Chapter 125: Checks and Balances
Cheng Xiangjin understood, "It turned out to be the meaning of the Queen Mother!" ”
If this decision was made two years ago, how did the Queen Mother know that the fourth prince would become the crown prince? At that time, the most beautiful princes in the imperial city were the king of Changyang and the king of Anping!
Unless...... Unless the Queen Mother doesn't care who will inherit the throne, what she cares about is to let the Marquis of Muen's Mansion produce another imperial concubine to achieve the purpose of balancing a certain party's forces!
If King Changyang succeeds to the throne, the balance is naturally Uncle Cui's mansion, and if King Anping inherits the throne, it is the Chen family that checks and balances!
Perhaps, this is also the reason why Xie Miaojing was not allowed to marry a certain prince earlier. After all, Xie Miaojing was still old two years ago, and these two princes already had concubines. Xie Miaojing, as the only concubine of Mu Enhou Mansion, naturally can't be a side concubine. What the queen mother is waiting for is the new emperor to ascend the throne, but no one expected that in the end, the emperor would make the unfavored four princes the crown prince!
Today, the crown prince has not yet married the crown princess, and his age is the same as Xie Miaojing. Such a good opportunity, the Queen Mother and the Mu Enhou Mansion will naturally not miss it! With the status of Mu Enhou Mansion in the capital, except for Uncle Cui Guo's Mansion, which can still be compared with one or two, other mansions either have no women of appropriate age, or their family background cannot compete with them!
Cheng Xiangjin guessed that the goal of Mu Enhou Mansion this time should be the phoenix position!
I just don't know if Uncle Cui Guo's mansion will marry his daughter to the palace? After all, the eldest daughter of Cui Fuyan has married the king of Changyang and is the princess of Changyang. Now that the king of Changyang is gone, only the princess is left to support the Nuoda mansion, and there are no heirs under her knees, so she is likely to be snubbed by the royal family. If she marries her daughter to the palace, it is better to win the phoenix position, even if she can't, with the relationship between her and the current queen is her aunt and nephew, she will be a concubine. With these relationships in the future, Princess Changyang's life will not be bad.
Cheng Xiangjin thought about it, and couldn't help but think too much. Xie Miaojing saw her holding her chin and didn't know what she was thinking, and her arm shook in front of her eyes.
"Jin'er? What do you think, so fascinated? ”
Cheng Xiangjin was shaken by her, and suddenly retracted her thoughts.
"It's nothing, I'm just wondering, if you enter the palace, will you become the queen!"
At the mention of this, Xie Miaojing smiled, "Do you think the queen is so easy!" To tell you the truth, I'm really not uncommon to be a queen or a princess. No matter how noble the status is, isn't it still competing for favor with a lot of women? I'm tired when I think about it! My greatest wish is to marry a family with the right family, find a husband who is happy with each other, so that he is not allowed to take a concubine, if he dares to take a concubine, let his father and brother help beat him to death! If I marry the emperor, all my wishes will be in vain! ”
Seeing that she was in a bad mood again, Cheng Xiangjin hurriedly grabbed her arm, "Okay, don't think about it so much!" It's rare to come to you, let's go out and have fun! ”
"To play? All right! You wait for me, just change your clothes! Xie Miaojing was about to go back to the room to change clothes, but Cheng Xiangjin grabbed her, "What kind of clothes to change, you are very good on your body." ”
Xie Miaojing looked down at himself, then at Cheng Xiangjin, and looked up suspiciously, "Can you wear this?" ”
"Okay, okay, don't forget that this is the countryside, and it's strange if you change into a cumbersome floor-length dress!"
Xie Miaojing thought about it, grabbed Cheng Xiangjin's arm with his backhand, and ran out with excitement. The maid who was guarding the flower hall ran away when she saw her girl like this, and hurriedly chased after her, calling for Rao.
The old lady of Xie Fu heard that Cheng Xiangjin was looking for her to go out to play, which made people stop those guards and maids.
"Since you're going to play with the Cheng girl, let her go! After detaining her for so long, it's time for her to go out for a walk! ”
"Yes!"
Cheng Xiangjin and Xie Miaojing ran a long distance hand in hand, and when they saw that there was no maid behind them, they stopped out of breath.
"You see, there's a river in front of me, and it's cool and there are a lot of fish, and I've always liked to play here. Would you like to check it out? ”
Xie Miaojing looked up in the direction of her finger, and really saw a river of golden light like a jade belt. Sparkling, meandering to the east. The banks of the river beach are full of unknown wildflowers, and the sunset makes it feel very comfortable and peaceful.
Xie Miaojing let go of Cheng Xiangjin's arm and ran to the river beach.
"Look, girl, there's fish here!"
Manna screamed, and Cheng Xiangjin and Xie Miaojing were attracted to it. Sure enough, not far from my feet there was a puddle of water, perhaps formed by the rise of the river after the rain, and the water was very shallow, and there were many fish swimming in it.
Xie Miaojing was very surprised to pick up a branch and stir it in the water, and when she stirred it, the group of fish suddenly scattered in shock and disappeared.
"Haha, it's fun!"
"Girl, there's a frog over there, you see, it's jumping so fast, it's so fun!"
Xie Miaojing followed Ganlu to chase the frog for a long time, and the laughter like silver bells spread far and wide on the wide river.
On the official road on the other side of the river, several men in strong suits and riding tall horses were attracted by this pleasant laughter, and couldn't help but slow down their pace and look sideways in this direction.
The man with a golden crown and a red cloak at the head saw the pink-clothed girl playing on the river beach at a glance, he stared at her for a long time, and when he saw her face clearly, he couldn't help but smile, "No wonder it's familiar, it's her?" When did she come here? ”
The man who followed beside him couldn't help but laugh when he saw him looking at the girl and smirked, "General Cui knows these girls?" ”
The man known as General Cui turned his head and didn't answer, but asked, "What realm does this belong to?" ”
The deputy general on his side tilted his head and thought about it, "If it's right, it should be Meixian." ”
"Meixian? The Queen Mother's hometown? I see! ”
The man in the red cloak smiled and looked up at the riverbank again, and found that the girls who had been playing just now had already walked to the riverbank. I guess I'm going home.
"General, the girls are gone, can we still watch it?"
The man in charge glanced at him, "Whatever you want!" As soon as the words fell, the horse's belly was clamped, and the horse's hooves flew out of the ground in an instant.
The man beside him was splashed with dirt from the horse's hooves, and he frowned and snorted, roaring angrily at the daimyo in front of him and rushing forward.
"Cui Yu, I'm going to fight with you!"
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As the sun set, Cheng Xiangjin and Xie Miaojing were also tired of playing, worried that their families would find them, so they reluctantly left the river beach and walked towards their respective mansions. The two had no idea what was happening on the other side of the river.
Fortunately, the Xie family's old house was closer to this side, and Cheng Xiangjin sent her outside the gate and prepared to leave after a few words. Before the person moved, the sound of horses' hooves came to the old mansion from far and near, Cheng Xiangjin turned around, and a white horse stopped a foot away in the blink of an eye.
The person on the horse obviously didn't expect her to be here, and his eyes lit up for a moment.