The second prince Chu Huaiyu teamed up with Yun Zimu, the son of the cabinet minister, to tamper with the silver sent to the northwest for disaster relief.
This matter originally had nothing to do with Meng Jiuan.
He would even be happy to see the downfall of the Second Prince and the Yun family.
After all, his good friend is a royalist, and the Second Prince is the biggest stumbling block. Once he is removed, the Crown Prince's accession to the throne will not be too difficult.
But the bad thing is that the fifth prince Chu Chengfeng was also involved in this matter.
Meng Jiuan left a little late last night, and on his way back he happened to run into Su Jinrou who was crying sadly.
He already had sympathy for Su Jinrou, and when he saw her crying, he softened his heart on the spot.
Hearing her pleading, although Meng Jiuan felt quite resentful, he still agreed to her request.
This is also the reason why he was so angry just now and asked his friends to find a solution.
The fragrance of ink and tea in the study are mixed together. The smell is not unpleasant, and there is even a faint refreshing scent.
Qin Songmo withdrew his gaze from the broken purple clay set at his feet.
He drank the only remaining cup of tea in his hand, and waited until he raised his head and met the eyes of the person in front of him.
The angry look in the latter's eyes suddenly shrank to the side after his gaze met his.
"Don't look at me like that. If Chu Huaifeng hadn't saved Jinrou from falling into the water, Yu Jinrou would have owed him a life-saving debt."
"I, I won't come to beg you either."
He looked so majestic just now.
Even now, I feel guilty when I look at my friends.
Meng Jiuan pursed his lips into a straight line, and his furrowed brows never relaxed.
"Is this how you ask for help?"
When the tender voice of a child sounded in the study, Meng Jiuan suddenly turned around and glared at the little boy who was playing chess on the couch.
"What are you laughing at? It's adults' business, kids, don't meddle in it!"
The pig heads in Li Shengyi's hand had already become a mess.
Hearing Meng Jiuan's bad tone, she raised her head and looked at him, then she looked away.
However, the contempt in her eyes still caught Meng Jiuan's attention.
"Why can't he control it? Even a child like me knows that my father can't control this matter."
"Why can't he control it?" Meng Jiuan stiffened his neck. "As the Prime Minister of Great Chu, he's second only to the emperor and above everyone else. Is there anything he can't control?"
Meng Jiuan didn't dare to vent his anger on Qin Songmo.
So he took out his anger on Li Shengyi.
As he finished speaking with his neck stiffened, he regretted it.
After all, Li Shengyi is still young and has nothing to do with this matter from the beginning to the end.
No matter how angry he was, he couldn't take it out on her.
On the other hand, Li Shengyi did not show any crying behavior like a child.
She placed the chess piece in her hand on the chessboard, and when she looked up again, her young face was clearly filled with dissatisfaction.
"My father is the Prime Minister, not the King of Hell. He can't control other people's life or death."
"As soon as you walked in, you started yelling at my dad and broke his tea set. Now you want my dad to help the imperial concubine. What's your reason?"
"The Imperial Concubine also saved my father back then?"
Li Shengyi spoke in a light voice, with a calm expression between his eyebrows.
If only she didn't look like Qin Songmo at all.
Meng Jiuan almost suspected that she was not picked up by Qin Songmo, but was an illegitimate daughter left outside, and was only now brought back to the prime minister's residence.
Facing Li Shengyi's questioning, Meng Jiuan's face turned as red as liver, "No."
When he heard the answer "no", a smile appeared on Li Shengyi's face.
"Since there isn't one, my father, as an important official, is involved with the Imperial Concubine in the harem. General, do you think this is appropriate?"
“Not appropriate.”
After Meng Jiuan uttered this answer, he immediately turned around and looked at Qin Songmo again, "But Chu Huaifeng saved Jinrou, and he is indebted to Jinrou..."
"Did His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince save my father?"
Li Shengyi's repeated question made Meng Jiuan's face even redder.
His fists were clenched so tightly that they made crackling sounds.
After a long while, he finally said in a deep voice, "No."
"Since there is nothing, why would my father save the fifth prince?"
[The Fifth Prince and the Second Prince are colluding, and now something's wrong, and they want my father to clean up the mess? What the hell do you want?]
"My father is the Prime Minister. He's not a scapegoat, nor is he a scapegoat. If I were to come out and clean up the mess for the Fifth Prince and the others this time, how would the Crown Prince and the Second Prince view him?"
[When I first saw Meng Jiuan's character, he was just a fool. I didn't know that until I interacted with him. The more I interacted with him, the more I felt that the word "fool" was actually a compliment to him.]
[This brain, the zombies would shake their heads and leave with regret when they saw him open his skull.]
Different from the indifferent attitude on the surface.
The contempt in Li Shengyi's heart was almost obvious to her.
Meng Jiuan's brows were twisted into the shape of the Chinese character "川".
He glanced at Li Shengyi, then turned back to look at his friend who had remained silent the entire time, "Yuan Qing, go ahead."
Qin Songmo opened his thin lips and said, "Twenty gold."
Meng Jiuan was stunned for a moment, "What?"
"This set of purple clay teapots is worth twenty gold. Send it to me before tonight."
As soon as Qin Songmo finished speaking, Li Shengyi burst into laughter.
Only then did Meng Jiuan realize that he had been tricked by the father and daughter.
His face turned pale and blue.
He took a deep breath, raised his clenched fist and was about to hit the table in front of him.
"The table is made of huanghuali wood, an antique from the previous dynasty, and costs fifty gold."
Meng Jiuan: ...
"Qin Songmo! Can't you give Chu Huaifeng a hand for my sake?"
"Chu Huaifeng's mother was a palace maid and has been unpopular since childhood. Even if he relies on the Second Prince to gain some benefits, he won't be able to stir up any waves."
"But if you save him, Jinrou will be grateful to you."
As soon as he finished speaking.
Li Shengyi, who was sitting on the soft couch, sighed deeply, "Lovesickness is incurable."
[What's the saying about being unloved since childhood and not making any waves?]
Chu Huaifeng will eventually kill even the Second Prince. He rose to that position with the support of Su Jinrou. He may seem harmless, but he's actually a swindler!
[Tsk, when will my dad stop playing with Meng Jiuan? It's so annoying. He's dragging down the IQ of the entire Prime Minister's Mansion.]
If Qin Songmo had been skeptical about his daughter's thoughts before.
Last night at the palace banquet, the Second Prince and Yun Bixian had attacked him, which made him completely believe her words.
Since my daughter said that Chu Huaifeng is a person who pretends to be a pig but is actually a tiger.
Qin Songmo tapped his fingers on the table. "I can pull the Fifth Prince out of this matter, but there's one thing I want you to do."
"Wangchen found out something was wrong with Yunbixian Restaurant, and I want you to find the informant."
Meng Jiuan uttered an "ah," "Why do we have to find the middleman? Wouldn't it be better to just arrest Yun Bixian and torture him?"
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