Sheng Tang: What is Liu Jianjun going to do today?

Chapter 134 My Partners: Taiping, Xianzi, and Junzi

On the Luo River, there were still some fishermen returning late, rowing their small boats, shaped like crescent moons, through the evening glow.

Some waterbirds flew to the tips of the moon, stopped, and then Li Xian saw little people emerge from the moon, grab the waterbirds by the neck, and pull out hope from them.

Liu Jianjun said, "Good heavens, do the water birds here also clean their throats like this?"

Li Xian chuckled to himself; Liu Jianjun had never been so clueless about romance.

Suddenly, Taiping's exclamation came. Li Xian turned around and saw her squatting among some water plants, holding a small, unidentified purple flower, and then smiling at Li Xian.

Li Xian instantly understood her meaning, handed the reins of Jinghong to Liu Jianjun, then hurried over, placed the small purple flower in Taiping's hair, and praised with a smile: "My princess deserves the most beautiful hairpin in the world."

Liu Jianjun then walked over in a very unromantic way, looking terrified: "Wait... is your horse a mare? Why is it rubbing against my horse?!"

Li Xian turned his head away in annoyance.

Then he took the reins from Taiping, grabbed the reins of Jinghong and Liu Jianjun's horse, walked to a nearby rock, and skillfully put the reins on.

Liu Jianjun was also worried that Jinghong and the others would break free of their reins.

But Li Xian said, "They are intelligent and don't actually need to be covered with stones."

After doing all this, Li Xian walked back to Taiping's side, untied his boots, threw them forcefully into the center of the Luo River, and then, imitating Taiping, stepped into the Luo River.

It was a little cold.

"Taiping, I am very happy to see you."

“Me too.” Taiping nodded, but then lowered his head somewhat forlornly and said, “Brother Wang, don’t you think… if everything were like it was when we were children, wouldn’t that be wonderful?”

Liu Jianjun also came over. He carefully placed the boots aside and muttered, "These leather boots could be pawned for a hundred or so coins!"

"Then let's feed these hundred or so coins to the fish."

Li Xian suddenly laughed and spoke, and before Liu Jianjun could react, he snatched his boots and threw them into the middle of the water.

Liu Jianjun was dumbfounded.

But Li Xian laughed smugly: "What kind of playboy is Wu Youji! When I was being ridiculous, he was still following behind me, leading my horse!"

This time, Liu Jianjun's eyes lit up: "Yes, yes, yes! I want this kind of absurdity! I really want to go and be absurd!"

Princess Taiping glanced at the two grown men with a displeased look, then suddenly rested her chin on her hands, a gesture that made her cheeks bulge out to the sides, making her look quite adorable. However, her tone was very downcast as she said, "Li Dan is imprisoned in a side hall by the Empress Dowager, Li Xian has been exiled to Fangzhou by the Empress Dowager, and you are in Chang'an. The whole of Luoyang is so boring."

"The Empress Dowager has been changing more and more these days, she..."

Taiping pursed her lips and didn't continue speaking. Suddenly, she looked at Li Xian and said, "Fortunately, Brother Wang is still Brother Wang!"

Li Xian wanted to comfort his younger sister, but Liu Jianjun suddenly interrupted, his tone very serious: "Taiping, have you noticed anything different?"

Taiping glanced at Liu Jianjun in surprise, then looked at Li Xian with a questioning look.

Li Xian simply nodded.

Suddenly, Taiping understood something, threw herself into Li Xian's arms, and burst into tears.

"Brother Wang...I...I'm so scared!"

Li Xian felt extremely conflicted, but he simply pulled Taiping closer to him.

After a long while, Taiping finally raised her head with teary eyes and looked at Li Xian, pleadingly asking, "Brother, what... what should I do?"

Li Xian didn't know how to answer him, but Liu Jianjun stared at Taiping's face for a while before suddenly saying, "Your elder brother is your father's eldest son, the eldest legitimate son." Taiping was taken aback.

But Liu Jianjun continued, "We need the treasonous identity temporarily, but we can overthrow it at any time if necessary."

Upon hearing this, Li Xian looked at Liu Jianjun with surprise.

“Wu Youji, do you think I only went drinking and whoring with him? Once I got him drunk and tricked him into revealing that Zhao Daosheng used to be his woman, but your mother took her away. He knew what happened when he saw Zhao Daosheng appear at your palace.”

Li Xian's eyes widened instantly.

But the shock Liu Jianjun gave him was far from over. He took out a bamboo tube from his pocket, with wooden stoppers at both ends. He pulled out one of the stoppers and took out a piece of paper with writing on it.

"This is the indenture Zhao Daosheng signed to Wu Youji. If I can't even get this to deal with a good-for-nothing like Wu Youji, then I'm even more useless than a good-for-nothing myself."

Li Xian snatched the paper from Liu Jianjun's hand in astonishment and glanced at it.

The document not only contains a description of Zhao Daosheng's appearance, but also his age, place of origin, and even the fingerprints he personally pressed.

With this, a treason case can be overturned on the spot!

Li Xian stammered, "Then... what if Wu Youji can't find this thing after you bring it here?"

“I asked him for this twice. The first time I asked, I took it back to the Prince’s mansion. The second time I asked, he couldn’t find it on him, so I pretended to find it on the ground.” At this point, Liu Jianjun smacked his lips and said, “I’m not saying this to be mean, but you people can’t even be stingy enough to make a modern indenture.”

"The indenture in Wu Youji's possession is exactly the same as the one held by someone in our Prince's Mansion!"

Li Xian couldn't help but chuckle. Instead of asking Liu Jianjun how he managed to get Zhao Daosheng's indenture from Wu Youji twice without being discovered, he asked, "Whose indenture did you replace Zhao Daosheng's with?"

"The prison is big."

A dark face instantly flashed into Li Xian's mind.

That face also had front teeth that were leaking air but were excessively white.

Taiping seemed to only then realize what was happening, pointing at Liu Jianjun in disbelief: "You...you..."

Li Xian smiled and said, "Taiping, let me formally introduce you. Liu Jianjun is my brother's... kind of an advisor, but I prefer to call him by a word he uses: partner."

Taiping opened his mouth wide, as if trying to figure out the connection.

But Liu Jianjun was right; Taiping was much smarter than him, and in a brief moment, he had already recovered from the shock.

She suddenly stared intently at Liu Jianjun and asked, "You don't have homosexuality, do you?"

Then, Li Xian saw Liu Jianjun suddenly open his mouth wide.

At this moment, Li Xian realized what an absurd question Taiping had asked, and looked at Taiping angrily, saying, "What nonsense are you thinking about!"

But this time, Taiping suddenly stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked against the current to the opposite side of Li Xian and Liu Jianjun.

Then, puffing out her chest, she proudly declared, "Then let me formally introduce myself!"

Li Xian and Liu Jianjun both watched Taiping with composure.

"I am Taiping, Xianzi's and Junzi's partner!"

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(End of this chapter)