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Chapter 162
Cui Ming quickly put away his thoughts and asked, "You are the spirit of the jade pendant, do you have a name?"

Yupei was silent for a long time before saying softly: "The old name is no longer available, so you can call me Qingyu."

"That's good, we can stay together in the future." Cui Ming's voice was full of subtle joy.

After my mother left, my father was busy. She was the only niece in the Hou Mansion, and she had neither brother nor sister. She used to have a good playmate, but now she doesn't even have a playmate. Sometimes she is really lonely alone.

Yu Peili let out a soft laugh, as if she felt the same way with her, "Okay, we will accompany each other."

Cui Ming showed a smile on his face, but the warm moment lasted only a few seconds before being interrupted by people rushing outside.

"Ming'er, I heard from Xiangyun that you suffered from heat stroke? I told you not to go out and run around in the summer, look, now you have passed out due to heat stroke, and now you have to blame yourself..."

Zhongyonghou's face was full of exhaustion that could not be concealed, and his old eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, but in just half a month, he was deeply aged by more than ten years.

"Father, my daughter knows her mistake."

Cui Ming interrupted the nagging Hou Zhongyong, otherwise, with his slow-moving temperament, he didn't know when he would catch up on this trivial matter and talk about it.

Her father, in the past few years, was focused on revitalizing the Hou's Mansion, and often left her alone in the Hou's Mansion for ten days and a half months, and never taught her with his heart.

Seriously, he is indeed not a competent father, but compared to the rivalry for favor among the children of other wealthy families in the capital.

Zhongyonghou's Mansion is indeed a rare peaceful home. His father passed away from his mother and he will not remarry. Although he seldom taught her his dream of making contributions, he was never short of food and clothing, and even had everything he got. All the precious things that came were given to her without taking it seriously.

A pet is indeed a pet, but compared to the children in other families, she lacks a lot of father's love.

Zhongyonghou sighed, looked at the very thoughtful daughter in front of him and said cautiously: "Father is not blaming you, it's just that you are not in good health now, how can you stand such a scorching heat."

Looking at the already slim daughter in front of him, he couldn't help thinking that when she was just a little girl, she liked to follow her every day and sweetly call her daddy.

But later, with his wife's death, he became more and more busy in order to keep the whole Hou Mansion in an invincible position, so he gradually neglected to take care of his only daughter, so that now the estrangement between their father and daughter is difficult to eliminate.

"Father, the reason why my daughter went out the day before yesterday was to meet the Seventh Prince."

After Cui Ming finished speaking, he stared at the old man in front of him without blinking, as if he wanted to see something on his face.

He worked hard for most of his life, but in the end, the glory and wealth that he thought he could get at his fingertips just flew away.

Not only that, but it also made everyone in the whole Hou Mansion tremble with fear. The knife hanging above their heads would fall down at some point.

Although she and her father are the only serious masters in the entire Hou Mansion, the foundation of the Zhongyong Hou Mansion for hundreds of years has hundreds if not dozens of offshoots attached to them.

Seriously, there are thousands of people.

Once the Hou Mansion collapses, everyone will fall into the quagmire together with them.

However, when Zhongyonghou heard her words, he couldn't help holding her hand in surprise and asked: "You mean you saw the seventh prince? Hasn't he been closing the door to thank guests these days? How did you meet him?"

Cui Ming coldly withdrew the hand he was holding, "My daughter has her own way."

"What did the Seventh Prince say?"

"Marquis Zhongyong's Mansion has always been a noble home, only loyal to the sage in power, have you ever had anything to do with others?" Cui Ming avoided answering, and only said this sentence.

Zhongyonghou was stunned for a moment, and he slowly realized what Cui Ming meant, and a look of ecstasy flashed across his face.

However, when she saw her daughter's indifferent expression, she couldn't help laughing dryly, "Did the Seventh Prince ever tell us what the Marquis Mansion will do in the future?"

He looked at Cui Ming's calm face and sighed softly, "No matter what the reason is, since we can open the gap from the Seventh Prince, then our Hou Mansion will no longer have to stand on the cusp of the storm."

Cui Ming hummed lightly, Zhongyonghou took a careful look at Cui Ming who was still pale, and seeing that she was unwilling to say any more, he was quite at a loss and said, "Then you have a good rest, and dad will not disturb you." gone."

He spent half of his life trying to save money, but in the end he was in vain, and almost dragged the entire Hou Mansion down.

Zhongyonghou thought a little dejectedly, probably he had neither become a loyal and brave courtier, nor a loving and tall father.

Cui Ming watched Zhongyonghou's old back disappear behind the door, and pursed his lips slightly.

The current ruler of Nanyue Kingdom is Emperor Yongxing. Since the current emperor ascended the throne, he has not established a queen and heir. Because the country has no heir, many princes under Emperor Yongxing have been fighting openly and secretly all these years.

Now it is the 30th year of Fengqi, and the [-]th year since Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne.

The battle for the heir apparent among the princes became more and more intense, affecting the entire court.

My father wanted to revitalize the Marquis Mansion wholeheartedly, but his political achievements were mediocre all his life, and he was still hovering at the sixth rank after half a century.

In the peaceful and prosperous age, there is no greater contribution than Conglong's contribution.

Father was naturally moved.

What's more, the current situation of the struggle for the heir apparent in the court cannot allow them to choose a branch to live in.

Unfortunately, I still chose the wrong person after all.

In the past few years, the three most popular princes in the court were the eldest prince, the third prince and the fifth prince.

The third prince was born of Concubine Zhang Gui, and the Zhang family and their Cui family have always been enemies for a hundred years. The fifth prince is still young, neither occupying the heir nor the elder.

Therefore, their family chose the eldest prince who was born by Concubine Song at that time.

Although the eldest prince is not the eldest son, he is the eldest son. The Song family is a century-old noble family, regardless of the former dynasty and the harem, they have their own power.

Unexpectedly, in just one year, the fifth prince and the eldest prince failed the rankings one after another, one was demoted to a commoner, the other was imprisoned in another palace, and both lost their throne forever.

With two legs missing from a three-legged rivalry, the Three Princes rose all the time, and now the voices of the court for his position as the crown prince are also getting louder and louder, almost reaching the heavens.

Although Zhongyonghou's Mansion did not support the eldest prince openly, none of the powerful and aristocratic families involved in the battle for the heir apparent knew a thing or two.

It's not that they can't really say no.

Emperor Yongxing seems to be old, but in fact he is well aware of these secret dealings under them, but he is also using the battle for succession to choose the heir he wants, so he has always turned a blind eye That's all.

(End of this chapter)