen Ning patted her heart, "I just said that Cousin Rui Wang is reasonable and understands righteousness. How could he deliberately make things difficult for me and my husband, right, Cousin Rui Wang?"

King Rui: "..."

It seems that I was pissed off by someone, but I can't find any evidence, what's going on?

"Husband, it's okay, let's go!" Wen Ning raised her smiling face, took Pei You's hand and left without giving King Rui another look.

King Rui who was left in the same place felt like he was being tricked, and felt that he could not be tricked by a weak woman: "..."

After walking a long distance, Wen Ning burst into a "puchi" laugh, and raised her face to ask for credit: "How? How was my performance just now?"

Pei You was noncommittal, and looked sideways at Wen Ning: "So, when you fooled me back then, you were also so proud behind your back?"

Wen Ning: "..."

Much better than that.

But is this the truth?
"The front door is Zhaoxia Palace, Linglan, let's go first." Wen Ning greeted Linglan who had fallen far away, and gave Pei You a blessing, "I wish you a happy drink and a full meal, see you later. "

Led Linglan and slipped away.

Pei You looked at the fleeing figure, laughed lowly, and took Gu to another direction.
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Zhaoxia Palace is adjacent to Chaolu Palace. Wen Ning felt guilty when she saw the familiar palace. If she had known today, she shouldn't have acted too much in front of Princess Zhaohe that night.

I don't want Princess Showa not to attend today.

The person sitting at the banquet was, as Wen Ning expected, not the empress, but... King Rui's biological mother, Concubine Xian.

No wonder King Rui was so high-spirited today, as if he was about to be crowned prince.

Thanks to Mrs. Pei Youshizi's honor, this time her seat was very close to the front, and among the wives of the same age, only one was in front of her.

Although she didn't know her very well, she could guess her identity.

It is probably the daughter of the Xie family who married King Rui, the concubine of King Rui.

Sure enough, not long after she sat down, noble ladies frequently came to the side table to chat. The queen and queen, from makeup to clothing, from clothing to appearance, everything is pre-determined, and they only praise people as fairies descending to earth. .

There were too many people, and Wen Ning was at the next table, trying to take a closer look to see if she was really such a celestial figure, but she couldn't do it.

Linglan squatted down in a timely manner, blocking the people next door, and poured tea for Wen Ning.

Really, it knocked her girl's table to one side.

Seeing her angry expression, Wen Ning wanted to laugh.

Isn't that how it is in the palace?These people hear that the wind is rain.Emperor Jiahe will set up the East Palace sooner or later, either King Rui or the fourth prince. On such an important occasion as the New Year's Eve banquet, King Rui's biological mother is asked to act as the queen. What does this mean?
Once King Rui is established in the East Palace, the one above will be the future empress dowager, and the one next door will be the next queen empress.

Isn't that just trying to curry favor?

Coincidentally, she was still worried that too many eyes were on her today, and she would lose the face of the Duke's mansion if she made a mistake.

"Miss, look at Miss Zhao." Linglan whispered beside her.

Wen Ning looked up, Zhao Xizhi was in the second row opposite her, staring at her gloatingly with her chin raised.

It's really... haunting.

Wen Ning glanced at the butterfly hairpin on her head, wasn't it the one she bought in Zhufang Pavilion a few days ago?
3000 taels, deliberately wearing it for her to see?
Silly.

Wen Ning pretended to raise her hand, and touched the hairpins on her head, just as her sleeves fell down, revealing a green and transparent jade bracelet on her wrist.

She took it out randomly on her body, and it was more than 3000 taels.

Sure enough, Zhao Xizhi's gloating face immediately turned into an angry one, and her little face turned pale with anger.

Wen Ning deliberately showed her a smug smile, which made her even angrier.

Forget it, it's meaningless to fight her childishly.

Wen Ning lowered her head to drink tea again.

It's a pity that Duan Rushuang can't enter the palace this year, Wen Lan's rank is not enough, and He Luan is not qualified enough to enter the palace, otherwise she wouldn't be so boring.

Seeing this, Linglan poured her another glass of wine.

In this weather, warming up with some hot wine is perfect.But Wen Ning thought about it, she still had to share the bed with Pei You tonight, so forget it.

She picked up a piece of peach blossom cake on the table and ate it.

Seeing that the banquet was about to start, there were finally not so many people at the next table, so Wen Ning had to take a look at Princess Rui.

With icy skin and smooth skin, almond eyes and red lips, she does look pretty good, but she is still a little different from the daughter of the Xie family she imagined.

I can't blame her.

If she remembered correctly, her boudoir name was Xie Ying, and she was not from the Xie family's direct branch.Now the head of the Xie family, that is, Xie Changyuan, the chief assistant of the dynasty, has a son and a daughter, the daughter is the queen of the dynasty, Xie Nanzhi, the son, who used to be quite prestigious among the common people, now often brings Shen Jin General Xie who is on a par with him.

That General Xie has made a lot of military exploits at a young age, and he was the first to form the Southern Expedition Army.It is a pity that he died in a war in northern Xinjiang 15 years ago, and failed to leave a son and a half daughter behind.

At that time Xie Changyuan was already old, so he simply adopted a son and a daughter from a side branch into the house, the daughter was Xie Ying, and the son passed away from a serious illness when he was in his teens.

Since then, Xie Changyuan's will has been depressed, and the name of chief assistant is only hanging on, and he hasn't asked about court affairs for a long time.

So it's not surprising that Xie Ying took the title of the first daughter of the Xie family, but she didn't have the demeanor that the first daughter of the Xie family should have.

She was raised in the middle of the journey, so how can she be compared with the eldest daughter of the empress?

Wen Ning lowered her eyelashes and continued to eat pastry, but from the corner of her eye, Zhao Xizhi walked over gracefully holding a wine glass.

Fortunately, it was to toast Princess Rui next door, not to trouble her.

Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, she heard Zhao Xizhi squeeze her voice and say: "My lady has such an orchid temperament, she doesn't need things outside her body to show herself, but if she speaks too low-key, some people may... forget their identity."

While speaking, his eyes lightly glanced at Wen Ning's head.

Wen Ning immediately understood what she was implying, and subconsciously glanced at Princess Rui's hair.

With this sweep, he was stunned.

Previously, he only focused on looking at Xie Ying's face. The jewelry on her top of her hair didn't look like much at all, but if you look closely, it seems... It's really not as delicate as hers?
She was looking at Xie Ying, and Xie Ying was also looking at her.

Wen Ning immediately picked up the unused wine and toasted her friendly.

Not wanting Xie Ying to sweep into her hair, a trace of coldness flashed across her eyes, and she turned her face away, ignoring her raised wine glass.

Wen Ning: "..."

Feeling bored, he put down the wine glass.

Is this offending someone without saying a word?

When she chooses clothes and jewelry, she actually deliberately pays attention, not to be too luxurious, stealing the limelight from the main lords in the palace, but also not to be too low-key, making the Duke's Mansion shameless.

So she was all in the middle of the pile of things that the eldest princess gave her, and she couldn't choose the top or bottom.

What she wears on her head is the jewelry from the inner court, that's right, she specially chose it in order not to make mistakes, and the workmanship is naturally excellent.But among all her jewelry, she is not outstanding.

Look at Xie Ying's reaction, she is a majestic Princess Rui, so she doesn't have jewelry of this level?
Forget it, no matter what she thinks, she doesn't have to curry favor with her.

Just at this time, the side dishes were served, and the concubine Xian raised her glass, said a few polite words, and asked everyone to use their chopsticks to open the table.

Wen Ning raised her glass symbolically and took a sip of the wine, then lowered her head to eat.

But Xie Ying, who was offended by her just now, did not let her go.

"Sister, eat slowly. Although my sister eats less food in the imperial dining room, she has climbed up to Pei Shizi and became the wife of Shizi. There will be many opportunities in the future."

Wen Ning was picking up a peanut and putting it in her mouth, she almost choked on hearing the words.

……no.

Although she is not from the direct descendant of Zheng'er Bajing, she is the daughter of Xie's daughter from the No. [-] family. Can she...don't be like Zhao Xizhi with such a small structure?
But Xie Ying continued: "My sister, if you are worried that you won't be able to enter the palace in the future, you might as well try to persuade your husband, think about what the world's surname is, who should be offended, and who should not be offended."

Come on, it's true that the surname is Chu in this world, but it's not your Chu Xun who won in the end.

Wen Ning had never dealt with Xie Ying in her previous life. After all, when she married Pei You, even King Rui was gone, and there was no mention of Princess Rui.

But she had a different reverie for Xie's daughter, she thought that Xie Ying was not as dignified as the Empress Empress.

Therefore, when such words came out of her mouth, she felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Speaking of which, my younger sister has two older brothers. One has just been promoted to Dali Temple, and the other is still working in the Ministry of War. They are both official positions that can kill everyone if a brick is thrown in the capital. My sister should not think about herself. For the sake of the two brothers."

Xie Ying smiled and said: "The Wen family was lucky for what happened last time, but next time, you may not be so lucky."

From Xie Ying's point of view, why should she be polite to Wen Ning?

Her natal family is the largest family of the Xie family, and her husband is King Rui who is the most likely to inherit the throne. She will become a queen in the future. One queen mother is her own aunt, and the other queen mother is her husband's biological mother. She will be Dayin's most secure queen, bar none.

Why should she be wronged in front of a wife with a different surname?
She didn't even have a set of jewelry made by the inner court, so she dared to wear it in the palace to show off because of the eldest princess' favor?
Wen Ning frowned when she heard her mentioning her two brothers.

She hated others threatening her with the Wen family.

Just as she was about to speak back, the concubine Xian who was seated above seemed to have noticed the movement here, looked over and said: "Sit down, but is it Pei Wen's family?"

Wen Ning had to stand up, Fushen replied: "Exactly."

Keeping her eyebrows lowered, she planned to go to the palace for a formal meeting.

Unexpectedly, before taking two steps, Concubine Xian said leisurely: "No need. You don't even have to see the empress, so you don't need to see me."

Wen Ning: "..."

What does this mean?The empress is ill, aren't you here?

I don't see what she just called her for?
There was a moment of silence in Zhaoxia Palace, and everyone's eyes fell on Wen Ning who stood up. Even Wen Ning, who considered herself thick-skinned, felt a little embarrassed.

She clenched her fists and finally sat back.

If you don't see it, you won't see it, and she is happy not to salute her.

But still so angry!

Concubine Xian clearly saw that King Rui suffered a disadvantage in Pei You's hands, so she intentionally embarrassed her!

Coupled with the table next door, it is really not a family, do not enter a family.

Wen Ning didn't care about the eyes of others, and ate vegetables by herself. When she was full, she might as well go find Pei You.

There are so many annoying people around, it's really hard to stay.

Just as he was thinking about it, a group of palace people came in from the palace, the leader was very strange, he could only tell by his clothes that he was the great eunuch in the palace, and judging by the attitude of the people around him, his status was not low.

He only gave a small gift to the concubine Xian, and then walked towards the side table.

Wen Ning didn't know the person who came, but Xie Ying knew her very well. When she saw someone approaching her, she stood up in surprise: "But aunt wants to see me?"

The father-in-law lowered his eyes slightly: "Your Majesty, please sit down."

Then he flicked the whisk and bowed to Wen Ning: "Empress, please come to Fengyi Palace to see Mrs. Shizi."

The sonorous sound was heard throughout the room.

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