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It was midnight at the backyard of Jinguo Grand Princess’s mansion outside the waterside pavilion.
The spears and halberds were glistening.
The whirling snow was pervaded with a stern atmosphere.
“This place is surrounded on three sides by water, only with the long winding bridge linked to the bank.” Inside the waterside pavilion, Jinguo Grand Princess, sitting on the bench, said grimly, “The long bridge is guarded by tens of guards and Jiayue is on watch at the gate. Therefore, whatever is uttered here only stays between you and me!”
Song Yixiao knelt down without hesitation. “I don’t deserve your love, Mother!”
The Grand Princess answered with a poker face, “Now confess!”
“I do hold grudge against Cui Jianlian!” Originally, Song Yixiao planned to confess to her mother-in-law. Now the Grand Princess even kept Jian Xubai from staying inside, which clearly suggested her bias for Song Yixiao. In this case, if Song Yixiao still tried to conceal anything, she would be too ungrateful and heartless. Therefore, she told directly how Cui Jianlian and she incurred hatred back then. “So, I have been cautious since I found something fishy about You Qingchun, the daughter of my foster nurse!”
When she suspected You Qingchun at first, she didn’t think of Cui Jianlian. After all, they two were never connected.
“At first, I suspected the ringleader behind You Qingchun was the Liu Family or Madam Jin, the second young mistress in Prince of Hengshan’s mansion! Because Liu Zhenxi involved himself in the case of my wet nurse’s husband!”
When You Hong’s case was closed, even the Mayor of the Jingzhao Municipality reminded that the case came to a weirdly neat end.
When she was persuading Wei Mengying for the sake of Wei Chan, Song Yixiao used to suspect that it was an act of warning from Liu Zhenxi. However, when she sensed You Qingchun’s unusual behaviors afterwards, she once suspected that Fu Junchang’s unfaithfulness was a show put on by You Qingchun and Fu Junchang only in order to get You Qingchun into Duke of Yan’s mansion.
“Then how did you suspect Cui Jianlian later?” The Grand Princess asked. “Did you interrogate You Qingchun?”
“I suppose that You Qingchun hasn’t realized that she is suspected by me!” Song Yixiao shook her head and said. “Actually, it is due to my stepmother that I could think of Cui Jianlian. On the day of the tea ceremony of Yiyou and his newly-wedded wife, Mr. Linghu’s mother passed away. I happened to meet my stepmother and stepsister’s carriage broken in the street on the way back home after I offered condolence to the Linghu Family, so I sent them back to the Song’s mansion!”
Maybe in order to return her favor or other reason, her stepmother, Madam Lu told her that Cui Jianlian was in contact with the Jin Family and the Liu Family.
At that time Song Yixiao didn’t suspect You Qingchun so she was only a bit in doubt. She kept what Madam Lu said in mind but she didn’t take it seriously.
However, when You Qingchun showed her slip, she immediately thought of this matter!
“As the Crown Prince’s mother’s maiden family, the Cui Family can never side with Prince of Wei or Prince of Zhao!” Song Yixiao lowered her head and said. “Therefore, it is fair enough to say that Cui Jianlian contacted the Jin Family probably so as to win over the Jin Family. In this way, she may be able to earn some credit in private. On the contrary, it is absolutely abnormal that she contacted the Liu Family of Uncle Qiu’s side! Unfortunately, both Cui Jianlian and the Liu Family hate me and hope to eradicate me! Judging from that, I believe that what You Qingchun did in secret must be a foreshadowing for Cui Jianlian!”
Because Liu Zhenxi was a man anyway, in common cases, he didn’t have any chance to meet Song Yixiao!
Then how could he frame Song Yixiao?
“Therefore, before you left home today, you changed your clothes and accessories so that the imperial doctors and the old maids of the Empress Dowager can’t find anything fishy?” The Grand Princess said as if deep in thought. “But since Cui Jianlian meant to hurt you, she would be prepared for your reaction. Who did you borrow the Diyi (the official wear of a titled lady) from? How could you hide it from the spy assigned by her in your mansion?”
Song Yixiao pursed her lips. “I’ve suspected You Qingchun before the birthday of Her Highness Princess Yushan, so I haven’t returned the Diyi borrowed from Qingjiang that day! Qingjiang is always generous and she likes me, so she has never mentioned getting it back by far. What I’m wearing at the feast today is Qingjiang’s Diyi. Although I’ve adjusted the size, what the first-rank titled ladies wear are just the same. As I don’t point it out, who can recognize the difference but Qingjiang?”
Actually, the suit of Diyi was indirectly sent to her by Commandery Princess Qingjiang. After all, those who are eligible to congratulate on the birthday of Princess Yushan were prestigious and reserved.
Even if they freshened up in the side hall, they could never touch Song Yixiao’s things in public.
That day Commandery Princess Qingjiang, Lady of Earl Shouchun, Princess Changxing, Song Yixiao and Nie Wuying entered the imperial palace together, so they saw where the others placed their own things. How couldn’t they find them?
However, Commandery Princess Qingjiang found that Song Yixiao had no extra suit of Diyi, so she took the opportunity to send her a suit to meet any emergency. In light of Song Yixiao’s wits, she understood tacitly while listening to the explanation of Qinye. The next day when she returned to the mansion, she ordered Jinxun to send back the Diyi ostensibly only in order to slacken her vigilance and make her believe that Song Yixiao had no spare suit of Diyi.
In fact, Jinxun took some gifts to Commandery Princess Qingjiang’s mansion but the dried Diyi was hidden in Song Yixiao’s bedroom!
With the help of this Diyi unknown to You Qingchun, it was easy to take the following steps. On the surface, Song Yixiao rewarded You Qingchun for her repairing the Diyi. Actually, the two damaged parts were caused by her deliberately on the way back home only for the sake of testing You Qingchun and proving her suspicion true!
Afterwards, You Qingchun did rise to the bait but Song Yixiao feigned ignorance and put on the Diyi given by Commandery Princess Qingjiang!
“Therefore, when Jinxun told me that my mother wanted to have a talk with me in the side hall, I guessed it was probably a trap of Cui Jianlian but I still went.” Song Yixiao pursed her lips. “Because I believe that no matter what trap Cui Jianlian prepared, without the coordination of You Qingchun, the trap couldn’t be invulnerable!”
The Grand Princess frowned. “You were quite prudent and smart in terms of seeing through Cui Jianlian’s schemes. How can you be so stupid now? If you could turn to me for help with the Diyi after the incidence, it would be better than taking risk hastily. Particularly, now Lady Nuan has interfered with this matter, it becomes so serious! Next not only Noble Consort Cui but also the Empress Dowager feels that you are not sensible!”
Song Yixiao stayed silent for a while and then said, “I was too reckless, but…”
She raised her head with her bright eyes full of solid resolution. “I really, really wish Cui Jian to go to hell!”
“I’ve been thinking about this for seven years!”
“However, seven years ago, she was the daughter of the Cui Family, niece of the Noble Consort and cousin of the Crown Prince while I lived under Prince of Hengshan’s mansion’s roof!”
“Seven years later, I’ve become the Lady of Yan while she has become a side concubine of the Crown Prince!”
“She cannot do anything against me and neither can I!”
“But as she is deeply loved by the Crown Prince and has twin babies, her position will become more stable, higher and more unshakable!”
“By then will I still stand a chance?”
She didn’t hide her intention of revenge. “Thus, after I recognized her plot in advance, I started to ponder how to meet trick with trick and doom her to death!”
The Grand Princess looked at her young daughter-in-law in shock. As a princess who experienced the vicissitude of two dynasties, she even witnessed Emperor Xianjia slaughter his half siblings. Of course she wouldn’t be shocked by Song Yixiao’s killing intent. Actually, to her shock, “You ventured to take such action at the cost of offending Noble Consort Cui only in order to seek revenge for your maid?”
As to the mastiff incidence that happened seven years ago, Song Yixiao didn’t get any physical harm. The Grand Princess didn’t think that her daughter-in-law was so narrow-minded that she held grudge for seven years and ventured to kill Cui Jianlian only out of fright.
Hence, Zhiqin must be the reason!
Such a loyal maid was always favored by the authorities.
However, “She is only a maid!”
And Cui Jianlian?
No matter how much Song Yixiao resented her, it couldn’t be denied that Cui Jianlian was a real noble lady, who was even more honorable than Song Yixiao!
The Grand Princess believed that the maid and Cui Jianlian vary in hierarchy, which made their lives unequal.
Moreover, Cui Jianlian had twin babies!
“Without the maid, how could I become who I am today?” Song Yixiao sneered and lowered her head to cover her emotion in her eyes. If it were not Zhiqin but her who was disabled and disfigured, she might not be able to live until now, not to mention becoming a first-rank titled lady and the legitimate daughter-in-law of the Grand Princess!
Wei Mengying raised her up only for getting a reward but not a burden, which would make her scorned by others!
“However, at that time, my mother brought me to Prince of Hengshan’s mansion. If she sent me back to the Song Family or left me unattended to because I was disfigured and disabled, she would be put under pressure from public opinion!”
Under the circumstance, Song Yixiao dared to say that her mother would definitely do that. “Or she might just let me die of serious injuries, which would not only avoid me encumbering her but also exchange the compensation from the Dowager Consort and the Cui Family with my death. In addition, she could gain sympathy before the public!”
In the previous life, she died of the plot of her birth father and the indifference of her birth mother. This life, without Zhiqin, she would definitely die of the plot of her birth mother and the indifference of her birth father!
It was safe to say that Zhiqin gave her a second life! For that reason, she could never let go of Cui Jianlian!
Besides, this opportunity was created only because Cui Jianlian meant to hurt her. After all, Cui Jianlian also wanted to kill Song Yixiao. Why did Song Yixiao not counterattack?
It was quiet for a while in the waterside pavilion. The Grand Princess finally calmed down and said in a stern voice, “You are a good mistress, who is so kind-hearted to your trusted maid! But have you thought about this? As you do so, Cui Jianlian is doomed for sure. However, what about you? And Xubai? What Daiguo said before leaving is obviously provocative, but who can take it lightly?”
Song Yixiao clenched her fists in secret and realized that it was the crucial moment now!
The Grand Princess was a good mother-in-law. Even if she didn’t treat her daughter-in-law dearly as a birth daughter, she definitely cared about this daughter-in-law!
Otherwise, she wouldn’t listen to Song Yixiao without getting mad.
But it didn’t mean that she had no bottom line!
The bottom line was her children.
Given the exalted position of the Grand Princess, both Noble Consort Cui and the Crown Prince couldn’t do anything to her.
However, although her children were still prestigious, they were not as superior as her, at least for now.
In the Grand Princess’s eyes, Song Yixiao’s revenge was not a big deal. After all, Cui Jianlian was the niece of Noble Consort Cui but not hers! Sikong Yiluo was the granddaughter of the Grand Princess’s auntie, but the Grand Princess also didn’t care about her death.
Song Yixiao’s next step would decide whether the Grand Princess would defend for her or make her a scapegoat!
If Song Yixiao dared to sacrifice her husband’s prospect for seeking revenge for a maid, to be honest, no mother-in-law would allow this to happen!
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It was midnight at the backyard of Jinguo Grand Princess’s mansion outside the waterside pavilion.
The spears and halberds were glistening.
The whirling snow was pervaded with a stern atmosphere.
“This place is surrounded on three sides by water, only with the long winding bridge linked to the bank.” Inside the waterside pavilion, Jinguo Grand Princess, sitting on the bench, said grimly, “The long bridge is guarded by tens of guards and Jiayue is on watch at the gate. Therefore, whatever is uttered here only stays between you and me!”
Song Yixiao knelt down without hesitation. “I don’t deserve your love, Mother!”
The Grand Princess answered with a poker face, “Now confess!”
“I do hold grudge against Cui Jianlian!” Originally, Song Yixiao planned to confess to her mother-in-law. Now the Grand Princess even kept Jian Xubai from staying inside, which clearly suggested her bias for Song Yixiao. In this case, if Song Yixiao still tried to conceal anything, she would be too ungrateful and heartless. Therefore, she told directly how Cui Jianlian and she incurred hatred back then. “So, I have been cautious since I found something fishy about You Qingchun, the daughter of my foster nurse!”
When she suspected You Qingchun at first, she didn’t think of Cui Jianlian. After all, they two were never connected.
“At first, I suspected the ringleader behind You Qingchun was the Liu Family or Madam Jin, the second young mistress in Prince of Hengshan’s mansion! Because Liu Zhenxi involved himself in the case of my wet nurse’s husband!”
When You Hong’s case was closed, even the Mayor of the Jingzhao Municipality reminded that the case came to a weirdly neat end.
When she was persuading Wei Mengying for the sake of Wei Chan, Song Yixiao used to suspect that it was an act of warning from Liu Zhenxi. However, when she sensed You Qingchun’s unusual behaviors afterwards, she once suspected that Fu Junchang’s unfaithfulness was a show put on by You Qingchun and Fu Junchang only in order to get You Qingchun into Duke of Yan’s mansion.
“Then how did you suspect Cui Jianlian later?” The Grand Princess asked. “Did you interrogate You Qingchun?”
“I suppose that You Qingchun hasn’t realized that she is suspected by me!” Song Yixiao shook her head and said. “Actually, it is due to my stepmother that I could think of Cui Jianlian. On the day of the tea ceremony of Yiyou and his newly-wedded wife, Mr. Linghu’s mother passed away. I happened to meet my stepmother and stepsister’s carriage broken in the street on the way back home after I offered condolence to the Linghu Family, so I sent them back to the Song’s mansion!”
Maybe in order to return her favor or other reason, her stepmother, Madam Lu told her that Cui Jianlian was in contact with the Jin Family and the Liu Family.
At that time Song Yixiao didn’t suspect You Qingchun so she was only a bit in doubt. She kept what Madam Lu said in mind but she didn’t take it seriously.
However, when You Qingchun showed her slip, she immediately thought of this matter!
“As the Crown Prince’s mother’s maiden family, the Cui Family can never side with Prince of Wei or Prince of Zhao!” Song Yixiao lowered her head and said. “Therefore, it is fair enough to say that Cui Jianlian contacted the Jin Family probably so as to win over the Jin Family. In this way, she may be able to earn some credit in private. On the contrary, it is absolutely abnormal that she contacted the Liu Family of Uncle Qiu’s side! Unfortunately, both Cui Jianlian and the Liu Family hate me and hope to eradicate me! Judging from that, I believe that what You Qingchun did in secret must be a foreshadowing for Cui Jianlian!”
Because Liu Zhenxi was a man anyway, in common cases, he didn’t have any chance to meet Song Yixiao!
Then how could he frame Song Yixiao?
“Therefore, before you left home today, you changed your clothes and accessories so that the imperial doctors and the old maids of the Empress Dowager can’t find anything fishy?” The Grand Princess said as if deep in thought. “But since Cui Jianlian meant to hurt you, she would be prepared for your reaction. Who did you borrow the Diyi (the official wear of a titled lady) from? How could you hide it from the spy assigned by her in your mansion?”
Song Yixiao pursed her lips. “I’ve suspected You Qingchun before the birthday of Her Highness Princess Yushan, so I haven’t returned the Diyi borrowed from Qingjiang that day! Qingjiang is always generous and she likes me, so she has never mentioned getting it back by far. What I’m wearing at the feast today is Qingjiang’s Diyi. Although I’ve adjusted the size, what the first-rank titled ladies wear are just the same. As I don’t point it out, who can recognize the difference but Qingjiang?”
Actually, the suit of Diyi was indirectly sent to her by Commandery Princess Qingjiang. After all, those who are eligible to congratulate on the birthday of Princess Yushan were prestigious and reserved.
Even if they freshened up in the side hall, they could never touch Song Yixiao’s things in public.
That day Commandery Princess Qingjiang, Lady of Earl Shouchun, Princess Changxing, Song Yixiao and Nie Wuying entered the imperial palace together, so they saw where the others placed their own things. How couldn’t they find them?
However, Commandery Princess Qingjiang found that Song Yixiao had no extra suit of Diyi, so she took the opportunity to send her a suit to meet any emergency. In light of Song Yixiao’s wits, she understood tacitly while listening to the explanation of Qinye. The next day when she returned to the mansion, she ordered Jinxun to send back the Diyi ostensibly only in order to slacken her vigilance and make her believe that Song Yixiao had no spare suit of Diyi.
In fact, Jinxun took some gifts to Commandery Princess Qingjiang’s mansion but the dried Diyi was hidden in Song Yixiao’s bedroom!
With the help of this Diyi unknown to You Qingchun, it was easy to take the following steps. On the surface, Song Yixiao rewarded You Qingchun for her repairing the Diyi. Actually, the two damaged parts were caused by her deliberately on the way back home only for the sake of testing You Qingchun and proving her suspicion true!
Afterwards, You Qingchun did rise to the bait but Song Yixiao feigned ignorance and put on the Diyi given by Commandery Princess Qingjiang!
“Therefore, when Jinxun told me that my mother wanted to have a talk with me in the side hall, I guessed it was probably a trap of Cui Jianlian but I still went.” Song Yixiao pursed her lips. “Because I believe that no matter what trap Cui Jianlian prepared, without the coordination of You Qingchun, the trap couldn’t be invulnerable!”
The Grand Princess frowned. “You were quite prudent and smart in terms of seeing through Cui Jianlian’s schemes. How can you be so stupid now? If you could turn to me for help with the Diyi after the incidence, it would be better than taking risk hastily. Particularly, now Lady Nuan has interfered with this matter, it becomes so serious! Next not only Noble Consort Cui but also the Empress Dowager feels that you are not sensible!”
Song Yixiao stayed silent for a while and then said, “I was too reckless, but…”
She raised her head with her bright eyes full of solid resolution. “I really, really wish Cui Jian to go to hell!”
“I’ve been thinking about this for seven years!”
“However, seven years ago, she was the daughter of the Cui Family, niece of the Noble Consort and cousin of the Crown Prince while I lived under Prince of Hengshan’s mansion’s roof!”
“Seven years later, I’ve become the Lady of Yan while she has become a side concubine of the Crown Prince!”
“She cannot do anything against me and neither can I!”
“But as she is deeply loved by the Crown Prince and has twin babies, her position will become more stable, higher and more unshakable!”
“By then will I still stand a chance?”
She didn’t hide her intention of revenge. “Thus, after I recognized her plot in advance, I started to ponder how to meet trick with trick and doom her to death!”
The Grand Princess looked at her young daughter-in-law in shock. As a princess who experienced the vicissitude of two dynasties, she even witnessed Emperor Xianjia slaughter his half siblings. Of course she wouldn’t be shocked by Song Yixiao’s killing intent. Actually, to her shock, “You ventured to take such action at the cost of offending Noble Consort Cui only in order to seek revenge for your maid?”
As to the mastiff incidence that happened seven years ago, Song Yixiao didn’t get any physical harm. The Grand Princess didn’t think that her daughter-in-law was so narrow-minded that she held grudge for seven years and ventured to kill Cui Jianlian only out of fright.
Hence, Zhiqin must be the reason!
Such a loyal maid was always favored by the authorities.
However, “She is only a maid!”
And Cui Jianlian?
No matter how much Song Yixiao resented her, it couldn’t be denied that Cui Jianlian was a real noble lady, who was even more honorable than Song Yixiao!
The Grand Princess believed that the maid and Cui Jianlian vary in hierarchy, which made their lives unequal.
Moreover, Cui Jianlian had twin babies!
“Without the maid, how could I become who I am today?” Song Yixiao sneered and lowered her head to cover her emotion in her eyes. If it were not Zhiqin but her who was disabled and disfigured, she might not be able to live until now, not to mention becoming a first-rank titled lady and the legitimate daughter-in-law of the Grand Princess!
Wei Mengying raised her up only for getting a reward but not a burden, which would make her scorned by others!
“However, at that time, my mother brought me to Prince of Hengshan’s mansion. If she sent me back to the Song Family or left me unattended to because I was disfigured and disabled, she would be put under pressure from public opinion!”
Under the circumstance, Song Yixiao dared to say that her mother would definitely do that. “Or she might just let me die of serious injuries, which would not only avoid me encumbering her but also exchange the compensation from the Dowager Consort and the Cui Family with my death. In addition, she could gain sympathy before the public!”
In the previous life, she died of the plot of her birth father and the indifference of her birth mother. This life, without Zhiqin, she would definitely die of the plot of her birth mother and the indifference of her birth father!
It was safe to say that Zhiqin gave her a second life! For that reason, she could never let go of Cui Jianlian!
Besides, this opportunity was created only because Cui Jianlian meant to hurt her. After all, Cui Jianlian also wanted to kill Song Yixiao. Why did Song Yixiao not counterattack?
It was quiet for a while in the waterside pavilion. The Grand Princess finally calmed down and said in a stern voice, “You are a good mistress, who is so kind-hearted to your trusted maid! But have you thought about this? As you do so, Cui Jianlian is doomed for sure. However, what about you? And Xubai? What Daiguo said before leaving is obviously provocative, but who can take it lightly?”
Song Yixiao clenched her fists in secret and realized that it was the crucial moment now!
The Grand Princess was a good mother-in-law. Even if she didn’t treat her daughter-in-law dearly as a birth daughter, she definitely cared about this daughter-in-law!
Otherwise, she wouldn’t listen to Song Yixiao without getting mad.
But it didn’t mean that she had no bottom line!
The bottom line was her children.
Given the exalted position of the Grand Princess, both Noble Consort Cui and the Crown Prince couldn’t do anything to her.
However, although her children were still prestigious, they were not as superior as her, at least for now.
In the Grand Princess’s eyes, Song Yixiao’s revenge was not a big deal. After all, Cui Jianlian was the niece of Noble Consort Cui but not hers! Sikong Yiluo was the granddaughter of the Grand Princess’s auntie, but the Grand Princess also didn’t care about her death.
Song Yixiao’s next step would decide whether the Grand Princess would defend for her or make her a scapegoat!
If Song Yixiao dared to sacrifice her husband’s prospect for seeking revenge for a maid, to be honest, no mother-in-law would allow this to happen!
It was midnight at the backyard of Jinguo Grand Princess's mansion outside the waterside pavilion.The spears and halberds were glistening.The whirling snow was pervaded with a stern atmosphere.This place is surrounded on three sides by water, only with the long winding bridge linked to the bank. Inside the waterside pavilion, Jinguo Grand Princess, sitting on the bench, said grimly, The long bridge is guarded by tens of guards and Jiayue is on watch at the gate. Therefore, whatever is uttered here only stays between you and me!Song Yixiao knelt down without hesitation. I don't deserve your love, Mother!The Grand Princess answered with a poker face, Now confess!I do hold grudge against Cui Jianlian! Originally, Song Yixiao planned to confess to her mother-in-law. Now the Grand Princess even kept Jian Xubai from staying inside, which clearly suggested her bias for Song Yixiao. In this case, if Song Yixiao still tried to conceal anything, she would be too ungrateful and heartless. Therefore, she told directly how Cui Jianlian and she incurred hatred back then. So, I have been cautious since I found something fishy about You Qingchun, the daughter of my foster nurse!When she suspected You Qingchun at first, she didn't think of Cui Jianlian. After all, they two were never connected.At first, I suspected the ringleader behind You Qingchun was the Liu Family or Madam Jin, the second young mistress in Prince of Hengshan's mansion! Because Liu Zhenxi involved himself in the case of my wet nurse's husband!When You Hong's case was closed, even the Mayor of the Jingzhao Municipality reminded that the case came to a weirdly neat end.When she was persuading Wei Mengying for the sake of Wei Chan, Song Yixiao used to suspect that it was an act of warning from Liu Zhenxi. However, when she sensed You Qingchun's unusual behaviors afterwards, she once suspected that Fu Junchang's unfaithfulness was a show put on by You Qingchun and Fu Junchang only in order to get You Qingchun into Duke of Yan's mansion.Then how did you suspect Cui Jianlian later? The Grand Princess asked. Did you interrogate You Qingchun?I suppose that You Qingchun hasn't realized that she is suspected by me! Song Yixiao shook her head and said. Actually, it is due to my stepmother that I could think of Cui Jianlian. On the day of the tea ceremony of Yiyou and his newly-wedded wife, Mr. Linghu's mother passed away. I happened to meet my stepmother and stepsister's carriage broken in the street on the way back home after I offered condolence to the Linghu Family, so I sent them back to the Song's mansion!Maybe in order to return her favor or other reason, her stepmother, Madam Lu told her that Cui Jianlian was in contact with the Jin Family and the Liu Family.At that time Song Yixiao didn't suspect You Qingchun so she was only a bit in doubt. She kept what Madam Lu said in mind but she didn't take it seriously.However, when You Qingchun showed her slip, she immediately thought of this matter!As the Crown Prince's mother's maiden family, the Cui Family can never side with Prince of Wei or Prince of Zhao! Song Yixiao lowered her head and said. Therefore, it is fair enough to say that Cui Jianlian contacted the Jin Family probably so as to win over the Jin Family. In this way, she may be able to earn some credit in private. On the contrary, it is absolutely abnormal that she contacted the Liu Family of Uncle Qiu's side! Unfortunately, both Cui Jianlian and the Liu Family hate me and hope to eradicate me! Judging from that, I believe that what You Qingchun did in secret must be a foreshadowing for Cui Jianlian!Because Liu Zhenxi was a man anyway, in common cases, he didn't have any chance to meet Song Yixiao!Then how could he frame Song Yixiao?Therefore, before you left home today, you changed your clothes and accessories so that the imperial doctors and the old maids of the Empress Dowager can't find anything fishy? The Grand Princess said as if deep in thought. But since Cui Jianlian meant to hurt you, she would be prepared for your reaction. Who did you borrow the Diyi the official wear of a titled lady from? How could you hide it from the spy assigned by her in your mansion?Song Yixiao pursed her lips. I've suspected You Qingchun before the birthday of Her Highness Princess Yushan, so I haven't returned the Diyi borrowed from Qingjiang that day! Qingjiang is always generous and she likes me, so she has never mentioned getting it back by far. What I'm wearing at the feast today is Qingjiang's Diyi. Although I've adjusted the size, what the first-rank titled ladies wear are just the same. As I don't point it out, who can recognize the difference but Qingjiang?Actually, the suit of Diyi was indirectly sent to her by Commandery Princess Qingjiang. After all, those who are eligible to congratulate on the birthday of Princess Yushan were prestigious and reserved.Even if they freshened up in the side hall, they could never touch Song Yixiao's things in public.That day Commandery Princess Qingjiang, Lady of Earl Shouchun, Princess Changxing, Song Yixiao and Nie Wuying entered the imperial palace together, so they saw where the others placed their own things. How couldn't they find them?However, Commandery Princess Qingjiang found that Song Yixiao had no extra suit of Diyi, so she took the opportunity to send her a suit to meet any emergency. In light of Song Yixiao's wits, she understood tacitly while listening to the explanation of Qinye. The next day when she returned to the mansion, she ordered Jinxun to send back the Diyi ostensibly only in order to slacken her vigilance and make her believe that Song Yixiao had no spare suit of Diyi.In fact, Jinxun took some gifts to Commandery Princess Qingjiang's mansion but the dried Diyi was hidden in Song Yixiao's bedroom!With the help of this Diyi unknown to You Qingchun, it was easy to take the following steps. On the surface, Song Yixiao rewarded You Qingchun for her repairing the Diyi. Actually, the two damaged parts were caused by her deliberately on the way back home only for the sake of testing You Qingchun and proving her suspicion true!Afterwards, You Qingchun did rise to the bait but Song Yixiao feigned ignorance and put on the Diyi given by Commandery Princess Qingjiang!Therefore, when Jinxun told me that my mother wanted to have a talk with me in the side hall, I guessed it was probably a trap of Cui Jianlian but I still went. Song Yixiao pursed her lips. Because I believe that no matter what trap Cui Jianlian prepared, without the coordination of You Qingchun, the trap couldn't be invulnerable!The Grand Princess frowned. You were quite prudent and smart in terms of seeing through Cui Jianlian's schemes. How can you be so stupid now? If you could turn to me for help with the Diyi after the incidence, it would be better than taking risk hastily. Particularly, now Lady Nuan has interfered with this matter, it becomes so serious! Next not only Noble Consort Cui but also the Empress Dowager feels that you are not sensible!Song Yixiao stayed silent for a while and then said, I was too reckless, butShe raised her head with her bright eyes full of solid resolution. I really, really wish Cui Jian to go to hell!I've been thinking about this for seven years!However, seven years ago, she was the daughter of the Cui Family, niece of the Noble Consort and cousin of the Crown Prince while I lived under Prince of Hengshan's mansion's roof!Seven years later, I've become the Lady of Yan while she has become a side concubine of the Crown Prince!She cannot do anything against me and neither can I!But as she is deeply loved by the Crown Prince and has twin babies, her position will become more stable, higher and more unshakable!By then will I still stand a chance?She didn't hide her intention of revenge. Thus, after I recognized her plot in advance, I started to ponder how to meet trick with trick and doom her to death!The Grand Princess looked at her young daughter-in-law in shock. As a princess who experienced the vicissitude of two dynasties, she even witnessed Emperor Xianjia slaughter his half siblings. Of course she wouldn't be shocked by Song Yixiao's killing intent. Actually, to her shock, You ventured to take such action at the cost of offending Noble Consort Cui only in order to seek revenge for your maid?As to the mastiff incidence that happened seven years ago, Song Yixiao didn't get any physical harm. The Grand Princess didn't think that her daughter-in-law was so narrow-minded that she held grudge for seven years and ventured to kill Cui Jianlian only out of fright.Hence, Zhiqin must be the reason!Such a loyal maid was always favored by the authorities.However, She is only a maid!And Cui Jianlian?No matter how much Song Yixiao resented her, it couldn't be denied that Cui Jianlian was a real noble lady, who was even more honorable than Song Yixiao!The Grand Princess believed that the maid and Cui Jianlian vary in hierarchy, which made their lives unequal.Moreover, Cui Jianlian had twin babies!Without the maid, how could I become who I am today? Song Yixiao sneered and lowered her head to cover her emotion in her eyes. If it were not Zhiqin but her who was disabled and disfigured, she might not be able to live until now, not to mention becoming a first-rank titled lady and the legitimate daughter-in-law of the Grand Princess!Wei Mengying raised her up only for getting a reward but not a burden, which would make her scorned by others!However, at that time, my mother brought me to Prince of Hengshan's mansion. If she sent me back to the Song Family or left me unattended to because I was disfigured and disabled, she would be put under pressure from public opinion!Under the circumstance, Song Yixiao dared to say that her mother would definitely do that. Or she might just let me die of serious injuries, which would not only avoid me encumbering her but also exchange the compensation from the Dowager Consort and the Cui Family with my death. In addition, she could gain sympathy before the public!In the previous life, she died of the plot of her birth father and the indifference of her birth mother. This life, without Zhiqin, she would definitely die of the plot of her birth mother and the indifference of her birth father!It was safe to say that Zhiqin gave her a second life! For that reason, she could never let go of Cui Jianlian!Besides, this opportunity was created only because Cui Jianlian meant to hurt her. After all, Cui Jianlian also wanted to kill Song Yixiao. Why did Song Yixiao not counterattack?It was quiet for a while in the waterside pavilion. The Grand Princess finally calmed down and said in a stern voice, You are a good mistress, who is so kind-hearted to your trusted maid! But have you thought about this? As you do so, Cui Jianlian is doomed for sure. However, what about you? And Xubai? What Daiguo said before leaving is obviously provocative, but who can take it lightly?Song Yixiao clenched her fists in secret and realized that it was the crucial moment now!The Grand Princess was a good mother-in-law. Even if she didn't treat her daughter-in-law dearly as a birth daughter, she definitely cared about this daughter-in-law!Otherwise, she wouldn't listen to Song Yixiao without getting mad.But it didn't mean that she had no bottom line!The bottom line was her children.Given the exalted position of the Grand Princess, both Noble Consort Cui and the Crown Prince couldn't do anything to her.However, although her children were still prestigious, they were not as superior as her, at least for now.In the Grand Princess's eyes, Song Yixiao's revenge was not a big deal. After all, Cui Jianlian was the niece of Noble Consort Cui but not hers! Sikong Yiluo was the granddaughter of the Grand Princess's auntie, but the Grand Princess also didn't care about her death.Song Yixiao's next step would decide whether the Grand Princess would defend for her or make her a scapegoat!If Song Yixiao dared to sacrifice her husband's prospect for seeking revenge for a maid, to be honest, no mother-in-law would allow this to happen!
