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Mu Qingling reached out, and the nanny, very quietly, stepped forward and handed over a cup of tea.

She had beautiful hands, with long slender fingers, white as jade. At the moment, these hands were holding the teacup while gently fiddling with the lid.

“When you’re really granted a side consort position, I will send someone to the Marquis and ask Second Aunt to get your deed of sale back, and by then, you will be a free woman.”

“However, even though you’re free, you can only be a side consort. I’m the main consort, in control of the household’s management, and the Prince himself told me that I would be in charge of all the affairs of the household. Do you know what this means?”

There was puzzlement in Pu Tao’s eyes and a hint of superiority that Mu Qingling could barely see.

She was a little amused. She had a good temper, but how could she not be angry at being looked at by a maid with such a gaze.

However, Mu Qingling couldn’t understand what gave Pu Tao the confidence to look down on her. She was the master and Pu Tao was the slave.

Even the second madam wouldn’t dare to show something so openly. Was she too stupid or did she have a card in her hand?

Pu Tao does indeed have a card, it’s just that her card came from her belief that Mu Qingling would soon be dying of illness and that she was in the Prince’s favor.

“This maid doesn’t know. Please clarify, Princess.”

Mu Qingling lowered her eyes and blew on the tea in her teacup, “Nowadays, everyone in the entire mansion listens to my, the Princess Consort’s, orders. Do you think anyone could care if tonight, if a maid, who lost her life to a cold, died in the Princess Consort’s main courtyard?”

Pu Tao’s body stiffened, then quickly relaxed again, “But if this maid is loved by the Prince and questions the words of the Princess, will the Princess not care?”

“A maid is not a side consort after all. Even if she does become a side consort, I will be the main one and the side consort will be the secondary one. It’s easy for the Princess Consort to dispose of a small side consort, especially one with little family background.”

“I was personally given the marriage by His Majesty. Even if the Prince is displeased because of a dead maid, would he really divorce me for this maid? At that time, I will still be the Princess of the Prince, but that maid, however, can only be sent out of the mansion for burial, rolled up in a straw mat.”

Pu Tao’s nerves were rattled by what Mu Qingling had said. Her head snapped up to look at the person leaning against the bed.

Mu Qingling, who was sitting on the bed, although looking pale, looked as if he was talking about an everyday matter, not about killing another human being.

When she was with the second madam, she had seen the image of her beating a maid to death, for seducing the second lord. The image flashed through Pu Tao’s mind.

Mu Qingling was also a member of the Marquis family, and she had only served by her side for a few days; perhaps Mu Qingling wasn’t at all as gentle as she appeared to be.

She wasn’t scaring me, she is really out to get me!

The moment this thought rose, Pu Tao shivered and her body trembled.

She wasn’t afraid that Mu Qingling was going to settle the score later, because she was convinced that her opponent wouldn’t live to see that. But she was afraid, afraid that Mu Qingling would really decide to send her on her way because of her disrespectful attitude.

When the time comes, although Mu Qingling would be able to go down to hell and join her shortly afterwards, what’s the point in that?

Pu Tao was so frightened by her own thoughts that her body trembled. The smugness on her face instantly scattered away, and she hastily and anxiously said, “This maid understands her mistake. This maid won’t dare do it a second time. Please forgive this maid, please be merciful!”

Although she was kowtowing, she wasn’t kowtowing as hard as the previous commoner girl who had been forcibly snatched, but was careful not to bleed. She was careful to avoid ruining the pretty face that the Prince had taken a liking to.

Mu Qingling sipped her tea and didn’t tell her to get up. She waited until Pu Tao was almost dizzy from kowtowing before she spoke in a calm tone, “Get up.”

“You are my dowry maid, and you’ll be a side concubine. Tonight, you’ll stay in the side courtyard, and I’ll have someone help you clean up properly, so as not to disgrace me.”

Without raising her eyes, she said, “Nanny, prepare ginseng soup for Miss Pu Tao, so that she can nourish her body before serving the Prince.”

“Yes.”

Ginseng soup...

Pu Tao’s nerves jerked. She hadn’t spent much time in the second madam’s courtyard, but she had learned a lot of tricks.

For example, the second madam would give medicine to the second lord’s concubines. If they drank the medicine, the women would be sterile for the rest of their lives, and every time they had their periods, they would be in excruciating pain and would make them wish they were dead. If one or two of them had conceived, the fetus would have been miscarried in less than 3 months, and it would have been the second madam’s doing.

She opened her mouth to shout, but saw that Mu Qingling looked like she was expecting it. Mu Qingling raised her voice and called out, “Zhi Zi, come in here.”

The oldest maid, Zhi Zi, promptly pushed open the door and walked in, bowing in respect, “Madam.”

“Take Miss Pu Tao out, and don’t let her out of the side courtyard until the Prince summons her tomorrow.”

“Yes.” Zhi Zi responded and turned to look at a shocked Pu Tao, “Miss, please.”

“I’m not going. What are you going to do? I’m not going. Your Highness this maid is wrong, Your Highness...”

Pu Tao was forcibly pulled out by a few maids. The nanny closed the door and looked back at Mu Qingling with relief, “You should have been like this long ago, if you could have been like this in the residence, why would you have to be reduced to such a low position by the This Young Lady? “

Mu Qingling waited for the people to leave before the calm look on her face gradually turned into a bitter smile, “My Mother and younger brother are living under the hands of my Second Aunt. Even if I had the desire to do so, I could only endure it”

The nanny nodded with distress, “Then what about the ginseng soup?”

“Go to my private storage to get it, just pick a similar root. If she doesn’t want to drink, there’s no need to force her. Just let her know that this Princess is not to be messed with.”

“If this old maid is permitted to say, you are too kind Miss. If she becomes a side concubine in the future, she will oppose you every day. It would be better to dispose of her sooner rather than later, to avoid any future problems.”

Mu Qingling shook her head with a bitter smile, “As long as she behaves herself, I don’t want to do anything to her. If such things are done, it would be too easy, and maybe by the end, I wouldn’t recognize myself.”

The nanny sighed, “You’re always like this. You don’t fight, you don’t seize, and you don’t get upset when people mess with you. Although that is the temperament a good family’s daughter should have, but if you give in like this and don’t fight back even when you let someone bullies you, you will suffer a great deal in the future.”

“Nanny is correct, I will change.”

Mu Qingling merely smiled bitterly.

It’s not that she was backing down, it’s just that she didn’t have the strength. When she was in the residence, the second madam was at odds with her mother, and was trying to suppress the eldest family. There was nothing else for her to do but to act like a wooden person.

And having married into the Imperial family, although the Prince had been kind to her, she couldn’t afford to anger him so easily. Pu Tao, a woman with a bad temperament, was bound to be even more unpleasant than before, once she got her way. The Prince, with his appearance, was sure to have a lot of women in his harem in the future, and with a temperament like Pu Tao’s, she would be the first to perish.

And she, as the Princess Consort, even if she had no marital affection for the Prince, had to abide by her duties, to protect the Prince’s household for him, to set the rules and regulations, and keep the women in the backyard under control.

As for not fighting back...

Mu Qingling looked down at the cup of tea in her hands, her eyes full of bitterness.

Where can I get the confidence to fight back?

At home, as a daughter, everything was tied to her father, so when he died, she, originally the favored first daughter of the eldest family, was instantly made a sidekick to her sister.

When she arrived at the Prince’s Mansion her backbone was in her husband, Prince Linjiang.

If the other party didn’t give her that backing, what could she do?

Mu Qingling somewhat self-deprecatingly thought, perhaps it was really as nanny had said, that only when she had suffered greatly later would she think of fighting back, even when she had no backing at all.

Anyway, now that Pu Tao was intimidated, she would probably stay in line for a while. When she gets well, the rules in this mansion should be straightened out, the side consort won’t be able to make any waves.

Mu Qingling had planned well and slept soundly for the night.

On the other hand, on Pu Tao’s side, after she rejected the ginseng soup to death, the maids didn’t do anything to her. They very obediently left with the soup.

Instead of being reassured, Pu Tao was even more worried.

Perhaps by not drinking the ginseng soup she had angered the Princess and was to be left to die?!

She was so frightened by her own imagination that she stayed awake all night. She kept one eye open and nervously cowered under the bed looking at the door and windows, for fear that someone would suddenly burst in and kill her.

As it turned out, nothing happened until dawn.

She was dressed in new clothes and beautiful jewelry, and sent to the Princess.

Lin Shiheng was visiting his consort. He had really brought the powder and even a hairpin, which he personally pinned on for Mu Qingling.

“How about this hairpin that this Prince picked out, does it look good?”

Mu Qingling blushed a little and gently smiled as she wore her hairpin, “The one chosen by the Prince is naturally a good one.”

“I think so too.”

As they were talking, Pu Tao came in.

She had been terrified all night. Now, when she saw Lin Shiheng, she fell to her knees as if she had seen a savior.

“Your Highness!!! This maid has finally seen you, Your Majesty, this maid...”

Pu Tao was about to elaborate on how she had been aggrieved when Lin Shiheng, who had been sitting nicely on the edge of the bed, jerked up and stared at her with frightened eyes.

“Where did such an ugly maid come from, hurry up and get rid of her!!!”

Pu Tao was stunned, “Your Highness, Your Highness... This maid is Pu Tao ah... Yesterday you said you would make this maid a side consort...”

“Pooh!!! You’re so ugly, but you have the nerve to be a side consort?!! You can’t even carry this Prince’s shoes!!”

“Someone!! Throw her out, throw her out!!”

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