Chapter 354 – The Sixth Prince

Wei Mingting frowned, “Ma’am, I’m sorry for making you feel aggrieved in your heart, but there’s only so much I can say on this matter.”

“Why? Why can you only tell me so much? If you have bitter feelings why can’t you tell me?” Yun pulled Wei Mingting’s sleeve and questioned with a tear-filled face.

“Ma’am, you and I have been husband and wife for more than twenty years, I hope you believe me this time, there are some things that I really can’t say, but my feelings for you are true.” Wei Mingting said sorrowfully.

“How do you expect me to trust you? You did this for your child with that woman how do you expect me to trust you!” Yun couldn’t believe what her husband was saying.

Seeing Yun’s continued disbelief, Wei Mingting didn’t really know what to say.

After a long period of silence, Wei Mingting said, “Take a good rest first, we’ll talk about this matter when you’ve calmed down a bit.”

Wei Mingting finished and got up to leave.

Yun watched Wei Mingting leave and completely broke down emotionally, throwing everything she could reach around her to the ground.

For a while soup bowls and medicine bowls and lamps broke all over the place.

Cui Ping came in at the sound of his voice and was startled by the scene before him.

“Ma’am! What’s wrong with you, ma’am?”

Yun cried out like a deflated leather ball, “Why? Why did he do this to me? After more than twenty years as husband and wife, I can’t even stand up to a woman who has been with him for a year!”

“Mrs. ……”

“How dare he do this to me, how dare he do this to me!” Yun cried, her body trembling and her face white.

Cui Ping was horrified, it was the first time she had seen a lady with this look.

That night, the lights in Cang Yun Yuan stayed on until dawn.

And Wei Mingting was up all night in his study in the front yard.

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Early the next morning, the entire schoolhouse knew what had happened last night.

Wei Yi Chen was going away, Yun and the rest of the family should have come to see him off, but now only a Wei Yi Lin with a face more bitter than a bitter melon showed up.

Last night when Wei Jin Yi had Wei Qing Wan sent away, Wei Yi Lin blocked it, but he couldn’t beat Jing Hu.

Then he passed out somehow.

By the time he woke up early this morning, his Sister Wanwan was no longer in the mansion.

“Big brother, Sister Wanwan has been sent to the manor, what should we do?” Wei Yi Lin asked Wei Yi Chen mournfully with a bitter face.

“If you make a mistake, you should be punished.” Wei Yi Chen said.

“But …… but the manor is very bitter, where is Sister Wanwan getting used to?” Wei Yi Lin worried.

“Didn’t your eldest sister live on the He family’s estate for thirteen years? Why is it that what your eldest sister can eat, your second sister cannot?” Wei Yi Chen asked.

Hearing this, Wei Yi Lin froze.

He had only felt some bitterness towards his eldest sister when he had previously heard that the He family had treated her badly, and had left her on a shabby farm for the past thirteen years, but had not felt any real sense of it.

Until now, things happened to the body of Sister Wanwan, he was suddenly shocked to realize that sent to the manor life is far more grueling than he thought.

Wei Yi Lin couldn’t help but hang his head.

After a while, he raised his head again and continued to ask Wei Yi Chen, “Big brother, I also heard from the subordinates that last night, father and mother quarreled, and mother cried very hard.”

“I heard that too.”

“Isn’t big brother worried? So many things have happened in the family lately, it feels like so many things have changed, everyone is no longer like they used to be.” Wei Yi Lin flattened his mouth, his face filled with worry.

Wei Yi Chen reached out and touched Wei Yi Lin’s head, “Some conflicts are not recent, they have always been latent in this family, it’s just that they happened to erupt recently. This is not necessarily a bad thing for us as a family.”

“Is that so?” Wei Yi Lin said doubtfully.

“It’s like this.” Wei Yi Chen explained, “The longer some things are hidden, the more potentially harmful they are; this is true of your second sister, and it’s also true of the conflict between father and mother.”

“Then what should I do?” Wei Yi Lin asked.

“You do well for yourself, try to learn martial arts and grow up hard, and in the future, you will become a man who can stand alone and shield your family from the wind and rain.” Wei Yi Chen said.

“Okay, don’t worry big brother, I’ll work hard!” Wei Yi Lin still listened to Wei Yi Chen’s words.

He had been so sad and upset, and now he felt like he had found his way again.

“Uh-huh.” Wei Yi Chen nodded, before getting on the carriage and departing for the provincial capital.

Wei Yi Lin watched Wei Yi Chen go far away before returning to the mansion himself, he would listen to his big brother’s words and continue to work hard to be a man who could stand up to the heavens and make his father, mother, brother and sister proud.

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Located on the outskirts of the city, the small building is surrounded by green water and pines.

Qi Zhen quickly walked through the curved corridor and entered the small pavilion located in the middle of the lake.

In the pavilion sat a young man, upright and good-looking.

A dark blue brocade robe with a white jade belt around his waist and a gold python pendant.

Qi Zhen came into the pavilion and bowed, “Greetings, Your Highness.”

“Don’t be polite.” Chu Heng smiled lightly, then invited Qi Zhen to take a seat, “Cousin, there is no need to be courteous, if there is anything you want to talk about, take a seat and discuss it in detail.”

Qi Zhen took his seat, “Your Highness, the matter you asked me to investigate has some results.”

“Quickly speak with me.” Chu Heng was quite interested.

“What Your Highness has heard is true, there is indeed such a thing, powerful and quick to kill the enemy, called the thunderbolt bomb. It was found by a young general in the anti-Japanese army. Now that young general has already gone to find the ship merchant who provided the thunderbolt under the authorization of His Highness the Seventh, and will lead that ship merchant to meet His Highness the Seventh and the anti-Japanese army guard Zheng Zhongye in the next two days.”

Chu Heng’s gaze was awe-inspiring, and his expression sank before he asked, “In your opinion, can this thunderbolt change the battle situation between the Anti-Japanese Army and the Japanese invaders, and help Chu Lan make a great achievement?”

“As much as I don’t want the answer to that question to be no, I’m afraid that it’s capable of having such a huge impact according to what I’ve inquired about.” Qi Zhen replied.

Although Qi Zhen is usually a flirt and a womanizer, he is never sloppy when it comes to important matters.

He is bound to have sufficient basis for making such a judgment, and is by no means making it out of thin air.

For this reason, Chu Heng’s eyes had a touch more coldness underneath them as he said, “I have yet to achieve results in disaster relief, and if Chu Lan succeeds in fighting the Japanese because of this, it will be very unfavorable for me.”

On the surface, the Emperor sent Chu Lan to supervise the army and Chu Heng to provide disaster relief are two separate things, but who could not know the moral behind this?

But it’s just examining the two of them to see who is more capable.

The one that can take credit will inevitably get more support at the top of the court, and the opposite is going to fall by the wayside.

“Does Your Highness mean that you want me to stop this from going smoothly?” Qi Zhen asked.

“I want that thunderbolt.” Chu Heng said what was in his heart.

After pondering for a while, Qi Zhen said, “Since it is what Your Highness wants, I will do my best to help Your Highness out.”

Chu Heng nodded with satisfaction, and then asked, “I heard that the Taizhou Prefecture’s effective treatment of the disaster was all due to the Wei family’s young lady’s help in advising?”