Does your husband only love his wife?I turned around and left the house to marry a villain

"I just saw the gifts bestowed by the Emperor and the Empress. They are all priceless. If we take them back to our Li family, it will bring honor to our ancestors." Mother Fang showed a greedy look.

Li Qiulian smiled and said, "This is all because Yuan Zhou is favored by His Majesty."

"Since it is a gift from the Emperor to you, it belongs to you, Madam. I will ask someone to pack it up and put it in your storeroom."

"No hurry." Li Qiulian said, "I just married into the He family. Yuan Zhou will not treat me badly. When he comes to my room tonight, he will ask me to take charge of the He family. After I get the power to take charge of the family, I will deal with the rewards from the emperor and the queen."

Mother Fang patted her head and said, "Yes, look at my head, it's not as good as yours. Madam, come here, I'll make you your favorite plum blossom cake, come and fill your stomach."

Li Qiulian nodded, her heart feeling as sweet as honey.

At this time, He Yuanzhou didn't know that Li Qiulian was planning the future of their Li family.

After Xie Jinyun and Gu Changning returned to the palace, Xie Ci told them the news about the Li family that he had recently found out.

"Mrs. Li brought her son and a group of loyal servants to hide around the He Mansion. She has already sent a group of slaves into the He family. In order to arrange his marriage with Li Qiulian, He Yuanzhou also neglected many details and was taken advantage of by Mrs. Li." Xie Ci told him everything.

Gu Changning asked, "Did he overlook many details, or was someone blinding him?"

As he spoke, Gu Changning looked at Xie Jinyu.

Xie Jinyu looked up at Xie Ci and said, "He Yuanzhou is suspicious and sharp by nature. Before marrying Li Qiulian, he investigated Li Qiulian's identity several times. Li Qiulian's true identity was erased by me. The only thing he could find out was Li Lianyu's identity. In addition, my sister-in-law taught him a lot, which confused He Yuanzhou. It's not that He Yuanzhou ignored the details. I took a lot of effort to operate Li Qiulian's true identity under his nose, which led to the current situation."

When Xie Ci heard this, he cupped his hands and said, "My second brother is better than me in this respect."

"He Yuanzhou has touched the bottom line of the Xie family. Moreover, he recently gave up investigating my eldest brother and turned to focus on me and the third brother. He checked who I was privately associated with and checked the third brother's accounts. It seems that he intends to take action against the Xie family. He should want to find some evidence against the Xie family." Xie Jinyu said.

Xie Jinyun frowned slightly and asked, "So what did he find out?"

Xie Jinyu replied: "What He Yuanzhou was able to find out is probably that the third brother has been helping the emperor travel around the world over the years, amassing huge amounts of wealth and trying every possible way to fill the national treasury."

Gu Changning helped Xie Jinyu correct her: "That's not the case. It should be said that what He Yuanzhou was able to find out was that in order to fill the national treasury, Xie Lao San worked like a slave for me this year, and he also donated many shops under his own name to the country."

Xie Jinyu and Xie Ci were frightened by Gu Changning's words and fell to their knees.

Gu Changning was stunned: "Why did you kneel down suddenly?"

Neither of them spoke.

Xie Jinyun said: "Are you scaring my brother?"

"What I said is correct." Gu Changning said, "Stand up and speak. I have seen all the help your Xie family has given me. If He Yuanzhou wants to investigate, go ahead."

"Brother, brother, please get up first." Xie Jinyun looked at the two of them.

The two men stood up and thanked him, saying, "I feel very fortunate and honored to be able to serve Your Majesty."

"That's just polite talk." Gu Changning stared at the chessboard on the small square table next to him. "You didn't see the officials he invited to the wedding banquet today. Half of the officials of Yan State belong to his party, some are old officials of Chen State, and some are unknown minor officials who curry favor with the powerful. And he even set up a buffet outside the He Mansion. Doesn't he claim to be honest? Today's wedding banquet will cost at least ten thousand taels of silver. Before he entered the court as an official, he was just a poor scholar. It's only been less than a year. How can he save so much money?"

Xie Jinyu immediately took out a list from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Jiang Huai: "Your Majesty, this is the list of officials who have sent gifts to the He Mansion recently."

Gu Changning took the list and looked at it. The handwriting was neat but the list was too long.

Xie Jinyun took a closer look and said, "They all gave He Yuanzhou gold, silver and treasures under the pretext of giving him a wedding gift."

"Your Highness is right." Xie Jinyu explained carefully, "He Yuanzhou really didn't have the money to hold such a big banquet, but when he was planning to marry Li Qiulian, he made plans for the money for the wedding."

"The first person who came to give gifts was a sixth-rank official from the Chen Kingdom. The sixth-rank official had made his fortune from his first wife's maternal family and left behind a large fortune. He knew that He Yuanzhou had been investigating their family recently, so he used the excuse of giving He Yuanzhou a wedding gift to specially present five thousand taels of gold. He Yuanzhou usually refused to accept bribes, but this time he accepted it directly."

"After this incident, those officials who were afraid of He Yuanzhou tightened their belts in order to smooth over the relationship. They either filled food baskets with gold and brought them to the He family under the pretext of congratulations, or exchanged silver for silver notes and laid them under the gift boxes. In this way, they collected a large amount of money and raised the funds for today's grand occasion."

"This is outrageous." Gu Changning's eyes darkened and he said in a cold tone.

Xie Jinyun said: "If the emperor wants to issue an order to investigate him, he will probably have many excuses to avoid the bribery issue. He may even use this list to directly help the emperor to investigate those officials who gave him gold and silver. What's worse, he will incite public opinion and make people think that the emperor is a narrow-minded person. Ministers are not allowed to give or receive gifts when they get married. When the ministers get married, they have to do it secretly and no one dares to drink in anyone's wedding, lest they be accused of taking bribes and have their property confiscated."

"Your Majesty, if one person commits a crime, you can arrest him directly. If everyone does the same thing, then this matter cannot be solved by bribery. This is also where He Yuanzhou is cunning. He either doesn't accept it, or if he wants to accept it, he will accept it all, big or small, more or less, all goes into his pocket. When the emperor starts to question the crime, you will directly offend those ministers who sent gifts, which is more likely to arouse public anger."

"He is using the war of public opinion to restrain you." Xie Jinyun put away the list, pressed his palm heavily on the list of gifts, and analyzed the seriousness of the incident to Gu Changning in a serious tone.

Gu Changning stared at Xie Jinyun's hand: "Very good, even I am calculating."

Xie Jinyun comforted him, "The knife chosen by the emperor is indeed a good one. If he can be used in the right place, it is not useless. It's just that he is too selfish and very smart. You, the emperor, are on guard against him, and he is also on guard against the emperor. He should know what position he holds in the emperor's heart. Therefore, at today's wedding banquet, he specially set up a buffet outside the palace to entertain the passers-by. It is said that those who eat from others are soft-hearted and those who take from others are short-handed. Those are his supporters. When you borrowed a knife to kill people, he also relied on your majesty to shock the four directions and became a 'reincarnation of Bao Qingtian' who eliminated harm for the people, but..."

She wrote the word "Li" on the table and said, "With the Li family, this scale will no longer be under his control."