Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 1801 My Aunt is the Empress 8
It's too late for the eldest prince to regret it now. In Linlang and Master Zhou's hearts, this man is already a useless pawn. Besides, three months of confinement is a long time. A lot can happen in three months. By the time he comes out, he won't have any room to maneuver. After three months of confinement, his little bit of power will probably be almost completely devoured by the other princes.

Leaving aside the fact that the eldest prince was imprisoned and unable to cause trouble, and also ignoring the fact that no matter how hard Qingcao and Zhou Erniang tried, they couldn't help the eldest prince and Linlang get together, let's just talk about the present. After temporarily dealing with the eldest prince, Linlang began to organize the information about the other princes that Little Bee had gathered. After all, she had promised the original owner that she would try her best to choose one of these ten princes to marry. After marriage, that person would have a very high chance of becoming emperor, so she naturally had to carefully look at the information of these ten people to see which ones, like the eldest prince, were pretending and actually already had other women, or even children.

It was eventually discovered that the second prince, who was only half a year younger than the eldest prince, also had a wife and children.

However, seeing that the eldest prince was discovered to have a woman and child, and was then reprimanded by the emperor for being stupid, the second prince was frightened and quickly sent the woman and child far away, fearing that if any prince discovered it and it was exposed, he would also be in trouble.

Obviously, Linlang wouldn't want this second prince either. Although he was a womanizer and didn't seem to have any "white moonlight" (idealized love), he had other women and children, so Linlang definitely wouldn't choose him.

The third prince, however, is quite deceptive.

He was only a year younger than the eldest prince, and at twenty-two years old, he should have had women and children by now. But he didn't, which explains why he was chosen in the second life in the original world. It's likely that the original owner was hurt by the eldest prince's affair in the first life, so she investigated the second prince and other princes. She then discovered that the second prince also had other women and children, while the third prince was very honest and had nothing. So she chose the third prince, only to find that he was also an ingrate.

Therefore, judging solely from surface data cannot definitively say whether a person will marry, because other princes may also be without women or children, but if they are as ruthless as the Third Prince, waiting for the Zhou family to support them in ascending the throne, they might then wipe out her and the Zhou family.

Therefore, the little bee's surveillance can only filter out princes that Linlang absolutely cannot marry, those who already have other women or even children. As for those who do not have other women or children, whether they can be married still requires further contact.

It was eventually discovered that half of the princes, specifically those numbered three, six, eight, nine, and ten, did not have other women.

But the latter three may not necessarily be without women; they just haven't found anyone yet because they are young.

The only ones who are truly old and still don't have other women are the Third Prince and the Sixth Prince.

The Third Prince has already been eliminated by Linlang, leaving only the Sixth Prince. Linlang will mainly observe whether the Sixth Prince is a suitable marriage partner.

Speaking of the Third Prince, he hasn't been having a good time lately either.

Although the eldest prince was imprisoned, he resented the third prince for revealing his situation. So before being imprisoned, he instructed his factions to intensify their attacks on the third prince, find his flaws, and report them to the emperor.

Even if the eldest prince doesn't say anything, his subordinates will definitely cause trouble for the third prince. After all, the third prince has harmed the eldest prince and caused him to be imprisoned. If the eldest prince can't ascend the throne because of this, then the third prince is guilty of a heinous crime.

How could the Crown Prince's forces not attack such a heinous criminal?

Faced with the full-scale attack from the First Prince's men, coupled with the other princes taking advantage of the situation and adding fuel to the fire, and even Linlang adding fuel to the fire, how could the Third Prince possibly withstand it?

He's not a very capable person, otherwise he wouldn't have needed to rely on the Zhou family to get to power; he could have done it on his own.

Such a person with little ability, facing attacks from all sides, unlike in his second life when he had the Zhou family and the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion to help him withstand the harm, naturally could not withstand it. Soon, he made a mistake while doing errands for the emperor, and was reprimanded by the emperor and had his salary reduced.

Getting the Third Prince to do something well is difficult, but getting him to make mistakes while on official business for the Emperor is easy. Just trip him up while he's doing his job. And that's how the Third Prince got into trouble, and he'll probably continue to be unlucky, because the First Prince and Linlang won't let him off the hook.

The other princes, seeing the Third Prince in trouble, would also kick him while he was down, so it's no wonder the Third Prince couldn't recover.

Leaving aside the fact that the Third Prince was struggling without the help of the Zhou family and the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, let's just say that after Linlang abandoned the First Prince, she did not completely refuse the invitations from the other princes for the time being. After all, she needed to observe the Sixth Prince secretly and could not be too obvious.

If she doesn't accept the invitations from the other princes and only accepts the invitation from the sixth prince, even if the sixth prince is stupid, he will know that he has been chosen by Linlang. At that time, he will be afraid of not succeeding and will be very careful. Then Linlang will not be able to observe anything.

The best course of action is to observe quietly without alerting the enemy.

As expected, the Sixth Prince did not notice anything amiss and simply invited Linlang out for a stroll as usual.

When others took Linlang, they would go to the royal gardens to enjoy the scenery, or go hunting in the royal hunting grounds. At the very least, they would take her to places that sold jewelry so that she could pick out some pretty pieces.

The sixth prince was different; he always took Linlang out for food and drinks.

The Sixth Prince has a fondness for food (to put it bluntly, he's a foodie), so it's quite normal for him to take Linlang to some famous restaurants for meals and drinks.

After the Sixth Prince and Linlang sat down, he smiled and said, "I don't have any other hobbies, I just love this kind of food."

Linlang didn't hide her preferences, saying, "I also love good food."

However, it's fine if she likes good food, but it's problematic if the sixth prince likes good food. It's unlikely that the emperor would choose someone with such an obvious hobby as his emperor.

When the ruler has a certain preference, those below will follow suit even more. If the sixth prince becomes emperor, people will know he loves fine food and will wonder how to please him in this regard, lest things end up causing hardship and waste of resources for the people.

Therefore, Linlang estimated that the emperor would not favor the sixth prince.

There were five princes ahead of him, and with so many older brothers, the emperor couldn't possibly bypass them and give the throne to the sixth prince. So, under normal circumstances, it would be very difficult for the sixth prince to become the crown prince and eventually the emperor—unless he had the support of the Zhou family and the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion.

Even with the support of the Zhou family and the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, it will be much more difficult for the Sixth Prince to ascend to the throne than it was for the Third Prince in the previous life.

It's important to understand that the reason the Third Prince was able to ascend the throne was because the First Prince was abandoned by the Emperor due to his affair with his beloved; the Second Prince later caused other major troubles, almost leading to his being stripped of his title and reduced to a commoner. So it was the Third Prince's turn. The Third Prince was considered to be the rightful heir, and it wasn't difficult for the Zhou family to push him to the throne.

With so many princes ahead of the Sixth Prince, if he wanted to ascend the throne, wouldn't he have to defeat all five of them, or make some extraordinary contribution? So, given the Sixth Prince's situation, even with the support of the Zhou family and the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, it would be very difficult for him to take the throne.

(End of this chapter)