Early the next morning, the Chu family in Yong'an Marquis Mansion.
Although Princess Chu Mian is already in her fifties, she looks like a woman in her thirties, with smooth skin, beautiful facial features, and no wrinkles on her face.
At this moment, she was dressed elegantly in luxurious palace clothes, waiting for Emperor Xuanping to summon her to take her into the palace.
Two days ago, he sent someone to deliver the message, saying that on her birthday, he would personally send someone to pick her up and go to the birthday banquet with her family.
"Taifei, the carriage sent by the emperor has arrived and is waiting at the gate of the mansion. The marquis and the young master are also waiting there." At this time, the housekeeper came to deliver the message.
"Um."
Concubine Chu looked proud and noble, she responded lightly, was helped by her maid to stand up, and walked all the way to the front door of the mansion.
"Taifei, please get on the carriage quickly." Yong'an Hou Chusheng's attitude was respectful.
"Grandma." On the side, the young master Lan Xiao also had a look of obedience and awe.
Concubine Chu was personally supported by Marquis Yong'an and got into the carriage.
Lan Xiao accompanied Concubine Chu in the same carriage.
Marquis Yong'an followed in another carriage.
In the carriage, a faint and pleasant fragrance lingered.
Concubine Chu smelled the fragrance, and for some reason she couldn't calm down enough to rest, so she simply asked Lan Xiao some questions about his homework.
He is six years old and studying in the kindergarten class of Yunmeng Academy.
Marquis Yong'an has no children so far, and only one daughter married into the Lan family.
Lan Xiao was an orphan brought back from outside by Princess Chu, and adopted by Marquis Yongan as his adopted son.
In the Hou Mansion, the servants all called him "Little Master".
The carriage moved steadily.
Suddenly, Mrs. Chu heard a familiar cry.
She couldn't help but frown.
Open the car curtain and take a look.
"Stop." Concubine Chu realized something was wrong and said immediately.
"Grandma, what's wrong?" Lan Xiao didn't understand and asked quickly.
"This sesame seed seller is going to the east side of the city. This is not the way to the palace!"
Concubine Chu had a bit of anger on her face, "These dog slaves, how dare they disobey the emperor? Where do they want to take me?"
"Grandma, don't worry, let Xiaoer go and ask."
When Lan Xiao heard this, he immediately became sensible and honest.
He got off the carriage.
Later, Chu Sheng also opened the carriage curtain and asked what happened.
Lan Xiao stepped forward and explained the reason.
When Chu Sheng heard this, he quickly got down from the carriage and asked the leading eunuch.
"Father, may I ask, isn't this carriage going to the palace? Why did it go all the way to the east of the city?" Chu Sheng asked.
"Entering the palace? Who said this is going to the palace?" The eunuch said with a noble and cold look on his face.
"Here, isn't this the one sent by the emperor to bring the concubine into the palace for the birthday banquet?" Chu Sheng asked.
"What a joke! There is no birthday banquet in the palace today! This carriage was indeed sent by the emperor to pick up Concubine Chu, but it is not going to the palace, but to the Jiang family of the prime minister's house!" The eunuch rolled his eyes at Chu Sheng and said softly.
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"What? Going to Jiang Xiangfu's house? What's going on?" Chu Sheng was a little confused.
"We are just a slave who obeys orders. How can we know the thoughts of our masters? Lord Marquis, it's getting late, so let's continue on our way!" The eunuch said, ordering the carriage to continue moving.
"Wait!"
However, Concubine Chu was sitting in the carriage and had heard their conversation clearly.
She lifted the curtain of the car, with an arrogant look on her face, looked at the eunuch coldly and lectured him, "What a slave! You are so audacious, how dare you violate the holy will! Today, it is clearly the emperor who wants to hold a birthday party for me in the palace.
Banquet to celebrate birthday!
"He sent someone here just to take me into the palace!
"But you actually dare to falsely convey the imperial edict and want to trick me into going elsewhere?
"Aren't you afraid of offending me, the emperor, and losing your head?"
After she rebuked her like this, a group of eunuchs and guards were so frightened that they dared not say a word.
Seeing that she had restrained them, Mrs. Chu suddenly looked proud.
"Come here, turn around! Go to the palace! The emperor has personally promised to celebrate my birthday. A banquet must have been held in the palace at this moment, waiting for my arrival! If you dare to disobey me, I will give you permission.
The emperor will kill you!"
Concubine Chu spoke harshly.
The group of people did not move immediately, but looked at the leading eunuch.
"Since Concubine Chu doesn't believe what we say and insists on going to the palace, then go ahead. It's just not certain whether she will be able to enter the palace by then." The leading eunuch smiled coquettishly and raised his hand.
With a wave of his hand, he signaled the carriage to turn around and go to the palace.
Seeing this, Chu Sheng and Lan Xiao immediately got on the carriage.
The carriage went all the way north.
Not long after, we arrived at the gate of the imperial city.
However, when the guard at the door heard that it was the carriage belonging to the Yong'an Marquis Mansion, he refused to let them pass without saying anything.
Concubine Chu was so angry that she wanted to get angry again.
But thinking that this was the entrance to the palace, if he lost his temper and cursed others, it would damage his image if it reached the ears of Emperor Xuanping, so he restrained himself.
"I don't believe it! You go in and give me a message. If the emperor knows that it is me who is coming, he will personally take me in!" Concubine Chu said to the guard at the door.
"I'm so sorry. Princess Lingfu has an order. Unless they are ministers of the court, no one is allowed to enter the palace today! Especially those of you named Chu!" However, the guard was very tough.
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"you!"
Concubine Chu was immediately angry, "How dare she, a little princess, give such an order? I have not offended her, why would she target me like this? Go in quickly and pass the news, I want to see the emperor!"
But the guard just rolled his eyes at her and didn't want to pay attention to her anymore.
"Okay, that's great! If that's the case, then I'll wait here! Wait until dark, wait until tomorrow! I don't believe it. She, a little princess, can really cover the sky with one hand and prevent me from doing anything.
Entering the palace!"
Concubine Chu was so angry that her face turned green.
Just sit in the carriage and insist on waiting here.
Chu Sheng and Lan Xiao were both too frightened to say anything.
They just wait here.
Watching the sun approach noon.
The leading eunuch suddenly said: "Princess Chu, please don't wait here. Since Princess Lingfu has given such an order, how can this little palace gate guard dare to let you in?"
"But our family would like to advise you. Today, Princess Lingfu hosted a birthday banquet for Concubine Chu, right at the Jiang family. This is also the emperor's wish.
"Taifei, it's getting late, you might as well go to Jiang's house quickly!
"Otherwise, you won't be able to make it to the birthday party!"
The eunuch persuaded me.
Concubine Chu looked in disbelief when she heard this.
"What are you talking about? This is impossible! The emperor promised me to hold a banquet for me in the palace! The emperor stayed with me when he was a child! He is very filial to me, even if he doesn't want to serve me in the palace
If I wish to celebrate my birthday, it must be at the Chu family! Why should it be at the Jiang family?"
She asked the eunuch angrily.
However, the eunuch just smiled sweetly.
He just heard him say: "The concubine is really asking the wrong person when she asks this servant. Our family is only responsible for passing the news. As for what the two masters, the emperor and the little princess, are thinking, how can our family know?"
"Anyway, the birthday banquet is at the Jiang family. Whether you want to go or not depends on the concubine's own decision!
"Our family feels that if the concubine herself refuses to go, then Princess Lingfu will not be blamed."
When Concubine Chu heard this, her eyes suddenly froze.
She sneered and said: "I understand! She is such a good Princess Lingfu, so she had this idea! She wants to deliberately prevent me from going to the birthday banquet? She is dreaming!"