She looked like she didn't care at all about being plotted against, which made Mrs. Tian feel furious.
He was sold and is still counting money for others.
"Do you have a brain?" Madam Tian was extremely anxious, but her voice was still low. "Nothing has happened yet, and Qin is planning to kill two birds with one stone. If you really become the concubine of Prince Zhuang, she will eat you alive!"
Tian Rui was not afraid at all. Her young face had an ambition that did not match her age. "What should I be afraid of? Her use of this trick just shows that she is not as powerful as before. Otherwise, if Qin Chen was still the admiral of the navy, how could she be so insecure? In the final analysis, it is true that she used me to attack Su Yao, but it had to be me, and I was willing. Don't you understand yet? Now I am the one who is really useful to His Highness. As long as I become His Highness's concubine, His Highness will treat me well."
Whether it is for the Queen Mother's sake or for Duke Cheng'en's sake.
Mrs. Tian was really dumbfounded that her daughter would say such a thing. After a long while, she asked in astonishment: "Who told you this?!"
"Do I need someone to tell me?" Tian Rui looked at the jade pendant given by the empress dowager with interest, and smiled nonchalantly: "I have been in and out of the Cining Palace for these years, and I have copied a lot of Buddhist scriptures. It's not that I don't understand what you asked me to say to the empress dowager - maybe I didn't understand it at first, but then I slowly understood it."
The Cining Palace is where the most noble women in the world live.
Even the emperor, empress, and imperial concubine had to lower their heads and bow obediently when they arrived there.
How wonderful it is, to have everyone under your feet.
She has been in and out of the palace since she was a child, and has seen people's faces of currying favor with the powerful. She knows very well what she wants.
Different from those noble ladies who were still thinking about pearl jewelry all day long, she had aspired to be the most noble woman since she was a child.
Mrs. Tian looked at her daughter in astonishment, and thought of an incident from a long time ago - when Tian Rui was seven or eight years old, she bumped into the then dowager of the Pang family in the palace. Concubine Pang did not say anything, but the empress dowager was very angry and forced Tian Rui to kowtow to the dowager and admit her mistake.
The Empress Dowager was also cautious - after all, she was not the Emperor's biological mother, and it was only because she changed her attitude in time that she was able to stay in the Cining Palace. The relationship between her and the Emperor was only nominal.
Concubine Pang was actually the favorite concubine of Emperor Yuanfeng.
A new emperor appoints new ministers, and the empress dowager is also afraid that the Tian family will be targeted by the Pang family.
But it was probably from that time that Tian Rui decided not to submit to others.
This daughter has had a very strong personality since she was young. Other girls would cry when they made mistakes or got what they wanted, but she was different. She was like a stone...
Thinking of this, Mrs. Tian felt a little scared again. Her daughter was too ambitious.
However, not everyone in this world can finally achieve their ambitions.
She coughed and said, "I know you don't like the Pang family and still hold a grudge against them for what happened in the past. This time, mother caught that fat guy and severely humiliated Madam Pang San. The Pang family gave me three thousand taels of silver as an apology. That's not all... The Pang family has lost a lot of face this time. We knew that Madam Pang San was mean to her illegitimate son in the past, but it was all kept secret. But this time is different. This time it can't be covered up..."
Before many things are fully exposed, even if everyone knows it in their hearts, they can at least maintain their dignity.
But once it is exposed, even this little bit of decency will be gone.
The Pang family must make a statement.
This is also the reason why Pang Youde insisted that he was instructed by his stepmother. Since he was going to have no good days anyway, he might as well take this opportunity to take revenge and settle his grievances.
Mrs. Tian gently advised her daughter: "Listen to me, you are still so young... I can't count on your father in this life. Look at your father's condition. My only hope in this life is that you and your brothers and sisters can be well. You have a good family background. You have everything good since you were a child. You can choose any rich and powerful family outside. You can marry into their house and become their wife. This is the best..."
What good is being a concubine? Even if she can be listed in the Jade Tablet and have a rank after marrying, so what? After all, there will always be someone above her.
Mrs. Tian didn't want her daughter to suffer like this.
Tian Rui was unmoved.
She has been like this since she was a child. Once she decides to do something, she will never change her mind.
So what if Madam Pang San is in trouble
What she wanted was not these. What she wanted was for all the people in the Pang family to crawl at her feet, even the most important hope of the Pang family, the Fifth Prince.
Nothing else matters. In the final analysis, power is in your hands, and that is what matters.
She didn't say anything, and Mrs. Tian felt her throat burning with anxiety: "Why are you so stubborn?"
Tian Rui knew her mother's temper very well. She interrupted Mrs. Tian's persuasion with a cry: "I have made up my mind. You don't need to persuade me. What's wrong with marrying someone and becoming his wife? Aren't you my father's wife? But what?"
She curled her lips sarcastically, "When has my father ever respected you? He has always brought one concubine after another into the family, and you still have to look at the faces of grandmother and grandfather, and hold your anger to cover up for father? Rather than trying to please men like this all my life, looking at the faces of my parents-in-law, and raising a bunch of children, I might as well be the concubine of King Zhuang. So what if I'm a concubine? Ordinary ladies still have to bow when they see me. Who dares to talk about me in front of me? If Your Highness really has that blessing, then it goes without saying. Whose face do I need to look at? Even if I have to, I only need to look at the emperor and empress. For others..."
She sneered: "Are you still trying to please me carefully?"
Mrs. Tian was stunned by her daughter's shocking remarks.
For a moment, she couldn't find any words to refute, so she pushed her daughter in shock: "You damn girl, you are going to die, how dare you say anything..."
But she didn't fiercely oppose this matter anymore. Instead, she asked Tian Rui in an ambiguous tone: "Then Su Yao..."
Tian Rui smiled, her face grim and sinister: "If it doesn't work this time, there will always be a chance next time."
Madam Tian shuddered unconsciously, and after thinking for a while, she said hesitantly, "But this is just Qin's attempt to lure you to deal with her. It's not certain that His Highness and Concubine Li really like her."
Tian Rui snorted, "No way. The fact that Qin was able to set up a trap for me shows that she is really afraid of Su Yao and regards him as a strong enemy. She is a scheming person. If she didn't take Su Yao seriously, she wouldn't have taken the risk to find me. In this case, I will be right to deal with Su Yao."