351 My Trap

Hei Chengxi was ready to take his leave when Li Hua asked him the last question. “Does Monk Yuze know about this?”

“I don’t think so. Monk Yuze arrived in Qinping the year the current King took over the throne,” Hei Chengxi replied.

Li Hua nodded and thanked him again for giving her the answers.

“Princess Consort, if you want any kind of help please ask Huang Xi. He will inform me about it. I will always be present to give you my assistance. I hope that Princess Consort makes Prince Lóng Wei agree to it. He never talked to me and I never got the chance to speak to him. It is important for him to find the truth,” Hei Chengxi said once again before leaving.

Li Hua pondered over the last statement of Hei Chengxi. She wondered how she would make Lóng Wei understand. He didn’t care what happened in his past.

Huang Xi and Feng Lao walked in. They found Li Hua in some deep thought and exchanged glances with each other. Huang Xi cleared his throat when Li Hua came out of her thoughts and looked at him.

“Commander Huang Xi, please don’t tell Prince Lóng Wei that I met your father,” Li Hua requested. He didn’t question her and complied with her command. Feng Lao was concerned for Li Hua once again. He had no idea what she was up to.

“Prince Lóng Wei has enough resources to find that his wife met General Hei today,” Feng Lao reminded her. Li Hua peered at him when Huang Xi told him that his father kept in mind that no one would see him.

“Do you think Prince Lóng Wei will not find out about it? Li Hua, don’t hide anything from him,” Feng Lao suggested to her. Huang Xi was stunned to hear him and scolded him for taking out Li Hua’s name.

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“That was a slip of the tongue. Forgive me,” Feng Lao said, and walked out of the room.

“What is wrong with his behavior?” Huang Xi mumbled and turned to look at Li Hua. He knew that it was related to Lóng Wei’s past, but he didn’t feel right to ask her. Instead, he thought that he would ask his father.

Li Hua waited for her brother to return, as she had to ask him if he had found out about Yu Jun’s family. Feng Lao returned with a servant and served them water. He asked Huang Xi to take the seat. He drank two glasses of full of water.

Feng Lao asked Li Hua if she would like to eat some sweets. She refused and asked him if her brother took care of himself.

“He does,” Feng Lao replied. He didn’t want to know how Xu Zifan would remain awake till early morning. The same was happening to him.

“What about you? Do you take care of yourself?” Li Hua asked him.

Huang Xi looked at both of them in astonishment.

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Feng Lao nodded at her. “I do take care of myself,” he stated.

“You are still bad at lying and so is my elder brother,” Li Hua declared, and put the glass on the drawer beside the chaise. “I never said anything earlier because I tend to ignore that. However, the time has changed. It’s written on both of your faces how much you both are hurt. I even asked my brother to let me search for a woman for him through matchmaking. But he refused. You should tell me if he told you what’s in his heart,” Li Hua requested him.

Feng Lao was astonished to see that side of Li Hua. She had matured a lot.

“Xu Zifan doesn’t want his sister to worry about him. But I will tell him today that his sister already knows about his lies,” Feng Lao affirmed.

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Lóng Wei glared at Gu Hai and interrogated him about why he supported a landlord who was supposed to be punished. He glanced at Zhai Liang and asked him if he had asked Yang Luo to come.

“I have delivered the message from the Governor to the chief royal inspector,” Zhai Liang informed him.

Gu Hai knelt and begged Lóng Wei to forgive him for the last time.

“There is no use of begging me,” Lóng Wei told him, and saw how Gu Hai was shedding fake crocodile tears. He chuckled and asked him to shut his mouth. When he didn’t, Lóng Wei directed a dagger at him and it struck right before his right hand, which was on the floor.

Zhai Liang gulped to see that, while Gu Hai’s breathing stopped for a brief moment.

“Speak another word and I will make your mouth shut forever.” Lóng Wei’s threatening words made Gu Hai shiver in fear, and he tightly shut his mouth.

“Pick that,” Lóng Wei asked Zhai Liang, who obeyed his order. He handed it back to Lóng Wei and then returned to his place.

Yang Luo, the seniormost chief inspector of Qinping, arrived and bowed before Lóng Wei. He glanced at Gu Hai and then lifted his head.

“This man informed me that Yang Luo was the one who asked him to take the complaint back to the landlord. Is it true?” Lóng Wei asked him.

“It’s a lie, Governor Lóng,” Yang Luo answered.

Gu Hai widened his eyes in shock and told Lóng Wei that he was not lying. “Please believe my words,” he urged Lóng Wei.

“Governor Lóng, there is no evidence of my involvement in this. However, I have enough evidence to show that Gu Hai destroyed many of the evidence while helping Landlord Mu. Both Gu Hai and Landlord Mu were involved in many illegal activities,” Yang Luo affirmed and tilted his head to look at the rank 2 royal inspector who had accompanied him.

He stepped forward to show the real evidence to Lóng Wei when he asked him to stop.

“Kill them,” Lóng Wei told Yang Luo, who bowed and he took out his sword, “when I find the evidence against them is correct. Tell them, throw them in the general prison house. Make sure no one of them dies because I will take your life if anything happened to any of them.”

Yang Luo had not expected this from Lóng Wei. He glanced at the junior inspector, who dragged Gu Hai out.

“Bring the history of Yang Luo,” Lóng Wei ordered Zhai Liang. “Don’t get caught while gathering information,” he advised Zhai Liang, who bowed and left.

“Tianjie is involved in the same illegal work. Once I find out the truth behind it, then I’ll throw my trap,” Lóng Wei muttered, and leaned back on the chair.