Chapter 151 The King of Han’s Attitude
As soon as Li Nuo walked into Yuyin Pavilion, he was surrounded by a group of beautiful girls.
"Sir, please take a seat."
"Sir, have some tea!"
"I'll go call Sister Phoenix."
Li Nuo sat down surrounded by the crowd. A girl brought him tea, another girl massaged his legs and shoulders, and the whole area was filled with the fragrance of women.
The key is that each of them uses a different sachet with a different scent.
Different scents mixed together, choking Li Nuo and making him cough. Fortunately, the phoenix appeared and rescued him.
The second floor of Yuyin Pavilion.
After entering Fenghuang's room, Li Nuo coughed from time to time.
Fenghuang supported him, patted his back gently, and said helplessly: "I asked them to wear fewer sachets, but they didn't listen. Sometimes even I can't stand it..."
She brought a glass of water and said, "Drink some water. You will feel better."
Li Nuo took the cup of water. The water tasted sweet, as if honey was added to it.
When he put down the cup, Li Nuo found some faint red marks on the rim of the cup. He thought it was dirt, so he took a look at it.
Fenghuang realized something, blushed and took the cup, saying: "This is my own cup, it got stained with some lipstick by accident, if you dislike it, I'll ask them to bring a new cup..."
Li Nuo looked at Fenghuang's rosy lips, then looked away the next moment, waved his hand, and said, "No, I feel better."
If he insisted on asking her to change the cup, it would seem like he really disliked her, and that would probably hurt her fragile self-esteem.
Li Nuo did not continue the topic and asked, "Have those people troubled you in the past few days?"
Fenghuang shook her head and said, "No, we didn't. They wanted to send Yingying and Yaoyao back, but we didn't accept them. The backgrounds of these two music houses are very strong. We can do this only for the sake of your face..."
Li Nuo asked Butler Wu to check it out.
Tianyinyuan and Lelai Tower do have powerful backgrounds.
It would be fine if he was an ordinary noble, even if he was a first-class marquis, he would be on the same level as my father.
But behind these two families, there is the power of the royal palace.
Tianyinyuan is the property of Prince You’s Mansion.
Lelai Tower and Hanwang Mansion are inextricably linked.
The King of Han is the eldest son of His Majesty.
King You also has deep-rooted power in the court.
Compared with them, Prince Chun is one level weaker in terms of both seniority and actual power.
Li Nuo was already surprised that they would take the initiative to make concessions.
Nightingale knocked on the door, walked in, and said softly: "Someone from Lelai Tower came just now and presented us with a silver note of five thousand taels, saying that their shopkeeper was ignorant and that this silver was to apologize to us..."
Lelailou's attitude was indeed very low, offering five thousand taels of silver as compensation.
Fenghuang tugged at his sleeve and said, "I'm afraid the big shots behind Lelai Tower don't know about this. Anyway, we haven't suffered any big losses. Sir, can we just leave it at that?"
Li Nuo is not a stubborn person who insists on fighting the prince to the death.
His target is those powerful people, but as long as the redemption sentence is there, he can't do anything to them for the time being.
At this time, footsteps were heard at the door again.
Li Anning looked at Fenghuang who was pulling at Li Nuo's sleeve and said calmly, "I knew you were here."
Li Nuo asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"
Li An Ning said calmly: "A murder happened in Lelai Building. Do you want to go or not? If you don't go, I will..."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Fenghuang and left on her own.
Li Nuo followed Li An Ning and soon arrived at Lelai Building.
Although both are music halls, Yuyin Pavilion and Lelai Tower can only be described as shabby compared to each other.
Yuyin Pavilion is just a two-story building with a courtyard.
Lelai Tower can be called a garden. In terms of area, it is larger than the Song Mansion and the Li Mansion combined.
The garden has pavilions, towers, rockery and ponds.
There’s even a small lake in the center, with corridors crisscrossing the lake and a few pavilions on the water dotted in between.
It is not difficult to imagine that in summer, there will be many guests enjoying the cool air and listening to music on the lake.
Inside a small building, there was a corpse covered with a white cloth.
Judging from the uneven curves under the white cloth, the deceased was a woman.
Li Anning lifted the white cloth, Li Nuo took a look and his pupils shrank slightly.
The dead person turned out to be the owner of Lelailou.
That was the middle-aged woman who threatened Fenghuang in Yuyin Pavilion.
Her expression was distorted in pain and there were obvious marks of strangulation on her neck.
A white cloth was hanging on the beam of the room.
A man sighed and said, "We just didn't pay attention for a while, and Manager Sun committed suicide in the room. Why can't she get over it..."
Li Anning checked the neck of the deceased, then looked at the white cloth and said, "She didn't commit suicide. She was strangled to death and then hanged."
She had investigated countless cases and was able to tell whether the deceased was strangled to death or committed suicide by hanging.
Besides, the murderer in this case faked the crime scene in an extremely clumsy way, which even a novice investigator could see through.
The marks on the victim's neck were very thin and could not have been caused by the white cloth.
The position where the white cloth was hung was also too high.
With this woman's height, if she were hanging on the beam, she wouldn't be able to step on the stool at all.
Any normal person would not think that she committed suicide.
It seemed as if the murderer was deliberately telling them that the deceased did not die of suicide.
She glanced at Li Nuo.
Li Nuo shook his head. The murderer was not at the scene.
Li Anning was just about to ask whether the deceased had any enemies during his lifetime.
At this time, the man walked up to Li Nuo and said, "Mr. Li, Manager Sun didn't know that Miss Fenghuang from Yuyin Pavilion was your woman, and he offended her a lot. His Royal Highness the King of Han was very angry when he found out, and he had someone reprimand her before. Perhaps, she chose to commit suicide because she felt guilty..."
Li Anning frowned and said, "Didn't I tell you that she didn't commit suicide?"
The man smiled and said, "Your Highness may have seen it wrong."
Li Anning was stunned when he heard this, and seemed to understand something.
Lelai Tower is closer to Chang'an County Government Office than to the Ministry of Justice.
When they reported the case, they did not choose the Chang'an County Government, but the Ministry of Justice.
Because they knew that she and Li Nuo would come to the Ministry of Justice's case.
His words were actually very clear.
This is the King of Han expressing his attitude.
Manager Sun was making things difficult for Yuyin Pavilion, but the King of Han was unaware of it.
He didn't want to offend Li Nuo because of this matter. To be more precise, he didn't want to offend Li Xuanjing.
The death of Manager Sun was the explanation from the King of Han to Yuyin Pavilion and also to Li Nuo.
This case was specially done for them to see.
At this time, the man handed over a thin booklet and said, "His Royal Highness the King of Han asked her to be the shopkeeper of Lelai Tower, but she failed to live up to His Royal Highness's expectations and secretly engaged in human trafficking and forced women into prostitution. Over the years, she has forced many decent women to death. She is really a heinous crime. We just found out about these things and wanted to hand over the evidence to the government. It is also possible that she learned the news and committed suicide out of fear of punishment, wanting to leave a whole body... What do you think, sir?"
Li Nuo also noticed it at this moment.
The reason why Manager Sun died was because someone wanted her to die.
They even gave him a reason.
He has been in Chang'an for some time, so how could he not know the intention behind this?
Everything that Shopkeeper Sun did was Shopkeeper Sun's idea alone.
She is already dead, and this matter should end here.
If he targets Lelai Tower again, he would be disrespecting the King of Han.
The King of Han has already given him enough face. If he doesn't give the King of Han face, he will be in the wrong.
This is the unspoken rule in the circle of power and influence.
Although Li Nuo really doesn't like this rule.
But this is not something he can change easily.
After a long time, the Ministry of Justice.
Li Anning walked into the yamen, sat opposite Li Nuo, and said, "I have asked people to investigate. The evidence of Manager Sun's crimes is all true. If she is punished according to the law, she will definitely be sentenced to beheading, which is more than enough to be considered a death sentence..."
The two looked at each other, both with depressed expressions.
Shopkeeper Sun deserved to die, but from the perspective of the Legalists, she shouldn't have died like this.
However, there are many things in this world that they cannot decide.
At this time, Li An Ning looked at Li Nuo again and said, "You really care about Fenghuang. For her, Chang'an County Government, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple, everyone has been busy for several days. The shopkeeper of Lelai Tower has earned countless silver for the Hanwang Mansion over the years. Just because she offended Yuyin Pavilion, the Hanwang actually abandoned her so easily. From now on, no one in Chang'an should dare to bully Fenghuang anymore. You should be relieved now..."
Li Nuo's goal has indeed been achieved.
Although the process was not what he wanted.
Thinking about how busy he was for Fenghuang, Li An Ning felt depressed and asked again: "You..."
Li Nuo said: "I drew a new picture for you. Bring it to you tomorrow."
He looked at Li Anning and asked, "What did you want to say?"
Li Anning shook his head and said, "Nothing..."
(End of this chapter)
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