Chapter 515 Needs to be punished

"Hiss... Sister Zheng's headdress is so beautiful today. Is it the one she wore on the day when the Crown Prince chose a concubine?"

"Sister Zheng is seventeen years old this year, and the Crown Prince is nineteen. You and His Royal Highness are quite compatible in age, but doesn't His Royal Highness dislike you? What's the point of being compatible? This is choosing a wife, not putting a lock on a door. It doesn't matter whether you are compatible or not. What matters is whether you like each other or not. Sister Zheng, tell me, am I right?"

"You..."

"Sister Zheng, do you know what His Highness wants?"

Meng Yixuan's eyes were burning. When she mentioned the Crown Prince, her eyes flashed with a strange light: "What His Highness wants is someone who can treat him sincerely. If he is willing to choose me as the Crown Princess, he must have seen that I have never coveted the position of Crown Princess. What I want is just His Highness."

In other words, the Crown Prince had long seen that Zheng Keren ran for the Crown Princess just to become a crown princess for glory and wealth.

If the Crown Prince today was just the son of an ordinary commoner, Meng Yixuan would like him and would marry him without hesitation, regardless of whether he had power and wealth.

Those noble ladies like Zheng Keren were different. They would not even give him an extra glance.

No one understood anything else, but everyone understood Meng Yixuan's sarcasm about Zheng Keren wanting to be the Crown Princess.

It was a reasonable suspicion that Zheng Keren was being weird here because she was not chosen.

"You...I..."

Zheng Keren couldn't admit that she knew from a young age that the Crown Prince liked Meng Yixuan and was jealous of her so she targeted her, right?

Wouldn't that make Meng Yixuan even more proud?

She originally thought that even if the Meng family rose rapidly and became a first-rank official family, Meng Yixuan had a mother who was not presentable, and her status was not enough to match His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

It was not shameful to lose to Yan Qingqing, the legitimate daughter of a top family, and she would lose with conviction, but she could not swallow the shame of losing to Meng Yixuan.

How could His Royal Highness the Crown Prince do this?

"Forget it, today is Keren's birthday, we sisters should stop quarreling when we are together, let's go to the front yard to enjoy the singing and dancing!"

Jing Shuyi is the daughter of the third branch of the Jing family. She is about the same age as the third princess, but she is the third princess's cousin.

People of such high status have become peacemakers, and it is really not good to continue to entangle.

Meng Yixuan smiled disdainfully at Zheng Keren, turned around and walked towards the third princess and Yan Qingqing.

Yan Qingqing raised her thumbs up: "Xuanxuan, you are great! You finally showed the courage of Aunt Xi Que. I think Zheng Keren deserves to be punished."

The third princess smiled slightly: "Qingqing sister is right, Xuanxuan, you should have fought back like today a long time ago, but don't worry, the prince knows that she is always targeting you and will never let her enter the East Palace."

In addition to choosing a princess, the prince will also be arranged by the emperor and the queen mother to have several concubines and wives.

However, the emperor and the queen mother have always held a free and casual attitude towards their children's marriage. As long as their children do not marry people who commit crimes and have low character, they are supportive.

They will not interfere with such a small matter as taking a concubine.

Therefore, Zheng Keren is not only impossible to be the princess, but she cannot even be selected as the prince's concubine.

Because Shen Mingye would not allow people who bully his Crown Princess to appear in the East Palace.

Five days have passed, and Yan Jinhua still doesn't understand where she went wrong. His

Royal Highness the Crown Prince saved her that day, and it was obvious that he was interested in her, so why hasn't the Crown Prince transferred her to the East Palace after so many days?

He beat the goddaughter of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that day, and she had been bullied by them in the past few days.

She eats the least, but has to do the heaviest physical work. She goes to bed the latest, but has to get up the earliest. After finishing her own work, there are always a lot of things waiting for her to do.

Manager Zhang is old and suffering from illness, and he will not live long. The position of the head of the Imperial Household Department would sooner or later become the deputy head of the department. The wind direction here had long since changed, and no one dared to help Yan Jinhua.

The silent night was like a big net, covering the Imperial Household Department from top to bottom, making people feel helpless from inside to outside.

It seemed that no matter how hard they tried, they could not escape from this city, and the suffocation was despairing.

"Click!"

There were stealthy footsteps, followed by the sound of the door bolt being pried open: "Are you sure nothing will happen if I do this?"

The woman glared at the guard: "What could happen? Old man Zhang took good care of her in the past. He was afraid that I would bully her, so he arranged for her to occupy a room alone. Humph! This is a good thing, isn't it convenient for us today?"

"Don't worry, she is the daughter of a criminal, and she has no relatives around her. Even if she was defiled by you, no one will seek justice for her. Didn't you say that you have coveted Yan Jinhua's beauty for a long time? How can you get her if you don't even have this little courage?"

The guard gritted his teeth and pushed the door open cruelly.

On the roof of the Imperial Household Department, a pair of bright black eyes appeared. After the sneaky guard went in, the blue-robed guard hiding on the roof quickly ran to the East Palace.

East Palace——

The silver fishing line swayed gently in the water, and Shen Mingye, who was wearing a four-clawed golden dragon prince's costume, raised a satisfied arc at the corner of his mouth.

The fish has taken the bait.

The fishing rod was pulled back, and a koi with golden scales was dragged ashore.

Xiao Yuezi and several palace maids applauded. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was really amazing. He could catch fish with a straight fishing hook.

Could this be "Jiang Taigong fishing, whoever wants to take the bait will be caught?"

The blue figure landed on the roof of the East Palace, and several secret guards were alerted for a moment, but when they saw the face of the person coming, they relaxed one by one.

The blue-clothed guard landed silently, but when he was about to approach Shen Mingye, a fat koi fish hit his arms.

He hurriedly tried to catch the lively koi, and put it back into the artificial rockery pond: "Your Highness, Yan Jinhua... Yan Jinhua is in danger..."

Shen Mingye stood up and put away the fishing rod: "Then let's go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"

He was not in a hurry, because it was the palace maid who plotted against him first. If she didn't even have the ability to protect herself, and was just a beautiful idiot, it was not worth his effort.

"Bang!"

"Um... Um..."

A feeling of suffocation and difficulty breathing came over Yan Jinhua, and she opened her frightened eyes.

A strange man was covering her mouth and tearing off her clothes: "My little beauty, I have liked you for a long time, just give in to me! I will be very gentle."

"Let go... wuwu... help... wuwuwu..."

The man stuffed a sweat towel into her mouth, clasped Yan Jinhua's hands with one hand and fixed them on her head, and unbuttoned her neck with the other hand.

Yan Jinhua struggled violently, but the guard was very strong, and she, a weak woman, was no match for him.