Chapter 173 The fake heiress gets her wish and becomes a favored concubine?

Liu Qingzhu stared blankly at the old man in front of her, her grandfather.

He was glaring at her menacingly, pointing his finger at her nose and cursing her relentlessly.

Liu Qingzhu's mind was buzzing.

She couldn't understand why her life had become like this.

She was once the eldest daughter of a general's family, a woman of immense wealth and status, adored by all the young ladies and gentlemen of Jinling!

Now, he's been slapped to the ground by a lowly old man.

A crowd gathered around.

Wang could only hide to the side and silently shed tears.

Her biological father mingled with the crowd, pointing at her and cursing at her as if she had committed some heinous crime.

“I knew she would look down on us. Look at her, she doesn’t cook or wash dishes every day, let alone sweep or do laundry. She wasn’t like this before!”

"That's right, the grass will even let Yuanbao ride it like a horse."

“We have food to eat every day when we wake up, and clean clothes to wear every day. Our house is always clean and tidy, all thanks to the grass.”

"That's right, she's not as good as Cao'er. Look at her since she came back, she's always so lazy and expects us to wait on her hand and foot."

"Does she really think she's some kind of pampered young lady from a prestigious family? Doesn't she even know what her fate is?"

"Exactly, she's already been kicked out of the General's Mansion, so why is she putting on airs? Didn't they write back saying that she was treated like royalty and was even more favored than Cao'er in the mansion?"

"Pah! Now that she's lost her body, even Prince Yun won't want her anymore."

"If you bully Yuanbao, you won't have a good life in this house!"

"That's right, why aren't you getting up yet and going to boil water for us to wash our feet?!"

As she spoke, her third aunt stepped forward to grab Liu Qingzhu's hair.

Green Firefly rushed over to protect Liu Qingzhu, while Liu Qingzhu seized the opportunity to break out of the door and escape from the Liu family.

She kept running until she reached the private residence where she had once lived with Prince Yun.

Liu Qingzhu pounded on the door and cried for help, but the servants, seeing her, dared not let her in.

“Miss, it’s not that we don’t want you to come in. It’s just that without His Highness’s order, we wouldn’t dare to act on our own.”

"Young lady, you should go and beg the prince."

Please, Your Highness?

Thinking of his current ruthlessness, Liu Qingzhu didn't know why she dared not go to Prince Yun's residence.

She feared that Prince Yun would completely break ties with her and abandon her forever...

Therefore, she could only lower herself and plead, "Gentlemen, sisters, please help me tell His Highness that I am waiting for him here, and I only ask to see him once, is that alright?"

"If there is a future, I will definitely not treat you all unfairly."

Everyone verbally agreed, but after Liu Qingzhu turned around, she heard them spit out a "pui".

"Despicable..."

When these words reached Liu Qingzhu's ears, she felt as if her face was burning hot.

Liu Qingzhu only dared to sit under a tree outside the private residence, covering her face and sobbing.

Night had fallen, and curfew had arrived. Liu Qingzhu hid in the shadows behind a tree, too afraid to show herself.

Snowflakes were falling from the sky that day. She stared blankly at the fine snowflakes in the air, with snowdrifts beneath her. The cold chilled her to the bone.

She even thought she was going to die that night.

Just as her body was stiff and unable to move, a shadow suddenly fell over Liu Qingzhu's head.

She looked up, thinking she saw Zhuang Sanlang.

But what came out was: "Pearl, what am I supposed to do with you?"

He squatted down and lifted Liu Qingzhu's delicate chin. She used to be plump and full-figured, but now she looked more frail and delicate, like a willow swaying in the wind, which was quite pitiful.

Tsk tsk, look at him, how pitiful?

It has a unique charm.

"Your Highness..."

Liu Qingzhu's scalding tears instantly streamed down her face.

Prince Yun: "Will you listen to me from now on?"

Liu Qingzhu hugged his hand as if she were holding onto a drowning duckweed.

"Whatever you say, Pearl will listen."

She pressed her cold face against Prince Yun's palm. From that moment on, Prince Yun was the only person she could rely on in this world.

That evening, Liu Qingzhu was carried into Prince Yun's private residence.

The next day, the Liu family received news that Liu Qingzhu had been carried into Prince Yun's residence in a sedan chair.

The Liu family was overjoyed, feeling that their good days were finally coming.

However, when Liu Qingzhu went to Prince Yun's residence, she only asked for one girl named Lü Ying.

The Liu family could only watch helplessly, unaware that Liu Qingzhu had just entered the Prince Yun's mansion and would face even more storms; she had no time to care about them.

Prince Yun favored Liu Qingzhu for several days in a row.

Liu Qingzhu knew that Princess Nanping was going to hold a horse riding event today, so she mentioned it to Prince Yun, which led to Prince Yun asking Princess Qinyu to bring her here.

She originally wanted to catch up with Pan Li and the others, but now she was almost completely isolated and helpless in Jinling.

But to his surprise, he heard Pan Li speaking ill of him behind his back!

After Liu Qingzhu went to Prince Yun's residence, her life was not as easy as she had imagined. Instead, she had to get up early every day to pay her respects to the princess and was also ostracized by the two concubines.

Even Cao Rou'er found fault with her in every way.

She was already exhausted and extremely aggrieved, and then she had to suffer this injustice!

Suddenly, a deep resentment rose in her heart.

She will make sure she gets back every single humiliation she suffers today!

And the one who started all of this was Li Qingluo!

Now that she holds the title of the eldest daughter of the General's Mansion, she can be considered to be in complete glory.

However, Li Qingluo, who felt the look in Liu Qingzhu's eyes, was neither bothered nor pained.

Princess Qinyu even came up to her and stared at her curiously: "You are Li Qingluo, the General's daughter?"

Li Qinglu bowed and said, "This humble woman, Li Qinglu, greets Your Highness, Princess."

Princess Qinyu smiled and reached out her hand: "Indeed, you have the demeanor of a lady from a prominent family, just as rumored! It seems that no matter how difficult the circumstances in which one grows up, the talent of one's bloodline cannot be hidden."

Princess Qinyu's eyes and tone were full of admiration for Li Qingluo, but Li Qingluo felt strange.

Wasn't Princess Qinyu just speaking up for Liu Qingzhu?

But then he turned around and started praising himself.

It seems that, having grown up in a foreign palace, she is a person who knows how to be accommodating to all sides.

Li Qingluo: "This humble woman is flattered; Your Highness is too kind."

Nanping was already impatient and waved her hand, calling out, "Who cares who's here today! This princess is going horseback riding now! Who's coming?"

Li Qinglu looked around but still couldn't find Pei Nanjia.

However, Princess Nanping had already taken her to the racecourse.

The racecourse has been booked out by Princess Nanping today, and she has brought three layers of guards to protect it.

Not only were there bonfires, but tents were also set up for the girls to rest in.

There was a cook roasting a whole lamb on the side, and hot water and soup were being prepared and waiting.

Without husbands or elders to supervise them, the women quickly let loose and started riding horses and playing ball.

Li Qingluo only dared to sit on the horse, slowly being led by Granny Deng.

Nanping seemed to have returned to the Northwest, riding his horse and shouting loudly, his joyful mood quickly spreading throughout the entire horse farm.

When Nanping had already run three laps past Li Qingluo, Li Qingluo couldn't help but start jogging herself.

"Young lady, please slow down, please slow down—"

Nanping: "With me here, I'll make sure your girl is safe!"

Nanping, her nose red, came over again and grabbed Li Qingluo's reins.

"Sister Luo'er, be brave and just follow the horse's movements. Keep your balance and I promise you won't fall!"

Li Qingluo was startled: "Nanping, no—"

Before she could even utter a word of refusal, Nanping grabbed her hand and started running.

Li Qingluo couldn't help but let out a low scream, and she and the horse leaped off.

She swayed a few times and almost tumbled off, but fortunately she quickly remembered some key points that her grandmother and Nanping had just mentioned, so she quickly bent down, hunched her back, and steadied herself, gripping the reins tightly as the horse bounced and swayed.

As a result, she actually quickly got a feel for riding horses.

As she ran freely and joyfully, with the cold wind and snow blowing on her face, Li Qingluo felt both refreshed and invigorated.

All the turmoil of the first half of my life seemed to have been forgotten at this moment.

I just want to be free between heaven and earth, to become a little bird, a horse, or a snowflake.

After a few laps, Li Qingluo was sweating.

Nanping stopped her with his hand: "Sister Luo'er, although it felt great when you first learned it and you wished you could keep riding the horse forever, we can't be too greedy, otherwise your legs and back will suffer."

"Shall we go and rest for a while?"

The two dismounted, and Nanping pulled Li Qing back to the camp.

The tent was nice and warm from the charcoal fire.

Que'er and Nanping's personal maids quickly came over, took off their cloaks and outer garments, and wiped their bodies with hot water.

After taking a sip of hot ginger tea, both Li Qingluo and Nanping couldn't help but sigh.

Comfortable!

Nanping rushed over with a grin and asked, "Sister Luo'er, did you learn to ride a horse today?"

Li Qingluo cupped her chubby little face and pinched it: "Yes. I also have to thank my little horse riding instructor, otherwise I don't know when I would have been able to completely let go of my inhibitions."

Nanping hugged her and said sweetly, "Then how are you going to reward me properly? I want to stay at your house!"

Li Qingluo looked at her with a complicated expression and asked, "Everyone avoids my house like the plague right now, why do you insist on going? Nanping, don't you really think my house is a complete mess?"

Nanping: "It was Liu Qingzhu who did the shameful thing, not you, Sister Luo'er. Besides, your family has already expelled her from the house, and she now has the surname Liu. Although Mother doesn't like me having too much contact with you, I just feel a connection with you, and I like you and Sister Nanjia."

Li Qingluo gently patted Nanping's head.

She asked Nan Jia, "Why didn't she come today?"

Nanping: "I heard she was sick. She wrote me a letter, and I told her not to worry about this place and to focus on getting better."

Are you sick?

Li Qinglu thought to herself that she had to go and see her.

Li Qingluo had been wanting to ask Qingyangzi about it for a while, and she thought she would be able to see her today, but she didn't expect that Qingyangzi was unable to come.

As the two were talking, a commotion suddenly broke out outside.

"It looks like Liu Qingzhu? Let's go take a look."

As soon as the two stepped out of the tent, hand in hand, they saw a group of people already gathered on the other side.

Before they even got close, they heard Pan Li's loud voice: "Liu Qingzhu, what exactly have you done?!"

“This is the Cui family’s horse. Although Cui Jiu Niang was busy playing chess today and didn’t go to the horse farm, how could you poison her horse out of jealousy?”

"No matter what, Cui Jiuniang was once your brother's betrothed. You are too vicious!"

A round-faced girl suddenly appeared and retorted to Pan Li, "What nonsense are you talking about? This marriage between our Cui family and their Li family isn't even guaranteed to happen!"