Upon hearing Mu Fengqie's words, Kong and Mu Rendong felt a bit unhappy. "You're not taking us in?"
"Exactly. Don't you even want to go to the palace to see your eldest sister?" Kong was quite dissatisfied with Mu Fengqie's attitude.
"Well..." Mu Fengqie thought for a moment. "Alright then. I'll go with you. I might as well go and see her. Come to think of it, I haven't seen her for a long time."
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up. You can give this carriage to me and Rendong. You go find another one." After saying that, without waiting for Mu Fengqie's response, she directly got into the carriage that Mu Fengqie had just alighted from.
Madam Shen and her friend were extremely angry at the shameless behavior of these two. They had never seen such people before.
"Princess, don't they know your identity?" They were so bold. They were truly courting death.
"Indeed, they don't." Mu Fengqie silently watched these two who were asking for trouble.
"Why don't you remind them? Aren't you just asking for trouble like this?" If it were her, she would have already had someone teach them a lesson. How could she let them act so presumptuously in front of her?
"If I tell them my identity, won't they become even more insatiable?" She didn't want to be entangled by them.
"The princess is right." The other madam thought it made sense. If they were to get entangled with her, who knew if they would do something evil by relying on the princess's identity.
"Fengqie, come and sit in the carriage with your godmother. We can have a chat on the way." Madam Shen pulled Mu Fengqie into her carriage.
Looking at the things in the carriage, Mu Fengqie couldn't help but laugh. She had anticipated this situation on her way here, so there was nothing in her carriage, just an empty carriage, not even a cup of tea.
"Why are you laughing? Your carriage has been snatched away, and you're still laughing." Madam Shen didn't know what Mu Fengqie was laughing about. Anyway, she disliked Mu Rendong and Kong even more, and she also didn't like Mu Xingrou in the palace.
"Godmother, don't be angry. It's okay that my carriage was snatched away. I didn't even want to sit in it." Mu Fengqie comforted Madam Shen with a smile, knowing that she was worried about her.
"Hmm? Is there something special about your carriage?" As the mistress of the household for so many years, Madam Shen immediately understood the implication in Mu Fengqie's words.
"My carriage was just a carriage. There was nothing in it." Mu Fengqie explained it to her when she saw that Madam Shen was interested.
Madam Shen understood after hearing Mu Fengqie's words. "I see. It's their own fault. They can't blame others."
The three carriages with five people soon arrived at the palace gate. Madam Shen's friend took out the token to enter the palace and led Mu Fengqie and the others into the palace.
"I'm warning you two. Don't talk nonsense in the palace. If you offend any noble people, no one can save you!" Madam Shen's friend was being kind enough to remind them. After all, they were entering the palace with her. If something happened, what if it was blamed on her family?
Her daughter had finally become a noble concubine. She couldn't let these two people ruin it for her.
Kong and Mu Rendong didn't take this to heart. Their daughter held a high position in the palace, and the emperor doted on her. What did they have to be afraid of?
However, they didn't say this out loud. As the saying goes, misfortune comes out of the mouth. What if someone heard this and it brought trouble to Xingrou?
It had to be said that Kong still had a bit of sense, but it was just not enough. "We know. We'll be careful."
Seeing that they didn't take it seriously, the madam didn't say anything more. As long as she handed these two over to that Mu Xingrou, it would have nothing to do with her.
In the past few days, many women had been sent into the harem by the court officials outside. Most of them were the daughters of the officials. Women like Mu Xingrou, who had no background and could only rely on Concubine Hua, were bound to be ostracized.
Even those with a slightly higher status in the palace dared to order her around at will. Even the maids and eunuchs around them dared to show her a cold shoulder and didn't take her seriously.
Concubine Hua's temper had been extremely irritable every day because there were more women in the palace and the emperor no longer visited her. She forced Mu Xingrou to come up with a way to get the emperor to spend the night in her palace every day.
As long as Mu Xingrou failed to do so, Concubine Hua would have countless ways to torture her and make her life a living hell. But she didn't dare to resist her. In this palace, she could only rely on Concubine Hua now. No one else thought highly of her.
So, in order to survive, she could only endure.
"Lady Mu, you'd better kneel properly. I was in a good mood today and wanted to have a chat with you, but you accidentally broke the most beloved vase that the emperor gave me.
So I have to punish you. You should know that if this happened to another imperial concubine, it wouldn't be as simple as just kneeling.
It's very possible that you would be beaten to death directly. After all, who would care about a lowly lady-in-waiting?"
Concubine Hui looked at Mu Xingrou kneeling on the ground, unable to hide her pride in her eyes.
Did this woman really think that the emperor doted on her? How dare she talk back to her without any power. How could someone without any influence have a good life in the palace?
"Yes, Your Highness is right. Xingrou remembers." Mu Xingrou knelt on the ground, her face pale. She had been kneeling here for an hour, and her legs were trembling.
Today, she was summoned by this Concubine Hui and fell into her trap. She remembered this score. One day, she would repay this humiliation. Thinking of this, a glint of hatred flashed in Mu Xingrou's eyes.
"What? Are you secretly scolding me in your heart? Why don't you scold me out loud?" Concubine Hui could tell what Mu Xingrou was thinking just by looking at her expression. She was a bit unhappy.
"Xingrou didn't. Xingrou wouldn't dare to be the slightest bit dissatisfied with Your Highness." Mu Xingrou quickly pleaded for mercy. She didn't expect that her thoughts would be seen through.
"Humph, no matter what you think, you can't do anything to me anyway. If you're really dissatisfied with me, you can go and ask your master, Concubine Hua, to come and settle the score with me." Concubine Hui was lying on the soft couch, and a maid was massaging her legs beside her.
Hearing Concubine Hui say this, Mu Xingrou understood that Concubine Hua must have offended Concubine Hui. But Concubine Hui couldn't do anything to Concubine Hua for now, so she could only take her anger out on her.
It was a pity that there was no one she could trust around her...