"What's the matter with Zhang Yanchu that can't wait until tomorrow?" Xu Heming said impatiently. Today was the day he accompanied the princess back to her natal family.
If it wasn't something extremely important, Xu Heming didn't want to leave the Li Family.
"Your Highness, the Third Prince of Qinling Kingdom has also returned, and his leg is injured," Qingsong said carefully.
Li Zhiwei was also stunned for a moment and felt a bit curious. How could he get injured?
"Where is he now?" Xu Heming frowned and asked.
He thought to himself that Zhang Yanchu was really useless.
He couldn't even watch over a person, and the person even got injured.
"Your Highness, General Wen knows that today is the day you accompany the princess back to her natal family. He is waiting for you at the Zhang Family," Qingsong quickly said.
"Your Highness, General Wen must have something important to report to you. The Zhang Family is just next door. How about..." Li Zhiwei thought that since the Zhang Family was right next to the Li Family, it wouldn't hurt for Xu Heming to go there.
"Go and invite General Wen to the front hall of the Li Family," Xu Heming thought for a while and said directly.
Xu Heming just thought that although the Zhang Family was close, there was still an unmarried Wen Xiu in the Zhang Family.
He didn't want to cause any trouble.
Moreover, he didn't want to give people a chance to gossip about Li Zhiwei in the future.
It was the most appropriate to let Zhang Yanchu come to the Li Family.
"Yes!" After Qingsong finished speaking, he quickly left.
"Your Highness, when did you come?" Li Zhiwei asked discontentedly after seeing Qingsong leave. Why didn't he make a sound when he came?
"Seeing you so absorbed in what you were doing, I didn't want to disturb you," Xu Heming said, looking at Li Zhiwei tenderly.
"Your Highness, General Wen must have something important to see you about. You should go and deal with it first. I'll just stay here and look at these things," Li Zhiwei wanted to reopen the shop.
After all, the location of Fanghua Pavilion was excellent. With her, Cheng Qingli, and Wen Xiu, they were sure to make Fanghua Pavilion a success.
Thinking of this, Li Zhiwei tightened her grip on the paper pattern in her hand.
"Okay, I'll be back soon," Xu Heming nodded. He also knew that Zhang Yanchu wasn't the type to cause trouble for no reason.
He guessed that Shangguan Mu must have caused some more trouble again.
When Xu Heming arrived at the front hall, Zhang Yanchu was already waiting there.
When Xu Heming came, Qingsong guarded outside the door.
"Zhang Yanchu, why can't you even handle Shangguan Mu?" Xu Heming looked at Zhang Yanchu and said discontentedly.
"Don't be ungrateful. I've delayed him for several days. Otherwise, he would have returned to the capital before your big wedding, and he wouldn't have even broken his leg," Zhang Yanchu rolled his eyes.
He said angrily.
"What happened?" Xu Heming frowned and asked.
He thought that Shangguan Mu was really a headache.
"He heard that you were about to get married, so he was eager to return to the capital. When I was chasing him, I just saw him fall off the cliff beside the road, and his leg was injured because of that," Zhang Yanchu said innocently.
"Are you sure you didn't do anything?" Xu Heming looked at Zhang Yanchu suspiciously. He always felt that Shangguan Mu's leg injury had something to do with him.
"Well, it can't be blamed on me. I even got injured while saving him," Zhang Yanchu said and then waved his hand that was wrapped like a zongzi.
Xu Heming frowned. Zhang Yanchu looked so agile that he didn't seem to have an injured hand at all.
"Are you sure this is an injury?" Xu Heming asked suspiciously.
"Of course, it's an injury!" Zhang Yanchu shouted without thinking.
However, injuries also varied in severity.
Zhang Yanchu kept this thought to himself.
"Now that he's back, what's the matter that can't wait until tomorrow?" Xu Heming thought that Shangguan Mu's leg wasn't going to get better just because he was told about it.
Was there something else that made Zhang Yanchu so eager to find him?
"You know what? There really is something. The daughter of Prince Lanhuai, that Princess Fuan or something, I don't know what she was doing at the Royal Hunting Ground. She had a conflict with Shangguan Mu," Zhang Yanchu shrugged.
Zhang Yanchu said helplessly.
It was only after Zhang Yanchu returned to the capital that he found out that the maid was Princess Fuan.
It was just that he had boasted before that he would let Shangguan Mu deal with the maid as he pleased.
"What was she doing at the Royal Hunting Ground?" Xu Heming didn't understand why Princess Fuan was causing trouble at this time.
"She refused to say, but Shangguan Mu specifically asked for her," Zhang Yanchu said helplessly.
"She brought it upon herself," Xu Heming didn't sympathize with Princess Fuan at all. He even thought that Princess Fuan's appearance there might be with ulterior motives.
"Send someone to find out if Prince Lanhuai had any contact with Shangguan Mu before," Xu Heming thought for a while and then said what was on his mind.
"Are you suspecting that Princess Fuan's appearance at the Royal Hunting Ground was because Prince Lanhuai wanted to marry his daughter to Shangguan Mu?" When Zhang Yanchu heard this, his only thought was that Prince Lanhuai must be crazy.
Other people didn't even want their daughters to go on a marriage alliance, but Prince Lanhuai was so eager to send his daughter off?
Moreover, wasn't it said that Prince Lanhuai doted on Princess Fuan the most?
Now it seemed that it was just so - so.
But what was Prince Lanhuai's purpose in doing this?
It couldn't be that he wanted to share the emperor's worries, could it?
"It's not a suspicion. It's a certainty," Xu Heming said firmly.
"Goodness, what's wrong with Prince Lanhuai's head?" Zhang Yanchu said in disbelief.
"Has your sister's marriage been settled?" Xu Heming suddenly changed the topic and looked at Zhang Yanchu and asked.
"What do you want to do? My sister won't be someone's concubine!" Zhang Yanchu said without thinking, looking at Xu Heming warily.
He thought to himself that Xu Heming wouldn't want to take his sister as a side concubine, would he?
This definitely wouldn't do!
"What are you thinking about? Now that Weiwei is married, I'm just reminding you to be careful that Shangguan Mu might have his eyes on your sister," Xu Heming rolled his eyes. What did Zhang Yanchu take him for?
He was being kind to remind him, but Zhang Yanchu thought he had feelings for Wen Xiu?
If that were the case, why would he ask Zhang Yanchu to come to the Li Family?
"No... it can't be?" When Zhang Yanchu heard this, he couldn't sit still.
Originally, he thought that the princess of Qinling Kingdom might have her eyes on him, so he had hurriedly arranged a marriage with Cheng Qingli.
Now, it seemed that after he had settled his own marriage, Shangguan Mu was going to target his sister?
What should he do?
You know, it wasn't that easy to find a suitable noble son from a prominent family in the capital.
He wasn't willing to just marry his sister off to anyone casually.
"Why not? There are only a few eligible noble ladies from prominent families in the capital. Qinling Kingdom might be eyeing the military power in your hands," Xu Heming said very firmly.
"The emperor won't agree," Zhang Yanchu said, but he was also a bit uncertain.
After all, if sacrificing his sister could bring a hundred years of peace to Lannuo Kingdom, the emperor might be willing to do it, right?
"No, I can't let my sister marry into Qinling Kingdom," thinking of this, Zhang Yanchu couldn't sit still either.
Chapter 515
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