I am a prince in Zhutian Films

Chapter 88: Baoyue Tower

After Yingzi recovered from his injury, he came to Prince Ding's mansion again.

This time he didn't bring Chen Pingping with him. He came secretly and was beaten up by Li Chengzong again.

After listening to Li Chengzong's words, the man became more honest, but what was supposed to come still came.

He came here about once every ten days or half a month, but instead of fighting with Li Chengzong, he sparred with Zhao Huai'en and others, which improved his strength a lot.

Apart from this incident, the palace continued to live its own life, as if everything happening in the outside world had nothing to do with Prince Ding's palace.

Spring goes and autumn comes, and it seems like just a blink of an eye, and we have entered the autumn of the fourth year of the Qingli period.

That afternoon, Li Chengzong was strolling around after lunch with Si Lili.

As the days passed, Si Lili's belly grew bigger and bigger, much bigger than that of an ordinary pregnant woman. It had been confirmed that she was pregnant with twins, so in order to ensure a smooth delivery, Li Chengzong still controlled Si Lili's diet, no matter how unwilling she was, and she had to do a certain amount of exercise every day.

Just as the two were walking, a young man in his twenties came over. He had a dark face and was dressed like an ordinary farmer. It was hard to tell that he was once a member of the Blood Guards.

The young man's name was Li Moyu. He was one of the youngest among the 500 guards. After returning from the border, he did not stay in the palace. Instead, he went to the farm under the name of the palace and devoted himself to agricultural research. He produced a lot of high-yield seeds, which made Li Chengzong exclaim that he had not used them in the right place.

"Have you cultivated high-yield grain varieties again?"

Li Moyu shook his head and said a little embarrassedly: "Master, I have fallen in love with a woman."

"Just marry her if you like her. I will definitely officiate at your wedding."

"It's a brothel girl."

"You still lack the money for redemption?"

Li Moyu developed a high-yield grain variety, so Li Chengzong naturally gave it to Emperor Qing. Emperor Qing rewarded him with a lot of things. In addition, Li Chengzong would also give him rewards. Li Moyu now has at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, so a few thousand taels of silver can easily be used to redeem himself.

Of course, the mansion had paid for the redemption of the prostitute that Xiren had taken a fancy to, so they would naturally treat everyone equally now. So Li Chengzong was just joking, and then he said with a smile: "Go to Huai En to get the money yourself, and notify me when you hold the wedding banquet."

"Master, I'm not here to ask you for money."

"I know, you're here to inform me that I'm going to attend the wedding banquet."

Li Moyu shook his head and began to explain the cause and effect.

The story is not complicated. When Li Moyu was doing agricultural research, he met the daughter of a vegetable farmer from the neighboring village. This vegetable farmer delivered vegetables to the Vegetable Inspection Bureau. Because he was persecuted by Eunuch Dai from the Vegetable Inspection Bureau, he owed a lot of money and was recently forced to sell his daughter.

Li Moyu realized something was wrong because he hadn't seen the girl recently. He ran to the next door farm to inquire and learned that the girl was sold to a brothel. He didn't care. After all, there were many people in the palace who married girls from brothels. Even their family master married a girl from a brothel. So he directly expressed his intention to marry her and took his future father-in-law to redeem her.

He went in too much of a hurry and forgot to bring silver, but he had agreed to bring five hundred taels of silver to redeem himself the next day, which was this morning. However, when he brought five hundred taels of silver, the other party demanded five thousand taels, so Li Moyu went directly to the palace.

"Master, don't you think they are treating me like a fool? Although I don't lack five thousand taels of silver and am willing to spend five thousand taels of silver for Miss Jin, I am not a fool either."

Li Chengzong hummed and said calmly: "Tell Li Yi and the others to smash that brothel."

Li Moyu didn't move, and reminded: "Master, it is said that the brothel was opened by the Fourth Prince and Fan Sizhe of the Fan family. Should we smash it too?"

"Baoyue Tower?"

"It seems to be called Baoyue Tower."

"The girl you like wouldn't be named Jin, right?"

"Master, how do you know?"

"Don't worry about how I know. Go call someone first. I'll change my clothes and go there myself."

Not long after Fan Xian left Kyoto for Northern Qi, the second brother used Fan Sizhe to open Baoyue Tower, and in a short period of time, it became the most famous brothel in Kyoto, surpassing Zuixianju where Si Lili once worked.

Although Li Chengzong knew about this, he did not stop it because there was no point in stopping it. Even if there was no Baoyue Tower, there would still be Chunyue Tower, Baohua Tower... It was just a change of name.

The real harm is not the brothel, but the fact that the second brother wants to use the brothel to deal with Fan Xian. To put it more broadly, it is the power and this era that are wrong.

In feudal society, the lower class could never escape the oppression of the upper class. Of course, in any era, the lower class was always the target of oppression, but it was not as serious and open as in feudal society.

Li Chengzong changed his clothes, wrote a letter, and had someone deliver it to the Censorate before going to Baoyue Tower with a dozen guards.

Seeing Li Chengzong and his party coming, the guards guarding the entrance of Baoyue Tower were stunned at first, then looked at Li Moyu who was beside Li Chengzong and said angrily: "It's you again, kid. Don't think we are afraid of you just because you have someone here. Baoyue Tower was opened by the Fourth Prince and the younger brother of the poet Fan Gongzi. Without five thousand taels of silver, no one can take anyone away from Baoyue Tower."

"Kill him."

Li Chengzong spoke lightly, not bothering to talk to the evil slaves of Baoyue Tower. After hearing what Li Chengzong said, Li Moyu no longer cared who was behind Baoyue Tower.

As one of Li Chengzong's 500 personal guards, although he did not practice martial arts in the palace like the others in recent years, he was also a genuine seventh-rank master. The two gatekeepers were no match for Li Moyu.

As his figure swayed, two bodies were left at the door.

Li Moyu directly pushed open the door of Baoyue Tower, stepped aside and said respectfully: "Master, please!"

At this time in Baoyue Tower, a group of evil slaves in black were watching a group of women training in the yard, and they occasionally uttered a few obscene words.

Seeing Li Chengzong and his group pushing the door open, everyone in the yard was stunned, and then noticed the two bodies lying at the door.

"Ah, someone was killed!"

I don't know who screamed, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

"Everyone get down!"

Zhao Huai'en used his true Qi to speak, causing everyone in the yard to be horrified. The woman who was originally preparing to escape quickly squatted down and trembled on the ground.

As for the evil slaves in the yard, they naturally would not obey and rushed directly towards them.

Although many years have passed and many plots have become blurred, the plots that are deeply rooted in people's hearts are not so easy to forget.

He still remembers the scene where Old Jintou redeemed his daughter and ended up being tragically killed by the servants in Baoyue Tower.

It would be fine if it didn't involve him, but now that he's here, I still have to take care of it.

Glancing at the person rushing over, Li Chengzong spoke calmly.

"Kill them all."

A dozen evil slaves were no different from vicious wolves to an ordinary person like Old Jintou.

But for Li Chengzong's personal guards, they were nothing more than a group of lambs to be slaughtered. Anyone could kill them easily, not to mention that there were several of them.

After just one encounter, the dozen or so evil slaves who rushed over turned into corpses. Several of the corpses even had their heads separated, and blood splattered all over the ground. It was obviously Fan Wujiu's work.

Because he was the only one who used the knife, and because he had just broken through and controlled the strength well, he accidentally chopped off the head.

For a moment, the smell of blood filled the air.

At the same time, the rolling heads also made the women in the yard scream.

"Stop shouting, we are not bad people, we won't kill you."

Seeing the woman in the yard still screaming, Li Moyu was about to speak again, but Li Chengzong patted him on the shoulder, signaling him to watch, and then said calmly: "Whoever screams again will be killed!"

In an instant, it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

"Someone, go get Yuan Meng for me."

After hearing Li Chengzong's words, a man stood up in the crowd. He did not look panicked like the others, but rather calm, with a happy look on his face.

"I pay my respects to His Majesty the Third Prince."

"I remember you, you are that one."

Li Chengzong paused and said with a smile: "I think her name is Xu Meng, right?"

To be honest, Li Chengzong was a little surprised.

He did remember that Sang Wen was forced to sell herself into Baoyue Tower. After Fan Xian took over Baoyue Tower, Sang Wen became Fan Xian's right-hand man.

However, what he didn't expect was that instead of seeing Sang Wen today, he met Xu Meng, who played the flute on Si Lili's houseboat in his early years.

Xu Meng was even more surprised than Li Chengzong. She never expected that after only meeting her once, the Third Prince would still remember her and even remember her name.

"Your Highness the Third Prince has a keen eye, and it is me who is a little girl."

Li Chengzong nodded and said with a smile: "We are acquaintances now. You go and call Yuan Meng over. I have something to discuss with her."

(End of this chapter)