"Aren't you just being ridiculous? Why did you send your guards to find that Su family member?"
Upon hearing Cui Yun'er's words, Cui was immediately stunned: "That Su woman has no good intentions. Is she deliberately trying to get rid of the people around you so that she can carry out some kind of conspiracy?"
Seeing her aunt's alarmed expression, Cui Yun'er couldn't help but laugh: "Aunt, what are you saying? Madam Su is just worried about her elder brother and asked me for help. What conspiracy is there?"
With a look of utter disappointment, Cui pointed at her and said, "You, you, you're so easily fooled!"
Cui Yun'er said with a smile, "Aunt, since you're not going to keep me in Hangzhou for a while, I'm not going anywhere. Those two guards are just idling around anyway, so why not let them go to Quanzhou for a trip?"
Cui had nothing to say.
The dozen or so guards that the Cui family arranged around Cui Yun'er were all experts carefully selected by her eldest brother. At this time, only two of them were sent to Quanzhou, which actually had little impact on Cui Yun'er.
But she felt that Su Xuerong had ulterior motives.
Cui Yun'er hugged Cui Shi and said coquettishly, "Auntie, how could I refuse such a beautiful lady as Su? Besides, she paid three times the usual price for a bodyguard. My men are just sitting around anyway, so why can't I do her a favor?"
Cui said irritably, "Fool!"
"Don't look down on her here. If your cousin really wants to marry her in the future, can you really disagree?" Cui Yun'er smiled, pursing her lips.
Cui's face immediately tightened.
"I think you'd better hurry back to Kyoto, so you don't annoy me here!"
Cui Yun'er put her arm around her shoulder and said with a grin, "Auntie, Lady Su is so beautiful, what's wrong with her becoming my cousin's princess?"
"Stop talking nonsense!" Madam Cui said sternly. "With her status and position, what makes her worthy of being your cousin's princess?"
Putting aside Su Xuerong's identity, just the fact that she has been married and had children means she will never be able to enter the Prince's mansion!
Even being a concubine is not an option!
Cui Yun'er pouted and said, "I think she's better than Fang Mingzhu and Chen Siyi."
Madam Cui glared at her with a stern face: "And you? Why don't you want to enter the Prince's mansion?"
Cui Yun'er jumped back hastily, waving her hands: "Auntie, please don't do anything rash! I'd rather be a nun than marry my cousin!"
Madam Cui laughed in exasperation: "So many people outside are desperate to get into the Prince's mansion, and you're already looking down on them..."
"Auntie!" Cui Yun'er said seriously, "I have a principle: I absolutely refuse to buy secondhand goods!"
What kind of goods?
"Someone else's goods!"
Cui's face twitched uncontrollably: "You, you, you..."
Heaven knows how the elder sister-in-law usually educates this girl, that she could make an unmarried young woman say such things!
Cui Yun'er said with a grin, "My cousin likes to collect junk so much, you'd better keep an eye on him and not let any random people into the mansion, especially that Chen Siyi, I think she has ill intentions."
Cui was speechless.
Cui Yun'er may seem carefree, but she is actually very perceptive.
"So, if you really care about your cousin, help him marry someone he likes."
Cui closed her eyes tightly and patted her chest with her hand: "Alright, go do what you need to do, I need to rest."
Cui Yun'er pouted, then went out with a smile.
As soon as she stepped out of Cui's house, she suddenly saw a figure turn around the corner and go out.
She beckoned to the maid at the door: "Who was outside just now?"
"It was the princess. She said she personally prepared bird's nest for the old lady, but it got cold after waiting outside for a while, so she took it to the kitchen to reheat it."
Cui Yun'er frowned slightly.
She really disliked Chen Siyi.
Since she arrived at the Hangzhou Prince's Mansion, she discovered that Chen Siyi was acting as the mistress of the house. Many servants in the mansion obeyed her orders obediently, and even the head maids around Cui seemed to be on her side.
After Cui Yun'er keenly noticed this, she even mentioned it to Cui Shi.
But Cui disagreed, thinking that Cui Yun'er was making a mountain out of a molehill.
She had controlled the backyard of the Prince's mansion for nearly ten years, and Chen Siyi had only been there for a few months. How could she have so easily bribed her people?
"Did she go inside just now?" Cui Yun'er asked the maid again.
The maid looked flustered and hurriedly shook her head.
Cui Yun'er narrowed her eyes: "What? Now even you dare to lie?"
The maid hurriedly replied, "Yes, I did go in, but the princess told me not to make a fuss."
Cui Yun'er narrowed her eyes.
So they overheard what she and her aunt were saying?
At this moment, Xu Mama, Cui's personal maid, came out and asked, "Madam, what has happened?"
"That girl just secretly let Chen Siyi into the room to eavesdrop on my conversation with my aunt."
The maid was so frightened that she hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Please forgive me, madam! This is how the princess usually enters the old lady's room..."
Xu Mama glanced at Cui Yun'er: "She's right. Before the lady came to the Prince's mansion, the princess and the old lady got along even better than the young lady. They were practically family."
Cui Yun'er looked at Granny Xu in disbelief.
She was Cui's head maidservant, who followed her into marriage and later moved to Hangzhou, and has been there for over thirty years.
Xu Mama said casually, "Madam, you can rest assured. The princess has nowhere else to go now, so she will treat the Prince's mansion as her own home and will not have any ulterior motives."
The elegant room by the window on the second floor of Chunfeng Tower.
"Isn't it strange? I used to come to Hangzhou for a few months every few years, but this time I found out that Chen Siyi has managed to bribe many of the servants in the mansion in just a few months. It's terrifying!"
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