Quick Wear: The Development of a Pure Cannon Fodder

When Yu Zixi was about to be dragged away by her arm, she was still hoping that her father would stop her. However, the Right Prime Minister did not say anything to stop her. He even looked at her and Concubine Wei with a cold gaze as they were dragged away by the old maids. Her heart tightened and she dared not hide anything anymore. She cried and hid next to Concubine Wei, saying to her father at the top of the table, "Don't kill me! I'll tell you everything! I'll tell you everything!"

Aunt Wei was also frightened and screamed, "I will tell you too! No matter what the master and the mistress ask, we will tell you everything! Don't kill us!"

If the servants had not grabbed the two men's arms, they would have crawled to their knees and begged for mercy before the Right Prime Minister or Madam Yu.

After confirming that the two would talk it out properly, it was time for Madam Yu to ask questions and the two to answer. During this time, when Madam Yu asked Yu Zixi if she had done anything wrong, Yu Zixi and Aunt Wei were afraid of being dragged away and beaten to death, and they shook their heads like rattles.

"No, no, no!" Yu Zixi kept waving her hands. Even though the man's father was present, she could only stiffen her neck and vehemently deny it. "My daughter wouldn't dare. This is only the second time that Dong Jiazi and I have met. I haven't thought about those things..."

Madam Yu sneered, "But you are also a person with your own ideas. You actually asked your aunt to keep watch on you when you were secretly meeting a man. Is such a thing something a girl like you can do?"

Yu Zixi bit her lip in shame and cried softly. She didn't want to do that either! She was really afraid that her marriage would be controlled by Madam Yu, so she made a mistake and did these stupid things.

Aunt Wei also kept sobbing and defended Yu Zixi, "Madam, Master, this really can't be blamed on Zixi. We also saw that Dong Zhe's family background was good, he was a second-rank official, so we thought that if it could be successful, it would help the mansion gain more support..."

"Help!" The Right Prime Minister couldn't help but curse. He angrily scolded Yu Zixi and Aunt Wei below him, "You two are brainless! I'm already the Right Prime Minister, what help do I need? And that Dong Zhe has nothing to do with the second-rank Dong family! He's a side branch of the Dong family. He was promoted to an official position a few years ago by currying favor with the direct descendants and buying off connections with the upper echelons! He's a seventh-rank official! And even then, he still needs to pay tribute to the direct descendants of the Dong family every year to maintain this superficial prosperity!"

The Right Prime Minister looked at Yu Zixi, his eyes full of disappointment. "That Dong Zhe is a pauper who wouldn't even spend a few taels of silver on you! He fooled you with just a few sweet words and ambiguous remarks, making you and your aunt, two fools, treat him like a son of the second rank! But you don't even think about it. If Dong Zhe is really the legitimate son of the second rank Dong family, would his family allow him to marry off the concubine's daughter of the Right Prime Minister's family? Concubine Dong and the Dong family are no fools! If they really wanted a marriage, would they give up my legitimate daughter for a concubine's daughter like you?"

"It's obvious that marrying you, a concubine's daughter, is profitable! What's the profit? The power of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion to support him and his impoverished side branch family! And if he is truly the son of the second-rank Dong family, why would he need me, the Right Prime Minister, to support him? And yet you are still dreaming of marrying into the mansion of a second-rank official! How foolish!"

The words were blunt and heartbreaking, but they were also reality, which almost woke Yu Zixi and Aunt Wei up, and shattered their long-held fantasy of marrying into the second-rank Dong family.

Yu Zixi had been digesting the Right Prime Minister's words from the beginning. She couldn't accept the final words and kept shaking her head. She muttered to herself, her face pale and bloodless. "No, no, he...how could he be just a side branch of the Dong family? If he really was just a side branch, why would the Fourth Prince invite him to the banquet?"

"Yes, Master, is it true, is it true that we checked wrongly? Dong Zhe has always told Zixi that he is from Concubine Dong's family lineage!"

Aunt Wei also thought this was ridiculous. Her daughter was the child of the head of all officials. Even if she was born out of wedlock, she was much more precious than the child of a seventh-rank official. Moreover, in the eyes of Aunt Wei and Yu Zixi, these seventh-rank officials were not officials at all. They were just servants with better status. But now the Right Prime Minister told them that Dong Zhe, whom they favored, was the son of the seventh rank whom they despised the most.

Madam Yu scoffed, "How ridiculous! Even our Right Prime Minister's Mansion has several poor relatives who claim to be from our lineage! And you only listen to what he says. Have you ever seen where he lives? Or even asked his parents' names? As for the Fourth Prince's banquet, the legitimate son of the Second Rank Dong family didn't even have time to attend! He was out on errands with Master Dong at the time!"

After saying that, Madam Yu threw Dong Zhe's household registration details in front of the two of them, "Take a good look! What kind of people have you two picked out? You're always afraid that I'll harm you. With your limited intelligence, do you still need me to help you? You're courting your own destruction!"

The household registration information on the ground was quickly investigated by the confidants of the Right Prime Minister. Although the officials who recorded the household registration could not write too much due to the urgency of the time, it was enough for Yu Zixi and Aunt Wei to know Dong Zhe's true identity, and the two of them completely gave up.

Yu Zixi almost fainted from crying in Aunt Wei's arms, wiping her mouth with her sleeves. She wished she could go back to the carriage outside the clothing store and give Dong Zhe a few slaps.

"Wow, wow, wow... My poor child, how could he encounter such a thing! Master, Madam, you have to take charge of my son..." Aunt Wei also cried sadly, and she hated Dong Zhe, who had deceived herself and Yu Zixi, to the core.

How could there be such a shameless person! He actually concealed and deceived them, making them think that he was the child of the Dong family's direct descendant. They were foolishly fooled. Moreover, when she thought that her daughter almost married a son of the seventh rank, her heart was filled with panic!

Madam Yu taunted, "Shut up! You haven't even settled your scores yet! Are you going to let the Right Prime Minister's Mansion clean up your mess? Why didn't I see how shameless you two were before?"

In response to Madam Yu's words, Aunt Wei and Yu Zixi couldn't help but stop crying, as if they remembered that their current situation was not a good time to think about revenge on Dong Zhe, but they should beg for mercy first.

Yu Zixi quickly got out of Aunt Wei's arms and crawled to her knees beside the mistress's legs. "Mother, mother, I was wrong. I was really wrong. I won't dare to do it again! I will marry whoever you want your daughter to marry in the future! I will never have any complaints! Please, don't send me away or send me to a nunnery!"

In this case, Madam Yu and the Right Prime Minister would most likely treat her the same way as other noble families in the capital, that is, sending their daughter who had made an error to the countryside to marry someone randomly or sending her to a nunnery to live out her life in loneliness and helplessness. She didn't even dare to think about such a life. If she really ended up like that, it would be better for her to be beaten to death or drowned!