Seventh Master, Madam didn't go back to the mansion today.

Early in the morning, Mei Gong Yixue brought the envoys into the palace to meet the queen mother.It just so happened that the emperor was also paying his respects to the queen mother in Yaohua Palace.The two saluted the Empress Dowager together.

Xihe and the Queen Mother smiled and said, "Princess Izumo, are you still having fun in Daning Kingdom? The World Expo will be held soon, so you can stay and participate together!"

Mei Gong Yixue smiled: "Thank you Queen Mother for your hospitality, I had a great time playing, you are such a kind old grandma!!"

"A kind old grandma?"

It was the first time Xihe and the Empress Dowager were addressed like this, and she laughed even more happily: "Oh, this girl is really good at talking, Ai Jia likes it! Come here, and serve the princess the buttermilk cake newly made by the Imperial Dining Room."

Seeing the old queen so happy, the envoy next to her knew that the time was ripe for her to speak: "His Royal Highness, I have a small request, I wonder if I can speak."

"It doesn't matter if you say it." Xihe said the Queen Mother.

"The World Expo will be held soon, and the envoys of all countries will bring their wives to visit the Queen Mother and the Emperor, but the emperor of your country is alone, and the queen and concubine of your country will not come out to welcome the guests. Is it still the case in your country? Feudalism, why can't women be seen by others?" After Odagiri Yichuan said, he secretly glanced at the princess.

The emperor suddenly became energetic, and immediately felt that this was a good opportunity to beg the queen mother to release the concubine Zhen. He secretly observed the queen mother's expression.

The queen mother frowned and hesitated for a moment, then said: "Our queen can come out to welcome guests, but..."

Odagiri Yichuan added another sentence, speaking in a pressing manner: "Is there only the empress alone? I heard that the emperor of your country had a concubine and two concubines, and I also heard that the concubine Zhen is still imprisoned... You see, the World Expo will be held soon, and it will be a matter of great joy for everyone to release that Concubine Zhen!"

"Yes, yes! The queen mother, there will definitely be many reporters who will interview you at that time. Once they hear that the concubine of Daning Kingdom is imprisoned, they will definitely write about you! How can you be so kind and have such negative news! "Mei Gong Yixue also helped to persuade, her eyes blinked with innocence.

The queen mother looked at the pleading eyes of the emperor next to her, hesitated for a moment, and coughed lightly: "I didn't expect that the family affairs of my Daning country would spread to the outside world. This concubine Zhen made some mistakes, so the Ai family locked her up." It’s been a while now, and she knows she’s wrong, Ai’s family will consider releasing her.”

Hearing this sentence, the two felt relieved, looked at each other and smiled.After exchanging pleasantries for a while, they withdrew.

After the envoy from the Izumo Kingdom left with the princess, the emperor couldn't sit still, and asked earnestly, "Queen Mother, what the envoy said is reasonable, so you should release Concubine Zhen! She spoke for me before because she cared too much about me. She didn't mean to be in politics."

The Queen Mother didn't reply right away, she blew on the teacup in her hand, took a sip slowly and then put it down.

Since the emperor forced reforms last year, which almost touched the interests of the conservative ministers and the queen mother, the queen mother has been quite hostile to the emperor, and has always believed that the emperor and herself are not of one mind.She had long planned to establish a new crown prince to replace the emperor.

After a few rounds of twists and turns in her mind, she looked at the emperor meaningfully, and said: "It's fine to let Concubine Zhen go, but you have to promise Aijia to have a prince with the queen as soon as possible. And make this prince the crown prince. The emperor is old and has no heirs, which is not good for me, Daning."

The emperor thought for a while, and still agreed to the queen mother: "My son... just be obedient."

Different from the tit-for-tat in Yaohua Palace, the little princess who left the palace smiled very happily in the carriage.Yesterday Song Yitao promised herself that as long as the Queen Mother releases Concubine Zhen, she will help her to match up and bring Li Ruyu together with her.

Although the Queen Mother did not issue an order to release Concubine Zhen, she also agreed in her mouth, and her task was considered completed.Mei Gong Yixue came to Qianyin Pavilion excitedly, looking for Song Yitao to make her fulfill her promise to help her.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she came to Qianyin Pavilion in the palace, she saw Song Yitao having a busy evening banquet.The whole yard has been carefully arranged, and the old pagoda tree is covered with beautiful little lanterns and thousand paper cranes, and a lot of colorful love stickers have been cut, which is very warm and romantic. Meigong Yixue was stunned when he walked in and looked at it. s eyes.

As soon as Song Yitao saw Mei Gong Yixue, she warmly greeted her to come in for tea.

"Wow, it's so beautiful!! Tao, what are you doing!"

"You're here!! It's all for you! Li Ruyu has already agreed to Xiao Qiye, and will come to the banquet tonight."

Mei Gong Yixue was holding the tea, raising her small face with pride.

Song Yitao looked around, pulled the princess closer and said, "We won't show up for a while, let you and Mr. Li be alone for a while, and you stand under this old locust tree and make a wish. This is your line. If he asks you Already—who do you like? If you are making a wish for someone, then half the battle is done!! See my prompts for details!"

"clear!!"

Everything was arranged, and it was already dark.Xiao Qiye called Li Ruyu for help and separated Li Ruyu and Qiao Tongzhi, and found an excuse to let Li Ruyu go to Qianyin Pavilion first, and they will arrive later.Song Yitao and a few servants are in charge of the "atmosphere group" to play some elegant music and blow some air bubbles.

"Ahem!!" Song Yitao reminded that Li Ruyu was coming.

Mei Gong Yixue hurriedly turned her back to the door, put her palms together to make a wish, secretly looked at the note in her palm, and read: "Old locust tree, you are a hundred-year-old tree, I hope you can hear my wish——hope My family and friends are safe and happy, and I hope that the person I like can be successful and stay with me."

After she finished her lines, her heart beat faster, and she turned away with a blushing face.But I saw Li Ruyu sitting at the table peeling the oranges, with an indifferent expression on his face.Meigong Yixue took a deep breath, and then said very artificially: "Ah, why are you here! Did you hear me?"

Li Ruyu threw the orange into his mouth without even looking at the princess: "What did you hear? Brother Qiao and the others? Didn't you invite me to eat?"

Song Yitao rolled her eyes and whispered, "Pretend to fall!"

Mei Gong Yixue frowned, thinking: Push him down? ?

She believed Song Yitao very much, so she did it - she went up and pushed Li Ruyu down with force.Just as Li Ruyu was about to throw another orange into his mouth, she was pushed to the ground all of a sudden, with a dazed expression: "What are you doing, what are you doing!!"

Song Yitao was so angry that she stomped her foot hard.Mei Gong Yixue turned her head, saw her action, and immediately had an epiphany, and also went up and stepped on Li Ruyu's chest, just as Li Ruyu was about to get up, she was stepped on for no reason.

Qi Yutao and Qiao Tongzhi, who were hiding behind the door to watch the situation, stared wide-eyed, speechless in surprise.Qiao Tongzhi couldn't stand it anymore: "If we don't go there, Ruyu will be beaten to death!!"

After all, Qiao Tongzhi rushed over to help Li Ruyu up, and the others couldn't pretend any longer, and they all came out from behind the door and corridor. Li Ruyu just wanted to scold a few words but Xiao Qiye persuaded him to come down.

Several people sat down to eat together, Song Yitao looked at the awkward atmosphere between the two of them, in order to relieve the embarrassment, she raised her wine glass: "Come on, let's toast together, I will pay you tonight, we will drink like crazy!"

The two angry men raised their glasses to show Xiao Qiye's face.Xiao Qiye hurriedly snatched the wine glass from Song Yitao's hand: "Who told you to drink!!"

"Ahem, mine is water, it's water." Song Yitao smiled mischievously.

The atmosphere during the banquet was still a bit awkward, Song Yitao taught everyone to play a game together: "Let's play the truth or dare together! The main thing is to beat the drums and pass the flowers. Whoever loses must accept a truth-telling question from everyone present. If you can’t answer the question, you will be punished!”

Qi Yutao got excited and took the lead to warm up the scene: "This sounds fresh! Let's play with this!!"

Song Yitao winked at Qi Yutao to let him go, mainly to match Princess Izumo and Li Ruyu.Qi Yutao returned a knowing look.

At the beginning of the first round, Qi Yutao beat the drums with his back to everyone, and Song Yitao started to pass flowers. Booing, one after another asked questions to torture her.

"Excuse me, who will you fall in love with first, you or Xiao Qiye?" Li Ruyu asked.There were several curious glances from behind.

Song Yitao stood awkwardly on the spot, thinking: Didn't he plan to ask Mei Gong Yixue and Li Ruyu?How did you turn into asking me? ?

After finally satisfying the intense curiosity of the melon-eating crowd, the second round started, but when Xiao Qiye yelled to stop, the flower fell into Song Yitao's hand again.

Qiao Tongzhi helped out and said, "Miss Song just got the flowers just now, so it doesn't make sense to ask again, how about doing it all over again?"

Everyone agreed, but two or three times in a row, the flowers ended up in Song Yitao's hands! ! !

Song Yitao immediately exploded, and stopped playing!This is not matching the princess and Li Ruyu, it's matching herself!This time, she might as well play the drums by herself, she glared at Xiao Qiye to let him have some brains, Xiao Qiye could only curl his mouth and grit his teeth to admit his failure.

Song Yitao started beating the drums with his back to the crowd, but luckily, he beat the drums to spread the flowers and finally fell into the hands of Xiao Qiye.Xiao Qiye had an idea, stuck at the last moment, forced the flower into Li Ruyu's hand, and let him suffer this dumb loss if he blocked him: "It's finally you!! Let me ask you, who is your favorite woman? who??"

The scene became quiet... The princess blushed, and everyone looked at Li Ruyu expectantly.Li Ruyu froze in place, hesitating for a few seconds.

Song Yitao hurried over and yelled: "It must be in the shortest possible time!! Three, two, one!!"

"It's a female youth. Nangong female youth."

When Meigong Yixue heard these words, the smile on her face disappeared little by little, and everyone fell silent.