"Does Your Highness know that I saw a woman with five squares and water in the small garden!" Lanqin now felt that this was not just a coincidence, but that someone had deliberately designed this incident.
"Oh, who are you talking about?" Fourth Master suddenly jumped up in surprise. At first, he also suspected that this rumor was deliberately spread, but he couldn't figure out the purpose. Hearing Lanqin's words, even the composed Fourth Master couldn't help but be taken aback.
"It is indeed the Fujin's younger sister, Princess Yan Yu!" Lan Qin said. She wasn't afraid that the Fourth Prince wouldn't believe her, since she wasn't the only one who heard Yan Yu say this from Ula!
"What, Yan Yu?" Fourth Master was even more surprised this time, and he sat up abruptly in bed. He never expected that Yan Yu would be involved in this matter. When he first heard the rumor, he felt that someone was doing it on purpose. As for the purpose, was it really as simple as making him marry a woman?
"If Your Highness doesn't believe me, you can ask Sister Li, Sister Song, and also Madam Wang, Madam Wu, and Madam Geng. They were all there and heard the Fujin say it herself!" Lanqin sensed the skepticism in the Fourth Prince's words and couldn't help but say this. For some reason, when the Fourth Prince questioned those two words she had just uttered, a strange unease stirred within Lanqin. This was the first time the Fourth Prince had questioned Lanqin's words on behalf of another woman.
"What a coincidence!" Fourth Master couldn't help but say, seemingly asking Lanqin, or perhaps talking to himself.
"What a coincidence! As for why Princess Yan Yu happens to be a woman whose five elements all contain the water element, I truly can't fathom it. The only explanation is that Princess Yan Yu really wants to marry into the Fourth Prince's household, and that's why she had this rumor fabricated!" Lan Qin was visibly alarmed as she voiced this guess. This woman would stop at nothing to achieve her goals, even going so far as to spread rumors and force the Fourth Prince to marry her. If she were to actually marry into the household, Lan Qin wondered if, given the Fourth Prince's favor towards her, she would still have a place to stand!
"Alright, I understand." After sitting for a long time, Fourth Master had no choice but to say this before lying down again.
Nothing more was said that night. The next morning, the Fourth Prince got up and, before Lanqin woke up, had already changed his clothes and returned to the front courtyard. As soon as he arrived at the front courtyard, he ran into his wife, who was talking with the First Prince!
"Your son greets Father!" The eldest prince should have gotten up by now and gone to the backyard to greet his wife.
"Hmm, the Princess Consort is here?" The Fourth Prince stepped into the courtyard, and the Princess Consort pulled the First Prince along as they followed.
"Eldest Prince, go back to class. Your mother must have something to say to your father!" How could the Fourth Prince not understand why his wife was waiting there?
"Your son is going back, Mother. I'll come see you again at noon!" After saying this, the eldest prince returned to his garden.
After Honghui left, the Fujin followed the Fourth Prince to his study. It had been a long time since she had set foot in the Fourth Prince's study.
"Madam, is there something you wish to say to me?" Fourth Prince asked calmly, trying not to reveal his true feelings.
"Yes, I have come to tell you something, my lord!" the princess said calmly.
"What is it?" Fourth Master's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and Lanqin's words from last night flashed through his mind.
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