Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 1874 Cousin 45
King Zhou pounded on the door while cursing, “I’ll teach you all to mess things up! You fools! With just a few of you, you’ve already split into two factions. You can’t even decide who will come to power from within yourselves. What will happen to the family that chose the wrong side? Have you all cleared your minds and thought this through?”

Then he instructed the servants who had come with Master Chu and the others, saying, "Take your master back and have each family send someone to watch over him. No one is allowed to leave until the crown prince is chosen. I will send someone to check, and if any family lets their master out, I will break their legs!"

Upon hearing the King of Zhou's order, Master Chu and the others became anxious. How could they be locked up? If the emperor didn't appoint an heir apparent soon, would they be imprisoned for months or even years? What difference would that be from being in jail?! Master Chu and the others naturally refused to accept this.

But the King of Zhou was adamant and did not allow them to say anything. He ordered them to be taken back to his residence and examined.

Just kidding, these idiots, we can't leave them alone, who knows what kind of trouble they'll cause.

After King Zhou ordered all these fools to be locked up, Linlang was still not at ease, so she would send little bees to patrol every now and then. She also set up keywords so that as soon as she saw these people leaving the house, or if someone with ill intentions came into the mansion to instigate this matter, she would have the little bees fly back to report to her immediately.

Fortunately, after King Zhou gave them a good beating, everyone realized that they couldn't just randomly choose sides. After all, King Zhou's sons were divided into two factions, and who knew who would win in the end? They couldn't just take sides arbitrarily.

When the wives and sons of Master Chu and his accomplices heard about these things, they also felt that Master Chu and his accomplices were acting recklessly. So they helped keep an eye on Master Chu and his accomplices to prevent them from going out and messing around, so as not to bring trouble to the family.

Because they were being watched by everyone in the family, Master Chu and the others were indeed unable to leave the mansion and were forced to stay at home. They were furious and wondered who was behind their misfortune.

Linlang was relieved to see that they had behaved themselves.

Leaving aside the turmoil in the court, as long as Linlang doesn't interfere, it's none of her business. Instead, let's talk about the Zhou Prince's Mansion. After the new Second Madam Chu's family took over the supply of flowers and plants for the Zhou Prince's Mansion, everyone soon noticed that the flowers and plants in the mansion were becoming increasingly unsightly. Soon, someone reported this matter to the Zhou Prince and his heir.

The King of Zhou and his heir did not need to investigate; they could tell whether it was true or not simply by looking at it with their own eyes.

The flowers and plants were indeed much worse than before. Without the King of Zhou speaking, the Crown Prince of Zhou questioned the Crown Princess about what had happened. He then said unhappily, "I trusted you with everything you did before. How did you manage things like this? If I know about this, Father must know too. He'll probably scold me."

The Crown Prince's wife had been waiting for him to ask, so when she saw that the Crown Prince was questioning her in a bad mood, she said calmly, "Ask the Second Prince's wife about this. Before, you asked me to give her some work, but I thought that since she was new here, it would be bad if she made a mistake if she was in charge of something too important. So I put her in charge of the flowers and plants in the mansion. She should know how the flowers and plants in the mansion have become like this."

When the Crown Prince of Zhou heard from his wife that this was under the jurisdiction of his second son's wife, he immediately fell silent.

He knew it! The Crown Princess wasn't the kind of person to be so unreliable as to expose something so obviously wrong. It turned out that it was the Second Prince's wife who did it. He was speechless. He thought that the Second Prince's wife was too useless. It was a waste that Consort Han and the Second Prince had asked her for a job, and she even asked the Crown Princess for something to do. And this is what she did.

Knowing he was in the wrong, the Crown Prince of Zhou stopped arguing with his wife and instead sent someone to investigate the situation of Second Madam Chu. The investigation, however, left the Crown Prince speechless with anger, wondering what kind of luck his second son had.

When he married for the first time, he didn't want the woman chosen by the Crown Princess; he chose his own wife. As a result, he chose a woman who sold her daughter, who almost swindled him out of all his money.

Because of what happened the first time, the second time he wasn't allowed to choose his own wife. Instead, his birth mother, Consort Han, chose one for him. As a result, he fell into the trap again—his wife's family looked wealthy, but they actually had huge deficits. If it weren't for the money from their household that temporarily filled some of the holes, their business would have gone out of business long ago.

However, even if they used the money from buying flowers and plants at their residence to temporarily fill some gaps, it probably wouldn't last long. This is because when his in-laws were short of money before, they borrowed a lot of money, and now the interest alone would cost them a lot every year.

Their household had limited funds for purchasing flowers and plants, so now, Second Madam Chu's family was urging her to quickly secure more jobs so that they could get more supplies and pay off some of their loans.

These people were really shameless. They embezzled so much money meant for buying flowers and plants before Second Madam Chu even got any more jobs. This made them realize something was wrong very quickly. If it were him, he would have waited until Second Madam Chu got more jobs and could earn more money before making his move. That way, even if the household noticed something was wrong, they would have already made a fortune over several months.

—Actually, Grandma Chu's family members aren't stupid. They know that embezzling now would be easily discovered, but their family's cash flow is about to dry up, so they have no choice but to embezzle money meant for buying flowers and plants to fill the hole left by the previous embezzlement.

Seeing how unlucky his second son was, the Crown Prince Zhou thought that the people chosen by his wife were actually more reliable. He hadn't heard any bad rumors about the people she had chosen for his second son before, so she must have investigated them. His son's choice, on the other hand, was probably made without any investigation, otherwise things wouldn't have turned out this way.

After the Crown Prince of Zhou discovered what Chu Er Nai Nai's family had done, he immediately suspended Chu Er Nai Nai's job and ordered the former merchants to provide flowers and plants.

When Second Madam Chu was informed by Second Brother Chu that her job had been suspended, she was still unaware of the situation and assumed that it was the Crown Princess of Zhou who had ordered it to be stopped. She couldn't help but speak ill of the Crown Princess of Zhou in secret, and asked with a puzzled look, "This job was given to me by my father. If Madam doesn't let me do it, won't my father be unhappy when he finds out?"

Chu Erlang said impatiently, "It wasn't Madam who brought it up, it was Father who said it. Look at the mess your family has made!"

Chu Erlang handed over the information that the Prince of Zhou had investigated to Chu Er's wife.

Grandma Chu was stunned when she saw the large stack of information that Prince Zhou had investigated.

She knew her family needed the money, but she never imagined they could be so greedy—charging the same item for a hundred times the price.

It's normal that Second Madam Chu didn't know the truth, because she hadn't investigated the situation regarding the things her family provided beforehand. She only thought that her father and brothers wouldn't cheat her, but she never expected them to do such a thing, which left her speechless.