Chapter 459: The Little Cannon Fodder in Ancient House Fighting Novels 15
Chapter 459: The Little Cannon Fodder in Ancient House Fighting Novels 15
The Duke of Ying's family was born of military generals. Several generations of generals fought bravely and made great contributions to the country in foreign wars. However, the Duke of Ying's family also paid a heavy price, resulting in the loss of talent.
The old Duke had four sons and two daughters, and the two daughters had already married. The Duke's Mansion now only had the old Duke and his eldest son and grandson's posthumous child, an eight-year-old great-grandson, the widowed third daughter-in-law who was in poor health, and the granddaughter Ji Fanyin. The family had four masters and four generations, and all the old, weak, sick and disabled were included!
But even so, no one dares to bully the Duke's Mansion. Whether in the heart of the emperor or in the prestige of the army, it has a very high status!
It seemed that she had heard it from the maid of the Fifth Prince's Mansion in her previous life, saying that the daughter of the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion was married to the only son of a king of a different surname by imperial decree! At the same time, that man was also the Sixth Prince's companion. The two of them were good friends and were famous dandies in the capital.
It was said that after she married the prince of a different surname, she controlled her playboy husband and turned a bad hand into a winning hand. She was a legendary woman who gave birth to three sons and one daughter, becoming a great contributor to the palace and the envy of all the women in the capital.
I didn't expect that the legendary woman was right in front of me!
"Yes!" The cold and beautiful girl nodded. She was not surprised that Cui Xiaoxiao had heard about her family's affairs. Then she saw Cui Xiaoxiao with a complicated expression. "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
"No! Then can I call you Fanyin?" Cui Xiaoxiao quickly shook her head!
She could see that this was an extremely insightful and intelligent woman who knew what she wanted and was a woman who could live a good life no matter where she was.
"Of course, I'll call you Xiaoxiao too." Ji Fanyin said with a smile! Friendship sometimes comes inexplicably, if you have a good eye for each other and are interested in each other, you become good friends!
At this time, a palace maid came over to them and saluted them, "Miss Ji, our queen wants to see you. She said she has something to discuss! Are you free now?"
"Can you tell me who your queen is?" Ji Fanyin asked with some surprise. She didn't believe that anyone would plot against her.
Anyone who wants to plot against her should also consider whether they can bear the wrath of her grandfather. Besides, she herself is not a piece of clay that can be manipulated by others!
"Our queen is Concubine Ning. She wants to invite Miss Ji to sit with her for a while." The maid said without hiding anything!
Ji Fanyin was surprised. Concubine Ning didn't come to the banquet today. Why would she come to her at this time? However, she didn't refuse. After all, she and Concubine Ning were somewhat related.
"Xiaoxiao, I'll be back soon, you wait for me here!" Ji Fanyin stood up and said to Cui Xiaoxiao!
"Okay, don't worry. If it's late, don't come to me. I can go back by myself!" Cui Xiaoxiao also stood up and watched them leave.
Cui Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes when she was left alone. Although she had never been involved in a house fight and had no experience, she had never eaten pork but had never seen a pig run? This was a common trick used in a house fight. Often, when one person was sent away, it was time to attack another person!
She immediately used her mental power to disperse, wanting to see if her guess was true? Was there really someone plotting against her?
Sure enough, not long after, a palace maid came towards her! Cui Xiaoxiao was not stupid, would she just stand there and let someone plot against her? She stood up and took a few quick steps, then headed towards the toilet.
I turned a corner near the toilet and stood behind a big tree. I used my mental power to observe that the concubine had found the small round table room, but was stunned when I didn't see anyone!
"He was here just now, how come he disappeared in the blink of an eye?" She looked around again without giving up, but did not see anyone else.
But if she fails to complete the task, her master will definitely punish her, but she can't go and find someone to do this in a high-profile manner!
After thinking about it, she called a young palace maid nearby, gave her some silver, and asked her to go find Miss Cui from the Le'an Marquis's Mansion. If she saw her, she should tell her that she had something to do with Miss Cui!
After explaining everything, the two of them went their separate ways!
Sure enough, he came for her!
Cui Xiaoxiao didn't care how they looked for her, and directly covered the entire Imperial Garden with her mental power. It was easy to find the Fifth Prince lying down pretending to be drunk in the dressing room. He was sitting on the bed waiting for someone to come over!
She just couldn't understand it. The selection hadn't even ended yet! How could someone start to plot? As everyone knows, the concubines were, in a sense, the emperor's women!
Although the main purpose of this selection is to select a concubine for the prince, outsiders don't know! If the matter gets out of hand, where will the emperor's face be? Are they really not afraid of the emperor's anger by doing this?
What is their purpose in doing this?
But no matter what the reason, if their plan succeeded, she didn't know whether they would be punished. But she knew that she, Cui Xiaoxiao, would be doomed, which was really worse than her previous life!
Maybe this is one of their purposes? But it's not worth it just for her, right? She felt that there must be something else going on!
She carefully observed everyone in the imperial garden.
Sure enough, a palace maid accidentally wet a concubine's dress and was taken away to change clothes! Cui Xiaoxiao immediately locked onto them and saw the palace maid taking the concubine directly to the dressing room near the Imperial Garden.
She understood that the main target of the plot tonight was this person, right? Then she was at most an unimportant extra?
Then it all makes sense.
Her reputation was ruined, and in the eyes of outsiders, she was calculating and marrying the prince without regard for propriety and morality. In the end, the prince generously accepted her, so that he could legitimately let her be his concubine.
Haha, he looks ugly, but he has beautiful thoughts.
She can ignore any schemes against others, no matter how they are plotted! But if you want to plot against her, you have to ask her if she agrees!
Her attention followed the palace maid leading the concubine to the room where the fifth prince was resting! The fifth prince calculated the time, and when he heard the agreed sound, the first thing he did was to quickly light the incense in the incense burner.
Not long after, two people appeared!
As soon as the concubine stepped into the room, she smelled a faint smell of alcohol. She realized that she must have been tricked. The concubine reacted very quickly. At the moment when the palace maid closed the door, she stretched out her foot to block the door and pulled it open with both hands!
The maid was no match for her strength, so she opened the door, walked out quickly, kicked the maid leading the way in, and quickly inserted the door latch from the outside. She looked around and didn't see anything handy, so she just pulled a hairpin from her head and pinned it on the door latch!
No matter how the people inside knocked on her door, she remained unmoved. Then she hid in the dark, observed the situation, and broke off a branch from a nearby flower. Seeing that no one was coming, she quickly replaced the hairpin with the branch and pinned it on the door!
Not long after, a palace maid came to guard the door, and the medicine in the incense burner in the room took effect, and soon the sound of men and women making love was heard. The palace maid guarding the door did not react at all, which showed that she was also aware of the situation.
The concubine also heard it. She snorted and turned away, avoiding people along the way. She quickly went to her room to change her clothes. She quietly returned to the crowd at the banquet and secretly observed the situation of the ladies at the top!
Cui Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows when she saw this. She was very surprised. This lady's actions were so surprising that she was impressed! Haha, it turns out that the paper figures created by the author cannot be compared with flesh-and-blood people!
This is right!
Most of the situations where people know clearly that it is a conspiracy but foolishly do not take any remedial measures, just waiting for others to succeed in the conspiracy and be ruined, and then cry and complain about their grievances only appear in books!
Because the ladies knew that once they were plotted against, it would affect their whole lives, and it would affect their own and their family's reputation or life, so how could they not resist? They already had a good family background, so whether it was a marriage of alliance or marriage of downfall, it would not be too bad, at least it was better than being plotted against and married.
Cui Xiaoxiao thought about it, used teleportation, and knocked out the guard and the maid guarding the door not far away and threw them into the room when no one was paying attention. By the way, she also knocked out the maid who was looking for her at the beginning and threw her in. After thinking about it, there were already several people, so how could that little bit of incense be enough?
She sprinkled a little more powder in to enhance the efficacy of the incense!
After she finished all this, she closed the door and inserted the wooden stick bolt! She teleported to a dark place not far from the crowd and was about to walk into the crowd! After walking a dozen steps, a male voice sounded behind her: "Where have you been just now? I thought you were being plotted against!"
Cui Xiaoxiao turned around and saw that it was the Tenth Prince. She quickly bowed and greeted him!
"Your Highness, you are joking. How can a palace banquet be so calculated?"
"That's not necessarily true. My people saw at least three people looking for you!"
"Really? Who thinks so highly of me? I haven't offended anyone in the palace."
"No matter who it is, you'd better be careful! After all, there are many servants in the palace who want to work for their masters. Sometimes you don't even need to be told. As long as the master shows a little dissatisfaction with you, there will be many people who will cause trouble for you, and they will be enough to make you suffer!"
"Uh..., Your Highness, are you concerned about me?" After hearing what the Tenth Prince said, Cui Xiaoxiao suddenly smiled!
"You, don't think too much. I... I just don't want the favors you owe me to be wasted and irretrievable!" The Tenth Prince did not expect Cui Xiaoxiao to say this!
"Don't worry, Your Highness. I didn't think too much about it! Well..., thank you, Your Highness, for informing me. I am very grateful! I will be extremely careful and try to owe Your Highness a few more favors." Although she knew the general course of events, she was still grateful for the Tenth Prince's actions!
"Actually, you could think about it more!" These words almost came out of his mouth. When this thought came out, the Tenth Prince was shocked. Why would he have such an idea?
Then I heard her words again, huh? Try to owe him more favors? What does that mean?
"Why should I owe more favors instead of repaying them sooner?" This is what he thought and he asked this question.
"If I owe you a few more favors, maybe His Highness will protect me! After all, only when we live well can we repay the favors we have received, right?"
"..." Can this be calculated this way? But there is nothing wrong with thinking this way. He didn't know what he was thinking about, but he suddenly laughed, feeling enlightened!
Cui Xiaoxiao paused when she saw the Tenth Prince's beautiful smile. As a prince, it was enough for him to make a living by his status. Why did he need to be so good-looking?
Fortunately, she is well-informed, otherwise, if it were any other girl, she would be so mesmerized by this smile that she would lose her sense of direction.
"Your Highness, please smile less in the future! You are more suited to being cold and expressionless. Otherwise..." Cui Xiaoxiao spoke when she saw that the man in front of her had finally come back to his senses!
"Oh? What else?" When he saw that there was no fluctuation in Cui Xiaoxiao's eyes when she said this, he actually felt a little frustrated for a moment.
"Otherwise...you will have a lot of little girls who will follow you wholeheartedly." Cui Xiaoxiao answered without hesitation.
After a brief exchange, the two separated, and House Ten actually felt like he was running away!
Their brief conversation was seen by Concubine Zhao, who had been paying attention to the Tenth Prince! She was stunned. She remembered how long it had been since she saw her son smile so brightly. This legitimate daughter was not simple. She could help her son break the ice.
Hey, who was the person who said a few days ago that he was young and not in a hurry? Now that her son was interested, she also needed to check the situation of Le'an Marquis Mansion!
But before that he needs to have a good talk with his son!
Not long after she separated from the Tenth Prince, Cui Xiaoxiao met Gu Yingyue. Her eyes lit up when she saw Cui Xiaoxiao! She immediately pulled her to her circle of sisters and introduced her to them!
Although one or two young ladies' smiles faded a lot when they heard that she was the legitimate daughter of Marquis Le'an, they did not say much due to their good upbringing, and they also had no intention of making close friends with her!
Overall, the quality of Gu Yingyue’s friends is pretty good!
Cui Xiaoxiao was forced to meet several ladies from wealthy families with good personalities. She also unexpectedly met the concubine who was almost tricked just now. She had already changed her clothes at this time.
After being introduced, it turned out that she was the legitimate daughter of General Dingbei's mansion! No wonder! Cui Xiaoxiao finally understood why the fifth prince wanted to plot against her! Military power, this is what the fifth prince lacks the most!
In the midst of her busy schedule, Concubine Chen accidentally saw General Dingbei's daughter, who had changed her clothes, and Cui Xiaoxiao who was with them. Her eyes widened immediately, and then her face changed drastically.
Both of them were here, so where was her son? What had happened? She had a bad feeling in her heart, looked around, and had to ask her personal maid to check the situation first!
The beautiful girl from General Dingbei's mansion had also been paying attention to the situation of the ladies in the upper echelons! When she saw that Concubine Chen was in a bad state when she saw them, she also understood who was plotting against her!
Cui Xiaoxiao also curled her lips when she saw this. All the plans of Chen Fei and her son tonight had failed, and even the parties involved knew about the situation. It really wasn't worth it!
Especially after knowing her son's situation, I don't know if she will regret what she did today!
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