The Empire and the Kingdom

"Who knows? He Jia, don't worry, Yun Yi has just returned to the palace, and she has been proud of her for two days. Anyway, you are not the only princess who has been robbed of the limelight. Others are not in a hurry, why are you so anxious? Relatives are always The fragrance is far away and the smell is near. Maybe your father just thinks that Yun Yi has not been in the palace for ten years and gave her some compensation. After all, she is a person without a mother and concubine. Lose your status as a direct princess." After all, the queen saw more, although she was surprised and apprehensive, she was more calm than Princess Hejia.

"My son is just so angry!" After all, Princess Hejia is young, and she is also the first-born princess. From childhood to adulthood, she is the most favored among all the princesses. Even if the things that are rewarded to the princesses are the same, hers are better than others. ,a bit more.This was the first time in her life that a princess was treated better than her, and it was hard for her to accept it.

"If you can't get angry, just pay attention. I don't believe that she doesn't make mistakes in the palace. As long as she makes mistakes, are you afraid that you won't be able to suppress her? Keep your eyes open, don't imitate those short-sighted bastards, it's degrading. "

Of course, Princess Hejia was still angry, but the queen said so, she couldn't say anything more, but the jealousy towards Feng Jingsu in her heart was done.

Of course Princess He Jia was not the only one who reacted to Feng Jingsu being favored.In Lixin Palace, Princess Zhenshu is discussing this matter with Concubine Shu Tang.

"Yun Yi has been favored so much since she came back, Zhen Shu, do you also envy her?" Concubine Tang Shu asked.

Princess Zhenshu shook her head, "Yun Yi has just returned to the palace, and she doesn't know much about the affairs of the palace, so it's better not to move at this time. Father is pampering her with great fanfare at this time. If it's a minister, I'm afraid I'll be scared to death Not everyone is blessed to enjoy this kind of grace."

Concubine Tang Shu looked at her daughter's neither arrogance nor impetuosity, and nodded with satisfaction. "My son has a long-term vision and a clear mind, and he is worthy of his mother and concubine's teaching. The emperor's move is definitely not simple. You and my mother and daughter should just quietly watch the future development of this matter. Don't get too close to Yun Yi recently, Don't deliberately alienate, in short, be normal, so that we will take the initiative a lot in the future."

"Yes, Erchen understands."

Everyone in the palace reacted differently to the fact that the emperor favored Feng Jingsu, but the protagonist of this incident lived his life step by step every day.

In the morning, I went to pay my respects to the queen, and then went back to the palace to have breakfast and then went to Xingyi Palace to study with other sisters.Princess Hejia originally expected her to be reprimanded for not being able to keep up with Master Chen's lessons, but she did not expect that she would be able to keep up.Among the princesses, she is neither outstanding nor lagging behind, she is always in the middle, even if others can't see it, if Chen Duanxing still can't see it, she will be called a great scholar in vain.

After one lecture was over, the other princesses had already left one after another. When Feng Jingsu was about to leave, Chen Duanxing stopped her.

"Princess, I heard that the princess studied at Feiyejin Academy before. I don't know which teacher taught the princess grammar?" Chen Duanxing traveled to various countries in the mainland to teach royal knowledge, so he had heard of Feiyejin Academy, but this academy is from top to bottom. woman, so he only heard about it, but never saw it.

"Master Chen, have you heard of Lu Xuemian?" Feng Jingsu asked.

Chen Duanxing's eyes lit up, he nodded and said: "So that's the case. I know the knowledge of Princess Lu, so it's no wonder the princess is so knowledgeable. Princess, please forgive me, since the princess has been taught by Princess Lu, she really doesn't need to be taught by the minister. That's wronged the princess."

Feng Jingsu had a good impression of Chen Duanxing.The old man is knowledgeable and talented, but he doesn't have the problem of being dismissive of literati. He is open-minded, no wonder he will become a generation of great Confucianism.

"Master Chen, I'm here to study, but I don't want to be as good as the forest, Master may understand?"

Master Chen nodded immediately, "I understand." The old man stopped talking and turned to leave.

When Feng Jingsu came out, she saw Princess De'an walking slowly on the road. She knew that Princess De'an was waiting for her, so she quickened her pace and walked to Princess De'an, "Seventh sister, are you waiting for me?"

Princess De'an looked back, and saw that there was no one else except her maid and Feng Jingsu's court lady Xiaozhu. "Fifth Sister, it's really nothing. I just think you're amazing, and I envy you." The girl's eyes were bright, full of envy and admiration.

Feng Jingsu smiled and patted Princess De'an's head, "What do you envy me for?"

"Look, you just came back, and I heard that the rules have been completely learned, and the old lady in my palace is still teaching me the rules every day. Also, the father is so kind to you, even Mrs. Talk to you alone." She twisted the handkerchief in her hand, "I haven't been instructed by Mrs. Chen alone, but I have been given the ruler twice."

De'an was the youngest, and his biological mother's family affairs and status were poor, so he lived in fear in the palace.Originally, she thought that Feng Jingsu would be the same as herself when she came back. She was very happy to have another person with the same disease and pity. much.

She envies, admires, and even has a trace of jealousy.

"It's up to people. The road is under your feet, just work hard." Feng Jingsu's words sounded like perfunctory, but this was her biggest feeling along the way.Her current strength is entirely due to the efforts of others several times over the past ten years.

"Can I do it too?" Hope rose in Princess De'an's heart.

"Why not?" Feng Jingsu is not a very encouraging person, or she can't fully confide in Princess De'an. Having said that, it is already her greatest kindness as a sister.

The renovation of the Shenhe Palace is still going on, and the invitations for the palace banquet have been sent out. Three nights later, all the officials and women of the fourth rank and above in the capital began to get busy.

Every palace banquet is a competition.Aristocratic ladies compare appearances, costumes and jewelry, talent, family status, and everything else that can be compared. As long as one of them is approved by the nobles in the palace, it will spread throughout the capital, even if they will not marry. The royal family, future marriages will be much better.Therefore, every palace banquet is an opportunity for noble ladies to leap over the dragon's gate.

The prime minister's mansion, Prime Minister Xue's wife Pan, the noble concubine Wang, and the concubine Jiang are all busy, spending all their time on dressing up their daughter.Xue Xiang has five daughters in total. Among them, Xue Ying, the eldest daughter, and Xue Ai, the third daughter, were born by his wife Pan; the second daughter Xue Zhi and Xue Yi, the fifth daughter, were born by his concubine Wang;

"Miss, madam sent someone to bring the clothes and jewelry for the palace banquet." In Pingle Pavilion, Xue Ai's maid, Meng'an, brought a tray, on which were just delivered clothes and a box of jewelry.

Xue Ai glanced at it, and found that the clothes were brand new, but both the material and the color were outdated, obviously not new.Xue Ai wasn't interested in opening the jewelry either, it must have been made before, I don't know which box her mother dug it out from. "Take it, don't try it."

Meng An sighed, her own lady is obviously a descendant of the concubine, but her life is not as good as that of a concubine.Not to mention the second lady's second lady and fifth lady, even Aunt Jiang's fourth lady is much better off than the young lady.She really didn't understand what madam was thinking, after all, she was her own daughter, why did she treat the third lady so harshly while she only favored the eldest lady?

Xue Ai didn't have any disappointed expression, it has always been like this, since there is no hope, where did the disappointment come from?But she was looking forward to the palace banquet three days later, because that person had already returned.

"Will you recognize me?" She was fascinated for a moment, and a drop of ink fell from the brush in her hand, ruining the whole picture.

"The backlight and the moon are the shade of the flowers. It has been ten years of traces and ten years of heart." Ten years, I finally waited for you to come back.

Three days later, the palace banquet.

Since the evening, the carriages outside the West Palace Gate have continued continuously.The female relatives of the official family have to get off the car here, and enter the palace on foot after a routine inspection.

The carriage of the Xue family arrived at the gate of the palace, and the female family members of the Xue family got out of the carriage one after another.Pan's five daughters attended the palace banquet today.Walking all the way into the palace gate, Mrs. Pan kept reminding Xue Ai, "You don't often attend such occasions, sit with your eldest sister for a while, don't talk if you have nothing to do, I don't ask you to show off, don't Just embarrass your father, you know?"

"Yes, my daughter understands." Xue Ai didn't wear the outfit Jiang gave today, but the same outfit as the other sisters.This time when going to the palace for a banquet, Xue Xiang, who has never cared much about the affairs of the inner house, made an exception and cared about it. When he found out that the third daughter was dressed in an outdated outfit, he immediately ordered someone to go to Xue Ying's room to get the latest set of clothes. Put on the jewelry for Xue Ai.

"Master, Ai'er is already engaged, so you don't need to be so concerned about dressing up, but Ying'er is already at the age of marriage, so she should dress up to attract everyone's attention." Xue Ai said like that Beautiful, with the same dress, how can others see Xue Ying's brilliance?

Xue Xiang felt angry when he saw Xue Ai's attire, but he was used to the fact that Pan was born in a small family and couldn't see the situation clearly. "Ma'am, Ai'er was accused of being married to the prince as a side concubine. You dare to let her dress up like this at the palace banquet today. Are you slapping the Tian family? If Ai'er enters the palace like this, you will let the queen how to think?"