"Princess Ying, I'm here because of what happened that day..." Liu Lanxin finally started talking about business.
Qu Moying smiled as she continued talking, her eyes were as clear as water but with a hint of coldness. The relationship between the two of them had never been very good, and both of them knew it very well.
"I heard that something happened in the palace that day. Princess Qia picked up a painting and identified it as the two of us..." Liu Lanxin said seriously.
"It's not us two. Our prince has already proved it for me." Qu Moying stretched out a white and tender finger and waved it in front of Liu Lanxin, the smile at the corner of his lips as light as the breeze.
Interrupted Liu Lanxin's words.
"Yes, and later I heard that the King of England denied this matter..." Liu Lanxin was embarrassed for a moment and continued.
"Our prince never believed it." Qu Moying said with a smile.
Liu Lanxin was choked. Before coming here, she had already thought of everything she wanted to say, even including the fact that Qu Moying didn't believe it at the time, but would eventually be half-believing and half-doubting afterwards. Now that she was interrupted again and again by Qu Moying, she was unable to continue speaking for a while and her face turned ugly.
She bit her lip hard, and then continued, as if she didn't care about Qu Moying's rude behavior of interrupting her: "Speaking of this matter, the Princess of England is innocent, and I am innocent too. I don't know how it became that our words are similar. A portrait that came from nowhere framed several people. It's really... really too scheming."
Liu Lanxin gritted her teeth again when she said this.
"Does the Queen believe it?" Qu Moying asked lightly, leaning back, looking as if she was enjoying the show.
Originally, the one she wanted to plot against was Qu Moying. Now that Qu Moying was fine, she was bitten by the bitch Qiya. Liu Lanxin was so angry that she clenched the handkerchief in her hand.
"The Queen naturally doesn't believe it. This method is too crude."
"If the Queen doesn't believe it, then there's nothing to worry about. Princess Jing doesn't have to worry." Qu Moying said with a half-smile, "I heard that Princess Jing met Princess Qiya a while ago and they had a very pleasant conversation?"
The words "we had a very pleasant conversation" almost made Liu Lanxin lose control of herself. The veins on her hands bulged. The word she hated to hear the most now was "we had a very pleasant conversation". If she had known that there would be such a consequence, she would at most take Princess Qia for a short walk, accompany her for a while as a courtesy, and then leave the palace.
There was no way he would talk so much to that bitch Qiya, let alone go to the pavilion in the middle of the lake to talk.
He wanted to prove that what he and Qiya said was just some ordinary polite words, but it couldn't be done.
When Liu Lanxin brought Princess Qia there before, she just thought it was a good place. Even if someone saw the two of them talking, they would not know what they were talking about.
Now I just regret that there is no such "good place".
There was a flash of anger in her eyes, but she had to suppress it. She came to Qu Moying today just to get Qu Moying to stand on her side.
"That's a misunderstanding by others. How could Princess Qiya and I have any happy conversation? Northern Xinjiang is a lifelong enemy of my father. Even if the two countries have peace talks in the future, Northern Xinjiang will always be an enemy. My father and I are of the same mind. At most, we will be polite to the people of Northern Xinjiang on the surface."
Liu Lanxin sat up straight and clenched her fists. "The Princess of Ying will soon recognize her ancestors and return to her roots. She will also be the general's daughter in the future. Other daughters may forget this, but we, the general's daughters, will never forget how many heroes died in the Northern Frontier, how many soldiers sacrificed their lives and shed their blood, and how many men never stood up again."
"Outside the city gate of Beijiang, on that battlefield, you can still hear the sound of crying at night. Those are the voices of the men of the Great Zhou crying. Now... we have reached peace talks, and their deaths cannot be in vain, and we cannot let them die there in vain."
Liu Lanxin was so excited that tears welled up in her eyes when she finished speaking.
Qu Moying watched her silently until she finished speaking, then he said, "The blood of those soldiers must not be shed in vain."
"The peace talks in the Northern Frontier... Are they really in peace talks? I don't believe it!" Liu Lanxin saw that Qu Moying agreed, and her words really worked, so she continued, "Princess Ying, I don't have much experience. I'm just a general's daughter, and I've seen the land where soldiers fought, but I... really don't believe it. I tried a lot that day, but I didn't get anything out of it."
The excitement in Liu Lanxin's eyes slowly faded, and she lowered her head with a gloomy look: "I only remember what my father said... The people in the northern border have the heart of tigers and wolves, and cannot be trusted."
At this point, Liu Lanxin raised her head and looked at Qu Moying, seeking approval: "Princess Ying, do you believe it?"
"I'm just a girl from the backyard. I don't really understand these things." Qu Moying said slowly. As the daughter of a general, Ji Hanyue also felt the same way.
Whenever Dad talked about the Northern Frontier, he was always sad. He was transferred back to Beijing, and he was even more sad because he could not go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and defend his country.
Although he knew that Liu Lanxin's words were mostly pretense, Qu Moying still responded. It had nothing to do with the fact that the person in front of him was Liu Lanxin, but because these things were true.
The people of Northern Xinjiang cannot be trusted, and what is even more untrustworthy is that those in power in Northern Xinjiang now are still the descendants of the original King of Qin.
Such as Prince Qilie and Princess Qiya, and their biological father, the former Prince of Qin and now the Princess of Northern Frontier's husband.
Pei Yuanjun had told Qu Moying about these things before.
After the Prince of Qin fled, he went to Northern Xinjiang and later married the princess of Northern Xinjiang. Now he is also a powerful force in Northern Xinjiang.
How could his children have any good intentions towards the Great Zhou
"Even though we are women, we are different from those other young ladies who are ignorant of the world and who... don't know the cruelty of war."
Liu Lanxin said seriously, feeling proud in her heart, she knew that Qu Moying would definitely agree with this aspect.
"It's a good thing for the Great Zhou Kingdom that Princess Qia can marry a powerless prince this time." Liu Lanxin said worriedly, "I'm now afraid that she will do something evil again. If she bites you and me in the painting and takes this opportunity to get close to the Ying Palace and the Jing Palace, it will be bad."
"She doesn't dare to find the King of England's palace." Qu Moying said lightly.
Liu Lanxin choked and felt upset again, but she had to suppress her anger.
“That’s what she said, but who knows! Princess Qia is not an ordinary person. She has Northern Frontier behind her. Now is the best time for peace talks. If Northern Frontier uses this as a threat, how this matter will end... It’s hard to say.” Liu Lanxin looked worried.
"What do you think, Princess Jing?" Qu Moying asked calmly.
"We in the Great Zhou have to be united in this matter. Since Princess Qiya has already formed a relationship with that prince, the marriage must be arranged. Even though she is a princess of the Northern Frontier, her reputation is the same as that of all other women. Since she has already formed a relationship with that prince, if we push her to other palaces, how will the other princes feel?"
Liu Lanxin said indignantly.
Qu Moying didn't respond in a hurry. He picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip of tea.
After putting it down, she smiled and said, "This kind of thing... is not something that two women like us can interfere with."
Liu Lanxin had been preparing there, just waiting for her to say this: "Although it is not something that we women can interfere with, the daughter of the enemy of the Northern Frontier must not enter our two palaces. If Princess Qia really wants to enter, it would be most appropriate for her to enter the Prince's East Palace."
"Why?" Qu Moying became interested. If it was just the provocative words she said before, she really didn't want to entertain Liu Lanxin anymore.
"Princess Ying, think about what happened in the palace. We were inexplicably implicated. Then the news of Princess Qia and I talking was leaked. Who benefited from this in the end? Who is most likely to be behind this? It's not you, it's not me, we are all victims, and of course the King of Wei is not either."
Liu Lanxin pressed the handkerchief to the corner of her lips and whispered.
Both of them understood the meaning of this statement. The person most likely to take action in the harem is the Queen Mother. Now the one implicated is Prince Jing, so the possibility that the opponent is the Queen Mother and the Eastern Palace is extremely high.
It sounds so real... It seems to be true.
Qu Moying sneered in her heart. Liu Lanxin had excluded her in advance and looked at her as if she was really innocent. However, she didn't know that she had already seen through the inside story and knew that she was hurt instead of harming others. Now she acted like a victim and really thought of herself as a victim.
"What should Princess Jing do?" Qu Moying just asked this question without asking whether it was right or wrong.
"The Princess of Northern Frontier came to Beijing for peace talks and offered marriage as a condition. As long as His Royal Highness the King of England and the Duke of Yu insisted that the Princess of Northern Frontier had lost her reputation and could not marry anyone else, it would not matter if she stayed in Beijing and married that prince. It would not bring any harm to the Great Zhou in the future. We do not have the ability or the power to do so."
When Liu Lanxin saw that Qu Moying was concerned, she hurriedly suggested.
This matter has not been concluded yet. As long as the King of England and the Kingdom of Jade speak out, Liu Lanxin will be 100% sure that this matter will fail...
"The King of England and father?" Qu Moying didn't say yes nor no. She raised her watery eyes and looked at Liu Lanxin with some elegance. The corners of her lips curled up slightly, revealing a smile. Liu Lanxin's heart relaxed a little, and the smile on her face became brighter.
Then, under Liu Lanxin's increasingly expectant gaze, he gently said, "I won't interfere in this kind of thing."
Liu Lanxin's smile froze on her face. She could hardly believe her ears. She stared at Qu Moying and opened her mouth before she found her voice.
"Princess Ying, what does this mean?"
"I'm not in good health, and I can't get involved in this kind of thing. If Princess Qia wants to enter the Prince of Ying's palace, I can't do anything about it. Although I don't like it, this kind of thing is not something a woman like me can decide. The Queen also gave me two maids as a dowry, but now... they are gone."
Qu Moying rejected all of Liu Lanxin's previous words with a half-smile, and also gave an answer to all of her words. If Princess Qia could enter the Prince of Ying's Palace, she wouldn't mind having one more woman in the palace...