The Princess Wei Yang

 He didn’t reply.
Li Wei Yang reached out to pull him up. Li Min De speechlessly flung her hand off, Li Wei Yang quietly mocked him, this child was not lovable at all! Li Min De suddenly stood up, unfortunately, once he took a step, he fell down. “Your legs fell asleep, right?” Li Wei Yang held onto him and successfully pulled him back, she helplessly let out a sigh, “San Shaoye, you want me to accompany you to catch a cold?” Li Min De clutched his face, he was still upset. 

What do you have in your arms, it is bulging.” Li Wei Yang asked suspiciously. “Nothing ……” She suspiciously looked at him, “It’s really nothing?” He hugged his chest: “…… It’s only an invaluable toy, it’s incomparable to what the Crowned Prince has gifted.”  Li Wei Yang was still: “You — also prepared a gift for me?” A hint of red clouds appeared on Li Min De’s face, it wasn’t after a while that he affirmed. Li Wei Yang was slightly shocked, she felt uneasy on the inside. She realized Min De was a lonely child because of his precociousness, he was much more intelligent and sensitive than an adult, which made others couldn’t help but have affections for him. Li Min De slowly took out a wood carving from his chest. Li Wei Yang: “……” It was a doll that looked like a rabbit, uh …… “Does it look like you?” Li Min De pleasingly asked her. Li Wei Yang didn’t have the heart to upset him and only said: “Yes, it looks very similar, you made it yourself?”

 “Yes!” Li Min De happily smiled “It’s made beautifully.” Li Wei Yang lifted his gift up to look at it meticulously; even though the wood work was choppy, every line and corner were rounded.
It could be seen that lots of effort was put into this, “Min De is too kind to me.” Li Min De smiled, she suddenly saw his curled up fingers and frowned.
She immediately held onto his hand and her fingertip felt a finely broken and coarse scar, “You’ve injured your fingers?” Li Min De hid his hand: “I did not!” It was obvious that he had injured his fingers yet he denied. Li Wei Yang’s eyes was dark as the night, her long curling lashes jittered under her eyes forming a shadow.
She eventually smiled cheerfully: “I will take good care of this gift.” As the saying goes, once gossip was repeated often enough2, it would be accepted as the truth.
An incident that had been spread through many people’s mouths would inevitably be exaggerated3.
Also, that night at the banquet, present were many nobles and the women of their family and they enjoyed gossiping about others.
Soon, the entire capital had already heard about Prime Minister Li’s eldest son who had returned from his studies, was actually a dissolute man that took concubines before getting married and they didn’t know how he killed the yatou.
Da Furen thought of all kinds of way to suppress the rumors from spreading, but the rumors had become more and more intense.
Gossipers spread the news and continued to add in their own details, causing the incident to become more colorful and become a popular topic amongst the public.
In the end, the version had evolved into this, Li family’s eldest son sexually assaulted a yatou, this yatou killed herself on the day of the banquet.
The most frightening was that this version spread to the palace, which made the Emperor very furious since he had the intention of allowing Li Min Feng to become an official in the court.
Not only did he shelved all proposals that supported his intention, he also scolded Tuoba Zhen, who also presented a proposal.
   Third Prince, who was always cautious, thought that if he wrote a proposal to help, he would gain a favor from Prime Minister Li and would also gain an extra helper that could be used in the future.
He didn’t expect that this would happen; this was a rare misstep in years. Da furen bought Li Chang Le to the ancestral hall to visit Li Min Feng who was locked up for ten days. Li Min Feng sat in front of a table in a trance, his complexion dull, his eyes white, and his face dispirited.
In the past few days, he didn’t understand from his enriched knowledge gained from academics and travel experience, how could he be no match to a thirteen-years old girl and suffered a big loss?   He couldn’t believe that he continuously fell for Li Wei Yang’s schemes and was even led in circles by her.
These great talents and political schemes, in her eyes, were nothing. “Da ge, how did turn like this?” Li Chang Le was almost speechless. Once he saw Da furen, he immediately rushed forward: “Mother, help me get out of here, I can’t stand this any longer!”