bookrebus Chapter 231 Hongmen Banquet
Chapter 231 Hongmen Banquet
Coming out of the palace and sitting in the sedan chair, Che Xiang was holding the beautiful invitation to the palace banquet, feeling quite nervous.
She had already heard that Ye Jintang had been recuperating in the palace for some time and had not seen anyone.
Even if someone sent her visiting cards asking her to help with medical treatment, she refused them all.
Under such circumstances, it was simply impossible to let her enter the palace to attend the banquet.
As long as she said she was not feeling well and couldn't get out of bed, she would not invite anyone to the palace.
Che Xiang sighed slightly. She thought that after Nanny Hua's death, she would finally get through and become the confidant of Imperial Noble Consort Dehui.
But the truth was somewhat different from what she thought. Noble Consort Dehui didn't seem to like him.
If she had known this, she would not have dared to run to Imperial Noble Consort Dehui.
Now she has taken on such a difficult job. If she doesn't do well, she will have to hand over the position of head aunt to someone else.
Che Xiang, feeling rather nervous, finally arrived at Prince Qin's Mansion. She mustered up the courage to meet Ye Jintang and was even prepared not to even meet him in person.
"Aunt Che, please wait a moment. My mother is still reading a medical book. She should be able to recover soon."
"Then I'll wait here for a while."
Che Xiang just thought that Ye Jintang was deliberately making things difficult for her. She didn't think much about it and simply calmed down and prepared herself mentally to wait for Ye Jintang here for a long time.
She only took two sips of the tea in her hand when Luzhu came over and asked her to go in and see Ye Jintang.
Ye Jintang has a fixed time every day to study medicine with Master Mu. Even if Xiao Mo comes, he has to wait until she finishes.
When she heard that Che Xiang came to visit again, she vaguely guessed that it might be related to the banquet in the palace.
Noble Consort Dehui was really patient. If one plan failed, she would come up with another one. She was determined to keep them in the capital.
"This slave has met your empress."
After Che Xiang came forward to pay her respects, she handed the banquet invitation to Ye Jintang.
She was prepared to be troubled by Ye Jintang.
"Please trouble Aunt Che to make a special trip. Even if I am not feeling well, I will force myself to attend the banquet hosted by the Imperial Concubine."
Ye Jintang accepted the invitation with a smile.
Che Xiang, who was standing below, was stunned for a moment.
She hasn't said anything yet. Does Ye Jintang agree to attend the palace banquet?
A few days ago, she looked so sick that she couldn't get up, but now she was able to enter the palace to attend the banquet. Her transformation was too great.
When coming out of Prince Qin's Mansion, Che Xiang still had a sense of unreality. If the invitation in her arms had not disappeared, she would have thought she was dreaming.
"Your Majesty, why did you go to the palace banquet when you knew that Imperial Noble Consort Dehui had bad intentions?"
Nanny Zhang looked at Ye Jintang with concern.
The imperial palace is a place where people are eaten without leaving any bones. Ye Jintang would easily be targeted by Imperial Noble Consort Dehui when he attends the banquet.
If one step went wrong, the plan that she and Xiao Mo had prepared for so long would probably be ruined.
"If I don't go to the palace, Imperial Noble Consort Dehui will find all kinds of reasons to embarrass us. Instead of that, it's better to make a quick decision. I want to set the date for departure in the next few days."
"Madam Zhang, didn't I ask you to prepare things for the journey a long time ago? Please prepare them all."
"Your Majesty, everything has been prepared. Even if we have to leave early tomorrow morning, it will be no problem for this old servant."
"Okay, you should cheer up these days and be ready to leave the capital at any time."
"As long as we leave the capital, only good days will be waiting for us in the future."
Ye Jintang has endured for so long and finally feels that he is about to make it.
After going to Ningchuan Prefecture, besides Xiao Mo, she, the princess, was the most powerful person. Life was happy when there was no one putting pressure on her.
Not long after Che Xiang left, Xiao Mo came over again and said that he wanted to have lunch with Ye Jintang.
Ye Jintang looked up at the sun. There was still an hour before lunch time. Wasn't Xiao Mo here a little early? Was he very free?
"Just now I heard that Aunt Che sent you an invitation from Imperial Noble Consort Dehui. Are you going to attend the palace banquet?"
Xiao Mo asked Ye Jintang while eating fruits on the small table.
"I have this plan. I also want to take this opportunity to attend the palace banquet and familiarize myself with the layout of the palace."
"I can't wait until the last minute to enter the palace. If I get lost and waste time, it won't be worth it."
Ye Jintang said it easily, but Xiao Mo could understand the difficulty in her words.
"Imperial Noble Consort Dehui will definitely make things difficult for you. Why don't you just pretend to be sick at home? As long as you pretend to be sick, she won't be able to do anything to you."
"Pretending to be sick may work once, but if you use it too many times, it will be ineffective. If I am pretending to be sick, do you believe that Imperial Noble Consort Dehui will immediately go back to the Emperor and use my illness as an excuse to have us leave for Ningchuan Prefecture in September?"
Xiao Mo thought so too. Given Imperial Noble Consort Dehui's personality, she would most likely do so.
"Then I will accompany you to the palace for the banquet."
"It's useless. She wants to use me to hold the prince's hand. Even if the prince goes to the palace for a banquet, he can't stay with me forever."
Men and women sit at different tables, so it is impossible for Xiao Mo to accompany Ye Jintang to attend the banquet in the harem.
"I am not made of paper. I will deal with her moves. Since Imperial Noble Consort Dehui lost to me before, I can still make her wishful thinking fail this time."
“But I’m still worried.”
Xiao Mo's worry and concern were clearly written on his face. He was no longer boiling a frog in warm water towards Ye Jintang, but attacking him head-on.
According to his plan, he wanted to capture Ye Jintang when he set out to leave the capital, and tell her about Jiang Zhi at the same time, so that she would not have any obsession in her mind.
Thinking of this, Xiao Mo couldn't help but feel jealous of himself again. It was all his own fault. It was because he had so many aliases that Ye Jintang liked Jiang Zhi's alias more.
More importantly, his men are now wearing Jiang Zhi's vest.
Every time he saw Jiang Zhi’s alias, he got inexplicably angry.
"We will be leaving the capital soon. Have you settled all the merchants in the capital?"
"If we leave, Imperial Noble Consort Dehui will not take our property and destroy it, right?"
The medicinal materials of Bencaotang and her business of rouge and powder were both very popular and naturally could not be hidden from the eyes of Imperial Noble Consort Dehui.
If Imperial Noble Consort Dehui were to make trouble as soon as they left, it would only be a matter of time before the business was ruined.
"The Li family is ready to do the medicinal materials business with us at Bencaotang. Now I am waiting for Li Xian to make the final decision. As long as he agrees, our medicinal materials can be delivered directly to all the medicine stores opened by the Li family in Tianqin Country for sale."
"But the Li family has never been involved in the rouge and powder business, so we have to find another way."
"Oh, you mean the family of Lord Li Jinhui?"
"Yes, Li Xian is Li Jinhui's cousin. Even though Li Jinhui is quite old, Li Xian is only thirty-two this year."
“That’s pretty young.”
At the age of 32, he was able to take charge of the huge Li family's economic lifeline. Even Ye Jintang didn't dare to say that he could do this.