After being married off by my younger sister, I became the most beloved person in the palace

Without waiting for Pei Shuyan to agree, Gu Zhiyin suddenly pulled Fu Yunyao to the table and said, "Sister, don't let Miss Pei down. Go and see if there's anything you like."

Pei Shuyan: “…”

Damn, are all the rich girls in Beijing so shameless?

Can't you tell that she's just being polite?

Naturally, Fu Yunyao did not take Pei Shuyan's words seriously, and was stunned when Gu Zhiyin pulled her over.

When he looked up, he saw Pei Shuyan's eyes were clearly about to spit fire but he had to force a smile, and suddenly he understood.

With a quick glance, she reached out and took a jade bracelet that was entirely emerald green.

She raised her eyes and said to Pei Shuyan with an elegant smile: "Miss Pei is so polite. I will obey your command."

"As long as the princess likes it." Pei Shuyan almost bit his teeth to pieces, but still pretended to smile generously.

Fu Yunyao: “I like it very much!”

Pei Shuyan paid two thousand taels of silver for the jade bracelet chosen by Fu Yunyao, which made her feel heartbroken.

It feels like trying to steal a chicken but losing the rice.

"Ms. Pei, are you still shopping?" Fu Yunyao asked her with a smile.

Pei Shuyan said: "I am a little tired, but if the princess wants to continue shopping, I am willing to accompany you."

Fu Yunyao: "Since you are tired, you might as well go back and rest early. You don't have to accompany me."

Pei Shuyan hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Then I'll take my leave first."

Having said that, she bowed to Fu Yunyao and Gu Zhiyin, and then left.

Mother Yao couldn't decide whether to leave or stay.

Fu Yunyao looked at her calmly: "Mother Yao, you should go back first."

"I will serve the princess." said Mother Yao.

Fu Yunyao: "No need, Qianyue is here with me."

"Yes." Yao's mother replied.

After leaving the Jade Inlay Pavilion, Fu Yunyao handed the brocade box in her hand to Qianyue: "Sell it, and use the money to buy incense at Huangjue Temple."

Qianyue held the brocade box blankly, her eyes widened in shock: "Princess, are you going to use all this as incense money?"

"Well, I feel uncomfortable holding this thing." Fu Yunyao frowned and said, it would be better to make a golden statue of the Buddha.

Then, she turned to look at Gu Zhiyin and said, "Let's go to Shengyan Building for lunch."

Gu Zhiyin nodded and said, "Okay."

Qianyue swallowed and took the bracelet to the pawnshop.

At Shengyan Building, while waiting for the dishes to be served, Gu Zhiyin poured a cup of tea for Fu Yunyao.

"Sister, has Pei Shuyan been to the Marquis' Mansion often recently?"

Fu Yunyao nodded: "Yes, because my mother-in-law likes her, she can come and go freely in the mansion, just like half a master."

After a pause, she continued, "I wouldn't have thought too much about it at first. Just now in Yuxiang Pavilion, you deliberately said that to cause Mother Yao to stand up for her. It's too abnormal. The Ji family is not an ordinary family, and Pei Shuyan is not a relative of the Ji family. Even if my mother-in-law likes her so much, she shouldn't praise the Pei family so much, and let me praise Pei Shuyan... It's not hard to make people suspect that you have some ulterior motive."

"The biggest advantage of the Pei family is that they are rich. So my mother-in-law thinks so highly of Pei Shuyan. Is it because she wants the Pei family's money?"

"And the Pei family wants to gain a foothold in the capital by relying on the power of the Xing'an Marquis's Mansion? But if that's the case, Pei Shuyan shouldn't be so casual with me."

Fu Yunyao felt that her mind was in a mess and was not enough.

When Mrs. Pei gets along with her mother-in-law, it is obvious that her mother-in-law is more polite.

Gu Zhiyin held the teacup and drank tea absentmindedly.

Judging from Pei Shuyan's behavior at the last banquet hosted by the Xing'an Marquis' Mansion and her attitude that she had probed into today, the Ji family and the Pei family must have reached some kind of consensus. Rather than saying that the Pei family wants to rely on the Xing'an Marquis' Mansion, it would be better to say that the Xing'an Marquis' Mansion has more plans for the Pei family.

The Ji family wanted the Pei family's money, but why would the Pei family give money to the Xing'an Marquis Mansion for no reason?

But from another perspective, if Pei Shuyan married into the Xing'an Marquis' Mansion, then the generous dowry would be the foundation of her foothold in the Ji family.

Thinking of this, Gu Zhiyin's heart couldn't help but sink slightly.

If Pei Shuyan were to marry, it would definitely be to a bastard.

But with Lady Xing'an's enthusiasm for her, Gu Zhiyin had a bad feeling.

She was afraid that the wife of Marquis Xing'an wanted Pei Shuyan to be a concubine of her son. As the saying goes, good things should be kept in the family. If she married a bastard, Pei Shuyan's dowry would still go into the Marquis Xing'an Mansion, but in the end it would benefit the bastard, and her son would not get any substantial benefits.

Thinking about it, Gu Zhiyin told Fu Yunyao.

Fu Yunyao's pupils suddenly shrank, and she was filled with shock and fear. "I guessed that Madam Pei made friends with my mother-in-law in order to marry her daughter into the family. Several times when Madam Pei and her daughter came, my mother-in-law asked Ji Yuanli to come over and talk to her. Although he is a bastard, he was born in a marquis's mansion, and she would be the legal wife if she married into the family. With Pei Shuyan's status, she is really marrying up. The Pei family would never abandon a good legal wife and make her a concubine?"

"It's hard to say. After all, the prince is the final one to inherit the title of the Marquisate."

If Mr. Pei Shuyan gives birth to a eldest son in the end, the status of this concubine will not be low.

Fu Yunyao obviously thought of this quickly. She gasped and her chest heaved violently with anger. Her face looked extremely ugly.

"How dare the Ji family..."

This is stepping on her face and humiliating her.

"Sister, these are just our guesses now."

Fu Yunyao said coldly: "I know, I won't be impulsive."

Because of Ji Yuanwen, she treated his family as her own family, respected and was filial to her parents-in-law, and did not use her status to pressure others. She only wanted to fulfill her duties and be a good wife and daughter-in-law.

But it was obvious that her humility made people take advantage of her and they thought she was a soft persimmon that could be manipulated at will.

……

Fu Yunyao had just returned home and had not yet entered her own courtyard when she was called over by the wife of Marquis Xing'an.

"Mother."

Fu Yunyao entered the flower hall and greeted the wife of Marquis Xing'an who was sitting in the main seat.

The wife of the Marquis of Xing'an was arrogant and said "yes" lightly, then looked at Fu Yunyao with a bad face: "I asked you to treat Yan'er well, but you didn't take it seriously?"

Fu Yunyao looked at the wife of Xing'an Marquis with an innocent face: "Mother, may I ask what is Miss Pei's true identity?"

The wife of the Marquis of Xing'an was confused by her incoherent question: "What real identity? Does she have other identities?"

"So she is indeed the Pei family's biological daughter?"

The wife of the Marquis of Xing'an gave her a strange look and said, "Of course."

"In that case, why should I, a princess personally appointed by the emperor, serve Pei Shuyan so faithfully?" Fu Yunyao suddenly said seriously.

The wife of Marquis Xing'an was immediately choked.

After a long while, she stammered, "Mrs. Pei and I hit it off right away. When people interact with each other, why would they care about status? Yan'er is a guest. As the host, isn't it your responsibility to take care of her?"

"Yes, but I'm afraid Pei Shuyan will push it too far and not realize that I'm a guest."

The wife of the Marquis of Xing'an's heart skipped a beat: "How...how could it be, you think too much."

Fu Yunyao: "Mother, don't you have any other ideas?"