Xiao Yuanting's birthday is on the sixth day of July.
For the Xiao family, this is undoubtedly a big event. Mrs. Xiao started to prepare for this half a month in advance. She wanted to take advantage of this lively day to drive away the haze of the Xiao family during this period, and planned to celebrate Xiao Yuanting's birthday.
It was announced that Li Xue would become Xiao Yunheng's official wife.
In front of all the guests, Yun Heng should not refute her as a mother.
Due to the stalemate in the relationship between Yunheng and Li Xue, the atmosphere in the Xiao family was not very good throughout June. After Xiao Yunheng returned to the Xiao family, he stayed behind closed doors and stayed in his room all day reading and being in a daze.
Apart from three meals a day, the servants did not dare to disturb anything that was not important.
After Li Xue was rejected several times, she temporarily stopped and followed Mrs. Xiao to take care of the inner house every day.
Now that she finally had the opportunity to ease the relationship, Mrs. Xiao would not miss it. She personally took the housekeepers in the house to start preparations. In addition to asking Yun Heng to choose birthday gifts for his father, he also carefully customized two gifts for Li Xue.
Set of clothes.
The guest list was drawn up by Mrs. Xiao and Li Xue: "You have to learn these from now on, and you must use snacks."
Li Xue nodded obediently.
Although Xiao Yunheng is still unwilling to talk to her, Li Xue often feels lonely and uneasy, but after taking care of the inner house with Mrs. Xiao in recent days and knowing her aunt's plan, Li Xue was surprised and happy, and suddenly felt confident.
Auntie wants her to become Brother Heng's legal wife.
This sentence made Li Xue's uneasiness disappear for the past few days. She could hardly believe what she heard. She was afraid day and night. She was worried that Xiao Yunheng would hate her and would really follow Yun Zishu's wishes.
She took a break and went home.
Unexpectedly, not only did she not rest, her aunt also planned to make her Xiao Yunheng's first wife. Li Xue seemed to be in a dream, walking much more briskly every day, and her complexion became better and better day by day.
The invitations were all ladies and ladies from aristocratic families who had a good relationship with the Xiao family. When writing the invitations, Mrs. Xiao would tell Li Xue what to pay attention to, and the invitations would be written in different ways for people with different statuses.
Li Xue wrote them down one by one.
There will naturally be many guests for General Xiao's birthday, but Mrs. Xiao and Li Xue only need to entertain the female guests, while Xiao Yuanting and Xiao Yunheng's father and son will handle the rest.
"Aunt." Li Xue looked at the invitation in her hand and looked up at Mrs. Xiao, "Do you need to give an invitation to Yun Zishu?"
Mrs. Xiao frowned.
She now wishes she could be as far away from Yun Zishu as possible, and is not willing to invite her over at all, but...
"Since we are going to promote you as Yun Zishu's wife at the birthday banquet, it would be a good idea to let her come." Mrs. Xiao said in a bad tone, "Let all the guests witness with their own eyes that Yun Zishu will no longer be the young master of the Xiao family.
Madam, let Yun Zishu understand that she has nothing to do with Yun Heng anymore, and not to provoke Yun Heng again in the future."
Before, the whole family begged Yun Zishu to come back in a low voice. She was so arrogant and rude, but now that the Xiao family no longer cares about her, there is no point in regretting it.
Li Xue was secretly happy and nodded repeatedly: "Yes."
So the invitation was delivered to the Ninth Princess' Mansion, and was presented to Yun Zishu by Butler Cheng.
"General Xiao's birthday?" Yun Zishu looked at the invitation in her hand and slowly raised her head to look at Sicang standing opposite, with a subtle look in her eyes, "Is there any serious illness in their family?"
Sicang nodded calmly: "There should be."
Mrs. Xiao had clearly decided to break off with her and have no relationship with her from now on. For this reason, she did not hesitate to sacrifice the face of the General's Palace to accept the divorce letter, but now she took the initiative to invite her to attend Xiao Yuanting's birthday party?
Shouldn't they never interact with each other until death?
Yun Zishu put the invitation aside, relaxed her body and leaned on the couch, thinking for a moment, and couldn't help but clicked her tongue: "Is Mrs. Xiao planning to declare in front of all the guests at the birthday banquet that she will be with me from now on?"
Doesn’t it have anything to do with the palace?”
Si Cang was silent for a moment: "If Your Highness wants to know, I will ask someone to investigate immediately."
"How to check?" Yun Zishu raised her eyebrows, "Send someone to ask Mrs. Xiao what she is planning."
Sicang was speechless.
Leng Yue coughed lightly and came to the rescue of her leader: "It's okay to ask. Maybe Mrs. Xiao just made a mistake and told the truth."
Yun Zishu laughed and took a sip of tea quietly.
"After staying in the house for more than a month, it's time to go out and walk around." She pondered for a moment, and then ordered: "Leng Yue, later you ask the housekeeper to prepare a gift... By the way, let Xue Yi and Aunt Cao come over.
The formation for the Xiao family’s birthday banquet should be a little bigger, and the loser does not lose the formation, right?”
Leng Yue smiled and nodded: "Yes, that's absolutely right."
With Aunt Cao next to the Queen Mother, who would dare to act presumptuously in front of Her Highness the Princess?
"Your Highness the Princess." Steward Cheng stood outside the palace and reported respectfully, "There is a woman outside wearing a cloak who claims to be the Marquis of Xiping. Her expression is anxious and she is begging to see Her Highness the Princess."
Mrs. Xipinghou?
This is really a rare visitor.
Yun Zishu was silent for a moment, then tapped the armrest slowly and lightly, "Let her come over."
"yes."
"How did Mrs. Pan find this place?" Leng Yue wondered, "Isn't it someone's instruction?"
Pan Xuzhi of the Marquis of Xiping accidentally killed his uncle in the An family. Later, due to the seriousness of the situation, he was accused of killing a court official before the emperor. Although the matter was fully investigated by the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, Pan Xuzhi was finally sentenced to fifty imperial rods.
It was the emperor who was imprisoned for twenty years. The whole family of the Marquis of Xiping was implicated and demoted to common people.
Of course, other important officials in the DPRK are also required to exert pressure.
But at least on the surface, this matter has nothing to do with their Ninth Princess. It is reasonable for Mrs. Pan to go to anyone, but it is unreasonable to find the Ninth Princess's house.
"Because she has a ghost in her heart." Yun Zishu's voice was indifferent, "Concubine Wu said that she would marry me to Pan Xuzhi. Pan Xuzhi slandered me outside, as well as Pan Lingling's purpose of going to Anjia that day, and what An Huaishan said to me.
Everything she did...in this whole thing, Mrs. Pan knew the most details."