Just seven words, but Li Min's figure was shaken. For the first time, he truly felt the threat to him from the wealthy family. With his understanding of the history of the Tang Dynasty, he had long known that the five surnames

The aristocratic families represented by Qi Wang had influence throughout the Tang Dynasty, but he did not expect that he had just started to attract the attention of these aristocratic families. What made him even more unexpected was that Wang Zihao, whom he had always trusted, was also from Taiyuan.

Wang family?

"Zihao, can I still trust you?" Li Min seemed to be asking Wang Zihao, but also seemed to be asking himself. Although Wang Zihao may not have any malicious intentions, but just wanted to arrange a meeting without leaving any trace, but this

It was a matter of principle. To put it more seriously, it was betrayal. Li Min trusted him and did not hide his whereabouts from him. However, Wang Zihao took advantage of this and plotted against him behind his back. This was what Li Min could not bear the most.

.

"Your Highness!" Wang Zihao suddenly knelt down with a plop and said loudly with tears in his eyes: "Although Wang is a businessman, he also knows what it means to 'die for a bosom friend'. Your Highness never gives up and always regards me as his

As a confidant, but for my own selfish reasons, I betrayed His Highness's trust. It's too late to say anything now. I just ask His Highness to give me some more time to put the Chamber of Commerce on the right track. This can be regarded as my doing for Your Highness.

I will try my best to do my best, and then I will leave with my family and never set foot in Chang'an again."

"Humph, I made a mistake and wanted to run away. What did I write in the note I gave you?" Li Min became furious after hearing this. Wang Zihao was regarded by him as his right-hand man and a key figure in his future plans. Li Min

It was impossible to let him go, so what if he was born in the Wang family of Taiyuan? Li Min was angered, and he had no less than a hundred ways to cut off the foundations of these aristocratic families.

"Your Highness... Your Highness wrote 'I will not make an exception'." Wang Zihao looked shocked and replied with a trembling voice. Li Min had long guessed that he was behind the arrangement, but he still made an exception and tolerated himself, which made him even more

No place to be ashamed of.

"Hmph! Just remember, you are a smart person, you know what you can and cannot do. I don't plan to go into details about this matter this time. I just want to remind you not to touch my bottom line. Other

I don’t need to say more, you should be able to think clearly..."

"Let go! Let me in..."

Just when Li Min was reprimanding Wang Zihao, a burst of noise outside suddenly interrupted his words. One of the voices sounded familiar, but he probably didn't belong to the family. Without Li Min's instructions, Wen'er immediately went out to ask about the situation.

During the meeting, he led two people into the hall. One of them, whom Li Min knew, was the fat man in charge of his house who was waiting for guests. The other was a girl in white, with a very beautiful appearance. Li Min looked familiar, but

Can't remember where I saw it.

"Xijun, why are you here?" Wang Zihao was startled when he saw the girl in white and couldn't help shouting. When Li Min heard this, he suddenly realized, no wonder he looked familiar, it turned out to be the girl disguised as a man last time

Tomboy.

"Little girl, pay homage to His Royal Highness Prince Liang!" Wang Xijun ignored his father's question, but bowed to Li Min very respectfully. Wang Xijun, who had resumed women's clothing, no longer looked like the carefree tomboy he had been last time.

, her long black hair was held up by a jade hairpin, she had a perfect classic face, her big eyes were clear and energetic, and there seemed to be water ripples in her eyes, as if she was silently confiding something all the time; she was firm and upright.

The straight bridge of the nose combines the beauty of a woman with the heroic spirit only found in men; the plump and tender lips are an almost transparent ruby ​​red, making people want to take a bite at the first sight.

From a male's point of view, Wang Xijun, who wears a little makeup, is indeed a rare beauty. Although she is not as good as Li Min's fiancée Xiao Wenxin, she is slightly better than the two girls next to her, Wen'er and Hua'er.

It is natural for people to feel admiration when they see her. At least Li Min was a little moved. However, just when Li Min was admiring the beauty, the fat steward next to him knelt down and reported: "Your Highness, this Miss Wang

I insisted on coming to see you, and my subordinates wanted to stop me, but last time you..."

When he said this, the fat manager raised his head and secretly glanced at Li Min. Last time, he neglected the Wang family and his daughter, which resulted in Li Min scolding him. This time, this little girl who claimed to be Wang Zihao's daughter barged in.

He wanted to stop but didn't dare, for fear of offending the distinguished guest again, so he let Wang Xijun break through the door of the side hall.

"Well, I understand. You have nothing to do here. Go down!" Li Min waved his hand and told the fat steward to retreat. Then he turned to Wang Xijun and smiled, "It turns out to be Miss Wang. You have changed into women's clothes this time. I

I almost didn’t recognize it.”

"Your Highness!" Wang Xijun ignored Li Min's teasing, but his face flushed with excitement. He took a step forward and said again, "The little girl begs Your Highness, I hope you don't punish your father. He did it because he had no choice but to do so.

"

Li Min was stunned for a moment, then realized that it seemed that Wang Xijun was here to plead for her father. Unfortunately, she didn't know that she had no intention of delving into this matter in the first place.

"Oh? I would like to hear what is your father's reason for not even wanting to offend me, but also helping Wang Kuang arrange a chance encounter. Is it because you are from the Wang family in Taiyuan?" Li Min seemed to have something else in Wang Xijun's words.

Hidden secrets, I couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Xijun, this matter..."

Wang Zihao obviously didn't want his daughter to mention his difficulties, so he immediately opened his mouth to stop him, but Wang Xijun interrupted him with a stubborn look and said: "Father, don't you always have a bad impression of those wealthy families? If it weren't for your grandfather's teachings,

, Why do you have to suffer these grievances?"

Huh? Li Min is even more curious. It seems that this matter is not as simple as it seems. It actually involves the previous generation of the Wang family.

"Alas~" When Wang Zihao heard his daughter mention his father, Wang Zihao was also touched. He sighed and lowered his head in silence, apparently acquiescing to his daughter's actions.

"Your Highness, this matter started decades ago, when my grandfather..."

As Wang Xijun narrated, Li Min gradually understood the whole story. It turned out that Wang Zihao's family's situation was a bit special. It was not as he imagined. He did something that betrayed him simply because of the appeal of the clan.

.

It turns out that Wang Zihao's father, Wang Xijun's grandfather, was also the eldest brother of the Wang family in Taiyuan. Because he did something wrong, he was kicked out of the family and was strictly ordered not to call himself the Wang family in Taiyuan in the future, even during holidays.

He was not allowed to go home to worship his ancestors, and he was not allowed to enter the Wang ancestral hall after his death. This was undoubtedly a very cruel punishment for the ancients who had a strong sense of clan. Unfortunately, Wang Xijun did not say what mistake her grandfather had made. Li Min

It's not easy to ask.

Although Wang Xijun's grandfather later created a huge family business, he never forgot to return to the family and restore his origin as the Wang family in Taiyuan. Unfortunately, although he was extremely wealthy, in the eyes of the wealthy family, he was just a businessman full of copper odor.

So until his death, this wish was not fulfilled. When the old man was about to die, he held Wang Zihao's hand and confessed his last wish: No matter how much it costs, the Wang family must return to the Wang family in Taiyuan and his spiritual throne be placed there.

Go to the ancestral hall to offer sacrifices.

In order to fulfill his father's last wish, Wang Zihao went to Taiyuan several times to ask the clan to withdraw the original punishment of his father. Once, he even knelt in front of the Wang family for three days and three nights holding his father's spiritual throne. It was a pity that as the king of Taiyuan of aristocratic family

However, Wang Zihao was extremely arrogant and looked down upon Wang Zihao, a clan member who had become a merchant, let alone allowed them to return to the Wang family. Therefore, Wang Zihao could only return sadly every time.

Since Li Min lost all the Wang family's property, Wang Zihao had given up the idea of ​​returning to the Wang family in Taiyuan. However, what he didn't expect was that two days ago, Wang Kuang, the eldest brother of the Wang family in Taiyuan, came to him and claimed that as long as Wang Zihao arranged for him to marry

After one meeting with Li Min, he was confident to convince the clan members to reclassify the Wang Zihao clan as the Taiyuan Wang clan.

In fact, through his previous experiences in Taiyuan, Wang Zihao no longer had any good impression of the family. However, his father's last wish and Li Min's trust made him face a very painful choice. In the end, family love prevailed.

Reasonably, he took advantage of Li Min's trust in him and arranged a chance encounter for Wang Kuang. He thought he had done it perfectly, but unexpectedly, Li Min saw the flaw.

After listening to Wang Xijun's story, Li Min was silent. As a modern person, it is difficult for him to understand the clan concept of the ancients. In Li Min's view, as long as he lives happily and freely, he doesn't care about anything.

It is a pity that the ancients did not have this awareness about the issue of whether to enter the ancestral temple after death. They believed that if they did not enter the ancestral temple after death, they would become lonely ghosts and would not even have the right to be reincarnated. It is estimated that Wang Zihao’s father was also motivated by

This kind of fear made him ask his son to bring his spiritual throne to the Wang family ancestral hall.

"Your Highness, my father is indeed at fault in this matter, but he just wanted to fulfill his grandfather's last wish. For the sake of filial piety, please forgive my father this time!" When Wang Xijun said this, his legs

Yiwan actually knelt down. Now the Wang family has just made some progress, and his father is also full of ambitions to follow Li Min to do a big business. If his father's previous achievements are wasted because of this incident, then the Wang family will never rise again.

Well, thinking about his mother and two young brothers at home, Wang Xijun could not let Li Min lose trust in their Wang family.

"If His Highness still has doubts about his father, this little girl is willing to enter the palace as a slave and serve His Highness all her life!" Before Li Min could react, Wang Xijun, a fierce girl, suddenly gritted her teeth and told her the biggest bargaining chip she had carefully prepared.

She came out and used her daughter as a pledge by Li Min's side in exchange for Li Min's renewed trust in his father.

"Cough~cough~" Li Min, who was unprepared, was frightened by Wang Xijun's words and coughed. No wonder Wang Xijun came to see her today and dressed up so beautifully. Apparently she had already prepared this 'beauty trap'

, prepared to use the courage to sacrifice one's life to feed the tiger to preserve their hope of the rise of the royal family.

In addition to the time when Wen'er and Hua'er came here, this was the second time Li Min encountered a girl who offered herself to him. However, with his shamelessness, he was still a little at a loss and did not dare to look at Wang Xijun anymore. He turned to Wang Zihao and said:

"Well~ahem~, brother Zihao, that's all for today. You'd better take Miss Xijun away!"

"Your Highness, please forgive me father. You can do anything you ask me to do..." Seeing that Li Min was unwilling to accept her, Wang Xijun suddenly became anxious and couldn't help but begged loudly. Wang Zihao next to him was moved but also a little embarrassed, afraid that

If her daughter said something inappropriate again, she quickly grabbed her and covered her mouth.

Li Min was really afraid that Wang Xijun would say something too ambiguous like "warming the bed", so he took advantage of this opportunity and hurriedly ran away with Wen'er and Hua'er in despair.

"Woo~wu~, let go..." Watching Li Min leave, Wang Xijun's face was full of despair and pain. He was struggling endlessly in his father's arms. Tears welled up in his eyes like a stream, covering his face.

All the carefully painted makeup was washed away, leaving one black and one white, like a little cat.

After escaping to the inner house, Li Min breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking of Wang Xijun's decisive look just now, he couldn't help laughing loudly. But after laughing, Li Min felt a little moved in his heart. For the prosperity of the family,

A woman who can exchange her life's happiness is undoubtedly worthy of admiration, but I don't know what Wang Xijun's expression will be like when she knows that she has made such a big mistake?

Thinking of this, Li Min burst into heartless laughter again!
Chapter completed!