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Chapter 219 No loss
Miao said this out of a sense of satisfaction after having held himself high.

At the beginning, Pang Yuzhen was reluctant to let her daughter marry the notorious King Xiaoyao, so she pushed her daughter away. Pang Yuzhen was powerless and could only put on a brave face during the day and cry at night out of worry.

Unexpectedly, man proposes, God disposes. The hot potato she had been dealing with turned out to be just some false rumors. How could she not feel happy from the bottom of her heart?

But what Zhu Yu heard was another important point.

"Hasn't the princess always been respectful to my father?" Zhu Yu asked Miao, "I remember that she used to think very highly of my father and felt very honored to be the Princess of Shuo.

Why are you suddenly feeling so dissatisfied and resentful towards your father now?"

Miao listened to her daughter's doubts and just smiled faintly: "How can such a person be content?
Before you got married, you weren't the type to try every possible way to get in front of your father, so naturally you could only see some things on the surface and didn't know what was going on behind the scenes.

Although the Pang family had great wealth and power in the Shuo Kingdom in the past, they were ultimately just merchants. They had some influence, but they were not very presentable in many matters.

So when they took a fancy to your father and helped him to sit on the throne of King Shuo, it was like betting on a treasure. Both the princess and her family were of course extremely happy.

But after so many years, they have used your father's identity to gain more power in Shuo State than before.

As your power grows, your wings become stronger. You will always think that the grass is greener on the other side, and I guess you won't take your father seriously anymore.

Originally, the princess could show off her power in front of her father and brothers from her natal family. However, in recent years, the Pang family has become more and more powerful, and she can no longer show off her power in her natal family, which makes her feel annoyed.

In addition, influenced by the attitude of her father and brothers from her natal family, she has been harboring a lot of resentment towards the prince for a long time. She hopes that the prince can be glorious and let her be as proud and respectable in front of her natal family as before. "

"The Pang family... when did they become so powerful that even the King of Shuo would ignore them?" Zhu Yu was surprised when he heard this. "Even though the Pang family has expanded their business scope and scale significantly thanks to my father's influence, and their wealth has increased significantly... but in the end, aren't they still just trying to make a living in Shuo?

In the territory of Shuo State, can they still escape from the palm of their father's hand?

Could it be that they are now on equal footing with their father?"

"It's not like we're on equal footing..." When asked about the specific matter, Miao became a little vague. When it came to the major affairs between the men in charge of the family, not to mention her as a concubine, even Princess Pang Yuzhen of Shuo didn't have much chance to interrupt. "When the prince discusses things with others, I definitely don't have the right to listen in.

I was just there every day, serving the princess. As long as the prince wasn't busy, he'd have dinner with her. I'd listen to their conversations and gradually picked up on some clues."

Zhu Yu was thinking silently in his mind, but he didn't show anything on his face, so as not to let Miao notice anything and get worried.

"Mother, you've seen that I've been living a good life since marrying Lu Qing," Zhu Yu quickly regained his composure, took Miao's hand, and said to her seriously, "This time, we've found a way to help father resolve a problem that's been bothering him for the past ten or twenty years. Helping Shuo State build a canal is definitely a significant contribution. Father has seen how Lu Qing treats me.

As the saying goes, don't give face to the monk, give face to the Buddha. Even if he doesn't consider you as my mother, he should think about Lu Qing's call of "mother-in-law" today.

I believe that father will treat you well in the future. Although you are a concubine, you are no longer the maid or nanny beside Pang Yuzhen. In the past, the nannies beside the princess who came with you as a dowry bullied you because of your good temper and threw things that were obviously their responsibilities into your hands.

This kind of thing will never happen again. No matter what, it doesn't make sense to let Prince Xiaoyao's mother-in-law serve Prince Shuo's princess."

Miao's eyes, which had just dried up, were now filled with tears again. She turned her face away and wiped them hastily with her sleeve, then turned back and said to Zhu Yu with a smile, "It's okay! I'm used to it.

Actually, after you got married, the princess didn't say that I had to go and serve you. My eyes were red and swollen from crying day by day, and she felt depressed seeing me, but I insisted on going.

I was just thinking that if you married into the Kingdom of Jin and married King Xiaoyao, there would be no other source of information in this family except your father who might have heard something about you.

I'll hang around the princess more often. If they start chatting, I can also hear some news about you, and then mother will feel at ease."

"Mother..." Zhu Yu's nose felt sore. The feeling of being remembered by others was heartwarming. At the same time, Miao's naive thoughts made her laugh and cry. "If the person who married Lu Qing was Zhu Ning, perhaps father would have taken the trouble to inquire about her situation.

So your hard work is in vain."

"That's true." Miao also laughed. She didn't mind working in vain. Now that she saw her daughter was doing well, her heart was at ease. She felt that nothing in the world could worry her anymore. "It's not a loss, actually. I've been relying on these unrealistic thoughts to persevere for the past few months.

Look! God must have felt sorry for me and brought you back to me!"

She stroked Zhu Yu's hand and couldn't help but sigh, "Before you got married, we didn't have many opportunities to be together openly and intimately... Now, it's all good. The prince just said that as long as you can come back, mother will be with you, and the princess can't interfere."

Her words reminded Zhu Yu of something, and she hurriedly asked, "Mother, in all these years, I haven't had the chance to ask you... Do you still have your bond in Princess Shuo's hands?"

Miao looked at Zhu Yu with some confusion, not quite understanding why her daughter suddenly became concerned about this matter. She thought that after becoming Princess Xiaoyao, she was worried that her mother was still a slave, which would have some bad influence.

So she quickly said, "Don't worry, my daughter. The princess has already redeemed me. You haven't asked me about this in all these years, and I didn't remember to tell you about it."

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