After Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wu left, Huang Ying walked in with freshly brewed tea, poured a cup and put it in front of her, and after thinking about it, she asked out loud, "Are the two ladies here to discuss the alliance with you?" ”

"Hmm." Qu Wurong took a sip of tea and nodded, "Do you think I should agree to them?" ”

Huang Ying was slightly stunned when she heard this, and then lowered her head, "This is a matter between the masters, the slave and maid are just a little palace maid, and they don't dare to make any assertions about the master's affairs." ”

"I'm not asking you to make up your mind for me, I just want to hear your opinion." Qu Wurong glanced at her and said indifferently, "If you have any ideas, just say it, how can you say that you know more about the shape in this palace than I do, right?" ”

Hearing her say this, Huang Ying thought for a while and said: "The slave maid thinks that the reason why the two ladies will take the initiative to woo Madame is because Madame is protected by the lord of the country, and she is the only candidate who can compete with Madame Yu except for the queen mother, and they just want Madame's protection, and it is not actually beneficial for Madame." ”

"You're right." Qu Wurong nodded, she also thought so, "But if I reject them, it's hard to guarantee that they won't hold a grudge against me in their hearts, and when the time comes, they will stumble on me when I don't pay attention, then I will lose more than I gain." ”

Huang Ying didn't expect this, after her reminder, Huang Ying also felt that her words were very reasonable, "What is the lady going to do?" Before Qu Wurong could answer, she suddenly remembered something and added, "I'm sorry madam, it's the slave who has overstepped!" ”

"It's fine." Qu Wurong shook his head lightly and said his thoughts, "If they are so afraid of Yu Ruyi, I can provide them with the necessary shelter, but I will not form an alliance with them, I hope they will not hold such thoughts again, otherwise let Yu Ruyi know, then we will be in trouble." ”

Huang Ying nodded, "That's right, Madam Yu's energy is now focused on the lord of the country, and she has no time to take care of other people, if this news reaches her ears, I'm afraid it will attract her attention to us." ”

"Hmm." Qu Wurong glanced at her appreciatively, this girl is indeed smart, "Later, you will personally go and tell the two ladies what I mean." ”

"Yes!"

The envoy group led by An Lehou only stayed in Xiaocheng for two days, and then set off to the border city at the junction of Bailiao and Daliang and Xisai, after all, the main purpose of his visit this time was to take over the surrender of Xisai on behalf of Shen Wu'an, and he had already seen Qu Wurong, and he would be able to explain to Shen Wu'an after he returned.

When he led the envoy group to leave Xiao Cheng, Qu Wurong did not go with Xiao Nansheng to see him off, anyway, she had already told An Lehou what she should say before, too many fetters would only make her and Shen Wuan even more unable to let go of this relationship, which would do them more harm than good now.

The wound on her arm has been completely healed, and Qu Wurong finally no longer has to be "forced" to lie on the bed to recuperate by Huang Li and Huang Ying every day, and after getting the right to move freely, the first decision she made was to go out of the palace for a turn.

"What? Madam, do you still want to leave the palace? Hearing her decision, Huang Li's eyes widened in disbelief, and then he shook his head and waved his hand and retorted: "No, no! Madam, your injury is just right to leave the palace, what if you encounter a dangerous situation like last time? ”

Hearing her words, Qu Wurong said helplessly: "What happened last time was just an accident, where could we be so unlucky, every time we go out of the palace, we encounter an accident?" Besides, is it because of this little accident that I won't leave the palace for the rest of my life? ”

Huang Li was speechless to refute by her, so she could only turn her eyes for help to Huang Ying beside her.

Compared with her excitement, Huang Ying's expression was much more indifferent, but she didn't quite agree with Qu Wurong's decision to leave the palace, "Madam, although there is nothing wrong with saying this, but after all, it didn't take long for the last incident to happen, and the murderer doesn't know if he has a party, let's wait for a while before leaving the palace." ”

Seeing that both of them were opposed, Qu Wurong no longer tried to persuade them, anyway, it was her master who made the final decision, and she also had other ideas in her heart.

Xiao Nansheng told her before that he had secretly mentioned Yu Ruyi and asked her to persuade her brother to give up on Qu Wurong, Qu Wurong went out of the palace this time to confirm it, to see if Xiao Nansheng's strategy was useful, if so, it would be very helpful for their future actions!

After the two girls finished expressing their opinions, Qu Wurong finally made a decision, "Okay, I have already decided to leave the palace, if you two are afraid, stay in the palace, and I will go out by myself." ”

"No way!"

"How can this be?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Huang Li and Huang Ying replied in unison, but the two of them also knew very well in their hearts that Qu Wurong was their master after all, and what the master decided, they could only obey as girls, "Then do you want to sue the lord of the country?" ”

Qu Wurong thought for a while, "I'll go and tell him in person." ”

Presumably, Xiao Nansheng's thoughts at this time are not much different from those of the two girls, so she must go and tell him clearly what she thinks in person before she can move him to agree to let her out of the palace.

Sure enough, when he first heard her say that she was going to leave the palace, Xiao Nansheng frowned and wanted to refuse, but fortunately, Qu Wurong expected that he would raise objections, and before he could speak, he told him his thoughts, and finally threw out a very weighty bait, "Don't you want to know how useful this chess piece can be?" ”

After listening to her words, Xiao Nansheng was silent for a while, and then nodded as if compromised: "You can leave the palace if you want, but I must send more people to follow you this time." ”

"It's okay to send someone to follow me, but you can't follow me." Qu Wurong took the opportunity to put forward the conditions, joking, if she went out of the palace with a group of guards, wouldn't she be able to do what she wanted to do?

"Okay!" This time, Xiao Nansheng did not hesitate, and agreed very happily, "Mingzhi only let Tianming follow." ”

Hearing him mention Xu Tianming, Qu Wurong remembered that last time Xu Tianming was injured in order to protect himself, he asked, "Are all the injuries on Xu Guard's body healed?" ”

"He is a martial arts practitioner, and his own wounds are healed faster than ordinary people, and now that even the wounds on your arms have healed, how can he be bad?" Xiao Nansheng replied with a smile, "You can rest assured." ”

Hearing him say this, Qu Wurong was relieved, "That's okay, it's decided!" ”

After obtaining his permission, Qu Wurong took Huang Li, Huang Ying, and Xu Tianming out of the palace, and of course, there were two secret guards specially arranged by Xiao Nansheng in the dark to accompany him.

In fact, this time out of the palace, in addition to Qu Wurong's desire to distract herself and the reason she told Xiao Nansheng, in fact, the most important reason is that she now has a sword feud with Yu Feilong, although Yu Feilong picked herself up in time, but this does not mean that she can not blame the past.

If it was only because of Xiao Nansheng's request that she agreed to help him deal with Yu Feilong before, then now that she has added her personal factor, she naturally has to be more attentive, and before Yu Feilong has time to clean up all his flaws, she wants to catch his handle as soon as possible to give him a heavy blow.

So after leaving the palace, she asked Xu Tianming to take herself to the most dense place in Xiaocheng's grain shop, after all, food is related to the lives of thousands of people, she chose to start here, in addition to wanting to find out the handle of the jade flying dragon, she also hopes that it is best to take advantage of this opportunity to take the power of food from him, so that Xiao Nansheng can formulate more beneficial policies for the people, so that the people can live a more prosperous life.

Qu Wurong was not worried that he would not be able to achieve the previous goal, after all, the hands of anyone who did business would be a little unclean, she didn't believe that Yu Feilong was a person who obeyed the rules, as long as he had even the slightest bit of irregularity when doing business, as long as she had the heart, she could find it out for him.

As for the latter purpose, Qu Wurong knew that it would not be ordinarily difficult to implement, anyway, she didn't plan to take back the food power from Yu Feilong's hands at once, and when she collected enough evidence and then attacked in one fell swoop, she should receive a more ideal effect.

According to Xu Tianming's introduction, most of the grain shops in Xiaocheng are scattered in the downtown area, and they are not concentrated on a certain street as she imagined, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of their visit and investigation, but even so, Qu Wurong has no intention of giving up, at most they visited a few shops.

After asking a few grain shops about the prices of various grains, Xu Tianming and the three of them agreed that the price was not outrageously high, as for Qu Wurong, she had only lived in Bailiao for a few months, and she was not very familiar with the previous situation, so she accepted the statements of several people.

Since it is not to make huge profits regardless of the lives of the people, then the most likely thing is to be shoddy, this investigation is more difficult, Qu Wurong has no good way for a while, just at this time a few people are also tired, so they turned into a restaurant on the side of the road, ready to rest first and then continue to investigate.

After sitting down by the window, Huang Li finally had time to ask the question in his heart, "Madam, why are you picking up the grain shop today?" Do you want to buy food? ”

"Can't I buy food?" Qu Wurong raised his eyebrows and looked at her when he heard this, and asked rhetorically.

"Not really!" Huang Li shook his head honestly, "The slave maid just can't figure it out a little, there is food and drink in the palace, what do you want to buy food for, madam?" "It's not like her, when she was a child, her family was so poor that she couldn't open the pot, so she was sent to the palace to be a girl in order to have a bite to eat.

Without waiting for Qu Wurong to answer, Huang Ying glanced at her angrily, "Who said that if you ask about the price of grain, you want to buy grain?" Mrs. did this because she wanted to care about the lives of the people, and if she didn't understand, don't talk nonsense! ”

"You know a lot, okay?" Huang Li replied unconvinced.

Qu Wurong watched with interest as the two girls began to quarrel, because Huang Ying usually doesn't talk much, so these two girls rarely quarrel, this scene in front of her made her think of Jin Yu and Liangyuan thousands of miles away, and she didn't know if they were doing well?