Chonglan listened to her ask for evidence, and her heart had already sunk, but seeing her thoughtful appearance, her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly asked, "What is the method of the prison army?" ”

Jiang You covered his mouth with his hand, coughed lightly, twisted his body and sat back in his place, and said in a long tone: "Leave other things aside for the time being, it is not yet the time to settle accounts after the autumn, and the top priority now is to bring down the price of grain first."

Chonglan was puzzled, and asked cautiously: "Many officials in Yangzhou, led by the Hai Governor's Mansion, have made a fortune by raising the price of grain, and if the prison army wants to lower the price of rice, there will be many resistances."

Jiang You said: "It's to make him anxious so that he can show his feet." She raised two fingers: "The price of grain in Yangzhou is expensive, firstly, because of the collusion of officials and businessmen to raise grain prices, and secondly, because of the shortage of grain. ”

Chonglan realized this, and hurriedly said: "If there is anything I can help with the prison army, just ask." ”

Jiang You motioned for her to come over, and whispered a few words in her ear: "You go back first, and you will be there on time tomorrow." ”

Chonglan nodded knowingly, turned and retreated.

Jiang You thought of his own arrangement, and walked back and forth in the house a few times excitedly, and was about to call someone to prepare, when he saw Xue Yuan Shi Ran walk in: "The emperor has finished talking about things?" ”

Jiang You nodded, subconsciously wanting to ask for his opinion, but as if he didn't know what to think, the words turned to his lips again, and he covered his mouth and coughed lightly: "I will discuss with Chonglan, and I will handle this matter." ”

Xue Yuan glanced at her lightly: "Chonglan doesn't want to give Haixi as a concubine, so he is naturally keen on this matter, and the emperor should not be surprised by others to jump a few words and jump to conclusions." ”

Jiang You sank the corners of his mouth: "You even checked this?" She felt more and more now that Xue Yuan knew everything about her, but he knew very little about her.

Xue Yuan bent down and sat down: "It's not a difficult matter, besides, the steward of the Haifu specially came to us to inquire about the news, how could I not know?" As the weather warmed up in mid-April, he unbuttoned his collar to reveal his white neck, which was coveted by his beautiful lines.

Jiang You does not accept his citation. Lured, turned his eyes to look at the honeysuckle that crawled into the window: "Tomorrow I plan to summon the local squire and businessmen, and a few important people, then Haixi and you see that it is an old acquaintance, you can listen to it tomorrow, so don't show up." ”

Xue Yuan's eyes sank, but he smiled at her shallowly: "Is the emperor suspicious of the minister?" ”

Jiang You was stunned, she didn't want to rely on him all the time, as an emperor, she couldn't think about relying on others for everything, right? She hesitated for a moment, then walked over and put her hands on the back of his soft white hands: "Don't think about it, I don't doubt you, I just want to learn from the council by myself." ”

Xue Yuan sighed, slowly withdrew his hand, lowered his eyes and said indifferently: "The minister wants to go out for a walk." Then he got up, picked up and went out the door.

Jiang You looked at his empty hands in a daze, and only let out a long sigh after a while.

Xue Yuan went out but didn't know where to go, and didn't want to just turn back, in the afternoon, the sun was shining brightly, he frowned in annoyance, or Chengbei was considerate, and said with a waist: "The overseer hasn't eaten at noon, let's go to the snack street and taste the fresh food of Yangzhou." ”

In the past, he never liked to go to these places with heavy fireworks, but now he rarely wants to gain some popularity, so he nodded casually and said, "Just go anywhere." ”

Cheng Bei was about to call the sedan chair over as soon as he raised his hand: "Don't be so troublesome, let's just go around casually." ”

Cheng Bei bowed in response, raised his eyes and looked at his expression carefully, secretly wondering what was wrong with the overseer, it is said that any major family and country affairs will not make his face so ugly, since it is not a state matter, it must be a family matter. He looked up and said carefully, "Why do you have the leisure to hang out today?" ”

Xue Yuan glanced at him lightly, and Cheng Bei hurriedly shut up. The long street is not far from the post house where they live, walk a few steps to arrive, a street of food, the fragrance wafts out to make the mouth tongue relish, he looked down one by one, hibiscus dumplings bought a few, jade siu mai a few, he bought it but did not touch a mouthful, wrapped it in oil paper and let the Chengbei on the side carry it.

He stopped in front of a pot of steaming dumplings as he walked, and simply bought the food with the casserole, covered the bowl and let Cheng Bei hold it. Cheng Bei followed behind him bitterly: "It's okay for the slave to work hard, you be careful, don't let the heat flutter." ”

Xue Yuan didn't pay attention to him, and walked forward to buy cloud cakes, the white glutinous pastries were wrapped in lotus leaves, he smelled the fragrance, and the stall owner saw that he was just looking at it but didn't speak, so he picked up a piece very enthusiastically and wanted to give it to him: "You taste this, it melts in your mouth, it is sweet and delicate, and your teeth and cheeks are fragrant after eating." If there is a female dependent in the family, it is suitable to buy a piece and give it back to the wife to taste. ”

Cheng Bei opened his mouth to retort: "Sweet, which big man likes to eat this?" ”

Xue Yuan lowered his eyes and didn't know what he thought, and pointed to a few pieces that had just come out of the pot: "Wrap them all up." ”

The stall owner wrapped it for him happily, and he turned his head to see that Cheng Bei's two arms were full, so he simply pinched the hemp rope and carried it himself. Cheng Bei saw that he was taking things indecently, and took the initiative to stretch out his hand and said, "It's better to be a minion." Why don't you eat so much? ”

Xue Yuan said: "It's not for me, the emperor may love to eat, and she is also noon" He said half of his mouth and stopped suddenly.

Cheng Bei didn't realize it, and laughed twice: "It turned out to be bought for the emperor, and the emperor must be happy to see your intentions." ”

Even if it's her who goes out to hang out, it's not interesting to go any further, the thick-soled soap boots paused in place, and he turned around: "Go back." ”

After walking for a while to the post house, at this time the meal had passed, he ordered Chengbei to send things over, and was about to go back to his residence, but Lao Yuan saw that the meal was on the table in the main hall, she sat at the dining table with her cheeks back, Lao Yuan looked at herself, wanted to call him but didn't dare to be pitiful, he sighed in his heart, turned around and walked over: "The emperor hasn't eaten yet?" ”

Jiang You raised his eyes to look at him, and felt that he couldn't see anything, so he said carefully: "I didn't think that you haven't eaten yet, so I plan to wait for you to come back and use it." ”

Xue Yuanyi sat down and gave her a piece of crab roe tofu: "You can use it, don't be hungry." ”

Jiang You sighed, taking small bites, to say that he really has nothing to pick on her, although he teased her in a different way when he was not in the same place, when the two were really together, he only indulged and doted on her.

She poked the rice grains with chopsticks, and was thinking about how to tell him, when she heard his voice come faintly: "The emperor will summon important officials and businessmen from Yangzhou tomorrow, and I am not feeling well, so I will not accompany me." ”

Jiang You paused, not sure if he was happy or unhappy: "You don't have to be like this, you came to Yangzhou to deal with the matter of grain prices, so you don't need to deliberately avoid it." ”

Xue Yuan's eyes wandered around her face, and she didn't speak, she was bored with herself, so she could only honestly hold a bowl to eat, a meal was not boring, she went back to sleep listlessly, and the next day she also looked sad, and she barely refreshed after washing up.

She chose a very large garden to summon these officials and merchants, and she went very late today, so when she went there everyone was neatly done, she walked to the main seat and sat down slowly, looked around for a week, and asked, "Why didn't the prefect of the sea come?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, but everyone dared to talk, Jiang You sank his face slightly, she originally thought that she had solved this matter by herself, but she didn't expect that without Xue Yuanzhen, this person would dare to give her a majestic style, she folded her hands on her knees, and said lightly: "This official went south at the behest of the saint, and the saint specially gave the holy decree and the royal order flag in order to make the official act cheaper, but the official did not want to use it until the last resort, and asked you to make it convenient." ”

The people below probably didn't expect that she actually had a holy purpose in a prison army, and their faces were shocked, and some looked at each other a few times, and then ordered the people below to call people.

Jiang You quietly took in this qiē, and sure enough, after a while, Haixi hurried over and saluted her perfunctorily: "There are some things to deal with in this official mansion, and I hope that the prison army will not be blamed." He is a typical person who watches people cook, seeing that Xue Yuan didn't come, he thought that the two had different opinions, and he didn't take Jiang You in his eyes at all, he saw Jiang You squinting slightly, and said with a smile: "Although the prison army is lower than the rank of this official, but you are a Beijing official, you don't have to salute when you see this official." ”

Although he said that he didn't need to salute, he actually told Jiang You that his rank was low and he couldn't trespass. She looked at the contemptuous look on his face with disdain, no matter what happened behind his back, everyone from the head of the cabinet to the difficult imperial historian had to kneel down to talk to her, such a little shrimp still dared to show off his might in front of her.

She glanced at the guards behind her, and the people behind her immediately showed the royal order flag, she sat lazily on the chair, and arched her hand to the north: "Seeing the royal order flag like a saint, why is the sea prefect still standing?" She also laughed twice: "But in the end, it's not the Holy Lord's visit, let's save it simply, you don't have to bow three times and bow nine times, just kneel and bow." ”

No matter what these people think of the little emperor in the capital in their hearts, the etiquette on their faces must be done sufficiently, otherwise it is not fun to cure a big crime of disrespect. Haixi's face twitched a few times, but she couldn't find the words to refute it, if she was charged with a big disrespectful crime and sent to prison, wouldn't it be worth the loss?

He hadn't suffered a loss in Yangzhou for many years, and although he was barely smiling on his face, his back molars were biting together, and he bent his knees very slowly, as if waiting for Jiang You to call him 'no courtesy'.

Jiang You said impatiently: "The sea prefect is not old and can't take a step, why is it so slow to make a salute, do you feel that kneeling down to the saint has wronged you?" ”

Haixi's face stiffened, but he didn't dare to procrastinate any longer, and as soon as his knees were bent, he knelt down, fell to the ground and bowed.

Jiang You let him go for the time being, raised his hand to let him get up, although he was not angry in his heart, he didn't dare to raise his head again, and sat down in his seat alive. After she saw a dismount, everyone was a lot calmer, and then she spoke: "You should all know that I invited you here today to deal with the soaring food prices in Yangzhou and the violence of the homeless people. Messy things. You are all parents and officials in Yangzhou, so I would like to ask you to tell me today, what is going on? ”