The little dark guard who travels between two lives

Mother Lin put away the sneer on her face, gently patted Qingyan's shoulder, and said in a gentle and compassionate tone: "Miss, the young master of the Yu family has been bewitched by the second young lady, so you should not waste your energy on him."

Qingyan raised her head and looked at Lin Ma with tearful eyes, full of grievance and unwillingness: "But I can't accept it. Why does he only have eyes for that stinky girl? I can't accept it!"

Mother Lin remembered the instructions given by the prince, her eyes darkened for a moment and then she said: "No matter how talented the young master of the Yu family is, he is just a noble son. He is far inferior to the prince in the palace."

Qingyan looked at Lin Ma blankly when she heard her talk about the crown prince. Lin Ma reached out and wiped the tears off Qingyan's face. "My dear, I heard that the emperor and empress in the palace are planning to arrange marriages for the crown prince and several other princes. They want to choose the crown princess and the prince consort from among the noble ladies in the capital."

Mother Lin looked at Qingyan and saw that she was listening intently. She smiled coldly but quickly put it away and continued, "Young Miss, you are from the Prime Minister's Mansion, you have a high status, you are a talented woman who is good at playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and you are as beautiful as a flower. Looking around, which young lady in the capital is more qualified than you to be the Crown Princess?"

"Miss, think about it. Young Master Yu doesn't understand your kindness. You will become the Crown Princess of this country and the Queen Mother of this country in the future. Let those villains who look down on you cry. It will be too late for them to regret."

"Crown Princess?!" Qingyan murmured these words, and was obviously a little moved, but suddenly she remembered something and shook her head: "Impossible, I have been living in the countryside for many years, and the royal family will despise my background. Even if I am a talented woman, the emperor and the queen will not choose me."

Thinking of her life experience, Qingyan's eyes were filled with tears again, and she said bitterly: "It was that hateful Su Peiyun who stole me away from my mother. Otherwise, I would have grown up in the palace like Xinhe, and I would definitely be loved by the emperor, empress and prince. Hateful Su Peiyun, die well!"

Qin Qingyan cursed Su Peiyun hatefully, without noticing that Lin Ma's mouth twitched beside her and a hint of ruthlessness flashed in her eyes, but that ruthlessness was fleeting. Lin Ma took a breath and smiled again.

She looked around and saw that there was no one around. She whispered in Qingyan's ear, "Miss, you don't have to worry about this. The noble said that he would definitely help you sit on the throne of the Crown Princess. You just need to follow the noble's instructions."

Qingyan was pleasantly surprised: "Your Excellency said yes? Then can I really be the Crown Princess?" After getting Lin Ma's affirmative answer, Qin Qingyan nodded repeatedly: "Okay, I will definitely listen to your words. When I sit on the throne of the Crown Princess, I will make Yu Shen and Xin He crawl at my feet!"

Mother Lin also showed a meaningful smile. When she saw the instructions the prince gave her, she could not tell from his actions that he was only thinking about Qingyan. It seemed that there were other meanings behind them.

Aunt Lin didn't care about all these. She was the prince's servant and just followed his orders. Of course, if these things could hurt the Qin family, that would be exactly what Aunt Lin would like to see.

Mother Lin took Qin Qingyan's hand and walked to the backyard. As they walked, she whispered to Qingyan how to act. Qingyan listened and nodded, with a determined gleam in her eyes.

The emperor and the empress finally discussed the details of selecting concubines for the princes. The emperor followed the empress's advice and decided to select concubines from the daughters of officials of the fourth rank or above in the capital. However, if any daughter did not want to enter the palace for selection, the royal family would not force her to do so and would let the daughters choose voluntarily.

When this order was issued, there was an uproar in the capital. There had never been such a selection of concubines in the previous dynasty. No matter whether a person was willing or not, they had to enter the palace for selection. Only those who were selected by the emperor and the princes could leave the palace for marriage.

This selection of concubines finally put the worries of officials in the capital who were not greedy for the royal family's wealth to rest. Not all parents are willing to send their daughters to the palace to fight for an unknown wealth and glory. If they are favored, it's fine, but if they are not favored, it will ruin their daughter's life.

The Queen had considered this point and tried her best to ask for this to be added. The Emperor also knew the Queen's thoughts very well. It turned out that she was unwilling to come to the palace. Although the Emperor felt a little sad when he thought of this, he finally agreed to the Queen's proposal.

However, there are still many officials in the capital who are eager to try and have already started to arrange clothes for their daughters to wear when they enter the palace. They are vying to invite some old maids who have left the palace to return home to train their daughters in palace etiquette, striving to make a splash in the selection of the prince's consort and be successfully selected.

The noble ladies in the capital were busy competing with each other for beauty, but the princes in the palace had different thoughts.

The Crown Prince was depressed after the Queen rejected his proposal to choose Xinhe. He has not been able to muster the energy to read books or practice martial arts recently.

The prince has always been an obedient child. He listened to the reasons why his mother refused. He just felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. He really liked this little sister, but his wish was difficult to fulfill, leaving only regrets.

For the prince, without Xin He, it seemed meaningless for him to choose anyone else. Just like what his father said, as the ruler of a country, he really had to give up a lot.

The third and fourth princes did not know about the conversation between the queen and the prince about Xin He. When they heard that their father was going to choose a concubine for them, the two boys looked a little silly, and then they both went to look for their mothers without any prior arrangement.

The fourth prince went into the Queen Mother's palace to visit her and his mother. Since the death of Shen Tuo's family, the Queen Mother seemed to have lost all her energy and vitality, and suddenly aged a lot.

Every time the Fourth Prince went to visit the Queen Mother, she would become distracted after only a few words and then mutter something incomprehensible.

The Fourth Prince once leaned over and listened carefully. It seemed to be saying, "I have spent so much effort to get everything, but because I was too greedy, it is all in vain. The Shen family is gone, the Shen family is gone, it's all retribution! Retribution!"

The fourth prince was terrified when he heard this and hurried to find his mother. Concubine Shen had been serving the Empress Dowager in the palace since the coup.

When she had nothing to do, she would set up a small Buddhist temple in the Empress Dowager's palace, chanting sutras and praying all day long. She wore plain clothes and light makeup, and was completely different from the flamboyant and bright Concubine Shen in the past.

The Fourth Prince would sometimes encounter the Emperor coming to Concubine Shen's place. The two of them would sit opposite each other, ask about her health, and then fall silent. In the end, the Emperor would always sigh, get up and leave.

The Fourth Prince did not know whether his father and his mother still had feelings for each other. He also knew that his father came to see his mother so that people in the palace would not look down on Concubine Shen, and it was also because of his father's love for them. The Fourth Prince was very grateful for his father's kindness.

But for him as a son, he likes his current mother more. His previous mother was flamboyant and surly, and only cared about competing for favor in the palace, and always neglected to take care of him as a son.

In his childhood memories, it seemed that the mother and son never had a time to gather together and laugh, and he rarely got a hug from his mother.

This is also why he used to prefer going to the Queen's palace. Although he was not the Queen's biological son, the Queen always held him gently in her arms and patiently told him to study hard.

Ever since his mother experienced the palace coup, she seemed to have become indifferent to all the things she had been striving for in the past, and she smiled at him and hugged him more often.