"Xiao Cui!" The third lady quickly stopped, "Don't talk nonsense!"
"Xiao Cui just dares to complain in private behind closed doors." Xiao Cui curled her lips and whispered.
"Xiao Cui, why do you say that Su Ranqing can become the queen if she marries King Nan? Didn't the emperor not establish a prince?" Su Ranhua wanted to understand the current situation first. What he heard from the queen was that the three dragons were seizing the throne.
But from what Xiaocui said, it seemed that King Nan had the best chance of winning.
"Miss, are you taking the test on Xiaocui?" Xiaocui opened his eyes wide and looked at Su Ranhua. This is something everyone knows well.
"Let me tell you, there are no outsiders here." Su Ranhua stood up and said. She could tell that Xiao Cui was really loyal to their mother and daughter.
"Although the North King is the direct descendant of the Queen, the Queen's family background is getting weaker and weaker. Although the East King is the eldest son of the Emperor, he is away from home all the year round, and his family background is not worth mentioning. And the Southern King's mother-in-law, Shu Fei, only dotes on the harem.
, and your mother's family is so powerful, the position of prince will be his sooner or later. Don't you understand this, so you try your best to stand on the side of the Southern King? Force you to marry the Northern King, and privately work for the Prime Minister, that is, the Southern King. This
You are exchanging the second lady's life for the eldest lady's wealth." Xiao Cui said clearly and with an angry look on her face.
"Okay, Xiaocui, no one will think you are mute if you don't speak." The third lady is cautious and fully understands the truth that disaster comes from words.
Xiao Cui stuck out her tongue at Su Ranhua and became silent.
She seemed to be a smart girl. Su Ranhua nodded, and she understood the general situation from Xiaocui's words.
"It's getting late and the banquet is about to start. Xiao Cui, please accompany Ran Hua to the hall first. Don't keep the master and the prince waiting for too long." The third lady stood up and said, "I will change my clothes first and then go there."
Su Ranhua followed the third lady's line of sight and saw that the hem of her dress had been scratched by Su Luocheng's forceful push just now, passing over the corner of the table.
"Well," Su Ranhua nodded and said to Xiao Cui, "Xiao Cui, let's go first. If you have any gossip, you might as well bear it first."
"Okay." Xiaocui responded and followed Su Ranhua out of the house.
The third lady stared blankly at her daughter's back. Putting aside the feeling of strangeness, she suddenly felt that the daughter she had protected with all her heart had really grown up. After marrying into the Prince's Palace, she seemed to be a different person, with a sense of responsibility.
.Bei Wangfu, who has the most strict rules and regulations in the capital, and the coldest temperament, can actually change a person so quickly!
"Xiao Cui." Su Ranhua suddenly stopped and looked back at Xiao Cui behind him.
Su Ranhua's eyes seemed to be able to see into people's bones.
In fact, Xiaocui had already noticed that the young lady was different from before in the third lady's room just now, but when Su Ranhua looked at her like this, she couldn't help but tremble.
"Xiao Cui, do you know how I married into the North Prince's Mansion?"
Su Ranhua's sudden question caught Xiao Cui by surprise. She was stunned on the spot for a moment. After a moment of pause, she gently shook her head and said, "Xiao Cui doesn't know the specific situation."
"You don't know the specifics, but you have a rough idea? Tell me everything you know." Su Ranhua looked directly at Xiaocui and lowered his voice.
"Miss?" Xiaocui looked at Su Ranhua, as if she suddenly didn't recognize him, and asked incredulously, "You should know these very well, why do you ask Xiaocui again?"
"I forgot some things." Su Ranhua's expression softened a little, with a hint of sadness, "I didn't dare to let my mother know, so I asked you."
"Miss!" Xiaocui looked at Su Ranhua with deep sympathy on her face. She had long heard of King Bei's cruelty. In just one month, she tortured her so much that she developed brain problems. No wonder she behaved like before.
It’s different!
"Tell me." Su Ranhua sighed and looked at Xiao Cui with a bit of pleading in his eyes.
Looking at Su Ranhua who suddenly looked gloomy and sad, Xiaocui couldn't help but want to cry.
"One night two months ago, the third lady suddenly became ill. No one in the Prime Minister's Mansion paid any attention to it. The young lady was the first to run out of the Prime Minister's Mansion to find Dr. Chen, who had been treating the third lady. As a result, Xiaocui waited for the third lady.
After waiting for a long time, I finally begged the housekeeper to inform the master, and then sent someone to invite Dr. Chen, but Dr. Chen said that he had not seen the young lady at all." Xiao Cui recalled what happened that night.
"Didn't you see it?" Su Ranhua asked, frowning.
"Well," Xiao Cui nodded, "just after Dr. Chen came to the Prime Minister's Mansion, the young lady suddenly ran back. Although the young lady didn't say anything, her expression was very special, as if something had happened, and the old man seemed to be worried about the young lady.
I suddenly became very concerned about my whereabouts, and after dawn, I found out what happened during the night."
Xiaocui paused and glanced at Su Ranhua. Seeing that she insisted on letting her continue speaking, she whispered, "It turns out that on the way to the doctor, the young lady was bumped into by the drunk King Bei and was defiled.
The master was very angry, but when he thought that this was a rare relationship with the Prince of Bei, he insisted on asking you to marry Prince Bei. The young lady refused to obey, so the master threatened his wife's life. If the young lady did not marry, he would not give the third lady any money.
Treat her and let her die of illness alive."
"So, I had to get married, and he used him as an informant to insert himself into the Northern Prince's Mansion. I approached the Northern Prince and waited for an opportunity to do things for him." Su Ranhua said coldly.
"Yes. The young lady had no choice but to agree. At the beginning, in order to worry about the face of the prime minister's office and the royal family, the master did not reveal to the public that the person whom King Bei had defiled that night was the young lady. He only asked the important officials in the court to act as lobbyists and persuaded the North King to marry the young lady as his concubine.
, King Bei didn’t agree at all. Later, he found out that the young lady was pregnant, and the master became even more angry. He took King Bei’s personal jade pendant, went to the court, and told the emperor the whole story. The emperor decreed the marriage, and King Bei married.
Miss."
"Personal jade pendant?" Su Ranhua asked doubtfully, "Did I get it from King Bei?"
"Probably," Xiaocui said, "I didn't notice if the lady took anything special when she came back that night, but King Bei's personal accessories can only be obtained when King Bei is drunk and confused.
It’s not surprising that the young lady was bullied and evidence would be left behind. But I didn’t expect that the young lady would become pregnant that time.”
It turns out that the lost child is really Ximen Hao's. Su Ranhua thought, but the jade pendant was strange. Ordinarily, after panicking and being bullied, he thought of taking the opportunity to take Ximen Hao's jade pendant, which means that Su Ranhua's
The thought was careful or planned, but according to Xiaocui, everything was an accident, and forcing her to marry into the Beiwang Mansion happened later.
So the origin of that jade pendant is a bit strange.
Maybe what Xiaocui said about Ximen Hao being drunk and promiscuous was just an appearance. The fact is that both Su Ranhua and Ximen Hao were plotted by others. This can explain why Ximen Hao kept saying that he fell into Su Luo City's scheme, but
Su Luocheng was able to get Ximen Hao's personal jade pendant as evidence, and that night he suddenly became concerned about his daughter, who had always been indifferent.
In fact, it was not an accident from the beginning, but was planned by Suluo City.