The third concubine, with her hairpins crooked and her face pale, saw everything in front of her and her heart skipped a beat.
"Liu, why do you want to slander Princess Chen?" asked the eldest princess.
The Third Concubine shuddered. "Princess Chen is asking for the late Madam's dowry. The Marquis wants to pay it back with silver, but Princess Chen disagrees and insists that the Marquis build an academy! As everyone knows, building an academy is not something that can be done overnight. It requires an enormous amount of silver! I thought I could stop the academy from being built this way!"
"How dare you!" The eldest princess' eyes were cold and fierce. "It is a disgrace to the Yongshun Marquisate to have a woman with such ill intentions as you!"
Qu Yuxing, who followed closely, immediately explained: "Grand Princess, I am not aware of this matter!"
The eldest princess looked down on Marquis Yongshun because of Li Ran.
If Li Ran hadn't planned for him back then, he would never have become the Marquis!
There was a cold laugh from someone with an unhappy face: "It's already common knowledge that the Marquis of Yongshun doesn't manage his family well!"
Qu Yuxing's face turned pale and blue, but he couldn't refute.
"A concubine who is not worthy of being on the stage dared to collude with a lowly prostitute to slander the royal wife. I will order her to be beaten to death. Does Marquis Yongshun have any objection?"
Qu Yuxing shook his head.
The third concubine seemed to have fallen into the abyss of a cold pond, begging desperately with tears in her eyes.
"My Lord, I am also thinking about the Marquis' Mansion!"
"This Marquis has already agreed to let Princess Chen build the academy. You've interfered and brought disgrace to the Marquisate, yet you still have the nerve to claim you're doing it for the Marquisate's benefit!" Qu Yuxing then turned to the Grand Princess and said, "Such a sinister and vicious woman, don't let the Grand Princess dirty her hands!"
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