Chapter Forty
The young maid was named Chun Tao. She was not only a maid in Leng Qi's courtyard, but she had also become Leng Qi's woman.
Leng Qi has brought back many women.
But in the end, she was the only one left.
Those women will be thrown out once their young master's novelty wears off.
Chuntao felt that she was the most special one.
So every time Leng Qi brought a woman back, Chun Tao would be particularly eager to persuade her to stay.
This is to curry favor with Leng Qi.
In any case, these women will eventually leave with the money.
Chun Tao never thought that Li Zhiwei would be an exception.
“Miss, I advise you to be sensible and serve my young master well. You’ll suffer less, and you’ll earn more money in the future,” Chun Tao said coldly to Li Zhiwei.
"Please let me leave. I really am Princess An," Li Zhiwei pleaded with Chun Tao.
"Alright, how many times have you said that? If you really are Princess Consort An, why hasn't Prince An come looking for you?" Chun Tao said disdainfully, thinking to herself, this woman is even more delusional than the previous ones. In this capital, which noble lady does her young master not know?
How could he possibly bring Princess An back to the mansion?
In this capital city, countless women dream of marrying Prince An; this woman is probably just one of them.
Besides, our young master said that she's just a merchant's daughter.
"Girl, please, let me go. If you don't believe me, you can go to Prince An's mansion. They will definitely give you a generous reward." Li Zhiwei didn't want to stay here. That young master of chess was obviously no good.
Li Zhiwei dared not imagine what would happen to her if she were defiled by him here.
Inside the palace.
"Alright, my mind is made up on this matter. Effective immediately, I hereby appoint Li Tianyou as the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue," Zhu Jingchen declared, ignoring the advice of Leng Chaozong and others.
At this moment, a young eunuch hurriedly walked up to Eunuch Liu and whispered a few words in his ear.
Eunuch Wu's face turned pale, and he hurriedly approached the Emperor to tell him about Leng Qi's abduction of Li Zhiwei.
"Absurd!" Zhu Jingchen slammed his hand on the dragon table in anger upon hearing this.
"Your Majesty, please calm down!" The ministers below immediately knelt on the ground, not understanding why the emperor, although he had been somewhat impatient, had not shown any signs of anger. They wondered who had angered the emperor.
"Guards, throw Lord Leng into the imperial prison! Minister Xu, quickly lead men to the Leng family and arrest everyone in the Leng family!" Zhu Jingchen ordered again.
"Your Majesty?" Xu Heming had never seen the Emperor so angry before, but it would be inappropriate to rashly arrest people from the Leng family without a reason.
"Hurry up and go! If you don't go soon, you'll lose your wife," Zhu Jingchen said irritably.
Upon hearing this, Xu Heming disregarded everything else and hurried away.
Li Tianyou was momentarily confused. He had just been talking about his official appointment, and now the Emperor was about to punish the Leng family.
"Your Majesty, I do not know what offense I have committed?" Leng Chaozong did not expect that he would be suddenly thrown into the imperial prison. When exactly did the emperor find out about that matter?
Li Tianyou had been thinking about the matter of Prince An's wife.
Didn't they say that Prince An's wife died long ago?
He just said he wanted to marry his own daughter!
My own daughter?
"Your Majesty, has something happened to my daughter?" Li Tianyou could no longer contain himself and asked tremblingly.
The Emperor looked at Li Tianyou with some guilt, acknowledging that he was also to blame for this matter.
They accepted the dowry but failed to protect the person.
"Don't worry, Miss Li, everything will be alright," Zhu Jingchen reassured her.
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