However, I didn't die, girl, I worshiped under the old Taoist priest, and my master released words to cover me, a disciple who entered the room. The ghost golden sheep wanted to get rid of me, and he was afraid of being retaliated against by my master, the poison doctor, so he took great pains to cause trouble and let me die at the hands of the three princes. Once the plan succeeds, it will not only remove the hidden danger of me, but also intensify the contradiction between the crown prince and the third prince, so that the third prince has no room to fall to the side of the second prince, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"I'm afraid that the third prince has long been in cahoots with the second prince, which is quite unfavorable to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"It's not that bad." Pan Gongzi was obviously afraid that I would have any psychological burden because of this, and Wen Yan explained, "The third prince is the eldest son of His Majesty and the queen's mother, who has been arrogant and doting since childhood, and has developed a self-righteous and self-interested temperament. In this regard, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has advised him many times, and even punished him lightly as the prince, but he has not changed his ways. ”

No wonder the third prince hates and fears this big brother.

Pan Gongzi shook his fan and sighed softly, "This time he was punished by Shou Ling, thinking about it, he escaped...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sometimes softened his heart. ”

I heard it in my heart: Listening to what Pan Gongzi meant, the third prince still has a bigger handle in the fat man's hands, but the fat man thinks of his brotherhood and doesn't want to be ruthless.

I tried my best to recall the history I had learned in my previous life, but I couldn't remember any description of the third prince, Zhu Gaosui, which shows that this monarch really hasn't set off any big waves in history.

After all, being a demon also requires some real skills.

The days passed peacefully, and my sick body gradually regained its strength.

After standing on the bed for more than a month, I learned from the pain and realized that a girl like me who was in trouble was too dangerous to have no kung fu to be around, so I drew a sandbag, and asked Mr. Pan to find someone to make it, hang it in his own courtyard, and force himself to practice for half an hour every morning and evening, looking for the foundation of taekwondo in his previous life.

This practice has gained the eyes of my family and neighbors like crazy, but it was my father, who scolded me twice for being a "crazy girl" and then left it alone, just tossing it by me, and he is no longer responsible for not marrying in this life.

Girl, I don't know if I can marry in my life, but I have a real sense of crisis: the black knight who cared about me, protected me, and always appeared in times of crisis will never be there again.

There was a song that sang well in my previous life: I can't see, can't find, can't wait for your hero, why don't you be a hero who supports the sky with one hand, I can go to the soup for myself......

It's midsummer in the blink of an eye, July is on fire, and the sun is setting but there is still no coolness.

I, the girl who had just finished practicing her fists and feet, was sitting on the edge of the patio with beads of sweat on her head to enjoy the shade, when I heard the door "squeak", and Ah Nuan and Xiaoshu came in front and back.

It has only been two months since Ah Nuan came to my Leng house, and he has grown a lot taller, and he has become more and more slim and smart.

It's just that at the moment, this delicate little face is full of grievances, and the mouth is almost up to the nose.

The little tree on the side shook a copy of "The Mean" as a fan, and persuaded in a low voice while brushing aside the sweat that Ah Nuan had put on his forehead: "What's the matter, don't be angry." ”

I watched it interesting on the side: the two little sweethearts of this childhood friend stick together every day, and there are even awkward times, "Stinky boy, why did you offend Ah Nuan?" ”

"Where will I offend her!" Xiaoshu defended very aggrievedly, "It was Ah Nuan who went to the market to buy vegetables and salt, and the owner of the salt shop asked her for 8 yuan for a jar of salt, and Ah Nuan clearly remembered that it was only 3 yuan for selling salt last month, and she felt that the owner of the salt shop lied to her, and she couldn't reason with the boss because she couldn't speak, so she became depressed like this." ”

I looked at A Nuan's little face flushed with anger, only to feel that this girl had the demeanor of a housewife in just a few days, and the days were carefully calculated, which was really a blessing for my cold family.

"Xiaoshu is right, it's not a big deal." I took out a small piece of broken silver from my money bag and put it in Ah Nuan's palm, "Go buy three or five cans of salt from him and come back, don't let the salt shop owner underestimate you!" ”

The daughter's family should be rich, this is the philosophy of the previous life. Besides, under the painstaking management of the girl and me for a year, the Leng family is no longer in such a poor and white situation.

Ran Anuan looked at the silver in his hand and then at me, and the look of looking at the "loser" made me really unhappy: "What are you doing? ”

Ah Nuan frowned and thought about it, and gestured a few times at Xiaoshu.

"Ah Nuan asked you, is it okay to buy illicit salt? Private salt is much cheaper, and the quality is not bad. ”

"No way!" I vetoed it, "Whether it is selling or buying illicit salt, it is illegal, and you will be fined and punished according to the law." Moreover, the production process of private salt is generally not up to standard, containing excessive mineral elements, and long-term use is extremely harmful to health. ”

Xiao Shu glanced at Ah Nuan unconsciously: "What is a mineral element?" What are health hazards? ”

The corner of my forehead twitched, "That is, eating and eating, you will eat people stupidly." In short, it is not possible to buy private salt! ”

In just one month, the price of salt in Jinling City has nearly tripled, which is really abnormal.

"Suspicious." The next day, Pan Gongzi, who came to visit me, shook his fan and muttered, "But I'm afraid it's not what the girl said, it's caused by the salt merchants driving up prices." Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we have implemented the law of opening the salt and iron official camps, and the salt merchants who can transport and sell official salt have all been inspected and filed by the Salt Division of the Ministry of Households, and they should not dare to mess around. ”

I took a sip of herbal tea: "It's not the salt merchant's means, is it a problem of imbalance between supply and demand?" ”

Pan Gongzi was stunned, "Although I don't know what the girl's so-called 'imbalance between supply and demand' is, but the morning before yesterday, the governor of Caoyun, Lord He, reported to His Majesty that the Gaoyou section of the Grand Canal has been seriously flooded for days, and many cargo ships have capsized. Among them, of course, it also includes the salt ships that travel to and from Jinling. ”

"In this way, it is true that the price of official salt has skyrocketed due to the shortage of supply?" It sounds reasonable, but "Why did the high section of the Grand Canal suddenly have a flood?" ”

"This ...... I don't know. Pan Gongzi was obviously a little overwhelmed by my persistence in breaking the casserole and asking the question, "Maybe it's caused by the heavy rain in summer and the rising river." ”

I reciprocated with a polite but polite smile, but I secretly shook my head in my heart: The Gaoyou section of the Grand Canal is passing through Gaoyou Lake, which has the effect of storing water and discharging floods.

Again: it's not scientific.

In the early morning, the riverside wharf in the north of Jinling City is a bustling and lively scene.

Hundreds of white-sailed cargo ships lined up on the riverside, and the shirtless sturdy boatmen shouted loudly and skillfully loaded and unloaded their cargo, and the wharf was full of traffic, and the traffic of cars and horses was endless and orderly.

Jiangnan beautiful land, Jinling Imperial Prefecture. Since ancient times, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have had the reputation of "clothing in the world", which is not a waste of fame.

At this moment, I, a girl in a white robe standing on the pier, suddenly had a sense of poetry, and was about to raise my head to chant a sentence, but I was unexpectedly interrupted by the little crab next to me.

"Boss, I used to love crabs." He was looking at a fishing boat full of fish, shrimp and crabs, making a bitter gourd face, "But since you gave me this 'pen name', I don't have the heart to eat ......"

I glanced at him in disappointment, but I saw something strange in his direction: "What is on the flag on the bow of the ship?" ”

I saw a triangular flag with a white background and black edges on the bow of the fishing boat, and the flag was vaguely a monster pattern with large fangs, but the painting style was quite cute.

I looked into the distance, and found that on the bow of this row of cargo ships, there were seven or eight times out of ten the cute monster flags.

That's kind of interesting.

"Little crab, go find a boatman and ask why they have such a flag on the bow of their ship." I raised my sleeves to block out the glare of the sun, "I'll go to the tea shed over there to cool off...... Oh, find out some news. ”

The tea shed by the wharf is for the boatmen who come and go to drink tea and repair, which is naturally very simple. It was early in the morning, many shipwrights who had unloaded their goods had breakfast here, and the smell of sweat, fish and shrimp mixed with the smell of steamed buns in the tea shed came to the face, and the secular atmosphere was unusually strong.

We found a relatively clean corner of the table and sat down to ask for a bowl of tea, and the little crab ran over sweating profusely.

"Boss, I heard that the thing on the flag is called 'Lying Viper', which is a divine beast that avoids water, and the boatmen use it to ask for a safe voyage."

"I see." I looked at the tea bowl with the brown and yellow unknown leaves floating in front of me, and decisively gave it to the little crab, "Since it is used for peace, why not engrave it directly on the bow of the boat, but plant a flag, once it encounters a strong wind and waves, it will not be broken as soon as it blows?" ”

The little crab opened its mouth cutely, and was not sure how to answer my question, but the sturdy boatman who was eating a bun on the side said: "Little brother, I don't know anything, but it's not that you can keep you safe all the way by just getting a pit viper." ”

"Why? Is this flag still going to be opened? ”

"It's pretty much the same." The boatman nibbled on the bun and said casually, "On this Grand Canal, only Huai'an Taixu Guan and Yangzhou Ping'an Guan, these two Taoist temples are effective." ”

Huai'an, Yangzhou...... I silently speculated in my heart about the location of these two places, which are located in the south and north of Gaoyou Lake, and I became more and more puzzled in my heart, but I pretended to joke: "I heard that the Gaoyou flood has been very serious recently. ”

As soon as I said this, the originally bustling tea shed suddenly quieted down a little, and the boatman who ate the buns was even more shocked and choked up, and squeezed out a sentence with great difficulty: "You know? ”

I immediately grasped the point: "So there is really a water monster in Gaoyou Lake?" ”