Ning Chen loves his wife

Chapter 654 The Queen Mother's Birthday Banquet
"Don't want to see anyone? Just want to die?" Jing Rong smiled and shook her head. "The deity never said that he wanted your life, so...you can't die yet."

At this moment, the sound of the organ being opened again came from outside.

Jing Rong lifted his eyelids lightly and looked up, only to see the Green Housekeeper walking in with a pile of medicinal herbs.

"Master." The steward Qing bowed his knees and saluted Jing Rong. "It's time to change the medicinal materials." In the past few years, these rare medicinal materials have supported the body's needs, making people want to die but can't die.

"En." Jing Rong responded lightly. "By the way, tell him about the interesting things that happened in Fuchu when changing the medicinal ingredients."

"No." The green housekeeper responded indifferently, and when he looked up again, he only saw Jing Rong's leaving back.

Flash forward to the day of the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet.

Jing Rong, who was dressed in a moon-white brocade robe, led Zhuo Nan, who was dressed up, to the outside of Jinmoju.The two walked and talked.

Jing Rong took a look at Zhuo Nan, who was glamorous today, wishing to hide her, but thinking that something more interesting would happen in the palace this time, he could only wrong himself and let others appreciate his wife's beauty.

"I entered the palace today to congratulate the Empress Dowager on her birthday, and all the ministers gathered to conspire. If Madam is afraid, can I lend you my husband's shoulder?"

Zhuo Nan raised his eyebrows at him provocatively and said: "You are the target of public criticism now, you should worry about yourself first."

Jing Rong smiled slightly as if the ice and snow had just melted, and immediately dazzled Zhuo Nan's eyes.

While she was in a daze, Jing Rong flicked her forehead with his fingers, making it crunchy.

Zhuo Nan held his red forehead and stared at him.

Jing Rong smiled as seductively as a vixen and asked in a low voice: "Tell my husband, how are you going to deal with the Queen Mother? Poison her to ruin her face or send Qing Shang to pretend to be an assassin to disrupt her birthday party? "

Zhuo Nan stuck out his tongue at him. "If you guess wrong, I won't tell you, hum!"

Jing Rong looked at the pink tip of her tongue and her eyes darkened.

Sensing the danger, Zhuo Nan immediately threw off his hand and ran away a few steps.

It is not allowed to bring any servants and maidservants into the banquet in the palace, so as not to mix with assassins, so Zhuo Nan stepped on the horse stool and got into the carriage first, then Jing Rong got into the carriage, and Qing Yi drove the carriage himself.

On the way to the palace, I bumped into the carriages of many other ministers rushing to the palace.

The originally spacious road suddenly seemed a little congested.

But none of the coachmen dared to approach Jingfu's carriage, seeing Qing Yi driving the carriage was like a sword unsheathed at any time, the other coachmen did not need to be instructed by their masters, and took the lead to avoid Jingfu's carriage to pass first.

Near the gate of the palace, there were many carriages and sedan chairs congested.

Qing Yi directly parked the carriage by the side of the road and turned around to explain. "Eldest son, madam, the carriage cannot enter, please get out of the carriage."

Zhuo Nan raised the curtain of the carriage to glance at the situation outside the palace gate, then lowered the curtain and got out of the carriage.

The couple stood there and watched Qing Yi drive the carriage to another road that was more open and waited.

Jing Rong stretched out his hand to Zhuo Nan. "Let's go ma'am, Qing Yi can't enter the palace today."

Zhuo Nan handed Jing Rong his hand, and the two of them walked through the gap between the carriage and the sedan chair with their fingers interlocked, and gradually approached the gate of the palace.

Zhuo Nan watched many officials greet Jing Rong with their wives.

Jing Rong nodded in response with a smile on his face.

Walk to the gate of the palace and watch the crowd line up to enter the gate of the palace. Anyone who meets an unfamiliar face will be immediately stopped by the guards guarding the gate for questioning.

If he was closely following the ministers who were familiar with the imperial guards, he would not be interrogated, such as Zhuo Nan, who followed his husband closely.

Enter the Hall of Supreme Harmony through the Gate of Supreme Harmony, and this is the place where the banquet is held.

Originally, it was planned to have a birthday banquet in the Imperial Garden, but considering that it was the Empress Dowager's birthday, not only all the concubines in the harem would attend, but the officials would also bring their wives.

There are so many people that the Royal Garden simply cannot accommodate them.

The Hall of Supreme Harmony was already overcrowded, and each sat down in a seat that suited his official position.

After all, Jing Rong is only an official of the third rank, so the seat is in the middle.

After Zhuo Nan sat down next to Jing Rong, he looked around.

At a glance, the prince and princess are sitting in the first position on the lower right, followed by the second prince, fourth prince, fifth prince, Zhuo Ran, and fifth princess Zhao Huiyi.

When Zhuo Nan looked at the fifth princess, the fifth princess smiled in her direction.

Zhuo Nan knew very well in his heart that the fifth princess was smiling at Jinghu, so he turned his head to look at Jing Rong beside him with sourness in his heart.Seeing that he was drinking tea with his head down and holding a teacup, Zhuo Nan's heart burst into full bloom like fireworks instantly, without noticing the glances secretly sent by the fifth princess.

Immediately next to the fifth princess is the mother concubine of the deceased third prince, the imperial concubine. She looks glamorous but cannot hide her emaciation after losing the third prince. Next is everyone who ranks from the highest in the palace to the bottom. Concubine.

As for the other unfavored princesses, I don't know where they are placed.

Zhuo Nan noticed that Concubine Hui, the concubine of the Fifth Prince, was just diagonally across from her, and quickly looked away to see that the first seat on the lower left was not the prime minister but the grand teacher and his wife who were over eighty years old.

Next came the prime minister and Li shi, sitting next to the genius doctor Yan Huichun, but Zhuo Qing was not there.

Zhuo Nan thought that as Zhuo Qing's concubine, she was not qualified to participate in this kind of court banquet, unless it was handpicked by the emperor or the queen mother.Even though she was already engaged to Situ Weiguo, she was still not the general's wife before she got married.

The prime minister and Mrs. Li were seated next to General Situ. He brought his younger sister Situ Yanyu to the banquet, and... Tong Yuwen?

Tong Yuwen was talking to Situ Yanyu beside him, smiling as if he was not affected by his father's incident at all.

Just then the eunuch shouted. "The Empress Dowager is here!" Then the music sounded.

Everyone immediately got up and knelt on the ground.

There are also standing people, such as the prime minister, grand master, Yan Huichun and Zhuo Nan who have privileges, just bow their heads slightly.

The Empress Dowager supported Nanny Yao's hand and walked in front of the crowd, walked to the highest seat and sat down.

"The emperor is here, the queen is here!" The eunuch screamed again in a high voice.

The emperor held the hand of the queen, and they appeared in front of everyone walking hand in hand.Afterwards, she sat on the left and right positions below the queen mother, but was still above the high position.

The sound of playing music just stopped just right.

The empress dowager's phoenix eyes swept over everyone. "Pingshen, sit down."

Only then did everyone get up and sit down one after another.

The emperor was the first to raise his wine glass to congratulate the queen mother on her birthday.Next, the princes and others went to the center of the hall to bow down to the Queen Mother, and after saying the congratulatory speeches, they offered birthday gifts and returned to their original positions.

After each round, the congratulatory words are basically the same, and the congratulatory gifts are all kinds of rare treasures, but after reading too much, they become numb and feel nothing new.

Zhuo Nan lost interest and stared at the delicacies on the banquet table in front of him, such as Jade Palm for Longevity, Pearl Tofu, Shouwu Chicken, Baihua Duck Tongue...all of them are good dishes, but unfortunately...all of them are cold…….

Tea is the best Lushan Yunwu.

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