Chapter 18: Go back to the palace, don't go back to the palace?
Ning Chen thought about it, and felt that it was indispensable to go back to the palace now, and the eldest grandson was angry, so he didn't go back now to find a fight. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Suddenly, Ning Chen remembered what Li'er had told him two days ago, rolled his eyes, walked in front of Lime, and whispered, "Sister Lime, tell you something."
Lime frowned and said, "Say"
Ning Chen leaned into the lime's ear, smelled the aroma of the latter's body, and said a few words seriously after collecting the messy thoughts in his heart.
"This is true," Lime said with a solemn expression.
"One hundred percent" Ning Chen nodded and confirmed.
"Okay, I'll go back and report first, as for your request, I can't call the shots, it depends on the mother's meaning"
The stakes are very high, Lime was about to rush back to the palace, took two steps, but stopped again, glanced at Ning Chen, and warned: "Stay here and don't think about running"
"Definitely, definitely" Ning Chen nodded hurriedly, pretending to be obedient, but he was thinking in his heart, should he run away quickly, waiting for the will of the eldest grandson seemed too unreliable.
Lime left, and Ning Chen pulled the already wooden pear on the side and walked to the back hall.
"Who the hell are you?" Li'er broke away from Ning Chen's hand and took two steps back with red eyes.
"Be quiet" Ning Chen looked left and right, and said cautiously.
"Don't take me for a fool, that girl knows at a glance that she is not an ordinary person, and you have repeatedly mentioned the word Niangniang, don't tell me this is a name" As she spoke, tears fell from Li'er's eyes, and she couldn't stop it.
Ning Chen has no tricks, he can't watch the little girl crying on the street, it's too beastly, and in desperation, he can only talk about what happened from his entry into the palace to his exit from the palace.
Of course, he hid everything about the fake eunuch and Du Chengxue, and euphemistically "retouched" the process of entering the palace, and he couldn't say anything about running away, running away was said to be ordered to leave the palace, but he didn't dare to go back.
It's not that he deliberately conceals it, but these things are not just about him, and once the East Window incident happens, no one in the know will end well.
"Then how did she go back by herself just now," Li'er asked with a sob, sobbing and forgetting that she was still angry.
Ning Chen touched the little girl's head and said softly, "Didn't you tell me two days ago that the envoy of the True Pole Kingdom gave Great Xia a problem, and I proposed to exchange the answer for a grace to leave the palace."
In the end, Ning Chen was in a bad mood, and the feeling that his fate was not in his own hands was unacceptable, but the reality was that he was far from being able to control his future now.
"You really solved the problem of the envoy of the True Polar Kingdom?"
Li'er didn't hear the helplessness in Ning Chen's words, but she was very surprised by this answer, in her opinion, the problem posed by the envoy of the True Pole Kingdom was simply impossible to do.
Ning Chen cleaned up his mood, smiled lightly, and replied, "There are no perfect people and things in the world, anything that is perfect is a scam waiting to be cracked, and the problem of the envoy of the True Pole Kingdom seems to have no solution, but in fact it is full of loopholes, and everyone can do it."
"I can't even do it," Li'er pouted, unwillingly.
"That's you're stupid," Ning Chen quipped with a smile.
The envoy of the Zhenji Kingdom came to Daxia, and after nearly half a month, he explained that the purpose of this trip was to ask the lord of the Zhenji Kingdom to marry a princess of Daxia.
Originally, it was not a big deal, there were many women of the right age in the royal family, generally as long as Emperor Xia named the princess to marry her, however, the envoy of the Zhenji Kingdom required that the person who married must be the princess of Emperor Xia, which is no longer a trivial matter.
Emperor Xia has a lot of children, but there is only one princess to be married, that is the ninth princess Xia Xinyu, the imperial concubine died after giving birth to the ninth princess, a son and a daughter are young and helpless, and the eldest grandson can't bear it, so he raised the two himself and has always regarded them as his own.
Xia Xinyu has just turned 16 this year, inheriting the stunning appearance of the imperial concubine, and she is slim and elegant, which can be described as the most brilliant pearl in Daxia.
The request of the envoy of the True Pole Kingdom made Emperor Xia angry, but he was a little helpless in addition to his anger.
Now that Great Xia is in serious trouble, the ancient Mongolian royal court in the north may send troops at any time, and the Eternal Night Divine Cult in the west is always waiting for the opportunity to get involved in the Central Plains again.
What made Emperor Xia even more unbearable was that while the envoy of the Zhenji Kingdom begged for marriage, he also proposed to let Emperor Xia cede Bai Ruoyuan on the border between the two countries as a dowry for the princess.
Everyone knows that Bai Ruoyuan is the most important source of iron ore in Great Xia, and the iron ore used in the weapons and armor of the Great Xia soldiers comes from here.
Emperor Xia naturally would not agree and categorically refused.
Of course, the envoy of the True Pole Kingdom would not be stupid enough to think that Emperor Xia would agree to such an impertinent request, and his purpose was not here.
After some bargaining, the two sides each took a step back, and the envoy of the True Pole Kingdom proposed to gamble with 20,000 war horses, and there were three difficult problems about courage, wisdom and luck, Great Xia lost, and there was no need to cede Bai Ruoyuan, but Bai Ruoyuan had to be given up the right to use it for three years.
The envoy of the True Pole Kingdom used the method of retreat at the right time, grasping the weakness of Great Xia's reluctance to go to war easily, and deliberately taking the gambling contract to the whole world, in order to put pressure on Great Xia, as long as the advance and retreat were appropriate, Great Xia had to compromise.
As expected, Emperor Xia agreed, and at the same time added a condition, if the Zhenji Kingdom gambled and lost, the choice of the princess to marry must be decided by Da Xia.
The envoys of the True Pole Kingdom had no objection to this, their purpose was Bai Ruoyuan, and as for asking for the princess, it was just an excuse to ask for Bai Ruoyuan.
Emperor Xia also has his own considerations, the reason why Great Xia is so jealous of the Northern Mongolian Royal Court is that ninety percent of the reason is because of the iron cavalry of the Northern Mongolian Royal Court, although Great Xia is strong, but it has a fatal weakness.
There are no horses in Great Xia!
It's not that there are no ordinary horses, but there are no war horses, the Northern Mongolian royal court lives on nomadic herding, the folk customs are fierce, can ride and shoot well, its unique sweat and blood horse is a rare breed, the production rate of war horses is extremely high, and Daxia is much worse in this regard, the war horse battle rate is not one in ten, and the number is very tight.
20,000 war horses are almost half of the storage of the True Pole Kingdom, and it will be a big relief to the shortage of war horses in Great Xia.
It's just that what Xia Huang didn't expect was that in just the first round of the courage contest, Da Xia would be defeated.
It's not that Great Xia lacks loyal and brave people, but the problem of the envoy of the True Pole Kingdom is simply not something that ordinary people can do.
Boiling oil to take the needle, and the person who takes the needle must be decided by the other party.
It's not a matter of courage, because no one can pick up an embroidery needle as thin as a hair with a wasted hand.
The courtiers of Great Xia had tried countless times, but it was simply impossible to do it.
There is no shortage of smart people in Great Xia, and they have also tried to add water, wine, and even vinegar to the oil, but in the end they failed.
The envoy of the True Pole Kingdom only gave Daxia three days, and tomorrow was the deadline, so Lime hurriedly returned to the palace after getting Ning Chen's promise.
In the Weiyang Palace, the matter of the eldest grandson being the envoy of the Zhenji Kingdom for two days and two nights has not closed his eyes, and when he saw Lime coming back, he was not in the mood to ask about Ning Chen.
It was the first time that Qing Lime had seen the eldest grandson since he left the palace five days ago, and after seeing the haggard face of the eldest grandson, he couldn't bear it in his heart, knowing what the eldest grandson was worried about, he stepped forward to tell Ning Chen what he said.
"Bang"
After hearing this, the eldest grandson slapped the table suddenly, raised his eyebrows angrily, and said sharply, "What time is it, he is still telling me the conditions, go and bring him back, if he resists, he will be knocked out and brought back."
"Yes"
Lime replied, did not dare to delay, and immediately set off towards Lingyan Pavilion.
At the same time, in the Lingyan Pavilion, Yue Hanyi came directly to the back hall after coming back, found Ning Chen, and said that he came for the soap making method.
Ning Chen looked at Li'er on the side, surprised and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel complicated and indescribable.
"I won't say it" Ning Chen refused without hesitation, and there was no room for discussion.
"One percent of the profits belong to the son," Yue Hanyi promised seriously.
Ning Chen was unmoved, silent.
"Two percent"
"Sancheng"
Seeing that Ning Chen was still indifferent, Yue Hanyi frowned, and said in a deep voice, "Forty, it can't be more"
Ning Chen smiled coldly and said word by word, "It's still that sentence, I won't say it!"
Yue Hanyi's eyes narrowed first, then smiled with relief, and said softly, "Since the son is unwilling, the little girl can't be reluctant."
On the side, Li'er was secretly anxious, she couldn't figure out why Ning Chen was so stubborn, and secretly pulled the corner of Yuehan's clothes, her eyes full of pleading.
Yue Hanyi sighed and said, "I know that Childe has a lot of opinions about Hanyi, if the little girl didn't guess wrong, Childe should think that Lingyan Pavilion has trapped the freedom of these women, so his attitude towards Hanyi will change a lot."
"It's just that Gongzi can know how many fireworks there are in the imperial city, and how many slave women there are, compared to the Lingyan Pavilion, they can at least choose whether to sell their bodies."
Speaking of this, Yue Hanyi glanced at Li'er, a touch of pity flashed on her beautiful face, and continued, "Like Li'er, who has been sold into the land of fireworks since she was a child, she is helpless, where can she go when she leaves Lingyan Pavilion?"
Li'er's eyes were red, she walked up to Ning Chen, pulled the latter's arm, and apologized timidly: "I'm sorry, I just want you to reconcile with Sister Yi, that's why I gave the soap to Sister Yi."
"Pear, I'm not angry"
Ning Chen raised his hand and rubbed the little girl's hair, then looked up at Yue Hanyi and said, "I can give you the soap making method, and it's not the kind you know from Li'er, but the real soap making method, but I have a request."
Hearing this, Yue Hanyi and Li'er were shocked, especially Yue Hanyi, she had seen a lot more than Li'er, and naturally knew how valuable the soap was.
"Don't be surprised, that bar of soap is just used to make pears happy, it's okay to do it, if you do it in large quantities, there will be a lot of problems that can't be solved"
After speaking, Ning Chen talked about the real method of making soap again, including how to burn quicklime with stones, then make slaked lime, and then refine caustic soda from this, and finally make soap from caustic soda and lard.
Seeing this situation, Ning Chen asked for paper and pen, wrote down the production process in detail, and added diagrams where necessary, and immediately handed it to Yue Hanyi.
After watching it for a long time, Yue Hanyi finally roughly understood the mystery, and couldn't help sighing, "Childe is really a strange person"
"False name"
"Childe is too modest"
"You're welcome"
Although he was modest, Ning Chen's head was about to rise to the sky, which meant that you praised me, continue to praise me!
Yue Hanyi looked funny, in the end she was still a young man, and after being awkward, she was stupid and a little cute.
"Ning Chen, go, follow me back to the palace"
At this moment, a cold figure walked over, and it was only a few steps before it came to him, grabbed Ning Chen's shoulder, and left......