Chapter 22: Criticizing Li Yunrui and Hating Ye Qingmei
Fan Xian has been having a headache these past two days because of Li Yunrui's anger.

The inner treasury had such a huge deficit, but Emperor Qing didn't care and just left the mess in his hands.

After a while, Fan Xian will personally go to Jiangnan to take over the three major districts.

Now he is thinking about how to fill the big hole in the inner treasury.

However, the house leaked and it rained all night.

Emperor Qing and the Inspection Institute jointly spread the news that Fan Xian is the son of Ye Qingmei and Emperor Qing.

The news spread like wildfire and soon reached every corner of the streets.

For a moment, some people in Kyoto became panicked.

Some people were involved in the assassination of Ye Qingmei.

Fan Xian is Ye Qingmei's son, and he is very likely to help his mother take revenge.

So, Li Yunrui went to find Ye Qi.

In the Second Prince's Mansion.

Ye Qi met the so-called most beautiful woman in Qing Kingdom, Li Yunrui, for the first time.

At first glance, this woman's eyes are charming and alluring.

But Ye Qi was not interested in this woman.

You know, the prince was infected with syphilis.

The prince is also having an affair with Li Yunrui. Ye Qi really doesn't believe that Li Yunrui is not ill.

This time, Li Yunrui came to Ye Qilai in the hope that he could help him kill Fan Xian.

Li Yunrui promised that as long as Ye Qi could kill Fan Xian, she would give Ye Qi endless wealth.

Ye Qi did not agree to Li Yunrui's request at all.

Killing Fan Xian would not benefit him in any way, and Ye Qi didn't care about money, he had plenty of it.

"I'm sorry, Princess, I can't kill Fan Xian."

"But I helped you find Grandmaster Ye Liuyun before."

"As a reward for that, I promised the Second Prince to help him ascend to the throne. Isn't that enough?"

Hearing Ye Qi's words, Li Yunrui looked strange.

She glanced at the second prince Li Chengze.

Li Chengze said, "I'm sorry, aunt, I didn't tell you about this before. Ye Qi has already promised me, and the importance of this matter is self-evident. As for Fan Xian, it won't be too late to deal with him later."

Li Yunrui's expression suddenly became crazy: "I want Fan Xian to die! He must die! He is Ye Qingmei's son. Anything related to Ye Qingmei must disappear from my side!"

It can be seen that Li Yunrui hates Ye Qingmei to the core.

The main reason was that Ye Qingmei was too dazzling back then, and the fire of jealousy burned fiercely in her heart.

"You two chat, I'm leaving first."

Ye Qi stood up and was about to leave.

Unexpectedly, Li Yunrui actually grabbed Ye Qi's sleeve.

"Commander Ye, as long as you help me kill Fan Xian, I can satisfy any request you make!"

"Whatever you ask for, you can satisfy me?"

Ye Qi smiled. As expected, she was Li Yunrui, a woman who could do anything.

"We can satisfy any request you have!" Li Yunrui looked determined.

Li Chengze on the side was also shocked that his aunt was so obsessed with killing Fan Xian.

Before, the aunt disliked Fan Xian because Fan Xian wanted to take over the inner treasury and disrupt Li Yunrui's financial resources.

When Li Yunrui learned that Fan Xian was Ye Qingmei's son, she became insane and turned from a lady into a lunatic.

Li Chengze couldn't help but sigh that compared with his aunt's madness, he was still far behind.

Ye Qi waved his hand: "Give up this idea. There is no way I would kill Fan Xian."

The Second Prince and Li Yunrui looked at each other. "Why, is he important to you? You are from Qi and he is from Qing. Could it be that you have also received favors from Ye Qingmei?" Li Yunrui asked.

Ye Qi shook his head: "Princess, I don't understand what you are pursuing. Even if Fan Xian dies, Emperor Qing will not hand over the inner treasury to you. There will be another Fan Xian to take his place."

"Impossible! As long as Fan Xian dies, the inner treasury will return to my hands."

"Don't dream. Emperor Qing is not unaware of the deficit in the inner treasury. Do you think Emperor Qing will let you continue to do this?"

"How do you know the inner treasury is short of money?"

"Didn't you give the account book to Fan Xian a few days ago? Fan Xian told me so."

"You have a good relationship with Fan Xian, no wonder you don't want to kill him."

"This has nothing to do with whether it's good or not. The deficit in the inner treasury is now known to everyone. Don't think about killing Fan Xian anymore. You want money and power, but can you be more powerful than Emperor Qing? You are all just pawns of Emperor Qing. Is Fan Xian willing to take over the inner treasury? It was Emperor Qing who asked him to take over. Is there anything that Emperor Qing didn't allow?"

Hearing Ye Qi's words, Li Yunrui's eyes were blank, and he murmured, "What is not allowed by Emperor Qing? It seems that everything is allowed by Emperor Qing."

"Yes, it was all allowed by Emperor Qing. Why did you kill Fan Xian?" Ye Qi tried to induce Li Yunrui to see if he could make her less hostile to Fan Xian.

"But his mother is Ye Qingmei!"

After going around in circles, I'm back to the starting point.

Ye Qi was numb: "It's hard to imagine how dazzling Ye Qingmei was back then, making you, the most beautiful woman in Qing Country, so jealous of her."

"I'm not jealous!" Li Yunrui shouted.

Ye Qi shrugged and looked at Li Chengze beside him: "Your Highness, what do you think?"

The Second Prince swallowed his saliva and said, "Aunt, I think what Commander Ye said makes sense. It's time to let go of past hatred. We are too obsessed with killing Fan Xian. It's actually not bad for us to keep Fan Xian alive."

"Listen to what the Second Prince said. It makes a lot of sense."

However, Li Yunrui was still obsessed: "I can't let it go. Now when I see Fan Xian, I think of Ye Qingmei's face."

Ye Qi took out a pair of sunglasses and handed them to Li Yunrui: "Put these on and look at Fan Xian less, so you won't think of Ye Qingmei."

Ye Qi personally put on sunglasses for Li Yunrui. It’s no wonder that Li Yunrui looked like a queen with the sunglasses on.

"What is this? Why do everything I see seem a little black?"

"These are sunglasses. Didn't you say that you would think of Ye Qingmei when you saw Fan Xian? This can more or less alleviate your thoughts."

Li Yunrui took off his sunglasses, then put them back on: "How magical~~"

Upon hearing this, the Second Prince also picked up his sunglasses, put them on and took them off again: "This is very similar to the glass craftsmanship of the three major workshops, and the workmanship is even more advanced."

It's really interesting to see strangers making such a fuss.

Ye Qi also didn't think that a pair of sunglasses could change Li Yunrui's hostility towards Fan Xian.

In fact, Ye Qi was more curious about whether Li Yunrui had syphilis and whether the prince was infected with syphilis by her.

Ye Qi stared at Li Yunrui: "You support the crown prince on the surface, but you actually support the second prince, right?"

Li Yunrui nodded.

"But according to my investigation, you actually support the Crown Prince, and the Second Prince is just your cover."

When these words were spoken, the second prince was shocked.

Li Yunrui also seemed a little panicked: "Don't talk nonsense without evidence."

Ye Qi chuckled: "I'm just talking casually, there's no need to be so nervous."

A strange look flashed across the second prince's eyes.

Li Yunrui's nervous expression easily revealed something: "Don't sow discord between me and the Second Prince."

"Okay, I won't stir up trouble. I wish you a happy time in Kyoto. If you want to visit Northern Qi, you can contact me at any time."

"What's so fun about Northern Qi?" Li Yunrui snorted coldly.

"There are many more fun things to do. I'll show you some of them later."

Ye Qi gave a wicked smile, earning a roll of the eyes from Li Yunrui.

(End of this chapter)