Chu Jinghuai replied: "Of course there are those who don't want to marry her, and those who don't want her to marry a foreign prince."
Chen Jingxi thought to herself, if it's someone I don't want to marry, the arranged marriage hasn't come down yet.
No, apart from the emperor, the only ones who can marry a princess of a country are the princes. The eldest prince has already married, and the other princes are not of the right age or are not in the capital. Only Prince Jin and Chu Jingyue are left.
And Mu Yin was also very strange. He didn't think of calling a doctor at the first time. Instead, he grabbed the shopkeeper and insisted that he was poisoned, and made it known to everyone.
"Is there anyone in Xiqi who doesn't want to marry?"
Chu Jinghuai said: "The Tuoba Wu who came to escort the bride this time is the advocate of war."
Chen Jingxi frowned and said, "A marriage between two countries is no small matter. Tuoba Wu is too cruel and ruthless to even kill his own sister."
Chu Jinghuai said in a deep voice: "Princess, don't forget, there is no one in the royal family who is merciful and soft-hearted."
How could she forget Chu Yuzhen's fate? This world is so complicated, full of conspiracies and intrigues. It's so troublesome to live in it.
This time she was born in Rome, but now she wants to go back and be a low-level slave.
"Is the princess scared?"
Chen Jingxi was silent. She was indeed a little scared.
She lived to be twenty-nine in her previous life, and had never seen as many dead people as she had seen in recent days.
He died so suddenly that there was no one even to build a mourning hall and burn paper money. I don’t know how he is doing in the afterlife.
Chu Jinghuai seemed to see through her thoughts, "As long as I am alive, I will not let you die."
Chen Jingxi smiled gently, and that smile contained both helplessness and trust.
"I am not a kind-hearted person, but I promise that I will never hurt you and will always protect you from harm. Maybe you don't believe it now, but one day you will believe it."
Chen Jingxi nodded. She naturally understood that he was not a kind person, otherwise he would not be alive until now.
As for the protection he mentioned, he was indeed trying his best to keep her safe.
Who cares? She’ll live one day at a time. Now she has no choice but to believe in him.
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Return to the Beizhao Embassy.
Tuoba Yan sat in front of the dressing table, her delicate yet slightly gloomy face reflected in the mirror.
The maid carefully combed her long hair and couldn't help complaining, "Princess, that Princess Su is so ungrateful. You've been so humbled, and she doesn't appreciate it, but she actually humiliated you like this."
After hearing this, Tuoba Yan's gloomy face did not change at all.
The maid asked in confusion, "Princess, why do you wrong yourself like this?"
Tuoba Yan looked at the maid in the mirror, her eyes revealing disdain, "What do you know? Prince Su is the most outstanding man in the world. Even if I have to be your concubine, I am willing to do it."
Besides, he was the only one who could give her what she needed.
She already understood the situation in Daxia before coming there, and knew that the most likely candidates to take that position were Prince Rong and Prince Su.
Prince Rong is where he is today only thanks to the Queen and Princess Rong. How could such a man become her man?
Only Chu Jinghuai relies on himself.
As for Chen Jingxi, Tuoba Yan curled up the corner of her mouth in a cold smile. She was already accustomed to the struggles in the harem. If she wanted to deal with a woman, she had countless ways to make her disappear without anyone noticing.
The maid glanced at Tuoba Yan in the mirror and couldn't help but shudder.
Tuoba Yan seemed to have noticed something. She smiled faintly and returned to her usual composure.
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Back at Lixiangyuan, Chen Jingxi took the box handed to him by Chunmei, opened it, and laughed out loud like a villain.
Chunmei listened to her crazy laughter and didn't know whether she should remind her not to laugh too loudly, as she might get beaten easily.
There was a thick stack of silver bills in the box. Chen Jingxi took it out and counted them. There were fifty silver bills of one thousand taels, several silver bills of five hundred taels, and some small denominations.
The total amount is 100,000 taels.
According to the purchasing power of Daxia, one tael of silver here is equivalent to one thousand yuan in modern times.
One hundred thousand taels, that's one hundred million.
Chen Jingxi didn't even dare to dream of this, but now it has come true.
How lively and cheerful she will become from today.
She was so moved that she couldn't help but shed two lines of happy tears.
Chunmei looked at her crying and laughing, almost insane, and suspected that Chen Jingxi had a hidden madness.
Chen Jingxi kissed the box again. "So this is what it feels like to be rich. I feel more confident about everything I see. Being rich is so fucking awesome."
In order to avoid provoking her madness, Chunmei said tentatively: "Princess, I will keep this money for you."
Chen Jingxi nodded. "Find a safe place and put a few locks on it so no one finds it. I see Chu Jinghuai has been staring at my box today. Maybe he wants to take this too."
Chunmei: "..." Princess, I don't agree with your idea. The prince is a very famous person. How could he do such a petty theft?
Oh! The princess hasn't been quite normal since she broke her head. I must go to Qingguang Temple someday to get a peace amulet for her to ward off evil spirits.
Chen Jingxi didn't know what Chunmei was thinking, and suddenly remembered that Old Madam Chen had kept her yesterday.
"Chunmei, after I left yesterday, did grandma and the others give you any trouble?"
Chunmei thought of what happened yesterday, her nose felt sore and she shook her head.
Chen Jingxi glanced at her and sighed softly, "Since you don't want to say it, I won't force you, but I hope you understand that I am your only master, and everyone else is shit."
It’s different when you have money. You can speak with confidence.
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