Princess of the auxiliary country

Two days passed quickly, and it was New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye.

This is Huo Junyao's first Spring Festival in this world. As a visitor from China, the Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals for her.

Her living conditions were not good since she was a child, but the dean always did his best to prepare for them.

Especially this Spring Festival, it was her favorite and most anticipated festival when she was a child.

However, after I started working and studying abroad, I went back less and less often. I remember the last time I went back was two years ago.

It had to be said that she regretted not being able to see the dean in person before leaving.

At this moment, standing at the window, looking at the dark sky.

"Dean, I miss you."

He muttered something silently in his heart, his eyes full of longing and helpless sadness.

"Miss, the eldest princess is here."

Xiaochan's voice came from behind, and she quickly calmed down her emotions, turned around and walked out.

Princess Ningyang came, and she brought several people with her, all of whom were holding things in their hands.

If you look closely, you can see that they are clothes made of fine silk and satin, as well as some exquisite gold and jade jewelry.

"Mother, this is you?"

"Today is the New Year's Day. The emperor will host a banquet in the palace in the evening. Officials of the fifth rank and above in the capital and their family members must enter the palace to participate."

Hearing this, Huo Junyao frowned slightly. To be honest, she really didn't want to go to the palace.

I don’t want to have too much involvement with the royal family.

Some people may say, didn't she always try to please the Empress and the Supreme Emperor?
Why don't you want to be involved too much now?
The reason why she did so much before was just to put eye drops on Prince Xiao Zhihuan and Zhao Yaner.

If there was no such thing as the red sleeves with the crown prince's staff, she would keep doing this, allowing the empress to change her sense of the crown prince bit by bit, thereby achieving her goal of punishing the crown prince.

There is no way, her status is too high. In this society where imperial power is paramount, even if her status is not bad now, there are still some people she cannot deal with directly. She can only use this roundabout strategy to achieve it bit by bit. own purpose.

But since Hongxiu was punished by the cane, she found that some things were not as simple as she thought.

At the same time, I also deeply felt the horror of life and death for imperial power in ancient society.

She still remembers Hongxiu's appearance at that time. It can be said that most of her life has been taken away, but where is the perpetrator?

He didn't get any specific punishment, and even the prince's subsequent efforts to make amends were just because of Hongxiu's maid.

The palace is too dangerous and has too many rules. Hongxiu is lucky to be able to save her life this time, but what about next time?

In other words, if she continues as before, it may be okay at first, but as time goes by, there is no guarantee that others will not notice something.

By then, if someone else comes out with another crime, I'm afraid it won't be as easy as being slapped with a blackboard.

She is not a cold-blooded person, and naturally she would not want to see one of her people killed inexplicably one day.

Therefore, when she said earlier that she was afraid to continue walking around with the palace people, she wanted to take this opportunity to give the prince some eye drops, but more importantly, she was really afraid that something would happen again.

Of course, this doesn't mean she gave up, it just changed her strategy.

Having said all this, it is clear that the palace is a terrible place.

The first big goal of the three goals she set for herself was to survive, so she really didn't want to go to such a dangerous place.

"Mom, can I not go?" Hearing this, Princess Ningyang was startled for a moment, and then she understood what she meant, and she felt even more resentment towards the prince's bastard.

"I'm afraid this won't work. Someone has already arrived at the palace just now. The emperor knows that you have returned to the capital and asked you to go by name."

"Yao Yao, don't be afraid. Mom will accompany you this time and no one will dare to bully you."

She was afraid, she was really afraid, but thinking about it, it seemed that she would be safe with my mother following her.

The most important thing is that the emperor asked her to go. If she didn't go, it would be a disgrace to the emperor. She still hoped to use the emperor's hand to deal with the prince.

Naturally, we have to give the emperor some face.

"OK then."

Her tone was a little helpless.

Seeing her like this, the eldest princess Ningyang continued: "Don't worry, if anyone dares to bully you, you can deal with it directly. Mom will support you. If it doesn't work, don't you still have the old man?"

"When the time comes, mother will go and invite the old man out. Even the emperor will not dare to bully you."

Hearing this, Huo Junyao's confidence increased a lot.

An idea quickly came to mind.

She said before that she needed to change her strategy. During this period, she has been thinking about how to do it.

Continue to boil the frog softly with a dull knife or warm water. Although it is safe, the effect will be very slow. After all, she has already done a lot before.

After several times in a row, the emperor and the empress were already very disappointed with the prince and Zhao Yaner. If they continued to boil the frogs in warm water like this, it would be useful, but the effect would be greatly reduced.

Now that there are people supporting you and the backstage is still so tough, can you change the approach?
In the past, it was the prince and Zhao Yan'er who were arrogant, and she was the one who was bullied like a little white flower.

So can it be turned around?Charge some interest first?
You can't bear it any longer and you don't need to bear it anymore?

It seems that it is not impossible.

Besides, many people in the capital now know her origins. Don’t they all say that she came from a bandit den?
Speaking of which, before her body was found by Ji Guogong and his wife, the place where she lived was indeed a bit similar to a "bandit's den"

The small mountain village where she lived was relatively remote, had a weak legal system, and was surrounded by deep mountains and old forests.

In ancient times, there was no shortage of evil people who couldn't survive, or who were too lazy to live.

Regardless of whether it is the former or the latter, they are either living as refugees or sneaking around, and there are many things among them, such as finding a mountain top and occupying the mountain to become the king.

And there were three groups of such hilltop bandits around her small mountain village.

Because the legal system is weak and it is located deep in the mountains and forests, even if the government wants to, it is unable to do so.

And these grass bandits are not farmers who know how to farm their own land. With so many people having to eat, they will naturally harm the surrounding villages and towns, as well as some people who come and go.

Her small mountain village has been one of the targets that has been harmed for a long time.

The clay figurine was also very angry, not to mention that it was related to the lives of the whole family. Later, when the villagers gathered together, they would definitely not be able to continue to swallow their anger like this.

No, the whole village united and began to resist.

The villagers are honest, but once the honest people become ruthless, they are also very scary. After ruthlessly dealing with the bandits, those bandits will not dare to come again.

And the reputation of their village was lost. It was known as being more fierce than the grass bandits. It was spread that their village was also inexplicably known as the top of the mountain of grass bandits.

Although the reputation is not very good, the village has become much more peaceful, so he left it alone. Although the marriage in the village was a bit troublesome at first, it is better than not living, right?
Besides, rumors are always just rumors, and there are still many people who are discerning.