Standing outside the gate of Li's Mansion, Xiao Jie looked up at the big word "Li's Mansion" on the plaque, and then looked at the empty gate, a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Originally, there were eighteen halberds lined up on both sides of the gate of the Li Mansion, which was a symbol of the dignity of the Li family's official residence, but with Li Rong's resignation from the position of Shang Shuling, the Li family lost the qualification to display halberds in front of the gate.

The now empty gate of the Li Mansion is also showing a trace of the downfall of the Li family in Longxi.

The servant of Li's mansion welcomes and escorts him outside the gate every day, and he has cultivated a pair of vicious eyes. Although he has never seen Xiao Jie, he can still tell from the specifications of the carriage that Xiao Jie's identity is unusual, and he is also in his heart. Wei Wei felt a little bit emotional, when the head of the house was still Shang Shuling, there was a lot of traffic at the gate of Li's residence, but since the head of the house resigned from the post of Shang Shuling, the front of the house has become deserted and deserted, even the King of Han who used to come and go frequently Xiao Xun did not appear again, except for Qin Wang Xiao Huang who came to propose a marriage a few days ago, who is now the master in front of him.

The waiter did not dare to be negligent, so he quickly ran down the steps, ran to Xiao Jie, and said respectfully: "Dare to ask your surname and name, who is the purpose of visiting Li's mansion?"

Xiao Jie smiled slightly: "The Gu is Xiao Jie, king of Qi, who came to visit the Patriarch specially, please inform me."

Yan Shi was stunned for a moment. He had heard the name Xiao Jie before. After all, every clansman in the mansion would gnash their teeth whenever this name was mentioned. If it wasn’t because of him, how could the head of the family be forced to resign from the position of Shang Shuling, and how could the Li family fall into ruin? Up to this point.

But even so, the waiter did not dare to offend Xiao Jie, instead, his attitude was more humble and he asked Xiao Jie to wait outside the mansion for a while, and he immediately went to inform His Highness.

After saying that, there was a wind under the servant's feet, and he ran into the mansion in a hurry.

Xiao Jie looked at the figure of Yan Shi going away, his expression was a little unpredictable, even though he had been swearing in front of his father that he would be able to persuade Li Rong, in fact, he was not sure that Li Rong was willing to see him.

It can be said that Li Rong has been anxious about his niece Li Wan for the past few days, and he is restless day and night.

Ever since Li Rong was forced to resign from the position of Shangshu Ling, the Li family in Longxi has been declining at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the past, those disciples and old officials who wholeheartedly attached themselves to the Li family were afraid of avoiding the Li family, and seemed to be worried that they would be attacked by the Li family. Even Xiao Xun, King of Han, whom the Li family had always supported, turned to marry the Wang family of Taiyuan and abandoned his mother Li family. As the head of the family, Li Rong felt powerless. It was Xiao Jie's way.

And Qin Wang Xiao Huang's door-to-door marriage proposal gave Li Rong a glimmer of hope. After all, everyone now knows that in the future, the only one who will inherit the land of Daning is Xiao Jie. Once Xiao Huang succeeds to the throne in the future, it will be the time for the Li family to turn around.Even if Xiao Jie succeeds to the throne, given the old grudge between their Li family and Xiao Jie, no matter whether they support Xiao Huang or not, their Li family will not have good fruit to eat.

Because of this, Li Rong agreed to the marriage without hesitation, and agreed to marry his niece Li Wan to Xiao Huang as the side concubine of King Qin.

But no one thought that Li Wan, the niece, had another place in her heart, and she dared to run away with others at the risk of the world's disgrace, which not only brought shame to the Li family, but Li Rong didn't know how to explain to Xiao Huang.

Li Rong had already sent people to the Sun's family to look for them, and he also sent many servants out of the city to look for them, but in the end they found nothing, and there was no trace of the two of them.

Although Xiao Huang sent people to appease them and told them to get him back first, Li Rong knew in his heart that no matter whether Li Wan and Sun Chang did anything wrong or not, her elopement with others was already a big deal in the eyes of others. If the reputation is ruined, I'm afraid Xiao Huang may not be willing to accept Li Wan as his side concubine again.

Not only Li Rong, but because of Li Wan's matter, the rest of the Li family were also frowning every day, feeling extremely depressed. Whenever they had time, they gathered together to discuss countermeasures, to see if they could come up with a solution.

Li Rong even had a bold idea. If it really didn't work out, he wanted his 12-year-old daughter, Li Ning, to make a marriage contract with Xiao Huang first, and wait until she was 15 years old in three years before officially getting married.

After all, in his opinion, getting married with Xiao Huang is the last chance for the Longxi Li family to turn around.

Li Rong glanced at his younger brother Li Lu, and just about to express his thoughts, a servant ran in in a hurry, panting, and said in a tense tone: "Master, Prince Qi is here, just outside the door, saying I want to see the master."

"what!"

The members of the Li clan present were all taken aback, and then many of them showed annoyed expressions.

"What is he here for? Hasn't he made our Li family miserable enough? Did he come here to see our Li family make jokes? Go and tell him that the Patriarch is busy and doesn't have time to see him. Ask him to come back." "

Li Lu gave the servant a hard look, telling him to drive Xiao Jie away quickly.

Seeing that Li Lu was angry, the servants had no choice but to respond, and turned around to go to answer Xiao Jie outside the mansion, but Li Rong took the initiative to stop him at this time.

"Don't be rude, you go and ask him to go to your guest room first, and I will go to see him later."

The servant secretly breathed a sigh of relief, responded happily, and walked a lot faster, as if he was afraid of Li Rong's repentance, after all, he was a prince standing outside the mansion, if he became angry for a while, he would inevitably suffer disaster.

"Brother, you..." Li Lu obviously couldn't understand, and asked in confusion.

Li Rong let out a long sigh, and said helplessly: "Why would I want to see him, but now our Li family is in troubled times, and we can no longer give him an excuse to deal with us."

Li Lu also understood the Patriarch's helplessness, but he was still a little confused: "I just don't know why he chose to visit brother at this time, what is his intention?"

Li Rong shook his head: "I don't understand either, but it's useless to guess here. You continue to discuss things here. I'll meet him face to face and see what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd."

Having said that, Li Rong didn't hurry to see Xiao Jie, instead, he went back to his room to change his clothes, washed his face, and reorganized his mentality, before heading towards the expensive guest room. direction to go.

Not long after, Li Rongren appeared outside the door of your guest room, but he saw Xiao Jie in the room with his back turned to the direction of the door, as if admiring the four characters of "Tolerance is greatness" on the plaque on the top.

Li Rong coughed lightly, casually put a sophisticated smile on his face, and said cheerfully: "His Royal Highness is here, I am sorry for my disappointment."

Even though Li Rong had resigned, Xiao Jie still maintained enough respect for him, turned around and bowed his hands and saluted and said with a smile: "Where is the Li family master, if I take the liberty to come to the door, I should apologize to the Li family master."

After a little humility, the two of them sat down respectively as the guest of honor, and exchanged polite greetings for a while. Those who didn't know thought they were friends who had met each other for a long time. How could they know that they used to fight openly and secretly in the court, fighting to the death.

This is the case in the officialdom, no matter how much you wish to kill the other party in your heart, you must maintain the most basic friendship on the face.

However, after exchanging pleasantries, the two finally brought the topic to the main topic.

"Your Highness came to visit today. I don't know why?" Li Rong looked at Xiao Jie and asked Xiao Jie calmly.

Xiao Jie smiled slightly, but his words were shocking: "I see that the Li family is about to face a catastrophe, so I specially came to remind the Li family leader."

Li Rong was stunned when he heard the words, then his face sank, and he said with a sneer: "Your Highness's words are a bit shocking. My Li family has always kept their own place, so how can there be a catastrophe?"

Xiao Jie smiled lightly: "Forgive me, the marriage between the Li family and my third brother is a way to bring disaster, if the Li family dies in the future, it will definitely happen because of this!"

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