Li Hong looked at her speechlessly. Yang Anlou had earned so much money for her over the years, but now she still complained about having too much money.
"Where is Li Sujie?" Li Hong asked, ignoring Yi Yang's questioning.
"I don't know. He said he wanted to watch the fun early in the morning and went out with Li Xian and the others." Gao An looked worried when he thought about what would happen if Helan Minzhi took revenge on him in the future.
Concubine Xiao Shufei saw everything Li Hong, Yi Yang and Gao An said and did. Seeing Yi Yang and Gao An looking worried and Li Hong looking indifferent, she just smiled faintly, as if she didn't care at all.
At this time, in a teahouse opposite Yang'an Tower in Chang'an City, Helan Minzhi's eyes were shining coldly. Wu Jing disappeared last night and no one knew where he had gone.
In his opinion, this matter was most likely related to Li Hong, but he had no clue at all.
He didn't care about Wu Jing as a person, but because Wu Jing knew too many secrets of Changlefang. If he was really caught by Li Hong, given Wu Jing's character, he would tell everything!
Standing on the second floor of the teahouse, Helan Minzhi naturally saw several carriages headed by Li Xian, which stopped far away from Yang'an Tower and were watching the people happily receiving meals from Yang'an Tower.
He could even faintly hear the people thanking the princes, which made him even more depressed and crazy. He had spent five thousand taels of silver to help those four princes gain good reputation.
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I'm afraid that in the future in Chang'an City, if the four princes do something bad and the dirty water is thrown on him, he won't be able to wash himself clean even if he jumps into the Yellow River.
"Okay, don't worry about the five thousand taels of silver. You are really something. You must let him meet you. Just consider it as losing money to avoid disaster." A young man of about sixteen or seventeen said at the tea table behind Helan Minzhi.
"I don't care about that little bit of silver. What I care about is my reputation as Duke Zhou! And the reputation of Changlefang! If we allow him to bully us any further, there's no guarantee that Changlefang will be bullied by him one day." Helan Minzhi frowned, his handsome face full of gloom.
Another boy of the same age said, "What can he do to Changlefang? Isn't he afraid of his mother? Besides, we won't allow him to investigate Changlefang now. There is a lot of our money there, right?"
After listening to the other young man's words, Helan Minzhi suddenly turned around, sat down at the table, looked around to see that there was no one around, and asked, "It rained heavily a few days ago. Is the workshop okay? Didn't you say that the new money was almost washed away?"
"It's okay. There was so much new money, and only a few of them were washed away. I'm afraid they have already sunk to the bottom of the Longshou Canal by now." said the young Wu Sansi.
"That's right. There will be so much new money in the future. Will you still feel bad about the five thousand taels of silver? Isn't it that we can make as much money as we want? Who dares to control it?" Wu Chengsi also echoed from the side.
Wu Chengsi, the son of Wu Yuanshuang, and Wu Sansi, the son of Wu Yuanqing, were supposed to accompany their father to Lingnan.
But because Helan Minzhi pleaded with Lady Rongguo to keep the two of them, Lady Rongguo said a few words to Wu Mei, and Wu Mei understood what Lady Rongguo meant. She kept Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi in Changlefang and played with Helan Minzhi every day.
Helan Minzhi still said solemnly: "It is better to be careful. Li Hong is very smart and he is not easy to fool. If he finds out, we will be in big trouble."
Wu Sansi chuckled and said, "Are you afraid of him? Ever since you came back from Cuiwei Palace, I've noticed that you rarely want to be with him. Last year in Changlefang, when he was there, you didn't dare to say a word."
Helan Minzhi was not annoyed, but narrowed his eyes, emitting a chilling coldness, and said in a cold voice: "I am afraid of him? If he is not the prince, do you think I am afraid of him?"
"Actually, you really don't need to be afraid of him. What if he has the support of his mother? You can go to Sister Minyue again, right? As long as Sister Minyue says a word in front of His Majesty, it will be extremely easy, just like the new money template we want." Wu Chengsi said nonchalantly as he looked at the people below, who were queuing up in Yang'an Tower, waiting to receive their meals.
"Minyue told us to be careful. Although His Majesty doesn't know what she wants the template for the new money, I'm afraid we can guess it. If His Majesty finds out, it will be fine. But if Li Hong finds out, all the money will have to be taken back. If things go wrong, Madam Rongguo won't be able to do anything to Li Hong!" When talking about Madam Rongguo, Helan Minzhi's eyes flashed with an even more frightening coldness.
"Then why did you call us today? It's not just for us to watch these people get their meals, right?" Wu Sansi couldn't understand why Helan Minzhi had something to say instead of speaking in Changlefang, but had to come out and speak.
"Of course there is something going on. Why would I call you if there is nothing going on? Have you seen that Li Xian?" Helan Minzhi said, pointing outside the window at Li Xian who was laughing triumphantly in a carriage not far from Yang'an Tower.
Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi glanced at each other and said blankly, "I saw it, so what? Let him be happy for a while. If Li Hong hadn't backed him up, would he dare to treat you so recklessly?"
Helan Minzhi said nothing, but just stared at Li Xian outside the window and shook his head. After a long while, when Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi were about to lose their patience, Helan Minzhi spoke: "I asked you to come here today because I want to deal with Li Hong."
"Deal with Li Hong? Are you crazy? Are you looking for death?" Wu Sansi was so scared that he couldn't hold the hot teacup in his hand steadily.
"So what? We can't just let him bully me, Helan Minzhi! He's just a fourteen-year-old prince. I don't believe I can't defeat him!" Helan Minzhi said fiercely.
"Then...then what do you want to do?" Wu Chengsi swallowed in fear.
Who is Li Hong? Let’s not talk about whether he is the prince or not, just Li Hong’s personality! Who dares to mess with him! When Helan Minzhi was carried back from Taiyi City, I was almost scared to death. He didn’t look like a human at all!
The miserable appearance of Helan Minzhi after being tortured by Li Hong made Helan Minzhi's mother, Lady Han Guo Wu Shun, and his sister Helan Minyue cry.
Even Mrs. Rong, who doted on Helan Minzhi the most, and was Helan Minzhi's grandmother, and the grandmother of Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi, sighed helplessly when she saw Helan Minzhi's human form, and said resignedly: "Take good care of him." There was no more words said.
His Majesty and the Queen were in Taiyi City at the time, and it is said that in the end they did not even pursue any responsibility and just let the matter go.
Now, Helan Minzhi wanted to fight Li Hong! Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi would never think of provoking Li Hong, let alone really fighting with him, even if they were dreaming.
"Who said we have to fight him openly? It's impossible to deal with him, so let's start with his royal brothers!" Helan Minzhi said with a sinister look on his face.
When Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi heard this, they immediately relaxed. As long as they were not in direct confrontation with Li Hong, anything could be done. The worst that could happen was for Helan Minzhi to invite Lady Rongguo to come out.
"Then how do we start? Li Xian and the others have a very good relationship with Li Hong, which is rare in the imperial family." Wu Sansi was not stupid. Over the years, Li Hong had managed the relationship between the brothers as solid as an iron plate. Even Wu Mei and Li Zhi were amazed.
Helan Minzhi stared at Li Xian in a daze, with pain, viciousness and contradiction in his eyes, but as long as he looked at Li Xian and thought of his royal brother, Helan Minzhi felt a sense of madness and deep fear and uneasiness.
"Let word get out that he, Li Xian, is not the Queen's biological son!" Helan Min said word by word.
"Ah? Who would believe this?" Wu Sansi was puzzled. If Li Xian wasn't born by the Queen Aunt, then who else could he be? There was no way to make up a rumor. Even he himself didn't believe it.
"If Li Xian is not the one born to the Queen Aunt, then who do you think it is?" Wu Chengsi approached Helan Minzhi and asked while looking at Helan Minzhi's gloomy face.
"Then he must be my biological brother from the same mother!" Helan Minzhi finally said after a lot of effort.
"What? Aunt Mrs. Korea? Are you crazy?" Wu Sansi's mouth was so wide open that a tea bowl could fit in it!
"If this word gets out, do you think Li Xian will believe it?" Wu Chengsi asked cautiously.
The two did not expect that Helan Minzhi would even use his mother in order to fight Li Hong.
Although it was already known to everyone that Helan Minzhi's mother, Lady Korea, and his sister Helan Minyue were favored by His Majesty.
But something like Helan Minzhi, who continued to add another basin of dirty water to his mother, shocked both Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi.
"It's not up to him to believe it or not. Do you think Li Xian doesn't want to be the crown prince? If it weren't for Li Hong, Li Xian would have been the crown prince! What if we add that if Li Xian was born to the queen, His Majesty would have made him the crown prince? What do you think Li Xian would think? Besides, who has ever been the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty? The former crown prince Li Zhong is now a useless person. After he is released, who will take care of him? He lives in fear every day!" When Helan Minzhi spoke, his eyes never left Li Xian outside.
Just when Helan Minzhi was plotting against Li Xian, in the courtyard of Concubine Xiao Shufei in Taiji Palace, Yi Yang and Gao An finally gave up their attack on Li Hong.
Now they were both free to leave the palace, and now that Li Hong was the regent, the gate of the palace no longer existed for them. So after bidding farewell to Concubine Xiao Shu, they headed for Princess Lanling's residence.
Concubine Xiao Shufei watched the two princesses leave and just waved her hand lazily. She now enjoyed such a comfortable life. Her two daughters have grown up under the protection of Li Hong.
Even Li Sujie, because of Li Hong, no longer has to go to his fiefdom often and can stay in Chang'an more often to accompany him.
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