After the marriage, my husband's family listened to my voice and turned the tide

Shang Tingli returned to Xinyuan from the small Buddhist temple and decided not to think about Ke Yi for the time being and let the princess temper him first.

Fang Zhi handed her a card, "This is an invitation from the Duke of Huguo's Mansion, inviting you to come to the mansion the day after tomorrow to attend the lotus viewing banquet hosted by Miss Xu Er."

Shang Tingli took the post and took a look at it, and memories came flooding back.

The Palace of the Duke of Huguo is also the Palace of the King's Uncle, and is the maiden home of the current Queen.

In her previous life, the second daughter of the Huguogong Mansion also held a lotus appreciation banquet, which was the day after tomorrow. However, she was married to a sixth-rank guard at that time, so naturally she could not receive an invitation from the Huguogong Mansion. It was only when she met Yu Lanxi on the street later and showed off to her that she realized that this lotus appreciation banquet was not a simple banquet, but a banquet for the prince to choose a concubine held by the queen in the name of the Huguogong Mansion.

No wonder the Queen's decree arrived at the Imperial Tutor's residence the next day after the banquet. The Crown Princess was chosen at the banquet.

Perhaps the Queen had a premonition that the Queen Mother would die soon, so she made plans for the Crown Prince in advance. As for Princess Baozhen's marriage? The Queen loved her daughter and probably wanted to keep her for two more years, and it was impossible for a princess of a country to not get married.

How could the Queen know at this time that she would be defeated at the front and would be forced to marry the princess in humiliation?

Shang Tingli closed the invitation and asked affirmatively, "The princess and the county lord have also received the invitation, right?"

Fang Zhi replied: "You and the princess are the only ones invited to the mansion."

Shang Tingli nodded, not surprised.

After all, it was a banquet hosted by Miss Xu II, and she was doing things for the Queen Mother. Even if it was a sleight of hand, I think the guests invited were ladies and young ladies of similar age.

Logically speaking, the queen could have held a grand wedding in the palace. The adult princes haven't married yet. If she wanted to hold a grand wedding, other people's sons would have to be there to watch.

Shang Tingli guessed that maybe the queen didn't have the time for that.

……

Two days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was the day of Miss Xu's lotus viewing banquet.

For daytime banquets such as the Lotus Viewing Banquet, guests usually go to the host’s house in the morning, and the hospitable hosts will often invite guests to stay for lunch.

Shang Tingli went out after breakfast and met Ke Yishang on the way, and the two set off together.

We took a horse-drawn carriage and arrived at the Duke of Huguo's Mansion, which was neither too early nor too late.

Standing at the bottom of the stairs was a pretty and graceful girl wearing a light cyan-purple vertical-collared double-breasted jacket and a moon-white-blue horse-faced skirt.

It was Miss Xu II who came out in person to greet the guests.

Shang Tingli and Ke Yishang walked over, and Miss Xu stepped forward to greet Ke Yishang: "Greetings, Princess Lingyun."

"Sister Jinshu, you are too polite." Ke Yishang smiled and helped the person up.

Xu Jinshu also smiled: "Etiquette cannot be abolished."

Ke Yichang introduced Shang Tingli to Xu Jinshu and said, "This is my sister-in-law."

Xu Jinshu then turned to Shang Tingli and said, "Greetings, Crown Prince's Consort."

She had never seen the Crown Princess of Prince Ren's Mansion and did not recognize her. She did not greet her immediately because she was afraid of recognizing the wrong person.

Although Xu Jinshu only gave invitations to the two of them, there was no guarantee that the Crown Prince's wife would not come, but the Princess would come with others.

"Second Miss Xu." Shang Tingli nodded with a smile.

Xu Jinshu personally led the two of them in, and brought them to the pavilion beside the lotus pond in the Duke of Huguo's Mansion, and then went out to greet other guests.

"Sister Jinshu is Baozhen's cousin, and she gets along well with us." Ke Yishang briefly introduced their relationship.

Shang Tingli said, "Then Miss Xu must have a very good personality."

Ke Yichang smiled and said: "It's like 'beauty is in the eyes of the beholder', just like Lingyun in my sister-in-law's eyes, she is good in every way."

Shang Tingli laughed and turned around to admire the lotus.

The lotus pond was not small, and the pavilion where they stayed was also not small, in fact, it was a double pavilion.

The breeze is blowing, the lotus pond is rippling. Pearls are rolling in the jade plate, and lotus flowers are competing to put on their red makeup. Dragonflies are already dancing in the sky.

【It is really beautiful and worth watching. 】

Ke Yishang's eyes flickered slightly, and she hesitated. She twisted the handkerchief in her hand into a ball, and her face was hesitant. She opened her mouth several times but couldn't ask what was in her mind.

Shang Tingli turned around and saw her like this, and asked, "Is Lingyun worried about something?"

Ke Yishang tightened her fingers around the handkerchief and said, "Sister-in-law, I..."

She finally mustered up her courage, but the next moment, someone came over and interrupted her unintentionally: "Greetings to Princess Lingyun."

Ke Yishang: "No need to be polite."

The visitor looked at Shang Tingli beside her and asked, "Who is this young lady?" There was a hint of mockery in his expression as if he had guessed what she was.

Ke Yichang didn't like the way she looked at Shang Tingli, and frowned slightly: "Of course she is my sister-in-law."

"Oh, it turns out to be the princess's sister-in-law." She said in a very nonchalant tone.

Shang Tingli looked at her with a smile and said, "Yes, so you should greet me."

Ke Yichang suddenly stopped being angry, her expression softened, and she agreed, "Yes, Miss Zhou San."

Miss Zhou San's expression changed, and she knelt down and said, "Greetings to the Crown Prince's Consort."

Shang Tingli suddenly felt bored: "Get up."

After this incident, Miss Zhou San stopped coming over and went to the side to look for her little sisters.

Shang Tingli didn't care about this person, as he was just an unimportant person. He just asked Ke Yishang, "What did Ling Yun want to say just now?"

Ke Yichang looked around and saw that many people had come. She moved her seat and came closer to Shang Tingli, and whispered, "I want to ask my sister-in-law if she knows which family of young men in Beijing is good?"

Shang Tingli was shocked when he heard it.

[You, you, you... I didn't expect you to be so talented! Didn't my mother and I find Young Master He for you? Why are you still thinking about others? ]

Ke Yishang: “!” What a huge misunderstanding!

She said anxiously: "Sister-in-law, please listen to my explanation!"

Shang Tingli: "Ah? Go ahead."

[Sister-in-law was frightened. Next time, don’t say something that could lead to misunderstanding.]

"...Do you know why Sister Shu is holding the lotus viewing banquet today?" Ke Yishang asked.

Shang Tingli paused, then shook his head, and then looked at the lotus pond behind him, pointing at the beauties in the pond and said, "The fairy Lingbo is still and beautiful, but she also wears red makeup to imitate drunkenness."

[Where is the Lotus Appreciation Banquet? It's the Crown Prince's Concubine Selection Banquet. ]

Ke Yichang's heart skipped a beat. There was actually something about the prince involved. She suppressed her shock and whispered, "It's not just this reason."

Shang Tingli blinked: "Anything else?"

"Didn't mother arrange a marriage for me and the eldest young master of the He family? After Baozhen knew about this, she even asked the imperial aunt to pick a match for her." Ke Yishang's eyes wandered and he looked away, not daring to look her in the face.

In fact, she was the one who persuaded Baozhen to talk to the aunt about meeting someone. Whenever she thought of her sister-in-law's thoughts, that their Tianzhao Kingdom would one day be forced to marry, she felt a dull pain.

She and Baozhen were best friends, so she could avoid the fate of marrying a foreign prince. But what about Baozhen? Since she had obtained the prophecy, she could not bear to see Baozhen end up like that.

"Princess Baozhen?"

Shang Tingli frowned.

[There was no Princess Baozhen in the previous life. What went wrong? Could it be that because I interfered with Lingyun's ending, Princess Baozhen's side also changed? Isn't this butterfly effect a bit too big? ]