When she arrived at the main hall, Madam Mu was chatting with Qin.
"Alas, my Ning'er was protected too well by me. She is not familiar with worldly affairs, but she doesn't have any ideas. She is like some women who think they are smart and use some tricks to annoy others for no reason."
Qin naturally knew who she was talking about, she just smiled and said nothing.
Before she got married, she had some friendship with Madam Mu, but after so many things happened, that friendship was already good enough to talk about.
Seeing that she was in high spirits, Madam Mu was about to talk about the past when she heard a servant come to report: "Princess, the Crown Prince's Consort is here."
Shang Ruoyi walked in: "Mother."
"Come quickly!" Qin said with a smile, "This is the wife of the Prime Minister's Mansion."
Shang Ruoyi nodded and sat next to Qin.
"The Crown Prince's Consort is really very pretty!" Her eyes fell on Shang Ruoyi's face, then looked at the hairpins on her head, and was secretly surprised.
Today she wore a hairpin and some hairpins made of oriental pearls. Although her hair was simple, she looked very noble.
Dongzhu, that is something that ordinary people can afford, and anyone is qualified to wear it.
She looked at Qin, and a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of her lips: "The Crown Prince's Consort's headdress is really exquisite. I have never seen such luxurious jewelry in a long time." She looked between Shang Ruoyi and Princess Zhan: "I guess this Dongzhu jewelry must have been given to the Crown Prince's Consort by the Princess."
Qin smiled and said, "Where can I get such a good Dongzhu?"
Madam Mu pretended to be surprised when she heard this and said, "How is it possible? In this palace, everything should be put first by the old princess and the princess. The princess doesn't even have such a noble headdress, so how can she wear it on the head of the prince's wife?"
Mu Qingning sat aside and said in a gloomy tone, "Princess, forgive me for being so nosy. The princess treated you badly. She took great care of you in exile. Even when your father did so many wrong things, the princess treated you as before. How can you be so presumptuous?"
"Overstepping your authority?" Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "Why do you say that, Miss Mu?"
"How can the Crown Prince's Consort wear such a precious jewellery as the Dongzhu alone? It should have been worn by the Princess Consort, and now it is the Crown Prince's Consort's turn." Mu Qingning's righteous look made Shang Ruoyi almost laugh out loud.
"But considering the background of the Crown Prince's Concubine, it's not surprising that she does this." Madam Mu smiled and said, "I heard that the Crown Prince's Concubine's mother was Shang's concubine and was from a merchant family. How much knowledge can a merchant's daughter have? I guess she hasn't learned much about etiquette." She looked at Qin and said, "Your Majesty still needs to be taught better."
Qin's face suddenly darkened when she heard this.
Just as she was about to speak, she heard Shang Ruoyi sneer beside her: "Madam Mu, I respect you as the wife of the Prime Minister, the concubine of my mother, so you have to endure this. If we talk about the one who truly understands etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame, it is Madam Mu."
"What did you say?" Madam Mu's face darkened and she said in a cold voice, "How dare you speak so rudely!"
"You are so rude?" Shang Ruoyi sneered, "Who is so rude? This is the Dingwang Mansion. Although I am a concubine, I am now the Crown Prince's wife, a member of the royal family! You are just a prime minister's wife, and you dare to boss me around in the Dingwang Mansion. You don't even know how to greet this Crown Prince's wife. You are showing contempt for the royal family."
"You!" She sat up straight, holding the armrests with both hands: "You are the descendant of a criminal!"
"So what if I'm the descendant of a criminal? Even the emperor will investigate. What right do you have to tell me here? Who do you think you are? Are you more noble than the emperor?" Shang Ruoyi snorted coldly, "I'm a concubine's daughter, and my mother is the daughter of a merchant. So what? Do I, Shang Ruoyi, eat a grain of rice from your family or tear a piece of cloth from your family? You only know that my mother is the daughter of a merchant, but do you know that the Wei family was once the richest family in the capital, and the taxes they paid to the court every day were more than the income and expenses of your family together. Without merchants like my grandfather, the court would have no tax revenue, the treasury would be empty, and the court officials would have no regular silver to pay. How would you eat and drink? Would you starve to death?" She took out a ruby the size of a pigeon egg and played with it casually: "I can have as many jewels as I want." She took out another oriental pearl: "I use oriental pearls like these as marbles. I have no knowledge, but do you? How much knowledge do you have? Tell me, and I'll take a look."
Shang Ruoyi's words made the mother and daughter of the Mu family blush and turn pale. They had no idea that Shang Ruoyi had such a fortune.
They had never seen such big Dongzhu.
At this time, Princess Zhan beside him said, "Ruoyi, the Dongzhu bracelet you gave me earlier is this color, and the bead necklace you gave to my grandmother, one is purple and the other is gold. I think both are better looking than this white one."
What?
Bracelets and necklaces?
How many Dongzhu are needed to make it?
And what color did Princess Zhan just say?
Purple and gold!
How is this possible?
Just when the two of them were doubtful, they saw Princess Zhan lift up her sleeves, revealing the purple Dongzhu bracelet.
Seeing this, the mother and daughter of the Mu family turned pale.
Eyes stick to the bracelet and move it up to open your eyes.
"Mother, you like the color white, so I will naturally use white Dongzhu pearls as a headdress for you. Grind the white Dongzhu pearls into fine powder and apply it on your face to make your skin as white and bright as the Dongzhu pearls."
"Is the fine white powder you asked the servant to bring Dongzhu powder?"
"That's right." Shang Ruoyi said with a smile: "I see that mother's skin is getting better today."
"This is all thanks to you." Qin held Shang Ruoyi's hand and looked at Mu's mother and daughter sharply.
"I originally wanted to turn against you because of our sisterly love when we were young, but who knew that you would become even more outrageous in your words and deeds. Now you are bullying the Crown Prince's Consort of Prince Ding's Mansion right under my nose. This is really too much!"
Upon hearing this, Madam Mu quickly stood up and knelt on the ground, and Mu Qingning behind her also knelt down.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. It is my fault. My words and actions have offended the princess and the crown prince. Please forgive me for the sake of our past relationship."
"Hmph!" Princess Zhan snorted coldly: "The love we once had is now almost gone."
"My queen!"
"Since Madam Mu said that she and my mother had a past relationship, why did she lend a helping hand when the Dingguo Palace was in trouble?" Shang Ruoyi sneered, "Or did the relationship between Madam and my mother only last when the Dingguo Palace was powerful?"
Madam Mu was shocked when she heard this: "That's right, that's right! Madam, please listen to my explanation!"
"You must be talking too much." Princess Zhan glanced at her and said, "I know your conflicting thoughts better than anyone else."
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