The Story of a Destitute Noblewoman Farming

"In fact, the emperor is not an unkind person. If you encounter any difficulties, you can tell him and ask him to invite a teacher who is specially trained to teach you from the beginning. Although your knowledge is a little behind, I believe that hard work will always pay off."

Lu Linlang discovered that what they needed most now was not the inculcation of knowledge, but a change of thinking. They were confused about their future and didn't know what it meant for the emperor to let them go to the palace to study together this time, so they felt panic.

"Really? Master, you are closer to the Emperor. Although we are also in the capital, we have only seen the Emperor a few times. Can you tell us why the Emperor allowed us to study in the palace?

I heard the Tatars are ready to make a move. There have been examples of royal marriages before. Are they asking us to marry into their family?"

When the two sisters said this, they were worried. Their mother had told them this before. This was very likely to happen. Not everyone had the emperor's good luck. Their fate was to sacrifice themselves for the future of the royal family.

"The Emperor will not allow women from Daqi to marry. She is not training you to consolidate the royal status through marriage in the future. What she needs is for you to be able to stand on your own feet and help the people of Daqi live a better life.

Therefore, you are studying with the young princes now so that your horizons and thoughts can be the same as those of men. Even if you cannot keep up with the teachers for a while, you cannot easily give up the emperor's expectations of you."

"So that's how it is, Your Majesty. You are so kind to us. Master, we sisters have been feeling uneasy these past few days. Now that we know what Your Majesty means, we will definitely learn from you."

When the two heard the emperor's request to them, they were very excited. They never thought that one day they would be expected to do so.

"I can't stay in the capital for long, but if the two princesses are willing to learn from me, I will definitely teach them everything I know. However, I have already accepted an invitation from Princess Mingfang tomorrow, so I can only come the day after tomorrow."

"That's a great coincidence. We have also received an invitation tomorrow, so we can stay with the Master. We also know many of the girls who will be attending the banquet tomorrow, so we can help introduce them."

When the two heard this, they were very happy. They would also go with their mother to participate tomorrow. They had not planned to go originally, but this time it was their aunt who invited them, so they had to give her face.

"That's truly a coincidence. I was worried that if I went there tomorrow, I wouldn't know many people. My brother Yunyi only knows the officials, so he would be completely in the dark. So I'll have to ask for your help tomorrow."

"It's okay. We just happened to be bored. You don't know, Aunt Mingfang has two cousins. We got the emperor's permission to study in the palace. When they heard about it, they were very envious and jealous. They also said a lot of sarcastic things. They said we were going to be sent to marry a foreign prince."

"If we go tomorrow, I'm afraid it will be a Hongmen Banquet?" Lu Linlang heard them say this and sensed a conspiracy in the invitation from the eldest princess.

"That's for sure, so when you go tomorrow, we must protect you well. You don't know that if my father and mother hadn't said it's not good to make enemies, I really don't want to go to her house at all.

Those ladies were also concerned about the face of the eldest princess and the emperor, and because this time they could also look after their unmarried children, no one really wanted to go. "

"Oh, do you know the reason? Can you tell me?"

Lu Linlang didn't have a deep impression of this princess. She only knew that she had lived in Jiangnan with her husband for many years and only returned to the capital after the emperor moved the capital.

"This matter is still a royal scandal. Everyone knew about it before, but because the eldest princess was loved by the emperor's uncle, no one dared to discuss it during the reign of the emperor's uncle or the late emperor.

They came back this time because, firstly, they wanted to introduce her children to someone new, and secondly, because the Emperor had moved the capital, and the eldest princess wanted to show off her status as an elder."

Then the two of them told her what Princess Mingfang had done in the past.

More than 20 years ago, Princess Mingfang was a person in the palace that even the late empress dowager had to stay away from. Just because she was favored, she often did not have to be too cautious in what she said and did. She also beat and scolded the palace people at will, and later even beat to death a palace maid beside her.

Just because the palace maid looked at the man she liked a few more times, that is, the current prince consort. The prince consort was originally a third place winner in the imperial examination. The royal family once had a rule that prince consorts could not directly participate in politics, so under normal circumstances, those who became prince consorts were given an idle and empty position, so those who were successful in the imperial examination were unwilling to become the royal prince consort.

The princesses only married those sons of aristocratic families who had less talent and no hope of reviving the family, or those playboys from powerful families who were arranged by the emperor to consolidate the imperial power.

When Princess Mingfang was watching the parade of successful candidates, she fell in love with Ruan Xingwen, the handsome and elegant third place winner in the crowd. If Ruan Xingwen was from an ordinary family, he probably wouldn't have had so many problems later. But after being favored by the princess, his future was almost gone.

He was born into a scholarly family. His family had been studying for generations, and there were many officials in the court. At that time, there was also a second-rank official. It can be said that he was at the age of high spirits and full of vigor. However, after being favored by Princess Mingfang, she often showed her kindness to him. If other women appeared around him, that woman would be in trouble.

Ruan Xingwen was so annoyed that he rejected the princess's advances several times, but the princess was unwilling to give up and asked the emperor to grant her a marriage. The emperor also knew the Ruan family's intentions and did not agree to the princess's request.

However, the eldest princess did not give up. At a banquet, she and her men secretly made arrangements and designed Ruan Xingwen to ruin her innocence. The royal princess's innocence would be ruined and she would be ridiculed by the world. If it were to be spread out, even the Ruan family would be in trouble. Under pressure from both sides, the two had to get married.

After the marriage, the prince consort was disheartened and unwilling to stay in the capital, so he prepared to go home. He had already become husband and wife with the eldest princess, but he was unwilling to compromise. Seeing that he was so determined and did not even care about his own life, the eldest princess had no choice but to follow him back to live in Jiangnan.

He left and didn't come back until this year.

"Also, the most criticized thing about our aunt is that I heard she has many lovers, and her husband doesn't care about her. The two of them have never truly been of the same mind for so many years. Alas, they have really become a pair of resentful couples. I once heard my mother say that it seems that my husband's uncle was engaged to a woman, but that woman later married someone else. I heard that she returned to the capital a few days ago. I wonder if that lady will attend tomorrow's banquet."

Lu Linlang didn't expect that there would be such a big melon. It seems that there will be a good show to watch tomorrow. She originally thought that this time it was aimed at her, but it seems that it is not necessarily the case. After the two princesses left, she immediately asked someone to inquire about what happened to the eldest princess after she returned to Beijing.