What the eldest princess didn't know was that Cui Cheng's weirdness had contributed so much gossip to the baby voice system over the years that it had often taken Yu Zizhen with it to enjoy the gossip.
Yu Zizhen didn't even need to investigate to tell the eldest princess clearly that Cui Cheng was a complete scumbag.
She quickly retrieved the information about Cui Cheng from the baby-voice system and briefly stated the important parts.
After hearing Yu Zizhen’s story, the eldest princess felt like she was struck by lightning. How could she, a princess, be married to such a thing?
Xiao Yuanjin, who was listening in, was also shocked. He was shocked that there was such a stupid and bad person in the world, and he was also shocked that the Queen, Xiao Lu, would actually marry the eldest princess to such a person.
She is the queen of the current dynasty. Isn't she afraid of people who know the truth talking about her in private?
Yu Zizhen tapped her fingers on the table, signaling the siblings to return to their senses. She said, "I can help you expose Cui Cheng's bizarre actions and see how the Queen will react."
She felt that if Empress Lu had any dignity, she should not continue to consider this marriage when Cui Cheng's reputation was known to everyone.
However, Empress Lu clearly didn't want to lose face. Cui Cheng's scandal had caused a sensation in the capital. Not only did Empress Lu not cancel the marriage, but she even said to the eldest princess, "What's wrong with a man doing some ridiculous things when he's young? Once he gets married, he'll naturally learn to be more sensible and restrained. Besides, as a princess, you are a role model for all women in the world. You should be more virtuous and generous."
Such shocking words completely put an end to the eldest princess's idea of dissuading her from becoming the queen.
The eldest princess's trusted maid advised her to ask Yu Zizhen for help, "The prince has always been very kind to you. If he is willing to marry you..."
The eldest princess shook her head vigorously, "No! I can't repay kindness with hatred."
She was indeed in an awkward situation. Not only could she not provide any help to Yu Zizhen, but she was also causing trouble for him. However, this trouble could be of different sizes.
If it was a small matter that would not affect Yu Zizhen, then she wouldn't mind shamelessly bothering him, but asking him to marry her, wasn't that like pushing him directly into the fire pit?
She gritted her teeth and decided to ask the Empress Dowager, Da Lu, "My father can't even protect himself, and he's just as useless as me. I'd better find a chance to ask the Empress Dowager for help."
Palace Maid: ...
Emperor: I just want to ask you if you are polite?
The eldest princess thought of asking the Queen Mother, Da Lu, for help because the Queen Mother was the only person in the world who could make the Queen, Xiao Lu, change her mind, but the Queen Mother didn't even meet her.
She said to her trusted palace attendant, "He's truly an ungrateful idiot. He's brought this little thing to my attention to provoke the Queen. Send a message to the Queen, asking her to keep an eye on the eldest princess and not let her run around."
When Empress Xiao Lu received the message from the Empress Dowager, she was so angry that she called the eldest princess over and slapped her twice. "I have raised you with all my heart for so many years, and you have no other skills, but you have learned to go against me! You are a lowly person who doesn't know your own status. You deserve a beating just like your lowly mother!"
The eldest princess was beaten and scolded, and was punished to kneel. Naturally, she could not go to school the next day. When her maid came to ask for leave for her, she was accompanied by a senior palace maid from the queen's palace.
The maid didn't dare to do anything extra and just secretly gave Yu Zizhen a look for help. What she didn't know was that Yu Zizhen had already known every move of Queen Lu when the eldest princess was beaten and punished to kneel.
Even Yu Zizhen knew about the bad idea she had given to the eldest princess, and that the eldest princess did not want to cling to Yu Zizhen by any means necessary just because she was in trouble.
But she was outside the palace and had no say in the affairs of the palace.
She originally thought that she would take the eldest prince to visit the eldest princess after class, but before the get out of class was over, the baby voice system told her that the eldest princess had been betrothed to Cui Cheng by the Queen, Xiao Lu, and Xiao Lu also asked the eldest princess to prepare for her marriage from today on and not to come to the South Study to study anymore.
Yu Zizhen was shocked by Empress Lu's shamelessness and unscrupulousness. After class, she pulled the eldest prince and others together and said, "When a classmate has a happy event, it's only right for us to come and congratulate him."
The eldest prince and the others were confused. As she dragged them away, Fang Huaiying reminded her with concern, "We are outsiders. It's not good to enter the harem without permission."
Yu Zizhen replied with a smile, "I didn't say I was trespassing."
Sure enough, she stopped before entering the harem, and very politely asked the palace maid to help her pass the message to the queen.
Of course, the Queen was not unwilling to let Yu Zizhen and others go to see the eldest princess, but at this juncture when she was planning to kill Da Lu and take the throne herself, she did not dare to offend the descendants of border guards such as Yu Zizhen, Chen Hushan, and Fang Huaiying.
She had no choice but to swallow her disgust and let her trusted nanny monitor them the whole time.
Of course, on the surface, she meant to let that nanny lead the way for Yu Zizhen and the others.
When she saw Yu Zizhen and the others, the eldest princess, whose knees were in pain and unable to walk due to being punished to kneel, tried hard to hold back her tears.
With the help of his friends, Yu Zizhen was able to have a private conversation with the eldest princess smoothly.
She asked the eldest princess what her plans were next and whether she and the eldest prince needed help.
The eldest princess said to Yu Zizhen with tears in her eyes, "I cannot disobey the queen. My biological mother still has to make a living in the palace."
There was no point in the Queen using her biological mother to criticize her in subtle ways. Last night, her biological mother came to her in person and persuaded her to be obedient with tears and snot.
Her biological mother didn't want her to fight, because her fight might very likely bring trouble to her biological mother, making her biological mother's situation in the palace even more difficult.
Since it involves the harem struggle and the eldest princess's biological mother, Yu Zizhen cannot act rashly.
Although it is not impossible for her to simply and brutally sneak the eldest princess and her daughter out of the palace, the difficulty and risks involved are secondary. The most important thing is that the eldest princess's biological mother also has her own family. Once the mother and daughter run away, the family of the eldest princess's biological mother will definitely be angered by the Lu family.
Yu Zizhen would never do such a thing as killing one or two hundred people to save one or two people.
Of course, even if she could do it, the eldest princess would not agree with her doing so.
Unlike her biological mother who only cares about herself, her in-laws are actually very nice to her.
Although she hadn't received any help from her maternal relatives, that was because they were limited in their abilities. They truly cared about them and had been doing their best not to cause them any trouble.
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