Quick Wear: The Development of a Pure Cannon Fodder

"Sister, that's not the case!" Liu Xian's eyes widened. "It's really not right to speak up at this moment. Even if I did, Second Sister can't ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for help..."

Liu Ziyu interrupted Liu Xian crying, "Enough! I don't want to hear it! They're all excuses! After Liu Ziyin became the Crown Prince's concubine, I, Liu Ziyu, was nothing in your eyes! Now that Cheng Ting has become a small civil servant, you don't even take me seriously! And you still use these excuses to fool me?"

When Liu Ziyu thought about how Liu Zinyin acted condescendingly in front of him, he felt secretly resentful.

She was obviously so favored, but she had to watch her sister suffer such misfortune with cold eyes. She didn't believe that Liu Zinyin could really be at ease in the Prince's Mansion as her concubine!

Liu Xian looked at Liu Ziyu's departing back in disbelief.

He clearly treated his two sisters equally and respected them both.

There has never been any favoritism between the two because of their current or future husband's families. Why does the eldest sister think so?

Liu Xian returned to his mother in a daze. His mother was also thinking about how to solve her eldest daughter's marriage and did not notice her son's sadness.

Father Liu went to prepare some gifts of comfort to give to the man who hit the pillar. Alas, as Cheng Ting's future father-in-law, he had to give more. He hoped that the old man would not hit him when the time came.

……

In the study of the Prince's Mansion, Lord Wang, who had already left the old man's residence, was sitting opposite the Prince, playing chess with him with a white chess piece in his hand.

His face was filled with a relaxed and contented expression. "That old man's wife even wore her imperial robes and went to the Empress Dowager to complain. Several other wives even threatened to hang themselves in the mansion, saying that Cheng Ting had slandered their family in court and ruined their reputation. They and their children were ashamed to live and wanted to go to the underworld to prove their innocence to their ancestors."

After Lord Wang finished speaking, he paused, glanced at Shao Lian's expression, and continued, "Cheng Ting is truly ungrateful. Your Highness, you told him long ago that this matter shouldn't be brought to court, but he pretended to obey and secretly reported it to His Majesty, bypassing you. He deserves this fate."

Shao Lian dropped a piece and said coldly, "Stupid."

When Cheng Ting came to report to Shao Lian, he did mention the matter of the superiors who had been bribed. There were so many people involved and the situation was so complicated that Cheng Ting didn't understand. He just wanted to kill the corrupt officials and give the people a clean officialdom.

But Shao Lian, who had been immersed in the court since childhood, could see it clearly.

These people cannot be killed.

He told Cheng Ting clearly that he could not touch these people. The various aspects involved could not be easily eliminated. Even if he wanted to settle the score, he had to wait for the right time. However, Cheng Ting still sued those superiors in the court and produced several witnesses in an attempt to overthrow those people. What was the result?

Shao Lian recalled Cheng Ting's pale face after he saw the old man who hit the pillar, and felt confused.

If he had not investigated and confirmed that the articles were indeed written by Cheng Ting, and that Cheng Ting's daily speech was consistent with his writing style, he would really have suspected Cheng Ting of cheating in the imperial examination.

Lord Wang looked at the chessboard and laughed, "If Your Highness hadn't valued this man and mentioned to His Majesty that day on Cheng Ting's behalf about the merits of copying those merchants, I'm afraid Cheng Ting would have been stripped of his official uniform and thrown into the Ministry of Justice as a criminal in the old minister's prison."

Shao Lian raised his eyelids and said, "I'm afraid he won't have a good time these days. Please take good care of him in secret."

This is not yin and yang, it is sincere.

Lord Wang was a little surprised, "Your Highness really wants to train him?"

"Well, as long as we smooth out his rough edges, he can still be very useful." Shao Lian said.

Although he was dissatisfied with Cheng Ting's self-willed behavior and the trouble he caused in the court, Cheng Ting brought people from the Ministry of Justice to search the house in a swift and decisive manner without any delay.

No one knows how many benefits those merchants promised Cheng Ting behind his back, but Cheng Ting still robbed them without blinking an eye.

He did this to the great satisfaction of Shao Lian, and His Majesty was also very satisfied. That was why Cheng Ting was not really demoted to the bottom, leaving him with no chance of recovery.

Cheng Ting is an unsharpened blade, and Shao Lian will polish this blade carefully, making it a butcher knife to chop down the officials who make him dissatisfied in the future. If it becomes blunt by then, it will be easy to throw it away.

"I understand, old minister." Lord Wang bowed.

Cheng Ting's days ahead will not be easy. In the past, these "dogs that fell into the water" were retaliated against afterwards. The worst case scenario was not just losing their lives, but their reputations were almost completely ruined before they died, and they became the spit of the people.

This was a catastrophic blow to the loyal minister who was proud, ambitious and passionate.

What's more, Cheng Ting failed to sue several superiors at the same time. The power of these superiors plus the power of his wife's family would ruin Cheng Ting's reputation. But since he was the focus of the prince's attention, Lord Wang would not allow his reputation to be ruined, otherwise it would be difficult for the prince to use this person in the future.

……

Cheng Ting's accident was within Yu Zinyin's expectations, but also beyond her expectations.

Shao Lian disagreed with him submitting the memorial, but he still submitted it. Yu Zinyin didn't know whether this man was stupid or too upright. It was simply a pipe dream for a small Imperial College that had just entered the court to go against several cunning superiors.

But both Shao Lian and Yu Zinyin underestimated the extent to which Cheng Ting would seek his own death.

After Cheng Ting became a minor civil servant in the Imperial College, he was indeed decadent for a while. After realizing his current situation, he did not choose to keep a low profile, but prepared a manuscript and planned to distribute it as he did before he entered the court.

He wanted to let the world know about the dirty deeds committed by those superiors in collusion with businessmen.

If Lord Wang had not gone to meet him and give him some advice in order to let him know that the prince cared about him, I'm afraid this man would have really made a big deal out of it.

In the Prince's Mansion, Shao Lian, who received the news, was so angry that he laughed, and even the lotus seed soup in front of him lost his appetite.

"Your Highness, but what I cooked is not tasty?" Concubine Wei looked at him weakly.

Shao Lian suppressed his displeasure and waved his hand, "Go away, I have something important to attend to."

Concubine Wei bit her lip lightly, "Yes..."

When Concubine Wei left, she couldn't help but glare at the person who went to talk to Shao Lian's ear, and cursed in her heart that this person came at such a bad time!

After Concubine Wei left, Shao Lian asked the man, "Did you burn those manuscripts?"

"Not yet." The man shook his head. "Lord Wang told me to inform Your Highness first, and then you can make the decision. Also, Lord Wang told me to tell Your Highness that the witnesses Lord Cheng brought to court that day are now being held in the Ministry of Justice."

"Yeah." Shao Lian pressed his aching forehead, "Don't kill them, they are still useful. Compile those manuscripts into a book and let Lord Wang keep it. As for Cheng Ting..."

Shao Lian thought for a moment, then raised his head with a gloomy look in his eyes, "Some of them are jumping around too much."

He raised his hand and waved, and a black shadow fell from the sky. The man next to him could not hide his surprise, as he had not noticed the existence of this person at all.

The dark figure knelt on the ground, "Your Highness."

"Break his hand and let him rest in peace for a while. By the way, remember to keep this." Shao Lian placed a button in the palm of the man in black.

This is a cufflink from a piece of clothing worn by the old man's beloved son.

Sometimes, hatred is a good weapon.

"Yes." The black shadow came and went without a trace, and disappeared into the shadows in the next moment.