Joy of Life: Invincible Starting from Basic Swordsmanship

Chapter 69: Night Raid on the Prince's Mansion, Meeting Li Yunrui

Ye Chengfeng thought for a long time but still couldn't decide what wedding gift to give Fan Xian.

Although Fan Xian has some things he really wants right now.

Fan Xian takes over the Imperial Treasury, which is short of more than 20 million taels of silver, so Fan Xian will be very short of money after marriage.

The problem is that Ye Chengfeng would never give money to Fan Xian.

"Li Yunrui should be arriving in Kyoto soon, so let's find some time to meet this crazy beauty."

Ye Chengfeng's estimate was correct; after Fan Xian left, he spent another morning trying on wedding attire.

I finally found a chance to escape from the Fan residence in the afternoon.

He had just left the mansion when he encountered Li Yunrui, whose carriage was already parked in front of the Fan residence.

Looking at the carriage decorated with countless flowers, each of the maids around it held a flower basket in her hand.

Enemies meeting are bound to be furious, but this time Li Yunrui was indeed there to deliver a gift to Fan Xian.

Li Yunrui called Fan Xian to the carriage and handed him the internal treasury account book that he had ordered his men to calculate.

After obtaining the account book, Fan Xian immediately went to the Supervisory Council to verify its authenticity with Wang Qinian.

After calculation, Fan Xian found that there was no problem with the account book, except that there was a deficit of 20 million.

"Li Yunrui really gave me a great gift."

Fan Xian looked at the account book helplessly; it was indeed a nice gift.

As for where the deficit came from?

Then don't ask too many questions; at least she sent a congratulatory gift, didn't she?

After a busy day, Fan Xian didn't return to the Fan residence until sunset.

The entire Fan family gathered at the dining table, and Ye Chengfeng was naturally among them.

As the saying goes, a son-in-law is like half a son, so Ye Chengfeng is naturally not an outsider.

"What's wrong? You look like you've lost your mind?"

As soon as Fan Xian walked in, Ye Chengfeng teased him.

Fan Xian didn't say much and simply tossed the account book to him.

"You'll see when you see it."

"The imperial treasury's ledgers? You're showing them to an outsider like me?"

Ye Chengfeng said this, but his hands were very honest; he had already opened the account book and started looking at it.

"Good heavens, the officials of your Qing Kingdom are far too greedy!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Chengfeng realized that he had said the wrong thing.

His father-in-law was an official in the Qing Kingdom, and he was the Minister of Revenue who was in charge of the Qing Kingdom's money and grain!

"That's not what I meant. I meant that the Qing Kingdom's royal family is really rich. They have a deficit of 20 million, but Emperor Qing doesn't care."

Ye Chengfeng quickly added a sentence to the rescue.

Fan Jian didn't argue with him, but simply reached out to ask for the account book.

Ye Chengfeng tactfully handed it over.

"Xian'er, who gave you this account book?"

"It's Li Yunrui. I ran into her on my way to the Supervisory Commission at noon today. She handed me this account book, saying it was a congratulatory gift."

Fan Jian also glanced through the account book and compared it with the Ministry of Revenue's accounts from his memory.

The ledger was found to be basically correct.

"What do you think Princess Li Yunrui's purpose is?"

"It should really just be a gift. After all, Wan'er is her daughter. No matter how crazy she is, she wouldn't cause me trouble before the wedding."

"It's good that you know what's going on."

After dinner, Ye Chengfeng and Fan Xian went back to their room together.

"Why did you come back?"

"Didn't Father arrange a guest room for you? Are you going to occupy my courtyard as well?"

"Don't you already have a wedding house? Why don't you just move in there?"

"Hmph, there's something fishy going on if you don't want me to follow you. Don't even think about getting rid of me."

Seeing that Ye Chengfeng kept trying to get him to leave, Fan Xian immediately realized something was wrong.

"Fine, if you insist on coming along, then come along!"

"And I guessed right? What exactly are you going to do?"

"Of course I'm going to cause trouble for Li Yunrui. I hold grudges very well."

In the latter half of the night, the two men, dressed in black, stealthily made their way towards the Second Prince's residence.

How do you know Li Yunrui would be staying at the Second Prince's residence?

"Isn't it obvious? The Second Prince and Li Yunrui's men have joined forces to kill us. They are clearly in cahoots."

"Okay, I thought you didn't know!"

Both of them are now ninth-rank officials, and the only ninth-rank official by the Second Prince's side has already left.

The two of them sneaked into the Prince's mansion and there was no way they would be discovered.

"Hmm? It's that expert next to Li Yunrui. He should be a ninth-rank expert. We'd better be careful!"

The two quickly found Li Yunrui's room.

Fan Xian recognized the palace maid who was accompanying Li Yunrui.

Unfortunately, Fan Xian never saw her fight and doesn't know her actual strength.

"Aren't you Fei Jie's disciple? Don't you have any sleeping pills?"

"I'm just worried that she's a ninth-rank martial artist. Poison is useless against a ninth-rank martial artist, didn't you know that?"

"Oh, you remember quite clearly. It seems you still can't forget Haitang Duoduo!"

"Don't make me want to hit you! I'm getting married soon, and you're telling me this?"

Ye Chengfeng also knew that it would be difficult to succeed if he poisoned the opponent without first assessing their strength.

"Wait, I'll go test his strength."

As he spoke, Ye Chengfeng leaped forward and thrust his sword at the palace maid.

Faced with this fierce sword strike, the opponent narrowly avoided it.

"Catch the assassin!"

"Damn, it really is a ninth-rank? Fan Xian, that jinx!"

Ye Chengfeng cursed under his breath and immediately prepared to run away.

It wasn't that Ye Chengfeng couldn't beat his opponent, but rather that he couldn't subdue or kill him in a short time.

"Get out of here!"

"Damn, running that fast?"

Seeing Ye Chengfeng run away, Fan Xian immediately gave chase.

Ye Chengfeng's lightness skill was already better than Fan Xian's, and by the time Fan Xian chased after Ye Chengfeng, he had already disappeared from sight.

The reason Ye Chengfeng shouted that when he ran away was because...

That was to expose him.

As expected, the ninth-rank martial artist beside Li Yunrui pursued him relentlessly, and for a time Fan Xian was unable to shake him off.

Fan Xian dared not fight him, fearing that the other party would discover his identity, which was no small matter.

Li Chengze was just looking for an excuse to deal with Fan Xian!

But where did Ye Chengfeng go?

He didn't run away at all; after avoiding Fan Xian's sight, Ye Chengfeng concealed himself.

Once the two had run far away, he immediately turned back.

The commotion was quite significant, and the guards from the Prince's residence rushed over.

However, at this moment, Ye Chengfeng had already entered Li Yunrui's bedroom and placed a sword against her neck.

"Auntie, are you alright?"

"It's nothing, they've already escaped."

"It's alright, then Chengze will take his leave now."

After Li Chengze left, Ye Chengfeng put away his sword.

"Heh, isn't the eldest princess quite afraid of death too?"

Ye Chengfeng was not worried at all about Li Yunrui calling for help. Li Yunrui did not know martial arts, and he was fully confident that he could kill him before he could make a sound.

"Because I know it's useless; you're here to kill me?"

"No, that's not it. The consequences of killing you would be too severe. I wouldn't do it unless absolutely necessary."

"Then what brings you to me, you little sword immortal of Dongyi City?"

"Huh? You actually recognized me? Was my disguise that bad?"

Ye Chengfeng touched the black mask on his face, wondering how Li Yunrui, an ordinary person, could detect his identity.

"Your eyes, your eyes are very special, I won't mistake you."

Li Yunrui remained calm, but dared not provoke Ye Chengfeng.

Just as Ye Chengfeng said, he wouldn't kill her unless absolutely necessary.

But if she doesn't know what's good for her, Ye Chengfeng will still take action.

"You must have something to ask for, right? You didn't come here just to chat with me, did you?"