Liu Yan was carefully raised by Concubine Xu, she is smart and precocious, well-behaved, and she is a very good little noblewoman.

However, no matter how wise and sensible she is, she is only an eleven or twelve-year-old child.

Although she tells herself every moment that she is different from those superlatives, don't be like those people, she doesn't have to lower her level.

However, every time she encounters those unfair treatments, and every time she is bullied by the best, she still can't help but get angry and aggrieved.

Why?

Why should she put up with this?

Obviously, she has a father and a mother, she is the daughter of the noble eldest princess, but she doesn't live as well as a concubine?!

This conflict is also ridiculous.

Liu Yan went to live in the palace for a while as usual, and before returning home, Concubine Xu gave her a lot of jewelry and newly acquired fabrics.

On the queen's side, although she didn't like to see the eldest princess of Yi'an, she still had a lot of pity for Liu Yan, a poor child.

So, she also gave a lot of things.

Liu Yan returned to the princess's mansion with a few big boxes, and when she passed by the Yongjing Marquis Mansion, she happened to be seen by the people of the Hou Mansion, so the Hou Mansion spread all over the place: the eldest lady brought a lot of good things back from the palace.

As mentioned earlier, Yongjing Hou and Mrs. Hou are not people who understand.

The Hou Mansion has such a family, and the children and grandchildren are naturally no better.

Especially those girls of the same generation as Liu Yan, when they heard that Liu Yan had brought a lot of good things from the palace, they immediately became envious, jealous and hateful.

Others are better, even if their eyes are so red that they are about to vomit blood, they don't dare to take action.

Liu Ting is different.

She is the daughter of the concubine that Princess Yi'an took the initiative to give to Liu Hongna.

Speaking of which, Liu Ting's biological mother is not an outsider, she is Mrs. Hou's maiden niece and Liu Hongzheng's cousin.

The two childhood sweethearts were secretly in love long before Liu Hong married the eldest princess.

What a kind and beautiful person the eldest princess is, after hearing about the love story of Liu Hong and Aunt Mei after marriage, she was moved by their "true love", although she was unhappy in her heart, she still took the initiative to fulfill them.

Aunt Mei grew up in the Hou Mansion, and after being matched by the eldest princess, she married Liu Hong as a concubine, which is naturally different from ordinary "concubines".

She has Mrs. Hou to support her, Liu Hong's favor in the middle, and the "sisterhood" of the eldest princess next to her, obviously she is just a concubine, but she is more beautiful than the wife of an ordinary noble family.

Aunt Mei is also smart, she is the best at acting.

Even if he laughs in his heart that the eldest princess is a fool, when he gets along with the eldest princess, he is extremely respectful and admired, and treats the eldest princess as a fairy.

Her sons and daughters were also taught by her to be "White Lotus", who spoke better than anyone else, but secretly stumbled and used all kinds of tricks.

Liu Yan is upright and straightforward, she can't play such a ghost trick, and she doesn't know how much she has suffered since she was a child.

However, Liu Ting's sister and brother can act in costumes, and they pose in front of people all day long, showing a pitiful appearance, which makes Liu Ting arrogant and arrogant.

Of course, as long as you have brains, you won't eat Aunt Mei's mother and son.

But the problem is that in the entire Yongjing Marquis Mansion, there are few people with brains.

The Hou Mansion pursued Liu Ting, a concubine, from top to bottom, but squeezed the real eldest lady Liu Yan into uselessness.

Knowing what kind of virtue the people in the Hou Mansion were, Liu Yan desperately told herself not to mind.

But when people bully her, she often can't bear it.

Just like this time, Liu Ting heard that Liu Yan had received a lot of rewards in the palace, and her eyes were immediately red, and she took Aunt Mei to come to the princess's mansion to "ask for peace".

The mother and daughter pretended to play a role of duty and rules in front of the eldest princess, and then Liu Ting began to cry about how pitiful she was.

Aunt Mei's maiden family has declined, otherwise she would have been out of Mrs. Hou's family, and she would never let a serious concubine rush to be a concubine for others.

The Mei family was defeated, so naturally they couldn't give Aunt Mei too much money to support.

On the contrary, the Mei family also needs Aunt Mei to come back with money from time to time to make up for it.

And the Yongjing Marquis Mansion also began to decline.

Since the current Marquis Yongjing inherited the title, he first lost the official position of Menyin, and then offended several chief officials, so that the dignified marquis could only go to an idle yamen to receive a vacant position.

Without real power, even if you are a marquis, you can only slowly move away from the center of power.

After more than ten years like this, the situation of the Hou Mansion is like a year after year.

If Liu Hong hadn't married the eldest princess, when he inherited the title, it is estimated that the Yongjing Marquis Mansion would have become Yongjingbo, and then it would have declined.

Rao is like this, and the Yongjing Marquis Mansion is not as good as before.

There is also Mrs. Hou, who has an unclear brain at home, as the housewife, and the family's income is getting less and less year by year.

By now, I can't make ends meet.

The Hou Mansion has long been accustomed to luxury and pleasure, even if the east wall is demolished to make up the west wall, they have to maintain a luxurious life.

The days of the Hou Mansion are getting tighter and tighter, and the surface is all kinds of bright, but in fact it is full of holes.

For example, Liu Ting, even if she is the most favored daughter in the family, her share is the highest among girls of the same generation, and she cannot be compared with Liu Ting.

Every time she saw Liu Yan wearing exquisite jewelry made in the palace, wearing new clothes cut from tribute brocade, and eating various supplements such as bird's nest every day, Liu Ting was so jealous that her eyes were bloodshot.

Unlike other girls in the family, others just looked at it with red eyes, but Liu Ting dared to find ways to "rob" Liu Yan's things.

What made Liu Yan unbearable the most, and what made her the most painful, Liu Ting did not ask her directly, but ran to the eldest princess to pretend to be obedient and pitiful, and encouraged the eldest princess to help her ask for things.

Just imagine, someone snatched his own things, and his biological mother didn't say to protect it, but helped that person to charge.

That feeling is really desperate!

In the past, in the face of Liu Ting's greed, Liu Yan didn't want to worry about her, isn't it just a little thing, and it's not worth anything, so there is no need to make her mother unhappy because of this.

But there have been many times, and the grievances in Liu Yan's heart have accumulated more and more, and she has reached the verge of exploding.

This time, Liu Ting happened to take a fancy to a silk golden phoenix title bead hairpin, and this hairpin was given to her by the emperor when Concubine Xu was young, and now Concubine Xu gave it to Liu Yan again.

Aside from the royal gifts, this hairpin is even more of Concubine Xu's beloved thing.

She cherished her granddaughter, and saw that she was growing up, so she gave her this hairpin.

But Liu Ting actually had to "borrow" this hairpin to wear it for a few days.

Hehe, she said that she was "borrowed", but she didn't know how many things she had "borrowed" in Liu Yan's hands over the years, but she never returned them.

New hatred and old hatred, seeing Liu Ting's pretentious appearance, Liu Yan finally broke out.

"Don't borrow! It's not just this hairpin that I don't borrow, I won't lend you all my things!"