Joy of Life: The melon-eating prince sees through Fan Xian's fake death

Chapter 21 I can only suffer my aunt a little longer
Feeling the warmth from her fingertips, Fan Ruoruo felt a little relieved.

Before she felt embarrassed, Li Chengqian withdrew his hand and put down her teacup. Just now, Ruoruo spilled some tea on her hand due to panic. Li Chengqian originally held Ruoruo's hand to help her wipe it clean, taking the opportunity to create some physical intimacy.

But think about it, this is not modern society. Playing with ambiguity won't work and it may even make you lose points.

Li Chengqian handed her his handkerchief, and Fan Ruoruo realized that she had lost her composure:

"Your Highness, I'm sorry. I was too anxious just now."

"fine."

Li Chengqian waited for her to calm down before explaining:

"Ruoruo, do you think that if Fan Xian had been upright and had taken Eunuch Dai back to the Supervisory Office to seal up the Vegetarian Inspection Office, would that have helped the country get rid of a corrupt official?"

"Um"

"Then have you ever thought that after a while after Eunuch Dai's death, the nobles in the palace will need vegetables, and the Vegetable Inspection Department will still have to open. By then, another eunuch will take over his job. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be the next Eunuch Dai. Doing this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent one."

Fan Ruoruo blinked her big eyes, seeming to understand their intentions:
“So my brother is doing this to solve the problem of corruption at its root?”

Li Chengqian understood the value of emotions very well and gave her a thumbs up to show encouragement:
"clever."

"Thank you, Prince~"

Fan Ruoruo said modestly, but in fact, she was already very happy in her heart, and she was dressed in a reserved manner:

"So what's my brother going to do next?"

"The meaning of joining the game is"

Li Chengqian spoke before she asked:
"you guessed right."

"Fan Xian openly accepted the favor from Eunuch Dai in order to have the ministers in the court scold him for corruption and bribery in front of His Majesty. Then he would prove his innocence, reverse the situation, and bring about an anti-corruption movement, cleansing the court of corruption with drastic measures."

"This is what it means to be a part of the game."

Fan Ruoruo tightly grasped Li Chengqian's handkerchief, her heart pounding.

Her little brain was buzzing with the impact of such a huge amount of information. Even though she was a famous talented woman in Kyoto, she couldn't immediately figure out what her brother meant by this action. If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince hadn't explained it to her, she would have been a little worried that her brother had gone far away.

But the prince still praised her for being smart, saying that she guessed correctly, and that he was actually trying to save his own face.
Fan Ruoruo secretly thought that she not only had a little more admiration for Li Chengqian, but also had a kind of affection between a man and a woman:

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is very far-sighted. I admire you. Did you discuss this with my brother in advance?"

"Some things don't need to be said. Those who know themselves will know clearly."

Li Chengqian hinted, "It's the same with feelings."

Fan Ruoruo didn't know how to respond, she just felt her heart beating very fast.

Damn, she fell in love!
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After the people from the Supervisory Council left.

Fan Xian walked out of the Vegetarian Inspection Office slowly. He saw Eunuch Dai's relief, the Second Prince and Xie Bian's gloating, and his subordinates' doubts and disdain. He saw all of these, but in order to stir up the court, he started a campaign to purge corrupt officials.

He must get involved, even if he will be criticized and abused.

"elder brother."

Fan Ruoruo called him in a crisp voice.

Fan Xian turned around and saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Fan Ruoruo walking towards him:

"Ruoruo, did you see everything?"

"Ah."

Fan Xian looked bitter after getting a positive answer. He could be misunderstood by anyone, but if Ruoruo was also disappointed in him because of what happened today, he would be very sad. Although Ruoruo was the person he trusted the most, Fan Xian felt that the probability of her misunderstanding him was extremely small, but it was not impossible.

"Brother, you are so awesome."

Fan Xian was somewhat surprised by Fan Ruoruo's praise:

"You know it all?"

Fan Ruoruo raised her chin and nodded proudly:

"Your Highness the Crown Prince has told me everything. I understand everything about putting myself in the game!" Fan Xian felt warm in his heart and looked at His Highness the Crown Prince. Li Chengqian nodded slightly at him in affirmation.

"Ruoruo, please go back first. I have something to discuss with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Fan Ruoruo admires Fan Xian and listens to him, but she is a little unhappy that Fan Xian has to send her away every time he talks about serious matters. Does he think that he looks down on me because I am a girl?

"Brother, can't we go back together?"

Fan Xian said very sarcastically:

"Okay, then let's talk about what you and His Royal Highness did today? How did you feel? Are you satisfied?"

"Brother, you are so bad, humph!"

Fan Ruoruo blushed and punched her brother with her pink fist. She didn't dare to look at Li Chengqian's expression and shyly ran to the carriage, but she did not forget to lift the curtain and said in a tender voice:
"Your Highness, see you tomorrow~"

Li Chengqian waved at her, "Well, see you tomorrow."

Fan Ruoruo got the answer, and she let down the curtain contentedly. She held Li Chengqian's handkerchief in her hand, as if she had returned to that moment of skin-to-skin contact, and her heart was beating wildly:

"This is what my brother said, are you moved?"

After the carriage left.

Fan Xian looked at the prince with an inexplicable resentment.

Li Chengqian spread his hands and said, "You were the one who drove her away. Ruoruo is angry with you, but gentle to me the next second. Isn't this normal?"
A brother who can change his face.

Fan Xian started talking about business:

"It seems that His Royal Highness has already guessed what I am going to do next. You can just be a spectator. You don't have to stand up for me in this matter. Everything is under my control."

Li Chengqian smiled and said, "Who said I want to help you?"

Fan Xian: “.”

Li Chengqian said seriously:

"As long as the princess is not in Kyoto and does not involve her affairs, I will not have to openly help you. The situation between you and your second brother is balanced, which is exactly what His Majesty wants to see. When my aunt returns to the capital, that is when I will really take action."

This is because Li Chengqian has figured out the deeper intentions of Emperor Qing in granting him marriage to Fan Ruoruo these days, and he is also glad that he made the sacred choice to break off relations with the eldest princess. It was absolutely the right choice!

In the original novel, Li Yunrui was seen as an accomplice of the Second Prince by Fan Xian and others, but in fact, she was in the same group with the Crown Prince. She hated Ye Qingmei and Emperor Qing for turning a blind eye to her, and she wanted revenge! She wanted to have sex with the Crown Prince, who looked very similar to Emperor Qing, and even assisted the Crown Prince in ascending the throne, all for revenge against Emperor Qing!
Emperor Qing saw all of this, so he arranged for Lin Wan'er to marry Ye Qingmei's son, sent him to Beijing to marry her daughter, took away her power over the inner treasury, smashed her money printing machine that supported the crown prince to ascend to the throne, then removed Minister Guo, Mei Zhili and other crown prince's lackeys, and drove the eldest princess out of Kyoto, just to make the crown prince, who had already lost the support of his mother's family, isolated and helpless!

Fan Xian? He was just his chess piece, and he could even be used for two generations.

If it is said that the prince is still in private with the eldest princess.

Emperor Qing will definitely not let him go.

But Li Chengqian has changed. This is the origin of all changes. He no longer associates with the eldest princess. He is bewitched by his aunt and kneels down before her charming face and plump figure.

Emperor Qing saw his change and pushed him to the opposite side of the Princess, including marrying Fan Xian's sister to the Prince, which was a decisive move to alienate the two.

Fan Xian married Wan'er and seized the inner treasury. He was Li Yunrui's second most hated person. He and the eldest princess were at loggerheads, but his sister became the crown princess. Like Ye Qingmei, she stole the second Emperor Qing whom she used to satisfy her lust.
Li Yunrui must have hated the whole family and the crown prince, and became their enemy. He then turned to the second prince to help him seize the throne and rebel. When the crown prince had no support at all and could not compete with the second prince, Fan Xian would help his brother-in-law and stop the second prince from rebelling. This is all a story for later.

Grant marriage to Fan Ruoruo.

First, it could push Li Yunrui to stage the rebellion drama and eliminate the Grand Master, the only factor that could pose a threat to him, while at the same time protecting the heir who had already returned, so that the Li royal family would not be deserted by relatives and friends and have no one to use.

The second is to deeply bind Fan Xian's interests with those of the Li royal family, making him a lone minister who only works hard for the Li family, and leaving him as a retainer of the Li royal family, both a son and a pawn.

When Li Chengqian figured this out, he felt cold all over:

At this stage, he must not have the intention to disobey Emperor Qing. He cannot guess the thoughts of politicians. Even if he is familiar with the plot, he has no power and can only submit to such an emperor.

Act according to the intention of Emperor Qing in arranging the marriage with Fan Ruoruo, and don't do anything that Emperor Qing doesn't want you to do. Before you have the ability to protect yourself, the most important thing is to survive!
"I can only make my aunt suffer a little longer. If she is still alive after I ascend the throne, I can consider whether to give her a little sweet taste."

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　　Finally, let me mention the controversy about which faction Fan Ruoruo should be married to. In the original novel, the crown prince and the eldest princess are actually secretly in the same faction, so Emperor Qing wants to win over Fan Xian to the second prince in order to suppress the crown prince and the eldest princess, balance the two sides and prevent the princes from fighting each other.

　　But the point I want to emphasize is that the change in the prince's attitude towards the eldest princess is equivalent to cutting off one's own arm and sending help to the other camp. The power of the two princes is unbalanced, which will lead to Emperor Qing making a change in his decision.

　　OK, that's enough. I'm going to go review. I still have an exam and I need to wait for Nuwa to mend the sky. My CPU is about to explode. Please give me some monthly tickets to top up my CPU. I beg you, dear readers~
　　
　
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