The peerless and dark princess

Zuo Jiu made arrangements for all of them and only left four little girls, asking them to follow Wange's four maids, because she really felt that Yihua and others were so busy every day that they would have no time to practice martial arts. She couldn't trust the others, so she had to put these four little girls with them so that they could have more time to practice martial arts. At the same time, these girls were also more alert than the others.

Just now everyone was disdainful, but they were neither humble nor arrogant and did not participate, but they admired the strong instead of being dissatisfied.

After those people were taken away by Mu Ying, Zuo Jiu looked at the little girl in front of him. Well, actually, Zuo Jiu was not much older than them.

"From now on, you will be staying with the eldest lady. So you should learn how to do things from Qingzhu and the others..."

"Yes, Miss Nine."

"You should have known what Qingzhu and the others are good at these days, so you can each choose one to follow and learn what they are doing. From now on, you will be called Ruolan, Yalan, Yulan, and Qinglan..."

Ruolan and the others felt somewhat grateful, because they were sold to human traffickers in the beginning, and their families had never given them proper names. Although they had been hovering between life and death during this period, they truly felt that they were living for themselves, and now they also had proper names.

"Thank you, Miss Nine, for the name."

This was the speech of the older girl in pink clothes who had just seen someone being bought by a human trafficker and heard these words.

"Follow me, I'll take you to see them. The eldest lady is in Prince Yan's mansion, so when she and the young master come back..."

Ruolan and others followed Zuo Jiu, opened the door of the room, and found Mu Ying already waiting at the door.

"These people?"

"Leave them with Wange. Yihua and the others are so busy that they don't have time to practice, so let them follow Yihua and the others." Zuo Jiu thought for a moment, "This is Mu Ying, who is with Master Lin'er. Mu Ying, these are Yalan, Ruolan, Yulan, and Qinglan."

Mu Ying only spoke a little more in front of Mu Wange and Zuo Jiu, so he just nodded coldly to them.

Zuo Ci also briefly told Mu Wange about his plans in Yuecheng. He was quite tired after the long journey and left early. Mu Wange felt relieved. Now that Zuo Jiu was back, many of his plans could be carried out.

Meanwhile, Mu Yucheng calmed down after a brief outburst. He then wondered why these things were leaking out now. Was it because of the assassination attempt on Mu Wange that day? But then, when did she have so many people involved in these incidents? No, it should be people from the Prince of Yan's Mansion. Mu Yucheng's eyes narrowed as he thought of this: If the Chu family of the Prince of Yan's Mansion was responsible, then they must have caught them. So...

Mu Yucheng didn't know that these things were not done by Chu Lianyue, Chu Lianyao and others, but were done by the seemingly dissolute Prince Heng Zuo Ci.

Zhao Yanqing also knew that Zuo Ci and Du Yuanhuai had returned to the capital, and he also thought that Zuo Ci would definitely attend the celebration banquet. So, the eldest son of the Zhao family, who had promised his father to attend the palace banquet, unusually agreed to go to the celebration banquet with Master Zhao. Even Zhao's wife, Lu Yu, was surprised, but she also guessed that it was because of the opportunity to meet Zuo Ci, the leader of the dandies. It must be said that Lu Yu had guessed it, but the only thing that disagreed with her was that neither Zuo Ci nor Zhao Yanqing were dandies.

"Since you've agreed to attend the celebration banquet this time, you can't act like you did with Prince Heng in the past."

Zhao Yanqing felt a little uncomfortable. What did he mean by following Zuo Ci was nonsense? He only cared about his youngest son. That was all. He never had any expectations anyway.

The next day, Madam Mu had to take Mu Wange and Mu Heng to attend the celebration banquet, while Zhao Yanqing was despised by his father, who even said that the illegitimate son was much better than him.

"Haha, Prince Chu and nephew Li Xiu have achieved a resounding victory in Southern Xinjiang. I am very happy. Prince Heng Zuo Ci and Minister Du also handled their trip to Yuecheng very well... Come, let me have a drink with you."

"Your Majesty has bestowed upon us wine, and we are bound to drink it. However, my son, Li Xiu, was injured on the battlefield in southern Xinjiang, and the military doctors have advised him to rest and not drink. I, Chu Lianyao, will drink this cup on behalf of my son."

Chu Lianyao was afraid that he had put something in Chu Lixiu's wine that he shouldn't have put in it.

Chen Yan's face was somewhat unhappy. Of course, he also knew and was afraid that Chu Lianyao had guessed something. After all, Chu Lianyao and Chu Lianyue grew up with him. "Nephew Lixiu is injured? Well, since he was injured on the battlefield, you can drink for him."

After three rounds of drinks, everyone's face turned slightly red, and some people pretended to be drunk and spoke high-sounding words.

Queen Meng Yujiao had also seen what was going on, so she pointed out what Emperor Chen Yan wanted to do at the celebration banquet.

"I think the Crown Prince should have a Crown Princess. The Emperor asked me..."

"Your Majesty is right. However, the Crown Princess's position is a matter of national importance, so we must carefully consider it. Ministers, I have also considered this for a long time, and only then did we offer this celebration banquet..."

Second Prince Chen Yunfeng originally thought it was Crown Prince Chen Yunjie choosing a Crown Princess, so he didn't pay much attention to it. He was even thinking about Muruohan in the palace. But he didn't know that the person he was thinking of was in someone else's arms. So when he heard that he was also being chosen as a principal wife, he wanted to refuse, but he caught a glimpse of his mother, Queen Meng Yujiao's expression and dared not say a word.

Originally, Chen Yan wanted to directly arrange the marriage between Mu Wange and Chen Yunjie, but after thinking about those plans and thinking about the protective look of Old Master Chu, he didn't dare to do it anymore.

"..."

Mu Wange followed Mu Jiangshi and ate quietly, then listened attentively to this farcical scene.

Mu Jiang felt a little frustrated. If Mu Wange had been smarter and the niece of Old Master Chu from Prince Yan's Mansion, she would have been worthy of the position of Crown Princess. However, she had previously tarnished her reputation by chasing after the Second Prince. And Mu Ruohan was once known as the "most talented woman", but... the remaining two granddaughters were not up to the standard. Otherwise, why could she only watch those people...

But what she didn't know was that it was precisely because of Mr. Chu's nephew that Chen Yan didn't dare to do so.

"Prince Heng has made great contributions this time. The Ministry of Rites..."

Zuo Ci thought that Chen Yan wouldn't treat him sincerely, but was just testing him. These rewards were fine, after all, the emperor gave them to him, so he wouldn't refuse them. However, this time he had gained a lot, and with Du Yuanhuai covering up for him, the rest was not a big deal.

Zhao Yanqing didn't know why Zuo Ci didn't sing a different tune this time, and even agreed to let Chen Yan take up a position in the Ministry of Rites. That official position had no real power at all, and it was just a title to stay there.