Chapter 203 - 201: Did Madame Shen Never Take a Fancy to Our Crown Prince at All?
Xue Mansion Racecourse.
Lu Ying stood by the rail with his hands behind his back, watching as Qian Duobao led a fine horse from afar.
De Sun hurriedly leaned close to his ear and whispered a report: "Your Highness, Madam Shen somehow angered the Crown Princess Consort, and now the Crown Princess Consort has punished her by making her kneel in the courtyard. Several official ladies and young misses saw this. Madam Xue and Miss Xue Mianmian are busy in the back courtyard, engrossed in conversation, unaware of this matter. Your Highness, in such cold weather, what do you think..."
Lu Ying indifferently replied, "With a temperament like hers, she would never suffer a loss, would she?"
"In the past, Madam Shen would never have suffered a loss, indeed. But today, for some reason, Madam Shen seems different from usual; she hasn’t uttered a single word in defense. The servants say from afar that she looks somewhat disheartened."
Upon hearing this, Xue Ling laughed beside him.
Lu Ying glanced at him: "Is using Qian Duobao to enter the mansion and greet the Crown Princess Consort, inciting her jealousy against the Shen family, your doing?"
Xue Ling, adopting a nonchalant demeanor: "Your Highness doesn’t even like the Shen family. I merely had her punished to kneel for a moment, what’s the big deal? Compared to how she orchestrated the return of Xue Mianmian to the Xue family, my means are nothing significant."
As they spoke, Qian Duobao had already brought the horse over.
Xue Ling nimbly climbed over the railing: "Is this the horse you bought back for me from the Northwest?"
Back then, it was entirely thanks to Xue Ling’s hidden connections that Qian Duobao managed to get through to Lu Ying.
This horse was Qian Duobao’s gift of gratitude to Xue Ling.