Chapter 230 (1/2)

Feng Yu Heng tugged one corner of her lips into a smirk and patted the gourd. She then raised the cup of tea in her hand and toasted him.

Xuan Tian Ye did not avoid it. Raising his cup, he downed its contents.

At this time, the singing and dancing performances had begun. Beautiful dancers went to the perform on both sides of the hall. Their movements were graceful, and their clothes were beautiful. From time to time, people would exchange cups. This was nothing more than a banquet, and it did not have anything that was fresh.

Xuan Fei Yu was the young star of this birthday banquet, so he naturally could not leave the main stage. He was presently playing around with his many uncles.

Feng Yu Heng looked around the hall before finally returning her gaze to the area before her.

To her left, the young misses, who had lost face earlier, had already left. On her right, Fen Dai moved a little closer and sat next to Xiang Rong; however, she was unable to control herself and continued to look towards Chen Yu.

Chen Yu said a few words to the young misses next to her before everyone went their own way, with Chen Yu moving closer.

Fen Dai did not want to be too close to her and wanted to move further, but she was not willing to look away from the crystal ornaments.

For some inexplicable reason, under Fen Dai’s burning gaze, Chen Yu raised her hand and removed her white crystal earrings.

“Elder sister saw that fourth sister likes this item. If younger sister does not mind, you can take it.”

This action not only caused Fen Dai to freeze with shock. Even Feng Yu Heng furrowed her brow.

What sort of situation was this?

Some of the nearby young misses heard what Chen Yu said and could not help but blurt: “You are going to give away such a valuable thing?”

Chen Yu smiled at the person who spoke up and calmly said: “This is my family’s fourth sister. I am the elder sister. Even if I have great things, so long as my younger sister likes them, I will need to give them to my younger sister. But this set of head ornaments was gifted by a very noble person, so it would not be good to give it away entirely, otherwise” She looked at Fen Dai, “Even if elder sister gave the entire set of ornaments to younger sister, I would be willing.”

The young miss teared up from what she heard and lamented: “Being able to have an elder sister like you is truly great.” She then stood up and went to gossip with the young misses from other families.

Feng Yu Heng sneered mentally. Perhaps there would be rumors related to how kind the Feng family’s eldest young miss was after this banquet concluded.

But she did not believe this was the only reason Feng Chen Yu was willing to part with that pair of earrings. It had to be known that the reason this set of head ornaments caused people to be shocked was because it was a full set. If it was missing a pair of earrings, the effect would lessen drastically. Feng Yu Heng felt it was impossible for Chen Yu to have the intelligence to give up on them for that reason alone.

As for the reason that item could find its way into Fen Dai’s hands…

She squinted her eyes once more and watched Chen Yu put the earrings on for Fen Dai. While putting them on for Fen Dai, she said: “Last time, the earrings elder sister gave you were quite pretty, but they can not be compared to these.” After changing the earrings, Chen Yu looked at Fen Dai and was unable to hold back her praise: “Fourth sister really is becoming more and more pretty. In a few years when you are a little older, I fear that elder sister will be repressed by you.”

Feng Fen Dai had originally found Chen Yu so irritating that she did not even want to look at her, but now it was different. She had received the earrings that she desired at her deepest level, and they were on her ears. This caused the child to nearly hug Chen Yu and kiss her a couple times.

Feng Yu Heng had no time to pay any attention to the beautiful affection between sisters. Instead, she looked past the graceful dancing of the dancers and turned her gaze towards where the princes sat.

There were not many princes that had come today; however, the fifth prince, who did not usually appear at banquets, was invited by the second prince. At this time, the fifth prince had already turned his gaze from Chen Yu to Fen Dai. His eyes were fixed on the earrings, as he leaned forward. It seemed though his eyes were practically falling out of their sockets.

Was this the disaster of the East?1 She understood this reasoning, but how did Chen Yu think of it?

When they had met at the Refined Deity Building, the three princes spoke of how the fifth prince had taken in a multitude of concubines. They also spoke of how each of the concubines had very similar facial appearances, so she developed an understanding.

Over the past few days, under the guise of reflecting on her mistakes, she had met up with Xuan Tian Ming a few times. She had also inquired quite thoroughly about the fifth prince.

It turned out that a few years prior, he had become interested in one of the imperial concubines of the imperial harem. After this was discovered by the Emperor, the Emperor sent that concubine to a water-filled prison to be drowned. He also sent the fifth prince to Huang Zhou to suffer hardships for many years.

After the fifth prince returned to the capital, his nature had completely changed. One after another, he brought concubines into his palace, and all of them were born looking like the concubine that had drowned.

Of course, just this alone was not enough to convince the eldest prince to give Feng Chen Yu the set of crystal head ornaments. The only reason there was this set of crystal head ornaments was because Xuan Tian Hua had mentioned how that concubine was apparently wearing white crystal earrings at the time she drowned. As for the other accessories, she did not have any, as the white crystal earrings were part of the dowry given by her maternal family when she married into the imperial palace.

Feng Yu Heng kept note of it in her heart and discussed idea with Xuan Tian Ming. First was to make use of the gift, allowing the eldest prince to express his positive stance on having heard that Chen Yu was the aspect of the phoenix. Second, since the fifth prince was able to take in so many concubines that looked the same, she did not believe that a full set of white crystal head ornaments would fail to attract his attention. If the fifth prince continued to take notice, things would have become even more lively.

But… how did Feng Chen Yu manage to accurately choose to hand the earrings to Fen Dai?

She recalled the servant that had whispered into Chen Yu’s ear and could not help but feel a sudden shock. Subconsciously she turned to look towards the third prince, Xuan Tian Ye. There, she saw him looking back at her with a slight smile. Raising his cup, he downed its contents once more.

Feng Yu Heng felt a stirring in her heart, as she began to regret advising Xuan Tian Ming and Xuan Tian Hua not to come. This left her without anyone to discuss this situation with.

Huang Quan stayed at Feng Yu Heng’s side and felt that something was wrong with her mood. She could not help but lean close and ask: “Young miss, what happened?”