After hearing her gossip, all the civil and military officials went crazy.

Chapter 66 The Daughter Who Tricked Her Father

Yu Meiren cheered herself up in her heart.

Then he slowly began to tell his story.

"My name is Yu Meiren, and I am my parents' youngest daughter. My family are carpenters."

My father was an excellent craftsman. Since I was an only child and there were no male heirs in my family, my father did not want his craft to have no successor, so he planned to find a son-in-law.

I was bewitched and fell for the gentle and handsome Wang Dagou. He deceived me with sweet words.

However, my father didn't like him. He felt that he didn't seem like an honest and hardworking person, so he rejected him.

But I disagreed and went with him. My father was so angry with me that he fell ill and died not long after.

When my mother found out, she sold all her possessions and planned to take me back to our hometown to start over, but Wang Dagou lied to me again.

We had a physical relationship. When my mother found out, she couldn't catch her breath and passed away.

Leaving me alone, he finally revealed his true colors, taking all our money and threatening me, saying I was now a used woman and no one would marry me again, forcing me to become his mistress.

At this point, tears streamed down Yu Meiren's face, and her voice choked with sobs.

Then she suddenly said fiercely, "How could I possibly do as he wishes? I just didn't expect that the next day someone would say that I was having an affair and that I was no longer a virgin."

I returned home amidst the rumors, and decided to go all out and start dating all sorts of young men. Since people already called me a shameless woman, why should I care?

It was only later that I learned that Wang Dagou seduced me because of my father's craftsmanship. After my father died, his hand-held scepter disappeared, and I found out that some scumbag had taken it.

Later, he even bought back the shop that my mother had sold and reopened it, still using my father's skills.

"So, Princess, may I get my father's things back?"

Yu Meiren's delicate face was streaked with tears. She looked up at Fang Lingchu through teary eyes and asked in a choked voice.

From Fang Lingchu's perspective, one can just see her graceful neck; because her clothes are so beautiful, some parts are faintly visible.

Although the requirements for women's clothing in this world are not very high, it is rare to see someone as generous as Yu Meiren.

Fang Lingchu glanced around furtively and saw that neither the Crown Prince nor Gu Wangyan were looking ahead.

Then he said, "Okay, you can get up first."

Upon hearing that she could get her things back, Yu Meiren stopped crying and smiled, revealing shallow dimples on her face.

Her previously alluring expression vanished instantly, revealing a girlish shyness and sunshine.

She seemed even more radiant in this way.

Fang Lingchu couldn't help but say, "Your future will be bright and promising. You're someone who lives in the sunlight, so there's no need to pretend to be so bad. Just be yourself from now on."

Looking at Yu Meiren, Fang Lingchu thought of many women who, after getting married, were refused divorces by their parents and had no choice but to remarry.

People say that marriage is a woman's second life. Just when you've escaped one fire pit, your family is ready to push you into another.

Actually, some families wanted to keep their daughters, but unfortunately they couldn't, because it's said that it's very unlucky for a married woman to stay in her parents' home.

However, if they didn't marry, they would have no chance of survival outside, since they had no household registration and could only become slaves.

There's nothing we can do; everyone's married now.

Someone like Yu Meiren, whose parents had both died, was able to inherit her father's household registration.

However, if she doesn't get married, problems will eventually arise.

Upon hearing Fang Lingchu's words, Yu Meiren was overjoyed and said with a big smile, "I really like my life now, but I will remember what the princess said. There are some things I will not do again." She shouldn't have spent her whole life trying to get revenge on a man.

Fang Lingchu stopped worrying after hearing what she said.

The system asked: "[Guagua, if I suggested that the emperor establish separate households for women, do you think he would agree?]"

Man: This Princess Ding'an is so capricious, even setting up female households. Does she think she can just do whatever she wants?
Woman: Really?! Can the princess really help them establish households for women?!

Crown Prince: Chu'er still dares to think of anything!
Gu Wangyan: She wants to! I can help her, but how should I help her?
The system said: "[It should be fine! Your emperor seems quite easy to talk to.]"

The emperor, who was being talked about by Fang Lingchu, looked at the picture she left behind when she left, but couldn't understand it no matter how he looked at it.

When Fang Ling first left the palace, she knew she might not be able to return so soon.

So he deliberately pretended to have dropped something in the imperial study so that the emperor would find it and use it to dig a pit in the Prince of Ding'an's mansion, thus giving the emperor money to repair the river embankment and provide disaster relief.

However, the emperor didn't quite understand what Fang Lingchu had drawn.

Fang Lingchu was unaware that she had left the draft behind; the original drawing was on the floor of the Ministry of Works.

Minister Fang rushed to the Imperial Study and saw the Emperor studying a crumpled piece of paper.

Upon seeing Minister Fang arrive, they quickly sent someone to take a look.

Can he understand what his daughter drew?

I saw several squares on the paper, and then circles were drawn on those squares, with lines indicating the circles.

A small circle was added next to the line indicator.

Minister Fang stared at it for a long time, his lips twitching as he pondered how to tell the Emperor.

This is probably something that came to her daughter's mind, and she just drew it randomly.

This is just a random attempt; the actual image might not be this one.

Minister Fang took a deep breath, pondered for a long time, and then said, "Your Majesty, this might be done casually; the real blueprints are probably still in the Ministry of Works."

After Fang Shangshu finished speaking, he knelt down, cursing his unreliable daughter in his heart several times over.

You said something so important, couldn't you have checked it before you took it? This damn thing.

She went off to her fiefdom to play, leaving her old father to face the emperor's wrath.

What if the emperor, in a fit of anger, were to punish their entire family with a nine-generation elimination game?

The emperor was unaware of the complex emotions swirling in Minister Fang's mind; he was simply somewhat taken aback.

This young minister Fang seems very reliable when it comes to important matters, but it turns out he's only reliable on the surface!
Should I arrange for someone more reliable to be assigned to her?

Otherwise, what if they become unreliable in important matters?

Minister Fang looked at the silent emperor and lowered his head even further.

He had a feeling that the heads of his entire clan were about to be lost.

Seeing the emperor's divergent thinking, Eunuch Gao quickly reminded him, "Your Majesty, should we have the Ministry of Works bring over the correct blueprints?"

The emperor snapped out of his daze at the sound of the voice, quickly sat up straight, and looked at Minister Fang, who was kneeling and kowtowing.

He said, "Why is Minister Fang kneeling?"

(End of this chapter)