The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

After she finished speaking, she turned around as if she had completely forgotten about the matter and asked, "Was Aunt Rong Le always in this box?"

Lu Weiyuan walked to the window and looked outside - this was already the fifth floor, and the view was very wide. Due to the special location, the layout of the entire Heyi Building could be seen at a glance.

Nanny Guan always maintained her most sincere smile: "Please wait for a moment, Your Excellency. Her Royal Highness the Princess and several other ladies are hosting a small banquet at Rongyun Pavilion today, so they are unable to come... Please try the tea and snacks in the building first."

Lu Weiyuan didn't want to make things difficult for Nanny Guan, but said politely, "I am the younger generation, and it is my turn to go and see Auntie. How can I ask Auntie to specially leave the guests behind to entertain me alone?"

But not long after he finished speaking, Princess Rong Le hurried over.

Princess Rong Le was already over 40 years old, but she was well-maintained, without a single wrinkle on her face, and her sleeves still flowed like the wind when she walked. As soon as she entered the room, she called out "Yuan Jun" warmly, and said, "You came at the right time. I just hired a new circus troupe, and there are several children with special skills in it. They are very lovable!"

As the emperor's only surviving sister, Princess Rong Le lived a very happy life. She was a playful person when she was young. Now that she is older, she doesn't play as excessively as when she was young, but she has more and more tricks.

As the owner of Heyi Tower, Princess Rong Le had always been criticized by the old scholars. More than one person had written to impeach her, saying that entertaining officials' wives and ladies with handsome men was really against morals. However, Princess Rong Le did not debate with these people in the previous dynasty, but turned around and went to Empress Dowager Hu or the emperor to cry - her marriage was not going well, she had no children, and her life was really difficult. The only thing she had was this hobby of looking at beautiful women. Heyi Tower never asked the waiters in the tower to sell themselves, and secondly, it never did anything excessive to the guests. How could it not tolerate even such a small thing?

Maybe it's because I've been to places like that too many times, and everything I see has a lewd connotation, so I think there are no decent restaurants in the world, right?

While she was gossiping about the officials who impeached her in front of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, she also quickly did something that made those old-fashioned people jump up and down - she divorced the prince consort who had done no fault except that he was old and had a slightly ugly face, and then found a younger and more beautiful one to marry.

Originally, those memorials impeaching her failed to cause any substantial harm to Princess Rong Le. Instead, she slapped the moralists in the face again and again.

Later, this prince consort could not stay in her house for too long. Several subsequent prince consorts were quickly replaced by Princess Rong Le as soon as they grew a little older. It was not until the current "Prince Consort Su" that she finally stopped changing her husband at the slightest disagreement.

Outsiders all thought that Princess Rong Le had changed her mind because of the prodigal "Prince Consort Su", but Lu Weiyuan knew very well that this "Prince Consort Su" was actually a girl. Her real name was Qin Ruying. Qin Ruying herself was not very happy to be the prince consort, but Princess Rong Le refused to let her go, so she made her stay in the princess's mansion for a long time. Not only did she have the title of prince consort, but she was also envied by some men behind her back for being "good at taming their wives".

But in the eyes of those who knew the truth, Qin Ruying was the one who was tamed in this relationship. However, from another perspective, since she had been unwilling to treat Princess Rong Le well for ten years, and this nominal wife could not take any advantage of her, it seemed that Princess Rong Le's semi-imprisonment, which was not known whether it was sincere or not, failed to tame her.

As a junior, Lu Weiyuan was very curious about the relationship between her aunt and her "uncle", but she was too embarrassed to ask them directly - mainly because she was not very familiar with her aunt who had left the palace early and set up her own household. In the party centered on Xie Yuzhen and her daughter, the circle closest to the core was almost full of people. Although Princess Rong Le had also tried to interfere in state affairs in recent years, she was only the emperor's sister, not his daughter, after all, and it was not always smooth sailing.

"What kind of unique skill would surprise even our aunt?" Lu Weiyuan and the other person followed Princess Rong Le's footsteps, went down from the other side of the box to the fourth floor, and then turned two corridors before arriving at a wide circular room.

The doors and windows on all four sides of the room were open, and from a distance one could see a lotus-shaped platform inside. There were a few young girls performing acrobatics on it. Lu Weiyuan took a look and saw nothing particularly remarkable, just the same tricks that could be seen in an ordinary acrobatic troupe.

Princess Rong Le smiled and said, "We have already performed a show and told them to go downstairs to rest. Please wait a moment, my lady. I will ask someone to check if they have rested well."

She brought Lu Weiyuan and the other person back to the stands where the noble ladies were seated. The noble ladies had already seen the figures of the aunt and niece. The girls who had originally sat closest to Princess Rong Le had already made room for two seats and asked the waiters to bring out brand new cushions on the tables and chairs so that Princess Yuyi could sit down comfortably.

"No need to be so polite." Lu Weiyuan raised her hand to signal everyone present to sit down, and then took Hu Ziyi to sit down. On her right was her friend, and on her left was her aunt. However, she chose to look over Hu Ziyi's shoulder to see the woman who had given up her seat for them. "Cousin Qingping, you are too polite. I am just here to play this time. How can I trouble you so much? You all don't have to be so reserved."

In front of outsiders, Lu Weiyuan still had a sweet smile and a soft and lovely voice, but she lacked the crookedness that she had in front of close people. At first glance, she looked like a very beautiful and lovely royal princess with generous manners and extraordinary temperament.

The "cousin Qingping" she mentioned was the granddaughter of Prince Chun'an of the Lu clan, Princess Qingping. She was not much older than Lu Weiyuan. When the latter had just entered school, Princess Qingping was only eleven or twelve years old. The two were not very familiar with each other, but they were not completely unfamiliar with each other either.

The smile on Princess Qingping's face became a little nervous, and she said humbly, "Your Highness is a respected one, and we should respect you as the seat of honor. This is etiquette and cannot be violated. I will never trouble Your Highness for anything."

Her attitude made Lu Weiyuan a little confused - he didn't seem to have scolded this cousin before, so why was she so timid?

Just as he was thinking about it, Princess Rong Le reminded him that the two jugglers with special skills were coming on stage.

Lu Weiyuan then turned his attention to the stage.

A man and a woman came onto the stage. They looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. They wore sky-blue narrow-sleeved clothes and trousers, with light pink belts tied around their waists.

"These two children, the boy is good at magic tricks, and the girl is good at flexology. Moreover, they have combined magic tricks and flexology performances into one, which is very exciting!" Princess Rong Le seemed to be looking forward to the performances of the two.

But the man somehow pulled his hand into the air, and when he turned his palm over, an opaque dark purple handkerchief appeared.

The moment he shook the handkerchief away, Hu Ziyi, who was sitting on Lu Weiyuan's right, sniffed lightly and then frowned deeply.

Lu Weiyuan, like all the noble ladies present, seemed to be amazed by the man's ability to take things out of thin air, and she clapped her hands happily and cheered.