Resourceful beauty

Chapter 44
"I told you that even if there is a princess in Prince Qi's mansion, that could only be the daughter of the former concubine. If you don't listen, you've been looking for people to intercede everywhere these days. Wouldn't it be embarrassing now?"

In the Yixin Hall, looking at Su Yuan with a dejected face, Miao said in a low voice.

Wanting to refute, but didn't know how to speak, Su Yuan sighed unwillingly: "After working so hard for so many days, in the end, I made her a wedding dress."

Su Yuan believed that Fang Ruxuan, Princess Xuanyi, would not have come so quickly if she hadn't been running around.

Miao cast a sideways glance at her, "Up to now, you can only accept it happily. This is an honor for Prince Qi's mansion, not just for a little girl. If you do something unsightly, When things happen, don’t blame me, a mother, for not reminding you.”

Su Yuan responded angrily.

After a while, she asked in a low voice: "Mother entered the palace yesterday, did you mention the family matters to the concubine Xian?"

Miao didn't understand what Su Yuan's intention was when she asked this question.

Su Yuan simply put her words in a more straightforward manner, "When I entered the palace that day, the queen mother promised me that she would talk to the emperor about being the princess, but when the matter came to an end, this man lost his face. No one is talking about it?"

I have always thought that Su Yuan was stupid, but I couldn't imagine that she was so stupid. Miao smiled and asked: "Dare, what I said just now was for nothing? Princess Xuanyi, the royal family belongs to Prince Qi's mansion, and only you can do it." Find out who it was given to. Can you guess the consideration of the royal family?"

"Moreover……"

Looking away, Miao said lightly: "The three Ruyu sisters and younger brothers are considered descendants, but as long as Fang Zhengjun and Fang Ruxuan are around, they can't be regarded as legitimate descendants. Isn't the title of princess a breeze? It's only your fault that you didn't see it clearly."

Miao's words made things worse. Shengsheng brought out the things that Su Yuan was least willing to mention, which made her look even more embarrassed.

Even though she is now the respected concubine, Miao's aunt still doesn't take her seriously.

There was anger in her heart but she didn't dare to vent it, for fear of offending her mother's family and losing her support, Su Yuan suppressed her anger and her face became more and more ugly.

For a moment, there was silence in Yixin Hall.

"Is mother okay these days? Where are the old man and the old lady? I have prepared some supplements, and mother will take them home later."

Not wanting to make trouble with the Miao family, Su Yuan deliberately lowered her posture.

When this matter was mentioned, Miao became more and more angry.

Looking up at Su Yuan, Mrs. Miao asked angrily: "That girl Ruxuan has been to Dongfu several times, do you know what she said to Dafang?"

Su Yuan shook her head in a daze, "She said it was trivial, but it was nothing more than daily food and clothing, as well as the customs and customs of Jiangbei."

With an expression of "it must be coaxing you", Mrs. Miao said to herself: "The elders have always taken care of the affairs of the big house. These days, your eldest aunt has eaten something wrong again. Yao, actually asked me personally. Yesterday I reconciled with me, and I was forced to take out 3000 taels of silver. That’s it, it’s not over yet, and said that you can contact me anytime if you have any questions. I’m really mad..."

Grandpa Su has only three sons, the eldest son Su Zheng, who is also Fang Ruxuan's maternal grandfather, was the Minister of the Household Department who was a first-rank official during his lifetime, and also the crown prince and Taifu.

The second son, Su Xun, took the Jinshi exam twice back then, and after some hard work, he became a Shujishi. With the help of his elder brother, he endured for so many years, and now he leads the first-rank inspector censor.

The third child stopped at Juren in the exam, and later stopped studying at all, and took care of part of the family's property.

Now, on the other side of the big house, the two sons of the Bai family, one is the servant of the household department, the other is the governor of Hualu, both are high officials in the court, and the second and third rooms have only produced Su Yuan and the second concubine Qi after so many years , and Concubine Su Xian in the palace, there is no one in the court except for the second master Su Xun, so they are much inferior to the big house.

In the years when Miao first married into Su's residence, she was suppressed by Bai's elder sister-in-law for many years, so she always held a sigh of relief in her heart.Only in the past few years when Mrs. Bo was ignoring the matter, did she relax a little bit. Seeing that Mrs. Bai no longer eats vegetarian food and recites Buddhism, and has uncharacteristically intervened in Zhongfu, Mrs. Miao knows in her heart that her good days are coming to an end, so how can she not be angry?

But helplessly, she couldn't afford to offend those two masters in the long room.

"Ever since my uncle passed away, my aunt has gradually become ignorant. Now, what's the matter?"

Su Yuan asked a little strangely.

Mrs. Bo's anomaly started from the day Fang Ruxuan first returned to the Su residence. On that day, Mrs. Bai first moved back to the Qiuyuan, and from the next day, she paid respects to Mrs. Su and Mrs. Su at night and morning.

The eldest family was in charge of the family affairs, Mrs. Xu, but whenever there was a choice, Mrs. Xu would come to ask her second aunt, but from that day on, Mrs. Xu no longer came to the West Mansion, and asked her mother-in-law Mrs. Bai directly if she had anything to do. Now, the Bo family has formally intervened in the middle class of the mansion.

For several days in a row, Mrs. Bo was looking at the account books when she was free. Whenever she saw any unclear accounts, she would ask her mother-in-law to come over and ask Mrs. Miao to come over. Yesterday, she dug out a shortfall of 3000 taels from Mrs. Miao's pocket.

After this, I don't know how many there will be.

Mrs. Xu is soft, honest and easy to handle. Mrs. Miao learned a lot about Mr. Bai's methods back then. In the past few days, she was impatient, and when she heard that something went wrong on Su Yuan's side, Mrs. Miao smashed a whole set of teacups angrily.

"Has mother figured out a way?"

Su Yuan asked with concern.

Mrs. Miao waved her hand impatiently, "The water thrown by the married daughter, since you are Princess Qi now, just take care of the affairs of Prince Qi's residence. I don't need to bother you about family affairs."

After saying that, Miao took a sip of tea from the tea bowl and planned to leave.

After seeing off Mrs. Miao and then coming back to sit down, Su Yuan felt that she was always suffocating.

The empress dowager's ignorance, the queen's perfunctory, and the concubine's indifference, these people are all people I can't afford to offend. There is nothing I can do about putting my hot face on their cold buttocks.

But even the Miao family and Fang Ruxuan dare not give themselves a good look like this?

The more Su Yuan thought about it, the more depressed she felt.

"Mother Zhao, you go and invite Aunt Guan to visit, you say I'm not feeling well, please ask her to come and take a look."

Su Yuan turned her head and asked.

After lunch, Fang Ruyu and Fang Ruhui relieved Fang Ruyu for a while, coaxed the two daughters back to take a nap, Su Yuan stroked her forehead and entered the inner hall.

Not long after she lay down, Mother Zhao came back with an anxious look on her face.

"Princess, these days, we'd better not see that aunt Guan."

Zhao mama shunned the maids in the hall and walked to Su Yuan's side and said softly.

"what happened?"

Su Yuan's eyelids jumped suddenly.

Mother Zhao lowered her voice and asked, "Do you still remember the daughter-in-law of Princess Changping?"

Back in the capital, Su Yuan sorted out the interpersonal relationships of all the rich families in the capital with titles or backgrounds. Naturally, Su Yuan had an impression of the Princess Changping mentioned by Madam Zhao.

Su Yuan nodded.

Zhao Momo sighed with some regret and said: "The young lady has been married for three years and has not had a baby. She finally got pregnant last year. She seems to be careful at home. A few days ago something was not going well, so I invited Aunt Guan to go Look, Aunt Guan is using both medicine and tricks, and as soon as it subsides, that young mistress becomes popular."

Su Yuan sat up in shock.

Zhao Nanny shook her head and said, "If it weren't for Aunt Guan's friendship with the wives of many wealthy families, Princess Changping would have dealt with Aunt Guan at that time. That's it, I heard that she was killed by Princess Changping that day. The people in the mansion had a good time to clean up, in order to save their lives, Aunt Guan told a lot of secrets about the capital, and a lot of people were involved."

"Fortunately fortunate..."

Taking a deep breath, Su Yuan patted her chest and said: "Fortunately, I don't have a deep friendship with her, and I didn't say anything to her when I came to the palace a few times ago."

"you do not say."

Turning around, she walked to the table and made a bowl of tea. Mother Zhao brought it to Su Yuan and said, "Aunt Guan came out of Changping County Lord's Mansion, and these days she doesn't even leave the house. I heard that , no one dares to ask her to come to the door."

After taking a sip of tea, Su Yuan put down the tea bowl, and lay back on the bed a little tired.

Zhao Momo stood aside anxiously, until she let out the sound of even breathing, and then tiptoed out of the inner hall.

For a few days in a row, because of Su Yuan's uneasy expression and Fang Ruyu's tears, the Prince Qi's mansion was quiet, not at all beaming with the joy of being a princess.

In Shuyuxuan, Su Ye murmured a little disapprovingly: "No matter how you say it, there must be etiquette, and the concubine should arrange a banquet, and invite some people to congratulate the young lady. Now that it is like this, it is obvious that the princess , but still silently, as if the young miss is so dishonored by the Princess."

Fang Ruxuan raised her eyes and glanced at Su Ye, "You should keep a low profile. If you are appointed princess, I will have a lot of things that I should have. It doesn't matter if those people outside come to congratulate you or not?"

Knowing that her lady is cold-tempered and doesn't like the noise of banquets, Su Ye curled her lips and didn't say anything. After a while, she couldn't help coming over and said: "Miss, I rewarded you with a lot of good things that day. How about going with Miss to have a look?"

Only then did Fang Ruxuan see that Su Ye was afraid that she would feel uncomfortable.

Feeling warm in her heart, Fang Ruxuan didn't want to pierce it, so she nodded and wanted to get up.

As soon as he walked outside the door, he saw Ding Xiang enter the courtyard door anxiously.

"Miss……"

Hurrying over and dragging Fang Ruxuan's sleeves into the room, Ding Xiang said softly: "Your servant has seen the man who is following you."

"You mean, the person who followed you to Jiangbei that day?"

Fang Ruxuan reacted quickly.

Ding Xiang nodded, "My servant went to Nuanxiang Hall to deliver bird's nest to Seventh Miss. When I came out, I saw that person followed Qiushuang to Yixin Hall."

He came back so much later than Dingxiang, so he got the news of Su Yuan's request?
Fang Ruxuan frowned and began to think.

(End of this chapter)