allonlinenovel Chapter 333
Chapter 333
Cheng Tianyuan, who had been quite furious initially, suddenly lost his anger upon seeing his daughter's huffing and puffing demeanor.After all, on an ordinary day, he and his wife were often infuriated by this foolish youngest daughter of theirs.
They had always been at their wits' end with her.
It was no exaggeration to say they had broken their hearts worrying over her marriage prospects.
Originally, Prince Lanhuai had wanted to marry his daughter—what was her title again, some princess?—to his fourth son.
He had been a bit angry about that; after all, he only had three sons, and they were all already married.
However, he understood in his heart that Prince Lanhuai actually meant this good-for-nothing second daughter of his.
Initially, he had wanted to correct Prince Lanhuai and tell him that he did not have a fourth son, only an unmarried second daughter.
Now, he felt that if Prince Lanhuai could take Cheng Qingli down a peg or two, he would actually be quite happy about it.
Anyway, it wasn't as if he was truly going to let Prince Lanhuai marry his daughter to Cheng Qingli.
"This old man has also heard of Princess Fuan's reputation for talent," Cheng Tianyuan said with a smile, stroking his beard and casting a smug glance at Cheng Qingli beside him.
Prince Lanhuai, however, assumed that Cheng Tianyuan was also interested in playing matchmaker for the two children.
He quickly smiled and replied, "I am very fond of the Fourth Young Master Cheng."
Beside them, Cheng Qingli clenched her fists tightly, cursing inwardly: What does this smelly old man know?
He hasn't even met me, so what is there to like?
Besides, she didn't want the affection of a wretched old man anyway.
"Father, Princess Fuan isn't renowned for her talent, she's notorious for her ferocity, isn't she?" Cheng Qingli rolled her eyes, speaking with an expression of utter disdain for Princess Fuan.
Cheng Tianyuan glared at Cheng Qingli, thinking to himself: How could this girl speak ill of someone's daughter right to his face?
Prince Lanhuai kept a smile on his face, but he was extremely displeased in his heart.
Princess Fuan was, after all, his most beloved daughter.
He could not tolerate anyone saying even half a bad word about his daughter.
However, thinking that winning over the Cheng family would save him a lot of trouble, Prince Lanhuai forcefully swallowed his anger.
"Do you think Princess Fuan is like you? Where is your demeanor as a young lady from a noble family?" Cheng Tianyuan scolded his daughter with dissatisfaction.
"Father, am I your daughter, or is she? Are you blind? Everyone in the capital knows that Princess Fuan is a tigress!" Cheng Qingli had wanted to ruin Prince Lanhuai's marriage proposal from the start, so she left no face for Princess Fuan at all.
Hearing this, Prince Lanhuai's expression turned exceedingly ugly.
Princess Fuan was the apple of his eye; how could he allow outsiders to slander her like this?
However, by now, Prince Lanhuai had lost all desire to form a marriage alliance with the Cheng family.
After all, with a troublemaking sister-in-law like Cheng Qingli around, Prince Lanhuai felt that his daughter might suffer grievances if she married into this family.
Only then did Prince Lanhuai remember that his original purpose for visiting the Cheng family was for the Qin Restaurant.
It was only upon seeing Cheng Tianyuan that he had suddenly entertained the idea of proposing a marriage.
Now, that idea had been thoroughly ruined by that wretched brat Cheng Qingli.
Prince Lanhuai then put on another smiling face, looked at Cheng Tianyuan beside him, and said, "I have indeed come to the Cheng family today with a request."
"Please speak, Your Highness," Cheng Tianyuan replied upon hearing this. He didn't agree immediately, but he was curious in his heart about what Prince Lanhuai could possibly need to ask of him.
"I heard that the Cheng family has a restaurant on the East Street which is currently sitting idle. I wonder if Lord Cheng could part with this restaurant and transfer it to me? I will certainly reward you handsomely!" Prince Lanhuai didn't beat around the bush and spoke directly.
East Street?
Cheng Tianyuan looked at Cheng Qingli with a confused expression.
Did their Cheng family have a shop on East Street?
"No, and we won't give it up!" Cheng Qingli had a poor impression of Prince Lanhuai, so her attitude was not much better.
"Qingli, do not be insolent!" After reprimanding his youngest daughter, Cheng Tianyuan turned back to Prince Lanhuai and said apologetically, "Your Highness, I am truly sorry. I am not entirely clear on the estate's properties, but if my daughter says there isn't one, then there probably isn't."
"This..." Prince Lanhuai frowned. He didn't believe that Shanzi would make a mistake in investigating such a matter.
However, the way Cheng Tianyuan spoke didn't seem like he was lying either.
"I should say, you came too late. That restaurant was originally mine, but it's not anymore," Cheng Qingli said with a smug look on her face.
Who asked this smelly old man to try and make her marry his daughter just now?
She was a woman.
How could she marry a wife?
Even if it meant being married off, she wouldn't be willing.
At this moment, Cheng Qingli felt a thrill of revenge.
"Second Miss Cheng, could you explain more clearly?" Prince Lanhuai asked somewhat agitatedly upon hearing this.
"I gave it away," Cheng Qingli smiled joyfully.
Prince Lanhuai choked internally. Gave it away?
To whom?
"Who did you give it to?" Cheng Tianyuan asked with a frown.
He thought to himself, although their family's conditions were not bad, they weren't at the level where they could just casually give away a restaurant, were they?
Or was it that his daughter had been scammed?
"The Miss of the Li family, the future Princess Consort of An." Cheng Qingli recalled the attitude that the side consort of Prince Lanhuai's manor had shown towards Li Zhiwei at the Sapphire Pavilion today; she actually suspected that the two of them might have a grudge against each other.
However, she had no proof.
"Many thanks to Second Miss Cheng for informing me." Although Prince Lanhuai was dissatisfied, it seemed that if he wanted this Qin Restaurant, he could only go to the Li family.
However, thinking about the matters between the Li family and the Huo family, Prince Lanhuai wasn't sure if the Li family would be willing to sell this Qin Restaurant to him.
But considering that Li Zhiwei originally came from a merchant background, he felt the problem shouldn't be too difficult.
Li Tianyou shouldn't dare to slight him, Prince Lanhuai.
Early the next morning, Zhou Zuo walked into the courtyard at the break of dawn.
"Wake up, you're still sleeping?" As soon as Zhou Zuo arrived, he saw a servant boy snoring away on the side, and he gave him a dissatisfied kick.
"Master!" The servant boy quickly got up and bowed to Zhou Zuo ingratiatingly.
"Go bring that brat out for me! I'm going to send him to the Prince for his inspection," Zhou Zuo said with a smug look.
"Yes, this lowly one will go right away." The servant boy scrambled to his feet and went to bring out Li Tianyou and Xu Qingshi.
However, when he saw the completely empty room, he was utterly dumbfounded.
The people were gone?
The servant boy hurriedly searched around the room, and this time, he had to confirm that the people were truly gone.
But when did they disappear?
Why didn't he know?
"Hurry up and bring them out! You've been dawdling forever, what are you waiting for?" Seeing that the servant boy hadn't come out of the room for a long time, Zhou Zuo urged with some dissatisfaction from outside.
After all, he was afraid that if he went too late, the Prince might have business and leave again.
Thinking of this, Zhou Zuo impatiently kicked the door panel and walked straight into the room.
Looking at the empty room, Zhou Zuo glared angrily at the servant boy and demanded, "Where are they?"