"magic?"
Princess Xu was somewhat curious.
When she married the fourth prince, the Prince of Yue and his wife had already left the capital.
Therefore, she never saw Helian Jue and Xie Yuan in person.
Xie family?
Wait a minute, Princess Xu seemed to have thought of something.
She hurriedly asked, "I remember, Princess Yue was also from the Xie clan of Chen County? Are she and Xie Rou from the same clan?"
Princess Xu had always lived in the border town. It wasn't until she came of age and was about to get married that her father, Xu Liang, sent her back to the capital.
Upon arriving in the capital, the straightforward Xu Shi found it difficult to adapt and failed to make any close friends or sisters.
The noble ladies in the capital looked down on Xu for being vulgar, shrewish, and unruly.
Xu, on the other hand, looked down on the affectedness, pretentiousness, and cunning of the noble ladies.
Having few friends, Xu naturally had no source of gossip.
Not long after she returned to the capital, she was betrothed by the emperor to the fourth prince.
The Fourth Prince was a notorious good-for-nothing prince in the capital, a fool who charged into battle for the Fifth Prince.
After marrying into the family, Xu began to reorganize the Prince's mansion and train her husband.
Just when Xie Rou had finally subdued the Fourth Prince, she arrived again.
Princess Xu didn't take Xie Rou seriously, but she couldn't stop him from constantly running around the palace, relying on his kinship with Consort Cui.
Xu was straightforward and went directly to the palace to ask Consort Cui for help.
Consort Cui: ...What kind of damn relatives? They're just cousins from the same clan.
Consort Cui used to help Xie Ze and Lady Cui because they were considered "sensible" and had given her a lot of valuables.
Money is important, but a capable daughter-in-law is even more important!
Therefore, when Consort Cui saw that Madam Xu was really annoyed, she didn't say a word and directly told Madam Xu: "You are the fourth prince's new wife, and the proper mistress of the fourth prince's residence. Whether you are a concubine or a servant, if you behave improperly, just teach her a lesson!"
Even if it were her own foolish son, Consort Cui wouldn't stop her if the new bride wanted to take care of him.
Consort Cui has always been clear-headed and sensible.
She understood the principle that "spoiling a child is like killing him."
However, her son's affairs are somewhat related to her own family.
Consort Cui couldn't personally discipline her son.
Now that she had finally married a formidable new wife, Consort Cui was overjoyed to hand her son over to Madam Xu.
Madam Xu: ...Mother, there's no need for that!
However, seeing that Consort Cui was not the kind of unreasonable person who only knew how to protect her own, Madam Xu felt relieved.
She also received an "order" from Consort Cui to return to the Fourth Prince's residence and begin working.
The fourth prince is disobedient and insists on continuing to be the fifth prince's lackey.
Xu Shi practiced a set of "Wolf Fang Club Technique" directly in front of the Fourth Prince.
The fourth prince immediately became as quiet as a chicken, as obedient as a quail.
As for Xie Rou, who always boasted of her noble birth and looked down on Xu Shi, the daughter of a stable boy.
Madam Xu disdained to personally reprimand him and instead ordered her maidservants to do it.
They were either confined to their homes or forced to copy Buddhist scriptures.
Anyway, Xu understood one principle: brute force can overcome any skill!
In the face of overwhelming force, everything is a paper tiger.
As Xu was speculating about how "magical" Princess Xie of Yue was, the Fourth Prince, who was also thinking about the various deeds of his own princess, suddenly realized, "Actually, you are quite magical too."
They are all capable of standing on their own, and they are all good wives and wives who bring prosperity to their husbands. They are all remarkable women.
"What?"
Princess Xu was lost in her own thoughts and didn't hear the Fourth Prince's exclamation.
She asked it casually.
The fourth prince was startled and hurriedly shook his head. "It's nothing! I mean, Your Highness, if you remember correctly, Xie Rou is indeed Xie Yuan's cousin."
After thinking it over, the Fourth Prince told Princess Xu about the Xie family's grudges and Xie Rou's various shady dealings.
"A cuckoo taking over the nest? And... and making the real eldest daughter of the family head marry in her place?"
Princess Xu felt that her values were somewhat shattered.
The fourth prince rubbed his nose and coughed. Well, the person who helped Xie Ze steal the entire Xie family was none other than his own mother.
However, this cannot be blamed on Mother.
The head of the Xie family died unexpectedly, and his two grown sons also perished with him.
Of the four daughters, only the eldest daughter Xie Yuan and a youngest son who was still breastfeeding remained.
In addition, given the critical situation, the Xie family needed a new head of the family who was already an adult and had some connections with the Northern Dynasty.
Consort Cui just happened to be from the same clan as Xie Ze's wife, Lady Cui, and then—
Princess Xu did not show any disgust towards Consort Cui, who was abusing her power; what she truly disliked were Xie Ze and his daughter Xie Rou.
Taking advantage of the situation to vie for the position of family head and stealing the Xie family's property are nothing compared to what's really going on.
After all, Xie Ze did not harm anyone in the process.
His behavior wasn't illegal, just a bit immoral.
However, his subsequent misappropriation of Xie Yuan's mother's dowry and his use of Xie Zhen as a hostage to force Xie Yuan to marry in her place violated the law.
The most crucial point is that Xie Rou relied on her family ties to cling to the Fourth Prince and become his concubine. How could Princess Xu, as the principal wife, possibly find her agreeable?
"No wonder Xie Rou is so low-class; she's crooked from the start."
Princess Xu curled her lip in disdain.
Not wanting to discuss Xie Rou further, she steered the conversation back to the main topic, "Your Highness, what has that Princess Yue done?"
Surprisingly, her unreliable husband would show a mixture of respect and fear in his eyes whenever she was mentioned.
"She took Xie Rou's place and married Helian Jue!"
"The day after the wedding, she took one of the few remaining eunuchs who served Helian Jue and ran between the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue."
Pressed by Princess Xu, the Fourth Prince began to recall the past, whether he wanted to or not.
At first, he was somewhat resistant.
But as he talked, he got interested himself.
"They demanded soldiers and money, and even took Helian Jue back to the Xie family to demand her dowry and compensation for the substitute bride."
"Also, she is just like you, Your Highness, a very decisive person."
"She sold off all the property she got back from the Xie family, including their houses, farmland, shops, and a lot of heavy furniture."
The fourth prince spoke with increasing enthusiasm.
Princess Xu also became interested, "Oh? She sold them all too?"
This shows they've made up their minds to live a good life with the King of Yue in Yuezhou.
He had also made plans not to return to Beijing for several years or even more than a decade.
Princess Xu herself was the daughter of a military family, and was straightforward and decisive.
She loved the vast world outside, and even though she knew that Yongzhou was located in Lingnan and was far less prosperous than the capital or Jiangnan, she was still willing to go there.
Where is Princess Xie?
She was a typical noblewoman from a prestigious family, with an even more noble background than Xie Rou.
A pampered lady who grew up in a life of privilege and learned about rules and etiquette was actually willing to follow her husband to settle down in Lingnan.
"This Xie family seems different from those noble ladies from prominent families!"
For some reason, Princess Xu developed a strong interest in and admiration for Princess Xie, whom she had never met before.
She had a feeling that, in some ways, she and Princess Xie were the same kind of people.
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