Li Zhe didn't know where Li Hong got the news, but he obviously thought that Li Hong was interested at first, and it was also because of An Xiaohe that he wanted to come to Loulan to take a look and take a look around on his way back to Chang'an. change.
Even when he went to the cemetery of King Yan Li Zhong, Li Zhe did not speculate too much about Li Hong's purpose in coming to pay homage to his boss.
So at this moment, when Li Hong asked Li Fu, the son of King Yan, such a question again, Li Zhe no longer thought that it was Li Hong who asked casually. It was obvious that he had discovered something a long time ago, so he asked Li Fu on his way back. On the way, I deliberately passed by here to help Li Fu and his mother solve the problem, and then I thought of taking them back to Chang'an.
As Li Fu's eyes gradually moved towards Wang Zhi, Wang Zhi's expression became more and more unnatural, and he looked at Li Fu who slowly raised his head with a stiff smile that was somewhat flattering.
Princess Yan and Ye Yue were standing in front of the window of the room not far away, quietly watching everything happening in the hall.
"Since when did you start pestering you? Didn't you... never... resist?" Yeyue is still an untouched woman after all. Although she was teased by Li Hong during the period of Dashi, her whole body was hot and confused. Confused, but no matter what, Yeyue still held on to the last line of defense amidst the confusion and excitement, and did not let Li Hong succeed.
So looking at Princess Yan with a calm face at this moment, Ye Yue didn't know how to ask her. At the same time, she also didn't know how the magistrate Wangzhi bullied Princess Yan. Is it true... what she thought of here Yeyue had no choice but to step forward gently, grab Princess Yan's calloused hands, and give her comfort.
Princess Yan's body was shaken, and she looked at her right hand that was tightly held by Ye Yue with some surprise. She wanted to withdraw it, but found that it was held tightly, not to mention that she was originally a noble person of His Highness, and she thought that she was exerting too much force. It seemed a bit rude to withdraw her hand, so she let Yeyue hold her calloused hand with anxiety.
"Nothing happened, and he didn't dare to be too forceful. He was afraid that seeing us orphans and widowed mothers living in Loulan for so many years, he would think that the royal family had forgotten us..."
"Then did he bully you? Force you to do something you didn't want to do? Or make things difficult for you?" Seeing that Princess Yan's face was calm and not angry at all, Ye Yue continued to ask.
Princess Yan smiled faintly and continued to look out the window and said: "Bullying is out of the question, embarrassing things... Loulan is the place where he can cover the sky with one hand, and he is also the parent official here. He naturally has a lot of troubles. Justifiable reason.”
Just as the two were talking, Li Fu suddenly appeared in the hall in front of Li Hong, Li Zhe, Li Xian, Hua Meng and others, with a pair of small eyes filled with a hint of anger and a stiff face. Wang Zhi smiled, then suddenly stretched out his little arm, pointed at Wang Zhi and said: "He bullied my mother! My mother was called away by him several times, and she always came back crying."
"Your Highness is wronged. Your Highness is wronged. Your Majesty has really never done anything to disgrace Princess Yan, and he has never bullied Princess Yan and her son." Wang Zhi made a sound and knelt down in front of Li Hong, shouting that he was wronged.
"Yes, otherwise, why would my mother come back crying every time? Why would she lower her head and dare not make a sound or look at you every time she saw you? You still asked her to raise her head and asked me Take a good look." Li Fu clenched his fists, looking like he was going to fight, and faced Wang Zhi who suddenly knelt in front of Li Hong in fear.
Li Fu is like a copy of Li Zhong. Although he looks honest and dull on the outside, it does not mean that his brain is not flexible.
Now, it was because he saw Wang Zhi suddenly kneeling down that he suddenly realized that this imperial uncle could really bring him and his mother the protection he had always dreamed of.
So he simply started to accuse Wang Zhi loudly, and told all the things he had seen between Wang Zhi and his mother in the hall since he was sensible and could remember things.
Although at a young age, he didn't know why his mother cried every time she came back from Wang Zhi, but with his young mind and thinking, he concluded that Wang Zhi must have bullied his mother.
Otherwise, every time my mother saw Wang Zhi, she would seem to be a different person. She would not dare to look at him at all. Even when Wang Zhi was riding on horseback, he would put the whip in his mother's hand very rudely. At the chin, he raised his mother's head and looked at his mother with a smile that he didn't understand, but in any case made him angry, disgusting, and helpless.
"Master Wang, is what Li Fu said true?" Li Hong picked up the pottery bowl and continued to take a leisurely sip of boiled water before asking lightly.
"Your Highness, it's not true. I really don't dare. How could I be like..." Wang Zhi, who was kneeling on the ground, looked up at the angry little man Li Fu, but he didn't know what to call him. The royal family is now He did not rehabilitate King Yan, and is still a commoner today.
Moreover, the royal family has never cared about the descendants of King Yan, and has not given them any titles or titles. Now they are just common people.
So he had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Xiaoguan has never bullied Young Master Li's mother. As for... As for what Mr. Li said that his mother always came back crying from Xiaogong, this... This Xiaguan didn't know that there was such a thing. The thing is, maybe it’s because Xiaguan occasionally remembered that it was not easy for Princess Yan to raise a child in Loulan City, so he would send someone to give them some living expenses on the New Year’s Eve, so... So I was moved. Where is Young Master Li’s mother?”
"Then when did you start giving Princess Yan daily necessities?" Li Hong asked calmly, still unhurriedly.
When Li Zhe next to him heard Wang Zhi's explanation, regardless of whether Li Fu was right or wrong, he kicked Wang Zhi in the face.
Wang Zhi rolled to the ground like a gourd, and after an ouch, he hurriedly got up regardless of the dust on his body, knelt down in front of Li Hong again, and continued to defend himself in fear.
"Xiaguan started sending some daily necessities to Princess Yan last year. As a minister of the Tang Dynasty, Xiaguan thought he had the responsibility to solve His Highness's worries. He thought that maybe one day, His Highness would come to visit their mother and son, so... Just thinking about it..."
"You just want to show your kindness to Li Fu and his son to get a chance to be promoted? But you are a small county magistrate, and most of the governors in Anxi Protectorate don't know your name, right? Do you think you have a chance? Do you want me to know what you have done?" Li Hong ignored Ye Yue who ran up to him and whispered to him. Instead, after Ye Yue finished speaking in his ear, he glanced at the outside of the hall. From that window, Princess Yan's figure flashed past.
The Loulan County magistrate and the chief registrar, the two officials second only to the county magistrate Wang Zhi in Loulan, knelt down with a bang as soon as they entered the hall and began to describe all the disrespect Wang Zhi had towards Princess Yan in the past two years. Faced with the two men's corrections, Wang Zhi's face instantly turned pale. He curled up and knelt on the ground, kowtowing to Li Hong and begging for mercy.
Just when the county captain and the chief registrar were about to tell when Wang Zhi coerced and lured Princess Yan to his mansion, Li Hong suddenly stood up, grabbed Li Fu's thin shoulders, and then Walk out of the hall.
"Li Zhe, after you have finished asking, you will be beheaded in public. No one is allowed to reveal anything in the hall today." After Li Hong finished speaking, he had already led Li Fu out of the hall.
Li Hong knew without guessing that Wang Zhi's next correction was definitely not suitable for Li Fu to listen to, so he had no choice but to take Li Fu with him, followed by Ye Yue, and the three of them walked slowly in the courtyard.
After sending Li Fu to visit his mother, Ye Yue looked at Li Hong with some confusion and asked: "I asked Princess Yan just now, and she said that nothing happened between them, but Wang Zhi occasionally used it for various reasons. To embarrass her, as for the rest, she said Wang Zhi didn’t have the guts yet.”
A disdainful smile appeared on Li Hong's lips, and he chirped twice before asking: "You don't really believe it, do you? You should be very smart with your little head, but why are you so confused at this time?"
"Are you confused? Don't you believe me? No, you don't believe what Princess Yan said?"
"If Princess Yan had been forced by Wang Zhi and had to submit to Wang Zhi in order to survive or for Li Fu, then at this time, when watching the royal family come to pick up their mother and son back to Chang'an, do you think she would put those disgraceful things into perspective? "Tell you the truth? If she admits that she was forced to submit by Wang Zhi, isn't she worried about the royal family's reaction?" Li Hong looked at Hua Meng and others, helped Princess Yan pack up all the gifts, and stood far away from the door. Princess Yan looked at herself and Yeyue, and asked Yeyue calmly.
"No way? She doesn't look like she would lie to me. Look at how sincere her eyes are. I wouldn't..."
"It's a shame that you grew up in the palace. Why don't you understand these things? If you admit it and submit to Wang Zhidao, it will be a shame for the royal family. Even if she returns to Chang'an, Zongzheng Temple will let her go. ? So now that she knows that she can't resist the royal family's move to move them back to Chang'an, she naturally wants to hide all the things that are not good for her. This will be of great benefit to both the royal family and herself. "
Yeyue thought about Li Hong's words without saying a word. After Li Hong mentioned it, Yeyue realized that she was indeed thinking a little naively, and it was natural.
Yes, if the royal family and Zongzheng Temple knew that she had submitted to a small county magistrate in Loulan, then even if she was forced, the royal family would not tolerate such a thing.
After returning to Chang'an, what awaits her may be a more miserable situation than in Loulan. By then, even Li Fu, whom she single-handedly brought up, will not only be separated from her, but will even be labeled by others in the future.
In this case, when she returns to Chang'an, she might as well live her whole life in Loulan in obscurity. After all, no matter what happens in Loulan, no one can separate their mother and son, right? They just have to live a more humiliating life, but with mother and son Compared separately, it is obviously still a very cost-effective thing.
"In this case, why do you want to make this matter public? Didn't you deliberately let Princess Yan live in fear every day after returning to Chang'an? And if others find out, Li Fu's future will be different. What should I do? You can't bear to let people poke the backs of Li Fu and his son." Ye Yue pouted and began to complain for Princess Yan.
In this way, for Princess Yan and her son, it would be better to stay in Loulan and live an ordinary life in obscurity than to return to Chang'an.
"Wow... Princess Yan is so smart. She thought of this when she was in Prince Yan's Mausoleum, otherwise she wouldn't have refused you to invite them and their son back to Chang'an from the beginning. It seems that she knows the stakes clearly in her heart. Ah." Yeyue suddenly realized, thinking about everything today, she suddenly discovered that Princess Yan, who seemed to be almost middle-aged and still maintained her good looks, was actually so smart.
"But the blood of the royal family is among the people. My father must have ordered me to handle this kind of thing before he ascended the throne. And... this is not the biggest headache for me. When I return to Chang'an..."
"Prince Da Lai?" Yeyue said suddenly, but there was a lot of gloating in her tone.
(End of chapter)