Quick Wear: The Development of a Pure Cannon Fodder

Chapter 184 The Frustrated Crown Prince’s Wife (25)

In the middle of the banquet, the Fourth Prince left the table in a bad mood. After he left, the banquet could naturally not continue. Yu Li had no intention of staying any longer, so he stood up and was about to leave. On the way, he met Li Heng, who wanted to travel with him.

Seeing Li Heng and Yu Li walking together, Chen Jingchi, who was about to step forward, stopped. He wanted to ask Yu Li what the Fourth Prince had just said to him, but seeing that Li Heng, who had had a quarrel with him, had passed by, he thought about going to the carriage at the Right Prime Minister's Mansion and waiting for him.

Li Heng had sought out Yu Li because he wanted to snatch Yu Ziyin away before the Fourth Prince. Even if this would displease the Fourth Prince, after all, wasn't the Fourth Prince already crowned Crown Prince? The Fourth Prince's talent couldn't match the First Prince's. The First Prince was the legitimate son and the eldest brother, so his chances of succession were far greater than the useless Fourth Prince's. If he married Yu Ziyin, he'd likely be targeted by the Fourth Prince and the Dong family. But didn't he have the Right Prime Minister's Mansion to protect him? He couldn't possibly condescend to marry their daughter and then suffer the consequences, could he?

Therefore, after marrying Yu Zinyin, he would not only get the woman he had always wanted, but he would also be able to take advantage of the Right Prime Minister's guilt towards him to gain more benefits!

The more Li Heng thought about it, the more he felt that marrying Yu Zinyin was the right decision.

So, Li Heng tried to use a kind voice to say to Yu Li, "Yu Li, I heard some of the conversation between you and the Fourth Prince just now. I know that your Right Prime Minister's Mansion definitely doesn't want their daughter to marry a prince. After all, it goes against your Right Prime Minister's Mansion's rules. I have a way to help you."

Yu Li glanced at Li Heng standing beside him and asked, "What ideas does His Royal Highness have?"

Li Heng coughed lightly, his face showing his deep affection for Yu Ziyin, and said, "In fact, this prince fell in love with Miss Yu at first sight a long time ago."

Yu Li: “…”

Li Heng continued, "My Prince's Mansion is very willing to be Miss Yu's backer, and I will take good care of her."

Although Li Heng said this, he was thinking in his heart that after marrying Yu Zinyin, he would first let his mother teach her what a wife and a mother should do. She should not always be out and about with other women. How could such a woman be a good consort for his prince?

Yu Li was also a man, so how could he not see that the affection in Li Heng's eyes was fake? He wondered why there were so many flies surrounding his sister, but he did not show his impatience or disgust towards Li Heng on his face. "I will convey your wishes, Prince."

Yu Li didn't specify who he was going to tell, but Li Heng assumed he was going to tell Yu Ziyin, and immediately became even happier. "Okay, okay! Then go back quickly! This prince is waiting for good news."

After saying goodbye to Li Heng, Yu Li went to find his two half-sisters. The servant told him that Yu Fangfang and Yu Zixi had already boarded the carriage, and also told Yu Li that Chen Jingchi was waiting for him in the carriage.

Yu Li didn't have any ill will towards Chen Jingchi. In fact, they had even met by chance at the Wanfo Temple before, and they felt that they had met too late. So he said, "Okay, I got it. Let's send the carriage back to the mansion."

Seeing Yu Li board the carriage, Chen Jingchi immediately asked about the situation. Yu Li briefly explained the situation to him, but Chen Jingchi's expression was complicated. He asked indirectly, "Does the Right Prime Minister's Mansion have a candidate in mind? Do you also think the Crown Prince is a good candidate?"

Chen Jingchi wondered whether he should tell Yu Li about Li Heng's previous plot against him. The reason was not for anything else, but to let the Right Prime Minister know that Li Heng could be so cruel as to plot against his marriage just because of a few words he had with Yu Zinyin. It showed that he was a narrow-minded person and not a good match for Miss Yu.

In response to Chen Jingchi's inquiry, Yu Li did not tell him that the Right Prime Minister's Mansion had set his sights on the eldest son of the Empress Dowager. After all, the matter had not yet been finalized, and telling it in advance would be bad for the reputation of both the Jiang family, who were in mourning, and the women of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

Yu Li shook his head. "Not yet. As for Ziyin's marriage, that's up to my parents. As a brother, I can't interfere too much. So, as for the Crown Prince's words, I can only relay them to my parents and let them consider it."

Although Chen Jingchi was disappointed that he could not find any information from Yu Li, after thinking about it, he told Yu Li that Li Heng was a narrow-minded person and what he had done.

Yu Li's eyes flickered after learning these secrets. "I didn't expect it to be like this."

He had previously thought that Li Heng was only coveting the power of their Right Prime Minister's Mansion and wanted to profit from it by taking advantage of the Fourth Prince's pressure on their Right Prime Minister's Mansion, so he did not take the other party's words to heart, thinking that he would just report it to his father and mother later. He did not expect that the other party had actually taken action in secret against a man who might have feelings for his sister, and the means were still so despicable. Such a person is indeed not a good match for his sister.

Thinking of this, Yu Li couldn't help scratching his head again.

Why is it that my beautiful and excellent sister always meets men like this?

Chen Jingchi and Yu Li talked about such an important matter, so Yu Li naturally could not abandon him halfway, which would be very impolite, so he kindly invited him to his house for tea. Chen Jingchi would definitely not refuse this.

He was also glad that he had not expressed his feelings for Yu Zinyin in front of Yu Li, otherwise the other party would never have been so frank as to let him go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion for tea.

The carriage stopped at the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, and Yu Fangfang and Yu Zixi got off the carriage one after another. They left with their maids, and when they said goodbye in the aisle in the backyard, Yu Zixi nervously and excitedly clenched the handkerchief in her hand, and her eyes were full of excitement.

It was simple, she had just met a powerful man at the banquet who was suitable to be her husband!

Originally, when Yu Fangfang and Yu Zixi were sitting in the banquet at the prince's mansion drinking tea and looking around, Yu Zixi went to the toilet on the way. On the way to the toilet, she had to pass by the back garden. When she came back, she met a man dressed in brocade clothes and wearing a jade crown. The man had an extraordinary demeanor and an upright posture. He held an open fan in his hand and lifted the loose hair on his temples from time to time.

All of a sudden, Yu Zixi felt that the other person was very handsome. Although there were people at the banquet who were more handsome than him, such as the Fourth Prince, who was more handsome and had a more powerful look than the other person, but Yu Zixi couldn't hook up with the Fourth Prince. Moreover, her eyes fell on the other person's clothes that looked very expensive, the valuable fan in his hand, and the jade pendant around his waist. This person almost had "I am rich" written on his face. If he was rich and could be invited to the prince's mansion by the Fourth Prince, he must be very powerful.

Isn't this the kind of man that Yu Zixi has always wanted to find?

The other person seemed to be lost, and when he saw Yu Zixi in blue clothes, his eyes lit up.

Dong Zhe did not expect that he would meet another good-looking person right after meeting his little lover in the Fourth Prince's Mansion. Judging from the other person's clothes, he was rich and powerful. There was also a maid beside him. The appearance and demeanor were also good. It was obvious that the person was educated and literate. Generally, those who can employ such maids have good family backgrounds, at least better than his.

Although his surname is Dong, he is not from the direct line of the Dong family or the lineage of Concubine Dong, but a side branch of the Dong family. He was able to get a seventh-rank official position in the capital by currying favor with the direct line of the Dong family and the fourth prince. Otherwise, he would have been a mediocre businessman in a rural town a few years ago.