When Yang Fan saw that the person who had come was Princess Yuzhen, he couldn't help but feel somewhat puzzled. Why had she come? Was she also here to celebrate the birthday of the An Le family's birthday star? The Prince of Xiang had no choice but to come. Li Chiying was a monk, so even if she refused to attend, no one could force her. Besides, this sort of forcefully barging into the princess's residence and slapping An Le's servant didn't seem like she was attending a banquet.
In a flash, Yang Fan suddenly recalled that Li Chiying had sent someone to invite him to the banquet. He couldn't help but think, Could she have come for me? That's impossible. What urgent matter does she have that she can't even wait for a moment and has to barge into An Le's residence? Although she's a princess, she's like the difference between heaven and earth when compared to Princess An Le. How could she so easily offend An Le? Could it be … that An Le has done something to anger her? Given An Le's usual arrogant conduct, this matter really isn't certain.
While Yang Fan was thinking, Princess Yuzhen had already turned around. From the hands of a young Daoist nun, she took a book with a yellow silk cover. With a shake of her wrist, she unfurled it into a long scroll. In the Tang Dynasty, thread-bound books had not yet been invented, and the 'whirlwind style' was not in vogue. At the time, most books were 'folded'.
When the 'folded' book was not opened, it looked no different from later books. Once opened, it looked like the memorials commonly seen in movies and dramas. When unfolded, it was a long scroll, and after repeatedly folding, it formed the appearance of a book.
Li Chiying yelled, "Dog servant, open your dog eyes wide and take a good look. With the jade disk here, does this humble Daoist count as a member of the imperial family!"
The yellow book in Li Chiying's hand was a jade disk. It was a book specially used to record the identity of the members of the royal family. It was the genealogy of the royal family. However, although it was called a "jade disk", it was also made of paper. It did not mean that this kind of proof of identity was carved from jade.
After the emperor left, the Prince of Xiang immediately took his leave. He had already left, so he did not see his daughter's angry appearance. At the time, Princess Taiping had also wanted to leave, but Princess An Le had strenuously urged her to stay. A group of imperial princesses who wanted to curry favor with An Le swarmed forward and invited Princess Taiping to the rear residence, where she was not present.
Without their elders to stop them, who would be willing to step forward and scold a princess? When Wu Yanxiu saw this situation, as the host, she naturally had to step forward and ask questions. Therefore, she left Zong Chuke behind and hurriedly went forward to welcome them.
The green-clothed manservant who was leading Yang Fan to the side room was also very curious about Princess Yuzhen's actions. He stood there to watch and did not urge Yang Fan to leave. Wu Yanxiu rushed to Princess Yuzhen's side and cupped her hands with a fake smile, saying, "Priest Wushang Zhen, I wonder what brings you to my humble residence?"
Li Chiying was dumbfounded by his question and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. But in the eyes of others, she was still a beautiful and youthful Taoist nun and could not see this change.
Being questioned by Wu Yanxiu, Li Chiying could not help but feeling anxious and startled, frightened and flustered. "Oh no!" She thought. "I came in a hurry and did not even think of a suitable excuse. What should I do?"
In the next room, Princess Anle had already made meticulous preparations. She wore a set of torn undergarments inside and covered it with a light gauze gown. Thinking of the scene when Yang Fan entered the room and she suddenly tore open the gown and shouted that he was molesting her, causing the guests in the hall to swarm in, Princess Anle smiled slightly coldly.
Wasn't it normal for a calamitous beautiful princess and a drunk general to appear in such a scene? At that time, she could only say that Her Highness wanted to invite this unemployed general to be her son's first teacher. Therefore, she invited him to the side room to discuss this matter. Who knew that this general was drunk and lustful and actually wanted to rape the princess …
Just based on this, even if it was not enough to take his life, it was enough to ruin his reputation. From then on, he would not be able to have a foothold in Chang 'an. The imperial court would also definitely punish him by demoting his position and removing his title. At that time, Yang Fan would be like a phoenix with all its feathers plucked. No matter where he was deposed to, it would only take a word to kill him. No one could understand the feeling of a trapped dragon being played by shrimps better than Princess Anle.
After waiting for a while, Yang Fan still did not come over. Princess Anle became a little impatient. She also knew that Yang Fan was not willing to see her. But unless Yang Fan already knew that she was going to set him up, how could he not be curious? Did he not want to know what urgent matter she had?
In order to make it easier for her to use the plan, Princess Anle had already dismissed the maids beside her. At this time, it was impossible for her to send someone to see what was going on. She could only continue to wait patiently.
In the time it took for Li Chiying to be in a daze, tens of thousands of thoughts had already spun through her mind. As it turned out, Princess Yuzhen was in a hurry to see Yang Fan today because she knew that Princess Anle wanted to set Yang Fan up.
Ever since Princess Anle had given up on the idea of conquering Yang Fan, she had wholeheartedly wanted to kill Yang Fan. Even though she did not say why she hated Yang Fan so much, but in front of Wu Yanxiu, she had often talked about her hatred for Yang Fan.
Wu Yanxiu was very fawning on his princess wife, but he did not have any good ideas for him to deal with an outstanding general. So the matter had been dragged on like this.
Two days ago, Wu Yanxiu was on duty in the palace and had a drink with Empress Wei's nephew, Gao Chong. These two were now Yulin Generals and each controlled a troop of winged cavalry and a troop of ten thousand cavalry. It could be said that they had great power.
At present, Lady Wei's arrogance reached the heavens and she was insufferably arrogant. The two of them not only dared to drink while on duty in the palace, they drank the imperial wine brought from the palace, and the people serving them were palace eunuchs.
They did not trust Yang Fan's former subordinates. They could maintain a certain level of vigilance against ordinary palace maids and eunuchs, but they were not so wary of the eunuchs promoted by the Empress. Thus, there was no need to avoid discussing matters in front of them.
Unexpectedly, while Empress Wei used and guarded against Wan 'er and refused to let Wan' er's people work in her palace, she did not pay attention to Gao Lishi, this young eunuch. Gao Lishi was now in charge of the plum job of purchasing in the palace. With this good job, he had won over many people. Of the two little eunuchs serving tea and wine for Gao Chong and Wu Yanxiu, one of them was Gao Lishi's godson.
Although he was a godson, this little eunuch was actually not much younger than Gao Lishi. However, when the eunuchs in the palace ranked seniority, it was mainly based on status and had little to do with age.
When Wu Yanxiu and Gao Chong were about seventy to eighty percent drunk, Wu Yanxiu suddenly changed the topic to Yang Fan. She said that for some reason he had offended the Princess, but she had no excuse to punish him. Gao Chong had offered him this plan. Wu Yanxiu heard it and felt it was very feasible. When she went back, she was going to follow this plan.
Their conversation was heard clearly by Gao Lishi's godson. He went back and secretly reported it to Gao Lishi. Gao Lishi turned back and sent the news to Princess Yuzhen through the eunuch in charge of purchasing in the palace. Princess Yuzhen might have left home, but she was still the only person in charge of this line of communication in the palace for her third brother. Gao Lishi could only contact her.
After Princess Yuzhen heard the news, she immediately wanted to warn Yang Fan. However, by the time she received the news, it was already the day of Princess An Le's birthday banquet. Although Princess Yuzhen immediately sent someone to see Yang Fan, they were still one step too late. Li Chiying made up her mind and charged straight into Princess An Le's fu.
At this moment, Wu Yanxiu stepped forward and asked. Princess Yuzhen suddenly realized that there was an important link in this matter that she had not considered. "How could she explain her purpose in coming?"
If she had randomly found some other reason, such as celebrating her nephew's birthday and was angry that someone had obstructed her, then she would have displayed her might. Her reason for charging into Princess An Le's fu would be more than sufficient, but she would have no excuse to detain Yang Fan. If Wu Yanxiu had someone send her to the rear residence and Yang Fan fell for the trap, why would she have charged in?
If she had come for Yang Fan … what reason did she have to charge into Princess An Le's fu, all for the sake of Yang Fan? If she did not have a reasonable excuse and ruined Princess An Le's affair, Wu Yanxiu and the others would assuredly be alarmed, guessing that the news had been leaked.
There had only been two eunuchs serving Wu Yanxiu and Gao Chong that day. As long as they were determined to investigate, this matter would assuredly be leaked. The eunuch would die, Gao Lishi would probably be exposed, and the Son of Heaven would know that the Prince of Xiang's estate had planted spies in the palace.
Just thinking about this string of evil consequences made Li Chiying break out in a cold sweat. Just as it was said that in a moment of desperation, all sorts of dangers flashed through her mind, and Li Chiying suddenly thought of an excellent excuse.
Wu Yanxiu saw that Princess Yuzhen was silent and only had a slightly strange expression on her face, so she couldn't help but ask, "Just why has Daoist Priest come to visit my humble residence? Haha, could it be that you have also come to celebrate my son's birthday? "
Li Chiying calmed down and looked over Wu Yanxiu's shoulder at Yang Fan. In a loud voice, she said, "Great General Yang, this humble Daoist arranged an hour with you, but this humble Daoist's pot of tea is already old, and General still hasn't arrived. This humble Daoist thought that General had some important matter, but it turns out that you are here enjoying yourself."
Li Chiying's words were laced with jealousy, and everyone in the hall could feel the sourness in her words. The entire hall was immediately in an uproar. It was just treating someone to tea, was there a need to make such a big fuss just because someone was late? Moreover, this tone, this demeanor …
No wonder Li Shiniang was unwilling to marry to Tufan, she already had someone in her heart!
Moreover, this person in her heart was already married, and this person in her heart had an ambiguous relationship with her aunt. Hiss …
Everyone sucked in a mouthful of cold air and uniformly turned their admiring gazes towards Great General Yang. A hero!
What's more, someone suddenly remembered that the Golden Immortal Princess also frequently went to Yuzhen Temple to reunite with her younger sister. Moreover, this Golden Immortal Princess also insisted on becoming a nun because she was unwilling to marry to Tufan. Could it be that this pair of sisters had an affair with Yang Fan? Thinking of this, their gazes towards Yang Fan were filled with admiration: This is the Princess Killer ah!
Although Yang Fan had already faded out of people's sight, because of this matter, his legend has been circulating in Jianghu for a long time.
Li Chiying also knew what kind of ambiguity her words would attract, not to mention that she had purposely made it sound like she was jealous. As soon as the words left her mouth, two red clouds unconsciously flew up on her pretty face. Her eyes flickered with embarrassment and annoyance, which further confirmed the guesses in everyone's hearts.
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