Her Highness Doesn’t Want to Work Hard Anymore

Inside Zhao Wang's mansion.

Li Ji and Hua Manman had just finished their dinner, and they were looking through the newly bought notebooks together.

At this time, Chen Wangbei walked in quickly.

"My lord, all the people we sent out have returned."

Li Ji turned the pages of the book in his hand and asked casually.

"What did you find?"

Chen Wangbei replied truthfully: "Most of the civilian husbands are fine, only one person was lost by us."

Li Ji finally raised his head.

"who is it?"

Chen Wangbei: "It's a man named Hong Hui."

Li Ji's memory is very good. When he heard this name, a middle-aged man with a simple and honest face appeared in his mind.

He narrowed his eyes slightly: "Go and check his details, it's best to find him himself."

"Here."

...

The conversation that the Fifth Prince Li Yan heard that night was precisely led by Hong Hui.

Later, Li Yan deliberately sprained his ankle, and it was Hong Hui who secretly pushed him.

And all of this was arranged by the Fourth Prince Li Ying.

His father deliberately ignored him because of his background, and civil and military officials looked down on him because of his background. No one looked up to him, let alone thought he was qualified to inherit the throne.

That being the case, he removed the other princes one by one.

When there is no other choice in the future, no matter how much the father dislikes him, he can only let him inherit the throne.

At that time, he will be able to avenge his revenge and retaliate against his grievances.

Li Ying looked down at Hong Hui from above, his eyes were deeper than the night.

"Things are doing well."

After being praised by the fourth prince, Hong Hui was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "It's all arranged well by His Highness, the younger one is just following orders."

Li Ying glanced at Liang Yong who was standing beside him.

Liang Yong understood, and took out a stack of bank notes from his sleeve and handed it over.

"You take this money and go, go outside to avoid the limelight, and don't go back to Beijing in the next few years."

Hong Hui took the banknote with both hands, and hurriedly responded: "Young one knows, I will definitely go far away, and won't cause trouble for the Fourth Highness."

Liang Yong smiled: "It's good that you know."

Hong Hui stood up and was about to leave.

At this moment, Li Ying seemed to have asked a question unintentionally.

"You haven't been followed along the way, have you?"

Hong Hui quickly said: "No, no, there was someone who wanted to follow the little one, but he was quickly thrown off by the little one..."

Liang Yong interrupted him.

"Someone following you?"

"That's right, shortly after the little one left the Taimiao, he found someone following him. That person thought he was hiding well, but in fact, the little one had discovered him a long time ago, and the little one just used a little trick to get rid of him. .”

Having said that, Hong Hui couldn't help showing a somewhat smug look on his face.

Liang Yong looked at the fourth prince.

Li Ying closed his eyes.

Liang Yong immediately understood what the fourth prince meant.

Liang Yong took out another piece of paper from his sleeve and said with a smile.

"I almost forgot to give this to you. This is the guide we specially prepared for you. With him, you can go wherever you want."

Hong Hui was very happy and kept saying compliments.

"Your Highness the Fourth Highness is so caring. It's a blessing for the young one to be able to work for His Highness the Fourth Highness."

He walked over quickly and reached out to meet the guide.

The moment he held Lu Yin, Liang Yong flipped his right hand, and a cold light flashed across his fingertips.

Seeing this, Hong Hui's heart skipped a beat, and he was about to dodge, but it was too late.

Liang Yong's movements were as fast as a gust of wind, and the cold light on his fingertips pierced Hong Hui's throat like lightning.

Blood splattered out!

Liang Yong moved his steps just to avoid the spray of blood on his face.

Hong Hui didn't even have time to make a sound, and he just fell to the ground straight, his eyes wide open, his eyes were extremely frightened, and the expression on his face was frozen in disbelief.

It seemed that he never thought that he would be killed by someone until his death.

Liang Yong put the dagger back into its sheath and turned to look at the fourth prince.

"Who does Your Highness think sent someone to follow Hong Hui?"

Li Ying looked at the night sky outside the ruined temple.

In the dark night, a bright white moon hung high.

"Besides King Zhao, who else can there be?"

...

After Chen Wangbei left, Hua Manman pushed aside the notebook in front of him and asked curiously.

"Did your lord find anything?"

Li Ji didn't hide from her, and told his guess.

"I suspect that the Fifth Prince was assassinated by someone, and the person who assassinated him is likely to be hidden among the peasants who built the Taimiao.

I sent some people to follow those peasant husbands to see who among them was the one who did it secretly.

Originally, I just wanted to test it out, but I didn't expect that we would find some clues. "

The guards of the palace he sent were highly skilled in martial arts, and the person who could escape their pursuit would certainly not be an ordinary person.

From this point of view, Hong Hui, who could easily get rid of the follower, seemed particularly suspicious.

At the same time, this also reflects a fact from the side——

Li Ji's guess is true.

The fifth prince's injury is indeed strange.

Hua Manman: "Can we really find that Hong Hui?"

Li Ji: "If we are not so careful behind the scenes, we still have hope to find someone."

But if the person behind the scenes is careful enough, it is likely that no one will be left alive.

Even if they could find Hong Hui, all they could find was a corpse.

...

Concubine Liu Gui came to the Fifth Prince's residence as usual today.

The bedroom door was still closed.

Li Yan had locked himself in the room for two whole days, and he didn't touch the food at the door.

Concubine Liu Gui was heartbroken.

She stepped forward and knocked on the door: "Yan'er, no matter how unhappy you are, you still have to eat, even if mother begs you, okay? Just open the door."

There was no response from the room.

Concubine Liu Gui yelled again several times, and put her ears on the door, but she still couldn't hear a sound.

The uneasiness in her heart rapidly expanded.

Although Li Yan didn't open the door yesterday, he would at least tell me to roll back.

But now there is no sound at all.

Could it be Li Yan's accident?

Concubine Liu Gui couldn't care about anything else, she immediately had two guards called, and forced the door open.

When they rushed in, they found Li Yan lying on the ground with his eyes closed.

"Yan'er!" Concubine Liu Gui hurriedly picked up her son, and shouted helplessly, "Call the imperial doctor!"

The emperor suddenly heard that the fifth prince called the imperial doctor again.

But he still had things to do, so he couldn't leave for the time being, so he asked Wu Wang to see how the fifth prince was doing for him.

Wu Wang came to the fifth prince's residence, and heard Concubine Liu Gui crying as soon as he entered the door.

"Yan'er, if you have something good or bad, how will you let your mother live?"

Li Yan was already awake at this time.

The imperial doctor said that he passed out from starvation, but fortunately he was discovered in time, and he was young and had a good foundation, so he would be fine after a rest and eat something.

Li Yan was reluctant to eat at first.

Rather than lingering on such a broken body, it would be better to die.

Until Concubine Liu Gui forced her to die.

"If you die, mother will die with you."

Li Yan had no choice but to open his mouth and took his first bite of food in the next two days.