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On the third day of March, on this day, the emperor of Muyun invited Princess Beihan and his son-in-law to participate in the ritual ceremony. Two flowers bloomed, one for each.

Bei Hanjing was picked up by the palace maids to lead the ladies in the palace to hold an event, and when she approached, she heard the women's playfulness.

A group of women in red, willow and green clothes squatted on the bank of the stream, splashing water on each other, having fun and laughing.

Bei Hanjing avoided them from a distance, walked to the gazebo and sat down, half-stepped on the pavilion chair, and without waiting for the maid to stop, picked up the wine jar in the middle of the stone pavilion, held the wine jar and poured it several times, with a full expression Satisfied, he sighed: "Good wine, the fragrance is good enough, but it's a pity that it's not strong enough."

Bei Hanjing turned her head to look at the maid beside her who was staring at her pocket, and asked, "Are they all concubines in this palace?"

Seeing Bei Hanjing's rude behavior of stepping on the stone chair and drinking heavily, the maid felt contemptuous in her heart, but she replied respectfully on the surface.

"No, my lord princess, in addition to the concubines in the palace, there are also ladies from other clans in this palace."

"Oh? Introduce me later." Bei Hanjing looked at the group of women and raised her eyebrows.The subordinates didn't stop, took a few more sips of wine, even picked up the fruit in the fruit plate, and ate it swaggeringly.

The palace lady couldn't bear it now, fearing that she would be punished later, she said embarrassingly: "Princess, the banquet hasn't started yet, you can't act like this."

"I forgot, Muyun has a lot of rules, please bear with me if I offend you, when will the banquet start, and how long will it last?" Bei Hanjing put down the wine jar and fruit in her hand, and said without interest.

"The empress and the dowager will start after they come back, and it will take about an hour." The maid hurriedly restored the fruit plate that Bei Hanjing had messed up. She had just finished answering, but when she turned around, she was gone.

"Hi!"

Mo Xiangli was standing alone on the shore away from the crowd, thinking wildly in his head.Suddenly he was slapped on the back of the shoulder, and he was so frightened that he had a conditioned reflex. He grabbed the hands behind him and threw it over his shoulders, but someone pressed his hands firmly, and his shoulders felt like a heavy weight was placed on his shoulders.

Bei Hanjing pressed Mo Xiangli who was about to counterattack, leaned close to her ear, and whispered dangerously: "You know martial arts."

"Who are you?" Mo Xiangli asked coldly looking back.The woman behind her has cold and deep features, many thin braids on her head, and is wearing a foreign men's clothing.

"You are Han Yan. You are all beautiful little wild cats who love to show their paws." Bei Hanjing looked at her and laughed softly.

"You?" Mo Xiangli felt that she didn't have any malicious intentions, and when he heard his real name from her mouth, he couldn't help being puzzled, and thought to himself: Could it be someone sent by his brother.

"I'm Beihanjing, your sister-in-law." Beihanjing let go of Mo Xiangli, smiling brightly and kindly.

"Did my brother ask you to come to me?" Mo Xiangli looked Bei Hanjing up and down curiously, and couldn't help laughing when he saw her tall and mighty figure.

"That's right, he asked me to ask you, have you finished the first bottle?" Bei Hanjing asked.

"I already ordered the first bottle last night." Mo Xiangli looked around cautiously, and said softly.

"By the way, my brother asked me to investigate my father's affairs secretly. I have some clues. I found out that my father was imprisoned in a place that only the emperor knew about." Mo Xiangli seemed to remember something, and hurriedly told her the news.

"Li'er, the banquet is about to start." When Hua Xihuan approached Mo Xiangli, she saw the new maid next to Concubine Rong secretly sticking to the side of the rockery.

The maid heard someone coming behind her, she immediately lowered her head and left in a hurry.

Hua Xihuan couldn't help but look back, the fresh-faced palace maid felt a little puzzled, she was eavesdropping on something furtively.

"Sister-in-law, I'm going out first." Hearing Hua Xihuan's call, Mo Xiangli bowed his knees to Beihanjing, bid farewell and left first.

Mo Xiangli stepped out quickly, took Hua Xihuan's hand, and rushed towards the banquet, urging, "Let's go."

Hua Xihuan heard the sound of silk music at the beginning of the banquet, coupled with Mo Xiangli's urging, she also forgot to mention the fact that she just met the maid next to Concubine Rong.

At the entrance of the banquet, the gathered crowd took the initiative to disperse a road, revealing a group of maids holding whisks, leading two noble ladies to come forward.

The one on the left, with a string of hairpins inserted into her head, her hair combed meticulously, and a very imposing woman is the current Empress Dowager Sima.

The woman next to her who was supporting her was in her early twenties, with a dignified appearance and a well-dressed woman was the empress of the country, Murong Yi.

This is also the first time for Mo Xiangli to see the Queen. Her appearance is very ordinary, and she can only be called beautiful. Among the many beauties in the harem, her color is much duller, but she has an extraordinary bearing, dignified and generous, and she is quite different. .

While she was sizing up quietly, the queen suddenly glanced at her, and stopped on her for a few seconds. Mo Xiangli immediately lowered his head, not daring to speak out.

The law of survival in the palace is that if a tree is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it.

The empress looked away calmly, and helped the empress dowager to walk towards the octagonal pavilion. The maids lined up in a pair on both sides.

The empress dowager coughed, and stood in front of everyone, her phoenix was majestic, so low and quiet that she couldn't even hear a needle, and the eyes of many female relatives were slightly lowered, staring at the empress dowager's neck.

Standing behind the female relatives, Bei Hanjing was very tall, a full head taller.

Bei Hanjing listened to the old lady Luo Li talking a lot of prefaces, and finally finished it, but the queen started to talk a lot, and finally announced the start of the banquet, she was so bored that she almost rolled her eyes.

Bei Hanjing thinks that if she is good at teasing women, she will definitely collapse if she wants to be with women. This group of girls can't stand their shoulders and can't pick them up. The topics they talk about are accessories, clothes, makeup and some extremely boring things. Gossip, she felt as if a stone fell into the cotton, and she felt weak.

Beihan Jing was just about to find a corner to drink fine wine, but was stopped by the queen.

Bei Hanjing walked into the pavilion suspiciously, the queen came out and held her hand in hand to sit down, toasted a glass of fine wine and said, "I have always heard that Bei Han's princess is a hero among women, but today she is really extraordinary."

Bei Hanjing took the wine and drank it down, grinned and said with a reserved smile: "The queen is too modest."

"Princess, do you still get used to living in Muyun's palace these days?" Murong Yi picked up the jug again, poured wine for Bei Hanjing, pushed the wine glass into her hand and said.

"Very good, very good." Bei Hanjing looked at the wine and said.

"Princess, have you ever experienced our Muyun's torture?" The queen asked with a smile looking at the women playing and playing by the stream, the smile was indescribably virtuous.

"No, today's beauty explained to me that this is a festival unique to your Central Plains. Every year on March [-]rd, men and women gather together to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. It is also a day for men and women to know each other and talk about love. But why are you men and women separated?" Bei Hanjing raised her eyes and said, a trace of strangeness finally appeared in her eyes.

When the queen heard your words, she said hello in her heart, and said calmly, "The princess' son-in-law knows a lot. Is he also Han?"

"The beauty is a Han, but he also knows a lot about the rules of our Hu people. However, his ancestors lived at the junction of Hu and Han, and there are some Hu people in his body. However, most people think he is our Hu people when they first see him. People." Bei Hanjing's eyes lit up immediately when she heard about Han Qing, and she couldn't wait to share some things about him.

"Hehe, I met him once from afar. I was really shocked and thought he was a barbarian. The princess and the son-in-law are really loving, and Xiu Yi is very envious. How did you know each other?"

When the queen heard Bei Hanjing call her husband a beauty, her words were full of deep pampering, and when she thought of the way the emperor treated her with respect, her eyes showed a bit of envy.

"Beauty, I know him with some legends. It started when I accidentally saw him taking a bath when I was fighting..." Bei Hanjing spoke in a loud voice, and gradually all the female relatives gathered around, listening Bei Hanjing talked about how they led troops to fight.

"Two years ago, in the Fengmu War, I personally led the 50 troops. Halfway through the battle, the situation was a bit unfavorable, and we retreated to Yangguan.

That night our army was stationed on the spot. At that time, it was very hot in September in summer. You don’t know how hot the weather is. More than [-] people in our army suffered from heat stroke. There was a river not far from our camp. I went there to take a bath. I couldn't sleep that night and ran to the tree by the river to enjoy the shade with my wine. "

The other concubines covered their mouths and asked curiously, "Princess, are you going to peek there to take a bath?"

Bei Hanjing said with disgust: "I grew up, I don't know how many naked men, with four legs, and a stick, it's like looking at the buttocks of pigs and dogs. I don't feel it at all. Besides, I'm in the river Upriver, far away from them, I can't see them bathing."

A group of women blushed when they heard her carefree words, and asked curiously, "Is there anything different about the son-in-law taking a bath?"

"It's really different. I was enjoying the quiet in the tree, my eyes were tired, I heard the rustling sound under the tree, and I looked down, it turned out that a soldier ran a long way to take a bath here. I'm planning to close my eyes. Guess what I saw when I looked at the moon?" Bei Hanjing suddenly started a riddle at this time, looked at the women around her, and said mysteriously.

"Is he injured?"

"No?" Bei Hanjing shook her finger.

"Is he very dark?"

"No, he is unusual."

"..."

When everyone guessed wrong many times, a voice suddenly came out from the crowd below.

"Could it be that he grew two sticks?"

The person who uttered wild words was more than sixteen years old, with a petite figure, wearing a light yellow dress, her eyes were large and there was a shrewdness in them.

The other women blushed when they heard it, patted her shoulder softly, and said coquettishly, "Zhao Zhongyan, what are you thinking about?"

"Hahahaha, no, guess again." Beihanjing was surprised that Muyun had such a wild woman, took a sip of wine, and shook her finger with a smile.

"Could it be that he's a woman, disguised as a man?" Zhao Zhongyan widened her eyes, put her index finger on her chin, and pouted to guess.

"No, no, he is indeed a man, let's guess again." Bei Hanjing looked unpredictable, and these women were completely aroused by her curiosity.

"Is there something on this son-in-law's ribs, or something?" The queen couldn't help guessing.

Bei Hanjing continued to shake her head and said, "His body is not flawed, but he is very slender and beautiful, just like a jade man, but this is not the main thing that caught my attention."

"So is there any birthmark on her body?" Empress Dowager Sima Jing was quietly listening to the two talking, but she couldn't help guessing at this time.

Bei Hanjing still shook her head.

Sima Jing was a little surprised, and said from an ordinary person's point of view: "If the princess is not a birthmark, then what kind of token is she wearing?"

"It's a bit close, but it's not correct." Bei Hanjing took a sip of her wine and narrowed the scope.

Everyone became more and more curious, what is different about this son-in-law?

Mo Xiangli was in the crowd and heard everyone's speculation, but he smiled and said nothing.