The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 778 It’s Too Late

After dealing with Li Shou's thundering methods in the past two days, Li Heng realized that Li Shou had really shown mercy to him in the past.

Of course, this was not because the Crown Prince was kind to him, but because their father would not allow them to kill each other and tried his best to stop it.

When Li Cong was entrusted by Xiang Zhao to find Li Heng, it was already too late.

Meng Shisan spent three days peacefully in the Meng Mansion. Before dinner today, Li Zhaoqin came to the house in person and told her a few things.

"Jiang Dao, the Left Junior Official of the Dali Temple knows about this, right?" Meng Shisan nodded, and Li Zhaoqin immediately continued, "Even though Luo Youjiang, the Dali Temple Official, personally pleaded for him, Jiang Zuo Junior Official was demoted again and again, and was directly stripped of his official hat!"

"Becoming a commoner? What's the crime?" There was not much surprise in Meng Shisan's tone. She was more concerned about what crime Li Shou had committed that caused Li Heng to lose this big wings.

Being able to hold the position of Junior Secretary of the Dali Temple was already a great achievement, and it was not something that could be easily achieved by real talent and luck. Now that he had stepped down and became a commoner, not only Jiang Dao was ruined, but Li Heng also suffered a great loss.

"The Jiang family has a nephew. Before Jiang Dao was transferred to the Dali Temple as the Left Shaoqing, he worked as a Langzhong in the Ministry of Personnel." Li Zhaoqin did not lower his voice, but spoke it mysteriously, as if he was telling a joke, and the tail of his mouth was raised with a smile that he could not suppress.

Meng Shisan immediately thought of Meng Tianguan: "It's not surprising that my grandfather was involved. Okay, Yaya, don't keep me in suspense. What is the crime?"

Li Zhaoqin said in a low voice, "The crime of buying and selling military positions. Jiang Dao's nephew was also a very useless person. Jiang Dao helped him secretly to get him a military position in the Military Affairs Department. Although the rank was low, it was still an official position after all, and this was also because they had the same surname. Unexpectedly, he was greedy and accepted money from others. He used crooked means to dig a big trap for Jiang Dao, deceived Jiang Dao and made him jump into it without knowing it, and then he was framed for this crime. Two people, two transactions, his nephew and others all testified. It was really an ironclad case that could not be overturned. It was not until his official hat was taken off that Jiang Dao knew the whole story. He rushed towards his nephew in court, but he was weak and short of breath, so his nephew dodged him. He bumped into the pillar and knocked himself out on the spot. When he woke up, he was already in prison."

He paused and added a specific location: "Ministry of Justice Prison."

"Poor." Meng Shisan said pitiful, but there was no trace of pity on his face.

Li Zhaoqin saw through it, and continued with a smile, "There is also Xiang Fengzhan, the second brother of Concubine Shu, the second master of the Xiang Mansion, a doctor of the fifth rank in the Ministry of Works, and the second uncle of the Seventh Prince."

"How is this related to the Xiang Mansion?" When Meng Shisan heard about the Xiang Mansion, her curiosity was immediately aroused.

"It is said that the Crown Prince is a low-key person on weekdays." Li Zhaoqin's admiration for Li Shou was as strong as ever, and it could even be said that it was getting more and more out of control. "The Seventh Prince has been very close to the Second Prince some time ago, and he seems to be willing to join the Second Prince's camp. Regardless of whether he really has this intention or not, in the eyes of others, the Seventh Prince is already 80% to 90% of the Second Prince's man."

Meng Shisan knew this: "And then?"

"Then... you probably don't know what Doctor Xiang did behind the Seventh Prince's back!" Whenever Li Zhaoqin thought of Xiang Fengzhan going to Li Heng behind Li Cong's back, she couldn't help but shake her head. "To show goodwill?" Meng Shisan didn't think this was hard to think of.

Li Zhaoqin nodded vigorously: "Yes! He probably stayed in the position of doctor for too long. Seeing that the Seventh Prince has become his assistant, and seeing that the Seventh Prince and the Second Prince are getting close, his mind has also become active. But he also knows that if the Seventh Prince knows first, what he does later will definitely fail, so he went to hide it from the world."

"Is that thing done?" Meng Shisan asked.

"It didn't work." Li Zhaoqin couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Xiang Fengzhan was unlucky. "Doctor Xiang wanted to help him get promoted through the Second Prince, even if it was only to the first rank, that was good. I didn't expect that the Second Prince agreed, but the Second Prince's operation was still in progress, and the competition with the Crown Prince began. He has undoubtedly become the target of the Crown Prince."

Meng Shisan roughly understood what happened: "Didn't the Second Prince protect him?"

"I want to save him, but can I?" Li Zhaoqin smiled, quite proudly. "Second Master Xiang knows his own business. Doctor Xiang's actions did not escape Second Master Xiang's eyes. Before his official position was taken away, he had already reported it to the Seventh Prince and asked the Seventh Prince to personally go to the Second Prince to plead for mercy. I heard that the Second Prince agreed, but it's too late."

Li Shou's handsome face appeared in Meng Shisan's mind. In line with Li Zhaoqin's words, she unconsciously agreed: "Everything Your Highness wants to do is a perfect plan. There is absolutely no reason why it will not succeed."

It can only be said that Xiang Fengzhan had bad luck since his childhood, and he was stuck at this point in time. It is no wonder that Li Shou could not help him getting over this hurdle.

As for the previous disaster in Lueyang, if Emperor Zong had not used a tough attitude to force Li Shou to take action, Li Heng would have been reported to the throne by Li Shou and the two brothers would have turned against each other long ago.

Nowadays, whether openly or secretly, what people are fighting for is not only the imperial power and the dragon throne, but more importantly, it is about good and evil and justice. The result is nothing more than the winner is the king and the loser is the enemy.

"That's right." Li Zhaoqin happily picked up the tea bowl and drank half of it in one breath. She was really thirsty after talking for a while, so she continued, "He caught the eye of the Crown Prince because of the Second Prince. Even though Concubine Shu knew that the Crown Prince was targeting the Second Prince and turned to attack Doctor Xiang, she was helpless and could not help at all. So she just cried in her own palace."

Meng Shisan nodded, picked up the tea bowl and took two sips, then put the tea bowl down and motioned Tong Yu beside him to make two more bowls of hot tea.

Tongyu took the order and went downstairs with two half-empty tea bowls to the tea room to make tea.

There was no need for Meng Shisan to ask again, Li Zhaoqin revealed the crime that caused Xiang Fengzhan to lose his job: "Doctor Xiang has a hobby, he likes to gamble when he has nothing to do. It is inevitable to win and lose, and in the long run, he wins less and loses more. In this way, when money is tight, he will cause trouble."

Meng Shisan guessed, "Is this a trick to set someone up?"

"Yes!" Li Zhaoqin did not hide a word, "My brother the Crown Prince sent someone to set up a trap, and your eldest brother was also involved."