The Princess Wei Yang

Chapter 53: Just cheating you

1欺君之罪: lese-majesty: the crime of deceiving the sovereign
2孟氏: Meng Shi: Meng is the family name, Shi referring to her family name
3时辰: Shi chen: 1 of 12 two hours period
4开门便是见山: the actual phrase is 开门见山 (kai men jian san) which means getting straight to the point

                                                                             
Chapter 53: Just cheating you

Afterwards, Li Xiao Ran became terribly pressed. He had been busy all day long, suffering for five whole days.

Mo Zhu brought a cup of tea from outside, carefully looked at Li Wei Yang’s face: “Xiaojie, today Da Furen went to ask Lao Ye about the rewards, then---”

Li Wei Yang raised her eyebrow and looked at her.

Mo Zhu’s lips tilted slightly: “Lao Ye was really annoyed, that he even jumped up and scolded Da Furen severely! I heard that when Da Furen left Lao Ye’s study, her eyes were red!”

All of this was as she had expected. Li Wei Yang sipped the tea, said: “And then?”

Mo Zhu continued: “Da Shaoye was ordered by Lao Ye to come up with some solutions. But in the end, all of the solutions he could come up with were rejected by Lao Ye. Nubi has inquired, maybe Da Shaoye became ruthless due to his anxiety, that he even said that Xiaojie, you should be tied up and interrogated. Lao Ye greatly rewarded him with a slap on the face, and chased him out of the study.”

Li Xiao Ran is a biased father, but not stupid. If he did tie her up at this time to interrogate, then he would not gain a single solution. What’s more, there is no completely airtight wall in this world. This move was like telling the entire world, that the person who came up with the idea was not Li Chang Le. This would be les majesty!

“Da Xiaojie seeing that Lao Ye is fuming with rage, does not dare to show her face. She hides in her own room all this time, even meals are quietly sent in! Heng, now everyone is scolding her for coming up with those rotten ideas, causing great harm to the common people.” Bai Zhi just finished saying this, suddenly remembered that Li Wei Yang were the one who came up with these ideas, immediately shut up.

Li Wei Yang smiled: “That’s right, those are really rotten ideas.”

These five methods, each had hidden danger. If they were not specifically implemented, they would be absolutely unperceivable. Li Chang Le had only thought that they were good solutions, so she took credits for it, and did not know how to fix its flaws. The higher one rose, naturally the harder the fall would be. After everyone who sang praises for her discovered that the established goddess was really a fool who leapt without looking, only let the contradictions broadened, the results were naturally painful.

“I heard that there is a scholar who wrote a ragged verse on the back door of the Prime Minister’s estate, specifically ridiculing Da Xiaojie, saying she is an offender who bring disaster upon the country and the people. The steward has brought people to tear it up, as a result, some unknown person used red paint to paint it on the snow white walls, attracting countless people to watch, enraging her!”

Li Wei Yang listened with interest, a cute smile was on her face from the start.

Others who saw her would only think that she was a naive girl. On no account would they think that she was the deviser of all of this. Bai Zhi secretly thought in her heart, her own Xiaojie, her heart was quite black, such ruthlessness on making one move. Da Xiaojie went through this trouble, and what good reputation did she still want to have? Even children in the streets were singing nursery rhymes scolding her.