Chapter 290: What Can't Be Said
In the following time, the emperor and the ministers sat in a row on the benches in the book area, bowed their heads, exchanged newspapers with each other, and read.
Seeing this, Xu Weimin also changed from being frightened at the beginning to being bored now, everyone sat and read the newspaper, even the female relatives who had finished shopping downstairs came up to read the newspaper.
If he hadn't read all these newspapers, he would have read them too.
But it was getting dark, and they had gone out late, and they had been shopping for so long, and they had been looking for so long, that if it weren't for the open skylight on the second floor, they wouldn't have been able to see the words in the newspaper.
"The Emperor, the Emperor's ......"
Xu Weimin risked his life to disturb Nanfeng Qi, who was reading with relish, and wiped his sweat while talking.
"What's the matter?" Nanfeng Qi didn't even raise his head at all, but just said two words lightly.
"Your Majesty, it's not too early......"
"Oh?" Nanfeng Qi raised his head at this time, and saw that the surroundings of the shop were darker than just now, and he realized that it might not be too early.
"It's not early", he closed the newspaper in his hand and stood up, and the people next to him didn't dare to look at it anymore, so they all stood up.
"Girl, help me get a copy of what I haven't seen in the back!"
"Yes!" Liu Meimei was already tired of standing, and she was finally able to move her feet.
Everyone went downstairs in unison, and the wooden stairs rattled.
Xu Weimin pushed the vegetables that Nanfeng Qi had just bought, followed, and went to the door together.
"Guests, please settle the bill here!" Wang Changsheng at the cashier counter had been idle for an afternoon, and when he saw someone pushing a cart out, he subconsciously shouted.
At this shout, everyone's eyes turned to him, and he was stunned.
What did he do?
Liu Dong clearly explained to them in the afternoon that the emperor would not charge money for anything he bought, but he forgot it all of a sudden, and blurted it out.
"It's going to be checked!" "Since reading the newspaper, Nanfeng Qi has been full of affection for this shop.
Now, even if the people in the store ran into him, he gladly accepted it.
"Yes!" Xu Weimin was also stunned just now, and when he heard the emperor's words, he came back to his senses, pushed the car to the cash register, and prepared to settle the bill.
Seeing this, the other high-ranking officials and their relatives also had to order people to go over and line up to settle the bill.
Nanfeng Qi didn't know if it was because of curiosity or something else, he inexplicably moved his steps and stepped forward to look.
Under the gaze of so many nobles, Wang Changsheng cautiously stirred up the abacus and did not dare to make mistakes.
Nanfeng Qi just watched it for a while, and after he finished reading the steps of the cashier, he lost interest, "Go home!"
As he spoke, he raised his feet and walked out of the door, and the ministers and ladies followed, but the account was not finished yet, and the subordinates did not dare to leave, so they were in a dilemma.
"That's it, this is fifty taels of silver, their account bookkeepers are settled, there is no need to look for it!" Xu Weimin took out a silver ticket and slapped it on the cash register.
When those maids saw this, they took their things directly and went out to chase them.
After the elite soldiers outside the door also left, Liu Dong stepped forward, "Changsheng, didn't I tell you not to collect money, why are you!"
"I'm sorry Steward Liu, I don't know why I said it......" Wang Changsheng explained with a bitter face.
"Alas!" Liu Dong sighed fiercely, but since those nobles didn't say anything just now, they should be fine.
"Forget it, pack up and get ready to close the store and go to dinner!" Liu Dong said with a wave of his hand.
"Then Steward Liu, this ......" Wang Changsheng held the silver ticket in both hands, not knowing what to do.
"Keep it!"
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The city has been extremely lively in the past two days, but Wangjia Village is still the same as usual, going to the ground and going to school.
It was only in the evening that someone came from the yamen.
"Cheng girl, what do you mean by what those two officials said just now?" asked Village Chief Wang in a daze.
When the two officials came just now, they asked for Cheng Yangyang and Village Chief Wang, and asked them to bring the whole village and tell them one thing.
"It means that the emperor may come to us to check on us in the past two days, so let's be ready to greet us", Cheng Yangyang said lightly.
She was also a little surprised, why did the emperor come to them? In this poor and remote country, they are afraid that they don't even want to stay in the city, but they can still go to the countryside?
Is it the meaning of Nanfeng or the meaning of Xu Weimin?
If it is the meaning of Nanfeng, then will he also come with him in the past two days?
"Ah, the emperor is coming!" Village Chief Wang was still surprised when he heard this again.
He never thought in his life that he would be lucky enough to meet the emperor in this life, and that was the emperor!
"Village chief, it can't be fake, right?" The villagers couldn't believe it, how could the emperor come to this small place!
"Probably not", Wang Tong stood up and said: "We went to the city to deliver goods yesterday, and we happened to meet the emperor entering the city, that scene is so majestic!"
"Ah, Wang Tong, have you seen the emperor?" When everyone heard this, they all surrounded Wang Tong and asked him gossipingly.
"We didn't see the emperor", Wang Tong was a little embarrassed by the enthusiasm of the villagers, he scratched his head and said: "When we entered the city yesterday, we were blocked at the gate of the city and thirsty, so we only saw the emperor's grain and grass carts, but there were many luxurious carriages in front!"
"Yes, we also saw that everyone on the street was kneeling on the ground, shouting something long live!" Wang Gaoshan also joined in, telling them what they had seen yesterday.
"Yo, that may really be the emperor!" everyone believed it, but there was another question, "But why did the emperor come to our village?"
Their eyes looked at Cheng Yangyang in unison, and they felt that the emperor came here, it must have something to do with her, or with the prince living in her house.
"Village chief, everyone, I have something I want to ask you!" Cheng Yangyang looked at everyone.
"What's the matter?"
"The prince told me before he left that he didn't want people to know that he used to live here, so when the emperor came up, unless he asked, please don't say it. ”
In fact, Nanfeng didn't tell her about this at all, because she didn't want to cause trouble for no reason.
And looking at what the two officials said just now, none of them mentioned the matter of Nanfeng, presumably they shouldn't know.
"This ...... Can you hide it?" everyone hesitated, they didn't have confidence, after all, the prince had lived here for so long.
"Yes!" Cheng Yangyang said categorically: "Didn't everyone say anything about the fact that the prince lived in the village before?
"Since it was explained by the prince, then let's not talk nonsense, everyone is a prince, living in such a broken place, who will believe it!"
Village Chief Wang helped Cheng Yangyang speak, and he himself was a little angry, because the fourth prince hated their village, so he didn't let them speak out.