Early the next morning, after Yang Yanming went down to the court, he led the two to meet the prince. Knowing that the household department had really done something to supplement the households, the crown prince Xiao He was immediately furious and said: "Since the founding of the country by Grandpa Taizu, this dynasty has set the law that only when people are prosperous can the country be peaceful and the people are safe. The silver allocated by the imperial court to the household department every year to reward the household supplement accounted for three-tenths of the national treasury! In the palace, from the father to the palace, as well as all the mothers and princesses, they all practice thrift and never show off. And these people, who take the money of the imperial court and don't think about how to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, but they think about filling their private pockets all day long and putting the public's money into their own purses....... which is simply unreasonable! ”

Seeing that Donggong was angry, the three of them bowed their heads in fear. However, after Xiao He finished scolding, he asked Lu Zhaoming angrily: "Zichu, you are the leader of this case, and now the palace has to entrust it to you." In two months is my father's birthday, and this palace wants to thoroughly investigate this case before that, can you be sure? ”

Lu Zhaoming hesitated for a moment, and then when he raised his head slightly, he happened to see the expectant gaze of the crown prince Xiao He, he immediately did not hesitate, knelt down and said: "The minister obeys the order, please rest assured." ”

Then Yang Yanming and Xu Zhizhang each received the prince's will and retired.

The crown prince left Lu Zhaoming alone, and said with a slight apology: "Zichu, I know that it is not easy for you to find out about this case in two months, but I think about my current situation, you also know that Zhou Guifei and King Qin, the mother and son, really can't wait." I got a secret message that they were planning to do it on my father's birthday. Although I don't know whether the news is true or not, the situation between the DPRK and China has been confusing recently. So the household department has to be in my hands, do you know what I mean? ”

Lu Zhaoming nodded and replied: "Weichen understands, Your Highness, please rest assured, Weichen will definitely live up to His Highness's trust." ”

Prince Xiao He relaxed a little at this time, and then said: "Zi Chu, there are not many people around me who are really trustworthy now, and you are one of the few people." I guess it's never going to change between us, right? ”

Lu Zhaoming raised his head, his eyes were straight, gentle, but bright and a little cunning: "Yes, Your Highness." ”

Then the two said a few more words, and when they saw that it was not too early, Lu Zhaoming withdrew. Xu Zhizhang's carriage was waiting by a bridge not far from the side gate of the East Palace, and when he saw him riding out from a distance, he whistled loudly.

"What did Your Highness tell you? It won't be for you to make a military order, and you have to crack this case within two months, right? Zichu, I can tell you, this time the pool of water in the household department is only afraid that it is bottomless, and you don't know the depth and drown yourself in it. Didn't you see that Lord Yang was silent when he heard that His Highness asked you to solve the case within two months? In the past, he didn't rush to get the big credit for this day and put gold on his face? You and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are cousins, so His Highness shouldn't let you come out. ”

He babbled a lot, turned his head and saw that Lu Zhaoming didn't listen to a word at all, just staring at the figures of the two young men and women who happened to walk side by side downstairs.

Take a closer look, isn't that young man his half-brother Lu Xiuyun? As for the woman, she knew that she was charming and enchanting when she looked at the back, so Xu Zhizhang blurted out gossip: "Your brother is an Oiran in Shangqinglou?" Tsk, this woman's back looks very ecstatic, but I don't know what a face looks like......"

As she was talking, the woman in the pink shirt turned around and seemed to whisper a few words to Lu Xiuyun, and then raised her head, and suddenly, the smile on Xu Zhizhang's face froze there.

"This is your cousin surnamed Su! She ...... with Lu Xiuyun"

"Don't talk! If they come upstairs in a moment, you just keep your mouth shut and just drink tea and eat food. ”

Xu Zhizhang, who was ordered to shut up, was still a little unwilling, but at this time, the gossip fire in his heart was also ignited. Shaoqing saw that Lu Xiuyun really took Su Linglong upstairs to drink tea, and the private room arranged by the shopkeeper was next door, so he smiled and said in a low voice: "Could it be that what is rumored outside is true?" This cousin surnamed Su really wants to marry into your Lu Mansion? ”

Lu Zhaoming casually took a flower roll on the table and stuffed it into his mouth, and glanced at him: "Eat more." ”

Xu Zhizhang: ".......! ”

Besides, after Lu Xiuyun and Su Linglong sat down, he asked the shopkeeper to pick the best tea in the store and send it over, and personally made tea for Su Linglong, saying, "What's so fun about my sister's trip to Los Angeles?" I was riding and shooting with His Royal Highness on the school field a few days ago, and I didn't have time to talk to my sister properly. ”

Su Linglong glanced at him coquettishly when she heard this, and then said: "Brother Xiuyun, I didn't go to Los Angeles to play, it was my aunt who asked me to go over there to pick up Little Lady Song back to Beijing." It's a pity that I didn't do my job well and let her down, which is really self-reproachful. ”

As soon as Lu Xiuyun heard this, she understood that the aunt she was talking about at this time was referring to her own aunt, Mrs. Song of the Mighty General's Mansion, because he had always been close to his aunt, so he immediately said: "My aunt wants to take Song Xiaoniang back to Beijing, why did she send you?" You are a girl's family, you have traveled so far to Los Angeles, and you are not familiar with life, if I had said it earlier, I would have tried to walk with you. ”

"Oh, Brother Xiuyun, you also know that when the little lady Song left Beijing, she had a very stiff quarrel with General Song, and the Yin Mansion rarely had contact with the Song Mansion over the years. My aunt persuaded my uncle to send someone to pick her up and take her back to Beijing several times, but my uncle refused. But now I heard that the Xu Gongzi who was married to her before also died of illness, and according to the fact that Song Xiaoniang is about the same age as me, if she doesn't take her back to Beijing to discuss marriage, will my aunt really ignore this stepdaughter? In the future, the person who will be criticized will be my aunt, and my uncle will not take this responsibility! ”

In front of Lu Xiuyun, a cousin who has been loved for a long time, Su Linglong has always been gentle, delicate and reasonable, and never easily reveals her arrogance and frivolity, and her words are unflawed at the moment, so that Lu Xiuyun nodded again and again after hearing it, and said: "Aunt is indeed kind, but you have worked so hard and haven't been able to bring people back, but why?" Could it be that his Yin Mansion refuses to release people? ”