in2ebook Chapter 362 Asking for a Slap in the Face
Chapter 362 Asking for a Slap in the Face
When she arrived at the main hall, Mrs. Mu was chatting with Qin.
"Alas, my Ning'er was protected too well by me. She is naive and cunning, unlike some women who think they are smart and resort to some low-brow methods to annoy others for no reason."
Qin naturally knew who she was talking about, she just smiled and said nothing.
Before she got married, she had some friendship with Madam Mu, but after so many years, that friendship was no longer worth mentioning.
Seeing that she was not in a good mood, Madam Mu was about to talk about the past when she heard the servant come to report: "Princess, the Crown Prince's Consort is here."
Shang Ruoyi walked in: "Mother."
"Come quickly!" Qin said with a smile, "This is the wife of the Right Prime Minister."
Shang Ruoyi nodded and sat next to Qin.
"The Crown Prince's Consort is so beautiful!" Her eyes fell on Shang Ruoyi's face, then looked at the hairpins on her head, and was secretly surprised.
Today she wore a hairpin made of eastern pearls and several eastern pearl hairpins on her head. Although her hair was simple, she looked very noble.
Dongzhu is something that not everyone can afford, and not everyone is qualified to wear it.
She looked at Qin, and a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of her lips: "The Crown Prince's Consort's headdress is really exquisite. I haven't seen such luxurious jewelry in many years." She looked between Shang Ruoyi and Princess Zhan: "I guess this Dongzhu jewelry must have been given to the Crown Prince's Consort by the Princess."
Qin smiled and said, "Where can I get such a good Dongzhu?"
Upon hearing this, Madam Mu pretended to be surprised and said, "How is it possible? In this palace, everything should be put first by the old princess and the princess. How can such a noble headdress be worn by the crown prince's wife when the princess doesn't even have one?"
Mu Qingning sat aside and said in a gloomy tone, "Princess, forgive me for being so nosy. The princess has treated you well. She has taken good care of you in exile. Even when your father did so many wrong things, the princess has treated you as before. With such kindness, how can you be so presumptuous?"
"Overstepping your authority?" Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "Why do you say that, Miss Mu?"
"How can the Crown Prince's Consort wear such a precious jewelry as the Dongzhu alone? It should be worn by the Princess Royal before it can be the Crown Prince's Consort's turn." Mu Qingning's righteous look made Shang Ruoyi almost laugh out loud.
"But considering the background of the Crown Prince's Concubine, it's not surprising that she doesn't do these things." Madam Mu smiled: "I heard that the Crown Prince's Concubine's biological mother was Shangnian's concubine, and she was born into a merchant family. How much knowledge can a merchant's daughter have? I guess she hasn't learned much about etiquette." She looked at Qin: "Your Majesty still needs to be taught well."
Qin's face suddenly darkened when she heard this.
Just as she was about to speak, she heard Shang Ruoyi sneer beside her: "Madam Mu, I respect you as the wife of the Right Prime Minister and the concubine of my mother, but I have endured it to this extent. If there is anyone who is truly ignorant of propriety, righteousness, and shame, it is Madam Mu."
"What did you say?" Madam Mu's face darkened and she said in a cold voice, "How dare you speak so rudely!"
"Speaking rudely?" Shang Ruoyi sneered, "Who is speaking rudely? This is the Dingwang Mansion. Although I am a concubine, I am now the Crown Prince's wife, a member of the royal family! You are just a wife of the Right Prime Minister, and you dare to boss me around in Dingwang Mansion. You don't even know how to greet this Crown Prince's wife. You are showing contempt for the royal family."
"You!" She sat up straight, holding the armrests with both hands: "You are the descendant of a criminal!"
"So what if I'm the descendant of a criminal? Even the emperor won't pursue the matter, so what right do you have to talk about me here? Who do you think you are? Are you more noble than the emperor?" Shang Ruoyi snorted coldly: "I am a concubine's daughter, and my mother is the daughter of a merchant. So what? Have I, Shang Ruoyi, eaten a grain of rice or pulled a piece of cloth from your family? You only know that my mother is the daughter of a merchant. Do you know that the Wei family was once the richest in the capital, and the taxes paid to the court every year are more than your family's annual income and expenditure. Without merchants like my grandfather, the court would have no taxes, the treasury would be empty, and the court officials would have no regular silver to pay. How would you eat and drink? Wouldn't you starve?" She took out a ruby the size of a pigeon egg and played with it casually in her hands: "I can have as many gems as I want." She took out another oriental pearl: "I use such oriental pearls as marbles. I have no knowledge, but do you? How much knowledge do you have? Tell me, and I'll take a look."
Shang Ruoyi's words made the mother and daughter of the Mu family blush and turn pale. They had no idea that Shang Ruoyi had such a fortune.
They had never seen such big Dongzhu.
At this time, Princess Zhan beside him said, "Ruoyi, the Dongzhu bracelet you gave me earlier was not this color. And the bead necklace you gave to my grandmother, one is purple and the other is gold. I think both are better looking than this white one."
what?
Bracelets and necklaces?
How many Dongzhu are needed to make it?
And what color did Princess Zhan just say?
Purple and gold!
How can this be?
Just when the two of them were in doubt, they saw Princess Zhan lift up her sleeves, revealing the purple oriental pearl bracelet.
Seeing this, the mother and daughter of the Mu family turned pale.
My eyes were glued to the bracelet and I couldn't take them away.
"Mother doesn't like the color white, so I won't use white pearls as a headdress for you. However, if you grind the white pearls into fine powder, you can use it to apply on your face, which will make your skin as white and bright as the pearls."
"Is the fine white powder you asked the servant to bring Dongzhu powder?"
"That's right." Shang Ruoyi said with a smile: "I see that mother's skin is getting better today."
"This is all thanks to you." Qin held Shang Ruoyi's hand and looked at Mu's mother and daughter sharply.
"I originally didn't want to quarrel with you because of the sisterhood we had when we were young, but who knew that you would let your words and actions become more and more outrageous. Now you are bullying the Crown Prince's Consort of my Dingwang Mansion right under my nose. This is really too much!"
Upon hearing this, Madam Mu quickly stood up and knelt on the ground, and Mu Qingning behind her also knelt down.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. It was my fault. My words and actions were rude and offended the princess and the crown prince's wife. Please forgive me for the sake of our past friendship."
"Hmph!" Princess Zhan snorted coldly: "The affection we once had is now almost gone."
"Miss!"
"Since Madam Mu said that she and my mother still had a bond in the past, why didn't you lend a helping hand when the Dingguo Palace was in trouble?" Shang Ruoyi sneered, "Or did you say that the bond between Madam and my mother only lasted when the Dingguo Palace was powerful?"
Madam Mu was shocked when she heard this: "That's not the case, that's not the case! Madam, please listen to my explanation!"
"No need to say more." Princess Zhan glanced at her and said, "I know your conflicting thoughts very well."