bestfiction Chapter 408 The Queen Mother’s Birthday Banquet
Chapter 408 The Queen Mother’s Birthday Banquet
"...If you're fine, then you're fine. A minor punishment is enough."
"If anything is leaked, I can't protect you."
"Or, in other words, it's hard to protect yourself."
She looked at Chang Yan who was panicking and ordered, "Go back to the underground palace first and do what you need to do. After the fire is over, I will send someone to look for you."
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All the filth is surging in the undercurrent.
Before the sun rose the next day, preparations for the birthday boy had already begun in the palace.
The envoys from various countries also washed up and counted themselves.
"Have you checked out His Majesty Dai Viet's beauties? Are there any acute illnesses or anything like that?"
The Silla envoy replied: “Your Highness, everything is fine.”
He nodded and asked, "Where is the handsome man prepared for the Crown Prince of Dai Viet?"
The envoy replied naturally: "That's no problem."
Even though they despised and were puzzled about a woman being the crown prince, facing the powerful army of the Yue Dynasty, they could only try to please her and dared not question her.
As for continuing to belittle women after returning to China...I don't think that's the same thing.
Prince Silla glanced at the tribute slaves offered, pointed at a Silla maid, and asked in confusion: "You...seem a little unfamiliar, I haven't seen you before?"
Xinluo Bi froze for a moment, opened her mouth but couldn't utter a word, and there was even a hint of confusion in her eyes.
An official beside her hurriedly covered up for her, saying, "This slave girl rarely went out before, she is not very good-looking, and she doesn't stand out among a crowd of people. How can she be remembered by His Highness?"
The prince thought about it and agreed.
His attention was more on checking whether the handsome men were in the best condition.
Because before he came, his father said that if the prince or princess of the Yue Dynasty took a fancy to him, his father would not mind kidnapping him and marrying him.
When Prince Silla arrived, he inquired about the deeds of the princesses and was so frightened that he wanted to go back to Silla to find his mother right away.
Woo woo woo, too fierce.
The Crown Prince and the Second Princess were both very fierce, and he didn't believe that the Fourth Princess could be any sweet girl.
Bei Jingchu also got up early in the morning and prepared herself. After washing up, she went to pay her respects to the Queen Mother.
The younger brothers and sisters all had sleepy eyes. Bei Jingchu secretly complained in the Queen Mother's ear: "Why do we have to wake up the birthday boy to pay respects to him when celebrating a birthday?"
"You might as well get some more sleep if you have the time. Anyway, you can just go when the time comes."
The Queen Mother dignifiedly covered the lower half of her face with a round fan, yawned uncontrollably, and nodded in agreement with Bei Jingchu's words.
"Fortunately, we only do this for birthdays. If we had done it grandly every year, I would have suspected that your father thought I had lived too long."
Bei Heng on the side interrupted: "Mother, are you guys saying bad things about me?"
Bei Jingchu and the Queen Mother both shook their heads.
"No."
"How could you think that?"
"That's right. If you talk like that, Chu'er and I will be sad."
Bei Jingchu nodded, looking ignorant and well-behaved.
Bei Heng: “…”
After the Queen Mother arrived, the ministers and envoys of the Vietnamese Dynasty presented gifts and danced to celebrate the birthday.
It’s almost the same every year, except that envoys from other countries do not come to the court every year, so there will be some new things.
Bei Jingchu was sitting there feeling bored. There was nothing she could do in such a situation, so she just stared blankly, thinking about what to have for lunch tomorrow and the situation in the court, and then thinking about what to have for dinner tomorrow.
While singing and dancing, Bei Jingchu glanced casually, and her empty vision instantly focused and froze.
The muzzle of a black gun was quietly pointed at her.
The hustle and bustle around me faded into silence, and my relaxed nerves tensed up in an instant, entering a state of readiness.
The girl who was among the envoys had a crazy look in her eyes, filled with hatred that would spare no effort.
Bei Jingchu looked familiar, as if he was one of the powerful families she had wiped out.
The moment before the girl's finger pulled the trigger, Bei Jingchu's body, which had undergone countless training, was faster than his brain, and he controlled his muscles to dodge.
With the sound of gunpowder exploding in the chamber.
There was a hole in the back of the chair where I had just rested.
The scene immediately became chaotic and screams continued.
Fortunately, the musket could not fire continuously, and the girl was quickly captured. Then there was the next gunshot and the arrow from the hidden dart flew over.
Some were blocked by the secret guards and the guards who came rushing over.
Bei Jingchu kicked the table over, and all the dishes on the table smashed to the ground with a clang.
She lifted the table to block in front of her, and any arrows or stone bullets that were missed in the chaos were clamped on the table.
After the arrow tail was inserted into the table, it trembled unwillingly.