The waste prince is so fierce

Recalling that Li Quan stole the limelight from Crown Prince Li Qianyi at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, but was now demoted to the distant western border, the Fourth Prince secretly rejoiced.

Seeing the smug look on the Fourth Prince's face, Li Quan deliberately put on a bitter face: "Fourth Brother is right. Liangzhou is not only extremely desolate, but also extremely far from Kyoto. I have no money now. I'm afraid I'll starve to death on the road before I even get to Liangzhou."

The fourth prince pretended to be concerned: "Oh, so there is such a thing. We are brothers. How can I watch you fall into such a state?"

He then took out a hundred taels of silver from the desk drawer and said, "Here, I'll give you a hundred taels of silver. At least you'll have some money for the journey."

However, when Li Quan saw that there was only one hundred taels, he immediately showed dissatisfaction. The Fourth Prince was clearly insulting him and treating him like a beggar.

Li Quan wanted to leave, but he knew that his weaknesses were in Li Quan's hands. How could the fourth brother let him go easily?

"Laojiu, we are brothers. Aren't you afraid that others will laugh at you for saying this?"

The fourth prince blocked Li Quan and asked.

"Where is that letter now?"

"Letter? What letter? I don't know."

"Ninth brother, this is not nice enough."

"Although I don't know who fabricated the rumor that I wrote a letter to Miss Mingyue, once this rumor spreads, it will definitely damage the reputation of the royal family."

"How about you help me sort this out?"

Faced with the handle in Li Quan's hand, the Fourth Prince could only swallow his anger temporarily even if he looked down on him in his heart.

"Settle it..."

"It's actually not that difficult to solve this problem, but it will definitely cost money to find someone to do this kind of thing, Fourth Brother, you..."

"Let's be honest, how much is it?"

Seeing that the Fourth Prince was under his firm control, Li Quan raised the corners of his mouth and stretched out five fingers.

"Five thousand taels? All right, I'll ask the butler to get it for you..."

Before the Fourth Prince finished speaking, Li Quan shook his head in denial.

"Fifty thousand taels."

"what?!"

Upon hearing this number, even the Fourth Prince, who had been mentally prepared, jumped in shock.

"You are so cruel, this is simply blackmail!"

As a prince, someone actually dared to attack the Fourth Prince for the first time!

"Is fifty thousand taels a lot?"

Li Quan asked back.

"If you think I'm blackmailing you, forget it. After all, it's just a rumor and Father probably won't believe it."

Li Quan stood up and left as he spoke. The Fourth Prince saw that he was about to leave the study. Considering the possible serious consequences, he finally shouted when Li Quan stepped out of the study: "Wait!"

About half an incense stick of time later, Li Quan happily left Prince Yi's Mansion with five silver notes worth ten thousand taels.

He looked at the remaining letters in his hand, as if he saw the white silver waving to him.

However, Li Quan did not know that after he left Prince Yi's Mansion, the Fourth Prince of Prince Yi immediately rode at full speed to the Eastern Palace, and with the token of Crown Prince Li Qian, he successfully passed through one checkpoint after another and entered the Eastern Palace.

In the East Palace under the cover of night, Li Qian saw his fourth brother visiting him late at night, and guessed that he must have something important to report.

After all, no matter which dynasty, entering the palace at night was extremely sensitive. If it were not an emergency, the Fourth Prince would never rush to see him in such a hurry.

"What on earth made you come to me in such a hurry?"

Li Qian dismissed his attendants and asked seriously.

"Brother, it's bad, something big has happened!"

"Old Nine, he..."

"Old Nine has already been banished to Liangzhou by our father. What trouble can he possibly cause?"

Although on the surface Li Quan was named King of Qi and went to Liangzhou, in fact everyone knew that going to Liangzhou was like exile for him.

Ever since he heard that Li Quan was exiled to Liangzhou, Li Qian, who had been furious because Li Quan stole the limelight at the dinner party, has been secretly happy.

"Old Nine is desperate because his father banished him to Liangzhou!"

Then, the Fourth Prince recounted in detail the whole process of Li Quan blackmailing him with the letter he wrote to Mingyue.

After hearing what the Fourth Prince said, Li Qian, who was originally leisurely, stood up and asked, "What did you just say?"

"Old Nine actually has a letter you wrote to Mingyue?"

When the Fourth Prince saw his eldest brother’s face suddenly change, he quickly lowered his head.

"I guess Lao Jiu got the letter on Mingyue's wedding day."

The Fourth Prince speculated.

"Even if my letter is leaked, at most I will be scolded by my father, but you, big brother..."

You know, the letter that Crown Prince Li Qian wrote to Mingyue was delivered to the Golden Phoenix Tower by the Fourth Prince's men, so the Fourth Prince knew about this.

Li Qian, as the crown prince, is likely to become the emperor of the Wu Dynasty in the future.

If word got out that he had written a letter to an oiran in a brothel, no matter what the content of the letter was, it would get him into big trouble and might even shake his chances of inheriting the throne.

So, after learning that Li Quan had the letter he wrote to Mingyue, the Fourth Prince immediately rushed to the palace to report the situation to his eldest brother Li Qian.

After listening to his fourth brother's narration, Li Qian immediately broke out in a cold sweat. Not long ago, he had urged his father to severely punish Li Quan for being involved in brothels. If the letter he wrote to Mingyue was made public, the consequences would be disastrous, and Li Qian simply couldn't imagine it!

"You gave the money to that loser of his?"

Suppressing his inner uneasiness, Li Qian asked the Fourth Prince with a gloomy face.

"Give it to... him."

The fourth prince replied in a low voice, "Now that he has been driven out of Kyoto by his father, I am afraid he has no scruples. I am worried that he will spread the letter regardless of the consequences, so I gave him 50,000 taels."

"And the letter? Did he return it to you?"

Li Qian asked.

"No... not yet. He said the letter is at his house and promised to send someone to deliver it tomorrow morning."

The fourth prince told the truth.

After hearing this, Li Qian was silent for a long time, thinking about how to properly handle this matter that might be used by the third brother to hold him accountable.

"How about I go find Lao Jiu now and redeem your letter, big brother?"

The Fourth Prince suggested cautiously.

"no!"

Li Qian flatly rejected the idea. "Before he went to the Golden Phoenix Tower, I insisted that Father severely punish him. Who knows if he will bear a grudge against me?"

Fifty thousand taels may not be a big deal for Crown Prince Li Qian, but the key point is that the letter he wrote must not be leaked!

Just because Li Quan was able to redeem Lao Si's letter at the original price doesn't mean he would return Li Qian's letter at the same low price.

Now Li Quan seems to be rewarded but in fact he is exiled. It is hard to say whether there is also the factor of Li Qian's secret promotion in this.

In case Li Quan is still resentful about this exile, he may not be willing to hand over the letter to Mingyue even if he pays a high price.

"Brother, what do you think we should do now?"

The Fourth Prince sought Li Qian's advice after his suggestion was rejected by Li Qian.

Li Qian thought for a while and seemed to have made a decision: "You should leave the palace immediately and find Ye Sha and let him handle this problem."