Chapter 21 Miss, please feel free

Without the pressure of life, Jiang Jiang gradually saw herself clearly. No matter how much she pretended, she could not go back to her former cheerful, well-behaved and sensible self.

Maybe she didn't belong there.

As I was thinking this, the banquet was over.

The name of Miss Shu was added to the imperial decree granting marriage to the daughter of the Minister of Revenue.

They were jointly granted marriage to the eldest prince, with the legitimate daughter being the principal wife and the illegitimate daughter being the concubine.

The eldest prince escorted the two young ladies back home.

When the meeting was over, Jiang Jiang's seat was the farthest from the main seat and closest to the door, so when Miss Shu passed by Jiang Jiang, Jiang Jiang pretended to touch Miss Shu's finger accidentally.

The slight feeling of static electricity made Miss Shu a little concerned, but the eldest prince suddenly came from the side and blocked Miss Shu's sight. Then Miss Shu just thought that it was the gold thread on the eldest prince's body that touched her, and she forgot about it.

Jiang Jiang: How is it?

[…You’re right, it’s confirmed that he’s a guest.]

After all the ladies left, Jiang Jiang was the last one to leave.

On the way back to the room, my aunt stopped me and said, "The Queen Mother has ordered you to go to the Royal Temple immediately to accompany the Fifth Prince Qiang Huai. There must be no delay."

Jiang Jiang: ...

So sudden?

"Thank you, Lord. May the Queen Mother live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years!"

Jiang Jiang took the imperial edict and kowtowed in the direction of the Empress Dowager's palace.

"There is someone waiting outside the palace, please go ahead."

"Yes, I'll go right now."

Jiang Jiang's heart was beating fast.

The Queen Mother sent me to be a pawn, but why was it the villain instead of other princes?

Soon, the system gave a prompt, [The national teacher once calculated for the newly born Qiang Huai that Qiang Huai would become the biggest disaster that destroyed this country in the future. ]

"Because I am the lowest in rank, I am best suited to monitor the evils of a country without attracting the attention of others, right?"

[There is another reason. Everyone at the banquet had refused the marriage proposal from the Fifth Prince.]

Jiang Jiang walked through the long, dark and narrow plank road and saw a royal carriage at the end.

Because of the Queen Mother's tacit approval, the people below had been suppressed in the palace for too long, and were filled with resentment, which they would intentionally or unintentionally vent on the Fifth Prince. In addition, the Fifth Prince had once cut off the symbol of masculinity with a single knife, so granting him marriage would be tantamount to burying the rest of his life.

No young lady from aristocratic family would be willing to live with a prince like this.

Jiang Jiang didn't mind.

However, she had no experience of marriage and did not know how to share a bed with a man and spend her life with him.

Fortunately, Qiang Huai is now a monk and lives a pure and simple life.

The driver was waiting at the door early, and the ladder was ready. When he saw Jiang Jiang, he glanced at the portrait in his hand and said, "Tan Jiang Jiang? Let's go up?"

As Jiang Jiang stepped on the ladder and lifted the curtain to get into the carriage, he looked back at the huge palace, feeling depressed and dull. Jiang Jiang lowered the curtain and asked, "Can I sit outside?"

"Miss, please feel free to do as you please." The driver brought back the ladder, jumped on it, raised the whip and drove the carriage slowly.

"Miss, it's getting late. We will stay in the city for one night and leave the city to rush to the temple tomorrow morning. Please forgive me."

Jiang Jiang stretched out her hand. The slightly cool night exuded a charming temptation. The wind gently brushed across her palm. "It's okay." The relieved smile on the corner of her mouth had never fallen away since she left the palace.

Her eyebrows and eyes are curved, as gentle as the moon in the sky, as if the world has become beautiful in her eyes.

"arrive."

Jiang Jiang interrupted the driver's action of moving the ladder and jumped off the car.

The coachman went to park the carriage in the backyard of the inn, and Jiang Jiang waited for the coachman to come back at the door.

At the busy entrance, there are vendors selling rouge, powder, as well as accessories such as hairpins and pendants.

"How much is this?" Jiang Jiang was lying in front of a small stall, staring at the silver hairpin on the small table with sparkling eyes, "Boss?"

"Five taels of silver."

"Miss, don't believe him. That hairpin is an unlucky item and is not worth five taels of silver at all." The driver was worried that Jiang Jiang was being cheated, so he hurried over to stop him.

Jiang Jiang patted the driver's hand, held on to the hairpin, and replied with a smile, "It doesn't matter, I have money!"

Jiang Jiang pretended to take money out of his sleeve, but he was actually withdrawing cash from the system.

He took a piece of change to reward the driver and gave five taels of silver to the boss.

Holding the hairpin, she was obediently led into the inn by the coachman.