My father, Li Shimin, requests Your Majesty to become the Retired Emperor.

Li Chengan pondered for a moment: "First, you have to tell me. Why did you invite Su Gui for drinks?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Yi'ai thought to himself that Su Gui was Li Chenggan's future brother-in-law.

Li Chengan is definitely on his side.

"Because Su Gui and I fought together in the Western Regions before, we have a very deep brotherly bond."

Actually, we get along quite well.

Later, after he returned, you sent him to Huainan to mine coal.

It just so happened that he was back this time, so I thought I'd have a couple of drinks with him and chat; I didn't mean anything by it.

Fang Yi'ai spoke of it casually.

"Really? Did you take the token from Su Gui?"

Li Chengqian stared intently at Fang Yi'ai.

Fang Yi'ai initially wanted to deny it, but now he couldn't deny it anymore.

"Yes, I thought Su Gui's token was quite nice, so I took it too."

Upon hearing this, Li Chengan thought to himself, "You clearly did this on purpose, yet you speak as if it was unplanned."

Li Chengan crossed his arms and said, "Now that you have married Princess Gaoyang, you are my brother-in-law and the imperial consort."

I really want to help you too.

However, you have to tell the truth.

Stop going in circles with me.

Otherwise, I will not care about this matter and will hand you over to the Dali Temple.

"Let Dai Zhou preside over this case."

Fang Yi'ai's head ached whenever he heard Dai Zhou's name, because he knew that the man was incorruptible and fearless of the powerful.

Once he has the evidence, he doesn't care who you are or what crime you've committed; that's what he'll do.

Fang Yi'ai said with a bitter face, "Your Highness, please don't hand me over to the Dali Temple. If I go to the Dali Temple, I'll be all too familiar with them."

At this moment, Qin Ying kicked him in the butt: "Since you know, why don't you tell the truth?"

"I'll tell you, I got Su Gui drunk and got that token. I thought that with this token I could enter the Shangfu Bureau, right?"

I've also heard that the Imperial Clothing Bureau recently received a batch of very precious tribute items.

I thought to myself, since it's royal stuff anyway, there's no way to tell what's going on.

So he discussed the matter with Changsun Chong, and then Changsun Chong led about ten people to remove the items from the Shangfu Bureau.

Li Chengan then asked Changsun Chong, "Is that how it is?"

Li Chengan was furious when he heard this. He thought to himself, "You two are a prince consort and a prospective prince consort, yet you do such a thing."

Don't you have enough money to spend?

Oh, you think that by making it look real, no one will be able to tell the difference?

Do you think you can't find out this way?

You're being incredibly naive!

Li Chengan paced back and forth in the room three times, then stopped, glanced at Fang Yi'ai, and then at Changsun Chong.

"Now, I'm giving you a chance to live."

You all need to make the most of this opportunity.

They quickly said, "Your Highness, do you have any good ideas?"

"Is it possible to return all the tribute items in full?"

Fang Yi'ai felt very sorry for him.

He didn't want to take those offerings away.

However, now that things had come to this, there was no way to refuse, so they had no choice but to nod and agree: "Okay, those Tibetan tributes are all locked in our warehouse and haven't been touched yet."

Li Chengan asked where the warehouse key was. "Quickly open the warehouse door; I want to go in and take a look."

Fang Yi'ai then shouted at one of the tall, thin men among the four thugs, "Quickly take the Crown Prince to the warehouse and take a look."

So Qin Ying watched Fang Yi'ai and Changsun Chong from here.

Li Chengan and Qu Zhili followed the tall, thin man into the warehouse.

Upon entering the warehouse, they discovered that the tribute items were indeed there, and not only that,

Li Chengan discovered that Fang Yi'ai's warehouse was truly overflowing with goods.

Gold and silver jewelry were piled up like mountains.

Li Chengan thought to himself, "You have so much money, you probably couldn't spend it all in ten lifetimes."