Zhao Hongqin was very nervous because last night when the Prince of the Crown Prince did not let her avoid it when she was discussing affairs in Tangyuan, but asked her to listen to the entire content of the conversation. Zhao Hongqin was not stupid, so naturally she knew that not everyone was qualified to hear such a secret, unless this person was the prince's confidant or the prince intended to hear it, so that this person could secretly inform the person who wanted to get what he heard.

It was less than three days before she arrived at the Eastern Palace and knew that she could not be the prince's confidant. So she could only say that the prince intended to let her hear it, and wanted her to inform the person who asked her to monitor him.

But the truth is, no one asked her to monitor the prince!

With this hesitation, Zhao Hongqi was a little absent-minded while playing the piano. From time to time, she would secretly look at Li Hong who was lying on the couch and eating grapes, wanting to know what the prince was thinking.

Li Hong had been paying attention to Zhao Hongqi for a long time. Seeing Zhao Hongqi peeking at him again, he asked curiously, "Do you have anything to tell Gu?"

Zhao Hongqi suddenly heard Li Hong’s question, and her body trembled violently, and she quickly spoke in a low voice and replied, “No, no!”

"Really not?" Li Hong asked in a narrow voice. Seeing Zhao Hongshu's eyes dodging, he got up lazily, patted the bed beside him, and smiled in an ambiguous tone, "Come here and sit here, and talk to Gu if you have anything in your heart."

"Your Highness, this--" Zhao Hongqi suddenly felt a little panicked when she saw Li Hong's squinting smile.

Because of the first time I met the prince in Chongjiao Hall, I knew that the prince was not as gentle and polite as the outside world rumored, Zhao Hongqin felt a little more afraid of Prince Li Hong.

Now that Li Hong asked her to go over, she was very scared, but she didn't dare to refuse Li Hong's orders. She could only walk to the edge of the couch with a nervous expression and whispered, "Your Highness, I really have nothing to tell you."

Li Hong stared at Zhao Hongshu. Seeing that she lowered her head and did not dare to look at her, a hint of panic flashed across her gentle and charming face, she grabbed Zhao Hongshu's hand and pulled her to the bed.

"Ah——" Zhao Hong's skirt cried out as Li Hong grabbed her hand, and then she found that she had fallen on the prince's bed.

"Your Highness! Don't--" Zhao Hongqi, who was lying on the couch, was about to struggle to get up when she found that the prince turned over and pressed her under her.

Zhao Hongqin instinctively wanted to resist, but when she saw that the person pressing on her was the prince, she was a little at a loss. She thought that she was just going to serve him when she came to the East Palace. So she stopped resisting and slowly closed her eyes.

Seeing that Zhao Hongqi stopped resisting and closed his eyes, Li Hong guessed Zhao Hongqi's idea. Because the palace maids who came out of the Yeting Palace, especially those who were specially designated as personal maids, could they lack training in this regard?

At this time, Zhao Hong's pretty face was slightly red, and her nervous breathing was a little rapid, which made her already tall and straight peaks undulate, which was a bit like breaking the half-naked "open chest shirt" she was wearing and was about to burst out.

Seeing Zhao Hongshu's nervous and charming appearance, Li Hong stretched out his right hand and gently pushed away several messy hairs on Zhao Hongshu's forehead. His slender fingers stroked the broken face of the paper, and then gently slid across her cheek from top to bottom, stopping at her mutton fat-like neck.

When Zhao Hong's skirt touched her forehead with his hands, her body trembled again, and her breathing became even more rapid. When Li Hong's fingers kept sliding from her cheek to her neck, she thought of the old palace maid who had told her about the male and female beds during the Yeting Palace. She knew what the prince was going to do. Her body trembled slightly because of her nervousness, and she couldn't help but moaned in a low voice, "Your Highness! No, don't..."

Since she had become the prince's personal maid, she accepted her fate! Therefore, Zhao Hongcun was ready to continue thinking about her next move.

But after a long time, Zhao Hongchu found that the prince had moved away the hand placed on her neck and disappeared...

Zhao Hongqi hesitated for a long time and opened her eyes slightly, and found that the prince was staring at her at this moment. The prince's eyes were clear, and there was no desire to have sex for a man and a woman for a long time.

Seeing Zhao Hong's eyes open, Li Hong looked at the charming and timid girl in front of him and asked, "You really have nothing to say?"

"No..." Zhao Hongqi was a little confused, because at the moment when she saw the prince's eyes, she knew that the prince had no idea about her, but since she had no idea, why should the prince treat herself like this?

"Actually - if you don't say it, Gu also knows what you are thinking." Seeing that Zhao Hong's skirt was a little confused, Li Hong stood up and sat on the couch, and said in a plain tone, "Are you worried that Gu would treat you after hearing what we talked in Tangyuan last night, right?"

Seeing that Zhao Hong's face, whose blush had not yet faded, showed a look of horror, Li Hong smiled faintly and said, "You are the orphan's personal maid. In the future, you will serve orphan's daily life. Will you avoid anything we are talking about in the future?"

Zhao Hong's skirt is not stupid, and she suddenly heard another meaning from Li Hong's words.

Suddenly she looked a little dazed, because she couldn't believe it was true. Within three days after she arrived in the Eastern Palace, the Crown Prince had already believed in him so much. But when she saw Li Hong nodding to her slightly, she was sure that her guess was true.

At this moment, Zhao Hongshu was moved by Li Hong's trust, her eyes warmed up, and her tone was a little choked, "Your Highness——"

"Did you stayed up all night because of this last night?" Li Hong did not ask Zhao Hongshu to continue talking, but asked cordially. Zhao Hongshu felt warm, nodded slightly, and agreed in a low voice, "Yes!"

"I have something to do in the afternoon, and I don't need your service. Just sleep here for a while!" Li Hong said in a gentle tone.

Suddenly, she realized that her worries were unnecessary. Zhao Hong's heart that had been hanging in her skirt fell to the ground. She really felt a sense of sleepiness. But this was the prince's bed, how could it be where she sleep? So she hurriedly refused, "Your Highness..."

However, before Zhao Hongshu could say anything, she was stopped by Li Hong.

Then Li Hong leaned over and gently hugged Zhao Hong's skirt, put her upright on Hu's bed, and covered her with a quilt. Then he said, "Sleep safely, don't think about it anymore!"

After saying that, he left with great strides!

Zhao Hongqiu looked at the prince's thin figure disappearing from his sight, and then agreed in a low voice, while tears fell across her cheeks and dripped onto the pale yellow jade pillow.

...

When Li Hong returned to the study room of Chongwen Hall from Chengen Hall, he saw that Yan Zhuang had been waiting for him here for a long time. When Yan Zhuang saw that he was about to salute, he waved his hand to stop him. He walked directly to the table and sat down, and asked, "Have you found out about Wu Er's background?"

"Checked." Yan Zhuang replied respectfully, "Your Highness, Wu Er is the leader of the Snake Gang, one of the three major gangs in Chang'an City."

"Why is another gangster?" Li Hong frowned. One of the three major gangs in Chang'an City? Is this the underworld of Chang'an City?

A gangster?

When Yan Zhuang heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince call the leader of the Snake Gang, one of the three major gangs in Chang'an City, he couldn't help but slapped his face and could gain a foothold in Chang'an City and build a gang of tens of thousands of people. This is not just a gangster.

However, he suddenly felt relieved when he thought of Li Hong's identity as a prince, because in the eyes of the prince of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Er's Snake Gang was just a gangster, no matter how much Wu Er's Snake Gang dominated Chang'an City, wasn't he just a gangster?

Therefore, he continued, "He is a gangster! However, the Snake Gang has many people, and there are all kinds of people in the gang."

"Who is stronger than Cheng Dazhi's Axe Gang?" Li Hong asked curiously.

"Their strength is not enough to go up and down," Yan Zhuang explained. "They and the Hong Gang in Chang'an City are called the three major gangs in Chang'an City."

"It seems that this Wu Er is really not simple. Behind him, there must be children of aristocratic families or nobles. Otherwise, with his identity, how could the little snake gang be strong enough to compete with the Axe gang formed by noble children like Cheng Dazhi?" Li Hong said in contemplation.

Yan Zhuang suddenly thought of something and asked carefully, "Your Highness said that there must be a problem with the tax revenue of Wu Er and the East and West cities?"

"Yes." Li Hong said affirmatively.

If he had doubted whether Wu Er and Wei Ling had a close relationship with Dongxi and City taxes, now that he had learned about Wu Er's background, he could be sure that Wu Er was indeed related to Dongxi and City taxes.

"What should we do now? Should we send someone to keep an eye on him? Or should we arrest him immediately for interrogation?" Yan Zhuang asked. He had no worries about a "little gangster", and he didn't mind being rude to him.

"He is the leader of the Snake Gang. There are tens of thousands of children from the Snake Gang. There are all kinds of people in all kinds of religions. It is a bit difficult for you to send someone to keep an eye on him. If he finds out, he will still be alarmed. If he will arrest him and interrogate him, it will only make the people who support him behind him become suspicious." Li Hong vetoed.

Then he pondered for a moment, and suddenly said with a smile, "Since he is a gangster, let us let the gangster deal with him, so that it will not arouse others' suspicion, and we can also take the opportunity to capture and interrogate him and let him speak out the truth."

"Does Your Highness want Cheng Dazhi's Axe Gang to take action?" Yan Zhuang suddenly understood the prince's meaning.

Li Hong nodded and said, "There must be a battle between the three major gangs. We let the Axe Gang deal with the Snake Gang and let Cheng Dazhi deal with Wu Er. Who would think too much about the fight between gangsters? Then you can send someone to Cheng Dazhi and wait for an opportunity to catch Wu Er and interrogate him."

Yan Zhuang was immediately overjoyed. This method is good!

"You go and tell Cheng Dazhi now, let him arrange his time at dusk, and we will go out to see it when the time comes." Li Hong ordered.

The prince was going to leave the palace again, or to watch the fight between the gangsters. Yan Zhuang couldn't imagine if this was spread to the emperor, would he be furious and punished the prince. If it was spread to the censors, would they impeach the prince again? Therefore, he wanted to stop it, but as soon as the words of advice came to his mouth, he noticed that the prince was staring at him with a cold look. Yan Zhuang did not say it, but bowed to accept the order and said, "Promise!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!