At this time, Ling Wei completely ignored that the set of pearls on Ah Wu’s head was taken out of Mrs. Fan’s private property. She could also wear precious jewelry, but her mother was reluctant to do so.
“Oh.”
Ling Zhuo withdrew her eyes from Ah Wu and then touched the headband on her head with her hand. This headband was exactly what Mrs. Fan asked Nanny Fan to give it to her not long ago.
“Mother loves me too.”
After saying that, she quickened her pace and followed Ah Wu into the carriage.
Because one carriage could only be seated by two ladies, Ling Wei could only sit in the carriage at the back.
“Hmph!”
Only then did Ling Wei notice that although the jewelry Ling Zhuo was wearing today was not as precious as the set on Ah Wu’s head, it was still much rarer than her set of pearls.
Being bullied by the real daughter of the Marquis’s Mansion was fine, but she was also bullied by a fake. Ling Wei stamped her feet in anger and turned to walk toward another carriage.
***
“Have you heard that the Seventh Young Lady of the Marquis of Changping’s Mansion, who just returned to her ancestral home, will also appear today?”
“It is said that this young lady has been wandering outside for more than ten years. I don’t know what she looks like.”
In the Marquis of Chengyi’s Mansion, some girls had gathered in the room of the Eldest Young Lady Jin Ruyi. They were all talking about the miraculous experience of the Seventh Young Lady of the Marquis of Changping’s Mansion.
Jin Ruyi was helped by the maid to put on makeup. She did not mean to stop the discussion of her friend.
The First Prince had already married his wife, but the positions of the two concubines around him were still vacant.
The Marquis of Chengyi’s Mansion was a staunch party to the First Prince. The Marquis of Chengyi’s Mansion and the First Prince had a tacit understanding for a long time.
When Jin Ruyi reached the age of 15, the First Prince would ask the Emperor to grant him a marriage and take Jin Ruyi as his concubine.
It was not an honorable thing for the eldest granddaughter of the marquis’s mansion to be a concubine, but who could blame him for being a prince and very likely to be the future emperor?
In this way, even being a concubine was not considered humiliating.
In this way, there was only one concubine left for the First Prince.
Jin Ruyi learned from her father that this concubine position seemed to be reserved for the Sixth Young Lady of the Marquis of Changping’s Mansion.
Over the years, the Marquis of Changping Ling Yaodong had become more and more popular in front of Emperor Qian. Naturally, the Marquis of Changping had become the object of eagerness to be won over by various forces.
Not only the First Prince, but even the Third Prince had also set his eyes on the daughter of the Marquis of Changping.
Moreover, the Third Prince was even more outrageous. He had not married a wife at the age of seventeen and even got a so-called monk to say that it was not appropriate to marry early.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was trying to show goodwill to the Marquis of Changping, saying that he would wait for the Sixth Young Lady Ling Zhuo to come of age.
Under such circumstances, it was difficult for Jin Ruyi to have a good impression of Ling Zhuo, a future competitor.
Because whether Ling Zhuo finally married the Eldest Prince as a concubine or the Third Prince as a wife, it meant that they would be enemies.
At this moment, a legitimate Seventh Young Lady suddenly appeared in the Marquis of Changping Mansion, claiming to be Ling Zhuo’s twin sister.
The outside world was talking about it, and many forces were trying to find out the origin of the Seventh Young Lady.
Jin Ruyi also sent people to investigate, but unfortunately, the Marquis of Changping’s Mansion was strict in its actions, so no one had found out the specific situation so far.
But Jin Ruyi always felt that the tighter the Marquis of Changping’s Mansion kept secrets, the more strange things there were inside.
She became more and more curious about the Seventh Young Lady.
Twin sisters from the same mother, one stayed in the Marquis’ Mansion and enjoyed wealth and glory, while the other was living outside, suffering from poverty and hardship.
Jin Ruyi felt that the sudden appearance of the Seventh Young Lady might become a breakthrough, allowing her to eliminate the enemy from within.
With this in mind, Jin Ruyi did not stop her friends from talking. She wanted to find out more about Ling Wu from these people, so as to make plans for the next step.
***
At this time, Ah Wu and Ling Zhuo were still sitting in the same carriage.
Ah Wu was eating the candied fruit with dozens of medicinal herbs specially prepared by Imperial Physician Wang for her.
She felt that her heart rate was a little too fast today.
Was it because of the stare of that little girl?
Ah Wu glanced at Ling Zhuo, who had never taken her eyes off her face since getting on the carriage and didn’t speak.
Did she want to eat the candied fruit in her hand?
Ah Wu swallowed the last candied fruit expressionlessly. The other party was not her brother, so she couldn’t eat it even if she wanted to.
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