Fendai's words shocked Han's heart. She never thought that being a concubine in Prince Li's mansion was not enough, and this girl actually wanted to become the main concubine.
You know, she doesn’t know that she is just a concubine’s daughter!
"Do you think it's so easy to be the mistress of the Prime Minister's Mansion?" Han had to speak with facts to make Fan Dai sober. "Yao was the mistress at first because the Yao family supported your father's career; later Shen became the mistress because the Shen family supported your father's finances. What do I have? Don't always count on my belly. Even if I give birth to a son, I can't be the mistress."
Everything Han said was true, but Fendai didn't think so - "You didn't have a backer before, but now you have one, right?" She looked at Han with a bewitching look in her eyes, "Now I have an engagement with Prince Li's Mansion, and His Royal Highness Prince Li is our backer."
"But..." Han was stunned. She felt that what Fendai said was not completely unreasonable, but she was not the only daughter who was engaged! "The second young lady is also engaged to the prince."
"Does she still count?" Fen Dai rolled her eyes at Han. "Feng Yuheng is already a legitimate daughter, and Yao has divorced her father. Not to mention that the Ninth Prince's leg cannot be cured, even if it is cured, what can it do? A divorced woman, why are you afraid of her?"
"That's true." Han's mind became active again. "The eldest lady is now a useless person. I saw your father was busy with her affairs earlier, and then he went to the northern border to suppress the disaster. I think he couldn't take care of her. A useless person, naturally, there is no need to be afraid."
"It's right that you think so!" Fendai patted Han's shoulder with satisfaction and was about to give her a few more instructions, but unexpectedly, at this moment, a neigh suddenly came from outside the carriage. The horse pulling the carriage was frightened, and its front hooves left the ground, causing the entire carriage to lean back.
"Ah!" Fendai and Han screamed in unison and slammed into the back of the carriage, knocking the two masters and two maids unconscious.
As the raised horse hoof landed on the ground, the carriage tilted forward again, and the four people in the carriage rushed out of the curtain. If they had not grabbed the wooden frame of the carriage, they would have almost rolled onto the street.
"Damn it! How do you drive a carriage?" Fendai cursed the driver, but when she looked closely, she found that the driver was nowhere to be found. He had already been thrown to the ground. Fortunately, the horse finally stabilized and stopped crashing, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Han was the first to raise her head and glance forward. As soon as she looked forward, her two eyebrows knitted together. She grasped her powder with one hand and whispered, "Look—"
Fendai looked forward in confusion, and then she found that there was a person standing in front of the carriage. It was a little girl, holding a whip in one hand and a puppy in the other. She was looking up at their carriage with an arrogant look on her face. The hand holding the whip was pointing at the horse pulling the carriage, and she shouted in a delicate voice: "You beast! You almost hurt my master's puppy. I'll have you killed!"
The horse stood in front of the girl, as if afraid of the whip and dared not move.
Only then did Fendai understand that the shock just now was man-made!
She immediately refused to do it, and simply stood up on the carriage, pointed at the girl and said, "Who the hell are you? Do you think you can scold my horse?"
The girl looked up at Fendai and thought that the lady's clothes were not very good and the carriage she was riding in was also quite ordinary. She did not take her seriously and even cursed at her, "Who are you? I am teaching a beast a lesson, what does it have to do with you?"
"How dare you insult me?" Fendai's eyes widened, she couldn't believe it. After all, she was the daughter of the prime minister. Even if she was a concubine, she was much more noble than the average official lady. It would have been fine if the old lady had said a few words to her in the mansion, but she didn't expect that she would have to endure the bullying of a maid outside the mansion? "Asshole!" Fendai's face turned blue with anger, "I am the fourth lady of the left prime minister's mansion, how can you afford to scold me?"
As soon as these words came out, the girl was stunned for a moment, still calculating the importance of the fourth lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
After this calculation, he was slightly surprised. He had never expected that he would offend such a powerful person. He did not know what to do for a moment. He could only turn around and look at a gorgeous carriage parked not far behind him.
It was obvious that her master was sitting in the carriage. At this moment, a servant was lifting the curtain to allow the person inside to look out.
Fen Dai's eyes met with the woman in the car over there. She felt that the woman's eyes were very sharp, and her unruly nature was written on her face without any concealment.
The woman also saw her and burst out laughing. Then she raised her hand and the driver drove the carriage a few steps towards Fendai. When the two were closer, the woman spoke up, "A concubine's daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion? So what? Since when did the family of an official dare to clash with the family of a prince?"
Han was startled, and hurried to pull Fendai, whispering, "Stop talking, he's from the royal family."
Fendai was also a little scared, her face turned pale, but she was still unwilling to give up, and actually asked: "Which prince's family are you from?"
The woman smiled and said, "Prince Li's Mansion."
"Prince Li's Palace?" Han and Fendai asked at the same time, and then stood there in a daze.
People on the street started to talk: "I heard that King Li brought in a concubine a few days ago. I think this is her. They say that new people are favored. You can tell by looking at her."
Fendai heard this and suddenly burst into laughter. She pointed at the woman and said condescendingly, "The concubine of Prince Li's mansion? That's great. Get off the car and greet me."
The dog-holding girl standing on the ground was not happy and asked quickly, "You want the prince's woman to pay respect to you?"
"Why?" Fendai looked at the girl with amusement, "She is just a concubine. Her status is even lower than that of a servant like you. Shouldn't she be polite to me?"
"Yes, I am the concubine of the prince!" The girl was furious and shouted, "Do you understand that I am the prince's woman? I will give birth to a grandson for Dashun in the future!"
Fendai looked at the girl and felt that what she was about to say was particularly exciting. She couldn't help but raise her head again and said loudly, "So what? No matter what time it is, she will kneel down and greet me! You are just a concubine. How dare you not kneel when you meet the future concubine of Prince Li's mansion?"
The woman in the car opposite was stunned for a moment when she heard this. At this time, a nanny beside her came forward and whispered something to her. The woman then looked at Fendai in surprise again.
Fendai looked at the other person proudly, feeling a sense of superiority in her heart, and couldn't help but urge him again: "Hurry up! Come down and kowtow to me."
But the other party did not do as she wished. Not only did he not come down to kowtow to her, but he also chuckled. Although the laughter was not as arrogant as Fendai's just now, it was extremely harsh. Even when she laughed, some people on the street also laughed along.
The laughter echoed in Fendai and Han's ears, making them feel uneasy.
Pei'er gently pulled Fendai aside and whispered, "Miss, I feel like something is a little wrong."
Fendai asked back, "What's wrong?"
Before the two could say anything else, the concubine of Prince Li spoke again, saying in a delicate voice: "Concubine? Or a future one? But even if she enters the mansion now, what can we do? Madam Wu -" She tilted her head and asked the old maid beside her, "How many concubines do we have in our mansion?"
The maid counted and replied, "There are nine still in the mansion, and another three have been sent to the farm outside the city."
"Yes." The woman nodded, "One after another, less than half a year at most." As she spoke, she looked up at Fendai and asked her, "What's the point of being a concubine?"
Fen Dai was stunned by her words. What did she mean by one after another? What did she mean by less than half a year at most?
Also, just now...
The nanny spoke in a loud voice and she also heard it. That astonishing number, was it referring to the concubines in Prince Li's mansion?
Han heard something was wrong. She was not stupid at least. She immediately thought of why the old lady had such an attitude when facing the proposal from Prince Li's Mansion yesterday. She couldn't help but panic. She quickly pulled the maid Aju beside her and whispered, "Go ask the people on the street what's going on in Prince Li's Mansion. Remember, do it quietly."
Aju nodded and quickly got out of the car.
Fen Dai was still standing in the car, at a loss as to what to do. The words of the woman and the nanny had shocked her greatly. It was as if she had suddenly gone from a hot spring to an ice cave, and her heart was chilled to the bone.
"You, do you still want me to greet you?" the woman asked coquettishly, looking at Fendai, "I heard yesterday that the prince had ordered someone to take the engagement letter out to propose marriage. I didn't expect it to be you. It seems you are also a fool. You are the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but you actually take the title of the principal wife of Prince Li's Mansion seriously." After she finished speaking, she giggled again, and then got out of the car and walked straight into a jewelry store.
Fen Dai was stunned in the car, completely dumbfounded. Han finally pulled her back into the car, patting Fen Dai's face and asking anxiously, "What's wrong with you? Did you hear me? Fourth Miss!"
Pei'er was also calling her from the side. After the two of them struggled for a long time, Fendai finally responded a little, but she asked in a daze: "Was what that woman said just now true?"
Without waiting for Han's reply, Ah Ju, who had gone out to get information, came back. Her eyes were red as soon as she entered the carriage, "Aunt, Prince Li..."
"What happened to Prince Li?" Fendai grabbed Aju's arm and asked, "What did you hear?"
Ah Ju said aggrievedly, "It turns out that there are many women in Prince Li's mansion, not just concubines, there are more than a dozen concubines alone, and now there are nine of them still in Prince Li's mansion! The fourth young lady is still four years away from her coming of age, if you count these four years, who knows how many more women will be carried into the mansion. People say that Prince Li's mansion is more lively than a brothel, and Prince Li is the bridegroom every night."
Fendai was completely dumbfounded. She had originally planned to turn the tables, but she had never expected that the Li Palace would be in such a state. She had hoped that she could become a great person, but she had never expected that a good marriage would become a laughing stock for all the people in the capital. How could she put her face on this?
Han didn't expect things to turn out like this. She felt sorry for her daughter, so she simply said, "Let's go back home and ask the old lady to cancel this marriage."
Pei Er was not so optimistic and reminded Han: "The old lady did not agree at the beginning, but it was Auntie and the Fourth Miss who forced the old lady to agree! Besides, can the prince's engagement be cancelled just like that? Auntie should think of other ways."
"What else can we do?" Han was completely at a loss. She held Fendai's hand and wiped away her tears. "My poor child!"
"Stop crying!" Suddenly, Fendai shook off Han's hand, lifted the curtain and rushed out.
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