EBE Chapter 219 Ambition
Chapter 219 Ambition
Princess Jingmin was originally lying on the ground struggling desperately. When she saw the door open, she squinted her eyes. When she saw Gu Jin walking out under the dazzling sunlight, she stopped moving and slowly sat up, looking at Gu Jin with resentment with a pair of cold eyes.
She straightened her back and raised her chin high, as if as long as she did this she would still be the high and mighty princess.
Wu Mu came over and said to Gu Jin in a low voice, "Madam, this person sneaked into the kitchen and was caught by the servants. As expected, a packet of poison was found in her sleeve."
Today is the housewarming party of the Marquis Qingyun's Mansion. All the dignitaries in Beijing are attending the party. If someone dies, Gu Jin, the mistress of the house, will certainly not have an easy time.
Gu Jin asked Wu Mu to take off the cloth stuffed in her mouth. Princess Jingmin immediately started to curse, "Bitch! Why don't you untie me? You dare to be disrespectful to me. I will kill you!"
Gu Jin smiled and looked at her playfully, "What nonsense are you talking about? His Majesty has issued an edict to announce to the world that Princess Jingmin unfortunately passed away on the way to the imperial mausoleum. Where is there any Princess Jingmin in this world?"
A trace of panic flashed in Princess Jingmin's eyes. She didn't expect that her father could be so cruel and really didn't want her as a daughter anymore!
"You pretended to be Princess Jingmin and came to my Marquis Qingyun's mansion to poison high-ranking officials in the court. I think you are a spy from another country and you need to be severely tortured." Gu Jin spoke slowly.
Princess Jingmin was furious when she heard this, "How dare you!"
"Why shouldn't I dare? I am a princess appointed by His Majesty and a lady of the first rank. How could it be difficult for me to deal with a little maid like you?"
Looking at the gorgeous clothes and pearls on Gu Jin, and then looking at the maid's skirt she had changed into in order to sneak into the Marquis's mansion, Princess Jingmin felt that her pride was shattered one by one.
She felt a little regretful. Perhaps she should have listened to her mother and been a high-ranking princess. But now she had fallen into the dust and lost everything.
"Where's Xie Ran? I want to see Xie Ran!" She would give up everything for him. She treated him so sincerely that he would definitely not have the heart to abandon her.
Seeing Princess Jingmin shouting Xie Ran's name with a ferocious look on her face, Gu Jin said expressionlessly, "What a noise!
Ebony, gag her and keep her under guard, and I will deal with her after the banquet is over."
Princess Jingmin wanted to say something but Wu Mu gagged her again, saying in a cold tone: "How dare you covet the Marquis? You really overestimate your own abilities!"
Gu Jin returned to his seat and continued to entertain the officials and their wives. The food at the Marquis' Mansion was all unique and even the drinks were different from those at other places. Everyone didn't know where to start if they wanted to find fault with it.
Su looked at Gu Jin, who was acting calmly, with eyes full of pride. It was as if she was looking at her own daughter rather than her daughter-in-law.
"Sister, you really have a capable daughter-in-law. She manages the mansion in perfect order at such a young age." The speaker was Su's cousin Su Wanwan.
Su Wanwan's husband Feng Sheng has now officially taken over as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and she has finally established her foothold in the capital.
Because Gu Jin had reminded Su before to be careful of Su Wanwan, although Su was not smart, she was obedient, so she was not as warm to this cousin as before.
"Ajin is of course very good. It is a blessing for Ran'er to marry such a good wife."
Su Wanwan smiled and nodded, then changed the subject and said, "But I remember they have been married for more than a year, why is there still no sign of pregnancy in my nephew's wife's belly?"
Although Su Wanwan did not show it on her face, she was actually extremely jealous of the Su family.
At first, she was unwilling to let Su marry into such a noble family as the Feng family, so she designed to make her fall into trouble. Unexpectedly, she became the wife of the Marquis by accident.
I thought Su was not smart enough and would have a hard time living in the big mansion, but who would have known that she would have an open-minded mother-in-law, a husband who loved her, and even her son and daughter-in-law were so outstanding.
Looking back at the first two years after she married Feng Sheng, she had to go to her mother-in-law to set rules every day. Even when she was pregnant, she still had to serve her mother-in-law with meals. Her situation did not improve until she gave birth to her eldest son.
But her son was a disappointing person. After several years of taking exams, he was still only a scholar, while Xie Ran had already become a marquis. She was afraid that she would never be able to catch up with such a huge difference in status in her lifetime.
"If it were someone else's business, I wouldn't interfere, but Ran'er is my nephew, so how could I not worry about his affairs?
My nephew's wife is a capable person, but she is busy with the school and the restaurant all day long and can't help but be unable to do anything else."
Su Wanwan laid the groundwork for a while before finally speaking her mind, "Our Bao'er is only fourteen years old this year, and she is pretty and pretty. Why don't we let her take care of Ran'er?"