Chapter 319 Exploitation
Seeing that Li Heng was silent, Yang Yuhuan changed the subject and said, "The Right Prime Minister fell. His son Li Xiu and daughter Li Tengkong were good people and were implicated, but Ji Wen and Luo Xishi, two evil dogs who did all kinds of evil, were able to escape unscathed."

Li Heng said quietly, "If you only serve people with your beauty, the friendship will end when your beauty fades. If you only serve people with profit, the friendship will end when the profit is gone. The Right Prime Minister is vicious and only serves people with profit. How many loyal people are there among his followers?"

After Li Ying finished speaking, he looked at Yang Yuyao and asked, "What do you think?"

Yang Yuyao's face changed slightly, and she quickly said, "Your Highness is right."

Li Ying asked, "What did Yang Guozhong promise you in Jiannan?"

Yang Yuyao was startled, then she calmed herself down and said, "Yuyao doesn't understand what Your Highness means."

"Bring him in." Li Heng raised his voice.

Afterwards, Zhang Guangsheng brought a middle-aged man wearing coarse linen clothes and with a long beard into the room. He came up to Li Ying and kicked the man in the ankle, forcing him to kneel in front of Li Ying.

Li Heng said to Yang Yuyao, "Is this the person you brought from Jiannan?"

"Yes." Yang Yuyao admitted it, "He is one of Yuyao's servants."

"But as far as I know, he is a sorcerer in Jiannan who is known to be able to defy fate." Li Heng said in a flat tone.

Yang Yuyao quickly shook her head and said, "Yuyao doesn't know."

Li Ying said, "You should know that my father has issued an imperial decree prohibiting civil and military officials from making friends with quacks. If my father knew that I kept quacks in my mansion, what would he think?"

Yang Yuyao said, "This is Liangzhou, how could the saint know about it?"

"What do you think?" Li Heng asked back.

The kneeling Jianghu magician interrupted and said, "Your Highness only knows the divine command, not the destiny of heaven. Now that I am here, I am willing to help Your Highness understand the destiny of heaven."

"Oh?" Li Heng smiled, "Calculate for yourself first, whether you can survive today."

The sorcerer was shocked, and he counted with his fingers, saying: "I have a disaster today, and Your Highness will also have a disaster after the new year. If Your Highness can help me with the disaster today, I am willing to help Your Highness with the disaster after the new year."

"Your calculations are very accurate, but I don't need anyone else to solve my problem." Li Ying smiled slightly and gave Zhang Guangsheng a look.

Zhang Guangsheng understood what he meant, drew out his dagger, and killed the sorcerer with one blow.

Yang Yuhuan and Yang Yuyao were both shocked.

This was the first time Li Heng killed someone in his own house.

Yang Yuhuan pulled Yang Yuyao up tremblingly, knelt on the ground, and said with tears in her eyes: "I am wrong, Your Highness, please punish me! But please forgive me this time."

Li Ying stood up and helped Yang Yuhuan up, saying softly: "I know you were kept in the dark, and I also understand that with your intelligence, you should have known it earlier. It's just because Yuyao is your closest relative that you missed it. I don't blame you."

Yang Yuhuan burst into tears and said, "Your Highness, please have mercy and spare me this time."

Li Ying reached out to wipe away Yang Yuhuan's tears, patted her shoulder gently, pulled her aside, and said to Yang Yuyao, "Are you still unwilling to speak now?"

Yang Yuyao fell to the ground and cried, "Yang Guozhong said that if you want to win, you shouldn't just bet on one thing. My sister is the princess and has deep feelings for His Highness, so she will definitely follow His Highness. Yuyao is just a widow and will not be taken care of by His Highness, but he will protect Yuyao."

Li Ying asked, "What exactly do you want me to do?"

Yang Yuyao said, "Bring this sorcerer to your Highness's residence. If one day your Highness is punished by the Saint, Yuyao will sacrifice her personal interests for the greater good and bring this sorcerer out to redeem herself from her crime."

"What else?" Li Ying asked.

Yang Yuyao said: "Also, report His Highness's movements to him regularly."

"What else?" Li Ying asked again.

"No more." Yang Yuyao cried and shook her head, "Your Highness is now in the limelight. Even if Yuyao is brave enough, she will not dare to do anything wrong again."

Li Heng looked at Yang Yuyao lying on the ground, squatted down, and said softly: "This sorcerer was hired by Yang Guozhong. He organized a cult in Jiannan, harming the people in the village. He is full of evil. You want to use him as a pawn. Do you think you can beat him?" Yang Yuyao was stunned.

Li Heng continued, "You are the one who brought the people with you. When the time comes, you will make friends with sorcerers, claim to be prophesies, and criticize the emperor. You are the mastermind, and I am the accomplice. Even if you have ten lives, it is not enough to kill you. What can Yang Guozhong use to protect you? Was Liu Ji saved? And I can kill my relatives for the sake of justice. Although I can't get away with it, it is more than enough to keep my life. Yang Guozhong wants to use your life to bring me down, and you are still happy thinking that you are betting on both sides. Do you think politics is a child's play?"

The more Yang Yuyao listened, the more frightened she became, and cold sweats broke out all over her body.

After Li Heng finished speaking, he stood up and gave Yang Yuhuan a wink.

Yang Yuhuan understood what Li Heng meant, helped Yang Yuyao up, and said, "Sister, Yang Guozhong is not a good person. Cooperating with him is like seeking the skin of a tiger. In order to get the upper hand, he can even offer his wife to others, not to mention us cousins."

Yang Yuyao lowered her head and said, "I know I was wrong."

Yang Yuhuan turned to Li Heng and said, "My dear, please forgive her this time."

Li Heng turned around and sat on the chair, took a sip of tea, and said, "Someone was very polite to me just now, calling me Your Highness."

When Yang Yuhuan heard this, she knew something was going to happen, so she stepped forward, took Li Heng's hand, and said, "I was wrong."

"Okay." Li Ying smiled slightly, "Then forgive her this time."

"Thank you, my dear." Yang Yuhuan smiled.

Li Heng said, "You can escape the death penalty, but you can't escape the punishment of life. I heard that Yuyao hates reading the most. How about this, Yuyao, you hand-copy the Book of Songs, the Analects, and Mencius three times."

Yang Yuyao hurriedly said, "Thank you, Your Highness!"

Li Heng said: "It's not a bad thing to read more, so that you won't be used as a tool by others in the future and think you are so smart."

Yang Yuyao was grateful and embarrassed, she lowered her eyebrows and said, "Yuyao thanks your highness for your teachings."

Yang Yuhuan glanced at the body on the ground and said worriedly, "My dear, even though the person has been killed, he has stayed in our house after all. What if Yang Guozhong falsely accuses Your Highness of murder to silence him? How should we respond?"

Li Heng said, "Just make a big deal out of it. I've already written to King Rong, telling him that I killed Zhou Yixian, and I want him to deal with Zhou Yixian's accomplices in the evil cult in Jiannan."

"My dear, you have already thought of a plan to deal with this." Yang Yuhuan showed an admiring look and asked, "How did you know all this?"

Li Heng said, "Yang Guozhong has always wanted to deal with me, but he couldn't find any evidence. If he falsely accuses me, I will be useful to the court. Father doesn't want to punish me for the time being, so he can only start with the people around me. He went to Jiannan some time ago, and Yuyao wrote to you for help, so I kept an eye on it and asked the person who went to pick up Yuyao to investigate the situation."

"It turns out that my husband has been alert for a long time." Yang Yuhuan sighed, "Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Li Heng said, "After all, I suspect your closest relative. I'm afraid you'll feel bad knowing this, so I can only tell you when there's solid evidence."

Yang Yuhuan was deeply moved and leaned into Li Heng's arms, saying, "I don't know what I must have done in my previous life to be able to marry you, my dear."

Li Heng stroked Yang Yuhuan's head gently without saying anything.

Yang Yuyao watched the two of them out of the corner of her eye, feeling indescribably envious.

Over the years, she had indeed led an undisciplined lifestyle and met many people, but none of them could compare to Li Heng in any way.

Yang Yuyao thought for a while and took the initiative to say: "Your Highness, after Yuyao arrived in Liangzhou, I only wrote a letter to Yang Guozhong the day before yesterday. The content of the letter..."

"Is this it?" Li Ying took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Yang Yuyao.

Yang Yuyao took it and looked at it, and said, "That's right, Your Highness, how could it be in your hands?"

Li Heng said: "If I don't want things to flow out of Hexi, then they won't flow out. Otherwise, what's the point of being a Jiedushi?"

　Brothers, tomorrow is the Water-Splashing Festival. I am having dinner with my colleagues today. I will update once first and make up for it tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)