The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Just as Chen Peiluan was forcing He Sangrou to recall how she came up with this idea, on the other side, behind the heavy veils, Princess Cheng'an also grabbed her brother.

The second prince Lu Jingcheng is ten years old this year. As the only healthy prince left by the emperor, he has begun to grow taller. His face is 50% similar to the emperor, and the other 50% is naturally like his biological mother, Concubine Deng. Compared with the emperor's handsomeness and unruly nature, his facial features are softer and warmer. It's just that he is still young, and his personality is a bit old-fashioned and he doesn't like to smile, so he looks a little gloomy.

"Did you bring that palace maid in?" Princess Cheng'an grabbed the Second Prince's arm tightly. The dress she wore today was in line with the standards of a princess, but the color was relatively plain, and the materials used for the jewelry were not too flashy - after all, her fiancé had just died not long ago.

Princess Cheng'an is only seventeen years old this year. In some places, even if a woman of this age does not get married, she would already be busy looking for a son-in-law. But as a princess, she does not need to rush about this. However, the reason why Princess Cheng'an and the late Concubine Deng chose Ruan He as their son-in-law was because of the help from the Anguo Marquisate.

However, Princess Cheng'an could not have imagined that Ruan He would die in such a miserable way in the southwest, and it was discovered that the real culprit behind the scenes was actually Ruan's second wife.

Ruan He died, Ruan Xiang'e got married, and Marquis Anguo had no other children. Even for the sake of inheriting his family's title, he should have held his nose and found a man from the second wife - everyone, including Princess Cheng'an, thought so. She had also planned how to make Marquis Anguo find a nephew who was not too young to inherit the title, and she could wait for a few years in the name of mourning for her fiancé, and when the nephew was old enough, she could continue the plan.

however.

She could not have imagined that the Marquis of Anguo would rather let his married daughter come back to inherit the title than to kill all the second branch of the family.

However, He, the daughter of Ruan Xiang'e's husband, actually supported this ridiculous decision. She was even willing to let her son marry into the family instead of marrying a wife. She also signed a contract that the offspring born to the two would never do the three-generation return to the clan... Both parties were so willing to do so that Princess Cheng'an's plan failed.

She no longer had time to continue pretending to be sad for Ruan He as planned. Instead, she packed herself up properly and started moving around in the capital. According to the words her adoptive mother left before her death, she began to look for a useful husband's family again.

Princess Cheng'an has already met several children of powerful nobles. Originally, this palace banquet was an opportunity to get to know them better, but...

For unknown reasons, the second prince suddenly attacked the Yongjia Marquis' Mansion.

Facing his sister's questioning, the second prince had a blank expression on his face: "What palace maid?"

"Don't play dumb. The palace maid who spilled the hot soup on the table at Yongjia Marquis's mansion was clearly a waiter in Chonghua Palace. You asked her to do this. Are you hoping that my father and mother will suddenly go blind and not recognize her origins?" Princess Cheng'an had also heard some rumors about Lin Qiao. After getting angry, she thought about this and said, "You didn't believe the rumors and think that Lin Guanying is a woman, did you?"

The second prince's face froze. Facing his sister's eyes that were similar to his late mother's, he knew that he could not get through this by just talking, so he said irritably, "It's just a try. It's just a bowl of soup, not a poison that can kill people. Could it be that my father wants to punish his own son for...?"

He looked at the anger on Princess Cheng'an's face and added reluctantly, "Although the maid was from Chonghua Palace, I asked her to change her clothes and asked two eunuchs to whisper something in the ear of the idiot from the He family, saying that someone got drunk at a palace banquet and soiled his clothes. He was reprimanded for being disrespectful in front of the emperor, and she was used to do it."

"Even if the matter is exposed, I can say that I am not used to being served by others, so I brought the palace maid from Chonghua Palace. I don't know why she would be ordered by others to do such a thing." The second prince did not like the look in his sister's eyes. It always reminded him of his mother whose cause of death was a mystery. "The bodies of the eldest and third brothers will make them sick if they read more books. The sixth brother is young, and his biological mother is just a commoner from Jiangnan... Even if the queen wanted to vent her anger for her cousin, she should have considered it a little. At most, she should have dealt with the palace maid. Besides, her cousin is fine. Even if it is finally found out that it was me, what can they do to me?"

As the only son in good health for many years after the emperor ascended the throne, although the second prince was a bit old-fashioned in his studies, he had developed a self-important character under the advice of Concubine Deng and the flattery of the palace people.

Princess Cheng'an knew her brother's temper very well, so she had to break down the matter and explain it to him in detail: "Father favors mother so much that he has not even summoned other concubines in recent years. Look at my fifth sister, she is only three years old, but she has already surpassed her three elder sisters in getting a title. Look at what father gave me, Tangmuyi! What he gave her, a fiefdom! A fiefdom like a prince!"

No matter how mature and steady she behaves, Princess Cheng'an is still a teenage girl after all. Her mother died at birth and she grew up under the care of Concubine Deng. Although the latter raised her daughter wholeheartedly, there was still her biological son, the Second Prince, between the two of them. Princess Cheng'an, who was used to being considerate to her adoptive mother and helping her younger brother, couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved.

She quickly got used to suppressing this grievance, and faced her brother who still looked disdainful, she gritted her teeth and said, "You don't believe that the emperor will make the princess the crown prince, right?"

"No matter how favored she is, she will get married in the future. How could my father let the throne fall into the hands of someone from another family?" The second prince had always resented Lu Weiyuan's overwhelming favor, but he himself did not receive such love, so he turned all the hatred in his heart into disdain and showed it out.

"Then why don't you take a look at the Marquis of Anguo's Mansion?"

"All the male heirs in his family are dead, so a woman was appointed as the crown prince." The second prince became more and more annoyed. He and Princess Cheng'an stared at each other for a moment, but he finally swallowed his words back into his stomach with his moving lips.

He originally wanted to say that he did not believe the rumors in Beijing, but later...

The second prince refused to give in and continued to look at Princess Cheng'an with his eyes wide open to show his anger.

But Princess Cheng An turned her face away first: "Yes, I will assume that what you said is all right, but don't forget that father, he was also born to the daughter of a humble family, and even our uncle's family has disappeared now, but the royal grandmother adopted father as her own..."

"Does the Queen intend to raise Yang Laoliu?" The Second Prince suddenly lost his composure.

Princess Cheng An didn't know how to describe her feelings at the moment. She just felt helpless and a little weird: "Not now, maybe not in the future."

The Second Prince panicked for a moment. "Sister, I overheard the official sent by Aunt Rong Le to ask for leave joking with the maid in Grandmother's palace, saying... saying that Aunt's husband was actually a woman, just like... like Lin Qiao. That's why I wanted to test him, sister!"

Princess Cheng An looked at her brother who was begging in panic and sighed deeply: "Let's go and apologize to our father. Don't be afraid, I will go with you."