I don't know if it's because of the death of the Empress Dowager, so it brought a short period of peace to the entire court, or because the crown prince has gradually shown defeat, in order not to let Emperor Li get angry, so King Shou is keeping to himself, anyway, at least there is not much turmoil in the court today.

Even the harem was calm, and as soon as Empress Xu's health was good, Concubine Huixian was very smart to return the phoenix seal to Empress Xu. Because of this move, Empress Xu naturally looked at Concubine Huixian differently, and specially asked Emperor Li to order Concubine Xian to be crowned as a concubine.

Because Ye Linchen's performance during the period of filial piety for the Empress Dowager a few days ago was really amazing, and this son was doing things more and more properly, Emperor Li naturally had no objection to the matter of wanting Concubine Huixian to be crowned as a concubine. For a while, Concubine Hui was in the limelight in the harem, and Xu Houyou was also praised by Emperor Li for her virtuous generosity.

However, Concubine Hui did not become spoiled because of this, but became more and more respectful to Empress Xu, and did not dare to slack off every morning and dusk. The same hot object is the Min nobleman who lives in Penglai Palace, and the Meng family has been lucky to be the emperor for the first time since he entered the palace for so long, but the title of Lin Xing has not changed, but he has been rewarded by Emperor Li.

Despite this, because Concubine Hui, who is not much in the limelight, lives in the same palace with Min Guiren, it is the concubine who visits her home and is also extremely courteous to Min Guiren.

With the temporary silence of the Shouwang party, it is no longer suppressing the prince's party. The princeling party also had a chance to breathe. Today's court looks calm and waveless, but in fact, there may be an undercurrent surging inside. Just wait for the time to be ripe, so that you can kill more birds with one stone.

As King Shou's strategist, Xie Yaoguang also knows very well that the idle days are probably only short-lived, King Shou must be planning something in secret, and that plan will definitely make the prince irreversible.

Since the death of the Empress Dowager, for some reason, the south of the Yangtze River has lived a rainy winter, and the entire capital is gathered in a wet atmosphere, which is annoying for no reason. This extreme weather has aroused panic in the hearts of the people, and there have been many rumors among the people that it is because Emperor Li is immoral and unreasonable, which angered the heavens, that disasters will come down for no reason.

Emperor Li, who didn't believe in ghosts and gods, was furious when he heard this rumor, and asked the prince to immediately send someone to investigate the matter thoroughly. The prince, who couldn't find the source of the rumors for a while, was urged by Emperor Li to arrest a few people who took advantage of the situation to make trouble, and after punishing them, the rumors in Beijing subsided slightly.

But what I didn't expect was that a few days later, a sudden torrential rain swept through the entire capital, and even the water from several reservoirs near the capital rose several inches.

However, due to the heavy rain in previous years, the reservoir has also risen and nothing has happened, so no one cares. But who would have thought that this rainstorm would be a catastrophe?

Xie Yaoguang, who had just returned from Xie's shop, lazily leaned on the soft chair under the porch, and the rain slid down the lines on the tiles to form a dense rain curtain. Xie Yaoguang looked up at the rain curtain and didn't know what he was thinking, Xu felt that it was too boring, got up and walked back to the house.

The contrast between the warmth inside the house and the pouring rain outside, after pushing the windows open for a moment. Xie Yaoguang walked to the front of the book case to deal with the affairs that had accumulated for several days, and when he read that the prince could not find the source of the rumors because of the rumors in Beijing, he was forced to arrest a few honest peasants at will under the pressure of Emperor Li, and beat them into tricks, not to mention that these peasants admitted that they had benefited from King Shou's subordinates, so he spread rumors everywhere in Beijing. Afterwards, he had to give these peasants the charge of taking advantage of the situation to make trouble, and after severely punishing them in the name of Diao Min, they were asked to shut up obediently.

Those peasants were forced by the power of the prince to be angry and dare not speak, so they had to bury this matter in their hearts so as not to invite death.

"Miss, this is the new medicine that Wei Lao prepared a few days ago. The slave and maid have already boiled up. Suzaku stepped into the house with a lacquered wooden plate, and after seeing the carbon fire in the house, and adding a few pieces of silver silk carbon to it, he handed the medicine bowl to Xie Yao, glanced at the rain curtain outside the window, and couldn't help complaining: "It's been raining for so long, why hasn't it stopped." The slave and maid are afraid to go down any further, and Miss, you are afraid that your boxes of clothes will cry because of mold. ”

Hearing this, Xie Yaoguang put down the medicine cup, squinted at the Vermilion Bird and lifted his lips and said, "What you said is strange and scary, because they will cry because of mold." If I keep them in a cage that does not see the light of day, won't they turn into ghosts and come to me after a year and a half?"

"Hey, Miss, you're heroic! Even if those clothes turn into ghosts, they will never dare to come to you. Suzaku covered his face with a lacquer plate, and smiled lightly.

"You're the poorest of these people. How's the situation going on Su Wan's side?"

The conversation gets back to the point. Suzaku reported the information obtained one by one, and Su Wan's wedding team was temporarily delayed in Cangzhou for a period of time because Su Wan insisted on keeping filial piety for the empress dowager. A few days ago, I just set off from Cangzhou, and I will arrive at the capital of Bingzhou in about a month.

"Alas, Su Wan, this girl is really affectionate and righteous." Xie Yaoguang seemed to think of something, so he put down the sheep's pen in his hand and sighed lightly, twisted his eyebrows and said, "What about the two brothers Su Jue?" There may be whereabouts. ”

"Our people are following the direction of these two people all the way, or heading towards the state." Knowing that Xie Yaoguang was worried about whether the two brothers of the Su family would make trouble halfway, he sent people to follow him all the way so as not to cause trouble. Yi Yi Shen headed, Suzaku replied truthfully.

At this time, Suzaku's words had just finished speaking, and Qingluan hurriedly broke in. I saw Xie Yaoguang sitting in front of the bookcase and thinking for a while, and stepped forward to salute.

"Qingluan, you ran in such a hurry. But what happened?" Xie Yaoguang raised his hand and motioned for Qingluan to get up and reply.

With a slight bow, Qingluan said aloud the news he had received in a discretionary tone, "The largest reservoir in the suburbs of Beijing has burst its embankment because it can't withstand the erosion of the torrential rain today. ”

"You mean the reservoir near the outskirts of Beijing has burst?" Xie Yaoguang stood up suddenly, looked at Qingluan, doubts flashed in his eyes, he paced to the window, moved his eyes to look at the increasingly dense rain, took a deep breath, closed his eyes and asked in a deep voice, "Who supervised the construction of that reservoir?"

"Former Hubu Shangshu - Zhang Qin." Speaking of this, Qingluan's tone couldn't help choking. At the beginning, she was also because of the flood at home, which caused her to live on the streets after the death of her parents, and if she hadn't met the young lady, she would have been alone. She knew better than anyone else what it was like to be in a flood. At this time, it is not a good thing that the reservoir will burst, and I don't know how many people will be displaced.

Hearing Qingluan's words, Xie Yaoguang's eyes grew angry, and it was indeed the prince's person. This dam has been built for many years, but nothing major has happened, which shows that Zhang Qin was not so greedy when he built the dam.

Now that it has broken the embankment for no reason, I am afraid that most of it is the handwriting of King Shou. King Shou is really ruthless than her, and he even sacrificed so many innocent lives in order to bring down the prince.