Chapter 81 Pull a line

Jin Bao kicked the door first, then he stepped aside. Jin Yuan followed Li Fushen and went straight into the house.

Jin Bao was the last one to enter, but he was very smart. When he saw the chair in the room, he immediately moved it over and said with a smile, "Prince, please sit down."

Li Fu sat down with his horse and golden sword.

Song Wen looked at this series of operations with his mouth wide open in shock. After a while, he said, "Who are you? Breaking into someone else's house in the middle of the night! What do you want to do?"

Shen Jingyi was also surprised, but soon she put away the surprised expression on her face. She first pulled Song Wen's sleeve to stop him from talking, and at the same time tried to remain calm and asked: "What exactly does the prince want to do?"

She was not familiar with Li Fu and had never even met him before, but Li Fu took the initiative to tell her about Li Gaoyou. Although Shen Jingyi was not that smart, she was not stupid.

"Mrs. Shen is quite direct." Coincidentally, Li Fu was too lazy to beat around the bush on this matter.

Li Fu's sharp eyes suddenly shot towards Song Wen who was standing behind Shen Jingyi. Song Wen was so frightened that his heart skipped a beat and his face turned pale. Li Fu laughed mockingly and then slowly moved his eyes to Shen Jingyi's belly.

Shen Jingyi subconsciously took two steps back and covered her lower abdomen at the same time.

"Just now, were you thinking of aborting this child?"

Shen Jingyi did guess that Li Fu came prepared, but she didn't expect that he even knew about her pregnancy. Cracks appeared in her pretended calm and composed appearance, and they split apart madly at an extremely fast speed.

"Don't be afraid." Li Fu smiled, looking very good-tempered. "I have no ill intentions."

No ill intention.

These four words, spoken from Li Fu's mouth, carried great malice in themselves.

"That's fine."

Needless to say, Song Wen was so frightened that he dared not even move. Shen Jingyi, the only one who could still remain calm, was more like a clay Buddha that could be shattered at any time. The feeling of anxiety and panic, like the rising tide of the sea, quickly spread in her heart.

"I don't like beating around the bush, so I'll just be frank." Li Fu seemed like a savior who came to save them. He said in a gentle and amiable tone, "It's not necessarily impossible to keep this child, but maybe he needs your father's help."

"What does your Highness mean?" Shen Jingyi asked.

"What our prince means is that if Madam wants to keep the child, our prince can help, but we need the help of the Minister of the Central Secretariat."

Shen Jingyi thought for a moment and asked, "What is your plan, Prince?"

"Li Gaoyou has lost his fertility, but this matter has been kept a secret. Not a word of it has leaked out. Even the emperor has been kept in the dark. Why do you think this is?"

Why?

"Of course it's because it's embarrassing and I don't want anyone to know."

"Is that the only reason? Madam, please think about it again."

Shen Jingyi was silent for a long time, then asked, "What do you think, Prince?"

Li Fudao: "Madam, don't you already have the answer in your heart?"

Shen Jingyi did have the answer in her mind, and the answer was very clear. Why else could Concubine Xi and Li Gaoyou have been so careful to prevent the news of Li Gaoyou's injury from being leaked, other than the fact that they still had a glimmer of hope for the throne?

Even if it means risking the crime of deceiving the emperor, this matter must be kept secret.

"But this kind of thing, can we keep it secret for one or two years, three or five years? That's fine, but what about longer? Without an heir, it will be discovered one day. Since we've already taken the risk, what's wrong with taking another step?"

Li Fu paused for a moment, and looked at Song Wen behind him with a gloomy look, "Li Gaoyou can't have his own offspring anyway, so who the child's biological father is doesn't matter. Don't you want to see your son ascend to that position in the future?"

Song Wen's eyes flickered slightly. It was undeniable that in the face of such a huge temptation, he couldn't help but be tempted. He even thought that if his son ascended the throne in the future...

Thinking of this, he grabbed Shen Jingyi's arm. Shen Jingyi didn't look at him, but just frowned.

"Just now you said that you needed my father's help, so you mean that my father should go and persuade them personally."

"Of course." Li Fu said, "With your father's eloquence and his many years of experience as an official, I believe that success will come soon."

Shen Jingyi looked at Li Fu suspiciously and said, "Your Highness, you came here so late at night. You shouldn't just come to help us solve the problem, right? Just tell us what you want."

"What I want to do is very simple, that is, to meet with your father and discuss the future cooperation. And my wife will be indispensable in this."

Shen Jingyi breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, she suddenly realized.

It turned out that Li Fu came for her father, and she could understand that.

There were many people who wanted to curry favor with her father, but her father was such a high-ranking official, how could he be easily curried favor with like an ordinary person?

Li Fu couldn't find a way to please her father, so he found her and started with her.

Now that Li Fu's true intentions were confirmed, Shen Jingyi was no longer so frightened or panicked.

"If what you said is true." Shen Jingyi thought for a moment and said, "I can help you with this."

Li Fu smiled slightly, then stood up and said, "Thank you very much, Madam."

After saying that, Li Fu turned around and left. Jin Yuan and Jin Bao glanced at Shen Jingyi and Song Wen at the same time, then followed him and left.

As he walked out of the room, Li Fu said, "Then I will wait for good news from my wife."

He walked quickly and without disturbing anyone in the yard, just as quietly as he came.

After leaving the yard, Jin Bao turned his head to look at the doorway behind him. It was pitch black, like a giant gaping mouth. He couldn't help but sneer and said in a very contemptuous and sarcastic tone: "This girl from the Shen family looks quite smart, but I don't know why she would fall for such a coward."

"Indeed." Jin Yuan also said, "I have never seen a man before, but he always hides behind a girl. Don't you agree, Prince?"

Both brothers were trained in the military camp by Li Fu, so they naturally looked down on such a coward who would hide behind a woman when encountering problems.

Li Fu did not make any comment on this. From a man's perspective, Song Wen's actions were indeed despised by Li Fu, but he inexplicably had some understanding of Shen Jingyi's performance in protecting Song Wen just now.

After all, we grew up together.

Then he imagined what had happened to Chu Ran that made him hide behind him in fear.

It could be because of a scary beast, or because of something scary.

After much thought, there is no such thing.