The luxurious Taiji Palace was filled with ministers and their families. Women in brightly colored clothes sat beside their parents and looked at the nobles from time to time. Several concubines sat in Taiji Palace. Although the emperor had many concubines, only three of them were present today. Emperor Shang was wearing bright yellow casual clothes and sat in a high position. His shrewd and pressured eyes looked at some ministers from time to time. Those ministers seemed respectful but were actually a little scared.
"Your Majesty, now that everyone is here, why don't we start?" Concubine Xin said with a smile as she looked at the emperor above. She was dressed in a purple palace dress for concubines and had delicate makeup on her face, which made her look even more charming and beautiful. A golden hairpin with eight treasures and pearls on her bun was shining brightly, and it was adorned with countless pearls and jade, making it a scene of jewels.
Concubine Xin had a son and a daughter in the palace. The son was the current Third Prince Shang Chengying, and the daughter was the current Grand Princess Shang Qinmi. Concubine Xin had always been a spoiled woman in the palace, and she often acted like a spoiled child regardless of the occasion, but Emperor Shang had never been dissatisfied. After all, since Emperor Shang met Queen Qiu, he had never turned over the cards of other concubines. Even though Queen Qiu had passed away thirteen years ago, Emperor Shang had never summoned concubines to sleep with him.
"All here? There's still one person who hasn't come. As the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, he didn't come to the Emperor's birthday today. How shameful!" Concubine Qin said dissatisfiedly. She was wearing a snow-colored flowing cloud brocade concubine's palace dress, her hair was scattered like seaweed, and her beautiful face was somewhat charming and charming, but when she talked about the Crown Prince, her glass-like eyes flashed with a trace of resentment and viciousness.
Concubine Qin was an old figure in the palace. She had been a concubine when Shangguo was still the crown prince, so she was also the first concubine to give birth to a prince. But unfortunately, her child was not named crown prince. Concubine Qin had only one son, the eldest prince Shang Chenzhao.
Concubine Qin's words made everyone search in the Taiji Hall but they couldn't find the rumored prince. They couldn't help but feel confused. Could it be that the rumors among the people some time ago were false, and the prince was still the same pus-filled prince?
Huan Moche frowned for a moment, thinking that Concubine Qin's words were too detrimental to the prince. It turned out that the prince's situation was so difficult. Thinking that such a smart and sensitive boy had grown up in such a dirty environment, Huan Moche suddenly looked at Concubine Qin with extreme displeasure, and even wanted to teach her a lesson. If it weren't for his strong self-control, he would really do such a thing. But why did he do this? Just because he was the prince's tutor?
Leng Yufeng looked around and saw that there was indeed no prince in the palace. He couldn't help but feel a little confused. He had clearly seen the prince enter the palace at the gate, but the prince was not here at this time. What was going on? Did the prince encounter something or did he simply not want to attend the banquet? Leng Yufeng would not believe the speculation that the prince was afraid, because the prince's eyes were more terrifying than those beasts he had seen. What was there to be afraid of such a person?
Concubine Qin smiled triumphantly. Ever since her son was framed by the crown prince on the street, Minister Bai actually advised the emperor that the eldest prince was ignorant of etiquette. Her son was ordered by the emperor to stay in the palace to reflect on his mistakes, and was not even allowed to attend the emperor's birthday party. She had been laughed at by countless concubines in the palace.
Emperor Shang just sat there with no emotion, making it impossible to tell whether he still hated the prince or had changed his mind about him. They wanted to see something from Emperor Shang's face, but as an emperor he no longer showed his emotions on his face, so how could he let others see what he was thinking?
(End of this chapter)