Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 421 Princess, please respect yourself
A few more days passed.

The main house in the second courtyard of the Lin Mansion was being restored at that time, and Hou Zhigang came with the decree of Emperor Qing and rewarded a bunch of high-quality daily necessities, including silk, porcelain, furniture, etc.

Afterwards, he took Chu Pingsheng into the imperial city and came to the outside of Xingqing Palace. When the two of them walked up the stairs, Si Nanbo Fan Jian happened to come towards them with a very ugly expression on his face, and he even snorted as he passed by him.

Chu Pingsheng was stunned for a moment, looked at Hou Zhigang, turned around and walked quickly, kicking Fan Jian in the lower back.

Si Nanbo was a civil servant, so he was no match for him. His lower body was unstable, and he tilted his body and rolled down the stairs.

Fortunately, the guards on both sides of the long steps were quick to catch him after he had rolled down six or seven steps. Looking at Lord Si Nanbo, his face was already bruised and swollen, his eyes were closed in pain, and sweat was pouring down.

The corners of Gong Dian's mouth twitched, and he looked at Hou Zhigang for help.

"Father-in-law..."

"What are you still standing there for? Take Si Nanbo to the Imperial Hospital."

"Hey."

Gong Dian finally reacted and asked the guards who were supporting Fan Jian to carry him on their backs and walk quickly towards the Imperial Hospital.

Chu Pingsheng said calmly: "Eunuch Hou, you can see that he was the one who provoked me first."

That's your father-in-law.

That's your father-in-law!
Fan Jian is your father-in-law, and he is also my father!

Hou Zhigang complained in his heart, and said "yes" hypocritically, bowed and waved his arms: "Please, Lord Chu."

"Ah."

Chu Pingsheng dusted off his blue shirt, put one hand in front of him and the other behind his back, and entered the imperial study.

Li Yunqian was wearing white underwear inside and a bright red robe outside. He sat cross-legged on the couch with a book in his hand. It was "Three Hundred Tang Poems" printed and published by Xinliu Bookstore of Beiqi, which had a deep connection with Zhuang Mohan, at the cost of work.

Hearing the footsteps of the two entering the hall, he waved his hand without even looking up: "Take a seat."

A servant came in and placed a stool covered with yellow cushions in front of Chu Pingsheng.

He was not modest and sat down without hesitation.

Li Yunqian folded a corner of the book, closed it, and placed it on the desk next to him.

"What happened outside just now?"

Hou Zhigang looked at Chu Pingsheng who looked indifferent, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, it was Si Nanbo who fell on the steps. Deputy Commander Gong has sent someone to carry him to the Imperial Hospital for treatment."

Fan Jian was only in his forties and the steps outside were not steep, so how could he suddenly fall?
Li Yunqian glanced at Hou Zhigang, who was smiling very reluctantly, and understood.

"Do you know why Si Nanbo came to the palace this time?"

Chu Pingsheng said: "Anyway, it's not a good thing."

"Yes."

Li Yunqian leaned sideways, half of his body resting on the table: "He wants me to arrange a marriage for his daughter and marry her to the sixth grandson of Duke Liu."

After he finished speaking, he paused and added, "I went to visit Duke Liu a few days ago, and the situation was not very good."

Chu Pingsheng understood.

He killed Liu Xiangnan. When Duke Liu knew that his most promising grandson was dead, he became seriously ill. When his son-in-law Li Yunqian went to visit him, the old man would definitely ask the emperor to severely punish the murderer. Would Li Yunqian dare to punish him? If he didn't dare, he would feel a little guilty. Fan Jian took the opportunity to ask for an audience and asked the emperor to arrange a marriage for Fan Ruoruo to the Liu family.

Fan Jian married Liu Ruyu, and then married Fan Ruoruo to the Liu family. This is called a match made in heaven. Moreover, the trouble was caused by Fan Xian, the emperor's illegitimate son. As the nominal father, Fan Jian had to bear the brunt of the trouble. Not only was he demoted to the Ministry of Personnel, but his concubine's favorite nephew also lost his life. If the emperor did not agree, he would be heartless and ungrateful.

"You agreed?"

Li Yunqian said: "No."

"No wonder he 'huffed' at me. It turns out that his inner desires were not met."

"He snorted at you and you attacked?"

"I didn't provoke him, and I didn't offend him, so why did he sneer at me? This is the imperial palace, and I'm his superior. He sneered at me for being disrespectful. I didn't file a complaint against him, but I gave him a kick, which was already a pardon beyond the law."

"Do you still want to marry his daughter?"

"You also said that I married his daughter, not him, so why should I be responsible for him?"

Li Yunqian was speechless. Now he finally understood who Chu Pingsheng was. He was the kind of person who would chase him for two miles with a stick if a dog barked at him a few times.

"If you marry Fan Ruoruo, he will be your father-in-law."

"Your Majesty, Emperor Qing, have you ever seen anyone who buys a brothel girl as a concubine care about the girl's family relationship? Although Fan Ruoruo is not a brothel girl, she is my winner in a bet. She has no feelings for me, and I have no feelings for her. She only needs to fulfill the bet and become my concubine. Since she is a concubine, she is my private property. Strictly speaking, whether her father is dead or alive is none of my business."

The chief eunuch who was listening nearby wanted to slap himself twice.

Even these words of not recognizing any relatives at all actually make a lot of sense.

Li Yunqian didn't want to argue about right and wrong with this guy who had a lot of twisted logic, so he waved his hand and sent the eunuch away.

"I called you here this time to discuss exchanging prisoners with Qi. You...will go to Northern Qi, right?"

"of course."

"Where is your master?"

"I should go too."

Li Yunqian groaned for a moment and said, "I plan to have Fan Xian escort Xiao En to Shangjing in exchange for Yan Bingyun."

"Well, this will eliminate the wave of doubts among the people, right?"

"Yes."

"Then what did you ask me to do?"

"I know Fan Xian did something that your master is very dissatisfied with..." Li Yunqian smiled and said, "You should understand what I want to say."

"You want my master not to kill him? I can't make the decision for my master." Chu Pingsheng said, "My master should have killed Fan Xian with a sword long ago because of his behavior at the Four Nations Banquet that day. But he tolerated him because he was the son of His Majesty. Now that he is going north to Qi, if he holds a grudge and secretly does something to me, and my master finds out... I don't think my master will continue to tolerate it." "I will announce it to the whole country tomorrow. When you come back from Northern Qi, I will marry you, Princess Chen, Ye Ling'er, and Fan Ruoruo. How do you think?"

"Then... let me try."

"One more thing. If anything happens to Sean on your way north with Fan Xian, don't worry about it."

Chu Pingsheng pretended to be puzzled: "Your Majesty wants to kill him in Qi?"

"..."

"Okay, I won't ask any more questions."

Chu Pingsheng stood up from the stool and bowed to say goodbye.

Li Yunqian nodded and waved goodbye.

As he expected, as long as he made good use of Chu Pingsheng's lustful personality, he could achieve his goal.

Chu Pingsheng said that he asked Fan Xian to escort Sean to the north in exchange for Yan Bingyun in order to eliminate the wave of doubts among the people. This was just one of the four birds with one stone.

This time the two of them are heading north, Bai Feng will follow, and Wu Zhu will definitely follow as well.

The two grandmasters will most likely fight again, and he only needs to save Fan Xian's life. He would be happy to see either Wu Zhu or Bai Feng, who has cultivated domineering true qi, die.

It's that simple to drive a tiger to devour a wolf.

……

Chu Pingsheng left Xingqing Palace, but not long after he walked, he was stopped by Wanqiu, a female official beside Li Yunrui. After speaking a few words to the young eunuch, she took him to Guangxin Palace.

When I saw Li Yunrui again, she was wearing a very transparent gauze dress. She walked from the dressing table to the crescent-shaped couch with her bare jade feet that looked like they were carved from jade. The hem of the gauze dress was very long, dragging on the ground, leaving behind light footprints and a rich scent of rose dew. It looked like she had just taken a bath.

She sat down lazily, looking at Chu Pingsheng, who was sitting at the wooden table opposite and eating fruit, just like last time, looking her up and down with an intrusive look. She pinched her sleeve to cover her mouth and nose and coughed slightly.

She was about to speak, but Chu Pingsheng spoke first: "Aren't you cold..."

"What did you say?"

"I said, aren't you cold dressed like this?"

Li Yunrui moved his arm away: "Are you feeling sorry for me?"

"So do you want me to say I feel bad? Or do you want me to say I don't feel bad?"

Click.

Chu Pingsheng took a big bite of the fruit. The fruit, which was half red and half green, was sweet, crispy and full of moisture.

"Forget the honey trap, let's get down to business."

Li Yunrui glared at him, as if blaming him for his lack of understanding of romance.

"I heard that you beat Fan Jian?"

"He asked for it."

Chu Pingsheng threw the fruit core into the silver trash can, walked to the crescent-shaped couch, got close to Li Yunrui, and sniffed from her long hair, behind her ears, to her neck... all the way down.

"The flower dew is good. Remember to ask Wanqiu to send some to my house."

Li Yunrui chuckled and said, "Is it for your Miss Si?"

"No."

"no?"

"I can't go north empty-handed this time. Bring some flower dew that my mother-in-law prepared herself. I'm sure the Queen Mother of Northern Qi will like it."

"Who said you are a barbarian? If anyone says you are a barbarian in front of me again, I will cut off his tongue." Li Yunrui stretched out his hand with no red nails and a black agate ring, and his slender five fingers gently scratched his cheek.

Chu Pingsheng held her hand and said, "Princess, please respect yourself."

Cluck cluck...

She pulled her hand back and smiled, covering her mouth.

"You took my things and gave them to other women, and I'm not allowed to complain?"

"This isn't what you should be complaining about, is it?"

"Tell me, what should I complain about?"

"For example, the matter of Guo Youzhi." Chu Pingsheng sat on the crescent-shaped couch, close to her fragrant body. "If I'm not mistaken, Li Yunqian has already suspected you and even contacted you. This time he sent Fan Xian to Northern Qi. I'm afraid he has other plans besides exchanging prisoners."

At this point, the charm on Li Yunrui's face gradually faded: "What else?"

Chu Pingsheng continued, "Either you give up the inner treasury on your own initiative, or he will use your weakness to force you to give up the inner treasury. So you want me to kill Fan Xian on the way north, right?"

Li Yunrui swayed her willow waist, lay down on the couch, supported her chin with her hands, and looked at him with a smile.

"So, will you kill him for me? I don't think it would be hard for you."

"Then why do you think the emperor summoned me to meet him in the imperial study?"

"Did you promise him?"

"He used your daughters, Fan Ruoruo and Ye Ling'er to seduce me. Give me a reason to refuse."

"Your Majesty should be asking for your master, but I..." Li Yunrui moved his hand to his leg and patted it gently: "The one I'm asking for is you."

Chu Pingsheng didn't say whether he would help or not. He just smiled at her, stood up and walked outside.

Li Yunrui swayed her waist, got up from the couch, and walked to the door of the hall with her transparent gauze skirt dragging. She watched him turn around the long road in front of the door and leave Guangxin Palace with the eunuch guarding the gate respectfully seeing him off.

(End of this chapter)