But Miss Xie Zhihui can't suffer in vain. Otherwise, I will adopt her as my adopted daughter, and then Lord Zhang will marry her on the next auspicious day. That way, Lord Zhang won't worry about Miss Xie's future life. How do you do that?

As soon as these words came out, everyone shouted at him, "Old Fox! It seems he still doesn't want to leave the center of power, and he even wants to keep a tail for himself." By then, Zhang Yuan will become the new Minister of the Central Secretariat and your son-in-law. You really have a good plan.

But on second thought, this is indeed a solution. If Xie Zhihui becomes the adopted daughter of the Minister of the Central Secretariat and then marries the new Minister of the Central Secretariat, it will not be considered a grievance. It is simply a huge benefit. In this case, what's wrong with marrying a few days later?

Both the Crown Prince and Zhang Yuan nodded slightly. Even Mi Shi, who was entangled in etiquette, thought that this was a good idea.

At this moment, Xie Zhihui spoke: "Thank you, old man." Xie Zhihui's veil did not move at all. No one could see her expression and could only guess her emotional changes from her voice.

"But I don't want to. It's not that I don't want to be your adopted daughter," Xie Zhihui said. After all, she didn't know the Minister of the Central Secretariat, so it made sense. "But I'm the daughter of a respectable family, and there's absolutely no reason for me to marry on another date. If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really wants to use his power to force someone else to come here and snatch my date, then I won't marry."

After saying this, he bowed to Zhang Yuan and said, "Master Zhang, please take the trouble to send someone to take me back to Qinghe. I apologize for disturbing you these days."

Zhang Yuan was suddenly startled.

Just as he was about to grab Xie Zhihui, he heard the quiet Wei Ming Wan'er say angrily: "You are a bitch from Liang country, and you dare to say that I am unclear!" Then she slapped him.

With a "slap", everyone saw Xie Zhihui being slapped hard.

Xie Zhihui was slapped hard, and she felt as if struck by lightning. In a split second, she judged her position through the gap under the veil, then took three steps back, and fell towards the prince as if she could not control herself.

Wei Mingfeng was also stunned. This Wei Ming Wan'er was a girl he had been training for a long time. He had never been willing to touch her because he wanted to use her to bribe ministers and also to keep watch on her. He didn't expect that she had such a violent temper and could even hit people.

Speaking of it, as the crown prince, Wei Mingfeng later regretted it a little. He originally thought that he was just warning Zhang Yuan. As long as Zhang Yuan agreed, it would be equivalent to announcing to everyone that he still had control over Zhang Yuan. However, he never expected that things would develop to this point.

In fact, even if Zhang Yuan finally married this Weiming Wan'er today, the two sides would probably become enemies in the future. In short, they would no longer be able to trust each other.

This was the Crown Prince's limitation as a young man eager to prove himself. If the King was still able to function, or had aides around him, they would certainly have stopped him from doing so. However, the King was ill, and Zhang Yuan was the head of his staff. When neither of them could be relied upon, the Crown Prince had no one to turn to and could only follow his own will.

Of course, the prince had asked others if this was a good idea, but he asked Liu Zhong...

Liu Zhong only replied: "You are the prince."

Zhang Yuan was afraid that Xie Zhihui would bump into the prince, so he quickly reached out to pull her. However, he didn't expect Xie Zhihui to fall to the ground so violently. In addition, he had been standing for a long time without a drop of water, his steps were unsteady, and he was in a state of unrest. He was actually dragged down by Xie Zhihui and bumped into the prince together.

In desperation, Zhang Yuan reached out to grab the person next to him.

But at this time, there was only a rice market next to him.

The skinny old man couldn't stand his pull.

From the time Xie Zhihui was beaten to this moment, only a moment had passed.

Zhang Yuan, Xie Zhihui and Mi Shi all fell to the ground, pinning the prince down tightly.

Seeing this, everyone rushed to help.

But the person walking in front took two steps and then didn't dare to move any further.

No matter how the people behind pushed him, he was unwilling to take another step.

Blood, a stream of blood whose origin was unknown, slowly flowed out from the ground under the four people.