Quick Wear: The Development of a Pure Cannon Fodder

If they really have plans against him, they will surely come to him again in the future. He just needs to make sure they don't scheme against him. If they really have plans against him, not only he and the Duke of Cheng'en will be unable to return, even if the other party is the powerful Right Prime Minister's Mansion, they will be in trouble.

Of course, Jiang Qi actually has selfish motives.

The image of the cyan figure flashed through his mind. If he exposed the secret too early, he might never see the other person again.

After returning to Duke Cheng'en's Mansion, Jiang Qi began to use his own manpower to investigate the situation in the Right Prime Minister's Mansion. In the end, he found that the Right Prime Minister's Mansion had been calm recently, and there had been no sudden incidents that required the influence of Duke Cheng'en's Mansion to cover up their certain behaviors. However, the Right Prime Minister and Madam Yu seemed to be very anxious about the marriage of their legitimate daughter Yu Zinyin, and they had secretly collected a lot of information about the children of the aristocratic families in the capital, including himself.

What was going on? Logically speaking, as the daughter of the Right Prime Minister, even if she were to reach marriage age next year, she shouldn't have been so anxious to find a husband. And even if she was, she shouldn't have chosen him. It wasn't that the Cheng'en Mansion and he weren't good, but with Yu Ziyin's circumstances, she didn't need the influence of the Cheng'en Mansion at all. Under such circumstances, she could easily have found a husband whose background was well-known and could be easily manipulated by the Right Prime Minister's Mansion. So why did she choose the Cheng'en Mansion, whose backing was the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, and whose details were unknown?

Jiang Qi's doubts were soon answered.

After returning to the Prince's Mansion that day, the Fourth Prince, Li Changxuan, was still obsessed with Yu Ziyin, so he asked his eunuchs to search for Yu Ziyin's recent schedule, hoping to meet her and strike up a conversation. But how could the eunuchs dare to do so? After several polite refusals, seeing that Li Changxuan was still stubborn and wanted to see Yu Ziyin, the eunuchs quickly sent someone to inform Concubine Dong.

After receiving the news, Concubine Dong was unable to leave the palace, so she could only ask the nanny beside her to stop Li Changxuan.

Upon seeing Li Changxuan, Matron Hai quickly said, "Fourth Prince, you must not become involved with the daughter of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion! If His Majesty were to learn of this, he would undoubtedly suspect you of harboring ill intentions, hoping to use the marriage to win over the Right Prime Minister's Mansion and seize the crown prince's throne. If that were to happen, not only His Majesty, but also the other princes and concubines in the harem would turn their attention to you and Concubine Dong!"

Li Changxuan glanced at her irritably, "Then tell me, how can I marry Yu Ziyin?"

Nanny Hai was choked by this question. Hadn't she just said that he couldn't have any contact with the daughter of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion? Why did the Fourth Prince say he wanted to marry Yu Ziyin?

"Of course I can't marry her..."

Meeting Li Changxuan's somewhat sinister and dissatisfied gaze, Nanny Hai's voice became weaker and weaker. She was the old nanny beside Concubine Dong, and naturally knew how much Concubine Dong doted on the Fourth Prince. If the Fourth Prince hit her here, Concubine Dong would not stand up for her. At most, she would just scold the Fourth Prince a few words that were not harmful.

Li Changxuan stood up and said, "I don't want to be the emperor anyway. I can just go and ask my father to grant me a palace and live in the fiefdom. Then, can I marry Yu Ziyin?"

"Absolutely not!" Matron Hai practically screamed in shock. She calmed her panic, making sure they were alone here and not afraid of her words getting out. Then she lowered her voice and said to the young master in front of her, "If you do this, won't you be destroying the Imperial Concubine's years of hard work? Your Highness, you know what the Imperial Concubine wants most is for you to take that position, so she can become the Empress Dowager. If you ask for a princely title, how will the Imperial Concubine survive in the harem? She'll definitely be tortured to death by the Empress and the First Prince."

Li Changxuan was speechless. "What are you afraid of? I just need to ask my father for permission to let my mother live in my palace as the old lady. That way, whether it's the queen or the eldest prince, they will let us go once they realize we are no longer a threat."

Nanny Hai had a hard time expressing her grievances, because the Fourth Prince didn't know that Concubine Dong had already offended the Empress and the First Prince by relying on the Emperor's favor and preference for the Fourth Prince. The Fourth Prince himself did not do anything to the Empress and the First Prince, but his own mother did it. So if Concubine Dong did not fight for the highest position, even if she was taken to live in the palace in the future, the Empress and the First Prince would not let her go.

The reason why the fourth prince didn't know about this was, on the one hand, that Concubine Dong only liked to speak ill of the women in the harem in front of the fourth prince and teach the fourth prince how to gain his father's favor; on the other hand, Concubine Dong felt that if her son tried to please the emperor in this way, the emperor would think that his fourth son was a filial son who wanted to be an idle prince. Not only could he gain more favor from the emperor, but perhaps the emperor would give the position of crown prince to his son because he loved her and his son so much!

Concubine Dong, who had various thoughts in her mind, did not say much to the Fourth Prince about the many times she had fought with the Queen and the First Prince and the big feud they had formed. However, she did tell the Fourth Prince a lot of bad things about the Queen and the First Prince.

This also led to Li Changxuan thinking very simply, thinking that his mother and the queen were just doing some minor quarrels. As long as he eliminated the threat and said he would not participate in the fight for the throne, he could take his mother away and escape unscathed, leave the capital and live a good life in his own fiefdom, and then marry the woman he likes!

Nanny Hai didn't dare to tell the Fourth Prince about all this. If the Fourth Prince knew about it, he would definitely get angry and think why Concubine Dong had no reason to provoke the Queen and the Eldest Prince. Don't say that the Fourth Prince couldn't do it. The Fourth Prince, who was raised and spoiled by the Queen Mother, the Emperor and Concubine Dong, only thought about himself. The rest of the people occupied a very small part in his heart. If he knew that he couldn't marry the woman he loved, he would definitely be angry and furious with Concubine Dong who caused this result. By then, she would not be able to get any good treatment in front of the Fourth Prince, and she would have no chance of survival in front of Concubine Dong.

Anyway, Nanny Hai was ultimately unable to convince the Fourth Prince, Li Changxuan, not to contact Yu Zinyin. In the end, Li Changxuan got tired of her repeated words and simply ordered the guards in the Prince's Mansion to throw her out and tell her to report to Concubine Dong that he liked Yu Zinyin and wanted to marry her, and it didn't matter if she disagreed, because Concubine Dong had no say in his marriage anyway.

After being thrown out of the mansion, Nanny Hai hurried back to the harem and told Concubine Dong about this matter. Although Nanny Hai tried to be as tactful as possible when repeating what Li Changxuan had said, Concubine Dong was still so angry after hearing it that she smashed many porcelain and jade cups in the palace.

"This rebellious son, how come he doesn't share my intelligence and ambition at all? I've thought so much about him over the years, but in the end, I ended up raising such a cowardly, ungrateful bastard! He even asked for a royal title? Did he think that would get the Crown Prince and the Empress to let him go? This brainless bastard! I'd rather have given birth to a piece of barbecued pork!"

The eunuchs and maids in the entire palace wished they could plug their ears and knelt on the ground, not daring to move, for fear of becoming the target of Concubine Dong's anger.

Matron Hai lowered her head. "Then, what should we do now? Madam, are we just going to watch His Highness go and have contact with that person from the Yu family?"

Concubine Dong calmed down after letting out her anger. She dug her cardamom-painted nails into her palms. "Have someone keep a close eye on the Fourth Prince. Don't let him say anything inappropriate to the Right Prime Minister's daughter in public. If he's caught doing something wrong, the Emperor will definitely dislike me and the Fourth Prince."