[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, the fourth day of the fourth month of April, Haishi, the Jin Palace, Biyunju]

Li Xi heard Song Jinhua ask, and took a sip of the teacup in front of him, but asked rhetorically:

"Jinhua, then tell me, who is our biggest threat at the moment?"

"Naturally, it's ......" Song Jinhua looked out the window, and after making sure that there was no one left and right, he continued: "It's King Wei!"

Li Ci snorted coldly and said:

"Speaking of my fourth brother, I admire it the most! He knocked down the prince without a word, and without a trace, he knocked down my eldest brother! This time, he secretly killed my sixth brother...... I ask you, among these brothers, who can have such a ruthless and vicious method as him, and who can have such a ruthless and resolute heart?"

Song Jinhua couldn't help but wonder: "Your Highness, isn't it the King of Chu who overthrew the crown prince?"

Li Ci sneered: "Jinhua, you only know the surface, but you don't know the inside! You only saw that it was my eldest brother who exposed the prince's crime of selling official positions to my father, but you don't want to think about it, who forced the prince to sell his official position to raise money?"

Song Jinhua thought for a while, and immediately said: "It's Xu Ke!"

Li Ci said: "By the way, you were also in the household department at the time, you should know that if it wasn't for this Xu Ke who found out that the prince was greedy for the state money, the prince would not have taken risks, and in order to raise money and return the treasury silver, he would not hesitate to sell his official beard!"

Song Jinhua said: "Could it be that at that time, Xu Ke traced the treasury to investigate the arrears of silver, but at that time, even his subordinates did not see that he was already a person of the King of Wei?"

Li Ci said: "Xu Ke is a student of Qiu Mingli, if you think about the relationship between Qiu Mingli and my fourth brother, can't you guess it?"

Song Jinhua then asked: "However, even if it is the King of Wei who overthrows the crown prince, isn't it the King of Han who overthrows the King of Chu?"

Kang Youren immediately asked: "Brother Song, you said that it was the King of Han who overthrew the King of Chu?"

At that time, it was Xiao Yihong's confession that pushed the King of Chu down the abyss, but the person in charge of trying Xiao Yihong's case was Pei Caibao, a thousand households of Tsing Yi Wei, and that Pei Caibao had already been found out...... Aren't they all King Han?"

Li Ci shook his head with a smile and said, "These are also appearances!" Jinhua, think about it again, Xiao Yihong is just a fuse, what is the bomb that really detonated my eldest brother?"

Song Jinhua pondered for a moment, and then said: "It's the King of Wei! If the King of Chu hadn't sent Sun Xun to assassinate the King of Wei halfway, Sun Xun wouldn't have been captured alive by Shen Huan; if the King of Chu hadn't been worried that Sun Xun would confess that he was the mastermind, the King of Chu would not have taken the risk and intended to lead his troops to rebel; if the King of Chu had no intention of rebelling, Xiao Yihong would not have confessed to any charges against the King of Chu! In this way, it seems that it was the King of Wei who really retreated the King of Chu into the abyss!"

Kang Youren seemed to understand whether he understood or not, but at that time, the secrets of the King of Chu, after all, he was mostly involved in it, so he couldn't help but ask:

"Brother Song, didn't the King of Chu send someone to kill Sun Xun at that time? The younger brother even specially dedicated a 'Hundred Flowers Pill' to the prince for this reason! Since Sun Xun is dead, why does the King of Chu still rebel? The younger brother has never been able to figure out this matter!"

Song Jinhua sneered: "You don't know your old master too well! The King of Chu, who looks humble and frank, is actually secretly the most scheming! The biggest problem with this person is that he is too suspicious! Even if Sun Xun dies, he will be worried that there is a handle in the hands of others, because for him, only ascending to the throne is a solution once and for all!"

After that, Song Jinhua glanced at Kang Youren coldly again, and the meaning in his eyes: "At that time, the King of Chu didn't kill you, and it was already your Kang family's ancestral tomb that was smoking!"

Li Ci said again: "Jinhua, there is one more point, you didn't expect it!"

Song Jinhua hurriedly said: "Your Highness is saying that the female prisoner named 'Yao Zibei'?"

Li Ci nodded and said, "Didn't you say it afterwards? Xiao Yihong was arrested because he bribed Zhao Yong with 8,000 taels, but why did Zhao Yong give Xiao Yihong 8,000 taels of silver, and it wasn't his precious son Zhao Xiaogang who killed someone? And the cause of Zhao Xiaogang's murder turned out to be this Yao Zibei! The funniest thing is that this Yao Zibei is in Chang'an City, and he also has a godbrother ......."

"Xu Ke!" Song Jinhua blurted out: "So, the real cause of the King of Chu's case is still this Xu Ke?"

Li Ci said: "There may be accidental factors in things, but there is no doubt that my eldest brother was also overthrown by the fourth brother!"

Song Jinhua asked again: "Your Highness, you said that the King of Han who came out of the funeral today also died in the hands of King Wei......?" My subordinates really don't understand!"

"Don't say it's you, I'm afraid that no one in the whole world will know the real cause of my sixth brother's death......" Li Ci looked up at the window, only to see that it was dark outside the house, he seemed to be remembering the deceased, and after a while, he said slowly:

"Jinhua, let me tell you something! Two months ago, for some reason, the sixth brother sent someone to arrest a girl in the Tyumen Rite Mansion. Because of this, my fourth brother actually broke into my sixth brother's mansion and gave him a fierce training, so that my sixth brother had to kneel in front of him and beg bitterly, so he let the sixth brother go......"

Li Ci took another sip of tea slowly and said:

"Now I think about it carefully, what he verbally threatened my sixth brother that day was probably the sixth brother's private opening of Cuiyun Tower! It is a pity that my fourth brother's scheming, he knew this secret as early as the second year after the sixth brother opened a brothel, but instead of admonishing him, he also hid this matter in his heart, and used it as a handle to deter my sixth brother at the critical moment! It is ridiculous that my sixth brother, after being intimidated by him that day, has become more and more depressed, and he has only known that he has been depressed in the red dust and vulgarity, and he can't extricate himself...... Although the sixth brother died suddenly in Cuiyun Tower in the end, in terms of the murderer who really killed the sixth brother, in my opinion, it was my fourth brother!"

Hearing the words of King Jin, Song Jinhua couldn't help but gasp, he thought for a while, and then said:

"What His Royal Highness means, although King Han died in the hands of the cat demon, but in fact, he has long been tired of the world, just because the secret of his private brothel has been pinched in the hands of King Wei, because he is depressed in his heart, so he gradually sprouts the will to die?"

Li Ci nodded, took a few sips of tea, and then said slowly:

"With my fourth brother's character, he will not care about anyone's life or death! However, in the early court three days ago, he would not hesitate to disobey his father's wishes, but also desperately protect that Xu Ke! From this, it can be seen how important that Xu Ke's position in my fourth brother's heart is! I am afraid that he does not have this kind of friendship for his own brother!"

Song Jinhua said: "Your Highness, your subordinates understand! Get rid of Xu Ke, that is, get rid of the biggest wings around King Wei! Now, King Wei is the Prince of Jiuzhu, and the emperor loves him very much, and he is almost obedient to his words, so His Royal Highness can't do anything to King Wei, and he can only cut off his wings first!"

In addition, I always feel that this person will be the biggest obstacle on our way to success! Therefore, this person has to be removed!"

Song Jinhua said: "He is now locked up in the Imperial Prison, what can His Highness do to get rid of him?"

Li Ci shook his head and said, "At the moment, we have no evidence in our hands, and it's not time to do it yet...... he turned his head to look at Kang Youren and asked:

"Xiaokang, how is the matter that this king asked you to investigate?"

Kang Youren hurriedly replied: "His Royal Highness the King of Huijin, I have been secretly staring at the Xu Mansion for most of the past half a month, but in addition to a group of servants and maids in his house, there is only one old man, and a fat man, and the others, my subordinates really haven't found anything abnormal!"

"An old man, a fat man?......" Li Xi immediately asked, "What do these two people look like? Could they be goblins?"

Kang Youren carefully described the appearance of Shu Hatian and Zhu Wucan, and finally said: "Your Highness, are these two monsters or not......?"

Li Ci was a little disappointed and said, "So, what about the others?"

Kang Youren said: "The others are just two women!"

Li Ci said strangely: "Two women, this Xu Ke is already married?"

Kang Youren said: "No! These two women are not Xu Ke's wives, and the people of the Xu Mansion don't know what kind of relationship they have with Xu Ke? Moreover, one of the women seems to be pregnant!"

"Pregnant?" Li Ci and Song Jinhua couldn't help but ask together, "Is she pregnant with Xu Ke's child?"

"It's not clear!" Kang Youren hurriedly said: "According to the report of the Xu Mansion insider who was bought by his subordinates, that woman has vomited a lot in the past few days, and there is no doubt that she is pregnant with Liujia, but who is the child in her womb, I'm afraid, I have to ask the woman herself!"

Li Ci was so angry that he couldn't help but slap the table, so shocked that the tea bowl almost turned over, and said angrily:

"Okay, you Xu Ke, it's a shame that Miss Murong is still worried about you, you have already done something wrong with other women, and you secretly raised her in the mansion, you are shameless!"

When Kang Youren heard what Li Ci said, he also said angrily: "Your Highness is rightly scolded! I think that Xu Ke, who is raised by this bitch, is not the most thing! He is still thinking about the pot while eating what is in the bowl! He secretly raised a pregnant unmarried daughter in Xu's mansion, if that woman was not pregnant with his Xu Ke species, how could he raise that woman in his own home? It's a pity! Miss Murong is such a good girl, she doesn't understand the prince's good intentions, and she would actually fall in love with Xu Ke such a bastard! This Miss Murong is not blind? Prince, do you want to belong to Tianbao Pavilion... ...？”

Li Ci's face was pale, and he glared at Kang Youren, so frightened that Kang Youren immediately stopped speaking and didn't dare to say anything more.

Song Jinhua looked at Li Ci's expression, thought about it secretly in his heart, and finally understood why Li Ci admired Xu Ke so much, but also disliked Xu Ke so much.

Song Jinhua picked up the teacup and drank the tea slowly, but sighed in his heart, no wonder your King Jin has been refusing to continue the princess, it turns out that you are still waiting for the eldest lady of Tianbao Pavilion to enter the gate of your palace!

Li Xi turned to Kang Youren and asked, "What about the other woman? Who is she? What is her name?"

Kang Youren hurriedly said: "Back to Your Highness, her name is Hu Yiyi, this woman doesn't look strange, it's just ......"

"Just what?" asked Li Xi again.

Kang Youren hesitated and said: "It's just that I don't know why? The people of the Xu Mansion all call this Hu Yiyi a 'fairy', don't they praise her for looking like a fairy?"

Li Ci said: "That's right! This fairy surnamed Hu will not be simple!" He stood up, walked a few steps in the house, and commanded:

"Xiaokang, no matter how much money you spend and how many subordinates you call, this king orders you, from now on, every time, every moment, you must keep a close eye on that 'fairy surnamed Hu', and once you find something abnormal, report to this king immediately!"

"Subordinates obey orders!" Kang Youren hurriedly stood up and bowed down to receive the order.

Li Ci walked to Kang Youren's side again, patted him on the shoulder, and said regretfully:

"It's a pity, Youren, your martial arts have been wasted for no reason! Otherwise, with the means of your young master of Kangmen, how could this king not be able to deal with this Xu Ke!"

Kang Youren leaned down and said ashamedly: "The prince doesn't have to worry, although the martial arts of his subordinates have been abolished, his skills in using poison and hidden weapons are still there! If his subordinates find an opportunity in the future, they will help the prince in addition to this Xu Ke!"

"Okay!" Li Ci patted Kang Youren's shoulder vigorously and said with a smile: "This king is not wrong about you......! The heavy responsibility of monitoring the Xu Mansion will be handed over to you by this king! Remember, you must not expose yourself!"

"My subordinates understand!"

"Then you go first!"

"Yes!"

......

After Kang Youren left, Li Xi immediately asked Song Jinhua:

"Jinhua, this Kang Youren, what do you think?"

Song Jinhua sneered: "Tend to be inflammatory, speculative villain!"

"Well said!" Li Ci clapped his hands and laughed: "However, I can't do without such a villain now! It's a pity that this Kang Youren has no martial arts, otherwise...... Hey!"

Song Jinhua said: "Why do you have to kill Xu Ke? I don't think he is a bad person, and he will not pose a threat to our affairs!"

Li Ci still shook his head and said, "You are still soft-hearted! I know that you and Xu Ke are also friends, but after all, he is the fourth person, Jinhua, you must remember this!"

"Okay, I remember!"

"By the way, the old thing sent someone to bring me a message again"

"Oh...... What did he say again?"

"The old thing said that although the position of the secretary of the military department was given to others, it helped me fight for a greater good thing!"

"What's good?"

"He said that my father would probably let me 'take charge of the military department'. ”

"This is good! Previously, the king of Chu was ordered to take charge of the military department, but now, if the emperor asks you to take care of it, it will be a great trust in you!"

"And one more good thing!"

"And?"

"I may have to add two more Wang Zhu on my head!"

"Ah!" Song Jinhua immediately raised his eyebrows, he hurriedly leaned down towards Li Ci, bowed down and said:

"Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince! Congratulations to the prince on his promotion to the prince of Qizhu!"

"It's not decided yet! Don't be too happy!" Li Ci stepped forward and hugged Song Jinhua's head, his expression was extremely intimate, and he smiled:

"If it really rises to the seven pearls, when the time comes, pick the star tower, let's go have another drink!"

"That's a good feeling!"

"By the way......" Li Ci suddenly changed his words, and said with some worry:

"Jinhua, you said that Princess Han gave me 50,000 taels of silver, will she tell others?

"Don't worry, it won't!" Song Jinhua said with a smile:

"She took the initiative to give it to us, if she says it, it won't do her any good!"

After a pause, Song Jinhua saw that Li Xiwu was a little uneasy, so he added:

"Think about it, how much silver has King Han earned in the nearly thirty years since he opened this Cuiyun Tower?