Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Princess Duchess's efforts this time have clearly backfired. Not only did she fail to deal with Consort Liu, but she also caught a cold and was temporarily stripped of her power as head of the household by Consort Liu. She has really had a lot of bad luck.

Of course, Linlang's dealing with Princess Ying does not mean that she is on the same side as Consort Liu. After all, the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

To be honest, the Princess Consort's wariness of Consort Liu was not unfounded. Ever since a concubine in the capital was promoted to the position of Crown Prince and her son became the Crown Prince, many concubines in the royal household have developed ambitions, including this Consort Liu.

Indeed, Consort Liu was just as Princess Ying had planned. She intended to wait until Princess Ying passed away, then find a way to make the King of England make her his principal wife, and then have her son become the heir apparent.

The reason she was able to harbor such ambition was that she was much younger than the Princess of England, who was already in her fifties or sixties and could live for another twenty years at most, while she would only be in her thirties or forties at that time. If she did not fall out of favor, she could become the principal wife.

It was precisely because Consort Liu had such ambitions that these disturbances occurred in the mansion. After all, if things were as peaceful as before, with everyone having their own titles and living in harmony, there would be no need for such petty tricks. Princess Ying would not need to rally people to deal with Consort Liu. Therefore, while Princess Ying's actions towards Consort Zhang were certainly not good, Linlang would not have any good feelings towards Consort Liu, who was the instigator.

However, as long as Consort Liu doesn't cause trouble for their family, Linlang won't do anything to her. Just like Princess Ying, if Princess Ying hadn't been so reckless and caused trouble for Consort Zhang, and if Linlang hadn't given Consort Zhang medicine that almost killed her, Linlang wouldn't have bothered Princess Ying.

However, after this incident, Princess Consort Ying probably won't dare to cause trouble for Consort Zhang again. After all, the last time she caused trouble for Consort Zhang, the retribution came back to her, and she must be afraid.

The Duchess of Cambridge was ill for three months, and she was not able to return to work until the end of February.

Actually, she had fully recovered by the first month of the lunar calendar, but the Prince of Ying wouldn't let her out, so she had no choice. It wasn't until the end of February that the Prince of Ying felt it was about time and couldn't let Consort Liu continue to manage the household. After all, it would be a laughing stock for outsiders to see this—having a principal wife but not letting her manage affairs, and letting a concubine manage them, wouldn't that cause people to talk? So he finally released the Princess of Ying.

As soon as the Princess Consort appeared, she indeed dared not cause any more trouble for Consort Zhang.

She hadn't considered that Consort Zhang had infected her. After all, Consort Zhang was sick, so she hadn't allowed her to appear in front of her. Therefore, she only thought that someone else had infected her, and that person might have infected her from Consort Zhang. So she couldn't keep tormenting Consort Zhang like this. If she did, Consort Zhang would get sick again and infect her, and she would be locked up for several months again, which would be troublesome.

Judging from the fact that the King appointed Consort Liu to manage the household after she was imprisoned, it is clear that the Queen Consort's sense of crisis has become stronger. After all, logically, since she is ill, the Crown Prince's wife should be in charge of the household. Why did it become Consort Liu's turn to manage the household? Obviously, in the King's mind, if she were to pass away, Consort Liu might take over the throne. Otherwise, he would not have put her in charge of the household ahead of time.

The thought that the King of England actually intended to put Consort Liu on the throne as a steward, and that her son might become the heir apparent, almost made the Queen Consort of England explode with anger.

So after she came out, she focused all her efforts on dealing with Consort Liu and didn't have the extra energy to deal with Consort Zhang anymore. This is also why she stopped bothering Consort Zhang, because she didn't have the energy to do that anymore.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Princess Ying will stop bothering Consort Zhang. Once Consort Liu is dead and there's nothing else to do, Princess Ying will probably continue to cause trouble for Consort Zhang, since she remembers that Consort Zhang politely declined her request.

After being imprisoned for three months and confirming that the King intended to elevate Consort Liu to the position of heir, the Princess Consort was now prepared to die alongside Consort Liu. She was already in her fifties or sixties, had lived enough, and dying with Consort Liu wouldn't matter much; it was better than Consort Liu living, her dying, Consort Liu ascending to the throne, and her son usurping the title of heir apparent.

Moreover, Consort Liu was only in her twenties, while she was in her fifties. It was obvious at a glance who would benefit more from dying.

Consort Liu was still gloating over the fact that she had managed the household for three months and made a lot of money. She thought that once Princess Ying died, she could take over the position and continue managing the household to make even more money.

Consort Liu's goal was clear: once Princess Ying died, she would become the princess, and if her son could become the heir apparent, that would be ideal. If not, she would pocket all the money in the mansion and live separately from her son. Even if she had money, she could still live a good life.

But she didn't expect that after this incident, her ambition would be completely exposed, which had enraged the Princess of England to the point that she could no longer tolerate her. So even if she killed her, it would be difficult to avoid being exposed, so she had to kill her to prevent her from becoming the Princess.

So sometimes, you can't be too arrogant, or others will fight you to the death, and you'll be finished.

Consort Liu was unaware that she was doomed and was still happy about the money she had made in the past three months.

Although she was favored by the King of England, who often gave her a lot of money in private, resulting in her having quite a bit of savings, there's no such thing as too much money; naturally, the more the better.

Seeing her smug look, Linlang, who knew what the Princess of Ying was planning, couldn't help but shake her head and stopped paying much attention to Consort Liu, whose death was imminent.

Knowing that the Princess Consort of England harbored boundless hatred and would rather die together than let Consort Liu die, Linlang knew that Consort Liu's fate was sealed. After all, if a person had no scruples and only wanted to kill another person, the method would be too simple. Without scruples, what difference would killing someone be from killing a chicken? What difficulty would it be?

Leaving aside the fact that Consort Liu's fate was already sealed, let's just talk about how Consort Liu managed the household before. Since the Prince of Ying had instructed Consort Liu to manage the household along with the other three consorts, Consort Zhang naturally also managed the Prince's residence for a period of time.

Although the King gave this order to make it seem reasonable for him to appoint Consort Liu to manage the household, since it wasn't just Consort Liu managing the household alone, but everyone working together, this arrangement was reasonable when the principal wife was ill.

Regardless of the King's intentions, the end result was that Consort Zhang also managed the household for a period of time.

Although she didn't profit from it, Consort Liu, in order to win them over and make them seem better than Princess Ying, still generously gave the three of them a red envelope containing one thousand taels of silver.

"Why not take the money if it's free?" With this thousand-tael red envelope, the second wife's life naturally became even better—because Consort Zhang kept five hundred taels for herself and gave another five hundred taels to the second wife. With money in hand, the second wife's life naturally became more comfortable. (End of this chapter)