The main seat in the center was reserved for Chu Hongzhen and the Empress, but they wouldn't be able to come over until later.

Further past that on the left was Noble Consort Su, and on the right was originally supposed to be Noble Consort Zhao.

But Zhao Noble Consort and Su Noble Consort do not agree, the harem is actually known to everyone, although Su Noble Consort also invited her early in the morning, but Zhao Noble Consort directly said Shufang Palace matters busy, refused to Su Noble Consort, today since it will not appear.

Noble Consort Su still had that gentle and smiling expression as she sat in her position and softly spoke to the concubines,

"Thank you all sisters to come today for Hong Yi's birthday banquet to check the list of female family members, for which the Palace has prepared various types of tea and Guzhu purple bamboo shoots tea for everyone, I also hope that all sisters do not mind, enjoy."

When Noble Consort Su said this, the hall was in an uproar.

Guzhu purple bamboo shoots tea is rare tribute tea, I heard that each year after the following tribute to Chu Hongzhen, will only share a cake with the Queen, other concubines simply nowhere to enjoy.

Su noble consort on hand is seems to be still Chu Hongzhen in her birthday to see that she loves to drink, specially added a reward.

Such a precious tea, Su Guifei actually took it out to give them with refreshments, and also told the crowd 'don't mind it', when it was really a full gesture.

Cheng Xiaoxiao gave a small spit in her heart, the evil capitalism, it is true that the drought is drought death, waterlogging is flooding death.

Just from the crowd's murmurs of praise, and the frequent envious glances cast at Noble Consort Su, Cheng Xiaoxiao knew that this Noble Consort Su had succeeded in pretending to be 13 again this time.

He's giving Zhu Rong a hard time!

Are you trying to say that you are more favored than Zhu Rong?

Too bad, Zhu Rong doesn't care at all.

Looking at Zhu Rong, who had a cool expression and was even beginning to plan on savoring the refreshments, Cheng Xiaoxiao revealed an unknown smile.

Is this the fabled inner nothingness that even kind of makes you want to eat cassoulet?

Cheng Xiaoxiao snickered over here, and didn't forget to keep a constant watch on Princess Su Guifei and Xu Liangyuan's side.

Refreshments were served, tea was changed, and the list was naturally distributed to the concubines.

Everything is going steadily and nothing looks out of the ordinary.

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked back and forth between Xu Liangyuan and Noble Consort Su again, before she managed to put her heart down and spread her attention a bit on Zhu Rong at her side.

But she couldn't keep staring at them, her eyes were too obvious just now, and she was almost caught by Noble Consort Su.

This time she could feel Princess Su's eyes frequently looking this way, scaring her so much that she hurriedly lowered her head and didn't dare to glance at it again.

The moment Cheng Xiaoxiao was distracted, there was a palace maid who walked quickly into the hall and went straight to Xu Liangyuan's side, whispering something in her ear.

Xu Liangyuan's face visibly changed for a moment as she gave a slight nod to the palace maid, who quickly retreated to stand at her side.

However, when Process Xiaoxiao looked up she only saw Xu Liangyuan strangely passing a glance at Noble Consort Su, who just glanced at Xu Liangyuan without any trace and didn't indicate anything.

It looked flawless! But she always felt something was wrong in her heart.

Was she being paranoid?

Or are these two up to something again?

The careless Cheng Xiaoxiao did not notice that the palace maid behind Xu Liangyuan had changed from one to two, and her attention was completely focused on Noble Consort Su, who was just sipping tea with her eyes downcast.

Xu Liangyuan also withdrew her eyes and lifted the teacup in her own hands, lowering her head and blowing up the tea leaves floating in the cup.

One by one, two by two, they drank their tea, it can't be that these two just did a toast across the room?

That doesn't show anything out of the ordinary.

It couldn't really be as boring as she thought, and Noble Consort Su and Xu Liangyuan exchanged a few seconds of tea ceremony across the room, still communicating with their eyes.

Cheng Xiaoxia looked several more times suspiciously, still wondering if she could see any anomalies.

Her attention was completely drawn to the fleeting interactions between Xu Liangyuan and Noble Consort Su, naturally missing the fact that when Noble Consort Su lifted her cup of tea and Xu Liangyuan raised her cup immediately afterward, a small courtesan with a tray walked over towards Zhu Rong.

Before she could retract her eyes, she was pulled back hard by a strangled exclamation from her side.

"Slave girl deserves to die, slave girl deserves to die."

Cheng Xiaoxiao followed the voice and looked over, only to find that Zhu Rong had stood up at some point, and there was a palace maid with a tray kneeling at her feet.

That courtesan will have been white, kneeling on the ground to Zhu Rong kowtowed vigorously, the hand tray is clenched hard, knuckles are slightly white.

Going to look at the table behind Zhu Rong again, there was a knocked over teacup lying on that table, the tea lid shaking from side to side as if it was telling the story of what had just happened.

Something wrong?

Almost without having to ask, I could tell that it must be this palace maid who had just knocked over the tea cup.

Na Zhuyong ...

Cheng Xiaoxiao panicked and took a few steps closer to Zhu Rong's side, asking in a low voice,

"Are you all right, master?"

Zhu Rong patted Cheng Xiaoxiao's hand soothingly, signaling her to be at ease, while he himself took out a piece of pad and began to wipe the dress.

Cheng Xiaoxiao had been staring at Zhu Rong's face and hands just now, fearing that the courtesan had scalded Zhu Rong, so naturally she hadn't noticed that Zhu Rong's body was already wet.

Zhu Rong today wearing a crescent white palace dress, now being splashed to a tea stain is simply obvious to difficult to hide.

Cheng Xiaoxiao also anxiously pulled out a piece of handkerchief from his own bosom to wipe for Zhu Rong, for a moment the two of them actually no one had the time to blame the little palace maid who was still kneeling on the ground.

"No harm done, I can do it myself."

Zhu Rong looked calm and didn't seem to have much of a reaction, and even comforted Cheng Xiaoxiao in turn.

How could Cheng Xiaoxiao really listen to Zhu Rong's words, she didn't say anything more, and the most urgent thing was to half-bow her body to wipe the tea leaves and tea water still remaining on Zhu Rong's dress.

But winter clothes wear a lot, and most of them are thick fabrics, for splashing up the tea is very well absorbed, but this a moment of effort, the original crescent white dress turned into a greenish-yellow color of tea soup.

The little courtesan also knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously, kowtowed while begging for forgiveness with a sobbing voice, hoping that Zhu Rong has a large amount of adults can forgive her, do not chastise her clouds.

Cheng Xiaoxiao had originally felt guilty that it was her own fault for not taking care of Zhu Rong.

This will not be able to wipe clean the tea stains, and the little palace maid has been yelling beside her, she is really disturbed by the noise.

"Shut up! You did something wrong you should have come to help your master wipe off your clothes first, but now you're just going to keep kneeling on the ground begging for forgiveness and foolishly saying things that make people pity you, when our master clearly hasn't said anything yet."

Cheng Xiaoxiao loved to smile on weekdays, and even if she had changed her face this time she could still see the smile on her brow and eyes.

But she was genuinely angry in the moment, and those big eyes that always contained a smile now looked over with nothing but uncommon anger.

She coldly glared at the little palace maid who was still crying on the ground, and actually frightened the little palace maid into directly silencing her voice.

The little palace maid reacted for a while, wanting to argue something, but was interrupted by the voice coming from above Zhu Rong in the hall.

"What's all the ruckus?"

Noble Consort Su's voice finally came late, and her unruffled tone directly caused the little palace maid still kneeling on the ground to involuntarily shiver.

"Your Majesty, it was the slave girl's fault."

Although the body of the little palace maid is still a little shaky, but the speech is still quite sharp, in a few words to explain a general,

"Slave girl see Hyun Jieyu's tea is a bit cold, so I want to change the cup of tea for Hyun Jieyu, I didn't realize that a momentary slip of the hand knocked over the cup of tea, slave girl should be damned, I hope that Your Highness will forgive me."

When the little palace maid said that, Cheng Xiaoxiao kept looking at Zhu Rong and saw that Zhu Rong nodded at her, which made her believe the little palace maid's words.

It was best that this palace maid was telling the truth, or she would definitely tear the little palace maid apart with her hands later.

Originally do the wrong thing to say properly is nothing, she knows, according to Zhu Rong's nature will not be more with this courtesan to bother about anything.

But come up here and sell yourself short, begging for forgiveness of all sorts, saying you've done wrong, without even a single remedy.

Cheng Xiaoxiao then felt that this palace maid was disgusting.

You say she was scared silly did not think of remedies, but she knelt there eyes fluttering, mouth sharp as a whip, speak even more clearly, as if she had already thought about what to say.

Thinking about it this courtesan was even stranger.

Cheng Xiaoxiao thought with righteous indignation as she helped Zhu Rong wipe the tea stains.

Noble Consort Su's voice over there slowly sounded,

"Is Kyun-jae-yu hurt?"

"There is nothing wrong with my concubine, only that my dress is a bit soiled."

Signaling Cheng Xiaoxiao to stop, Zhu Rong himself bowed to Noble Consort Su and coldly returned.

"A soiled garment? That's no small thing."

Noble Consort Su's voice suddenly became meaningful for a few moments.

Zhu Rong did not reply, Cheng Xiaoxiao is still pondering the meaning of Su Guifei's words, that kneeling on the ground of the little palace maid is even more pathos and shouted out,

"Your Highness spare your life na! The slave girl didn't do it on purpose! The slave girl doesn't dare anymore, the slave girl will pay attention next time."

Cheng Xiaoxiao was scared again by this loud little palace maid's howl, she was really curious about what this Noble Consort Su's reaction would be, so she hurriedly turned her eyes to look at Noble Consort Su.

"Next time?"

Noble Consort Su's vermilion lips lightly opened, the corner of her eyes revealing a hint of chilling that seemed to be neither a smile nor a laugh.

"You shouldn't be begging for forgiveness towards this palace, you should be begging Gyun-jae."

Noble Consort Su didn't move and sipped the tea in her hand again, waiting until the tea in her mouth was swallowed by her before she continued,

"If Hyun-jae-yu has a good heart and is willing to forgive you, then you can go down and receive a punishment and this will be over. If Hyun-jae-yu refuses to forgive you ..."

Noble Consort Su's words didn't go on, she just silently went to sip the tribute tea in her hands again.

Is this putting the initiative on Zhu Rong?

Zhu Rong didn't push back, she bowed again to Noble Consort Su, then turned around and coldly waved her hand at the little palace maid,

"Go down and take your punishment."

The little palace maid who was crying in pain was still looking at Zhu Rong with her mouth slightly open, when she heard this she hurriedly kowtowed her head again in a desperate manner and went down with her tray in gratitude.

No one saw Su Guifei's lips, which were blocked by the teacup, evoke a sneer, and Xu Liangyuan, who was diagonally opposite Zhu Rong, had a vicious glint in her eyes.

Our Rong Rong is really kind-hearted, letting her down so easily.

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked somewhat unwillingly at the little palace maid who had already hastily retreated, always feeling that there was something wrong somewhere, but couldn't tell why.

It might be true that she was mentally overstimulated today, so she looked at everything and everyone awkwardly.

Cheng Xiaoxiao forced herself to return her attention back to Noble Consort Su and Xu Liangyuan in the hall, trying to continue observing their every move.

In fact, there was no need for Cheng Xiaoxiao to be more deliberate, because Su Guifei, who was sitting on the upper seat, once again opened her mouth,

"With the matter of the courtesan settled, would Hyun-jae-yu like to go and take care of her clothes?"

Su Guifei's words woke up Zhu Rong and Cheng Xiaoxiao, Cheng Xiaoxiao remembered Zhu Rong and she said, today Chu Hongzhen and the Empress will also come over, is Zhu Rong will be wearing this full of tea stains to meet the Holy Driver?