Mrs. Cai showed her her money, successfully blocked the mother-in-law's mouth, and successfully entered the circle of servants in Prince Chen's palace.
It's the same everywhere, and it's the same regardless of status. It's normal to worship those who are superior and those who are inferior.
Although she doesn't have much foundation in the palace, she has money, and just because of that, she can get to know a lot of people.
Therefore, it didn't take long for Mrs. Cai's scope of action in the palace to become much wider.
In the past, when she took just two steps towards the main courtyard, someone would stop her and tell her with a cold face that she was not allowed to go there.
Now looking at the people standing in front of the second door, she handed over a handful of melon seeds and said, "I have been here for so long, and I have never even seen the royal palace look serious. I just walk around and see the world, little one."
Brother, please make it easier."
Then he was able to move around very smoothly.
I didn't dare to really get close to Xie Songhua's yard, but when I passed by, I couldn't help but look inside, hoping to see that person.
Mrs. Cai didn't know what she wanted to see, but she always felt that there would be some kind of opportunity hidden in that yard.
So she would hang around here from time to time, and even several women here knew her.
When she had nothing to do, she would bring some snacks and go to these women to grind her teeth.
"The princess seems to be a lot lazy these days! She used to often run to the yard at the back, and I heard she was busy all day long. She hasn't gone out much in the past few days."
A woman was eating preserves and talking casually as if she was showing off that she was well-informed.
Another woman asked: "Why haven't you gone out? Don't you go out every day?"
Hearing this, the woman in front couldn't help but be curious, "Yes, although I don't walk around the house much, I do seem to go out a lot recently. Didn't I say that all the things in the city have been taken care of?
Why are you running out so often? If you ask me, it would be better to stay in the palace peacefully. After all, you still have the identity of a princess. If you are not good, it will have an impact on the prince.
Didn’t you see our prefect’s wife? It’s not like she did something outrageous and wrong. It’s only natural for people to be afraid of a war and take the money away! As a result, good guy, I heard that there was a lot of ginseng in the court.
Mr. Cai, even His Highness the Crown Prince, got angry and said that the position of prefect should be given to us, Mr. Cai, for the time being!"
Mrs. Cai had never heard of this news. She never thought that her behavior would actually affect her husband's career.
So he stopped eating melon seeds and asked nervously: "Is it true? We are so far away from the capital, how can the news get through?"
At the beginning, the old woman smiled and said: "Don't you even look at where we are? We are the palace of the prince. How can we hide the news from Beijing?"
Don’t forget, the princess’s father is the chief minister of the dynasty! But there is no need to worry, after all, there is the prince here, and there is also chief minister Xie in the capital. As long as Mr. Cai wins the prince’s heart, this official will not be lost.”
Mrs. Cai suddenly remembered her husband taking Aunt Liu around.
Even if she did something wrong, it was for the sake of her family and her children that he could just leave her in this palace to be a servant.
He really paraded that bitch through the streets, leaving no face for himself at all.
In this case...
Mrs. Cai gritted her teeth, why should she think so much about him?
With this thought in her mind, Mrs. Cai began to make careful calculations.
She pushed the food she had brought forward on the table, "I am a person with no dignity. I am not as good as my two sisters. I can see the princess every day.
To be honest, I do have some thoughts in my heart, and I hope to go further. In Datong, apart from the palace, where else can there be a better place for us people to make a living?
If I can win the favor of the princess and take me with her to the capital, then I will really see the world."
When the two women heard this, they couldn't help but smile at each other, and then laughed at the same time, "You are really interesting, but we don't laugh at you either.
After all, I heard that you haven't been in the palace for a long time, so naturally you don't know the situation in our palace. In the entire palace, there are only one or two hundred people like us.
Don't ask the princess to take a liking to you and take you away. It's very difficult to make the princess familiar with your face. If you think of ways to follow the princess's path, it's better to think of following the way of the stewards in the palace. You may not be able to do that.
Just be a little steward."
This is obviously not enough benefits. How could Mrs. Cai not know this? Dang Ji took out some money from her arms and said, "To be honest, I have a sister in the capital who works as a servant for a wealthy family."
, she doesn’t have a son, and I don’t have a wife.
Now we are all trapped in the backyard, and we are not respectable people. There is no way we can ask for any grace to go out and see our relatives.
So I thought that if I could go to the capital with the princess, we sisters would be able to see each other a few times. At our age, we really can’t see each other more than once..."
As she spoke, her eyes turned red and her voice became choked with sobs.
They were both serving people, and they all had such backgrounds. Mrs. Cai's words immediately moved the two mothers-in-law.
They all had sympathetic looks on their faces.
One of them sighed and said, "It turns out that's the reason, so I can understand it, but it's not easy to talk about. You can try it, maybe there will be a day when the fish leaps over the dragon's gate."
The other woman also nodded, and then said: "But I would like to advise you not to have too high hopes. This is the palace after all, and the identity of the princess is completely different from ours.
Maybe if you pass by her a hundred and eighty times, she may not be able to see you, so just let nature take its course!"
"Don't worry, sisters, I am not that reckless person. Even if I want to do something, I will naturally behave myself. I will never dare to do anything that the princess will find objectionable.
I just hope that my two sisters can help me and create opportunities so that I can have more opportunities to become a princess, so that even if I don’t succeed in the end, I will have no regrets.”
The two women looked at each other, but in the end they couldn't hold back the sympathy in their hearts and the extra pile of money on the table.
The two of them nodded at the same time and said with a smile: "Although it's a little against the rules, it doesn't matter as long as no one holds it accountable. We sisters are not unkind.
Since you treat us as individuals and ask for your help, we are all the same, so there is no reason not to help."
After that, he said a few auspicious words, saying that if one day the princess appreciates her, she must not forget them and so on.
These are all well-known routines, and Mrs. Cai is naturally very grateful.
The three of them chatted happily and opened a small jar of wine. As they talked, they almost recognized each other as sisters.
Mrs. Cai staggered back to her small courtyard, said goodbye to the two people and left. When she turned a small road, there was still a hint of drunkenness on her face, and her eyes were clear.
A trip to the Cai Mansion made her so angry that she couldn't sleep at night, feeling that she had fed the dog with all her thoughts.
After so many years, my husband climbed to the position through his natal family, but he is not grateful at all for his kindness, and now he still wants to promote that bitch.
In this case, why did she still care about so much, especially when she knew that the three hundred taels of silver were still her daughter-in-law's private money, she became even more angry.
Wasn't it just because she wanted to get to know King Chen that she didn't take her natal family seriously?
In this case, she wanted to see if King Chen's tree could not fall. If it did, would the vines clinging to the tree survive?