The husband I snatched halfway through his life is strange.

Chapter 439 Who's as young and impetuous as you!

As the words were spoken, everyone in the hall displayed a variety of expressions.

Consort Li's face turned blue and purple, feeling utterly humiliated, yet she couldn't do anything to Yu Tingwan.

"All right."

The Queen Mother spoke.

"We've met, no need for further pleasantries."

She invited Yu Tingwan to sit down next to her, and then acted very protectively towards her.

"I made you laugh."

"This child isn't very talkative, but he's exceptionally friendly to everyone he meets."

The Empress Dowager looked at the Fifth Prince's wife: "Don't be angry. The Emperor chose you to marry the Fifth Prince because he thought you were born with a blessed appearance."

She pretended not to realize that Yu Tingwan was talking nonsense.

They even added fuel to the fire.

“The daughter of the Minister of the Imperial Secretariat will be your sister-in-law in the future, and you will have to call her Imperial Sister-in-law. You will see each other all the time, and I am most afraid that there will be rifts between you children.”

"Fifth brother's wife, you've always been magnanimous. If you can be tolerant, be tolerant; if you can be accommodating, be accommodating. Don't hold it against her."

The petty and narrow-minded Fifth Prince's wife?
Why!

Empress Dowager?
She didn't even bother calling Yao Ru.

Does Yang Jingshu think she can get ahead of her?

Since the Empress Dowager had already said so, and she was always good at putting on a show, she curtsied and said, "What my grandmother said, I will remember."

The Empress Dowager then looked at Consort Li.

"I heard you cried all night yesterday?"

Consort Li followed suit, forcing a stiff smile: "Your Majesty, I am worried about you."

"You've been in the palace for quite some time now, why are you still so impulsive? People with twins should avoid emotional fluctuations."

"The emperor is recuperating. If something happens to you, not only will he be worried, but how will I explain it to him?"

Consort Li was filled with trepidation: "This concubine dares not."

"I'm not trying to scare you."

Empress Dowager: "I only hope that you can recover your health. The royal family has few heirs, and I hope you can have a prince."

"Everyone says the youngest child is the most pampered, how many people were hoping for your baby? Putting everything else aside..."

As if going through the motions, the Empress Dowager gave her opinion: "The fifth prince's children are all running around. The second prince's son, Dun'er, has been born for several months. Just thinking about your baby coming out of your belly makes me excited."

Not a single word was something the Fifth Prince's Consort wanted to hear.

What does it mean to be the youngest child who is most favored?

What? Are you suggesting he should sit on the dragon throne?
Consort Li was pleased.

She didn't understand that this was a case of praising someone to death.

But the gloom that Yu Tingwan had cast over her has faded away.

She was about to reply with a smile when she noticed out of the corner of her eye that the Fifth Princess Consort beside her had suddenly froze, her gaze fixed on a certain spot.

Then his expression changed.

Consort Li looked in the direction she was looking.

Yu Tingwan's slender fingertips were seen casually fiddling with the silver fox fur cloak on the coffee table, which they had ignored for a long time.

Consort Li: "This..."

She just made a sound.

Yu Tingwan: "How is it? Not bad, right?"

"Although it is not as black as a black fox fur, it is still hard to find on the market."

"Someone offered four thousand taels of silver back then."

The Fifth Imperial Concubine, who possessed four thousand taels of silver: ...

Yu Tingwan: "Later, someone else offered three thousand taels."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Gu Wu, who was standing to the side.

"If it were you, who would you sell to?"

Gu Wu was suddenly called out and stammered, "Naturally... whoever bids the highest gets it."

This is about doing business, not charity.

Yu Tingwan: "That's what the shopkeeper thought back then too."

She smiled.

"But the servant sent by the three thousand taels directly revealed his identity. Although he didn't act aggressively, he still put on a show of power. We're just a small business, trying to make a living. How could we dare to offend anyone?"

Consort Li may be slow-witted, but she was practically being verbally abused, so how could she not react? Yu Tingwan, however, didn't give them a chance to speak.

"So these two important people started to clash. Neither of them would yield or back down."

She's very daring, anyway.

Yu Tingwan bluntly stated, "But this fur only arrived in my hands from Jiangnan last night. Neither of you has ever seen it before. Why are you secretly competing over such a trivial matter?"

She didn't seem to care about getting a response and just kept talking to herself.

"The Fifth Prince's wife offered a high price simply because the fabric is worth that price. She also wants to maintain good relations with the Wei family, but she doesn't want Consort Li, who thinks the whole world has to give way to her just because she's pregnant, to be superior to her."

"But I don't want to do business with you."

"Now I'm in charge of the entire Wei family. I'm inexperienced and afraid of trouble. I know the Fifth Prince is extraordinary, and many people are eager to curry favor with him. The Fifth Prince's wife is willing to give me face, so logically I should also burn incense and pray to Buddha. There are rumors outside about some dragon aura, but even though the Hall of Mental Cultivation was burned down to nothing, His Majesty is still alive. The ancestral precepts of the Duke of Shun's Mansion are hanging in the ancestral hall. I can read, and it says 'Loyalty only to the Emperor.'"

Yu Tingwan took a sip of tea to moisten her throat.

"If no one is going to fight you for it, then there's no dispute about the fur."

“The Wei family is not what it used to be. If we are accused of supporting the Fifth Prince, and my husband is inexplicably labeled as a member of the Fifth Prince’s faction, what will His Majesty think?”

"I don't want to get too involved with the Fifth Prince's residence at this critical juncture."

Gu Wu: ?

The Empress Dowager's teacup trembled slightly.

Fifth Prince's Consort: ?

Even the mentally challenged Consort Li was dumbfounded.

With the crown prince dead, the other princes all aspire to become heir apparent and each has their own power base.

Everyone knows about this.

But who dares to point it out openly!
Not only will you offend people, but you'll also get into trouble!
What is the Fifth Prince Party?
It's as if the Fifth Prince is plotting a rebellion tomorrow!
The Fifth Prince's wife jumped up in alarm: "Yu Tingwan! You can't talk nonsense!"

Yu Tingwan said sadly, "Why don't you call me 'good sister' anymore?"

"Does the Fifth Prince not want to be the Crown Prince?"

He really is from the countryside!
You speak without thinking!

But what could the Fifth Prince's wife say?

Can she say yes?
“My prince is filial and only wants to do his duty. The matter of choosing an heir is for the Emperor to decide. It is not something we can discuss. You have overstepped your bounds.”

Yu Tingwan showed no intention of standing up. Although she was sitting and had a smiling face, her aura was not weak.

"Don't try to scare me with ambiguity. In our village, when families divide their property, there are plenty of brothers who fight tooth and nail over a few acres of land. How much more so someone in a position of power?"

Yu Tingwan stated.

"Of course, I don't want to sell Consort Li either."

Consort Li, watching the play: ...

Why is it her again?!
Yu Tingwan complained, "Others can offer 4000 taels, why can't you?"

Be more generous!

Libi:......

Yu Tingwan: "What's the point of revealing your identity? Even if you're a favored concubine in the palace, you still have to keep clear accounts with your own brothers."

"We're not related, I can't possibly lose a thousand just to make you smile."

"The child in your belly isn't mine."

She works so hard managing the household, how much has she earned!
Unfortunately, one was the Fifth Prince's wife, and the other was a favored concubine, both vying for the cloak. Even if others wanted to buy it, they all gave up the idea.

The goods are in good condition.

Nobody dares to take it anymore.

The air inside the hall was thick with the scent of incense, creating an indescribably strange atmosphere.

The servants kept their eyes down, barely daring to breathe.

But when Yu Tingwan said these words, not many people felt that she was being offensive.

The Empress Dowager's eyes even lit up.

The phrase "not related by blood or marriage" clearly moved her.

"I had no other choice, so I offered this cloak to the Empress Dowager as a token of my appreciation."

Yu Tingwan: "You can do whatever you want in private, I'm not getting involved."

"Of course, if you feel uncomfortable, then let the Empress Dowager give it to you. You are the younger generation, so it's understandable that you are a little hot-blooded."

The Fifth Prince's wife was furious when she heard her turn the tables on the other side.

Who's as young and impetuous as you?!

If it weren't for the Empress Dowager watching, she would have already pointed at Yu Tingwan and scolded her for being insolent!