Chapter 140: The Aristocratic Family Trapped (please vote for me)

After learning that Li Shu had developed a method to convert wool into yarn, of course some people started to target her.

However, since Li Shu was a princess, it was not easy to take direct action, so the other party planned to use a roundabout strategy and attack the people around her.

At the Duke of Liang's mansion, Fang Yiai had just returned home from work.

Today Fang Yiai serves as Inspector General of the Right Guard, and leads a fairly comfortable life.

Li Shimin also liked him very much, and records show that Fang Yiai was "most favored among all his sons-in-law."

This man was actually quite miserable. Not only was he beheaded for being involved in the "rebellion case" of Princess Gaoyang, but he was also given a green hat by Ouyang Xiu. Even if Sima Guang used the historical materials of the New Book of Tang, he also indicated that this historical material was not really credible.

The location where the incident between Princess Gaoyang and Bian Ji occurred was inconsistent with the management system of eminent monks in the Tang Dynasty. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the management of monks was very strict. Entering and leaving the temple had to be registered, and leaving the temple without reason was not allowed. Therefore, Bian Ji's behavior was actually illegal at the time, and it was impossible for him to not return for many days without being discovered and punished.

Moreover, this rebellion was also a fabrication. In fact, it was deliberately done by Li Zhi, the old silver coin, through Zhangsun Wuji. Through Princess Gaoyang, he implicated Chai Lingwu, the "remnant of the King of Wei", and then implicated Li Ke, the King of Wu, and in one fell swoop completely eliminated the two political forces that posed the most threat to him.

Fang Yiai and Li Tai had a good relationship before, and he often visited the Prince of Wei's palace. But recently, for some reason, Li Su suddenly stopped him from getting too close to the Prince of Wei.

He was not very smart and was called frivolous and unlearned by Kong Yingda. Of course, he could not understand what Li Su meant.

However, he loved Li Shu to the core and was a complete wife slave. He did whatever his wife said.

But he forgot that it was Princess Gaoyang who encouraged him to interact more with King Wei.

Originally, the crown prince was unruly and the king of Wei was the favorite to win, so Li Shu wanted to make friends with Li Tai in advance. But Li Xiang suddenly showed up, and the crown prince became interested again. Moreover, Li Xiang had the aura of a wise ruler, so Li Shu decided to invest in Li Xiang.

"Second Young Master, you are finally back." As soon as he entered the mansion, he heard the servant coming to greet him: "My cousin has been waiting for you at the mansion for a long time."

"Oh?" Fang Yiai was delighted, and took off the sword from his waist and threw it to the servant: "When did my cousin come here? Why didn't you go to the Right Guard to inform me?"

"Hahaha, Yiai is busy with official business. I came here today just for personal matters. Of course, I won't let personal matters harm public affairs."

Fang Yiai looked back and saw that it was his cousin Lu Hyun.

The two were cousins. Fang Yiai's mother, Lu, was from the Fanyang Lu family and was Lu Xuan's aunt.

Lu Hyun's father was Fang Yiai's uncle. The two were of similar age and were familiar with each other.

"Cousin." Fang Yiai said with his hands crossed.

"Hey." Lu Xuan smiled and said, "I have nothing to do today. My brothers and I happened to have a banquet in Pingkangfang. I hope you will come and have fun."

"This..." Fang Yiai scratched his head, "Isn't this bad?"

Although he was not very smart, he knew that he should not go there randomly.

Princess Gaoyang at home usually acts like a lamb when she is with him, but if she knew that he went to a red-light district like Pingkangfang, she might turn into a Western Region sheep.

"What's wrong with that?" Lu Xuan smiled and said, "Is Yiai afraid of his wife? Besides, we are watching a pure prostitute, not someone who is going to do bad things. What are you afraid of?"

"How can I be henpecked?!" Fang Yiai became unhappy. As a man, he would never admit that he is afraid of his wife in front of outsiders.

"Since you are not afraid of your wife, why don't you go with me?" Lu Hyun put his arm around Fang Yiai's shoulders. The two grew up together and were very close, so they didn't pay much attention to what he said.

"What's wrong with going?" Fang Yiai rolled up his sleeves and snorted, "Cousin, you don't know that I'm a big shot at home!"

As he spoke, Fang Yiai raised his thumb and made a thumbs-up gesture.

No matter what era or region, no man would admit in public that he is henpecked, or at least he would not think it is glorious to be henpecked.

Even if a Northeastern man is roared at by a Siberian tiger, he will only try to save his dignity in public by saying that he respects his wife.

"Big shot?" Lu Xuan looked at Fang Yiai suspiciously, always feeling that the other party was bragging.

"Take it!" Fang Yiai snorted, "Let's go, cousin. If others see me not daring to go to Pingkangfang, they will think I am henpecked!"

"That's right!" Lu Hyun then said, "If that's the case, then let's go."

The two of them got on the carriage and headed straight for Pingkangfang without taking any servants with them.

The banquet was not large, with only three or five people, and Fang Yiai knew them all. After all, they had played together since childhood and were all childhood friends of Lu Hyun.

"Brother Cui and Brother Wang." Fang Yiai greeted the three people in the room.

Although he is now the son-in-law of the emperor and the inspector of the Right Guard General, he really can't put on airs in front of his childhood friend.

"Brother Fang."

Although Fang Yiai was polite, everyone present also gave him enough face. Cui Shi, who was the leader, immediately stood up and crossed his hands towards Fang Yiai, along with Wang Qian and Cui Derang behind him.

After sitting down together and chatting for a few words, Lu Xuan asked with a smile: "Brother Shizhi, you invited me and Yiai to Tianxiang Tower, saying that you had invited a courtesan who has recently become famous in the capital. Why is it that there are only you and three grown men here, and no one is seeing the courtesan Ye Yuannu?"

"Don't be anxious." Cui Shi clapped his hands with a smile.

As soon as the voice fell, a group of servants came with food and wine and placed them in front of everyone's table.

After the servants left, a group of dancers came in one after another.

The woman in the middle has bright eyes, white teeth and is gorgeous.

"Look, this is Ye Yuannu." Lu Xuan picked up the wine glass and said to Fang Yiai beside him.

"Yeah." Fang Yiai just answered twice.

Lu Xuan was secretly delighted, thinking that Fang Yiai was bewitched by Ye Yuannu.

After enjoying the singing and dancing for a while, Cui Shi coughed twice beside them.

When Lu Xuan heard the voice, he looked over and saw Cui Shi pointing his finger at Fang Yiai inconspicuously.

Seeing the direction of Cui Shi's finger, Lu Xuan turned around and saw Fang Yiai licking his lips, with his chopsticks put aside, and reaching out to tear the chicken leg on the table.

Judging from his appearance, he obviously wanted the chicken leg more than Ye Yuannu who was dancing over there.

"Cousin, why are you only concerned with eating chicken?" Lu Hyun asked with a frown.

"Yeah." Fang Yiai responded, reached out to twist off the thigh of the fat chicken, put it in his mouth and took a bite, then sighed with satisfaction.

"Cousin?" Lu Hyun raised his voice this time. You don't watch singing and dancing, and you don't like beautiful women. Then what should I do next?

"Oh? Oh! Cousin, you called me?" Fang Yiai put down the chicken leg in his hand in a daze.

"Why don't you watch the singing and dancing?" Lu Hyun asked.

Fang Yiai looked up and thought that it was not as good as the one my daughter Shu'er danced for me in my boudoir.

But he couldn't say that anyway, so he smiled and said perfunctorily: "I didn't eat when I was on duty. I haven't eaten anything since I got up in the morning. I'm starving. I hope you can forgive me!"

I didn’t eat...

Lu Hyun breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Fang Yiai had seen something.

But then I thought, this guy doesn't have that ability.

"I see, cousin, what do you think of Ye Yuannu?" Lu Xuan asked with a smile. "Not bad." Fang Yiai took a bite of the chicken bone and felt that it was a bit disrespectful to his cousin, so he commented: "It's actually quite good, at least I think so."

I also added in my heart that my son Shu'er is not as pretty as him.

"Since my cousin thinks this girl is good, then as her elder brother, I have to help her achieve her goal."

Lu Xuan smiled and said, "I will buy her and give her to my cousin!"

"This... isn't good?" Fang Yiai said hesitantly, but his eyes were clearly filled with excitement.

Seeing the change in Fang Yiai's eyes, Lu Hyun became even happier.

"What do you mean?"

He turned to look at Cui Shi and the other two behind him, and when they nodded, he smiled and said, "Ye Yuannu?"

Ye Yuannu twisted her waist and swayed to Fang Yiai's side like a willow swaying in the wind.

"Why don't you serve General Fang and give him a leather cup?" Cui Shi cheered from the side.

"General..."

Ye Yuannu called out in a soft voice.

Fang Yiai felt as if his bones had become two pounds weak.

Ye Yuannu took the wine glass filled with grape wine from Fang Yiai, smiled charmingly at him, and put the grape wine into her mouth.

Then he moved in front of Fang Yiai and sat on his lap.

"Hiccup——"

Fang Yiai burped and passed out without any warning.

It didn't matter that he was pulled away. Ye Yuannu was startled and jumped up from Fang Yiai's legs.

Not to mention Ye Yuannu who was nearby, even Lu Xuan, Cui Shi and the other two who were not far away were all startled.

Lu Hyun was still muttering in his heart, I have never heard that my cousin has this problem, why does he convulse when a woman sits on his lap?

"Hurry, hurry and save him!" Lu Xuan stood up immediately. He couldn't let Fang Yiai faint. If something bad happened to him, not only would he not be able to explain to his aunt, but even Li Shimin would have to eat him.

Fang Yiai is the most favored son-in-law among all his sons-in-law, and this is not just talk.

This man was simple-minded and had no ulterior motives, so Li Shimin was very fond of him.

If the emperor knew that they were plotting against Fang Yiai, they would be in trouble.

Lu Xuan went up to him and pinched his Ren Zhong and slapped his face. Seeing that Fang Yiai just wouldn't wake up, Cui Shi suddenly said, "I'm afraid he's lost his mind due to phlegm. Brother Lu, you're his cousin. Go up and give him two big slaps on the face. He will definitely wake up."

"Is it possible?" Lu Xuan hesitated.

"Of course, I have a distant cousin who is like that." Cui Shi said firmly.

Lu Xuan plucked up his courage and was about to slap Fang Yiai when he saw Fang Yiai waking up slowly.

"I...what's wrong with me?" he asked in a quiet tone.

"Oh, cousin, you just fainted!" Lu Hyun patted Fang Yiai's shoulder sympathetically.

"Ah?" Fang Yiai thought about it and immediately trembled like a sieve: "Cousin, please don't harm me. I will never accept this woman."

"Why?" Lu Hyun showed a contemptuous look: "Could it be that my cousin is really henpecked?"

"It's not that I'm henpecked, it's mainly because my father-in-law... is not easy to mess with." Fang Yiai smacked his lips and said, "What's more, my wife is quite close to her nephew, the Prince of Hengshan. If he knew that I, as his uncle, have a mistress, I'm afraid he would draw his sword and duel with me like he did with Zhang Xuansu."

When everyone thought about it, it made sense.

Both the cat and you know something about Li Xiang's glorious deeds.

Even without mentioning Zhang Xuansu, the fate of Hou Junji and Li Yuanchang is still vivid in our minds.

Only one's own family knows about their own affairs. Even if it was Cui, Lu, Li, or King Zheng, they could only talk and make a fuss. No one thought that they were more difficult to control than Hou Junji in front of the Heavenly Khan Li Shimin.

"Well, if that's the case, then I can't force my cousin." Lu Xuan said with some regret: "Sometimes, marrying a royal princess may not be a good thing!"

"Yes, who would marry a princess?" Cui Shi said, "Speaking of marrying a princess, who in the whole Tang Dynasty doesn't know about it? It's better to marry a girl from one of our five surnames, haha."

Cui Shi was not bragging. Nowadays, women from the five surnames are much more popular than princesses from the royal family.

There is no such thing as not being able to marry a Tang Dynasty princess. Nowadays... the representative princesses are the virtuous Princess Xiangcheng and Princess Changle.

"Hey, Brother Cui, be careful with your words." Lu Xuan immediately corrected him seriously: "My cousin married a princess of our Tang Dynasty."

"Oh, yes, yes, it's all my fault for being so confused that I actually forgot about it." Cui Shi smiled and patted his lips, and tried to save face for Fang Yiai: "In fact, there are still many good princesses in our Tang Dynasty, look at Princess Changle."

"Princess Changle is truly a beauty, but it's a pity that she was born into the royal family." Lu Xuan sighed with regret.

Everyone nodded. If it was a girl from one of the five surnames, they would marry this beauty home even if they had to give up everything they had.

"Enough of talking. Come on, cousin, let's drink." Lu Xuan said to Fang Yiai with a smile, raising his glass, and waved at Ye Yuannu.

Ye Yuannu understood and called the dancers to go back to the front and continue dancing.

Since Fang Yiai refused to accept her, she naturally had no way to force her way into his house.

As for dignity? Come on, a woman from Pingkangfang still wants dignity?

Seeing that Fang Yiai was not taking the bait, the few people did not get discouraged, but continued to drink with Fang Yiai.

The four of them took turns, adopting the wheel tactic, drinking one cup after another with Fang Yiai.

Fang Yiai also accepted everything that came to him, just like drinking water, filling his stomach.

However, although the alcohol content of the grape wine was low, it could not resist the change in quantity leading to a qualitative change, and soon Fang Yiai's eyes began to show circles of mosquito coils.

The four of them looked at each other and nodded.

Lu Xuan waved his hand, signaling Ye Yuannu to lead the musicians to continue playing music and dancing, while several people gathered around Fang Yiai.

"Brother Fang?" Cui Shi shook Fang Yiai with concern.

"Hmm?" Fang Yiai forced his eyelids open and smiled shyly: "Sorry, I can't handle the alcohol."

"Hey, what's there to be sorry about?" Lu Hyun smiled and replied, then looked at the scarf next to Fang Yiai, picked it up and asked, "Cousin, what is this?"

"This one, this one was knitted by my wife." Fang Yiai yawned, grabbed the scarf and tied it tightly around his neck.

"Princess Gaoyang wove this?" The four of them looked at each other, and it was Lu Xuan, the closest cousin, who asked, "Forgive me for my poor eyesight, but what exactly is this thing made of?"

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