Quick Wear: The Development of a Pure Cannon Fodder

Chapter 166 The Frustrated Crown Prince’s Wife (7)

In the original world, Chen Jingchi's marriage had nothing to do with Li Heng or the Prince's Mansion. However, when Yu Ziyin arrived in this world, some things changed due to her different behavior from the original owner, creating a butterfly effect. This is how Li Heng, in Yu Ziyin's world, wanted to introduce the daughter of the Zhang family to Chen Jingchi. He also knew about the daughter's situation and wanted to use her to deliberately disgust Chen Jingchi, thus achieving his revenge on him.

Speaking of which, Li Heng learned about this situation by accident. At that time, he and a friend went to an inn and got drunk. During the period, he felt the urge to urinate, so he went outside to relieve himself. On his way back, he went to the wrong private room and unexpectedly ran into the second prince and the girl from the Zhang family having a tryst in that private room.

Thinking that the Zhang family girl's crush was the Second Prince, Li Heng could only imagine Chen Jingchi's future embarrassment if he really married the Zhang family girl and couldn't find the Second Prince to settle the score after learning the truth. Li Heng couldn't help but laugh. He deserved it for being so reckless as to compete with him for the Yu family girl.

The princess didn't know about this situation. She still thought that the girl from the Zhang family had a good family background. Although not as good as the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, and her appearance was not as charming as Miss Yu, she was honest and decent (that's how outsiders evaluated the girl from the Zhang family). Why did her son not only look down on the girl from the Zhang family, but also pushed such a good girl from the Zhang family to Chen Jingchi, who made him dissatisfied?

But her son strongly recommended this person, so the princess could only send this person to the Chen family. This was also because the princess's family and the Zhang family were somewhat distant relatives, and they had always had contact in the past. Now the princess offered to help connect them, and the Zhang family was naturally happy to do so. They also brought the girl from the Zhang family to meet the princess. Seeing that the other party was honest and seemed easy to control, the princess thought it would be great if her son married the girl from the Zhang family.

But it was just regret in her heart, and she didn't show it on her face, because to be honest, the girl from the Zhang family was indeed a bit ordinary in appearance. Although she could be said to be pretty, she was really no match for the eldest daughter of the Yu family. After comparing them in her mind, the princess felt that if the girl from the Zhang family was better looking, she would definitely kidnap her and introduce her to her own family.

After meeting the person, the princess did not investigate the details of the Zhang family girl. After all, she did not really want to arrange a marriage for the Chen family, so why would she know so much? Naturally, she just followed the outside world's comments to save herself from wasting her time. So she did not know that the Zhang family girl later said that she did not want to marry the Chen family's son, and that Mrs. Zhang and the Zhang family girl had a big quarrel.

The princess who was unaware of the situation started to move directly towards the Chen family. The Chen family also did not know about the situation of the Zhang family. They mainly believed in the good reputation of the princess and thought that the princess had no opinion on their Chen family. They were also distant relatives of the Zhang family. They probably wanted to arrange a marriage between the two parties because she was satisfied with their child Chen Jingchi. Moreover, the daughter of the Zhang family also had a good reputation. They had met each other and were quite satisfied with each other. This marriage also had the princess as a matchmaker. After thinking about it, they all felt that this was a good marriage. The combination of the Zhang family and the Chen family would be a strong alliance.

What surprised the princess was that when she personally came to their house to propose marriage, the Chen family did not agree immediately, but said they would think about it for a few days.

That day, the Chen family came to the princess who was waiting for news in the prince's mansion and said that they hoped the princess would not mind.

The princess, naturally, acted calm, but inwardly, she was already cursing the Chen family and Chen Jingchi for their ignorance. She thought that, just as her son had said, the Chen family and Chen Jingchi disregarded the Prince's Mansion. Even when she had lowered her status to propose marriage, they still dared to be so disrespectful. Did they really think that the residence of a second-rank official could rival theirs? But even though she was extremely displeased, the princess didn't think of bringing this to the Emperor's attention. After all, these were minor matters. How could the Emperor possibly handle these matters for the Prince's Mansion? Wouldn't that make people laugh at the Emperor for being too meddlesome?

During these few days, after Yu Ziyin learned that Chen Jingchi might follow the same path as in the original world because of Li Heng's design, she began to send the people she had previously placed in the Chen Mansion to take action. Although she didn't know why the Chen family's attitude was different from the original world's immediate agreement, she still seized this opportunity, thinking of finding a chance to let that person lead someone in the Chen family to be aware of the situation of the Zhang family's daughter, so as to prevent Chen Jingchi from marrying into the Zhang family.

She had begun developing her own staff after entering this world. When the Chen family needed to bring in some servants, Yu Ziyin conveniently placed them there, thinking they would be used for emergencies. Although there was only one person now, it was enough for a situation like this.

The reason why the Chen family did not immediately accept the offer was that Chen Jingchi subconsciously refused after hearing Madam Chen say that the daughter of the Zhang family was introduced by the princess. Madam Chen was very puzzled and said, "The daughter of the Zhang family is very good. I have met her before. She is honest and decent. Although she is not that proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, she is not bad in her past work. Why did you refuse her?"

Chen Jingchi thought about it and could only say: "Mother, there is actually something I have never told you."

Then, Chen Jingchi told Madam Chen about Li Heng's threats at the flower viewing banquet that day, and said, "My son, it's just a feeling. Just as the Crown Prince and I had a disagreement, the Princess arranged a marriage for him with a girl from the Zhang family. Isn't this a little...wrong?"

Mrs. Chen was stunned when she heard this. After all, what her son said was not impossible. Some of the shady tactics she had seen in the backyard were just like this. It would be best if they didn't think too much about it. But if it was true, then the princess and the prince were very cruel. Just because her son and Miss Yu said a few more words at the flower viewing banquet, they were so resentful that they wanted to plot against their son's marriage. That was too much.

"You're right. We really can't just agree to this. I'll go and look into it."

So, Madam Chen began to ask the people around her to investigate, and Yu Ziyin's people also took the opportunity to act secretly. They seemed to mention to the people sent by Madam Chen to investigate that the food in a certain inn was delicious. He had been there many times and had seen the young lady and servants of the Zhang family go there to buy food several times. It was obvious that they also liked the food in this inn.

Mrs. Chen's people didn't pay attention to this clue at first. Later, they really couldn't find out the situation of the Zhang family girl. After all, the Zhang family and the second prince would cover it up. The mistress of the Zhang family had a quarrel with the Zhang family girl and learned about the Zhang family girl's situation, but she was reluctant to let her daughter get such a good marriage with the Chen family. She thought that the second prince had already married, and her daughter would just be a concubine. It would be better for her to marry into the Chen family and become a mistress, which would be real wealth and glory. So she wanted to help her daughter cover up the situation so that she could get a marriage with the Chen family. Needless to say, for the second prince, this was just a romantic affair for him, but it would not be good if he offended the Ministry of Households because of it, so she also helped to cover it up. Naturally, Mrs. Chen's people couldn't find out anything.

So Mrs. Chen's people remembered what Yu Zinyin's people said that day, and thought of trying everything possible to save the situation. They decided to go and have a look. This was the last clue they had. If it was just that Miss Zhang liked the food here, then there was nothing to report. They could just tell the people above that Miss Zhang was fine.

As a result, Mrs. Chen's people happened to see Miss Zhang and the second prince having a secret meeting.

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