Return of the Swallow

Ji Zeyu's complexion didn't change when he heard the words, and he said in a low voice: "The Qin family doesn't raise a face, so she deserves to be treated well."

"You!" Princess Anyang's complexion turned purple in an instant, and she stopped to fist her hands and stared at the man's tall back who was still strolling in a garden, "You are presumptuous, I am a princess!"

Ji Zeyu stopped, looking back, there was an undisguised mockery in his eyes: "Oh. I didn't see what Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess can do besides being reincarnated."

"presumptuous!"

"The eldest princess should calm down, today is the birthday of the empress dowager."

Ji Zeyu continued to walk forward quickly, leaving behind Li Helan's only son with heaving chest and shortness of breath.

After such an argument with Ji Zeyu, when he came back to his senses, Pang Xiaoyu's figure had already approached Ci'an Palace.

Li Helan scolded the palace servants beside him with a sullen face: "Hurry up and keep up, what's the point of dawdling?"

The palace man blushed from being reprimanded, and cautiously followed Li Helan with his head down.

Qin Yining naturally didn't know what was going on behind her. At this time, she had already been allowed to enter the main hall of Ci'an Palace under the communication with Pang Xiao's servant.

The Empress Dowager is celebrating her birthday today, and she is wearing a red and gold Zhai dress, and a golden phoenix crown with tassels on her head. She is dressed gracefully and elegantly.

The middle-aged woman sitting beside the Empress Dowager was also wearing a light golden Zhai dress, with a phoenix crown on her high bun. Although her complexion could not be called glamorous, she was extremely attractive.

This is the queen.

The Empress Dowager, the Empress and the clan members who were attending the banquet in the hall heard that someone had reported that Prince Zhongshun had arrived, and they even lost their voices a little, and each looked in front of the store.

I saw Pang Xiao, who was wearing a gorgeous purple python robe and a purple gold crown on his head, bent slightly, carefully supporting a pregnant woman in a light blue brocade jacket with arrow sleeves and a dark blue long skirt.

The Queen Mother smiled.

The queen saw that such a shameless person as Pang Xiao didn't care about his dignity and wanted to support his wife, and then saw Qin Yining walking cautiously with his back supported on his stomach, but still very charming and beautiful, and his heart was sour. Then flooded up.

Some women are born with a good life, their own beauty, and their husbands dote on her wholeheartedly.

And her? Although expensive as a queen,

But all the concubines in the emperor's harem were beautiful, but she was already old and frail, and she was pregnant first, so she inevitably became the target of public criticism in this palace. To put it bluntly, even in sleep, she wished she could keep her eyes open. Being pregnant and still being so exhausted, the thick powder on the queen's face couldn't cover her fatigue.

Looking at Qin Yining again, his complexion is good, and his skin is flimsy, which is completely different from her situation.

With Prince Zhongshun's love, her life must be going well.

When the queen's heart was turning a thousand times, Qin Yining and Pang Xiao had already approached.

Pang Xiao first supported Qin Yining and knelt down slowly on the brocade mattress brought by the maid, while he knelt beside him, and the two respectfully saluted the Queen Mother.

"I wish the Empress Dowager a blessed birthday and golden peace, and good health and prosperity."

"Okay, okay, you child, you are so polite when you come to Ai's house, your wife is heavy, why don't you help me?"

The queen mother smiled and stretched out her hand to Pang Xiao.

But Pang Xiao bowed his head to help Qin Yining because he obeyed the order, so he didn't see the Queen Mother's movements.

The queen mother raised her hand stiffly for a moment, seeing that no one was paying attention to her, she could only withdraw her hand in embarrassment, the smile on her face was still kind.

Pang Xiao then supported Qin Yining to sit down on the rose chair brought by the servant. Because of Pang Xiao's status, the family members of the clan have to take a place back. In addition, Pang Xiao is a man of influence in the court, and the fact that Li Qitian ordered people to impeach Pang Xiao to fail has spread throughout the capital. Now that the clan members see Pang Xiao again, they will naturally be more in awe.

Qin Yining naturally noticed that the atmosphere in the hall had become quiet after they arrived, and sighed inwardly, but maintained a dignified face.

The queen smiled and said to Qin Yining: "Look at your month, you should be a mother in four months, right?"

Qin Yining hurriedly wanted to stand up, but was stopped by the empress gently: "My own family, why do you need to be so polite, today is the queen mother's family banquet, we are just a family of relatives gathering together to talk."

"Yes, thank you, Empress Dowager." Qin Yining still bowed his head and bowed his head in greeting, with a humble and submissive attitude.

At this time, I heard a servant in front of the door saying: "Princess Anyang, the son-in-law is here!"

When everyone looked back again, they saw Li Helan walking in quickly, dressed in gorgeous attire, with an unabated anger on her delicately made-up face. Ji Zeyu followed behind in a brocade robe with white arrow sleeves.

These two people, one is a rich flower in the world, and the other is a cold moon in the night sky, they don't seem like people from the same way at all.

When the two arrived in front of the Empress Dowager and the Empress, they both saluted.

Li Helan didn't wait for the Queen Mother to order, she got up, leaned over coquettishly, sat next to the Queen Mother, and separated the Queen Mother from the Queen Mother, "Mother Queen, do you miss your son?"

The queen mother tapped Li Helan's forehead helplessly, and lightly reprimanded: "You monkey, when will you be able to imitate the prudence of your relatives and sisters?"

Li Helan raised her chin proudly and looked around.

Immediately, those relatives of the Li family who "single-handedly ascended to the top of the road" praised Li Helan all over the place. Some said that the princess was pure and sincere, and some said that the princess had a childlike heart. They were always one-sided praises, and the Queen Mother liked it from ear to ear.

The queen sat down with her eyes down, only silent. What her sister-in-law does for a living, she, the sister-in-law, knows all too well. If the main culprit for cultivating Li Helan into such a temperament, the unreasonable favor of the Queen Mother and Li Qitian is the root cause.

Li Helan was very pleased with being praised, but when she saw Pang Xiao and Qin Yining sitting side by side in the first place, and Qin Yining still had such a big belly, the smile on Li Helan's face stiffened again.

"It turns out that Prince Zhongshun and the concubine have also arrived. My palace didn't see it, it's really disrespectful."

Pang Xiao stood up and cupped his hands and said, "The eldest princess is serious. The minister and the minister's wife have also just arrived."

Li Helan raised her eyebrows and looked at Qin Yining who was still sitting in her seat: "I see that Princess Zhongshun went to a barbarian land, not only is her belly bigger than a normal woman's six-month pregnancy, she even forgot about the rules and etiquette." Going there, it can be seen that the environment creates people, which still makes sense.”

Li Helan's harsh words made everyone present frown.

Now, everyone present here doesn't know that Qin Yining is pregnant with twins, and it's normal for her belly to grow a little bigger. Besides, Prince Zhongshun doesn't care whether she is still chaste, so why are outsiders talking? Now it's the Empress Dowager's birthday again, it's really unruly for the eldest princess to be the first to stand up and pick things up.

Everyone shook their heads in their hearts.

Qin Yining watched his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, as if he heard a dog barking.

Pang Xiao clenched his fists with sharp joints, looked at Li Helan coldly and contemptuously, and said with a smile: "The eldest princess is still the same as before, ignorant and naive. The empress dowager is very well educated. I admire you."

Li Helan's face darkened instantly.

The Queen Mother also frowned.

The clan members were even more bluffed and took a breath.

Looking at the civil and military affairs of the court, from top to bottom, including the Holy Majesty, who else would dare to turn a corner and say that the Queen Mother has no way to teach daughters?

But Pang Xiao was someone who dared to resist thirty-three consecutive imperial decrees, and the Holy Majesty still had nothing to do with him. Of all the people present, no one dared to do anything to him. What's more, Li Helan was wrong about this matter first.

Seeing that the empress dowager's face was turning green with anger, the empress quickly changed the subject with a smile, "It's almost time. The stage is already ready. Empress, should we move to Fangting Garden?"

The Empress Dowager was finally not so embarrassed, she nodded and ordered everyone to go to the theater together, and said: "It's cooler there, let's have the banquet in Fangting Garden."

"Yes, the queen mother just wants to use it today, and leave everything to the daughter-in-law." The queen smiled softly, and walked ahead while supporting one of the queen mother's arms.

Everyone followed behind.

Li Helan watched Pang Xiao protect Qin Yining and go to Fangting Garden, holding his breath in his heart, wishing he could rush up and press Qin Yining on the ground to beat him up. Who is unmarried again? Could it be to show that she is married to Pang Xiao?

Li Helan was out of breath, and her face was sullen throughout the whole process of watching the play. Even when the Empress Dowager talked to her, the petty temper refused to pay attention to her, and the rest of the clan couldn't laugh at it, so the atmosphere in Fang Ting Yuan seemed particularly dull.

This dullness lasted until Li Qitian came.

Along with Li Qitian, there were also several courtiers and nobles who were quite trusted by him. Lu Heng was among them.

When Lu Heng came in, the first thing he saw was Qin Yining.

She lowered her head, and was receiving the fruit from Pang Xiao, with a gentle smile on her lips, especially when she was caressing that ball-like belly, that kind of maternal tenderness made Lu Heng feel a little bit like a baby for a moment. Trance. He even fantasized in his heart that it would be good if it were his own child.

Lu Heng quickly forced himself to withdraw his gaze, followed behind Li Qitian, and saluted the queen mother and empress together with the ministers.

After the two parties greeted each other, they rearranged their seats.

Li Qitian first recited the birthday speech aloud, thanking the Empress Dowager for her upbringing and teaching, the scene was very touching at one point, and some women with shallow eye sockets had moist eyes.

After the birthday speech, there is a birthday banquet. As soon as Li Qitian gave an order, the people in the imperial dining room started to move, and brought up delicacies, fresh fruits and vegetables, and exquisite snacks one by one.

The palace people are well-trained, even though there are so many people, no one has ever heard a cough or a crash when putting down the utensils.

When the banquet was ready, Li Qitian picked up the wine cup, got up and said: "This is the first cup, I suggest that everyone drink together, I wish the Queen Mother a happy life forever!"

Everyone stood up, toasted with wine cups, and said in unison: "The empress dowager will enjoy peace forever!"

The Empress Dowager was overjoyed, took a sip of the wine dignifiedly, and ordered everyone to sit down and relax.

The courtiers and the female relatives mingled with each other.

There are women who are ordered to toast with the Queen Mother in groups of three or four.

There were also courtiers who went together to toast the Holy Majesty.

The atmosphere became warmer little by little, and everyone looked very cheerful.

At this moment, a guard walked in quickly from outside, came to Li Qitian's side to salute, and whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, a monk came outside the palace gate and gave you something, saying that it is an old friend seeking to see you."