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After hearing Lady Zhao's words and thinking about how Zhao Pingqing had suffered for so many days because of her, Dongfang Wenyi couldn't bear to refuse. "This is …" Madam Zhao, please allow This King to consider it. "

"Prince …" Madame Zhao wanted to continue speaking, but Dongfang Zhi interrupted his. "Taking on a secondary wife is not a small matter. To rashly decide things in such a way would be unfair even to this king and Miss Zhao." Pausing for a moment, he continued, "Just one night. The King of Japan will personally go to Hou Mansion tomorrow."

Madame Zhao wasn't a person who didn't know when to stop. Seeing Dongfang Shou's words, she nodded and said, "That's fine. Tomorrow Master Hou and I will be waiting for the prince to arrive."

After helping her up, Dongfang Gu said to Cai Yuan, who was waiting by the side, "Take Madame Zhao out."

With one hand holding the lantern and the other holding the umbrella, Cai Yuan respectfully escorted Madam Zhao to the door. Only when the sedan bearers had carried her away did he turn around and return home. He shook his head as he stepped on the snow, mumbling to himself, "Strange things happen every year, but there are a lot of them this year."

A gust of cold wind blew from the back of his neck into his collar, freezing Cai Yuan. He raised his hand to tighten his collar, when he heard a gloomy voice dragging a long tune. "What's so strange about that? Tell me!"

"Mom!" Cai Yuan was so scared that he jumped up and ran. He even threw away his umbrella. After running a few steps, he heard a series of laughter coming from behind him.

Eh, why does it sound so familiar, it seems like …

Resisting the fear in his heart, Cai Yuan turned his head around, shivering in the cold wind. He could vaguely see a person laughing in the snow, moving back and forth with an umbrella.

A ghost didn't need an umbrella, meaning it was a person. When he thought of this, Cai Yuan's courage increased. He walked up with the lantern, and after seeing the young face, he raised it and slapped the back of the ghost's head. He scolded, "You're so brave, Xu Li. You dare to scare your master Cai? You don't want to live anymore, do you?"

Xu Li held the back of his head, which was in pain from being slapped, and giggled as he said, "It was just a joke. Who knew that Manager Cai would have such a huge reaction? I was also startled." Saying that, he leaned over and winked, "I didn't know you were so scared of ghosts, Chief Steward Cai!"

"Afraid of your head!" Manager Cai was so embarrassed by his words that he slapped him again, "I respect ghosts and gods, what do you know?"

"Yes, yes, yes." After receiving another slap, Xu Li didn't dare to provoke him, so he repeatedly promised. When Cai Yuan had somewhat calmed down, he asked with a curious expression, "What did Manager Cai just say? There's so much strange things happening this year?"

Chief Cai still remembered what happened just now and said with a straight face, "What does it have to do with you, mind your own business."

Xu Li picked up the umbrella that Manager Cai had thrown on the ground, passing it over to him with a mischievous smile and said, "Head Steward, please tell me, I'm begging you."

Manager Cai couldn't do anything about it, so he started to recount what had happened just now. Xu Li's eyes widened when he heard this. He originally wanted to satisfy his curiosity, but he never expected to hear about such a big matter.

"Then... Then the prince will also … "Do you agree?" The excessive excitement made him unable to even speak properly.

"No, Your Highness said he answered Madame Zhao's questions every day." After saying so, Cai Yuan shook his head and sighed, "Although the Zhao family is not grand, they are still very scholarly and have a noble title. Yet, at this moment, they are bowing and groveling like this. It really is difficult to help Lady Zhao."

Xu Li nodded his head and continued to ask, "Then in your opinion, will the prince agree to marry Miss Zhao as his secondary wife?"

Cai Yuan thought for a moment and then shook his head. "I'm not sure about that, but logically speaking, there's no harm in taking her as a side wife, but the prince's heart is not with Miss Zhao, so Miss Zhao's obsession is a burden to the prince."

Xu Li scratched his head and said, "This prince's heart is not with Miss Zhao, nor with the Prosperous Sect's Ji. Where is he?"

Cai Yuan glared at him and snappily said, "It's fortunate that you served the East District. How can you not realize such a simple matter?"

"Simple?" Xu Li had a puzzled expression as he pondered over his words. Only after a long while did he finally react. He excitedly said, "I know. The prince, he …"

Cai Yuan waved his hand and interrupted. "As long as you know, you don't have to shout all over the place." Saying this, he sighed, "If others were to know of this matter, they would only be envious of Your Highness for enjoying the blessings of others. How could they possibly understand the pain Your Highness is asking for? Sigh."

After Cai Yuan left, Xu Li stood where he was and muttered, "So the prince likes the princess, no wonder he treats her so well. But now that the empress dowager is forcing the prince to marry a member of the Prosperous Sect and Madame Zhao is forcing the prince to marry Miss Zhao, what about the princess?" "No, I have to tell the princess about this as soon as possible."

Thinking up to here, he hurriedly returned to the East District. Because of the dark sky and the swirling snow, he didn't run into Xia Yue for a while, causing the latter to fall and sit on the snowy ground.

Xu Li hurriedly went forward to pull Xia Yue up, "Big Sis Xia Yue, how are you? Are you okay?"

Xia Yue rubbed her sore spot as she picked up the medicine bag, "It's alright, but if you hit it harder, I'm afraid you'll have to get a doctor for me."

Xu Li stuck out his tongue and said apologetically: "Big sister Xia Yue, I'm sorry. I'm in a hurry to see the princess, so I left a little faster. I won't next time, don't be angry."

"Forget it." After patting the snowflakes on her body, Xia Yue thought of the first half of Xu Li's words, and puzzledly asked: "Why are you so anxious to see the princess, what happened?"

Hearing this, Xu Li's spirits were immediately lifted. He recounted everything that Cai Yuan had told him in detail. Xia Yue's expression abruptly changed as he anxiously asked, "Is this for real?"

"Manager Cai said so himself. It should be true." Xu Li saw that Xia Yue was a bit too nervous, and asked with doubt: "Big sister Xia Yue, what's wrong?"

Xia Yue gritted her teeth and stuffed the medicine bag into Xu Li's arms, "Bring this medicine to the kitchen to fry. Three bowls of water to fry a bowl, 70% full is fine. I'll go talk to the princess myself."

As soon as she entered the room, she repeated what Xu Li had said to her in a hurry. She stomped her feet and said, "What's there to be afraid of? Zhao Pingqing is such a schemer, once she marries into the House of the Crown Prince, it will be hard for them to be at peace, not to mention that there is a girl from the Prosperous Sect."

Mu Qianxue's face was pale as she listened. When she saw through Zhao Pingqing's true appearance, she already knew that the latter would think of a way to marry into King Rui's mansion, but she didn't expect it to come so soon.

Xia Yue anxiously said, "Princess, you have to quickly think of a way!"

"I know." Mu Qianxue lightly coughed a few times and said, "Go and bring that robe with azure feathers."