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Chapter 1118 The Murderer in the Dark 29
Although Prince Qingjiang was happy to hear his daughter praising him for his youthful appearance, he still disapproved of his daughter's suggestion that he marry a concubine and did not respond to her words.

The eldest girl saw that Prince Jiang was not keen on this matter, and she became anxious, thinking about how to impress her father.

In fact, she didn't even think about it. If her father really wanted to appoint a successor concubine, he would have done so long ago after so many years. Why would he wait until now?

However, this kind of thing depends on human efforts. If the eldest girl has a way, it is not impossible. After all, if the fate is right, and Prince Qingjiang really likes a girl, it is not impossible to make a concubine.

The eldest girl wanted to find a concubine for Prince Qingjiang, but she did not say it to the people around her but said it openly, so her action was naturally known to the prince and his wife.

Knowing that the eldest daughter wanted Prince Qingjiang to appoint another concubine, needless to say, the prince and his wife were naturally furious. After all, they all knew that the purpose of the eldest daughter doing this was to go against their family. After all, Prince Qingjiang's appointment of a concubine had the greatest impact on their family.

In this dynasty, the title of a king is usually inherited by the legitimate son. The children born to concubines, even if they are concubines, cannot inherit the title of a king. They all have to take exams to be enfeoffed. In the absence of a legitimate son, they can only hope to inherit the title of a king unless their mother becomes the principal wife or the emperor shows extra favor.

Whether it is to become the principal wife from a concubine or to receive extra favor from the emperor, it is not an easy thing - most princes will remarry if they lose their wives and will not let concubines become the principal wife. Therefore, the threat of a concubine's son to the prince is relatively small. After all, when his mother was still alive, no one else could become the principal wife. Later, when his mother passed away, these concubines wanted to compete for it, but they did not succeed, so they did not cause any trouble.

But it is different if a concubine is appointed. Once the concubine gives birth to a son, her son also has the right of inheritance, and this will lead to a dispute over the right of inheritance.

So, isn't the eldest girl's behavior against the prince's family? It would be strange if the prince and his wife were not angry.

However, the Crown Prince's Consort was not very worried, because the last member of the Song family who wanted to go against their family has now disappeared. She didn't think the eldest girl could succeed. On the contrary, she would make her pay the price like the Song family!

At that moment, the Crown Prince's wife asked her trusted nanny to find some concubines in the mansion and do something to them.

You know, although the eldest girl's behavior has the greatest impact on the prince and his wife, it must have an impact on other concubines as well. So those concubines must not like to see the eldest girl do this. As long as they talk to those people, there will always be people who can't keep their cool and want to make trouble for the eldest girl. Then the eldest girl's life will be difficult.

Let’s not talk about other things for now. Let’s just say that after the emergence of a new concubine, the other concubines will no longer have such a leisurely life as they do now. They will have to visit the emperor morning and evening every day. How troublesome it is.

If the concubine had a bad temper, everyone would suffer even more.

In addition to this simplest reason, there are other deeper reasons.

Not to mention anything else, just for economic reasons, no one likes Prince Qingjiang to marry a second concubine.

After the concubine entered the palace, even if she didn't have a child, she would still need a bunch of people to serve her, and her monthly salary, annual allowance, clothes, jewelry, etc. were all big expenses. After all, she was a princess, and she was different from the concubines. She would attend various big occasions in the future. If she dressed too poorly, wouldn't it be embarrassing for Prince Qingjiang? So Prince Qingjiang would definitely buy her all kinds of clothes and jewelry. The new princess could use this as an excuse to ask Prince Qingjiang for more money. Who knows whether it went into her pocket or was really used to buy clothes and jewelry? In other words, with a concubine, the palace's daily expenses would increase by an unknown amount, and these originally belonged to everyone.

The total income of the Qingjiang Palace is just that much. If Prince Qingjiang doesn't want to be frugal, the extra expenses will have to be saved by everyone. Who would be willing to do that?

If the concubine gave birth to a child, it would be even more serious. As a legitimate son, the various expenses would be even greater.

Moreover, the concubine will definitely find ways to make money for the sake of her son. When she becomes the housekeeper, she will find out that her son cannot become the crown prince. In order to provide her son with a rich life in the future, she will definitely embezzle money from the daily expenses of the mansion.

Although the Crown Prince's wife must have been corrupt, the Concubine-in-Law will only be more corrupt in order to save money for her son when she becomes the head of the household.

So with so many disadvantages, who would want to see Prince Qingjiang marry a concubine? Unless the person the prince marries is herself, that's another matter. But when the eldest girl was at home, their relationship with her was just average. It's impossible that the eldest girl would look at them differently now, speak well of them in front of the prince, and ask him to make them concubines.

Since they had no hope of being recommended as concubines by the eldest lady, they naturally opposed this matter.

At this moment, the Crown Prince's Consort sent people to secretly instigate things, so naturally many people started to make trouble for the eldest girl.

People who would not cause trouble for the older girl also started spreading rumors about her, saying for example that her husband had passed away and she no longer stayed at her husband's house to take care of her parents-in-law but ran back to her parents' home.

Soon the older girl heard the rumors and her face became gloomy.

She did not have a good relationship with the concubines in her father's harem, and the reason was very simple. Back then, her biological mother had taken the initiative to climb into bed with him, and the princess was certainly dissatisfied. The other concubines were just as dissatisfied as the princess. After all, who would like someone to get pregnant before them?

Furthermore, the princess was dissatisfied with the eldest girl's biological mother. Even if these people had no dissatisfaction with the eldest girl's biological mother, they did not dare to show it, let alone get close to her, for fear of getting into trouble. Because these people were quite distant from her, her relationship with these people would naturally not be good.

Although the previous princess passed away later, those who had no dissatisfaction with the eldest girl's biological mother did not have to worry about being secretly dealt with by the previous princess if they got close to the eldest girl. However, because she got married and did not spend much time at her parents' home, she still did not repair her relationship with these people.

The relationship was not good to begin with, and now the eldest girl wanted Prince Qingjiang to marry a second concubine, which affected the interests of these people and naturally made the relationship between them and her even more strained. And with the instigation of the Crown Prince's Consort, how could this not cause trouble for the eldest girl?

Those who are incapable will say bad things about the eldest girl, while those who are capable will secretly trip her up. They don't even need to do anything to trip her up, just telling the children at home not to play with the eldest girl's children is enough to make the eldest girl very upset. After all, her son is still young, lively and active, and wants to play with people of the same age. If the girls and boys in the mansion don't play with him, he won't have any friends and will definitely be sad and upset.

No one can say anything when the concubines in the mansion do this. After all, they didn't let their own children bully the eldest girl's children. They just didn't let their own children play with the eldest girl's children. Is that not okay?