Allure of a Country Maiden

Chapter 1277: Chapter 1274_1 Chapter 1277: Chapter 1274_1 In the end, Zhang Qingqing did not get the Empress Dowager’s consent to betroth her to Shangguan Xuanyi.

The Empress Dowager’s reason was that Prince Rui preferred a woman of extraordinary beauty and outstanding talent, with high martial arts skills, not of her type.

Upon hearing these words, Zhang Qingqing felt disheartened.

What did the Empress Dowager mean by that?

Was she not a woman of extraordinary beauty and outstanding talent herself?

As for her martial arts skills being high, wasn’t it supposed to be the case that a woman should be as gentle as water?

Having high martial arts skills was simply too crude!

How could a man possibly like it?

The Empress Dowager dismissed Zhang Qingqing, saying that she would have the Empress help her find a good marriage prospect, and then she no longer cared about her!

The Empress Dowager entrusted Zhang Qingqing to the Empress’ care.

Her own health was deteriorating day by day, and she simply did not have the energy to concern herself with the marital affairs of someone else’s daughter.

She would rather conserve her energy to watch her own golden grandsons grow up and see her grandsons go on to have their own children!

When the Empress Dowager thought of the first birthday gifts she had prepared for her four golden grandsons and had not been able to send because of their absence, she said to the maid serving her, “Go and retrieve the first birthday gifts I had prepared for Chen’er and the others.

Let me take a look, and then send them to Prince Rui’s Mansion.

I forgot to give them to the children earlier.”

The Chief Maid hurriedly withdrew to arrange it.