Fengming Chen Palace

Chapter 105
Because of Mother Chen's explanation, Su Qingning was slightly puzzled. What she was puzzled about was why the Southern Chu Kingdom did not follow the rules of other countries to salute the emperor?

Could it be that there is something you want to ask the emperor?
Perhaps yes, otherwise, she would not have said that she wanted to give the saint to the emperor. After all, in the Southern Chu Kingdom, the saint is equivalent to the princess, the hostess of the country.

The gift from the Southern Chu Kingdom was omitted, and seats were given to them. The emperor looked at Zhou Chengren, Zhou Chengren understood, and ordered the singing and dancing to be played, and the palace people passed the dishes.

Su Qingning was pregnant, and the things in front of her table were specially prepared for Su Qingning to eat after Mother Chen tested the poison repeatedly.

The second princess sat beside Lu Xiurong, saw that the food on Su Qingning's table was different from that of her own mother and concubine, so she stared at it. After a while, she pointed to the cakes on her table, and babbled to Lu Xiurong.

What she said was not very clear, and Su Qingning couldn't quite understand her, but Su Qingning could understand what she meant.

Asking Hongxiu to bring the pastry in front of the second princess, Su Qingning looked at her with a smile, "Whatever Jin'er wants to eat, just tell Su Niangniang, Su Niangniang will ask someone to bring it to you."

"You still don't want to say thank you to Madam Su?" Seeing the second princess grabbing a piece of pastry, Lu Xiurong smiled and said, the second princess looked at Su Qingning, gnawed on the pastry, and thanked her inarticulately.

Such an appearance made Su Qingning look forward to the child in her stomach even more.

The palace banquet continued, Su Qingning sat for a while, feeling a little stuffy, she was not hungry, after all, she ate a lot in Yuxiu Palace before coming here.

Turning around and talking to Nanny Chen, Su Qingning took Nanny Chen and Bai Zhi away from the main hall for the time being, leaving Hongxiu behind in case someone asked and no one came to answer.

After leaving the main hall, Su Qingning took a deep breath. The air outside the hall was much better than inside the hall. After all, there were many people in the hall, and they were singing, dancing, and eating. It was indeed easy to make people uncomfortable.

"Master, shall we do some activities around here?" Nanny Chen supported Su Qingning, asked her opinion, saw her nod, and walked with her towards the small garden in Yanqing Palace.

Nanny Chen is an old man in the palace, and she is quite familiar with everything in the palace.

"Master, wait a moment." After walking for a while, Bai Zhi suddenly spoke. Su Qingning stopped and turned to look at her.

Bai Zhi came out from behind her and Nanny Chen, took a few steps forward, looked carefully at the ground in front of her, then turned around and said, "Master, the ground in front of me is not quite right for slaves."

After finishing speaking, she turned around and took a few steps forward before squatting down and touching the ground.

Nanny Chen supported Su Qingning, watched Bai Zhi's actions, and saw her reaching out to touch the ground, so she looked carefully at the ground.

"Bai Zhi, what's wrong?" Bai Zhi didn't speak, but Mother Chen saw the clue and asked.

"Mommy, the ground has been wiped by someone, so it's hard to see, but it's easy to slip when walking on it." Hearing Chen Nanny's question, Bai Zhi stood up and walked towards the two of them.

"Look, there are things from this one to the one in front, and thanks to the sharp-eyed servants, it's not quite right. Otherwise, if you and the master fall down, the consequences will be disastrous."

The roads here are paved with smooth stone slabs. Once you fall, you may be injured.

Su Qingning was pregnant, if she really fell, she would definitely have a gassy pregnancy, and she would not even be able to keep the child.

"My servant will send the master back to the main hall with you first. I plan to take a look at all the grounds in Yanqing Palace. If there is only this area, it can be regarded as an accident. If not..."

Bai Zhi didn't say everything, but both Su Qingning and Nanny Chen understood what she meant.

In response, Nanny Chen supported Su Qingning to turn around. Because of the incident on the ground, Nanny Chen was extra careful.

Bai Zhi supported Su Qingning's other arm, and sent the two to the entrance of the main hall of Yanqing Palace. She watched the two enter the hall, and then walked to the other side.

"Come back so soon?" Lu Xiurong was next to Su Qingning. When she left, she greeted Lu Xiurong.

She thought that Su Qingning would have to wait for a while to come back, but she didn't expect that she would come back after a short while.

"Why is your face not looking good? But what's wrong?" Su Qingning didn't speak immediately, she was thinking about the ground, Lu Xiurong sized her up and asked again.

"I'm fine, Sister Lu, don't worry." Before the matter was confirmed, Su Qingning didn't want to say too much. When she said this, Lu Xiurong nodded and didn't ask any more. She guessed that there was something wrong.

A quarter of an hour later, Bai Zhi came back and whispered something to Nanny Chen. Nanny Chen nodded and explained something to her.

Bai Zhi responded and left the main hall again. Mother Chen ordered her to find some palace servants and protect the ground where problems were found.

After Bai Zhi's investigation, except for the main road leading to the main hall, there is something wrong with the rest of the ground more or less, which means that the things on the ground were intentionally made by someone.

Right now the palace banquet is still going on, it is inappropriate to announce it, and I ordered people to protect it, to wait for the palace banquet to end, and report to the emperor, so that the people around the emperor can start to investigate based on these things.

The palace banquet was still going on, and the emperor didn't know that something happened to Su Qingning when she went out just now.

Su Qingning sat in her seat, and a small portion of the dishes on her table were brought to her by the second princess.

Don't look at the second princess's speech is not smooth, but she is not vague at all when she eats. Her little face is round, her cheeks are moving, and her mouth is full of food.

Lu Xiurong looked at her lovingly, paying attention to her actions, for fear that she would choke.

The palace banquet was coming to an end, several times, Yue Ling wanted to say something to the emperor, but the emperor didn't give her a chance.

After all, he had received news before that the Southern Chu Kingdom planned to present the saint to the emperor. No matter what, the emperor would not accept it. Therefore, he did not intend to give her a chance to speak out, especially at the palace banquet.

Anyway, Southern Chu is also a subsidiary state of Daxing, if they refute their face at the palace banquet, it will not look good, even if they have some ideas, the emperor hopes that these things will be discussed in private.

Until the end of the palace banquet, Yue Ling didn't find a chance, she frowned slightly, as if she was very distressed.

Su Qingning returned to Yuxiu Palace in a sedan chair, while Chen Nai and Bai Zhi were on the sidelines, responsible for Su Qingning's safety.

After she was safely sent back to Yuxiu Palace, Nanny Chen stayed in Yuxiu Palace to accompany Su Qingning, while Bai Zhi was in charge of finding Zhou Chengren and telling him about the matter of Yanqing Palace.

(End of this chapter)