"Let's take it one step at a time. Do you really think I can just sit back and do nothing, waiting for Wenyi to grow up and then see how things go?"
Cao Qinmo and Yinxiu carried the food box and headed towards Chuxiu Palace. They had originally planned to inquire about smallpox vaccination from Consort Cheng to see if it was really as safe as everyone said.
Unexpectedly, she began to worry about Wenyi's future and suddenly realized that she had no other way to help others than to please them.
Cao Qinmo finally understood why her mother was filled with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow when she was given to the emperor as a princess.
The good news is that she married into the royal family, which gave her family a powerful backer. If the prince becomes emperor, the Cao family will have climbed even higher, becoming relatives of the emperor.
What worries her is that if she doesn't marry into the royal family, her family will only arrange a marriage for her with someone of equal social standing. Even though her family has fallen on hard times, she will still live a life of being waited on.
No matter where she marries, with her methods, as the principal wife, she will live a much better life than if she were a minor concubine in the palace.
However, if she had to choose, she would most likely still choose the path of entering the palace.
Her parents never expected her to be chosen; they had already arranged a marriage for her and were just waiting for her to be rejected.
That family later embezzled and accepted bribes, and only after ascending the throne did they realize they had inherited a mess. The fat orange tree, whose treasury was so empty it could run horses, took its anger out on them.
Their family property was confiscated, and the entire family, regardless of age or gender, was exiled to Shaanxi to clean up the Yellow River channel.
She's not a good swimmer and can't handle this kind of hard work!
Lost in thought the whole way, Cao Qinmo gathered her thoughts as she walked into Chuxiu Palace with a gentle and friendly smile.
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