The palace banquet was scheduled to start at You hour. Ning Ziqing and others followed Concubine Wan and others to Chengqian Palace. When passing by the Imperial Garden, they met Concubine Qi and Princess Jiarou.

As the group walked together, Princess Jiarou cast unfriendly glances at Ning Ziqing from time to time.Ning Ziqing ignored him, and Huo Yunjue quickly stepped forward to block Ning Ziqing's side, blocking Princess Jiarou's view.

Princess Jiarou glared at him angrily.

"Be patient, don't conflict with her head-on." Huo Yunjue lowered his voice to remind Ning Ziqing.

"What should I do if she insists on provoking me?" Ning Ziqing raised her head and asked him. Huo Yunjue frowned slightly, indicating that she didn't need to worry.

They walked through the Imperial Garden and walked across an arched covered bridge. In front of them was the Chengqian Palace.

On the covered bridge, several eunuchs were poking a hornet's nest with sacks and long sticks. Concubine Wan hurriedly shouted: "We'd better take a detour, it would be bad if we get stung by a hornet."

After listening to Concubine Wan's suggestion, everyone agreed to take a detour to avoid the hornet's nest.But Princess Jiarou didn't care and walked straight to the covered bridge.

"What's so scary? Can't we just let the eunuch handle it after we get there?" Princess Jiarou said lightly.

"Jiarou, come back soon, that wasp is poisonous and you will feel uncomfortable if you get stung." Concubine Qi quickly stopped her.

"Auntie, it's not that scary. Didn't it fall?" Princess Jiarou hesitated and looked up at the huge hornet's nest.

After hearing her words, Huo Yunjue and others also looked at the hornet's nest that was still hanging firmly on the covered bridge.

Ning Ziqing secretly thought how great it would be if this hornet's nest fell on Princess Jiarou.

An imperceptible smirk appeared on her lips, and she said loudly and feigned fear: "This hornet's nest looks scary. Let's take a detour."

Princess Jiarou suddenly brightened up after hearing this: "Ning Ziqing, you are a coward. A hornet's nest scared you like that. You are really worthless." She stepped onto the covered bridge resolutely.

Concubine Qi had no choice but to ask the palace servants to follow her. When several eunuchs saw her coming, they stopped what they were doing and bowed and stepped aside.

Concubine Wan and others bypassed the covered bridge and walked onto another path.

However, before taking a few steps, Huo Yunjue suddenly stopped with a strange look on his face, looking around as if he was looking for something.

"What's wrong with you?" Ning Ziqing noticed his unusual expression and asked with concern.

Suddenly, the hornet's nest on the covered bridge fell down and hit Princess Jiarou on the head.In an instant, frightened wasps swarmed out and flew around in dense numbers, stinging everyone they saw.

"Ah, it hurts so much, please help me!" Princess Jiarou's miserable cry came from the covered bridge.Everyone looked back and found that she was surrounded by countless wasps and fell to the ground in a panic. The palace people and eunuchs did not dare to approach, and they all covered their faces and hid.

"Protect your concubine!" The nun beside Concubine Qi saw that something was wrong and immediately pulled Concubine Qi back.

Su Yanqi protected Ning Ziqing and Concubine Wan, and quickly started to hide away.

"Help!" Huo Yunjue shouted, and Cao Yanyan rushed onto the covered bridge with him.

Huo Yunjue kept waving his hand at the wasps in the air, quickly picked up the sack on the ground, and covered the wasp pupae inside.He took out a fire stick from his arms and lit it. Cao Yanyan covered her head and face with a shawl, then picked up Princess Jiarou from the ground and rushed out.

They evacuated to a safe place, but Princess Jiarou had been stung all over her body, and she was rolling on the ground in pain.

"It hurts, it hurts!"

"Quickly announce the imperial doctor!" Concubine Qi stepped forward anxiously, and as soon as she touched Princess Jiarou, she screamed in pain.

Concubine Qi didn't dare to help her up, so she had to scold the eunuchs harshly.

"What's going on? Why did the hornet's nest suddenly fall down? If the princess is wrong, I will chop off your heads!" Concubine Qi glared at the eunuchs with an extremely cold look.

"Back to your Majesty, the slaves don't know, well, why did the hornet's nest fall down so suddenly?" Several eunuchs knelt on the ground in horror, trembling with fear.

"Come here, drag me down and punish fifty big boards with a stick!" Concubine Qi ordered angrily.

"Concubine Qi, please spare your life!"

"Concubine Qi, please forgive me!" Several eunuchs quickly cried and begged for mercy.

"Concubine Qi calms down and brings Princess Jiarou back to the palace for treatment. The princess was stung badly by a wasp. If she is not treated in time, her life may be in danger." Huo Yunjue suggested.

"Thank you to His Highness Fourth Highness and Miss Cao for rescuing Jia Rou just now. I will thank you another day."

"Come here, please carry Princess Jiarou back to Bixin Palace." Concubine Qi nodded gratefully to him, ordered the palace servants to lift Princess Jiarou and left in a hurry.

Concubine Wan was extremely frightened by what had just happened. Seeing the red and swollen face of Princess Jiarou, she was simply miserable.If it is not treated properly and scars are left, she may be disfigured.

Ning Ziqing was expressionless, watching all this with cold eyes. She thought to herself that even God was helping her. She just wanted to tease Princess Jiarou, but she didn't expect that the hornet's nest would suddenly fall.

But when she thought about what Princess Jiarou did to her, she felt that she had brought it upon herself and deserved to be stung.

It's a good thing that she can't attend the palace banquet tonight, so as not to cause trouble to her again.She looked at Huo Yunjue in a good mood, but saw his serious expression and a hint of lust in his eyes.

"Concubine, you go to Chengqian Palace first, I will be there shortly." Huo Yunjue turned around and walked to the corridor bridge. Ning Ziqing couldn't ask him in front of everyone, so she had to continue walking with Concubine Wan.

Huo Yunjue returned to the covered bridge and carefully searched the place where the hornet's nest fell.Then he squatted down and kept groping for the floor tiles with his hands.He touched it for a while and suddenly felt a small foreign object.He picked it up carefully and looked at the light. It turned out to be a slender silver needle.

His heart trembled. This silver needle was exactly the same as the one shot by the boy in blue from the Witch Clan last time, except that this one was not poisonous.

Huo Yunjue showed an incredulous expression. He thought for a long time before putting the silver needle away in his arms.Then he looked around sharply and left.

When he arrived at the palace banquet, he bowed to Emperor Yao and then retreated to the men's table.

The prince smiled and deliberately scolded him.

"Fourth brother came late and has to drink wine as a penalty." Huo Yunjue smiled and bowed his hand to the prince.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, I will punish myself with three drinks." He picked up the jug, poured wine, and drank three glasses in a row.

"Today is a family banquet. The ministers are one family. There is no need to be formal and be casual." Emperor Yao in the palace looked cheerful and raised his wine glass and said to everyone.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everyone raised their glasses and toasted.

"Let's have a banquet!" Emperor Yao drank it all in one gulp, put down his glass and laughed.

Everyone knelt down and began to taste the dishes, talk to each other, and toast.

Not long after, several dancers wearing exotic costumes walked into the hall.A group of eunuchs also came in dragging a big drum.Everyone was curious, staring at the big drum and talking about it.

"This is this?" Emperor Yao also turned his head to ask Eunuch Wu who was standing aside in confusion. Eunuch Wu wanted to ask, but a dancer knelt down in the hall and reported back.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Jiaofang Secretary has arranged a new dance to present to Your Majesty."

Emperor Yao was still confused. He frowned and looked at the drum, and asked in confusion:

"What about this big drum?"

"This dance must be performed on the drum." The dancer replied respectfully, and everyone was a little surprised.They had never seen anyone dance on a drum and were looking forward to it.

Emperor Yao waved his hand, and the dancer stepped back to prepare.The hall fell silent for an instant, and the musician began to play a strange tune, which was refreshing.

The dancers gathered around the big drum and began to dance, but no one stood on the big drum to dance. Just when everyone was puzzled.

A young woman dressed in red stepped lightly with bare feet. Following her steps, the bells on her ankles made a pleasant sound.

The other dancers squatted on both sides, holding each other with their hands to form a bridge.The woman in red jumped up lightly, lightly stepped on the dancers' hands with her toes, and landed on the big drum with the help of her strength.

Her series of movements were clean, elegant and agile, and successfully aroused everyone's interest.

The woman in red slowly turned around, nodded and saluted Emperor Yao. She was wearing a golden mask, so that everyone could not see her true face.

She wore a very short dance dress on her upper body, exposing her skin from her navel to her waist.Her waist was slender and her skin was as white as snow. Some people in the men's seat looked away in embarrassment.

In the women's seat, some ladies could not help but blush when they heard the whispers coming from the men's seat.Some were secretly jealous of the dancer's beauty and figure, while others praised her grace and skill.

Ning Ziqing was surprised by this way of dancing. She watched every move of the dancer intently, looking forward to her performance.

Yao Emperor Feng's eyes slightly narrowed in the hall, his face slightly condensed.

The woman in red on the drum didn't care.She raised her hands in the air and kept clapping her hands to beat the beat, and her feet stepped briskly on the bass drum.

As the melody sounded, she began to dance on the drum. Her dance was like flowing clouds and flowing water, showing the femininity of women without losing the strength and strength of men.Her lithe dancing body and enchanting dancing postures make people deeply feel the charm of exotic customs.

Her charming appearance made everyone unable to take their eyes away.

The musician's music became more and more urgent, the movements of her feet became faster and faster, and her waist twisted more subtly and nimbly.The sound of the bells on her ankles and the sound of the drums overlapped and clicked together, like a galloping war horse, which made people feel excited.

She danced rapidly and charmingly.Those charming eyes seem to be able to capture the hearts and souls of all beings.

Emperor Yao couldn't help but lose consciousness for a moment, staring at the woman in red.

The tune slowly slowed down, and her dancing also slowed down, gradually tightening the movements of her feet and hands.Then, as light as a swallow, she jumped down from the drum and knelt on the ground to salute Emperor Yao.

"I wonder if your majesty will like this new dance that I have created?" The woman in red raised her head and smiled charmingly at Emperor Yao.

"Who are you?" Emperor Yao didn't recognize her.

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