Chapter 109 You Kick Me? (1/2)

Splendid Pavilion.

Liu Sanniang looked at the cyan-robed man who was standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back and who was staring at Chang'an City, absent-minded.

She hadn't looked at him like this for a long time.

When was the last time, a few years ago?

At that time, the gray-haired man in the front was the most powerful minister and the brightest star in the whole Tang Empire. Wherever he went, he was surrounded by others. Even when he stood quietly, he was radiant and commanding.

But the middle-aged man in the front no longer had the breathtaking spirit and aggressiveness. He stood in front of the window, but Liu Sanniang felt that he was far away in the sky. He was like a gust of wind without any breath and the cloud in the sky, calm and natural.

And his face... In the past, he had a face that would make a young girl's heart beat faster even at a glance, without any defect. But now, his face was so ordinary that no one would have the interest of looking at it the second time.

His face had changed, so had his temperament. He was totally different from before.

But Liu Sanniang didn't feel strange at all.

He had long been rooted in her soul, so no matter how he changed, he was still him in her eyes.

Liu Sanniang just didn't expect that she would see him and serve him again in her rest of life—it would have been impossible. How could the living ever see the dead again?

Liu Sanniang wiped her wet eyes. When the cyan-robed man turned around, she smiled as usual. ”Your Highness, it's lunchtime. I'm going to prepare.”

”Don't bother. Sit down.” The cyan-robed man sat down in front of the table again. Suddenly, he frowned slightly and then he coughed. He took out his handkerchief to cover his mouth and eventually he stopped coughing. But when he put down his handkerchief, there was scarlet blood on it.

”Your Highness!” Liu Sanniang was frightened and hurriedly rushed over to support the cyan-robed man, her eyes full of horror and confusion.

She had known him for years and never seen him vomit blood. Before that incident, she had always thought that nothing in the world could hurt him.

”It doesn't matter.” The cyan-robed man waved his hand and smiled calmly. ”I had a few fights in Huangli County... When I injured Wei Jiangnan, I also planted a prohibition in his body. Maintaining the prohibition will consume a lot of my energy.”

The cyan-robed man glanced at Liu Sanniang who looked pale. ”And you don't have to call me Your Highness.”

After all, Liu Sanniang wasn't a young girl, so she could control her emotions. She bit her lower lip and nodded, not asking much.

The cyan-robed man leaned on the back of the chair and breathed a sigh of relief. He looked a little better. ”Sanniang, I'm afraid that I have to stay here for some time. Will I bother you?”

”Your Highness... Sir, of course not. It's my pleasure.” Liu Sanniang didn't know whether to cry or laugh. It would be the happiest and the most anticipated thing for her to serve the man in front of her in her life.

He was the former most outstanding person in Tang Empire. In the past, it would be a gift and an exciting thing for others to meet him more than once. But now, he began to worry about bothering others.

”The world is changing, people's hearts are changing, and even I have changed. It's good that you haven't changed.” The cyan-robed man smiled and closed his eyes gradually. ”I feel tired, so I need a rest. I don't know if there will be any fierce battles waiting for me.”

”Sir, you can rest with ease. I will accompany you all the time.”

”All right.”

...

Hanyuan Palace.

Li Cui threw all the memorials to the throne on the royal table.

His anger boiled over and he glared at Wei Baoheng who was kneeling in the palace. He gnashed his teeth and said, ”My Prime Minister is actually the biggest corrupt official in the world, who has accepted more than a million taels of silver in bribes! You disgrace me! Do you still have me in your heart?!”

Wei Baoheng lay prone on the ground, trembling all over. He cried for his being slandered as he heard this.

Beside him, Wang Duo and Lu Yan glanced at each other and saw each other's smiles from each other's eyes. Wang Duo cupped his hands and said to Li Cui, ”Your Majesty, Wei Baoheng's crime of corruption has irrefutable evidence. If you dispatch people to search his manor, illicit money will be found!”

Lu Yan followed to echo, ”Both witness and evidence are present, so he cannot escape his crime. Hope Your Majesty will make a judicious judgment!”

Xu Shaomu also echoed hurriedly, ”Hope Your Majesty will make a judicious judgment!”

Li Cui's face twisted and he was in a very bad mood. He was so angry that he wished he could swallow Wei Baoheng.

As an emperor, even if Li Cui was incompetent, he also knew that Wei Baoheng was guilty. In Li Cui's view, it wasn't a big deal. If someone worked for him, he would give him some advantages. What really made Li Cui angry was not Wei Baoheng's corruption, but that he embezzled too much money?

A million of taels of silver... As an emperor, Li Cui didn't have so much money in his treasury!

In other words, putting Li Cui's identity of the emperor of Tang Empire and the national treasury aside, Wei Baoheng was richer than him in terms of private property!

It made Li Cui disgust like eating a fly.

”You work for me and then I will give you a reward, but finally, I find out that you are richer than me, which is unreasonable.”

”Wei Baoheng!” Li Cui gnashed his teeth and he almost lost control of his anger. ”I hate you so much that I wish I could eat your meat and peel off your skin! Is this how you repay me for my trust in you and my defense of you in daily life? You're a son of a bitch. I will kill you and all your relatives!”

Li Cui didn't mind Wei Baoheng's corruption and bribery, but the premise was that Wei Baoheng was totally loyal to him with sincerity. However, it seemed that Wei Baoheng had no loyalty to him at all!

Li Cui felt that he was deceived. He was very painful that he was deceived by his most trusted favored minister.

He didn't only feel painful but also humiliated.

When all people in the world knew Wei Baoheng's behavior, they would also laugh at Li Cui because he was so silly that he had been keeping an ungrateful person by his side.

By contrast, it seemed not so important that Wei Jiangnan had framed Li Ye.

”Search! Now! Search his manor inside out!” Li Cui swung his sleeves angrily. ”Wang Duo and Lu Yan, you two go to search personally! Take the officials in the Chang'an Office! Let Li Ye go together! Search it thoroughly!”

Wei Baoheng was scared to death as he heard these words.