Chapter Thirty-Eight: Door-to-door dignitaries
However, even if he is powerful, he is just a relative, and he must not be unreasonable in front of the orthodox bloodline.
There was a sound of neat footsteps not far away, Li Chengzhou frowned slightly, and then walked in front of Si Meiren.
"The patrol guards are here, don't worry, beauty, this king will take you away."
Without waiting for Simeiren to react, she was grabbed by Li Chengzhou and taken into her arms.
Tiptoeing slightly, he took Simeiren into the air and crossed the wall.
Simeiren in his arms closed her eyes tightly and buried her head in his chest.
After landing steadily, Li Chengzhou took Simeiren into the carriage that had been waiting for a long time.
Si Meiren buried her head shyly, and only when there was only the steady and powerful heartbeat of Li Chengzhou in her ears, she slowly opened her eyes.
"Thank you for saving your life."
Li Chengzhou didn't answer, but just lifted the curtain slightly to look at the situation outside, and then gave the groom a look, and the carriage slowly drove away.
With the carriage slowly leaving, Simeiren disappeared into the Prime Minister's Mansion out of thin air.
The guards who patrolled here only felt a breeze blowing on their faces, and a faint fragrance remained in the wind, and they did not notice that anyone had left the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Leng Mochen was also a little tired, and fell asleep unconsciously, not noticing that Si Meiren was missing.
In order to avoid startling the snake, Li Chengzhou took Simeiren back to the palace and arranged to rest in the wing.
In the early morning of the next day, Leng Mochen, who was sober, did not see the shadow of Simeiren anywhere, and he couldn't help but have some doubts.
He called his subordinates to find Simeiren, but the entire Prime Minister's Mansion was turned upside down and there was no trace.
His subordinates walked up to him and knelt down to report with a nervous face.
"Prime Minister, there is no trace of Simeiren everywhere in the entire Prime Minister's Mansion, we suspect that she may have run away......"
Simeiren wanted to escape from the Prime Minister's Mansion before, but after all, she underestimated Leng Mochen's strength, and was beaten badly after being found.
Leng Mochen was furious, and with a wave of his big hand, the teacup on the table shattered to the ground.
"But what's the clue?"
He frowned, and there was a guess in his mind.
"Last night, someone saw King Yongle's carriage passing by the Prime Minister's Mansion on the street, and the time when Simei escaped happened to be after King Yongle came, and Xiao Dou guessed that King Yongle kidnapped Simeiren."
At the moment, Leng Mochen's favorite is Simeiren.
Being able to enter and exit freely in the huge Prime Minister's Mansion, and even robbing Si Meiren, it seems that King Yongle is far more simple than he imagined.
"I don't have a long memory of catching this slut back last time and beating him, but this time I hooked up with an adulterer, and dared to take people away under the nose of the prime minister, it seems that he Yongle King didn't take his true appearance in his eyes!"
Simei is a coward, and she must have been bewitched and instigated to flee the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Thinking of this, Leng Mochen decided to go to Li Chengzhou to investigate.
Leng Mochen took the two of them to the palace in the name of visiting.
Knowing that he was coming, Li Chengzhou smiled indifferently.
"Since I found the door, it seems that I am a thief and open the door to welcome customers!"
While instructing, he sent someone to make another pot of tea.
Leng Mochen was particularly surprised to see that the people from the palace came to pick him up so quickly, but he quickly calmed down and followed his subordinates to the study.
Pushing the door in, I saw Li Chengzhou scolding Fang Xuan and walking away from the dragon and snake.
"The prince is so elegant, and his calligraphy is so attainmented, which is true!"
Leng Mochen stepped forward to observe for a long time, and after thinking for a while, he praised it.
Hearing this, Li Chengzhou put down the brush and looked humble.
"I heard that the prime minister's attainments in calligraphy are even more remarkable, and the poem he mentioned actually led countless people in the court to scramble, and I got an axe in front of the prime minister."
Li Chengzhou smiled indifferently, and then walked to the side with Leng Mochen.
The maidservant brought a pot of hot tea and poured tea for the two of them.
Leng Mochen looked up and down, his eyes fixed on the maidservant.
"The prince is really good-looking, even the maids who serve in the house are so enchanting and charming, and there is no shortage of beauties in the mansion."
Because of his identity, Leng Mochen is not easy to speak out.
"Where, aren't there more beauties in the Prime Minister's Mansion? Singing every night, the king is ashamed of himself, but he is a little envious of the prime minister. ”
Picking up the teacup, Li Chengzhou sipped slightly.
After taking a sip of tea, Leng Mochen's face was calm.
"There are no beauties in my house, but there is a beautiful person who accompanies her to relieve her boredom and amusement, but she suddenly disappeared from the house last night, and someone should have taken her away for beauty."
As he spoke, he put down the teacup, raised his head and met Li Chengzhou's sharp gaze.
"I think this person is used to being lawless on weekdays, so he thinks that it is a trivial matter to kidnap a little beauty in my prime minister's mansion, but this person's behavior is tantamount to challenging my majesty as the prime minister, logically speaking, I should cut him with a thousand knives, but he is confused for a while, if he sends Simei back to the prime minister's mansion, I will write it off and no longer pursue it."
Although he is an important minister in the court, the emperor will not allow him to search the palace because of a beauty.
Such disgraceful things were spread, and his woman was enjoyed by others, and a little green hat was buttoned on her head, and what face did she have to meet people?
Li Chengzhou, who should have been frightened, smiled slightly.
"What the prime minister said is very true, but I'm afraid that Simei was not kidnapped, but voluntarily left with that person, maybe he suffered a crime in the prime minister's mansion and wanted to escape, and that person also saved people's lives."
He had long heard that the prime minister had charged him with kidnapping his daughters, but he was not the master of letting others dominate him.
"If the prime minister concludes that that person did it, he should come up with evidence to bring that person to justice, but if there is no evidence, it will be spread that the prime minister is abusing his power for personal gain and acting as a prestigious."
In order to save Si Meiren from the Prime Minister's Mansion, he had planned everything in advance, and no one would seize the handle.
Leng Mochen's visit today was only a verbal threat and intimidation, not a threat.
"Abducting the female dependents of the Prime Minister's Mansion, this crime will not only be imprisoned and suffered, but also spurned by tens of thousands of people, I am afraid that this person has no skin and no face, and he is a bastard!"
Hearing that he would not return the person to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Leng Mochen had a cold face, a trace of murderous aura flowed in his eyes, and anger was revealed between his eyebrows.
Li Chengzhou sneered, and said with a ridiculous face: "If this matter is spread, the prime minister will be used by the people of the world as a talking point after dinner, and this is the first person in ancient and modern times who has been cuckolded and still wants to publicize it!" ”
After that, Li Chengzhou also gave a thumbs up arrogantly in front of him to express his admiration.
Leng Mochen, who couldn't get any benefits, not only failed to let him hand over the person, but instead came to the door to humiliate himself, and he was humiliated like a lost dog, without face.
A wave of anger burned in his heart, but he was helpless.
Just as he was about to say something, Li Chengzhou picked up the teapot and filled him with tea.
The tea was full of guests, but he didn't expect Li Chengzhou to be such a scoundrel, and he was cheap and behaved.
"It's not too early, so I won't bother the prince, say goodbye!"
Leng Mochen waved his sleeves and left angrily.
Chapter 39: Tracking
Seeing him go away, Li Chengzhou sat in his place and took a sip of tea.
It didn't take long for Simei to come in a hurry.
"Thank you to the prince for rescuing me this time, but now the prince has also offended the prime minister for me, with his character, he will definitely not give up."
Simei began to worry about Li Chengzhou's situation.
Although she was the prime minister's plaything, she knew that this person was vicious.
But Li Chengzhou didn't take it seriously.
"He came to me this time, just to find out the truth, this king has already made his words clear, he has no evidence for a while, naturally it is impossible to make things difficult for me, and when I find an opportunity, I will secretly send you out of the city, and even if he has the ability to reach the sky, he may not be able to find you."
Seeing Li Chengzhou's vow, since he believes that he has come to this point, what room is there to turn back?
"The slave family naturally believes in the strength of the prince, but the prime minister is not a good thing, and if he fails to achieve his goal this time, it is definitely not a matter of giving up and giving up, and he will retaliate in the future."
People who disagree with him on weekdays will suffer from this catastrophe, and even many people are suppressed by him and die of depression.
Li Chengzhou saw Si Meiren's worries about himself, and then smiled indifferently, and then took out a new teacup and poured half a cup of tea.
"Although he is the prime minister, in the final analysis, he is just the power of the second prince's mother's family, and the mother is expensive by the son, but if the mother's family is too powerful, then it will inevitably encounter the situation of going to the mother and leaving the child, and today's rampant is just the disaster of his day, not to mention that he is only the mother of the second prince's mother's power, what is the dispute with the king?"
Li Chengzhou, who raised his eyebrows slightly, threw the question to Si Meiren.
It's not that he doesn't understand the other party's mind, but he just knows that even if he is a high-ranking prime minister, he doesn't dare to suddenly confront himself.
After all, Li Chengzhou is a royal bloodline, and the identity of the orthodox bloodline is enough to make him jealous.
"He is not a broad-minded person, but he can only do it secretly because he is afraid of my identity, but his purpose is very clear, he just wants to bring you back, so he may not really target me, but wants to find you through me, and then you will follow my arrangement, as long as you are not found by him, you can leave smoothly."
Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.
If you guess the other person's mind, it is not difficult to find a countermeasure.
When Leng Mochen returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, he was furious, let all the guards on duty receive punishments, and lost his temper everywhere before he calmed down.
"It's just a person who eats and waits for death, if it weren't for the royal blood, the prime minister would have done it to him a long time ago!"
suffered such a big loss today, and was ridiculed by Li Chengzhou to be a cuckold, he was naturally very guilty.
But after thinking about it, Li Chengzhou is like a transparent person on weekdays, and he has never had a dispute with himself, but today he has this dispute because of a woman, and it seems that he is really obsessed.
"You find a team of elites and find a way to follow him, you must follow him secretly, and you must not startle the snake."
When his subordinates heard this, they were shocked, the King of Yongle, who is happy and happy on weekdays, only knows how to visit the kiln, when will he have such strength to make the prime minister jealous?
Isn't it because of Simeiren's disappearance that others are panicked that they will make such a blind decision?
"My lord, he is just an idle man, and he is also notorious in Kyoto, so why send a team of elites to follow him? Isn't that overkill? ”
Kill chickens with a cattle slaughtering knife?
But Leng Mochen snorted coldly, revealing a trace of coldness and disdain in his eyes.
He had always been a thoughtful Lord and a wise man.
"Stupid!"
He cursed at his subordinates, and then he patiently explained the reason.
"Last night, so many people in the mansion were on duty, taking turns to patrol, but they didn't see a little wind, if I hadn't found out that someone was missing this morning, how would you have found out that Simei was missing without a trace?"
When he found out that Simeiren was missing, he was also shocked, especially when he turned the entire urban and rural mansion upside down, but there were no clues.
"It's so heavily guarded, but you can easily take away Si Meiren, do you still want to underestimate this Yongle King who eats and waits for death all day long, and is idle?"
On second thought, this matter is indeed dangerous.
But he is not worried, with Li Chengzhou's thoughts, it is just that he is dazed by lust and lust, so he will do such an act.
When he sobers up, he should also be remorseful, and when the time comes, he will beat again, and he will lose his arrogance.
"As long as you follow Li Chengzhou secretly, you will definitely be able to find the whereabouts of Simeiren, after all, he took people away, and it is not easy to completely erase a person's traces easily."
Based on his guess about Li Chengzhou, Simei should be in the palace now, but he can't act rashly and search the prince's mansion on a large scale.
Even if he knew the truth, he didn't dare to attack rashly.
Now there are many enemies, and if this matter spreads, other party members will definitely work together to eradicate dissidents.
"I'm also keeping an eye on the surroundings of his mansion, although I can't search rashly, but as long as I find clues, I can pull back a game."
Now the second prince has not yet gained a firm foothold, and he can only compromise and survive, just waiting for the second prince to gain a firm foothold, and he also has enough foundation to become the new emperor in one day.
Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and then a wicked smile appeared on his face.
"He didn't dare to rashly take Simeiren out of the house, only if there was no beauty in the Jiaofang Division recently, he would be so attached to Simeiren, but after all, he was a cheap slave, just play, and when he had enough, he would send people back."
When that happens, he will not only be able to regain what he has lost, but he will also be able to take advantage of it to extort money.
After all, King Yongle does not have a team, and only by taking this opportunity can he take advantage of Li Chengzhou, and when the time comes, he will use all kinds of beauties as bait, are you afraid that he will not take the bait?
"That slut can't run away if she wants to, once she is branded as a slave, she will be a cheap slave for the rest of her life, no matter how far she goes, she will be sent back, and what awaits her at that time is just more cruel torture, I want this slut to know what it means to be high and thick!"
It seems that he still doesn't remember the fight, so he plans to wait for Simeiren to come back and serve him well, and give this cheap slave who doesn't have a long memory a long memory.
"You should do this quickly, and don't show any clues."
The men nodded again and again, and then retired.
Not long after, Li Chengzhou's subordinates came to report and learned that 4 places in the mansion were being monitored, and it seemed that Leng Mochen had taken action.
"Lord Wang, do you want your men to disperse them all?"
Li Chengzhou's subordinates were a little panicked, I don't know how he offended the prime minister, and now that so many people have been sent to monitor every move of the palace nearby, I am afraid that a bloody storm will kick off.