I just want to live a good life

The Queen's light words conveyed an attitude to everyone: the person playing the piano is the future Crown Princess, and no matter how good her piano skills are, there is no need to compare them with others.

Su Nuan was really jealous. Having a good father is so important. Look at Xun Zheng, her father is so awesome. Even though he is gone, he still left her with such a big support.

Looking at his own father, he could only step back in such occasions. The reason was simple: he had no money. The empress dowager wanted to give a box of peaches for her birthday. If Su Nuan had not stopped him in time and replaced it with a fine inkstone, he couldn't imagine how the money-loving empress dowager would react when the box of peaches was taken out.

If Su Nuan hadn't accidentally heard from her third brother a few days ago that her father always sent a box of peaches to celebrate the empress dowager's birthday in previous years, she would have been more thoughtful and brought an extra inkstone today.

It’s not that she wanted to curry favor with the Queen Mother, but she just didn’t want the Xia family to become the most special one.

While Su Nuan was daydreaming, Xun Zheng was already sitting in the middle of the hall with a zither in front of her.

She quickly gathered her thoughts and watched carefully.

She had to admit that she also wanted to listen to Xun Zheng playing the piano. She still remembered the jade hook harp. Mu Yunting must have given the harp to Xun Zheng because the latter's piano skills were worthy of the harp. Of course, it could also be possible that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was in love, but Su Nuan would rather believe that it was because Xun Zheng played the piano well.

"What are you planning again?"

Mu Yunting's voice suddenly broke in, and he was a little worried, always feeling that this concubine was going to cause trouble again.

Su Nuan was startled and turned to look at Mu Yunting with dissatisfaction.

"Your Highness, don't worry. I just want to listen to Miss Xun playing the piano. As long as she doesn't come to provoke me, I won't cause trouble for her."

Mu Yunting was a little bit unconvinced. If he wanted to listen to her playing the piano, he could just go back home. Why did she have to listen here?

"You've done enough today. Stop making trouble. If you have anything to say, go back to the Prince's Mansion and do whatever you want behind closed doors."

Su Nuan didn't like what she heard. She came here honestly to give gifts to the Queen Mother today, so why was she making trouble? It was obviously someone else who was making trouble. If it weren't for the Dong family father and daughter and Prince Guang'an's aggressiveness, she would not have thought of letting Sheng Huai seek justice in such an occasion.

"Your Highness, are you too biased? I just fought back against the father and daughter of Marquis Zhongyuan by myself, and you said I was fooling around. You didn't see that others were bullying me. I can't think of any benefit in being your concubine except being hunted down and attacked by enemies."

Su Nuan was just a little angry at first, but after saying that she felt a little aggrieved.

But with her personality, she only felt aggrieved for a moment and then stopped, and began to concentrate on enjoying Xun Zheng's piano playing.

Mu Yunting was stunned by Su Nuan's words.

So this is what being the prince's concubine is like in her mind.

Then, for the following time, neither of them spoke. One watched the performance quietly, and the other drank silently.

To be honest, Xun Zheng's piano skills are pretty good. Although not as good as the pianists in the palace, she plays better than most of the people present.

The song received a lot of praise at the end.

Even Su Nuan couldn't help but admire it twice.

"Miss Xun's piano skills are indeed well-deserved."

"This piano skill ranks among the top five in the Imperial City."

"It's not an exaggeration to ask me to count them among the best."

"Your Highness is truly blessed to hear such music every day."

"..."

As the compliments got louder and louder, Su Nuan turned to look at Mu Yunting and said, "Your Highness, you believe it now, right? I didn't harm your Miss Xun, and I even let her show her face in front of everyone."

Mu Yunting was speechless for a while.

At this time, someone suddenly said to Xun Zheng: "Miss Xun, where did you buy the bracelets on your wrists? They are so beautiful."

"I was wondering too, the bracelet is so unique."

Everyone's eyes turned to Xun Zheng's wrist, but her wrist was covered by her sleeves and could not be seen.

"Miss Xun, can you let me see your bracelet too?"

One of the three women who were talking was Cui Ruyi, Xia Qingyan’s best friend and now Su Nuan’s good friend.

One is Shen Shi Ning, Lord Shen’s sister, who has just become friends with Su Nuan.

The other one is the princess consort of Prince Yongping.

Cui Ruyi and Shen Shi Ning were both deliberately arranged by Su Nuan, but Princess Yongping was an accident, but this accident came at the right time.

Su Nuan quickly stood up and walked to Xun Zheng, saying with a smile, "Thank you, Sister Xun."

Xun Zheng was confused by this sentence, and then she saw Su Nuan grabbed her wrist. Without asking for her consent, she saw her sleeves rolled up, revealing the bracelet.

"Princess Yongping, are you talking about this pair of bracelets? This is what I gave to Sister Xun. If you like it, I will ask someone to make you a pair."

"So it was Qingyan who gave it to me. No wonder it's so unique. You have excellent taste. I really like the headgear that Yaoer asked you to buy for me last time."

"It's not that I have good taste, it's that the craftsman who made the jewelry has good skills. I made a lot of jewelry from him. The one I gave to Concubine Dong today and then gave to the Queen Mother was made by him."

Su Nuan did not mention at all the effort she put into these jewels, which both deified the craftsmen who made the jewels and exempted herself from favors.

"Yao'er is about to give birth. I want to make her a set of jewelry and a gold lock for the child. Qingyan, can you introduce the craftsman to me?"

Princess Yongping asked Su Nuan.

"Okay, but I didn't contact the craftsman directly. I contacted him through the owner of a silver shop called Duobao Pavilion."

"It's okay. Tell me the location of the silver shop and I'll go find the owner myself."

"I want to go too. The New Year is coming soon. I want to make a set of jewelry for each of the girls in my family."

"I'll go too. I'll go too. I want to make a pair of bracelets for my grandmother."

"And me, I want a special hairpin, but I haven't found the right one yet. Maybe this craftsman can give me a surprise."

Su Nuan was very satisfied with the result of everyone's enthusiasm, but she still pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Everyone, this craftsman has good skills, but a strange temper and asks for a high price. I'm afraid you can't stand this person."

"People with real talent tend to have tempers, but I'm not afraid of that. As long as the jewelry he makes satisfies me, I'm willing to spend more money."

"Yes, yes, if you buy something that satisfies you, spending a little more money is nothing."

These were all wealthy people. Su Nuan seemed to have seen banknotes floating in front of her eyes.

She loudly announced the location of Duobao Pavilion.

Suddenly, an inopportune voice interrupted, "Why do I remember that there is a whole street of Concubine Xia's shops on Zhusheng Street?"

The person who spoke was Dong Jingshu.

Su Nuan wanted to throw this woman away. She was everywhere and always against her. She was so annoyed.

Because of Dong Jingshu's words, everyone turned to look at Su Nuan with complicated eyes.

Su Nuan dared to launch Duobao Pavilion in such an occasion because she had anticipated that such a scene would occur and was well prepared.

"Concubine Dong only knows one side of the story. I rented the street on Zhusheng Street and rented out the shop, so strictly speaking, I can only be regarded as the landlord of Duobao Pavilion. It is because of this relationship that I can order so many jewelry there. Otherwise, the silver shop can't make enough jewelry to sell in its own shop and is not willing to do this kind of custom business at all."