Harem Daily Life

Chapter 505: Bright, Cool and Cute

Just before leaving for the banquet, Chang Tai came back after finding out the news: "Your Majesty, Concubine Lu has been confined by Concubine De, and Concubine Liang will not attend the palace banquet today. Madam Liang has been treated by the imperial physician and has been sent out of the palace."

"Madam Liang is the wife of the Minister of Rites. She must be very unhappy about the disturbance caused by Lu Cairen today." Tao Yanyan took the hot water bottle handed over by Qingfeng and said, "Mingyue, please deliver the New Year gift prepared for Liang Zhaoyi. Don't forget to bring the red envelope for the Fourth Princess as well. Please comfort her for me."

Mingyue nodded and said to Qingfeng, "The roads are slippery in the snow, so you must not be distracted when serving the queen. I'll be back soon."

Qingfeng nodded slightly, indicating that he understood, and then carefully helped Tao Yanyan out of the room and slowly boarded the sedan chair. At this moment, the wind was cold, but there was a foot-warming hot water bottle in the sedan chair, which was a little higher than outside, so it was not too cold.

The three children were also wrapped tightly in thick cloaks, and like three little fat penguins, they staggered along as they followed Tao Yanyan.

The Yan State envoys were dressed in their best clothes and filed in. They were supposed to go back after drinking the wedding wine of Princess Qinghe, but the King of Northern Yan kept delaying, and finally it snowed and the roads were difficult to travel, so they stayed in Da Zhou to celebrate the New Year.

At this time, the King of Northern Yan, with a conspicuous scar on his face, still hid his identity and sat among the crowd of the Yan delegation. He looked towards the position of the concubines in the harem again and again, but still did not find that figure, and felt a little disappointed.

When he looked at the entrance of the hall for the nth time, the figure finally walked in slowly with the help of someone. His eyes lit up, but he was not happy for long before he frowned again, because he saw that there were three children around her - they were close to her, but they were obviously not her children.

Her face looked extremely young, perhaps seventeen or eighteen years old, and she definitely could not have given birth to a child this big.

The King of Bei Yan was a little annoyed. In order to prevent others from finding out that he was interested in her, he had not asked anyone to inquire about her. But when he saw her today, he was secretly annoyed because he didn't know her well.

Tao Yanyan naturally would not pay attention to the people of Yan State. Apart from being interested in Yan State's iron ore, she was indifferent to anything else related to Yan State - except for the three colors of plum blossoms that she had never seen before.

She brought the three children to their seats, and the three children sat obediently in the row behind her.

As soon as Princess Jing saw Tao Yanyan coming in, she left Prince Jing and went straight to Tao Yanyan.

"My Lady, I haven't seen you for a long time. I see your belly is bigger than when I gave birth. Calculating the date, I'm afraid you're still more than two months away from giving birth, right?"

Tao Yanyan saw that she had become a little plumper after giving birth, and had the temperament of a beauty from the Tang Palace. He smiled and said, "The twins are probably a little older. Come and sit down. I see that you look good, and it seems that you have taken good care of yourself. Where are the children? Didn't you bring them today?"

Tao Yanyan glanced in the direction of Prince Jing, but did not see the baby.

Princess Jing nodded and said, "It's too cold. If I carry him out, he might get blown by the wind. Besides, he's hard to take care of. I have to carry him everywhere. He even refuses to sleep under the blanket. I have to hold him to sleep. It's very annoying."

After complaining, Princess Jing looked at Tao Yanyan's belly and said, "You'll know when you're born. I was looking forward to it before I gave birth, but after I gave birth, I found that it was not as easy as when you were in my belly. Fortunately, there are so many people helping to take care of the baby, otherwise, I'm afraid I would be worn out."

Tao Yanyan listened with a smile on her face. The bright smile on her face made the King of Bei Yan, who was sitting diagonally opposite her, dazed for a long time.

As if she sensed someone staring at her, Tao Yanyan looked around and found that Prince Yong was looking at her. She was slightly startled and quickly looked away, but she didn't want to meet the scarred man she met in Prince Yong's mansion that day again. Her smile faded and her face turned cold.

King of Northern Yan: “…”

Hmm, bright and cool, how can she change her expression so quickly! But how come she is also a little cute?

The King of Northern Yan picked up the tea and took a sip, suppressing the thoughts in his mind.

Tao Yanyan stopped looking across and slightly turned his body to chat with Princess Jing, but his eyes kept looking towards the door, waiting for the emperor to come.

Fortunately, the emperor and the queen mother arrived quickly, and the palace banquet officially began after they took their seats. The dancers came in one after another, dancing gracefully in light gauze, and the music was melodious.

Princess Qinghe was accompanying Prince Yong today with Prince Yong's wife. At first she didn't realize that her brother had sneaked into the Yan State delegation. When she found out, her face turned pale.

She got angry when she thought about what happened to her in the Great Zhou and how King Yong married her but treated her coldly.

Now that she saw that her royal brother had come to the Great Zhou at some point and had even put scars on his face and was blending in with the Yan State delegation, she wanted to find an opportunity to tell her royal brother about her experience, hoping that he could find a way to hint at it, support her, and ask King Yong to be less cold to her.

She prided herself on her outstanding beauty, saying that she was not only younger and prettier than the old and ugly Princess Yong, but also prettier than Prince Yong's several concubines. However, except for fixed days a month when Prince Yong would come to her room to rest, he would not even set foot into her yard at other times. How could she, an experienced woman, tolerate this?

It would be fine if you had never experienced that kind of ecstasy, but what is most distressing is that you have not experienced it very often.

She also knew that the King of Yong might still be angry because she had exposed his lover, which led to the destruction of his collection of paintings. But when she first discovered the paintings, her mind was hot, she was really angry and couldn't bear it!

Thinking of this, she glared at Concubine Tao several times.

It's all this woman's fault. She has bewitched the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty and is now confusing the hearts of the Emperor's brothers!

Princess Qinghe gave a few instructions to the maid beside her, then she stood up, made an excuse to change her clothes, and left the hall.

When the King of Beiyan received the note, he cursed his stupid sister in his heart. But the note said that she had something on the King of Yong, so he was curious, so he got up and went outside while everyone was toasting.

Princess Qinghe found a secluded place to wait, and it took a long time for the King of Beiyan to come. When the two met, the King of Beiyan lowered his voice and said, "Are you stupid? I am hiding my identity in the delegation. You asked me out like this, what if I am discovered?"

Qing He didn't know if it was because of the cold weather or because he was frightened by the coldness of the King of Northern Yan, but he shuddered and said tremblingly: "I'm sorry, my royal brother, I really don't have many opportunities to come out, and you were by my side, so I was excited for a moment and didn't think too much. Please forgive me, my royal brother."

The King of Beiyan looked at her expressionlessly and said, "Time is limited. If you have anything to say, please speak quickly."

He was in a hurry to go back and see the beauty! The beauty looked so cute while eating, chubby and with puffy cheeks.