Chapter 10 Prince Mingzhou
The carriage moved forward steadily. Since getting on the carriage, Xuanmingzhou kept his eyes closed and resting. He was happy without talking and the moon set. He lay alone on the window and looked at the street outside.
The city is upright, with many people on the streets and the carriages are not slow, but because the pedestrians on the road are avoiding each other in time, it is unexpected that there is no congestion.
The moon suddenly smiled.
"What's wrong?" Xuan Mingzhou opened his eyes and asked in a gentle tone.
"Nothing", Yue Luo smiled and shook her head, "It just suddenly felt like she had become a fox."
"Fox?" Xuan Mingzhou was puzzled.
"The prince's carriage is extraordinary and the people give way to the road when they see it. Yue Luo enjoys convenience. Wouldn't he become a fox that relies on the prince's power?" Yue Luo explained with a smile.
Xuan Mingzhou was stunned for a moment, understood, and smiled, "The fox is pretending to be a tiger's power! Haha, it's interesting, it's really interesting."
He said several interesting things in a row, and his eyebrows were really curved into the curve of the crescent moon.
Yue Luo was dazzled by his bright smile and stood there in a daze. Since she entered Dongqi, she has seen all kinds of smiles: flattering, insidious, erratic, cautious... But none of them had such a smile, as gentle as the spring breeze in March, and as dazzling as the scorching sun in June.
Even she herself hasn't laughed like this for a long time.
Yue Luo withdrew his gaze, but found that the Seventeenth Master opposite was also looking at her. The two looked at each other and each made a big blushing face. In order to cover up the embarrassment, Yue Luo had to close her eyes and lean against the car wall to pretend to sleep, but unexpectedly showed a small piece of red earlobe. Xuan Mingzhou smiled and said nothing. He continued to close his eyes and rest, but a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Maybe the people in the East Palace and Tong Jia were really tired. Yue Luo was really asleep while pretending to be on the wall of the car, but she couldn't sleep well. She felt that the car was gradually slowing down, and she was confused and heard the gentle voice of Master Shiqi in a daze.
"What's going on?"
"Is it the emperor brother?"
"oh."
Yue Luo immediately lost all sleepiness. Seeing that Master Shiqi was still talking to someone, she lifted up the curtain of the car and looked out. She saw rows of soldiers holding weapons and wearing armor passing by the car. Yue Luo was not careful of the dust brought by the soldiers' feet for a while and coughed.
"Cough cough cough..." So the whole carriage was filled with her coughing sound. Because there were many parts of the body that were involved in the cough, Yue Luo felt that the blood from the wound on her feet seemed to be flowing even more happily.
A jade-like tea cup was handed over by a slender and jade-like hand. The cold water entered the throat to relieve the discomfort caused by foreign objects. Yue Luo looked up and handed over the tea with the person who smiled gratefully, "Thank you, Prince."
Xuanmingzhou naturally took the empty teacup in her hand and said lightly, "No obstacle."
His fingertips were slightly chilling when they brushed by, but Yue Luo didn't care. Her mind was full of a group of soldiers who had just passed by, but it was not how the war would be so mobilized. She asked her doubts in her heart.
"Prince, are you just changing your defenses in the city gate? Why are there so many soldiers passing by?"
"Oh, that's not." Xuan Mingzhou frowned slightly, adding a bit of melancholy to his image as an exiled immortal who was not in the world. He slowly said, "It's the city lockdown order."
"City Closing Order?" Yue Luo was shocked, but heard him sighing, "City Closing Order completely blocked the people who fled from Xuzhou from the capital. The refugees left their hometowns and rushed to the capital but were turned away. What did the people think?"
His voice was full of sympathy and helplessness. Now the emperor claims to be sick and the prince is in charge of the country. Although he is the prince's brother, in the face of absolute power, what can he say, a idle prince without power?
City lockdown order?
The city lockdown order!
Yue Luo's hand slowly clenched into fists. The order to lock down the city completely disrupted her initial layout. Refugees could not enter Beijing, and public opinion could not be reached. Could it be that all her initial efforts were in vain? Should she watch Xu Qian, who exploited the people's wealth, continue to harm the people's livelihood?
Yue Luo's mind was already in chaos, and even no one knew how Luo Yuelou went back.
After the city lockdown order was set, her plan could only be temporarily put on hold. It was just when Yue Luo was having a headache, Luo Yue Tower welcomed someone who gave her even more headache.
Yue Luo looked at the Lord Jingzhao Yin Qiyun in front of him, who was snot and tears, and felt pain in his feet, headaches and whole body.
"Master, please show your kindness to save the lower officials! The right prime minister clearly ordered the lower officials to thoroughly investigate the murder case in Yunyin Temple within ten days, otherwise they would come to see him. Who wouldn't know that the Lord Ming Xiang had spoken, it's hard to guarantee that the emperor's intention. Five days have passed, and the lower officials still have no clue at all, so he asked the lower officials to come to your door." After saying that, he cried even more sadly.
Yue Luo only found it funny, but still said seriously, "Mr. Qi, I, Jieyou Pavilion, have never participated in the affairs of the court. How can you make an exception for you?"
When Qi Yunlai heard this, he seemed to feel that her words were loose, and he even stepped up his efforts to persuade him, "Master, how can this be considered a matter in the court?" He became sad again when he said this, "Master, you also know how fast the rumors in this capital are spreading. In just a few days, all the sayings of strange powers and chaos have been spread. The people in the capital are now in panic. If there is any Cambodian's consultation doctor participating in the upper and lower officials' titles, then the lower officials will really not see the sun tomorrow. Master, you must save the lower officials!"
Yue Luo didn't know if he was crying or fake when he saw him. Anyway, he was quite like that. But as for this case, she said casually, "Since that's the case, Lord Qi must also know the rules of Jieyou Pavilion..."
Before the Yuelu finished speaking, Qi Yunlai immediately said, "Dongdongdong, I don't know what the Pavilion Master has to ask. Even if I lose everything, I will definitely be satisfied."
Yue Luo said slowly again, "Xieyou Pavilion has always been fair, no more or less, only a hundred taels of gold."
A hundred taels of gold!
When Qi Yunlai heard this, he opened his mouth and thought, why don’t you rob it, but the words you have to swallow. He could still weigh the difference between his life and the yellow and white things. He could still make a profit if he had no money. If he had no life, he would really have nothing.
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and said, "Finish! Then go back now. After sorting out all the files and rewards related to this case, he will send them to you immediately."
Yue Luo smiled and said, "Sir Qi walk slowly."
As soon as Qi Yunlai left, Yuyan and Yuzhu, who were holding the plate that changed the medicine for Yueluo, walked in one after another. After the two saluted, Yuzhu muttered, "Mr. Qi's hand-off manager is comfortable, and Yue Niang is really kind."
"Everyone knows whether Qi Yunlai is an iron rooster, or whether Yue Niang has the ability to pull out the iron rooster." Yuyan didn't care about this, as long as she knew that she had money to make a fortune.
"Money is important, no matter how important it is, life is not important. It's not that Qi Yun is not stupid, so you can naturally be clear."
Yuzhu didn't do anything serious. When he applied the medicine, Yue Luo let out a "hiss" in pain, and said angrily at Yuzhu who was applying medicine to her, "Be gentle."
Yuzhu playedfully stuck out her tongue, "I know."
"Oh, by the way," Yue Luo said to Yuyan beside him, "You will be welcome to the people transported by Qi later, and the gold will be distributed to the common people who fled from Xuzhou."
When Yuyan heard this, she felt a pity for the fact that the gold that had already reached her mouth had flown again, but it was a great thing to accumulate virtue and blessings, benefit the country and the people.
She nodded, thought for a while and asked, "When Xuzhou disaster relief, Yue Niang did good things in the name of the prince, so who is this time?"
Yue Luo pondered for a while and did good deeds in the name of the prince that day, one was for the sake of convenience, and the other was that she also had the idea of taking the opportunity to make friends with the prince. Of course, she did indeed successfully attract the attention of the prince.
However, in the few contacts with the prince, she already knew that she and the prince were not the same. The prince just wanted to hold the position of crown prince and had no ambitions in the world. Even if the foreign policy adopted after ascending the throne was mostly an alliance with Xijing, then this was contrary to her original intention. If the way was different and they did not plan, the prince's path would probably not work, but she could not break up with the prince at present.
"No," she shook her head, "This time, we will use our Luoyue Tower's own name. Besides, I have already attended the banquet at the East Palace. Luoyue Tower has more or less related to the prince in the eyes of others. It will be convenient no matter how you say it, and it can also create a good image of Luoyue Tower dedicated to charity."
Yuyan nodded and said yes. She has always been unconditionally obedient to Yue Niang. Although Yue Niang is young, her eyes are much better than those who have lived for most of her life.
Yue Luo closed her eyes tiredly. She seemed to be resting in her mind, but she was sorting out the clues in her mind. After all, too many things happened in just a few days, which made her who had always been strategizing a little overwhelmed: Xuzhou famine refugees went to Beijing, local officials were killed, Ministry of Revenue corruption case, King Chen also followed by military power seized, Yunyin Temple murder case, etc., which made her vaguely feel that they seemed to be related to each other, but she couldn't tell the specific connection between them.
It was just when she was having a headache, but she heard Yuzhu talking to herself, "Mr. Qi is also a good skill. She can still think of our Jieyou Pavilion at this time, but that's the case. After all, only we can save him in this situation."
It was a word that woke up the dreamer. Yue Luo suddenly opened her eyes and continued her words, "But he was able to find me and express his worries to me."
"Yes," Yuyan said in surprise. Qi Yunlai was really too skillful to do this, but based on her grasp of the life information of the officials in the capital, she could not think of this idea based on her IQ alone, because she was afraid that there was guidance from her master behind her.
Of course, Yue Luo could think of this level, and her back felt a little chilling. She felt a hand that was secretly promoting the development of these events. Even this person had forgotten about it, but she could not see the ultimate goal of this person.
At this time, a maid came in to report, "The shopkeeper asked me to report to the poster, Qi Yunlai came with his things."
Yue Luo nodded and waved her maid back, and said to Yuyan, "Go, remember to ask who gave him this idea, and if he wants a order to leave the city, if he asks, you can just let him know the connection between Luoyue Tower and Jieyou Pavilion." She thought for a while and said, "This little thing is nothing if I helped him so much."
Yuyan took the order and left.
Yue Luo leaned on the cushion tiredly, and Yuzhu knew that she was upset and quietly retreated out. Yue Luo was the only one left in the huge room.
Since returning from the Eastern Palace, people would send some small things to the other side every now and then. Some were as precious as the original works of Zhang Xiandao, a court painter of the previous dynasty, and some were just some exquisite ornaments. However, these things were all retreated intact by Yue Luo. However, the prince was not angry and continued to send them, and Yue Luo had to retreat constantly.
Prince Qi also sent someone to greet him, but what puzzled her most was King Chen. After returning from the Eastern Palace that day, Prince Chen sent someone to send a bottle of golden sore medicine. Although Yue Luo felt embarrassed, he saw the wound on his feet. Even so, why did he have to do this and pretend that he didn't see it. Isn't it more in line with each other's identities?
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