Chapter 397
"Is that possible?" Hearing this, Li Tianyou's eyes sparkled as he looked at his daughter.
He had been thinking this for a long ti.
It was just that the other party was Prince An, so he didn't dare to bring it up.
But now, Prince An's Manor had Xu Qingshi as an heir.
anwhile, their Li family's wealth still had no heir!
If Prince An could beco a live-in son-in-law for their Li family, wouldn't that be perfect?
He wouldn't even mind that Xu Heming had been married and had a child before.
In any case, this wasn't his weakness; rather, it was his advantage.
There would be no need to worry about the issues of Prince An's Manor.
"Cough—" Li Zhiwei was dumbfounded. Did her father really want to do this?
"You old man, what nonsense are you sprouting?" Lady Yao gently tugged at Li Tianyou's hem, thinking that this man certainly had a wild imagination.
He was the dignified Prince An; why on earth would he co to the Li family to be a live-in son-in-law?
Their daughter was just coaxing him to make him happy.
"How am I sprouting nonsense? If he wants to marry our daughter, he needs to show so sincerity." Li Tianyou tugged at his collar, speaking with a smug look on his face.
"And your so-called sincerity is having him co to your house to be a live-in son-in-law?" Lady Yao thought it was utterly impossible.
Yet, this old man actually took the words their daughter used to coax him seriously.
"Why wouldn't it work? If he truly loves our Weiwei, he would definitely be willing to co to our family as a live-in son-in-law!" Li Tianyou said, looking as if it were a matter of course.
"Give it a rest. Even though I haven't been in the capital for long, I know that the girls who want to marry Prince An could line up from here all the way to the outskirts of the city. For your daughter to marry into Prince An's Manor is a blessing you earned in your past life," Lady Yao said, shaking her head.
Li Zhiwei remained silent on the side, just smiling as she watched her parents bicker.
However, her earlier remark about a live-in son-in-law was just a casual comnt; she didn't dare let her father take it seriously.
Otherwise, it would truly be hard to say whether her marriage could still go through.
Furthermore, the envoys from the Qinling Kingdom were coming to the capital. Li Zhiwei felt it was best to make a decision as soon as possible.
Equally anxious was the Cheng family.
"Master, the envoys are about to enter the capital. What are we going to do about Qingli's marriage!" Madam Qiu grew anxious at the thought of her daughter's marriage.
"Look around for a match for her recently, and try to keep her from running outside so much." Grand Preceptor Cheng also sighed in his heart when he thought of his daughter's marriage.
If the Qinling Kingdom's envoys arrived and proposed a marriage alliance, the Emperor would most likely agree.
However, the Emperor had no daughters of marriageable age. Right now, there was a high chance that the noble ladies of the capital's prominent families would be chosen by the Qinling Kingdom.
Grand Preceptor Cheng naturally did not want his daughter to be sent off in a marriage alliance.
But rushing to find a marriage for his daughter now didn't guarantee they could find a suitable one.
Especially given his daughter's lively and unconventional temperant; she probably wouldn't be willing to be confined to the inner courtyard.
"Do you think I haven't been looking for matches for this girl all these years? But when has she ever not ruined them?" Madam Qiu felt angry thinking about it.
And to make matters worse, the Empress was always covering for this second daughter.
"Tell , does Qingli have a man she likes?" Grand Preceptor Cheng thought for a mont, wondering if his daughter already had soone in her heart.
His eldest daughter was now the noble Empress; as for his youngest daughter, she just needed to pick a man she liked and marry him.
If Cheng Qingli married below her station, it would actually be more beneficial to the Cheng family than if she married into a higher-status family.
After all, the Empress's status was already there.
If Cheng Qingli married lower, it could also reduce so of the Emperor's suspicions.
If Zhu Jingchen knew this, he would only say: What am I suspicious of?
At this ti, upon learning that Li Zhiwei had returned to the manor, Wen Xiu hurried over from the Wen family.
She had been worried that sothing might happen to Li Zhiwei in the palace.
Of course, she was also worried that if the marriage between Prince An and Li Zhiwei really fell through, the upcoming opening of their shop would be greatly affected.
Most importantly, Li Zhiwei was a rare friend she had grown fond of over the years, and she didn't want to lose this friend.
Li Zhiwei had just finished pacifying her parents when she saw Wen Xiu rushing over.
"I'm fine, you don't need to worry. However, the marriage is real. It's on the sixth of next month." Seeing Wen Xiu, Li Zhiwei quickly spoke before Wen Xiu could even ask.
"Really? That's wonderful." Hearing this, Wen Xiu breathed a sigh of relief for her friend.
"Wen Xiu, when is your eldest brother coming back?" Li Zhiwei thought about how the Wen family now only consisted of Wen Xiu and her brother Wen Zhaonan, but Wen Zhaonan was currently not in the capital. Now that the envoys from the Qinling Kingdom were coming, Wen Xiu's looks were considered among the top beauties in the capital.
What if Wen Xiu caught the eye of a prince or soone from the Qinling Kingdom?
Thinking of this, Li Zhiwei looked at her friend with concern.
"Why are you looking at like that? Is there sothing on my face?" Seeing Li Zhiwei's gaze, Wen Xiu touched her face uneasily but didn't find anything.
"You're asking about my eldest brother?" Wen Xiu looked at Li Zhiwei in confusion. She had just said she was getting married on the sixth of next month, and now she was asking about her brother. Could it be she needed to find a temporary husband?
If that were the case, should she write a letter to her brother and send him a sister-in-law?
Thinking about her sister-in-law, if it were Li Zhiwei, she realized she wouldn't dislike it at all.
"Wen Xiu, has your family ever arranged a marriage for you?" Seeing Wen Xiu's confusion, Li Zhiwei simply asked directly.
"My parents passed away early, and my brother has been stationed at the border for a long ti, so no marriage has been arranged." Thinking of this, Wen Xiu lowered her head. Ordinary prominent families wouldn't look favorably upon soone like her. After all, prominent families considered a person without parents to be inauspicious and wouldn't be willing to take her as a primary wife.
As for lesser families, with her brother absent, she couldn't possibly accept a matchmaker's proposal herself.
"Your brother is considered a second-rank general, right? The envoys from the Qinling Kingdom are probably arriving soon. When the ti cos, they might look for a noble lady in the capital for a marriage alliance, and you—" Li Zhiwei didn't know how to voice the rest of her thoughts.
After all, Wen Xiu's current situation was very awkward.
"This shouldn't fall on my head, right?" Wen Xiu thought for a mont and said hesitantly. After all, she was just the sister of a minor general.
Normally, she had never participated in the gatherings of those noble young ladies.
As for her eldest brother, he simply had no ti to worry about her marriage, and besides, n probably didn't think that far ahead.
"It's better to be safe than sorry. Not just you, but your eldest brother too—who knows, you might be their targets," Li Zhiwei said thoughtfully.
However, in her mory, this didn't seem to happen in her previous life. But then again, she had been deeply trapped in the inner courtyard of the Marquis of Ru'an's Manor back then, and no one had passed her any news. Whether this event had occurred in her past life, she suddenly wasn't so sure anymore.
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