After admiring Zhou Guiren and praising Lin Jieyu, Yan Chujing pushed the tea aside, leaving only a cup of tea at hand to take a sip from time to time.

He was not interested in the little games played by the women in the harem, and had no intention of participating in them. But he also gave Chi Xinian enough face. He would sit upright in his seat during normal banquets and never leave even half a step.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the golden sun is overhead.

Noon has arrived.

"It's time for lunch." Seeing that it was almost time to leave, Chi Xinian stopped everyone after the new round of pairs game, "I will enter the palace with your Majesty's permission.

, I specially brought along a cook from Jiangnan.

"He is very good at Jiangnan cuisine. It happens to be a spring banquet today, so I asked him to prepare a few more dishes. If you are interested, why don't you go and have a meal with me?"

"I won't go." As soon as Chi Xinian finished speaking, Concubine Shu rejected her invitation with a cold face.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Queen's invitation was just a courtesy.

How many more dishes have been prepared? There are nearly twenty people present. How can we eat more food if we prepare more dishes? If they are familiar with each other, it is enough to follow them shamelessly. If their relationship... is gone, isn't it just to make themselves angry?

?

Concubine Shu decisively chose to refuse.

Even if you refuse, you will have to resign early.

However, before she had time to say what she wanted to say about leaving, Chen Meiren's strange voice came over first: "Shu Fei is really picky. You don't think it's expensive enough to prepare tea carefully, but Jiangnan's famous chef specially prepares the dishes, and you...

Don't want to take a bite.

"You are acting like this, are you deliberately trying to embarrass the Queen?"

"You are so presumptuous!" Concubine Shu stood up angrily after hearing this, "When I was talking to the queen, when did it get the turn of a little beauty like you to interrupt?! I just received a few compliments from your majesty and asked you to throw away all the rules in the palace.

Is it in the back of your head?!"

The furious Concubine Shu used her full momentum and scolded her with a few words, which scared those who were timid enough to shrink their necks.

Chen Meiren was also afraid, but the Queen's generosity today made her full of energy to stand up for the Queen.

Therefore, although she was afraid, she still stiffened her neck and pushed back: "When Concubine Shu and the Empress are discussing matters, I naturally have no role to interfere, but you have repeatedly been at odds with the Empress, and I can't stand it.

"The Queen has worked so hard for this banquet, and I can see it. I can't bear to see her efforts being ruined again!"

"Okay, okay, okay!" Concubine Shu was so angry that she said three good words in succession, "I don't care about the grudges between me and the Queen. Since you know that it was wrong to interrupt, you should first be punished for your mistakes!"

She was too lazy to talk to a low-ranking palace concubine anymore, so she gave a look to the palace maid next to her and didn't bother to return to Chen Meiren.

After receiving Concubine Shu's order, the maid immediately stepped forward to slap her.

Fortunately, Chi Xinian reacted quickly enough and immediately stood up and stopped the person: "Stop! One or two of them, seeing that I am easy to talk to, they all came to refute my face, right?!"

Since entering the palace, she has never blushed with anyone.

Even when Concubine Shu accused her face to face several times, she just responded calmly.

It wasn't until just now that Concubine Shu was about to slap Chen Meiren in front of everyone to vent her anger.
Chapter completed!