Chapter 138 Taken advantage of

Chapter 138: The Sucker
Chang Sheng put his arm around Ye Xuan's shoulder with a playful smile and said, "Brother Ye, stop pretending. If you are still just a small Jinyiwei, then the entire Zhenfu Division will only have that old bastard Mao Xiang left!"

Chang Sheng couldn't help but think of the rumors about Ye Xuan during this period, as well as the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang personally introduced Ye Xuan to someone in the Imperial Garden that day. He became more determined to marry the Chang sisters into the Ye Mansion.

However, Ye Xuan thought that Chang Sheng was referring to his promotion to the rank of Qianhu, so he didn't take it seriously.

After all, in the entire Zhenfu Division, apart from Mao Xiang, the third-rank commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, there are only a few largest thousand households.

Ye Xuan slapped Chang Sheng's arm away and said with a fake smile: "No matter how powerful the Jinyiwei is, I am not so stubborn as to go against the Korean Duke Li Shanchang!"

"Brother Chang, I appreciate your kindness, but ten thousand taels of silver is more practical!"

Ye Xuan's direct refusal made Chang Sheng slightly stunned, although he himself looked a bit sorry for the audience because of his big and strong appearance.

But he thought that the girl from the Chang family was quite good-looking. Otherwise, even if Zhu Yuanzhang missed Chang Yuchun so much, he would not let an ugly girl be the wife of his prince.

Moreover, in terms of family background, the Chang sisters are the daughters of Chang Yuchun, the King of Kaiping, the greatest military general of the Ming Dynasty. They are the contemporary princess sisters!
In terms of appearance, he has a good family background; in terms of family background, he has good looks. Even if the sons of other dukes encountered such a good thing, they would probably wake up laughing in their dreams in the middle of the night. But for Ye Xuan, it is not as good as ten thousand taels of silver!

Where is justice and fairness!
After being stunned for a while, Chang Sheng gritted his teeth and said, "I can't care about that anymore. Anyway, if that old man Li Shanchang comes to propose marriage again, I will say that my fifth and sixth sisters have been living alone with you, Brother Ye, for several days. If his two sons are still willing to have sex with me, I will have nothing to say!"

Now it was Ye Xuan's turn to be dumbfounded. He stared at Chang Sheng and almost vomited blood.

If Chang Sheng spread this obscene rumor without any clear evidence, wouldn't Li Shanchang's family hate him to death?

Although Li Shanchang was no longer the Left Prime Minister of the Secretariat, the power of the entire Huaixi Group was there. It would be a piece of cake for them to kill a small captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard like him.

Even if it was just the group of imperial censors nicknamed mad dogs under Li Shanchang, they could kill themselves with just their scolding.

Chang Sheng wants to kill him!

It is no wonder that Ye Xuan misunderstood Chang Sheng. After all, when the civil and military officials in the court discussed him, any non-stupid person would carefully avoid it, so as not to let the person concerned know that he already knew Ye Xuan's "background" and be killed to silence him.

But Chang Sheng was full of confidence. With Zhu Yuanzhang's endorsement, even if Li Shanchang had more courage, he would not dare to compete with the emperor for his daughter-in-law.

Moreover, the choice must be between the Emperor and the Duke of Korea, so it is obvious who to choose.

However, Ye Xuan had no idea about all this. He stared at Chang Sheng for a long time before gritting his teeth and saying, "Chang the thief has misled me!"

Chang Sheng saw this, smiled and slipped away before Ye Xuan could make a move.

If he didn't slip away, he was afraid that Ye Xuan would tear Chang Sheng apart on the spot.

Looking at Chang Sheng who was running faster than a rabbit, Ye Xuan could only sigh, "I just want to be a quiet person, why is it so difficult..." He could only pray silently that Chang Sheng was not so bad as to use his sister's reputation as a shield.

Fortunately, in the next few days, there were no rumors such as Li Shanchang being furious or the two Li brothers threatening to avenge their wives being stolen. Both the court and the people were very calm.

This made Ye Xuan's heart, which had been slightly tense, slowly calm down.

However, in recent days, the Chang sisters have been coming to her room to discuss poetry and prose more and more frequently.

Sometimes Ye Xuan was discussing the ultimate meaning of life with Nian Wei, and the knock on the door would sound, which annoyed Ye Xuan. Sometimes Ye Xuan would just leave the door wide open, letting the two sisters see the cold and beautiful Nian Wei on the bed, and the two sisters would just blush and pretend not to see anything.

After several times, Ye Xuan was at his wit's end.

After all, she is a princess and we can’t just kick her out.

In that case, even if Chang Sheng didn't say anything, Chang Yuchun's former comrades-in-arms and old subordinates would be able to tear Ye Xuan to pieces.

Just after returning from duty in the Imperial City that day, I saw Qiuyan serving tea to a young man in flowing white clothes.

Seeing Ye Xuan coming back, Qiuyan hurried to greet him, and the man immediately stood up and bowed.

"Lord Ye is back. Did you...just come back from the imperial city?" The man came up to greet him with a hearty laugh.

Ye Xuan always felt that this person looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere but couldn't remember where.

Before Ye Xuan could ask, the man said, "I am Zhang Quandan, the eldest son of the Zhang family, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works. Nice to meet you, Lord Ye!"

Ye Xuan immediately remembered that this was the guy who won the second place in the poetry competition and then suspected that there was something fishy going on.

When the poetry reading was over, his father brought him to apologize to him in person.

Ye Xuan never let such trivial matters occupy his brain, so he didn't care about it at that time.

Ye Xuan perfunctorily bowed and said politely, "So you are Mr. Zhang's son. What can I do for you?"

Seeing Ye Xuan's indifferent attitude, Zhang Quandan was not angry. Instead, his back bent even more. He smiled and said, "I was so obsessed that I doubted Lord Ye's talent that day. After returning, I carefully savored your "Song of Peach Blossom Cottage". The more I read, the more I admire it. Lord Ye can write such a masterpiece. He must be an elegant person in normal times!"

"But Lord Ye didn't care about the offense that day, which shows that Lord Ye is still an open-minded person. It would be a pity in life if I couldn't make friends with such an open-minded gentleman!"

As if seeing the unmoved expression on Ye Xuan's face, Zhang Quandan immediately took out a gift list from his sleeve.

"In order to express my apology, Zhang has specially prepared a small gift to show my appreciation. Please don't reject it!" As he said this, he handed the gift list to Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan glanced at Qiuyan, who nodded imperceptibly, indicating that she had received a gift from Zhang Quandan.

I opened the gift list and saw, wow, there were quite a lot of good things.

Although nothing on the gift list could be considered a rare treasure, all in all it would cost at least a thousand pieces of silver.

This is a real sucker!

When it comes to the local tyrants, especially the foolish suckers, Ye Xuan’s life motto has always been “Brother, I want to be friends with you.”

He immediately invited Zhang Quandan to take a seat, and instructed Qiuyan to make a pot of good tea for entertaining important customers...ah, important guests.

This time, both the host and the guests had a great time and talked and laughed.

(End of this chapter)