Chapter 126 Ancient Rebirth of Black Heart Lotus (3) (1/2)

Mu Qingling fell ill the day after she got married. Her judgment of Linjiang Wang Lin Shiheng was based on various information she heard before the marriage and her own speculation on the wedding night.

She thought that it would be difficult to persuade a prince like Linjiang Wang who had never suffered any grievances since childhood, but she didn't expect that he would listen to her as soon as she started.

Mu Qingling carefully observed Lin Shiheng's expression and was slightly relieved when she saw that he didn't seem to be perfunctory.

A husband who can communicate is always better than a husband who doesn't listen.

"Oh, by the way, Princess."

Lin Shiheng suddenly spoke up when Mu Qingling just breathed a sigh of relief, with a slightly dissatisfied tone: "Isn't your third sister too unruly?"

Mu Qingling didn't react for a moment, and slightly widened her eyes, "What does the prince mean?"

"Just now, I was walking on the road, and she insisted on stopping me, saying that she wanted to talk to me alone. This is not something a daughter of a good family can do. It's too unruly."

Mu Qingling hesitated and glanced at the Linjiang King with a look of disgust.

If she remembered correctly, on the wedding night, this man had praised Mu Qingrong in front of her, his newlywed wife, for a long speech.

Even when she was wandering alone in the temple, he could praise her as courageous and not as boring as ordinary girls in the boudoir.

To be honest, it was a humiliation to boast about another woman in front of his wife on the wedding night. Mu Qingling was so angry that his face turned red. But he was her husband. She had no other way to deal with it except to swallow her anger and pretend nothing happened.

At that time, she felt cold in her heart and was glad that although the person he liked was Mu Qingrong and looked down on her, fortunately he was willing to give her the dignity of a princess and did not walk away after seeing her face.

So the question is, how long has it been since then, why did he suddenly feel so disgusted with Mu Qingrong?

Mu Qingling's heart was full of questions, but she couldn't ask them out loud. She just lowered her eyebrows and eyes slightly, and said softly: "My third sister has been raised in the palm of my hand since she was a child. She is still young, so it is inevitable that she is a little naive. I didn't mean to offend you. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"She is your sister, and she also calls me brother-in-law. Naturally, I have to forgive her for the sake of the princess."

Lin Shiheng smiled, as if he was very cool: "Princess, take good care of your illness. When you are well, I will send you back to visit your mother-in-law."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Mu Qingling was still weak and couldn't greet him, so he could only accept it with a pale face.

Just after accepting it, he saw a man in gorgeous clothes stand up, "Then I will leave first. I have an appointment with someone to drink today. If the princess wants anything, I will bring it back to you."

Mu Qingling was still sick, so there was nothing she wanted. She opened her mouth to refuse, but suddenly remembered that she was his wife now.

She had been in a coma since the second day after she got married. Now she didn't know the attitude of King Linjiang towards her as the princess. Now was the best time to test it.

Mu Qingling thought about it and hid the words of refusal in her throat again. She said softly: "If the prince is free, can you go to Ziyunzhai and buy some cosmetics for me?"

"Okay, I'll bring you some."

Lin Shiheng flicked his sleeves, "You girls are troublesome. I never use cosmetics."

Mu Qingling smiled and didn't answer. She just watched Lin Shiheng walk out of the house. Not long after he walked out, she could hear a frivolous laugh coming from outside the house.

"You are a pretty girl, but you are the one who serves the princess? What's your name?"

Then, her maid Grape replied timidly but with a hint of joy: "Greetings, my lord. My name is Grape, and I am a second-class maid who serves the princess."

"Grape."

Her husband repeated the name playfully, with a stronger smile in his tone: "As expected, the name is as beautiful as the person. You look so cute and lovely. Go and tell the princess to prepare for you. When the princess returns home, you will serve me."

Grape's pretty face immediately showed joy, and she knelt down and kowtowed to the handsome King Linjiang who was smiling at her.

She was specially selected by the second wife as a dowry, so naturally she was not on the same page with Mu Qingling. With such an opportunity, of course she had to seize it firmly.

"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty."

"Don't kneel, don't kneel. My heart aches when I see a beauty like you kneeling on this cold ground. Get up quickly. In the future, how about I give you the title of concubine?"

Grape was helped to stand up by Lin Shiheng himself. She was given the title of concubine for nothing. The surprise in her eyes was almost overflowing. She was just a maid. Although she married with Mu Qingling, her indenture contract was still in the hands of the second wife. She didn't expect to have such an opportunity.

If she becomes a concubine, she will be the master in the future.

The second wife also asked her to drug the eldest lady. The eldest lady would definitely not live for more than seven days. Once she died, even if she was a slave and could not be the main wife, with this position of concubine, she would be sure to keep the prince who liked her in her room before the successor princess entered the house.

Give birth to another child...

Grape quickly enjoyed the future, her beautiful eyes were full of excitement and joy, and her eyes looking at Lin Shiheng were full of yearning and shyness: "I, I thank the prince."

Lin Shiheng looked at her with tenderness and love, and even his voice softened: "Why thank you now? There will be plenty of time to thank you in the future."

After he said this, he turned and left the yard. Judging from his back, he must be in a very good mood. Grape stood there looking at his back, her face full of shyness and excitement.

The nanny standing on the side looked at her, and she almost bit her teeth with hatred.

Although it is an unspoken rule that a dowry maid will be taken into the room by the son-in-law, any family who loves their daughters will only look for dowry maids who are beautiful but very honest, and the indenture will definitely be firmly held in the hands of the mistress.

With the indenture in hand, no matter how favored the maid is, it is still something that the mistress can sell at will.

Although it is cruel to stand on the side of the maids, it is the biggest protection barrier to protect the married girls.

Their wives worked hard to find four beautiful maids who were honest and would never betray their masters, just to prevent these maids from threatening the girls' status in the palace.

As a result, one of the maids "happened" to be seriously ill and couldn't get out of bed the day before the wedding, and the second wife "happened" to have a good-looking and suitable-age maid at hand, so she sent this girl to the main room without any rejection.

Naturally, this girl was Grape.

The first day this girl came, the nurse saw that she was not an honest person. Originally, she thought that she would wait until the girl was stable, and then find an excuse to send her back. As a result, this little hoof, the girl had just woken up, and she actually seduced the prince.

She hated and was worried that Grape would really become a concubine in the future and would trip up her girl, and her face turned blue with anger.

The nurse's expression was so obvious that Grape certainly saw it, but she didn't care about it now. Does a concubine need to care about a servant?

Moreover, she had already confirmed in her heart that Mu Qingling would not live for more than seven days. Once Mu Qingling, the princess, died, people like the nurse would be like rootless duckweed, bullied by others, no matter how much they were protected by the princess.

Grape felt confident in her heart, and glanced at the nurse like a master, and directly opened the curtain and walked in.

The nurse was so angry at her smug look that she felt blocked in her heart again, and hurriedly followed her in.

"The princess hasn't sent a message yet, what are you trying to do!"

Grape was a maid that the second wife found from outside the mansion. She had not been trained in strict rules. In addition, she was sure that Mu Qingling would not live for more than seven days, so the confidence in her heart was very different.

With a smile on her face, she looked at the nurse sarcastically: "Madame Liu just heard that the prince said he would take me into his room tomorrow. Although I am only a maid, I am also a maid by the princess' side. I married with the princess from the Marquis' Mansion. What's more, the prince also said that I would be a concubine. After all, Grape is also someone by the princess' side. You can't be so unprepared?"

The nurse looked at the smugness on her face and wanted to tear her face off directly. There was also a cruel tone in her mouth: "Even if the prince just said that he would take you into his room, that will be tomorrow's matter. Today, you, Grape, are still a second-class maid by the princess' side!"

"You barged in like this without the master's order. Do you still have any rules!"

The master is about to die. What's the use of these rules?

Grape's face was more sarcastic, "Liu Mama, Grape is still a maid now, but she won't be tomorrow. I advise you to be careful with your words. Today you scolded a little girl. Tomorrow, if you talk to me like this again, even if I let you go, the prince will probably not be able to bear it, right?"

"You!"

The nurse was furious and was about to retort, but she heard Mu Qingling's faint voice from behind the curtain: "Nurse, let Grape in."

Even if she was furious, she could only suppress it by force. She looked at Grape, who looked even more proud after hearing Mu Qingling's voice, and said coldly: "Come in with me."

Grape smiled proudly, swayed her body, lifted the curtain and walked in.

"This servant has seen the princess."

Her expression when she knelt down was very different from before, and she already had some delicate posture of "I am a pampered concubine".

Mu Qingling's lips were still pale, but she didn't look as angry as Grape and the nanny thought. Instead, she looked calm as if she hadn't heard that her husband was going to take her maid as a concubine.

"Grape, I remember that you've been with me for less than ten days."

"Yes."

Grape raised her face and smiled like a flower, "I was originally serving the second wife, and I came to serve the princess before she got married."

"You didn't grow up by my side, so you may not know my temper."

Mu Qingling didn't seem to see her deliberately charming smile, and just continued softly: "When I was in the mansion, I liked rules the most, and what I hated the most was having unruly people around me."

"This palace is much bigger than the Marquis's palace, so there are more rules to follow. If the rules are broken, the whole palace will be in chaos."

Grape said crisply: "I have never been to school, so I don't understand what the princess said."

"You have never been to school, but you should know that if you really become a concubine, you are a member of the royal family. There is no reason for a member of the royal family to sell her body to others."

Mu Qingling stretched out her hand, and the nanny came forward and handed her a cup of tea in tacit understanding.

Her hands were very beautiful, with slender fingers and white as jade. At this moment, these hands were holding the teacup and gently moving the lid of the teacup.

"When you are really appointed as a concubine, I will send someone to the Marquis' Mansion to ask the second aunt to take back your indenture contract. Then, you will be a free person."

"But you are free, but you can only be a concubine. I am the principal wife, in charge of the household affairs of the mansion. The prince told me personally that I am in charge of all the affairs in the mansion. Do you know what this means?"

There was confusion in Grape's eyes, and there was also a trace of arrogance that Mu Qingling could not understand.

She was a little funny. No matter how good her temper was, how could she not be angry when a maid looked at her like this.

But Mu Qingling didn't understand it. She was the master and Grape was the slave. What gave Grape the confidence to look down on Mu Qingling?

Even the second wife didn't dare to show anything on the surface. Was she, a little girl, too stupid or did she have a trump card in her hand?

Grape did have a trump card, but her trump card came from her belief that Mu Qingling would die of illness soon, and she was favored by the prince.

So she was not afraid of Mu Qingling. Who would be afraid of a dying person?

"I don't know. Please tell me clearly, Princess."

Mu Qingling lowered her eyes and blew the tea in the cup. "Now, everyone in the mansion can be arranged by me, the princess. Tell me, if a girl died of a cold in the princess' main courtyard tonight, would anyone care?"

Grape's body stiffened, and then quickly relaxed: "But if this girl is loved by the prince and questions the princess, will the princess care?"

"She is just a girl, not a concubine after all. Even if she really becomes a concubine, I am the principal and the concubine is the deputy. It is easy for the princess to deal with a small concubine, especially a concubine with no family background."

"I am personally granted by His Majesty. Even if the prince is unhappy because of a dead girl, can he really divorce me for this girl? At that time, I will still be the princess, but the girl can only be sent out of the palace with a straw mat and buried."

Grape was nervous about what Mu Qingling said, and suddenly raised her head to look at the person leaning on the bed.

Mu Qingling, who was sitting on the bed, looked calm, as if he was talking about something very ordinary, not about killing a person.

When she was with the Second Madam, she had seen her beat a maid to death because she seduced the Second Master. Grape's mind flashed.

Mu Qingling was also from the Marquis's Mansion. She had only served her for a few days. Maybe Mu Qingling was not as quiet as she appeared on the surface.

She was not trying to scare her, she really wanted to do something to her!

The moment this thought came up, Grape shuddered and her body began to tremble.

She was not afraid of Mu Qingling's revenge, because she firmly believed that the other party would not live to that time, but she was afraid that Mu Qingling would really decide to send her to death because of her disrespectful attitude.

By then, although Mu Qingling would be able to come down to accompany her soon, he was dead, so what was the use of it?

Grape was so frightened by her own thoughts that her whole body was shaking. The smugness on her face disappeared in an instant. She hurriedly said: "I know I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again next time. Please forgive me, Princess. Please have mercy on me!"

Although she was kowtowing, she didn't kowtow as hard as the commoner girl who was forcibly taken back before. She was very careful not to bleed, so as not to ruin this beautiful face that the prince liked.

Mu Qingling drank a sip of tea and didn't wake up. When Grape was almost dizzy, he said in a low voice: "Get up."

"You are my dowry, and I am proud to be a concubine. Stay in the side yard tonight. I will have someone take good care of you, so as not to lose face."

She said without raising her eyes, "Nurse, prepare ginseng soup for Miss Grape, so that she can serve the prince after she has recovered."

"Yes."

Ginseng soup...

Grape's nerves suddenly tensed up. Although she didn't stay in the second lady's yard for a long time, she learned a lot of tricks.

For example, the second lady would force medicine into the second master's concubines. After drinking the medicine, the women would be infertile for life, and they would feel extremely painful every time they had their menstrual period. They just wished they could die. If one or two of them got pregnant, the fetus would miscarry within three months, which was naturally the work of the second lady.

She opened her mouth to shout, but Mu Qingling on the bed seemed to have expected it, and shouted to the outside: "Gardenia, bring someone in."

The eldest maid, Gardenia, immediately opened the door and walked in, bowing: "Master."

"Take Miss Grape out, and don't let her leave the side yard until the prince summons her tomorrow."br

"Yes." Gardenia agreed, turned around and looked at Grape, who was horrified, "Miss, please."

"I won't go. What are you going to do? I won't go. Princess, I was wrong. Master..."

Grape was forcibly dragged out by several maids. The nanny closed the door and looked back at Mu Qingling with relief: "Miss, you should have been like this a long time ago. If you can do this in the mansion, why do you have to be demoted to the ground like the third lady?"

Mu Qingling waited for the people to leave, and the indifferent look on her face gradually turned into a bitter smile: "Mother and brother are living under the care of the second aunt. Even if I have intentions, I can only endure it."

The nanny nodded distressedly, "What about the ginseng soup?"

"Go to my private warehouse and pick a similar one. If she doesn't want to drink it, there is no need to force her. Just let her know that I "The princess is not easy to mess with." "If you want to say, you are so kind girl, the grapes have not really looked down on the concubine. If you really do the side concubine in the future, you will not do it with you every day. After doing it, I followed my hand. Maybe I didn't even know herself until the end. She smiled bitterly, where she was aggressive, but she didn't have the confidence. In the house, the second lady and mother had a suspicion and suppressed the big house in a strong man. After marrying into the palace, although the prince was kind to her, she didn't want to anger him so easily. Grape was a girl with a bad temper. Once she succeeded, she would be more annoying than before. With the prince's appearance, there would definitely be many women in the backyard in the future. With Grape's temper, she would be the first to die.

As a princess, even if she had no marital relationship with the prince, she had to abide by her duties, guard the palace for him, set rules and regulations, and suppress the women in the backyard.

As for not fighting back...

Mu Qingling looked down at the teacup in her hand, her eyes full of bitterness.

How could she have the confidence to fight back?

When she was at home, as a daughter, everything she had depended on her father. Therefore, when her father died, she, the originally favored daughter of the eldest house, became a foil to her younger sister in an instant.

When she arrived at the palace, her confidence was in her husband, the King of Linjiang.

If the other party didn't give her this confidence, what could she do?

Mu Qingling thought with some self-mockery, maybe it was really as the nanny said, wait until she suffered a lot in the future, then she would think of fighting back even when she had no confidence.

Anyway, Grape was frightened now, and she would probably be honest for a while. When she recovered, the rules in the mansion would be rectified, and a concubine would not be able to cause any trouble.

Mu Qingling planned very well, and slept very well that night.

On the other hand, Grape, after she would rather die than drink the ginseng soup, the maids did not do anything to her, but took the ginseng soup and left obediently.

Grape was not relieved, but more worried.

Maybe she didn't drink the ginseng soup, which annoyed the princess and wanted her to die? !

She was frightened by her own fantasy, and she didn't fall asleep all night. She kept her eyes open, huddled under the bed nervously looking at the door and window, fearing that someone would suddenly break in and kill her.

In the end, nothing happened until dawn.

She was changed into new clothes, wearing beautiful jewelry, and sent to the princess.

Lin Shiheng was visiting his princess, and he brought cosmetics and even a hairpin, which he pinned on Mu Qingling himself.

"How is it? Doesn't the hairpin I picked look good?"

Mu Qingling's complexion improved a little, and she smiled gently with the hairpin on, "The one chosen by the prince is naturally good."

"I think so too."

As she was talking, Grape came in.

She had been frightened all night, and seeing Lin Shiheng at this moment was like seeing a savior, and she knelt on the ground with a plop.

"Prince!! I finally see you, Prince, I..."

Grape wanted to explain in detail how she was wronged, but Lin Shiheng, who was sitting by the bed, suddenly stood up and stared at her with frightened eyes.

"Where did such an ugly maid come from? Get out of here immediately!"

Grape was shocked: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am Grape. Yesterday you said you wanted to make me a concubine..."

"Bah!! You are so ugly and you dare to be a concubine!! You don't even carry my shoes!"

"Someone come here!! Throw her out, throw her out!!"