If you keep making noise, I won’t stand it anymore!

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. According to custom, the palace will hold a banquet to entertain civil and military officials. For this purpose, the beautiful woman has been busy for several days since she entered the palace, together with the ladies of the Chu, Feng, and Situ families, as well as the Second Princess.

Finally, before dinner yesterday, when everyone was almost exhausted from working, they finally completed the preparations.

The former court and the upper study also officially stopped writing and rested from the 29th to the 5th, and resumed work on the 6th.

It just so happened that the pots, pans, and utensils needed for the dinner party were in place. After Meixiang received the news, she immediately sent someone to notify the four major families, the Third Prince's Mansion, the Second Prince's Consort, and Sun Yu.

Invite them to have a dinner party at Fat Tiger and his friends’ new home on the 29th day of the lunar year to eat hotpot and barbecue.

When drawing up the invitation list, Meixiang was quite conflicted. The people invited this time were all those who had had close interactions with her and her over the years. In other words, Meixiang had owed favors to these people in one way or another.

As for the Third Prince's uncle and his wife, apart from the blood relationship and a brief encounter at the Ten-Li Pavilion on the day they entered the city, there has been no other connection between them over the years.

It is even possible that they had secretly tripped her up.

However, as people grow older, they will attach more and more importance to blood ties, and their tolerance for so-called relatives will be infinitely magnified. They will pay the most attention to family harmony.

In the end, Meixiang sent someone to invite them for the sake of the two men in the palace. As for whether they would come or not, that was not her concern.

Following the custom of previous years, this morning, the eight most powerful people in the Haoyue Dynasty gathered again in the humble house in the capital. Their main purpose was...

If Meixiang was also present, she would definitely sneer and say, "Isn't it just "year-end summary and next year's work plan"? Why make it so mysterious?"

The twenty-sixth year of Haoyue is generally a good year.

So everyone looked very relaxed this year, especially the emperor, who couldn't help but smile on his face.

"Time flies so fast. Another year has passed in the blink of an eye." Wang Huang said with a smile while holding a tea bowl.

"That's right. The four of us old guys have lived another year." Patriarch Situ responded, stroking his long beard.

Then the three heads of the family, Chu, Feng and Situ, respectively summarized and elaborated on the three major parts of ritual, household and military.

Patriarch Chu looked at the others present, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke: "Now that Xiao Feng'er and her daughter are back, I guess some people will be restless again."

Everyone nodded. Before Meixiang returned, those people only did some small actions in private, but now they might have to move to the open.

"But Xiang'er has no interest in this position! She would like to be as far away from it as possible." The emperor's eyes darkened and he said with emotion.

Except for the Situ father and son, everyone else present had strange expressions on their faces. They had always thought that Meixiang was young and did not really have a deep understanding of the significance of this position, so they just thought that what she said in her previous letters was just talk.

"Did she really say that?" Wang Huang couldn't help but clench his fists, turned his gaze to the emperor, and asked in a deep voice.

"Yes," the emperor nodded. He still remembered the situation vividly. "She said it herself in the imperial study a few days ago."

Does that mean that something unexpected will happen again? What Haoyue fears most now is something unexpected will happen.

Thinking of this, everyone turned their attention to the Chu family father and son. "The hexagram has not changed. The next monarch will still be from the Wang family's direct lineage."

Upon hearing this, all eyes returned to the Emperor.

He touched his nose and coughed dryly. Although he was reluctant to speak, he had to speak due to the current situation. The emperor had to try his best to avoid sensitive words.

"Xiang'er prescribed herbal medicine for me and the queen, every day. She also told us to give her brothers and sisters in the future."

"Did she really say that?" This was the second time Wang Huang asked the same question, but this time it was more urgent than before, and there was even a hint of nervousness in his tone.

Seeing his son nodded solemnly, Wang Huang finally breathed a sigh of relief. Meixiang never lied, and since she said that, it meant that she was at least 80% to 90% sure.

The heavy atmosphere in the room visibly changed from its previous dullness to lightness. As long as the foundation of Haoyue's Jiangshan design was not shaken, other things were trivial and could be solved.

"Your Majesty, please send more people to Xiang girl's side recently. I'm afraid that some people who can't see the situation clearly will make a desperate move. Our old bones can't stand being frightened again." The old head of the Chu family lowered his head in thought for a moment, then made a suggestion.

The last incident in Fuzhou Prefecture almost scared the four old guys half to death. It was enough to experience such a terrifying thing once.

"Okay, let's stop here today. I guess Xiang girl has almost prepared everything. Let's go quickly. If we go too late, the good stuff will be snatched away by those little bastards."

Seeing that the discussion was almost over, the old master Situ, who had been eagerly waiting, immediately stood up and made a suggestion.

The farm was more than ten miles away from the capital, and they had to cross half of the capital's streets, so it would probably be around noon before they got there.

In the main courtyard of the Second Prince's Mansion, the Second Prince's Concubine was hugging her two children and discussing today's lunch with her husband.

"Sir, do you mean that I should go and decline today?"

Mr. Chen stroked his long beard, his eyes accidentally met two pairs of slightly pleading eyes, and he immediately understood. At the same time, he also understood that the reason why the Second Princess asked this question was that she also wanted to go in her heart.

So, "If the two young masters want to go, it's not a bad idea to plan for it."

"Then, Cheng'er and Zhen'er, do you want to go?" The Second Princess lowered her head slightly and looked at the two children nestled in her arms.

Hearing this, Xiao Yuzhen carefully raised her head, opened her big, sparkling eyes, and asked in a low voice: "Mother, are you going? If you don't go, my brother and I won't go either, and we will stay at home with you."

Obviously, she wanted to go, but she was more concerned about the adults' feelings. The Second Princess' eyes were filled with tears.

She is obviously a daughter of a wealthy family and can live a carefree life, but because of her parents, she has to stay in this small palace with caution.

The Second Princess was so sad that she could not help herself. She finally suppressed her emotions and said softly to the two children, "Mother, please have someone prepare the carriage. You and Nanny should also pack up. We will set off soon."

"Yeah, thank you, mother." Xiao Yuzhen cheered immediately, looked up and kissed the Second Princess on the face, then took the nanny's hand and rushed to her room impatiently.

Xiao Yucheng plucked up her courage, followed her sister's example, and kissed her mother on the cheek, then ran out with a red face.