After rebirth, I cried and criticized the prince

The winter banquet was as grand as ever. This was the first time that Helan Xuenuo was invited to attend a palace banquet, or strictly speaking, the second time.

The seating arrangement here is also very interesting. The young ladies of civil officials are lined up together, and the young ladies of military officials are lined up together. Similarly, the young masters also sit like this.

In Donglai State, civil officials looked down on military officials for their lack of knowledge, while military officials looked down on civil officials for their ability to only talk about this prosperous era.

Helan Xuenuo and Qi Didi sat side by side at a dining table, and next to her were the young ladies from the civil servants' families.

She turned around and, as expected, saw Shen Yinzhen, the daughter of the Minister of Personnel, sitting next to her at a rosewood table, looking around with disdain. Remembering Shen Yinzhen's mocking words in her previous life, Helan Xuenuo was thinking about how to embarrass her even more.

As the palace maids entered carrying various dishes, the banquet began.

The first dish was mutton soup. The soup was white and the meat was stewed until it fell off the bones, soft, tender and fragrant. The hall was filled with the aroma of mutton.

On either side of the palace sat young ladies and gentlemen from various aristocratic families. Atop the high steps of the main hall stood a golden phoenix dining table, and seated at it was the most distinguished woman in Donglai State. Helan Xuenuo glanced at Qi Didi, who was standing beside her. Qi Didi's gaze lingered on the empress, a dark current swirling in her eyes.

Sitting in the front row were the princes and princesses, while the second prince and the third prince sat opposite each other. When she glanced around, she accidentally met Gu Yanli's gaze. Gu Yanli smiled at her, and Helan Xuenuo smiled back and then looked away.

If that were the case, Gu Shicheng was not at the banquet. Otherwise, his appearance would have surely caused endless discussion among the girls from the aristocratic families.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

A pot of lamb wine warmed on the stove above the table. The aroma of the wine filled her nose. She picked up the liquor prepared by the palace maid and drank it all in one gulp. The lamb and the liquor combined made her body feel warm, and her cheeks were also hot.

After two drinks, she felt like someone was staring at her. She followed his gaze and saw Yuan Xu raising his eyebrows at her, holding a glass of lamb wine and drinking it all in one gulp.

Yuan Xu sat beside a large pillar, on which two golden dragons circled, making him look particularly masculine.

"Sister, I suddenly have diarrhea. I'll be back soon." Qi Didi whispered in Helan Xuenuo's ear, touching her stomach, looking very uncomfortable.

As expected, just like in her previous life, what happened next was her meeting with Gu Shicheng.

Helan Xuenuo chuckled and shook her head.

Shen Yinzhen on the side said, "Hey, sister Helan? You are here too? I heard that sister is engaged to the young general of Yuan Mansion? I heard that the soldiers are all rough men and don't know how to sympathize with others... sister, you have to eat more mutton to replenish your body." After saying this, Shen Yinzhen smiled while covering her mouth with her hands, and looked at Helan Xuenuo with a playful look in her eyes.

Helan Xuenuo and Shen Yinzhen have always been at odds with each other. It first started when they were children and fought over a Cuju ball, and then when they grew up, they fought over a piece of fabric in a silk shop.

Helan Xue looked at Shen Yinzhen with a smile in her eyes. "Oh? It's true that most of the men in the General's Mansion are rough, but I didn't expect that you know so much about them. Could it be that you've already experienced sex for the first time? So you want me to eat more? Then I will definitely eat more."

Shen Yinzhen's face instantly turned red, even her ears, and she glared at Helan Xuenuo angrily, "You...you are so shameless..."

Helan Xuenuo replied indifferently, "I dare not, I dare not." After that, she drank another glass of liquor and left the banquet.

She wanted to see how she fell in love with Gu Shicheng in her previous life, and what made him worthy of her love?

She stood by the Huaqing Pool, blowing on her hands.

As spring is approaching, a lot of snow has melted, and the water in Huaqing Pool is flowing gently. However, the weather is extremely cold, and the water in the pool can't help but emit a few traces of cold air.

Thinking that Qi Didi was about to fall into the Huaqing Pool, her body shuddered.

He couldn't help but rub his hands together and exhale, sighing, "Qi Didi, you are so cruel to yourself! If you had been pulled out a little later, you would have probably caught a cold."

Although Qi Didi was married to the second prince Gu Yanli as a concubine in her previous life, she was crowned queen after the second prince ascended the throne and became the most noble woman in Donglai Kingdom.

She gave birth to three sons, but what about Helan Xuenuo? Her child was aborted by Gu Shicheng.

The bowl of medicine for maintaining pregnancy that day was actually a bowl of medicine for abortion.

The imperial physician found out that she had lost the child due to the abortion drug, but the old princess stubbornly believed that she had killed the child with her own hands.

It was also because Qi Didi told the old princess that she saw Helan Xuenuo buy abortion medicine.

The pharmacy clerk was bribed by Qi Didi and identified her in front of everyone.

She couldn't argue.

How ridiculous?

After thinking about it, she touched her abdomen with her right hand, and her hands were extremely cold.

She turned her head to look at the end of the cobblestone road. Gu Shicheng and Qi Didi walked out slowly. Gu Shicheng brushed off the fallen snow on Qi Didi's body as he did in the past. The white of Gu Shicheng was particularly dazzling in her eyes. Her palms suddenly became hot. She stopped rubbing her hands and let them drop. She grabbed the hem of her skirt with one hand and looked at Gu Shicheng fiercely.

When Gu Shicheng turned around and met Helan Xuenuo's gaze, he felt a hatred in Helan Xuenuo's cold eyes, and that hatred seemed to devour him completely.

Helan Xuenuo didn't walk towards them. She looked at Gu Shicheng standing opposite her, and a tear welled up in her eyes, seemingly out of her control. She felt a little angry at herself for not living up to her expectations. She wiped her tears and turned to look at Huaqing Pool.

When she turned around again, Qi Didi was already beside her. Qi Didi gathered her cloak, glanced at Helan Xuenuo, and asked doubtfully, "Sister, is it my illusion? Are you acquainted with that young man just now?"

Helan Xuenuo thought to herself, "More than just knowing him? He's wounded me to the point of being completely destroyed, and helped you destroy my family. How could I not know him?" She couldn't help but chuckle.

Qi Didi heard her words uttered through gritted teeth, "I don't know you, and I hope we never meet."

Qi Didi reached out and held Helan Xuenuo's hand, rubbing it between her own hands.

"Sister, it's cold. Let's go back to the palace and have a few cups of hot wine to warm ourselves up."

In her previous life, when she and Qi Didi returned to the palace, she got drunk and was sent back to the mansion early by the servants, so she missed Qi Didi's good show.

This time, after Qi Didi's repeated persuasion, she only drank one or two cups, and then stopped drinking on the pretext of feeling uncomfortable.

Shen Yinzhen, who was still fuming over what she had just said, mocked him again, "A young lady from the General's Mansion can only drink so much? After you left just now, your young master followed you, didn't he?"

Helan Xuenuo looked towards the pillar opposite and found that Yuan Xu was indeed gone.

As she was speaking, the Queen slowly walked down the stairs and invited the Prime Minister's daughter Huang Xie'er to go out of the palace to appreciate the plum blossoms.

In the previous life, Huang Xieer and the Third Prince met because of this winter banquet and got married. However, in the end, they were nothing more than a handful of yellow sand. The Third Prince probably didn't expect how he would die at the hands of his brother.

She still remembered how Huang Xie'er had blocked three arrows for the Third Prince, but it was all in vain. Even if the Third Prince had voluntarily withdrawn from the race for the throne and knelt begging for mercy, he would still have died at the hands of Gu Yanli, or more accurately, at the hands of Qi Didi, after all, the fatal arrow had been fired from Qi Didi's hand.

Helan Xuenuo had no idea that Qi Didi was so skilled and good at holding a bow.

Following the Third Prince's "Okay," everyone followed the Queen out of the palace.

Helan Xuenuo hadn't gotten up yet. Qi Didi seemed restless and impatient. Helan Xuenuo was not in a hurry. She glanced at Shen Yinzhen, who hadn't gotten up either, and teased,

"Sister Shen? I've always heard that you can hold your liquor quite well. I guess you've developed that ability by going to Wenxiang Tower every day and drinking too much Wenxiang wine? I've also heard that the Prime Minister's eldest son, Huang, also likes to go to Wenxiang Tower, but after every day he goes to Yunxiang Pavilion for some intimacy. I've seen the top performer at Yunxiang Pavilion once, and she wasn't quite as impressive as you. Sister? Are you acquainted with the eldest son, Huang?"