On the day of entertaining the Tatar envoys, the post station became busy early in the morning.
When Gao Zhijun and Huo Jinqian followed them to the inn, a lot of dishes had already been prepared.
General Xuanyuan brought the second prince, the ninth princess, the Prime Minister and others to the inn, and the Minister of the Ministry of Rites and officials were waiting at the door.
"Welcome His Royal Highness the Second Prince and His Royal Highness the Ninth Princess!"
"Master Prime Minister, please come in, General Xuanyuan!"
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites respectfully invited them in.
"Please, sir!"
The Prime Minister also spoke politely.
The two parties entered the inn together and went to the dining hall in the lobby. There were already ten tables set up there.
The women sat on one side, the men on the other, with a screen in between.
Gao Zhijun and Liu Ningchu were on the same stage, accompanied by Nanny Tian, Chunlan and Mo Xue.
Normally, servants are not allowed to go on stage at such a large banquet. They can only serve food to their masters from the side.
But who was Gao Zhijun? This was her territory, and she didn't need to abide by these rules. Besides, at this banquet, she and her mother were the only women in the barracks. She couldn't just let them sit at the table, could she?
How boring! They didn't want to compete with the Ninth Princess either; her arrogance would make her unable to eat.
"The Ninth Princess has arrived!"
The maidservant beside the Ninth Princess shouted loudly.
Liu Ningchu was about to get up, but Gao Zhijun stopped her. So what if she was a princess? She wasn't a princess of Daliang. Besides, they were a defeated nation, and they were sent to marry. They didn't even know who they would marry, so why were they so arrogant?
When the maid saw Gao Zhijun and Liu Ningchu didn't stand up to greet them, she flew into a rage: "How dare you! You don't even kneel before the princess! You're so bold!"
"Who's so bold? Who's so presumptuous? Please recognize yourselves! This is Daliang, not your country of Tatar. You're a defeated nation, and your princess was sent here as a gift. What's so arrogant about that? Furthermore, you don't even know who your princess is going to marry? And yet you dare to act so arrogant and domineering here? Believe it or not, if you offend me, I'll make her marry a minister of lower status."
Gao Zhijun looked at the maid with a sneer, thinking that she really overestimated her own abilities.
He doesn't even know his own identity, yet he still wants to act so arrogantly here.
Who gave her the courage and confidence?
The Ninth Princess's face turned black after being scolded by Gao Zhijun, and she wanted to kill her.
This woman is her nemesis and embarrasses her everywhere.
Growing up, no one except her father and mother dared to give her a hard time.
The Queen and the Crown Prince were always polite to her when they met her. How dare they humiliate her, a mere princess, again and again?
Once I get the blueprints for the ten-shot crossbow and the recipe for the grenade, I will cut her into pieces to avenge today's humiliation.
The second prince and the prime minister also heard the quarrel here. Although they were angry, they also knew that they had to depend on others' feelings. Besides, they had a task assigned by their father (the emperor). If they failed, they would be demoted to commoners (dismissed by the emperor).
"How dare you, a servant girl, be so rude to the princess. Ninth sister, why don't you deal with that servant girl? Have you forgotten what our father said?"
Before the Ninth Princess spoke, the Second Prince hinted to his father in both explicit and implicit ways, hoping that his sister would not do anything wrong.
Of course, the Ninth Princess understood the hint from her Second Brother. She suppressed her anger and slapped the maid.
"How dare you, a servant girl, say that about the princess? You're courting death!"
The maid looked at the Ninth Princess in disbelief, not understanding why she was being beaten. Wasn't this what they always did?
"Princess, it's not that you want me to do this..."
Before he could finish the word "zuo", he was slapped by the Ninth Princess again. This time, the two sides were symmetrical, and he became a real pig's head.
Pighead—it's unfair! I don't look like that. I'm pretty and cute, chubby and round. That's natural, not a swollen bump.
"Looking for death! How dare you wrongly accuse this princess? Drag her away and beat her to death!"
The Ninth Princess was afraid that the maid would reveal that she was the one who ordered it, leading the people of Daliang to think she was arrogant and vicious, and thus break the alliance and prevent her from marrying into Daliang. She would then lose the blueprints for the ten-repeating crossbow and the recipe for the grenade. Her father would not let her go, and it would even bring disaster upon her mother and her maternal grandfather's family.
She knew that her father had no real feelings for his children.
In his mind, his children were pawns that could be exchanged for the prosperity of the Tatar Empire. Even his most beloved daughter, he would not hesitate to send her as a marriage partner, and even let her steal the blueprints and formulas.
If he couldn't steal it, she would no longer be his favorite daughter.
Just like her older sisters and brothers, all of them were sent to marry off to help their father consolidate his position.
The emperor's brothers all wanted to marry the daughters of ministers chosen by their father to help their father win over those ministers.
The only exception was the second prince. His maternal grandfather had a strong backing, so his father did not dare to touch him and allowed him to choose the woman he liked as his concubine.
She didn't know how envious she was, and because of this, she had been trying to please the second prince, hoping that he could help her get it.
But she was destined to be disappointed. Her father did not give her any chance and directly sent her to Daliang to marry.
"Wait! She offended me, the princess. Shouldn't she be handed over to me for punishment?"
Gao Zhijun stopped him and said.
Since the Ninth Princess wants to beat the maid to death, the maid must resent her, and this maid may be the breakthrough point.
"This, this is not necessary. She is my maid, so it is better for me to deal with her."
The Ninth Princess dared not hand this maid over to Gao Zhijun. This maid knew the purpose of her marriage. If she handed it over to the Princess, wouldn't that let the Princess know her purpose? This maid must die.
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