Chapter 168 Taking Advantage of the Fire
In the backyard of the Prince's Mansion, the guards who had been searching took the small medicine bottle back and brought back Princess Mingxi's words.
Helian Chen looked at the small box in his hand, the size of a fingernail, and asked doubtfully, "She said there's medicine here that can erase the words on my face?"
"Yes! Your Highness! Mingxi did say that. He asked his subordinates to bring this to Your Highness, saying that Your Highness would understand after using it!
She told her subordinates to tell His Highness that this potion was extremely precious, so there was only one drop of it, and it couldn't completely erase all the words on His Highness's face. She could only let His Highness try it. If His Highness was satisfied with the effect, he needed to go to the Prince Yu's Mansion to buy it from her.
Helian Chen looked at the guard in disbelief, as if he had heard a joke: "She actually asked me to buy it from her? Humph, how much silver does she want?"
"Your Highness, Princess Mingxi said a complete bottle of potion costs one hundred thousand taels of gold!"
As soon as the words fell, Helian Chen flew into a rage and grabbed the teacup on the table.
With a "crash", the teacup was thrown to the guard's toes, and the tea splashed all over the floor.
"Good job, Yunli! You're really good! It turns out that the prank with the words on Gu's face was done by her!
Now she's turning around and trying to extort a hundred thousand taels of gold from me! How dare she? She's so shameless! I really underestimated this woman!
The guard knelt on the ground with his head down in silence, not daring to respond.
After thinking for a moment, Helian Chen looked at the guard and said:
"Go and invite Prime Minister Yun to come to me! And also go to the palace and call the imperial physician over!"
"Yes, Your Highness! I obey your command!"
Helian Chen suddenly thought of Yun Wei. Didn't she also have medical skills? It was a good opportunity for her to come over and take a look. If Yun Wei could erase the words on her face, what would Yun Li, that bitch, have to do with it?
Bah! What a shameless bitch! How dare she take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail her! He will definitely be irreconcilable with her in the future!
He quickly called out to the guard who had already reached the gate of the courtyard:
"Wait, when we go to the Prime Minister's Mansion, ask Miss Yun to come too!"
"It's Your Highness!"
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Yun Qingshan and Yun Wei knew more or less what happened in the Prince's Mansion these days. They also knew that the Prince's Mansion was robbed, but they didn't know that the entire warehouse of the Prince's Mansion was stolen overnight.
If we knew that Yun Qingshan was definitely connected to the theft in the Prime Minister's Mansion, the identical methods must have been carried out by the same person or the same group of people!
"Your humble servant pays respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
"Your humble servant pays homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
Helian Chen waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, get up! Yunwei, take a look at the words on my face. Do you have any way to remove them?"
Yun Qingshan and Yun Wei stood up and looked up to see Helian Chen's face painted with all kinds of colors. They were both shocked.
Yun Wei was surprised and said, "Your Highness...you are..."
Yun Qingshan suddenly remembered that the Crown Prince had been ill for the past few days and had not attended court. This was the reason.
Helian Chen's face was gloomy: "I was set up by that little bitch Yunli! It was all her fault!
Can you show me a way to remove the words on your face?"
Yun Wei hesitated for a moment, stepped forward and looked at his face for a long time, touched it with her hand, wiped it with her handkerchief, but could not figure out what was going on.
Shaking her head and sighing, she said, "Your Highness, I don't know what this was written on, and I have no way to remove it."
"Don't you claim to be an expert doctor? How come you can't even solve this little thing?"
Yun Wei said with a look of grievance: "Your Highness, Yun Li must have used some special means. If Your Highness could wipe it off easily, she would not have done all this useless work. So she deliberately made Your Highness look bad!
Your Highness, our wedding is coming up soon, and the royal families of the four nations will come to congratulate you. But she chose to cause trouble for Your Highness at this very moment. Your Highness, what do you think is her intention?
After hearing what Yun Wei said, Helian Chen's face turned darker than the bottom of a pot. He was about to get married, and Yun Li was sure that he was anxious to wipe out the words on his face, otherwise he would be ridiculed by the world, so she asked for a huge sum of money from him.
"Humph, this bitch wants me to spend 100,000 taels of gold to buy her potion!"
Yun Qingshan and Yun Wei were both shocked when they heard this.
Yun Qingshan was furious. "How dare she? She's so arrogant! She actually wants 100,000 taels of gold!"
"This is why I asked you to come here today! Yunli is your daughter in name only. Go find her and ask her to give me the potion. I will forgive you for what happened. Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!"
Hearing this, Yun Qingshan looked embarrassed. He and Yun Li had a bad relationship. Since Yun Li was so blatantly blackmailing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, she must have been sure that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince could not produce evidence to prove that she did it, so His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had to bear the loss.
"Your Highness, you know that I have always had a bad relationship with that rebellious girl. However, I am willing to go to the Prince Yu's Palace and try to make a move on Your Highness's behalf. Since she dares to ask for such a huge sum of money, she must be sure that Your Highness has no way to deal with her. Therefore, I suggest that Your Highness prepare the money as soon as possible, solve the current problem first, give it to her, and then find an opportunity to make her return it later!"
Helian Chen looked at the father and daughter with a mocking expression: "You say it so easily. The treasury of my Prince's Mansion was robbed clean overnight. How can I come up with 100,000 taels of gold now? This is 100,000 taels of gold! Not silver!
This matter is inextricably linked to the Prime Minister's Mansion, so if you can find a way to get Yun Li to hand over the potion, that would be even better. If not, please pay the 100,000 taels of gold for me!"
Hearing this, Yun Qingshan said embarrassedly: "To be honest with you, Your Highness, my Prime Minister's Mansion was completely robbed by thieves half a year ago.
The modus operandi is exactly the same as that used in the Crown Prince's warehouse. As soon as I entered the room and listened to what the Crown Prince said, I was certain that they must be the same group. Oh, by the way, has Your Highness heard of the theft at Prince Duan's Mansion? They used the same method.
If Your Highness doesn't want to ask, you can ask Lord Li at the Dali Temple. He was the one investigating the theft case at Prince Duan's Mansion at the time!"
Helian Chen's eyes were filled with shock: "Are you saying that the Prime Minister's Mansion was robbed a long time ago?"
Yun Qingshan nodded embarrassedly: "I dare not lie to Your Highness, nor do I dare to hide anything from Your Highness! If Your Highness is worried, you can send someone to the Prime Minister's Mansion to check. I did not report it to the police at that time because the theft had just happened at the Prince Duan's Mansion and the Dali Temple was also investigating.
I have secretly sent people to investigate, but after so long there has been no news, no clues at all.
I think the thief is probably targeting court officials..."
Helian Chen was shocked. When he heard Yun Qingshan say this, his heart sank to the bottom.
The thieves came prepared, and I'm afraid the things in the warehouse will never be found again.
But he really couldn't swallow this anger! The warehouse was robbed clean, and Yun Li took advantage of the situation to rob him. How could he not be angry?
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