She twisted the handkerchief in her hand until it was deformed, and the grievances in her heart gradually rose with resentment. Did she think she was easy to bully? Did everyone bully her?
Zhou Shuqin turned and walked towards another street.
After leaving the place where she had been watching the commotion, Chuanwen returned to the Changxing Marquis's residence. However, when she passed by the Su family's house on the way, she squatted down at the Su family's door, munching on a candied hawthorn while her brows furrowed in deep thought.
[There are so many hidden plot points! Er Gou has such a deep background!]
Chuanwen squatted there eating candied hawthorns, and Wenxue was quite shocked, standing next to him, uh... eating candied hawthorns.
Not far away, around the corner, Old Chen and his group were squatting and eavesdropping. They made a huge discovery: Su Heng was actually a descendant of Princess Jingmin!
The few guards hiding in the shadows pondered for a moment: was this a big deal?
The emperor said that if he heard of anything important, he should report it immediately; if it was just trivial gossip, he should just summarize it once in the evening.
After some deliberation, the guards unanimously agreed that this was a serious matter, as it concerned members of the imperial family.
So the leader went to the palace to report.
But when the emperor heard this news, he almost dropped his pen in shock. "You're saying that the Su family are the eighth-generation descendants of Princess Jingmin?"
The guard nodded; that was indeed what he had heard.
The emperor slowly put down his pen. So, he was still... well... let him calculate. If Su Heng's father was the eighth-generation descendant of Princess Jingmin, then he was Su Heng's grandfather!
Although he looks only slightly older than Su Heng's father, he and his father were the youngest princes, which is probably why they were of different generations.
Hey! I got a free grandson!
The emperor's shock was quickly replaced by joy. What an exceptionally intelligent and capable grandson! How could he not be happy!
I'm suddenly really looking forward to Su Heng's expression when he finds out about this, haha!
However, the emperor's joy was short-lived; he soon frowned and became worried.
Although he knew about it, how could he make it public?
Just as he was worrying, a young eunuch came from outside to report that Princess Huajing was requesting an audience.
After marrying into the family of the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Hua Jing settled down in the capital. However, she was repeatedly refused by the emperor when she tried to enroll in the girls' school. He was joking, they hadn't even figured out how to manage their own affairs yet, how could they let outsiders interfere?
Later, under the emperor's strict surveillance, Hua Jing calmed down. After all, she had already married into the Great Jin Dynasty, and she could inform her brother the emperor immediately of any situation in the Great Jin and seek benefits for their tribe.
The emperor had not seen this princess from the Western Regions for a long time. Could it be that she had heard about his promise to send a telegram to the Little Liang Kingdom?
Although he didn't really want to deal with Hua Jing, he couldn't just turn him away the moment he came to see him since Hua Jing hadn't come for so many days. After all, Hua Jing was a vassal state, and he had to give him face.
So the emperor dismissed the guards and then let Hua Jing in.
Hua Jing did come because of the court's promise to send a telegram to Xiao Liang. As they were both vassal states, why should Xiao Liang be given the telegram first? Not to mention that she had married into the Great Jin, even her sister-in-law was a princess of the Great Jin. Shouldn't the Western Regions be considered first when there were good things to be done?
Although she phrased it more politely and tactfully, that was the gist of it. The emperor chuckled upon hearing this, "Little Liang is no longer a vassal state, but a city of the Great Jin. If the Western Regions were to become a city of the Great Jin like Little Liang, I would consider sending you telegrams."
The Liang Kingdom is now part of the Great Jin Dynasty. The Great Jin Dynasty can't ignore its own people and take care of a foreign tribe first, can it?
Princess Huajing was surprised. She hadn't expected that the Little Liang Kingdom would go to such lengths to get electricity. She had no choice but to leave the palace in a sorry state, since she couldn't decide whether the Western Regions should be incorporated into the Great Jin Dynasty.
Hua Jing was anxious to return to the manor to write to her elder brother, but she happened to run into Zhou Shuqin, who was looking for her, at the gate of the Du residence.
"Mrs. Du, where have you been?"
Zhou Shuqin wanted to curry favor with a powerful person to get information about the capital, while Hua Jing wanted to befriend a wealthy merchant from the Great Jin Dynasty in order to make connections with more people from that region.
So a bowl of fish soup became the key to their relationship.
At this moment, Zhou Shuqin greeted him with a smile, and Hua Jing was also polite, "I was just taking a walk. By the way, did you need something from me?"
"Nothing much, just taking a stroll. I happened to pass by and thought I'd come in and chat with you for a bit to keep you company."
Zhou Shuqin smiled and glanced at the maid behind Hua Jing. Hua Jing could tell that she wanted to talk to her alone, so she invited the maid in.
Upon arriving at her room, she instructed her maid to fetch some newly acquired tea cakes for Zhou Shuqin to take with her when she left. Zhou Shuqin was flattered and quickly told her maid to follow her.
With only the two of them left in the room, Zhou Shuqin smiled and asked, seemingly casually, where Young Master Du had gone.
Speaking of her husband, Hua Jing wanted to roll her eyes. He didn't study properly every day; he was either out drinking or chasing after women. Every time she tried to supervise his studies, her mother-in-law would rush over to protect him, which always made her so angry that she wanted to chop the mother and son up with a big knife.
"I wonder where he's off to have some fun again."
Hua Jing didn't want to mention this person.
Zhou Shuqin glanced around and, seeing no one was coming, lowered her voice and said, "I was shopping today and saw the second young lady of the Marquis of Changxing's mansion drinking with a man in a restaurant. They were clinking glasses and seemed to be enjoying themselves quite a bit. But..."
She paused, glanced at Hua Jing's expression, and continued, "But I thought that man's back view looked a bit like Young Master Du..."
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