Chapter 153: Chapter 153 Aren’t You Just Being a Kept Man?

A few people went to the main hall reception room.

Ji Teng usually only stays in the resting room and here, so only these two places are considered clean.

As long as one deliberately ignores the huge hole in the roof, it is barely tolerable.

Wei Yingying held her temper, but couldn’t lash out at Ji Teng: "Where are the servants in the mansion?"

Ji Teng lowered his eyes: "It’s cold, they haven’t woken up yet."

"Really acting like their own masters. If they haven’t woken up, does that mean you haven’t had breakfast either?"

Ji Teng spoke softly: "I don’t have the habit of eating breakfast."

It’s not that he doesn’t have the habit, he probably doesn’t have anything to eat at all.

Wei Yingying’s face turned cold: "But I want to eat. Aren’t we supposed to at least be able to have a meal when we come in?"

These words made Ji Teng stunned. He rubbed his fingers helplessly.

"It’s a hardship for you."

"I will learn to cook."

Shen Hua held the icy cold tea, her lips touched it, and she took a small sip, so cold it made her teeth ache. She shivered slightly, busily put it down, and touched it no more.

"Gentlemen keep away from the kitchen, there’s no reason for you to cook."

Wei Yingying: "I’m even less likely to enter."

"Since the servants are ineffective, why not just send them all back?"

"That’s not possible."

Ji Teng responded with a resigned warmth: "They were assigned by the palace."

Disheartening.

Wei Yingying was agitated, yet she knew they were the Empress’s people. If a real problem occurred, let alone Ji Teng, even she would be implicated.

After all, she can’t afford the responsibility of distracting the Prince and disrespecting him before even entering the door.

Wei Yingying could only take out a large bag of silver, spilling it onto the old table, piling up like a small mountain.

"I don’t understand repairs, you handle it. Also, remember to eat your meals. Take it, this is not charity, consider it a loan from me, to be returned later."

Shen Hua raised her eyebrows, Wei Yingying might be unreliable, but she is indeed generous. She even knew to consider Ji Teng’s dignity.

But Ji Teng shook his head: "It cannot be fixed."

He smiled desolately: "Miss Wei probably doesn’t know, I recently went into the palace for this matter, and they said they would send someone from the Ministry of Industry."

Such words, you can just listen and let them pass.

Emperor He had left him waiting for two hours before finally sending an eunuch with instructions. Standing outside the hall, he saw the heartlessness of the imperial family.

"How is that possible, my Daddy is the Minister of Ministry of Industry, if he received instructions, he would have told me..."

Saying this, her voice gradually faded. Dissolving between her lips, the unsaid words were openly supplemented by Ji Ge who walked in brazenly.

"Even if your Daddy received instructions, he would also need to consider the Empress and continue to delay. If my third brother goes to urge again and the Emperor becomes angry, although the Empress might stay untouched, the Minister Mansion could suffer."

"If your Daddy didn’t receive instructions, then it’s the imperial family’s intention, in that case, there’s even less reason to go through the hardship of entering the palace."

Ji Ge, for once, was unusually sober.

"Furthermore, if news gets out that repairs were made privately, and someone proposes that the Ministry of Industry should come to repair, it could become a mockery of the Emperor, turning the entire Ministry into a laughingstock."

Shen Hua went to hold the warmer on her lap.

The person with intentions is referring to the Empress.

No one pities Ji Teng, nor can anyone make decisions for him.

Not to mention what Ji Ge said, Ji Teng might still be blamed by everyone.

—Is it not just delaying the repairs? Can’t even bear this little hardship.

A light sentence, but heavy as a thousand catties, enough to cut to the heart.

This kind of pain, not experienced personally, is ultimately incomprehensible.

After all, who let Ji Teng not have the fate of nobility.

As Ji Ge arrived, Yan Mi was about to get up to salute, but he wasn’t that formal and immediately excused her.

"Oh! Shen!"

Ji Ge, with his arms around, called out affectionately and frivolously.

"Had I known the Third Prince Mansion was so lively, I would have come earlier."

Shen Hua tilted her head, "If the Prince takes charge and beats those servants, it will be even livelier."

Ji Ge: ...

He felt that Shen Hua was up to no good.

He nodded towards Ji Teng: "Disgraced Prince."

Then, calmly and soberly, he pointed to himself.

"Disgraced Prince."

"Neither I nor Third Brother are nobler than the other."

"Those aren’t servants, each one of them is haughty as hell."

While saying this, he walked a few steps closer to look at the silver on the table.

"If I use your silver, I’m afraid Third Brother would lose his last shred of backbone."

Wei Yingying frowned, "This is the money I saved up bit by bit myself."

It’s not from outsiders.

"So what?"

Ji Ge was determined more than anyone else: "Miss Wei, let me be honest with you, no matter how unfit for society my Third Brother becomes in the future, he won’t touch your dowry. That’s what only the most incapable men would do, it’s shameful!"

"The silver I gave him, he didn’t take a cent. He and I are brothers, closer than anyone. How about you?"

After speaking, he turned his head: "Right, Third Brother?"

Ji Teng looked deeply at Ji Ge. Then he moved the silver towards himself.

"Well then, I guess I must obediently comply."

Ji Ge: ?????

"Now wait—"

"Aren’t you just living off a woman?"

Ji Teng: "Living off a woman isn’t so bad."

Ji Ge sneered.

"Alright, alright, I get it now. Shen, let’s go out. I really don’t want to see his disgraceful face anymore."

Indeed, Shen Hua left, but she was holding Yan Mi’s hand, deliberately creating space for the two to be alone.

With several people gone, the living room seemed even colder and emptier.

Wei Yingying finally let out the most genuine smile since she entered the mansion.

The first step in supporting a man, success!

She advised softly, "Be frugal with it. I will issue a monthly salary, and I will share half of it with you in the future."

Ji Teng looked at her, "Miss Wei, do you realize what you are doing now?"

He explained the pros and cons: "I am just a bottomless pit, and you already knew this when you came today. A disowned man has no chance of turnaround."

"An imperial marriage, you can’t resist, and I can’t help you get out. You also know the Empress loathes me, and Princess Consort Jing probably won’t make things easy either."

Wei Yingying nodded, then puzzled: "What do you mean by telling me all this?"

"I still have to marry you anyway."

Wei Yingying glared at him, "Could it be that marrying me is troubling you?"

She bit her lip, "I did disappear for a while, but my innocence remains intact."

"Miss Wei, you misunderstand."

Ji Teng said, "What I just said was just to let you know, the Wei Family dowry will naturally be generous, the palace will also add to it accordingly, the mansion’s servants are arrogant but they are also spies, if you don’t get along with me, entering the palace might earn you favor from the nobles."

"In the future, the mansion will be divided into two areas, the east for Miss Wei. Whether you want to renovate or indulge in luxurious food and clothes daily, no one will bother you. Life won’t be hard."

He truly had Wei Yingying’s best interests at heart.

Yet, Wei Yingying stood up furiously.

"No way!"

Wei Yingying: "You’re quite a decent person, but I disagree."

An incompetent man relies on the dowry of a woman, and an incompetent woman can’t secure a man.

Her mother was quite incompetent, her father always stayed in the concubine’s room.

"Don’t think for a second I will endure a living widowhood."

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