Before Zhu Ying's wedding, no invitations were sent to the princesses in the palace, so Princess Yongping naturally did not attend, because she had the best excuse, she had two brothers dead. Even though she knew that the fourth prince went secretly, and her father also took the third prince to go secretly, but her father did not take her, she just pretended not to know.
Moreover, she understood that her father was not partial to her, but was afraid that she and Zhu Ying had been enemies since childhood and loved to fight for everything, so she was unhappy when she saw Zhu Ying's grand wedding. He was worried that she would fall in love with her because of the scene and regret marrying.
Of course, she was not anxious to get married at all—to be more precise, she could not think of any man worth marrying anywhere. However, she did not want to be compared with Zhu Ying. However, Zhu Ying invited them to get together three days after the wedding, when Zhang Shoudu had returned from his wedding leave and resumed classes, and she had to come.
However, after reading the list, she found that, except Zhu Ying, the other female teachers were either unmarried women or widows. In such a situation, a new bride like Zhu Ying would appear abrupt and awkward among them - although based on her understanding of Zhu Ying, the reckless Miss Zhu probably had no idea what embarrassment was.
Princess Yongping did not attend the wedding at Zhangyuan, but Hong received an invitation and went there naturally. However, she only chatted with Zhang Shou's adoptive mother Wu for a while, and did not go to Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou's new house in person like Ye did.
After all, she and Zhu Ying were not that familiar with each other, and they could not be said to be bosom friends who had met too late. Instead of trying desperately to find topics to pretend to be familiar with each other when sitting opposite each other, it would be better for her to accompany Wu to entertain the guests.
She did help a lot by accompanying Wu. So today, when she, Princess Yongping and Zhu Ying gathered in the spacious courtyard of the selected girls' school, Zhu Ying left Princess Yongping and thanked her with a smile. Seeing that Princess Yongping didn't say a word and acted as if she didn't exist, Hong could only be modest.
Although they were enemies, they were in high spirits when things got good. Zhu Ying was no longer like she was in the past, arguing with Princess Yongping over trivial matters. Princess Yongping said nothing, and she did not chatter about her wedding. She had already enjoyed all the splendor she should have. She just discussed with Hong with great interest the female students that each family was interested in sending.
Even the princess Yongping, who was a princess of the royal family, had never heard of this before. She could only watch Zhu Ying talking about which girl was shy and her family was going to send her to a girls' school in the hope that she would be outgoing; which girl was too shy to even speak a complete sentence; and which girl was not good at calculating and could not manage the household...
After hearing the end, Princess Yongping finally couldn't help but speak up: "What you've said is all about officials and even daughters of nobles. This is far from what Madam Hong said before, that she hopes that women in the world can learn to be self-reliant in addition to respecting themselves."