Although Diancui is very profitable, this time it is also half of the net worth, which is used to purchase medicinal materials for disaster relief. This matter was not conveyed to the queen by the mouth, but to the court through the household department, and the emperor was grateful for her righteous act, and actually sealed the second rank of the lady and her.

From then on, Cui Huan's life was in his body, and among the nobles in the capital, he showed his head. In the past, no one dared to mock her for being a businessman and mercenary.

When the Wu family went to the Angelica Pavilion to find out, which of those ladies who bought hairpins did not come forward to congratulate twice? Even the old lady who was sad and sick because of the Yue family's affairs, was rushed by this happy event, and her illness was much better.

When the news reached the second room of the Luo family, General Gui Chuying gave birth to a child and was lying on the couch, and after listening to it, another wave of boredom came from the bottom of his heart. Over the years, her four sisters have risen step by step, and she has indeed fallen step by step. At that time, it was also because of her that she had the obsession of marrying Luo Jing, and now she also has bitter words, knocking out her teeth and blood and swallowing it in her stomach.

"Young grandmother, today the in-laws came to discuss with the lady about holding a banquet for the little young master, and the second lady seems to be unwilling to do it in a big way......" The maid beside Chu Ying helped her get up, and found a half-old lilac silk pillow and stuffed it on her back.

Gui Chuying's complexion was a little unnaturally red, but the red circle was jet black, which was caused by depression.

"I gave birth to this is our second room's sister-in-law, why don't you give it to Cao!" Gui Chuying said fiercely, and then coughed desperately.

The maid walked quickly to the door, stretched out her head to take a look, reflexively closed the door, and whispered in Gui Chuying's ear: "In the past few days, I have seen our wife and the third lady get together, and it seems that someone has been invited to the house." This person is extremely mysterious, but as a man, he goes in and out of the inner house, so it stands to reason that he shouldn't be...... But I followed that day, and I only saw a corner of my clothes, so I didn't follow again for fear of being discovered by the third lady. ”

"Do you see who it is?" Gui Chuying was suspicious, the Luo family was now an eventful time, her mother-in-law and the second lady sternly told each room to be low-key and cautious, but she herself hid a man in the courtyard at this time, which was really strange.

The maid shook her head, and said that she was wearing a dark blue robe with big sleeves, but her face was not seen.

Gui Chuying looked at the gloomy sky outside, and asked again, "Is there any news from the young master?" ”

The maid wanted to speak and stopped, and only after a long time did she say: "I heard that the young master found two maids for Miss Diandian, because ...... Because one of the maids has a meritorious service to protect the Lord...... Accepted my aunt's ......"

After the maid finished speaking, she glanced at Gui Chuying cautiously, how long has it been, and the young master has accepted her aunt outside, isn't this a slap in the face of the young grandmother.

Gui Chuying sneered, laughing at himself and saying that he was infatuated, but I saw that he was extremely widowed, this is just the beginning, only one, and in another year and a half, I am afraid that our yard will not be able to accommodate it.

As he spoke, he coughed again, and this one was so poignant that it seemed like he was about to cough his whole heart out.

After all, the wedding banquet of this newborn child was not hot or lively, and the second lady was not here, so she only set up a few tables and invited a few familiar families. Returning home as Chu Ying's maiden family, except for the eldest master's family, no one else was invited.

The two concubines from Nanyang County's hometown discussed with the Wu family, and it was their business if they didn't invite them, but they had to give this gift as relatives. The three of them each chose a suitable gift, plus the three of them, Chu Yu, Diancui, and Chu Chu, a total of six gifts were prepared, and a decent subordinate was sent to Luofu.

Gui Chuying listened to this in the house, and was silent, just staring at the outside and being stunned, not knowing what he was thinking.

It is said that at the beginning, King Gong's disaster relief investigation in Jiangnan was not smooth, the south is different from the capital, the family is huge, and when Yuan Zhiheng was the prefect of Hangzhou, it took several years to suppress and decompose the forces of all parties. Except for Hangzhou, you can imagine what the situation is like in other places.

Originally, Qin Ruofu was born in Jiangnan, which should be a good help to King Gong, but his mind was on the case of inspecting the embankment, and King Gong did not play a big role. In addition, Cui Youliang's power in Jiangnan is even greater than that of the Qin family, and with him in the way, King Gong is also anxious and struggling.

With several letters sent by King Gong, Yuan Zhiheng found Qingyun and Xue Dachuan, and secretly sent them to the south to assist King Gong.

After understanding the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, he united with the local yamen to lobby the family and jointly contribute to the construction of the river embankment.

King Gong worked day and night in the south for disaster relief, did not dare to be tired at all, this matter was transmitted to the capital, and the imperial history headed by Lord Lu praised it in the court, and the sacred heart was happy, and he gave many rewards to the queen's palace in a row.

Emperor Xu's concubine was naturally dissatisfied, and at this time, someone from the Qi Palace's mansion came to report that the King of Qi was eating and making trouble in the wine shop, and he also had a fight with the son of the Jingzhao Yin family.

"Go, tell Lord Yuan about this," Emperor Xu's concubine frowned, and said coldly: "As the master of King Qi, he is not good at teaching, and he is also guilty of letting King Qi mess around outside!" "Book six

"Niangniang means that she wants Lord Yuan to find His Royal Highness King Qi?" The little eunuch at the bottom was a little puzzled, why did Niangniang change her mind today after ordering His Royal Highness King Qi to alienate the Yuan family.

"Don't go yet!" Mama Ai kicked him, stupid thing, what does the mother mean?

King Gong and King Qi are all students of Lord Yuan, in the past, when King Gong was there, he pestered Lord Yuan every day, and King Qi also liked to go to Yuan's mansion.

Now that King Gong is not in the capital, King Qi can naturally move around with the Yuan family more, especially the recent small moves of the Gui family, who have been buying land and buying medicinal materials in large quantities, and has also been given an edict by the saint, it seems that there are indeed two brushes.

King Qi didn't think much about his mother's sudden change of heart to let her have more dealings with the Yuan family. He went to the Yuan Mansion to go to the Water Pavilion most of the time, played with Sister Ci and Ye Hong's children, and ate with them.

Because he was making trouble in the wine shop, he was caught by Yuan Zhiheng, and now he is still a little afraid when he looks at Yuan Zhiheng's ice face, so even if he is in Yuan's mansion, he always avoids Yuan Zhiheng.

In addition, he was also awkward when he saw Diancui, that appearance was really too charming, and it really didn't match the image of the master in his mind. Now that you see that she has been ordained, the joy in her eyebrows and eyes is becoming more and more open, and the whole person is as eye-catching as her growing belly.

With the construction of a new river embankment, the disaster situation was stabilized, but more and more people were injured and sick due to the disaster, and the pharmacy was washed away, so they had to buy medicinal herbs and requisition doctors from all over the surrounding areas. Seeing those pharmacists sitting on the ground and raising prices, the price of drugs began to grow wildly. In addition to the price of medicine, the price of food and rice and even the bricks and tiles used to build houses have not stopped.

King Gong and the others lacked skills every day, and finally waited for the first batch of medicinal materials of Diancui and their first batch of medicinal materials to arrive successfully from Shudi.

This batch of medicinal materials was purchased directly from the medicine farmers in Shudi, and the goods were all good, and their prices were much lower than the purchase prices of medicinal materials in the surrounding state capital pharmacies, which caused a sensation as soon as they came out.

Fortunately, King Gong had already obtained the secret letter from the queen's mother, and had already sent people from the local yamen to supervise it, but gradually not only the counterparts of the surrounding states and counties, but even some large squires in the affected places were crazy to hoard medicinal materials. As soon as King Gong and others put it together, the government gave money to receive some green medicinal materials, and then the government came forward to sell them to the people who were injured and sick, so that some people could be controlled to take the opportunity to hoard.

With the pouring of medicinal materials from all over the country into the three disaster-stricken places, things are getting smoother and smoother, and Dian Cui is also happy in his heart.

Inspired by these medicinal materials, King Gong summoned some local families and grain merchants, and asked them to use their previous business connections to buy a large amount of grain, and at most they had to sell it to the affected people at a price of 20%, so that the local yamen could be exempted from taxes for one year in the future.

This is a profitable business, not only grain merchants, but also some local clans who have not done a grain business have paid money to buy grain.

As a result, the treasury allocated a lot of silver, which was used to build river embankments and buy rice, grain, porridge and rice for the people who were severely affected.

Although Cui Youliang made a few small moves during this period, King Gong learned Yuan Zhiheng's style of doing things, and he did not wait to obtain evidence, even if he was imprisoned in a courtyard.

Cui Youliang never expected that this kind and generous King Gong would act like this, he is a second-class member of the court, a member of the general political department, and a close minister of the Son of Heaven! King Gong didn't give him a trace of face, and what he did others couldn't grasp at all, King Gong just grounded him with speculation, if he returned to Beijing, he would definitely have to take a good look at King Gong!

King Gong's measures added another success, the emperor was overjoyed, and Emperor Xu's concubine became more and more unable to sit still, at this time, the descendants of the Qi Wangfu came to report that because the medicinal materials of the Yuan family were robbed again, the king of Qi intended to send someone to help.

"It's hard for the emperor to have this thought." Emperor Xu's tone was a little sour, how could he let a proud person like the emperor help him many times, but this is indeed a good opportunity!

"Go, call the two sons of the Luo family's third room and me. The two of his brothers are literate and martial, and they are outstanding, so let them go to the south to exercise this time. Emperor Xu immediately picked a candidate for King Qi.

When the Luo family got this opportunity, they naturally couldn't help but be overjoyed, and they said goodbye to their father and brother and set off.

The two of them originally thought that they had gained a light beauty difference, but who knew that a plague would occur in the Fengyang disaster area immediately.

Once the plague spread, it was extremely dangerous, and King Gong had to order the Fengyang Mansion to be sealed. Before the closure of the mansion, the Luo brothers fled to two other places overnight.

Fengyang Mansion, which sealed the city, was difficult to transmit the news inside, and as the days passed, this bad rumor began to spread. It is said that King Gong could not come up with a cure for the plague, so he ordered the pit to kill the people infected with the plague, and the blood flowed like a river for a while. It is said that there is a plague in Fengyang Mansion, and there will definitely be a plague in the other two places, and people are panicked for a while.