When Li Qi came to the East Palace again the next day, he quickly found a few young eunuchs to come over, taught them how to play table tennis, and asked them to play with the prince, while he himself chatted with the eunuch in charge of the East Palace not far away.
Heaven.
"Eunuch Zhao, it's not easy for you to serve the prince for so many years," Li Qi said.
Eunuch Zhao didn't dislike Li Shidu either. The main reason was that Li Qi had no airs and was always willing to reward him with money.
On weekdays, he would also share some of the things that the prince was happy to reward him with everyone.
Therefore, Eunuch Zhao almost regarded Li Qi as one of his own, and the two of them talked about almost everything on weekdays.
"What did Li Shidu say? As slaves, it is natural for us to serve His Highness. There is no hard work or not," said Eunuch Zhang.
"Eunuch-in-law is talking about..." Li Qi smiled and stuffed a banknote in his hand, "Eunuch-in-law Zhao, I want to ask you something."
Eunuch Zhao moved a step forward, stuffed Li Qi's banknote quietly into his sleeve and said, "Li Shidu, just ask whatever you want to ask, and I will answer everything you know."
"When did the crown prince establish the crown princess?" Li Qi asked.
Eunuch Zhao said: "It was only a few months ago that the emperor personally approved this marriage."
"You mean the prince?"
Eunuch Zhao smiled and said: "Of course not, the prince is not very interested in women. The prince has been in the East Palace for so long, and he has never spent the night with the prince..."
"Who does that mean?" Li Qi asked.
"It was Princess Lu who suggested it... This Crown Princess was originally a distant relative of Princess Lu." Speaking of this, Eunuch Zhao pursed his lips and said with a smile, "As the saying goes, good things don't flow to outsiders. Everyone knows what Princess Lu means when she does this.
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Li Qi nodded thoughtfully: "You just said that the Crown Prince has never spent the night with the Crown Princess, which means they haven't..."
Before he could finish speaking, Eunuch Zhao quickly made a "hush" gesture at him: "Li Shidu, there are some things we can't say nonsense..."
Then Eunuch Zhao made a sign on his neck: "If you talk nonsense, you will be beheaded."
"That's what my father-in-law said."
"In the future, you must never mention this in front of the prince. The prince has never liked women. He only wants to dance with guns and sticks..."
Eunuch Zhao changed the topic as he spoke: "After all, the prince is still young. When he is older, it will be different when he tastes the love between a man and a woman..."
Li Qi looked at Eunuch Zhao in shock and said in his heart: It sounds like you understand it very well...
"Li Shidu!"
Jiang Qian put down the club in his hand and shouted.
Li Qi hurried over: "Your Highness, are you looking for me?"
"It's boring. Their football skills are too bad. You should come and play with me." Jiang Qian said.
Li Qi smiled and said, "Okay, Your Highness."
As he said that, he took a club and was about to tee off when Jiang Qian said again: "Don't let me go, otherwise it will be too boring."
Li Qi rolled his eyes and said, "Your Highness, how about we add some bonuses? It would be fun to play like this."
"What jackpot?"
"Such as silver?"
Jiang Qian smiled and said: "Okay, let's bet money. Your monthly salary is only fifteen taels of silver, so how about we just give you one tael of silver per game?"
Grandma's, one tael of silver?
This young master has spent almost tens of thousands of taels of silver to come here to serve as an attendant. Now you can play a game of billiards with me for just one tael of silver?
How is it possible if I don't get something from you?
"Your Highness, to be honest, I have run some small businesses outside and I still have some money..."
Jiang Qian reacted quickly and said with a smile: "You still think it's too little? OK, how much money can you say for a round?"
"Since we want to play, let's play something big. How about one thousand taels per game?" Li Qi said with a smile.
When Jiang Qian heard this number, he was stunned for a moment.
Although he is not short of money and has saved hundreds of thousands of taels, he knows that one thousand taels is not a small amount for ordinary people.
It seems that Li Shidu is really not short of money!
"A thousand taels is a thousand taels. When the time comes, Li Shidu must not admit defeat." Jiang Qian laughed.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, I am willing to admit defeat, little man."
"Okay, let's get started."
Li Qi's billiards skills were all developed in high school, playing billiards in a billiards hall near the school. At that time, he earned the money for his first computer by playing billiards.
Although I haven’t played for so long, my consciousness and skills are still there.
How long has Jiang Qian been exposed to billiards?
Hitting him is not just for fun.
In order to prevent Jiang Qian from losing too badly, Li Qi also deliberately let the opponent down and won by a narrow margin every time.
Seeing that he has almost won, he will lose a few games and go back.
This back and forth, at the end of the day, Li Qi won more than 30,000 taels from the prince!
For several days in a row, Li Qi made money every day, ranging from a few thousand taels to tens of thousands of taels.
Every time he won, he would take some out and distribute them to the eunuchs and maids in the East Palace. Anyway, everyone who saw them had a share.
It is said that after the Taifu was beaten back by Li Qi that day, he was in a very depressed mood.
When he returned home, he looked around for people to find out whether Li Qi's poems that came out of his mouth were written by him. After asking for a long time, he got the answer that he had never heard of those poems.
The more he got this kind of reply, the more depressed he felt.
Think about it, I have read poetry and books for so many years, but I am not even as good as a child with a yellow mouth?
He couldn't figure it out at first, but he read Li Qi's poems every day, and the more he read, the resentment he felt in his heart gradually faded away.
Because he found that these poems were so good that he could not help but admire them.
On this day, he decided to put down his attitude and ask the attendant for advice.
But who would have known that as soon as he entered the East Palace, he saw a large group of eunuchs and maids surrounding the courtyard, each one of them clapping and cheering, looking like a noisy crowd.
He frowned and leaned over to take a look. He saw the prince and the attendant gathered around a table, poking around on the table with a stick.
As soon as he saw this scene, he immediately became angry and muttered: "This is nonsense!"
Then he lost all thought of asking for advice, waved his sleeves and turned around to leave.
Li Qi and Jiang Qian didn't know all this, and they still fought happily.
At first, it was just two people betting against each other. Later, in order to let everyone participate, Li Qi opened a handicap. Eunuchs and maids could buy the winning or losing, and the compensation would be proportional.
After everyone participated in the game, the passion for watching the game became more intense, and everyone cheered harder.
"Your Highness, you can definitely do it!" a eunuch shouted at the top of his lungs.
Jiang Qian was also determined not to admit defeat. He picked up the cue, took aim at it for a long time, and then hit it out, but unfortunately he still missed it a little.
Li Qi smiled and said: "Your Highness, are you too serious about your betrayal? Since Your Highness rewards a villain, you are welcome..."
When Heiba entered the hole, Li Qi looked at Jiang Qian with a smile.
Jiang Qian looked helpless, sighed, and threw a handful of banknotes on the table: "I won't play anymore, it's boring."