When Lin Zhihuang heard what Li Rui said, he immediately wanted to talk to Li Rui. Since he was on the road and was not the place to talk, he put the topic aside for the time being and took her to the Denghu Inn where she stayed before.

Huang Qijin had been waiting at the Denghu Inn for a long time. He saw Lin Zhihuang and Liang Fengyuan returning with a strange girl from a distance, and immediately came to greet them.

Huang Qijin walked to Lin Zhihuang, saluted, and reported: "Master, the luggage in the inn has been packed, and Lady Wen Wu has just arranged to send it to Linfang Academy."

"Okay." Lin Zhihuang nodded.

Huang Qijin asked for instructions: "Do you want to rest for a while before returning to Boshan, or do you want to leave the city immediately? The carriage slave has made arrangements."

"Let's rest for a while and prepare a side room facing the street. I want to have some tea and snacks before leaving."

"Promise!" Huang Qijin respectfully accepted Lin Zhihuang's instructions and immediately went down to make arrangements.

Before leaving, Huang Qijin turned sideways and took a closer look at Li Rui, who was standing behind Lin Zhihuang with lowered eyebrows and obedient eyes. Seeing that he was not looking around and knew the etiquette very well, he didn't ask any more questions.

After a while, Lin Zhihuang took Liang Fengyuan and Li Rui to the inn box to rest and have tea.

As soon as Lin Zhihuang sat down, the emissary sent earlier to follow Li Zhuo and his son also happened to return. After informing him, he entered the wing where Lin Zhihuang was and reported to him the news he had just heard.

When listening to the envoy's reply, Lin Zhihuang did not avoid Li Rui.

After listening to the order and retreating, Lin Zhihuang picked up the tea on the table and drank it all in one gulp, then turned to look at Li Rui, who was standing aside with a low eyebrow.

After Li Rui learned that Li Mansion was being monitored, he didn't show any strange look on his face.

"As expected, your brother Li Zhuo was severely whipped with a cane by his mother."

Li Rui had a cheerful smile on his face: "Brother has caused a lot of trouble this time. I guess my mother won't let him go easily this time."

When Lin Zhihuang saw that Li Rui was not hiding his joy at Li Zhuo being whipped, he raised his eyebrows and asked: "It sounds like you brother and sister have a bad relationship. Are you trying to eliminate each other in front of me?"

When Li Rui heard Lin Zhihuang's question, he laughed generously and asked, "Your Highness, brother, what did he say about me in front of you?"

"A lot of thoughts lead to evil intentions."

Li Rui didn't panic at all when he heard this, and asked calmly and generously: "Brother said so, why did Your Highness still accept slaves?"

Lin Zhihuang did not answer, but asked with a smile: "Why don't you also evaluate your brother?"

Li Rui smiled and said: "Your Highness, I actually like my brother-in-law quite a bit."

"Oh?" Li Rui's several replies were beyond Lin Zhihuang's expectations, which made Lin Zhihuang completely interested in her.

Lin Zhihuang thought about his several meetings with Li Zhuo and asked with a smile: "What do you like about your brother?"

"I like him but don't make progress."

Lin Zhihuang couldn't help laughing.

Liang Feng, who was sitting next to Lin Zhihuang and drinking tea, had a smile on his face when he heard this.

After Lin Zhihuang laughed, he continued to ask: "Why?"

Li Ruiyue replied: "Because my brother is not motivated, I have the opportunity to learn a lot of things."

Then, Li Rui told Lin Zhihuang her experience in detail.

Li Rui's daughter-in-law was the dowry maid of her aunt, the Jiang family, and was very loyal to the Jiang family. Therefore, although Li Rui was born as a concubine, compared to other concubines, she was very proud in front of her eldest mother, the Jiang family.

Li Rui knew how to please her aunt, Ms. Jiang, from a young age, showing off her intelligence and loyalty without leaving any trace, which gradually made her aunt, Ms. Jiang, want to train her.

The concubine can be used, and she is not a threat to his brother Li Zhuo. After being trained, whether he marries off or finds a loyal person who is attached to the Li family, she can be Li Zhuo's help.

This is what Jiang's mother-in-law thinks, and Li Rui also knows clearly what Jiang thinks, and he uses his mother-in-law Jiang's thoughts to gain countless opportunities to gain access to all kinds of knowledge.

That's right, because Li Zhuo was unmotivated, all the knowledge that Li Zhuo should have learned for the heirs of the head of the family was accidentally taught by her, the concubine who was arranged by Jiang to accompany Li Zhuo and supervise his studies.

Female, learned thoroughly.

In the end, relying on his own talents, he won the respect of Li Yangfan, the head of the Li family, and was taken by his side. He had the opportunity to freely enter and exit the inner house, and wear men's clothes to go outside to manage affairs.

From the moment he left the inner house, Li Rui was like a sponge absorbing knowledge, trying hard to learn how to behave in the world, learning everything about the outside world, and his horizons gradually began to broaden.

When she was a child, Li Rui wanted to please her aunt just to make her life better. As she grew up and learned more knowledge, her thoughts gradually changed and she began to develop her own ego.

Li Rui didn't want his future life to be controlled by others, and he didn't want his life to revolve around his brother Li Zhuo, so he wanted to break away from the Li family.

She didn't want to just be the steward of the Li family. Even if she was the chief steward next to the family head, one person was inferior to ten thousand people in the Li family, this was not what she wanted.

The sky outside was so blue and vast, and she was unwilling to do so.

Of course, no matter how unwilling Li Rui was, she was still very grateful to her aunt, Mrs. Jiang, for nurturing her.

Li Rui would repay the kindness that her aunt, Chiang, had shown her, but no longer in the way that her aunt, Chiang, expected.

Li Rui didn't hide anything, and told Lin Zhihuang in detail about his planning and the inner journey of his growth.

"Your Highness, do you know... how shocked the slaves were when they heard that you stood up as a woman and personally led the army to attack Xue Qing?"

Speaking of this, Li Rui looked at Lin Zhihuang with undisguised fanatical admiration: "Ah...it turns out there is such a woman in the world..."

"It turns out that women can do this too!"

"Stand up in front of others, go to the center of the power struggle, and want to control the world!"

Lin Zhihuang chuckled when he heard this, and with a smile on his face, he waved to Li Rui, who was expressing his feelings passionately, to come forward.

Li Rui obediently moved forward in small steps.

Lin Zhihuang raised his hand and flicked Li Rui's forehead, and said jokingly: "Calm down, if you make your voice louder, people in the street will hear it."

Li Rui, who had expressed his feelings so vigorously just now, instantly blushed with embarrassment.

"Your Highness..."

"Want to be a slave?" Lin Zhihuang asked, looking into Li Rui's eyes.

Under Lin Zhihuang's smiling gaze, Li Rui could not tell a lie and shook his head: "Slave... I don't want to be a slave, especially not your slave."

Lin Zhihuang asked again: "What do you want to do?"

"I want to be your warrior, your counselor to open up new territories for you!" Li Rui looked at Lin Zhihuang with bright eyes and expressed his ambition.

Lin Zhihuang commented with a smile: "You are so generous and not formal."

Li Rui replied confidently: "Talented people don't have to be cautious."

"Nowadays, the world is in troubled times, and the princes are vying for hegemony. Who is not short of talents? You are a woman, so you will not look down on me as a woman. Why should I be cautious?"

"If I am too reserved, how can I show you my talents? How can I show you my calm demeanor when talking to others?"

"Your Highness, you may not realize that I have met you so many times in my dreams..."
Chapter completed!