The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"what you do?!"

A woman's scream rang out in the backyard of Yongjia Marquis' Mansion.

Then came the sound of a heavy object falling into the water with a "plop".

In the secluded courtyard, a few golden osmanthus trees covered the rockery, and behind the rockery was a pond. Two girls were standing by the pond.

One of them was the second princess, who was wearing a red Hu costume and holding a horsewhip. The other girl was wearing a smoky pink dress and looked a little older than her.

The girl was Ruan Xiang'e. At this moment, she was standing by the pond, looking anxiously into the water: "Brother! Brother, are you okay?!"

Ruan He, the son of the Marquis of Anguo, kept flapping his wings in the pond - what a coincidence, he could not swim, but the water level of the pond was just at the tip of his nose, so he could flap his wings and jump up, and there was no risk of sinking and drowning for the time being.

In the gaps between the splashing water, if you look carefully, you can see a bright red whip mark on Ruan He's forehead. This mark is of course from the horse whip in the second princess's hand. She held the whip in one hand and put one hand on her waist, pointing at the brother and sister and scolding: "You are unlucky today. You secretly sent someone to send a letter to the eldest sister, hoping to lure her out, but she was not there, and the letter fell into my hands instead..."

She showed a ferocious and fierce expression and flicked the whip: "What? You are counting on my elder sister to have a good temper and be easy to bully, but can your dirty thoughts come true?!"

"Ha!" She whipped the Prince of Anguo who had just jumped to the shore, knocking down his hand that had just climbed up.

Ruan Xiang'e screamed again: "Second Princess! Are you trying to murder the Marquis's son?!"

"Just tell him to drink some more water to clear his brain and cleanse his dirty heart. Why, do you want to go down and accompany him too?" Lu Xianqiong pretended to push her down as well.

Just after taking a step forward, Ruan Xiang'e screamed and ran to the bottom of the rockery. She turned around to confirm that Lu Xianqiong was not chasing her, then she pointed to the whip in her hand and mustered up her courage: "I don't know what the second princess is talking about, and I don't know how my brother and I have offended the second princess..."

Lu Xianqiong raised her chin and said, "It doesn't matter whether you know it or not. I know it, and my father will know it too. That's enough."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ruan Xiang'e's face turned pale in an instant.

Let's go back in time a little bit.

Back to the time when Lu Xianqiong forced Ruan Yuse to take her to find her cousin.

As the less valued daughter of the second branch of the Marquis's mansion, Ruan Yuse naturally could not resist the second princess's order. After hurriedly pointing the way for Lu Xianqiong, she lowered her head and went back to be an ostrich.

Lu Xianqiong just wanted to know the whereabouts of the Anguo Marquis's son and his sister, so she didn't continue to make things difficult for Ruan Yuse. Instead, she brought enough people and searched along the route pointed by Ruan Yuse without alerting too many people.

When they found this remote and quiet courtyard, Lu Xianqiong heard the sound of people talking behind the rockery.

She immediately signaled the palace servants to stop, and she quietly went into the rockery. After taking two steps, she saw the brother and sister standing by the pond and talking.

"...Brother, we can't hesitate any longer. The eldest princess is quiet and rarely leaves the palace. If we miss this opportunity, I don't know if we can find another chance to confront her in the future." Ruan Xiang'e said worriedly, as if she had been persuading the Prince of Anguo to agree to something with her.

Ruan Hebi, the son of the Marquis of Anguo, is two years older than the Grand Princess. He is just seventeen this year. He is very handsome, but he looks sick. He is tall and thin, and wears a scholar's robe. "How can I say such a thing...such a thing?"

"You have to say it even if you can't say it!" Ruan Xiang'e said anxiously, "Your wedding date is either next year or the year after, or it's not impossible for His Majesty to keep the eldest princess for a few more years, but she can wait for these few years, can you, brother, can cousin Zeng?"

Zeng’s cousin?

After hearing what the two men said, Lu Xianqiong temporarily gave up the idea of ​​rushing out to capture the brothers and sisters for interrogation. She hid her body behind the winding and strange rocks and began to eavesdrop.

"I..." Ruan He sighed with a sad face, "It's not a decent thing to take a concubine before my wife even gets married, and she's a princess... How can I agree to let Su Niang be my concubine, not to mention that Su Niang is... pregnant."

Good guy.

As Lu Xianqiong listened, she couldn't help but pull out the whip from her waist.

The reason why she was in a hurry to find these two people was because she had previously obtained an unsigned letter from a sneaky servant. The letter was addressed to the eldest princess. It only had a simple sentence written on it, asking her to avoid others and go to an alley outside the Yongjia Marquis' Mansion alone when the banquet was over in the evening. It emphasized that this matter was very important and was related to whether the eldest princess could successfully marry the son of the Anguo Marquis.

In Lu Xianqiong's opinion, the person who delivered this letter must have bad intentions.

It was already dark by the time the banquet at the Marquis' Mansion was over. Even if his sister was not a princess but just an ordinary girl, if the person who wrote the letter had any conscience, he should not have asked her to go to that deserted alley alone to talk about such a weird thing!

Originally, Lu Xianqiong wanted to find the eldest princess to tell her about this matter, but the eldest princess was taken away to play by a few girls she was on good terms with, and could not be found for a while. The accompanying palace servants quickly found out the identity of the servant who delivered the letter, and it turned out that he was the person brought today by Ruan Xiang'e, the second lady of the Marquis of Anguo's Mansion.

So Lu Xianqiong wanted to arrest the people first, and then wait for the eldest princess to come back to interrogate them about the meaning of the letter. However, she didn't expect that after she found the people, she was caught off guard and was filled with dirty words by the brother and sister.

The prince of Anguohou, who was engaged to marry a princess, had an affair with his cousin named Zeng. Not only did they have an affair, they also had a child!

After this incident, Ruan Xiang'e, as the younger sister, was very clear about the situation and even sided with her cousin named Zeng, urging Ruan He to confront the eldest princess about the matter.

"Brother, you and cousin Zeng are in love with each other. If it weren't for this marriage contract, you would have been a couple!" Ruan Xiang'e continued, "I heard that the eldest princess is a virtuous person, not as bad-tempered as other princesses. You have been an engaged couple for so many years, you should talk to her and she will understand."

"She is a princess. She has everything from birth. She will not have a bad future. But my cousin lost her mother at birth, and her father married a stepmother. She has to look up to her stepmother even to eat fried quail at home. If my mother hadn't taken the initiative to bring her home to raise her, I don't know how she would be abused."

"If her pregnancy is exposed, her stepmother will have an excuse to control her, or even force her to death!"

"Although this matter is indeed a bit unfair to the eldest princess, we are both women, so we should work together to help cousin Zeng this time." She stepped forward and pulled up one of Ruan He's sleeves, begging in a tender voice, "Brother, please agree to my request."

Ruan He was embarrassed. "You are still thinking too shallowly. Although the eldest princess is virtuous, she is a princess of the royal family after all. No matter how good her temper is, she still has a temper. You should persuade Suniang to beat the child first. When the princess marries me and we become real husband and wife, she will not easily divorce because of such a small matter. At that time, it will be much safer to tell her to take Suniang as a concubine."