Young Master, my wife brought the memories of her past life and was reborn to save the house.

"Shifeng told me that there are two forces secretly searching for the whereabouts of the Jiang family. In the past half month, the number of imperial guards patrolling the palace posts has suddenly doubled. Especially today, the palace posts are heavily guarded."

The martial arts of these heavy soldiers are higher than those of ordinary Forbidden Army. They have high military ranks and are also the best among the Forbidden Army.

Among them, Jiang Xinzhu, the leader of the Forbidden Army, was a very difficult person.

He is Jiang Xingui's younger brother.

"If my guess is correct, among the two forces, one comes from the Xie family, and the other is from the emperor's people."

Shen Wan's guess was correct. He had been secretly looking for the surviving Jiang family members.

"The prince sent people to search for the Jiang family in the capital for so long, but they couldn't find the Jiang family. He must have guessed that someone sent the Jiang family to the palace. Although today is the Queen Mother's birthday, it is also a dragnet set by the emperor for the Jiang family."

"Then the Jiang family will definitely find an opportunity to assassinate the emperor or the prince at the banquet to avenge all the men in the Jiang family."

She had previously advised the women and children of the Jiang family not to rush forward, and only by surviving could they avenge the dead.

But judging from various performances now, the Jiang family's women and children will still follow the old path of their previous lives, but they will not succeed and will only bring a stigma to the entire Jiang family.

It will also make it even more difficult for the Xie family, which has military power.

When she rescued the Jiang family's women and children, wasn't she also saving the Xie family?

Xie Yujin raised her sleeves and held them in front of her. She coughed several times, then lowered her head and replied, "I'll cooperate with you."

After talking to Shen Wan, Xie Yujin coughed many times.

Zhou heard Xie Yujin's cough and turned her head to look over.

Shen Wan used this moment to throw a pill into Xie Yujin's tea. Xie Yujin took one look at it, picked up the tea and swallowed it together with the pill in the cup.

At this moment, the servant's announcement came from outside the palace: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived——"

"The Queen Mother has arrived——"

"His Royal Highness King Jin has arrived——"

Everyone at the table stood up one after another.

Emperor Jinglong also stepped out of the dragon throne to greet Empress Dowager Liu.

Everyone in the palace saluted the Crown Prince, King Jin and Queen Mother Liu in unison, and also said a bunch of birthday wishes to the Queen Mother.

Empress Dowager Liu was supported by the King of Jin and the Crown Prince and walked into the main hall and stopped in front of the palace gate.

She is wearing a blue peony lace robe, a dragon and phoenix crown on her head, a flower-shaped pearl hairpin on the back, a Xia pei on her coat, and a pearl chain around her neck. She looks rich, very graceful and luxurious.

Empress Dowager Liu said with a smile on her face: "Today is the birthday of the Ai family. All ministers are celebrating together. There is no need to be constrained by etiquette. Everyone, please take a seat."

"Thank you, Queen Mother." Everyone in the palace expressed their gratitude in unison.

Emperor Jinglong stepped forward and helped Empress Dowager Liu to sit down. Prince Jin walked straight to Princess Jin, stretched out his hand to support her, and sat on the same table with her.

When Mo Junli walked past Shen Wan's banquet table, he lowered his eyes slightly and looked in the direction of Shen Wan, but soon, he walked in the direction of Shen Lian.

He sat on the left hand side of Queen Shen, on the right hand side were Shangshu Shen Zhengyi and Jing Miaoyi, while Shen Lian sat at the same table with Shen Third Young Master Shen Chengyi.

After Mo Junli sat down, he looked in Shen Lian's direction.

He found that Shen Lian was very different today. The phoenix flower adorning her right eye was very pretty, which made her skin white and delicate, making it dazzling.

Sitting upright on the seat, straightening her waist, revealing her long and thin white neck, her whole body exuded a soft light.

If the occasion hadn't allowed it, he would have wanted to go find Shen Lian now. But thinking that after the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, Qin Tian Jian would choose a wedding day for him and Shen Lian, Mo Junli secretly suppressed the fire in his heart.

Soon, he and Lian'er will get married in less than a year. After all, he is not young and has no children yet. He still wants to marry Lian'er into the East Palace as soon as possible and give birth to a grandson with Lian'er as soon as possible.

Only a prince who has an heir can completely block the Liu family's party and the King of Jin's faction.

At this time, Shen Lian suddenly turned her head and looked at him.

Mo Junli saw that Shen Lian's eyes were red and full of tears, as if she had been greatly wronged.

He frowned and moved his lips: What's wrong with Lian'er? Who bullied her?

He looked back at Li Changfu.

Li Changfu immediately approached, bent down and asked, "Your Highness, what are your orders?"

"Go and find out where Miss Shen Er came from just now. Who was she with? What happened?"

"Yes, I will go out and ask now."

After Li Changfu went out, he came back soon and whispered in Mo Junli's ear: "Back to His Royal Highness, Miss Shen Er and the Empress came from Ziwei Pavilion just now. Also coming to Star Picking Tower with them were Princess Jin, Mrs. Shen, Mrs. Xie, and many other noble ladies in the capital."

"It is said that Second Miss Shen competed in poems with other noble ladies at Ziwei Pavilion and was appreciated by the Queen and Princess Jin. However, later, for unknown reasons, she had a conflict with Second Miss Gu family."

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Mo Junli looked at Mrs. Gu and Miss Gu Gu Mingyu who were sitting opposite.

Miss Gu Er was famous for being domineering. She must have bullied his Lian'er.

However, what surprised Mo Junli was that his Lian'er actually knew how to compose poetry. He had never known Shen Lian's talent before.

He looked at Shen Lian with even more intense eyes. He must find an opportunity to write poems with Lian'er someday.

But Mo Junli didn't know that Shen Lian was full of grievances and hatred because of Princess Jin.

How could Prince Jin like such a hypocritical woman? She was not worthy at all.

At this time, the Minister of Rites took the birthday gifts presented by hundreds of officials, various states, county governors and local government offices.

"Hundreds of officials congratulate me on my birthday, and the Jin Dynasty will make history. I present as a gift a pair of red agate phoenix-patterned goblets."

"The governor of Qingzhou, I would like to present you as a gift to Laoshan Tanfu's birthday boy."

"The Sheriff of Taiyuan County presents a pair of emerald agate bracelets."

……

"Lord Chen from Zhongshu Province, I would like to present a golden birthday girl holding a fairy peach ornament."

"Master Li, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, would like to present..."

They were all ordinary gifts. Empress Dowager Liu would receive many for her birthday every year. When she heard the people from the Ministry of Rites announcing the birthday gifts with gift lists and the birthday gifts presented by the palace people, Empress Dowager Liu had a smile on her face, but she couldn't remember the slightest bit about these mundane things. interest.

until……

"Master Shen, the Minister of Rites, presents a picture of the Twenty-Eight Stars."

Several palace attendants carefully took the painting out of the treasure box, and about five or six chamberlains unfolded the painting of the Star King together.

In the painting, representative figures of each constellation are displayed in front of everyone.

Queen Mother Liu's fingers were trembling with excitement. She stood up from the chair unconsciously and stared at the birthday gift presented by Shen Zhengyi with burning eyes.

Even Emperor Jinglong was surprised: "Master Shen, didn't you say that this painting was lost a few days ago?"

Shen Zheng stood up, walked to the front of the palace and replied: "Back to the emperor, the third son of the minister found the painting again. Fortunately, there was no damage at all, so the painting was completely presented to the queen mother and the emperor."

"Empress Mother, I will help you go over and have a look." Emperor Jinglong knew that the Queen Mother had been looking for the Star King Picture. Although he didn't know what the Star King Picture meant to the Queen Mother, when he saw the Star King Picture just now, he also I was deeply shocked by the representative figures of the stars in the painting.

He supported the Queen Mother and walked to the Star King Picture.

Empress Dowager Liu stared at the characters in the painting and was so excited that she could not speak.

She was lucky enough to see this painting at the Nanyang Art Exhibition. At that time, it was isolated by a transparent piece, so people could only view it from a distance, but it made Empress Dowager Liu miss it for a full ten years.

Emperor Jinglong sent people to inquire about the situation of the painting, but the owner of the painting did not agree to sell it.

It is said that in the past two years, the owner of the painting was impoverished due to painting, so he put the painting of Xingjun up for auction.

The Shen family really brought the painting back.

As soon as Shen Zheng saw the attitude of the emperor and the queen mother, a lot of the depression that had accumulated in his heart dissipated.

But when the minister who read out the gift list was about to check the next birthday gift, he frowned deeply and said, "Why is there still a "Picture of the Twenty-Eight Stars"?"