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  Chapter 12: The Cost

  When the county king left, the prince looked at Zhu Yuhuan and asked: "Lao Wu, are you still thinking about San Gu Niang from your uncle's family?"

  Zhu Yuhuan hastily waved his hand, "No, no, I've given up... It's really because of that blue girl... Cough, forget it, I shouldn't say anything about her, but indeed I don't like her."

  The Crown Prince smiled and said, "Yue Huan..."

  Before he could finish speaking, two panting men, Old Fourth and Old Sixth, burst in through the door. Especially Zhu Yiping, who grabbed Zhu Yuhuan as soon as he entered and exclaimed, "Fifth Brother! You're going too far! If you don't like it, just forget about it. Why offend the Lan family? The Lan family has many daughters, I still have my eyes on them!"

  Zhu Yuhuan took a deep breath and reached out to slap him on the back of his head. "What's been on your mind all day?!"

  "Right away he was pulled out by Old Fourth, 'Old Fifth, don't be arrogant, we're waiting to collect the debt!'"

  "Ah..." Zhu Yuhuan was dragged to the door.

  The crown prince smiled as he watched this scene, Zhu Yuheng was indeed a good person, and today he again... This fifth brother in the eyes of the Duke King, was not ordinary either. He had offended the Blue Earl's family, yet the Duke King was extremely partial, not even saying a word of reprimand!

  He saw two men who had already dragged Zhu Yuhuan to the door, laughing and shouting "Yuhuan!"

  Zhu Yuhuan hastily stood still and said to the two of them, "The young master has something else for me! You two stop making a ruckus!"

  The crown prince smiled and said it was nothing, just thinking that if he liked any of the girls, he would tell him, and he would ask the concubine to ask.

  "This... let's discuss it carefully." Zhu Yuhuan didn't want to be dragged away for questioning, so he struggled free and scratched his head as if deep in thought, saying this to the crown prince.

  Lao Si and Lao Liu were so easily deceived, it seemed that the young master had only said one sentence, and the two of them hastily stepped forward to pull him away. "Fifth brother, we need to take him out for questioning."

  The prince smiled and left."

  Zhu Yuhuan exclaimed Ah...... Wait a minute......" and was dragged out.

  At the door there was a small one, looking inside and smiling. Zhu Yuetuo came from behind and saw Zhu Yueting being pulled out, asking "What's going on?"

  "Wu Ge got on everyone's nerves today. The girl came to his door to propose, brought gifts, but he wasn't pleased and ended up driving Lao Lan away!"

  Zhu Yingtuo watched as several people laughed and pushed Lao Wu away, then turned around and walked off with a thoughtful expression.

  After fooling around with the servants for a while, Zhu Yuhuan finally managed to extricate himself and returned to his room to prepare for bed. He had just taken off his clothes and gotten into the bathtub when he heard the maid outside passing on a message: "The Fifth Master, the Princess of the Imperial Uncle's Mansion has arrived."

  Zhu Yuhuan couldn't help it and hastily came out to wipe himself clean, putting on his clothes to greet the guests.

  The Princess of De Xing County was waiting for him in the main hall, and as soon as she saw him, she glared at him.

  Zhu Yuhuan smiled and stepped forward to bow to his mother... Cough, cough, cough, done.

  "You've done something good for once!"

  Zhu Yuhuan's face turned sour, "Mother, yes! I won't dare next time!"

  "Did you think that every day there would be a woman coming to the door asking for marriage? Don't be ridiculous!" The Duchess scolded, "What's the benefit of offending Duke Lan?"

  "That can't be settled by marrying someone you don't like, right? Not a few words"

  "Who does she like?" This was the purpose of the princess's visit, and she immediately asked, "Not... thinking of her cousin?"

  Zhu Yuhuan hastily shook his head and gave up. "Cough, cough... This matter is not urgent, let's talk about it after Third Brother and Fourth Brother get married!" He said with a smile.

  The princess of the county king was somewhat skeptical, slowed down her tone and whispered to Huihuan, "Wait until your third brother and fourth brother get married, I will definitely find a good person with a gentle temperament for you."

  Zhu Yuhuan hastily nodded and said, "Good, thank you Mother!"

  The princess said a few more words of idle chatter before standing up and saying, "I'm leaving. Don't go out for the next few days, something might happen in the mansion."

  Zhu Yuhuan originally stood up to see her off, but upon hearing this, he hastily stretched out his hand to hold her back, and asked with a smile: "After going out for two days, many things happened in the mansion... Mother, are you saying that you want to find a match for my third brother?"

  The princess of the county king did not expect him to guess it in one go, and for a moment she couldn't help but scold: "You're so cunning!"

  Zhu Yuhuan's heart sank, if Zhu Yuhao was really preparing for marriage, then... He had a bad premonition and smiled to ask the Third Brother of the Princess of the County King which girl he had set his eyes on?

  The princess of the county hesitated for a moment, wanting to speak but stopping herself, her face somewhat unnatural because of Zhu Yuhuan's probing, making her feel that Old Five still hadn't forgotten Chu family's third cousin. She cautiously said, "Yuhuan's matter has always been on my mind, I will definitely find someone satisfactory."

  Zhu Yuhuan understood what the Princess of the State said, and it was clear that Zhu Yuexu still had a crush on Keqi. He didn't want to come up with another plan to ask for marriage at the Chu residence, while the Princess of the State helped him hide it!

  "Mother, don't deceive me." He said with a hint of a smile.

  "The princess sighed and said, 'It's not that I don't want to tell you, mother, it's just... Third Brother's matter isn't that simple. Alas, let's just forget about it for now and talk about it when things are clearer.'" She then walked away with a worried expression.

  Zhu Yuhuan furrowed his brow as he watched the Princess of Jun walk out the door. Zhu Yuxu had not given up yet, still thinking that he could marry Keqi? Now that the Prince of Jun's estate and the Chu family were absolutely impossible to form an alliance, did he have a way to revive the dead? On the other side, Old Man Chu had already agreed to marry Keqi to Yuchen, what about Zhu Yuxu?

  After some thought, I feel that Zhu Yingtai should be busy in vain. The wedding on the other side is already underway, what can he do?

  Shaking his head, he went in to take a bath.

  Lan Fu, because Zhu Yi Huan refused to marry, couldn't swallow this tone, and began to pick faults on the imperial court. He brought up the incident where Zhu Yi Huan got drunk and lost his composure at the grand ceremony in the palace when he was 14 or 15 years old, and had the Ministry of Rites punish him for it.

  The princess of the king could only find the empress dowager to mediate, and after the empress dowager understood the reason, it was not a major court struggle, but simply because of refusing marriage, so she mediated in between and asked for an edict for Zhu Yihuan to go to the Lan Mansion to apologize.

  "The princess had originally wanted to let the crown prince take Zhu Yuhuan, but was persuaded by Zhu Yuqi. Although there is an imperial edict, the status of the crown prince is different, and leaving the fiefdom may not prevent him from being used as a handle by others. Even if nothing happens now, in the future when other things happen, this matter may be brought up again as evidence of our ulterior motives."

  The princess of the county king listened and thought it made sense, and the county king and the prince also believed that they should not leave their territory casually to give others a handle. The prince agreed with Zhu Yueshi's opinion on this point, but Zhu Yueshi rushed to express his attitude to the princess of the county king, which was not without a plan. In the end, it was decided that Zhu Yueshi would lead the fifth elder to the Lan Mansion to apologize.

  Zhu Yuhuan was well aware that marriage could be refused, but the gift of apology had to be sincere. The Blue Duke's family was a meritorious family after all, and it was better not to offend them if possible. Therefore, he also prepared twelve times the sincerity to go, and no matter how much the Blue Duke scolded or beat him, he would never fight back. After all, the marriage was absolutely impossible to succeed.

  He also, Zhu Yifei is going to Beijing, and it's absolutely not just for the sake of giving the Lan family a bit more face, he must have his own plans. However, Keqi and Yichen's wedding has already been arranged, does he still have a way to intervene? But Zhu Yifei wants to go, and it's absolutely impossible that it's just for this small matter. This time, he won't be able to leave in one or two days, and he will have to stay at the Chu family's house, so we still need to be careful.

  Because they were going to the sensitive place of Beijing, they didn't bring any guards on the surface. On this day, early in the morning, the two of them packed up, brought some gifts, and led two young servants wearing green clothes and small hats to Beijing. When they entered the city of Beijing, it was already noon. To show their sincerity, the two of them did not go to their relatives' home first, but instead found an inn to eat something, and then directly came to the front gate of the Lan Mansion.

  They want to come and apologize in person, the Lan family too, because it was the Empress Dowager who mediated in between, as long as the Lan family can save face.

  Zhu Yuhuan and Zhu Yu'e arrived at the Lan family's gate, the doorman hastily reported inside, a steward came to invite them in, they sat in the front yard hall, then no one paid attention to them, not even serving tea.

  The two of them had thought about it when they came, Zhu Yuxuan was here to apologize and mediate, some things Zhu Yuhan couldn't say as the person involved, so he could only say it for him. Therefore, the two sat silently for half an hour, then Zhu Yuxuan stood up with a smile and asked the butler to invite Lan Da out again, saying that there were things that needed to be said face-to-face.

  The housekeeper was also very polite and immediately said, "I'll go ask right away. Please sit down for a moment, two young masters." He went out and came back in a little while, smiling and saying, "It's really not convenient, our master is not at home right now."

  "Oh, then is the gentleman in? No jumping characters."

  "The lord went to the imperial court and never returned."

  "Is the lord in?"

  "It's actually true, but it's inconvenient for me to be in charge of this matter. Please forgive me, two young masters."

  Zhu Yingtai smiled and nodded, "No matter, no matter, we'll just wait a bit longer."

  The butler was dismissed in guilt.

  Zhu Yuhuan bitterly smiled and said, "It seems like we won't be able to meet today."

  Zhu Yingtuo smiled and said, "As expected, I'm afraid we'll have to put on a few more days of face for them! No big deal, it's just a matter of waiting a few more days. Once they feel their faces are saved, this matter will be settled."

  Zhu Yanhuan nodded and said, "It's just that San Ge is tired of following me and suffering grievances."

  Zhu Yingtai smiled and shook his head, saying "These are just external things."

  As expected, the two of them waited until the end of the ninth hour, but no one came out from the Blue family. The two had already planned to drag this matter on for three to five days or even half a month, so they stood up calmly and bid farewell.

  The housekeeper of the Lan family politely sent the two out of the Lan Mansion. Outside the gate, the Chu family's carriage was already waiting and took them directly back to the Chu Mansion.

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