As soon as Xiao Jue left, Lou Yan immediately turned back and looked at Qin Zhen, with a probing look in his eyes.
Qin Zhen calmly drank a cup of tea and looked back: "Why is Your Highness looking at me like this?"
Lou Yan frowned: "What did you just say to the prince?"
Qin Zhen: "Secret?"
Lou Yan was silent for a moment, and then warned: "You'd better not play tricks."
Qin Zhen sneered: "So what if I'm kidding?"
"You..." Lou Yan took a deep breath, suppressed the turbulent anger in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "He is the prince after all, and he is not someone you can play with at will. If you go too far, be careful to shoot yourself in the foot.
"
Qin Zhen said calmly: "Thank you for reminding me! But we, the children who grew up in the mountains, like to play with stones since childhood. Those stones only hit people, never their own feet."
Lou Yan: "..."
Lou Yan felt that the other party was simply unreasonable.
He had an indescribable feeling of depression when a scholar meets a soldier.
Qin Zhen glanced at him and said leisurely: "Stop staring at me. If you say a few more words to me, your mute character of a man of few words will collapse."
It is strange to say that Lou Yan could not say a few words even in front of Lou Shulan. He was like a stuffy jar all day long. He would only say a few words after shaking him a few times, but he would not say a word if he was not shaken.
But when facing himself, he seemed to talk a lot, and he also mastered various rhetorical superpositions that were not limited to 'cynicism', 'yin and yang'... and so on.
Lou Yan was so angry at Qin Zhen that he glared at Qin Zhen fiercely and turned around to drink.
Qin Zhen stopped drinking tea and muttered in a low voice: "What's wrong?"
After she finished drinking a cup of tea, Yan Yu quietly returned to her from behind and said softly: "Princess, everything has been done as you said."
Qin Zhen had no expression on her face and hummed softly.
Then she stood up and said to the maid serving beside her: "I'm going to go out and breathe."
After that, he left with Yan Yu.
Xiao Jue, who was not far away, looked at this scene, and the smile in his eyes deepened.
He also put down the wine glass in his hand, turned his head and said to the person waiting beside him: "I'm going out."
However, he was stopped by Lou Yan as soon as he took two steps.
Xiao Jue's face darkened: "What are you doing?"
Lou Yan said in a deep voice: "His Highness is the protagonist of today's banquet. How can His Highness leave midway?"
"I'm not leaving," Xiao Jue said impatiently, "I just drank too much and went out to get some fresh air to sober up."
As he said that, he really felt a wave of heat in his body.
Xiao Jue stretched out his hand and pulled his collar, becoming more and more irritated: "Get out of the way!"
Lou Yan wanted to persuade again: "Your Highness, the Emperor and Queen are still watching, you really can't..."
"Lou Yan!" Xiao Jue gritted his teeth and called out the name, and said slowly: "Do you really think that because those people outside call you 'Third Prince', you are really Xiao Yan? Actually
Do you dare to take care of my affairs?"
Lou Yan: "..."
He looked at Xiao Jue in silence. After a while, he slowly put down his hand and took a step aside.
Xiao Jue sneered and finally warned: "Always remember your identity. You are just my Xiao Jue's dog. Don't really think of yourself as a prince."
After saying this, Xiao Jue left the hall without looking back.
Lou Yan stood there for a long time and suddenly laughed. He didn't know whether he was laughing at himself or someone else.
He didn't do anything else, turned around and returned to his seat, drinking in silence.
However, he kept looking at the door from the corner of his eye, wanting to see when Xiao Jue would come back.
However, after waiting for a long time, Xiao Jue was not seen, but Qin Zhen was seen.
Lou Yan stared at Qin Zhen, and for some reason, he had a bad feeling in his heart.
Qin Zhen entered the hall and did not return to her seat. Instead, she went straight to the emperor sitting at the top.
When Xiao Chengye saw her approaching, his face was immediately filled with a smile and asked: "What, isn't it fun?"
Qin Zhen said with a smile: "My son has made something interesting, and I would like to invite my father to come and have a look."
Xiao Chengye raised his eyebrows: "You did it?"
"Isn't it the prince's birthday today? I am poor and can't afford anything precious, so I made some small things with my own hands to congratulate His Highness on his birthday." Qin Zhen said with a smile: "I also want to show it to my father.
look."
Xiao Chengye pretended to be dissatisfied: "So I'm just a drop-in?"
"Oh, today is the prince's birthday," Qin Zhen tugged on Xiao Chengye's sleeve and said, "Next time it's your father's birthday, I promise to do a better job of honoring you."
Xiao Chengye laughed and said, "Okay, okay, I'm going to see what you can do."
After that, he turned around and glanced at the main hall, planning to ask the prince to go with him.
But after several glances, he still couldn't see the prince, so he asked Gao Cheng, "Where is the prince?"
Gao Cheng was stunned for a moment, then said: "Maybe he was too drunk, so he went out to get some fresh air."
Xiao Chengye nodded and said: "Send someone to look for it. When you find it, bring it over and tell Zhen Zhen that she has a gift for him."
Gao Cheng agreed and quickly ordered people to find him.
Xiao Chengye walked out with Qin Zhen.
Lou Yan had been paying attention to the movements here, and at this time he also raised his feet and followed up, saying: "The gift prepared by the princess herself must be very special. I also want to see it."
Xiao Chengye glanced at him and said, "You come too!"
Qin Zhen didn't say anything, and led a group of people out of the gate and headed to the backyard.
When I walked through a small path, my eyes suddenly lit up. I saw that the trees in the yard were covered with fist-sized lanterns. When the wind blew, they swayed. From a distance, they looked like a starry sky falling, twinkling and twinkling.
of.
Qin Zhen pointed to these lanterns and asked Xiao Chengye: "Are they good-looking? I made all these lanterns myself."
Xiao Chengye glanced at Qin Zhen and said, "You are serious."
The emperor looked at this large spot of light and couldn't conceal his shock.
Qin Zhen looked around and said, "It's a pity that His Royal Highness didn't see it."
Xiao Chengye laughed and said, "We have sent people to look for him. He will see him."
Qin Zhen nodded, and then said: "There is a pavilion in front of you. The terrain is slightly higher. From there, the sparks will be more shocking. Father, let's go there and have a look."
Xiao Chengye nodded and followed Qin Zhen towards the pavilion.
As soon as I got close to the pavilion, I heard a voice coming from the pavilion.
The man's heavy breathing and the woman's high and low moans intertwined into one.
Anyone who is not a fool can tell what these two people are doing.
It's just that the light was dim at night, so everyone could only hear voices and couldn't see people clearly.
Xiao Chengye's face was already frozen with coldness.
Gao Cheng tensed up and shouted sharply: "Who is over there?"
"Come here, shine the light!" Gao Cheng told the little eunuch beside him: "Look who dares to mess around in the palace!"
The little eunuch holding the lantern quickly ran into the pavilion. The firelight illuminated the pavilion and instantly made the man and woman entangled in the pavilion invisible.
