The next day, I slept until very late, and there was no other movement outside except for the wind. Xie Feng still suppressed the incident last night, or he was skeptical and did not make any noise. After breakfast, Hua Zhu and Yunshan walked in with their pens and ink and paper.

They looked at my slightly red eyes and asked in a low voice: "Ms. Yan didn't sleep well last night?"

I said angrily: "Do I still dare to sleep when your master makes a fuss?"

They looked at each other and Hua Zhu said softly: "Miss Yan, don't be angry. In fact, the master is too careful. I heard that yesterday the master and Mr. Pei met and discussed things, and Mr. Pei also mentioned the lady's safety issue. No matter what, you can't make any mistakes. Yesterday, the master was probably too nervous, so he was dazzled."

I looked up at them: "That's what Pei Yuanxiu really said?"

"Um."

“…”

I was silent for a while, then smiled: "Okay, I get it."

They put the two of them on the table, looked at the brazier that was almost piled with ashes, and said softly: "Miss Yan, the young master also said that you should not be too exhausted. You have written too many Buddhist scriptures recently, so this is not good for you, right?"

I smiled and said, "I've been writing these days, but I won't write them after this time."

"Then you still have to rest more."

"I get it, I'll listen to you."

They nodded with confidence and turned around and went out.

I wrote at my desk for more than an hour. It was almost time for lunch. Sure enough, I felt my eyes slightly astringent, so I put my pen and walked to the door. Hua Zhu and Yunshan immediately came up: "Ms. Yan is going out?"

"Well, go out for a walk. You are right. I've been exhausted recently."

"But we're going to have dinner soon."

"It's not time yet. I'll go and eat a little more when I come back."

"Then, let's accompany you."

"OK."

It was not too cold today, but the wind was a bit strong. It was okay for me to walk outside with a buckle.

The weather has been warming up these days, and some trees and branches in the palace have become more and more lush. Some early spring flowers have even had their bones, and a spring spirit is leaping in front of me. I walked while enjoying the scenery, and I didn't feel that time passed. After a while, I walked to a long corridor. This is a side hall leading to the front. In the past, the emperor often held banquets there, and it was relatively large, but not a formal state banquet.

As soon as I walked over, I saw a group of little palace maids holding a dish in their hands.

Fortunately, these people were very cautious. Everyone's eyes were staring at the things in their hands as if they were holding a thread. No one noticed that we were standing here, so I didn't walk over rashly.

When they passed by, I counted carefully and there were still quite a few people.

Is there a banquet ahead?

And it seems that the scale of this banquet is not small, definitely at least ten people.

I was about to walk forward when two guards suddenly came out of the front and stopped me. They still bent over and saluted me politely: "Miss Yan."

I nodded: "Are you holding a banquet in front?"

The two of them looked at each other and did not answer me, but at this time, a group of little palace maids walked over on the other side, holding a wine pot and a fruit saucer in their hands. Even if they didn't answer, I could see that they must be hosting someone for a banquet, and the specifications of the banquet were not low.

I smiled and looked at them: "Why, don't you let me know?"

“…”

"It's not okay to look at it?"

“…”

These two people probably had no clever mind or clever words, so they just leaned over and stood in front of me. The meaning was already very obvious, and they didn't intend to tell me, let alone let me go.

Hua Zhu and Yunshan stood behind me and looked at them strangely.

The two sides almost confronted each other for a while, and one of the guards said, "We are just guarding here and not letting you go there. Since Miss Yan has not been invited, please invite her back."

It turns out that it is just a loyal duty.

At this moment, a group of people walked past the intersection ahead, led by Eunuch Liu, and almost all of them were unfamiliar faces at first glance, but when you looked closely, there were some familiar ones, including the deputy generals around General Zheng Tong, the attendants following Xie Houqi, the Iron Whip King, and the maids of Han Zitong and Gardi...

Generally speaking, servants and maids have to follow the host and serve the host at the banquet, and also protect the host. These people appear here. Obviously, the people attending today's banquet are their hosts, but the place they come to is the side hall where the banquet is held and the place where they go is arranged for the rest for the servants.

In other words, they are not allowed to stay at the banquet.

My mind was spinning rapidly, but at this time I could no longer turn around and leave, because after those people walked across the intersection, Eunuch Liu happened to see me. He was stunned for a moment, and after calming down, he immediately smiled and walked over, and said with a haha: "Miss Yan is here too."

I smiled and said, "I'm a little tired, so I'm out for a walk."

After saying that, I deliberately looked inside, but in fact, I stood at this intersection and could not see anything unless I had a neck several feet long. However, the two honest guards were still loyal and took another step forward and stopped me: "Miss Yan, please don't move forward any more."

When he saw them like this, Eunuch Liu immediately said, "If you don't have the ability to see them, please step back."

When they heard this, they felt that they were too careful and hurriedly lowered their heads and retreated.

Eunuch Liu then said with a smile: "Miss Yan, don't mind."

I smiled and said, "They are afraid that I am embarrassed."

"That's right, who dares to embarrass Miss Yan in this imperial city?

"oh?"

"It's just that I know that Miss Yan has been in a depressed mood these days and will not annoy Miss Yan's heart. Miss Yan understands the young master's feelings."

I blinked and then smiled, "Then, I will appreciate this love. Today, just pretend I haven't come."

"This is naturally, I didn't see anything either."

After he said that, he possessed himself and raised his hand, meaning to send me away. I smiled and said, "Thank you, my father-in-law."

Then he turned around and left.

When I left, I seemed to hear the old man breathing a long sigh.

Hua Zhu and Yunshan followed me, both of them wondering. I could feel that they were having a lawsuit against each other, but I didn't dare to speak easily. I waited until I walked back to the bedroom before asking, "Where is your master?"

"Leave today."

"Oh? That means, the banquet was held there just now, and your master did not attend?"

The two of them looked at each other again and murmured, "It seems to be."

“…”

No wonder, these two girls don’t know anymore, and they will follow me all the time.

I smiled and said, "Then I won't tell your master about this."

They were actually a little confused. Obviously, the two girls were not mentally prepared to conceal their master, and they had no such experience. I smiled and said, "Young Master Pei is of course interested in doing this. I don't think it's big, but if I say it, I'm afraid that Master Xie will think too much, it will be bad."

They looked at me for a while without understanding, and said softly: "Oh."

I smiled again: "It's okay to tell him."

After saying that, he stopped talking and went to the table. After a while, the people from the imperial kitchen brought the meal.

I don’t know how many delicacies there will be at the banquet, but the dishes delivered to me will not be much inferior to those of any banquet. But today, I have no appetite and can’t eat half a bowl of crystal grains of rice in one bite.

The banquet that is being held in the side hall is now, there is a problem!

That's why I hide it from me.

I recalled the servants I just saw. Although most of them didn't know each other, the only familiar faces had already made me judge which of the people attending the banquet were roughly - Han Zitong, Xie Houqi, Iron Whip King, Zheng Tong...

There are people who are victorious and people from Jinling.

In theory, the people on both sides were still making trouble a few days ago. Although they killed a Xiaolian and stabilized the scene, the turmoil in Xishan Camp seemed to have been temporarily calmed down. But in such a short time, can both sides give up their past grudges and sit down and drink and have fun?

Even if they really sat together when they saw Pei Yuanxiu's face...

But why hide it from me?

I was present when I killed Xiaolian and demoted Han Ruoshi that day. Why did this incident today be just a testimony, but I didn't let me get half a step closer to that side?

Is there anything I can't let me know?

I tried to pick the edge of the bowl hard, and my nails turned white. There was something that worried me the most and the thing that scared me the most. It was always hidden in the deepest part of my heart. Now, because of a banquet, my head faintly emerged and even slowly took shape in my heart.

With a "bang", I slapped the bowls and chopsticks on the table.

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For an afternoon, I didn't go out again, but I couldn't calm down and wrote another word. Until after dinner in the evening, I listened to the wind outside. Although no one came to me to say anything, I knew in my heart that the banquet was probably not over yet.

I vaguely felt that if the banquet ended, something would definitely happen here.

I'm waiting quietly.

Time passed quickly, and soon the second update was knocked outside. I thought I could wait a little longer, but because I didn’t sleep well last night, my eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and kept falling down. In the end, I couldn’t hold on, so I just lay down on the bed with my clothes and covered my chest with a brocade quilt. If anything, I could get up immediately.

As soon as the person lay down, he could not resist the constant sleepiness that flowed like a tide, and I slowly closed my eyes.

But in my sleep, I am also uneasy.

It seems that there are a pair of eyes watching me in the darkness. It is obviously just an invisible gaze, but it makes me feel uncomfortable and can't even dream.

I opened my eyes all at once and saw the eyes in my dreams in the dark candlelight were close to me.

Pei Yuanxiu was sitting beside the bed, looking down at me.
To be continued...