They are all concubines, so of course they choose the future emperor.

At the same time, in the main courtyard, Lu Qingshuang had just finished her work and was leaning on the chaise longue to take a rest.

Her daughter Li Chengyu sat beside her, happily telling interesting stories and massaging her shoulders.

Lu Qingshuang touched her daughter's face with emotion and relief on her face.

"Yu'er has grown up and become sensible. In two years, your mother and your father will find you a good husband who will definitely be better than Qixia."

Princess Qixia is the eldest daughter of the King of Qi. She is twelve years old this year and has already started dating.

Li Chengyu hugged her mother's shoulders and said coquettishly: "My daughter doesn't want to get married! My daughter just wants to stay with me and be filial to me."

Lu Qingshuang tapped her nose and smiled.

"How can a girl not get married? You are so childish. However, mother doesn't want you to get married too early. She just wants you to look for a good man in advance to prevent those good men from being snatched away."

Li Chengyu disagreed. Although she was only nine years old, she was precocious and knew something about the outside world.

She knew that her father was now a popular candidate for the crown prince and had a good chance of becoming emperor.

When my father becomes the emperor, I will be a princess. What kind of husband can I not find? Even if he has been chosen by someone, I don’t have to worry. I can just snatch him away.

But she knew that her mother liked children who were innocent, filial and sensible, so she would not show this side of herself in front of her mother.

She continued to pat Lu Qingshuang's shoulders obediently.

Just then, footsteps were heard outside, and then a maid came in to report.

"Princess, Aunt Jiang and the Second Miss are asking for an audience."

Lu Qingshuang raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"Aunt Jiang? With the Second Young Miss?"

She thought for a moment before nodding.

"Let them in!"

After a while, the maid led the two in.

Jiang Wanyue held the maid's hand and knelt down towards the princess.

"I send my regards to the princess."

The princess waved her hand and asked someone to seat them. Then, she glanced around at the two, one big and one small.

"What's the matter with you coming here at this time? Yin'er, you are not a child anymore, you should be sensible. How can you disturb Aunt Jiang? Aunt Jiang is pregnant and can't be tired."

Li Chengyin looked at Jiang Wanyue with concern.

Jiang Wanyue patted her hands, gave a soothing smile, and then turned her gaze away.

"Princess, please forgive me. This matter cannot be blamed on Yin'er. It is really because Aunt Guan went too far. I just couldn't stand it anymore, so I came to bother you at this time."

Lu Qingshuang frowned slightly, but soon relaxed her brows, with a look of understanding in her eyes.

She obviously felt that Jiang Wanyue was unhappy because Guan Rou had gained a lot of benefits recently.

She leaned back.

"What happened to Aunt Guan?"

Jiang Wanyue first sighed, showing an embarrassed and hesitant expression, and paused for a moment before continuing to speak.

"It's embarrassing to talk about this... The princess gave me some blood swallows a while ago. Isn't today a festival? I asked someone to stew some for Yin'er. I have always liked Yin'er and hoped to have a child as sensible as her! So I love her more."

She explained and then continued.

"Who would have thought that the blood swallow was snatched away by the maidservant beside Aunt Guan. Originally, it was just a bowl of bird's nest. If Aunt Guan wanted to eat it, I would give it to her. It's not a big deal. But snatching food from a child's mouth is really..."

Jiang Wanyue did not continue speaking. She turned her face away and covered her mouth with a handkerchief, as if she found it difficult to speak.

"Yin'er is timid, and thinking that Aunt Guan is an elder, she dare not ask for it, and can only hide and cry secretly. If I hadn't happened to see it, I wouldn't have known that such a thing happened! Although blood swallows are rare, our Jingwang Mansion is not one of those poor families. How can we not afford to eat it?"

Lu Qingshuang looked unhappy.

She didn't expect Guan Rou to be so shameless! She wanted to snatch a child's things just for a mouthful of bird's nest!

She usually doesn't care much about her illegitimate children, and always takes care of her own biological children.

This is nothing. Even if others have opinions in their hearts, they would never dare to say it in front of her.

But Jiang Wanyue refused.

She was almost saying openly that she treated the concubine and the housekeeper badly.

The second young lady of the royal palace can't even afford a bite of blood swallow. Isn't this abusive treatment?

This food was clearly prepared for the Second Young Miss, but it was snatched away by the concubine. Isn't this a sign of bad housekeeping?

Lu Qingshuang pinched the handkerchief in her hand, frowned, and instructed the maid outside.

"Go to Liuyinyuan and ask what's going on!"

The maid quickly retreated and took people to Liuyinyuan.

While waiting, Jiang Wanyue picked up the teacup and touched it to her lips, calculating the time in her mind.

If nothing unexpected happens today, Prince Jing will come to the main courtyard.

He always comes to visit his daughter on her family's holidays.

Sure enough, Prince Jing arrived before the maid who went to Liuyinyuan to question her came back.

He entered the house and was a little surprised to see Jiang Wanyue.

"Why are you here?"

"I pay my respects to the prince."

Jiang Wanyue stood up, held Xiuchun's hand and was about to kneel down to salute, but was held back by Prince Jing.

"You are heavy, so don't salute."

After saying that, he walked to the side, sat down, and waved to his two daughters.

"Did you have fun today?"

Li Chengyu nodded and talked about her little sisters with a smile.

Prince Jing nodded continuously as he listened, a smile appearing on his face.

But when I turned around, I saw that my second daughter didn't say anything.

"Why isn't Yin'er talking? Don't you like the holidays?"

Li Chengyin shook his head, wanted to say something, but hesitated.

Jiang Wanyue quietly pinched her little hand, silently encouraging her.

Li Chengyin bit her lip before speaking.

"My daughter loves the holidays, but her sisters won't play with me."

When Prince Jing heard this, the smile on his face disappeared.

"Whose child is this? How dare you look down on my daughter?"

Lu Qingshuang's eyelids twitched and she wanted to explain, but Jiang Wanyue spoke first.

"Don't be angry, Your Majesty. It's not the fault of those young ladies. It's just that those attending the banquet today are all nine or ten-year-old children. Yin'er is only four years old, so naturally they can't play together. Children are innocent, how could they think so much?"

Jiang Wanyue said this and touched Yin'er's head lovingly.

"The prince only has two daughters. I think no one, whether inside or outside the palace, dares to look down on Yin'er."

To Lu Qingshuang, these words were nothing but sarcasm.

She was the one who organized the Qiqiao Banquet and sent out the invitations. So many girls came, all of them were about the same age as Li Chengyu, and Li Chengyin was not considered at all. What would the prince think?

Lu Qingshuang glanced at Jiang Wanyue angrily.

The next moment, Prince Jing looked over.

"princess."

He just called out lightly, but his intimidating aura made Lu Qingshuang's heart skip a beat.

She knew that explaining now would only make Prince Jing even more unhappy, so she simply admitted her mistake.

"I was not thoughtful enough about this matter. I only thought that the weather was hot, there were many people coming, and Yin'er was young. It would be bad if she got a heat stroke or got frightened. I didn't think about Yin'er's mood. It was my fault."

As she spoke, she pulled Li Chengyin's hand again and said angrily.

"Child, is there anything you can't tell me? You call me mother, and I treat you and Yu'er the same in my heart."