Bring a scumbag girl to bully me, and you are afraid of using modern weapons.

Empress Zhangsun quickly admitted her mistake, "Your Majesty, I am teaching you this lesson. I will set an example and teach the princesses and princes well in the future."

With the Queen Mother speaking for Xie Jinglan, the princesses and concubines present no longer dared to disrespect her.

"We were just talking about the prince's marriage! Miss Xie is here." Empress Changsun took the lead in talking about something happy.

Xie Jinglan still had that indifferent expression and didn't say anything.

With the usual tricks of the harem, this queen is going to do something weird again.

"Yes! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is finally back. He is now nineteen years old and it is time to discuss marriage." A concubine echoed flatteringly.

Empress Changsun pulled over a young woman standing nearby and said to the Empress Dowager, "Mother, this is my daughter-in-law's niece. She is sixteen years old. She is considered one of the best among the noble ladies in Shengjing in terms of both talent and appearance, and is absolutely worthy of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Xie Jinglan curled the corners of her lips slightly. It turned out that he wanted to give Beitang Yuan a woman!

Did this scheming queen think that she could make things difficult for her by using this method?

But for the women in the harem here, taking concubines to win favor for their husbands is the most effective way to deal with women.

No one dared to refuse the woman given by the queen, and they had to pretend to be magnanimous and accept it happily.

"Hmm." The Queen Mother looked at the woman, her eyes gleaming as she turned to Xie Jinglan and asked, "Miss Changsun, what do you think?"

"It's up to the Empress Dowager." Xie Jinglan naturally had no objection.

She was engaged to Beitang Yuan, but it was only a one-year agreement, each taking what they needed. After a year, they would go their separate ways. Who he married or how many women he took in was none of her business.

But Empress Changsun's decision to marry one of her brother's concubine's daughters to Beitang Yuan clearly had ill intentions.

"Since you have no objection, then ask the prince if he is willing to accept it!" The Queen Mother looked a little unhappy.

She knew her grandson's temper. He didn't like others interfering in his marriage, otherwise he would run away and might not come back for a year or two.

She can't bear it.

"This prince disagrees!" Beitang Yuan's voice suddenly came from outside the gate.

Xie Jinglan looked up and saw Beitang Yuan striding over the threshold and walking in, still wearing the silver mask she had given him.

"Prince, why are you here now?" The Queen Mother immediately smiled when she saw the Prince coming.

Upon hearing this, some concubines of lower status, princes, princesses, and Xie Jinglan all stood up.

"I have met His Highness the Crown Prince."

"I've met the emperor brother."

Beitang Yuan walked to the center of the hall, glanced at Xie Jinglan first, and bowed to the empress dowager, "Grandson pays his respects to the Empress Dowager."

"Get up!" the Queen Mother said with a smile.

"Yes!" Beitang Yuan stood up, took a step with his long legs, sat in the position where Beitang Qing had just sat, and leaned back.

Empress Changsun's expression suddenly turned ugly, and the concubines' expressions also became interesting.

According to the etiquette of the Yuyong Kingdom's court, although the prince is the crown prince, he must bow and greet the queen and four concubines to show respect.

But judging from the prince's actions, it is obvious that he does not take them seriously.

"Grandmother, what were you talking about behind my grandson's back just now?" Beitang Yuan asked lazily.

"Yuan'er, the second young lady of the Changsun family is good-looking. I heard from the Queen that she is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. In my opinion, she is just right to be your concubine. After you get married to Lan Ya, you can take her into the Eastern Palace!" The Queen Mother deliberately emphasized the word "concubine".

How dare a lowly concubine's daughter give it to her precious grandson?

"Second Miss?" Beitang Yuan glanced at the woman and said mercilessly, "Grandmother, please don't force any cats and dogs on your grandson. There are so many of them on the street. I'm not that foolish Prince Mu who accepts all the garbage."

When the young lady of the Changsun family saw Beitang Yuan just now, her eyes were glued to him.

She had heard from her aunt, the Queen, that the Crown Prince was as good-looking as Prince Mu. Although he was wearing a mask and her true features could not be seen, just looking at his tall figure, she felt that he was even more imposing than Prince Mu.

Suddenly, when she heard the prince comparing her to cats and dogs, her face turned pale.

This was clearly an attempt to humiliate her and showed that they did not take the Changsun family seriously at all.

But thinking of what the Queen had just said, she gritted her teeth and said, "Your Highness, I have admired you for a long time and am willing to serve you..."

"This prince is unwilling." Beitang Yuan interrupted her coldly, "This prince is the crown prince of a country, and there are many women who admire him. If I want to marry them all, you can line up outside the South City Gate."

"Crown Prince, Miaoqing is my niece. How can she be compared with others?" Empress Changsun suppressed her anger. There was no need to get angry over a dying person.

Her face showed a look of worry for him, "Yuan'er, you are the crown prince and you are not young anymore. I have to find you a few more good women so that you can have more children for the royal family as soon as possible."

"Your niece? Does your niece have three heads and six arms, with noses pointing to the sky? Do you want this prince to look at her differently?"

Beitang Yuan shot a cold gaze at Empress Zhangsun. "Prince Mu is only two months younger than this Crown Prince. He can also have children for the royal family sooner. Since this woman is so good, you can give her to him."

Xie Jinglan imagined in her mind what a woman with three heads and six arms, with noses pointed upwards, would look like. When the image came to her mind, she couldn't help but chuckle, "Haha..."

I didn't expect Beitang Yuan to have such a sharp tongue. An ordinary woman would not be able to bear it.

When Beitang Yuan heard Xie Jinglan smile, the corners of his lips also rose slightly.

"How can you talk like that, child?" The Queen Mother said helplessly, "Queen, you've seen it too. The Crown Prince doesn't like the Second Miss Changsun. Forget about this marriage."

Changsun Miaoqing stood there feeling embarrassed and awful.

Being humiliated and humiliated in public by the prince, his face felt hot as if he had been slapped twice, and he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Tears of grievance could not help but fall.

"I'll take my leave first." She knelt down and bowed, then turned and left the hall.

"Queen, you'd better not interfere in my affairs. Just take care of your son." Beitang Yuan said this without giving Changsun any face.

"I am the one who is meddling in other people's affairs." The smile on Empress Changsun's face froze.

She secretly resented that the prince dared to be so rude and arrogant to her. It was all because of the Queen Mother's pampering of him that he didn't even take her, the Queen, seriously.

She couldn't sit still any longer, so she stood up and said goodbye.

"Mother, I will take my leave first!"

Sensing that the atmosphere was not right, the other concubines, princesses and princes also took their leave.

Soon, they were the only ones left in the hall.

"Yuan'er, Zhangsun is the queen of a country after all, and you still have to give her the face she deserves." The queen mother advised him.

"Grandmother, you don't know that woman's ambition. If I give her face, it will only make her more arrogant." Beitang Yuan's face turned cold.

"Ah..." The Queen Mother sighed softly, knowing that her grandson had always hated Empress Changsun because of his mother's death.

In fact, she also didn't like Changsun. When Emperor Kunming wanted to make this woman the empress, she firmly opposed it.