Luo Jingxin sat on the throne and said, "The Wang family's business in the past two years has not been as good as before, but it has been in business for generations, and its reputation among businessmen is not low."

"I just need you to help me do one thing, that is, don't give disaster relief, no matter who mobilizes you and how high the conditions are for you, don't agree, because what I can give you is something that others can't help you."

Master Wang didn't understand what she meant, raised his head and asked, "What does the county lord mean by this?" Let me not cooperate with the fundraiser?"

"Yes, not only do you not cooperate, but you also have to persuade other businessmen that they are not allowed to raise donations, as for the reason, you don't need to know, but Master Wang is a smart person, I don't need to say more to guess the reason, as long as this matter is done, next year's imperial businessman will definitely belong to the Wang family."

Master Wang looked at her in surprise and said, "Really?"

Luo Jingxin smiled disdainfully, "It's just an imperial businessman, whose it is is just a matter of one sentence, Master Wang still wants to think about how to persuade other businessmen to resist disaster relief."

"Yes, yes, I will do my best to share the worries of the county lord."

Master Wang went back to the house and pondered for a while, what is the intention of this county lord, and what is the benefit of disturbing the Huang Shang Jia disaster relief for her, and she can actually exchange the imperial merchant for it.

Before he could figure out the reason, someone came to report, "The lady of the Shepherd's Mansion asks to see me."

He hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, and before he had taken a few steps, a little girl came in with a smile on her face.

"I've seen the Lady of the Shepherd's Mansion." He saluted.

Lin Yanxi was stunned, and said with some embarrassment: "I haven't married yet, so it's okay for Master Wang to call me Yan Xi."

Master Wang looked at her, Lin Yanxi, the second lady of the Taifu Mansion.

Among the nobles of the capital, Luo Jingxin is the leader, who is both talented and beautiful, and then looks at the bright and moving little face of the girl in front of her, her skin is fine and fair, and her facial features are delicate and lovely, especially when she laughs, her eyes are bent into crescents.

In such a comparison, this Luo Jingxin's beauty was overshadowed a little, and I heard that the prince also favored this side lady, although he had not yet passed the door, he was taken care of by the house early.

He sneered coldly in his heart, and immediately understood Luo Jingxin's intentions.

After Lin Yanxi sat on the chair, he expressed his intention and said, "Master Wang, there are more and more refugees in this capital, and the disaster relief funds are far from enough. You have a very high position among the merchants, can you help lobby a thing or two?"

Master Wang took a sip of tea, put the teacup on the table and said, "Second Miss, since you are not called Mrs. Side, then I will call you Second Miss."

"Second Miss, it's not that you don't want to help, it's that you can't help, the Wang family has declined over the years, plus my rebellious son has been in trouble all day long, and has offended many people, and now the people who can speak are the Zhao and Qiao families, but the business of these two families is almost unsupportable, and they are really powerless."

He let out a long sigh and shook his head.

Lin Yanxi was about to say something more, but Master Wang interrupted: "Second Miss Lin, you are all from the imperial court, in the end, we are just running some small business, and we really can't help, if it is a disaster relief, I am incompetent."

She had prepared a belly of lobbying along the way, and practiced repeatedly in the carriage, but she didn't expect to be rejected as soon as she spoke.

Master Wang said, "If there is nothing to do, the old man has something else to do."

"Sending off."

After Lin Yanxi came out of the Wang family, he ran a few more according to the booklet, but they were all rejected, and even a few were directly given closed-door soup.

She realized that something didn't seem right.

As if they had expected her to come, the conversation was highly uniform, as if it had been arranged in advance.

It was getting late, and the moon stretched her shadow long, and she seemed a little lonely on the deserted path.

Until a carriage stopped in front of her.

"Second Miss." Xiao Liule stopped the carriage and took her home.

The first thing Lin Yanxi did when he returned to the house was to find Jiang Mingsheng, where he lived was in an abandoned courtyard of the Muwang Mansion, which was more modest than the main courtyard.

A white-bearded old man and a half

Squinting and enjoying the shade on the chaise longue, he crossed Erlang's legs, and the fan in his hand shook more and more slowly.

"Master!"

The little girl suddenly appeared, jumped in front of him, startled him, and after seeing the person in front of him, his eyes were complicated for a moment.

Jiang Mingsheng reluctantly got up from his chair, yawned, and asked tentatively, "Good apprentice, why did you come here so late?"

He had actually guessed why Lin Yanxi came.

Regarding the dissipation of the talisman in her body, he has been looking for a reason, but there has been no result yet.

Lin Yanxi sat down on the chair next to him, stretched out his hand, and there was a soul ring hanging around his neck, "I...... It seems that I can't use the spell anymore, and I can't feel any rune power in my body."

Jiang Mingsheng didn't have a surprised expression on his face.

He asked, "Is the wound in your heart healed?"

Lin Yanxi touched his heart, and there was still a trace of pain when he pressed hard.

"Hey, it hurts a little if you press hard."

"That's right, that's not okay, I told you a long time ago, and I'll think about the rune when you're injured." He stretched out his hand and pinched her face and said, "Can I harm you, Master?"

"Oops, it hurts." Lin Yanxi pouted and rubbed his face, seeing that Master was angry and was busy coaxing him, "Naturally, Master is the best person for me."

Jiang Mingsheng stroked his beard and smiled, it seems that he is going to visit Jiang's family in the next few days.

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Early the next morning, Lin Yanxi didn't rush out of the house, but locked himself in the room and studied the ancient book that recorded talismans.

She was worried that her spell had disappeared for another reason, and not just because of the knife wound in her heart.

"Miss." Chestnut whispered outside the door.

After Lin Yanxi put the ancient books away, he opened the door, and Lizi said, "A little girl just came and said that Her Royal Highness wants to see you."

"Which Highness?" Lin Yanxi wondered.

"The man did not identify himself, and only left the location, in the Water Pavilion on South Street, and he said that the young lady could only go alone."

Claiming to be His Royal Highness in the capital, and bringing a little girl by his side, Luo Qizhen?

What is he doing at this time?

Chestnut worriedly, "Miss, don't go, will there be any danger?"

When Lin Yanxi guessed the other party, Luo Qiyu raised his hand and said, "Then I want to see what he means."

As she spoke, she walked out the door, and Chestnut followed her, "Then Miss, I'll go with you."

Lin Yanxi said: "Since the other party said that I should go alone, there should be something to discuss with me, and the Water Pavilion on South Street is full of people, don't worry."

South Street is not as prosperous and lively as Chang'an Street, and the moat surrounds the entire capital along South Street, stretching all the way to the palace, but the drought of these days has revealed the dry riverbed.

The river has dried up, and many people are standing on the riverbed holding lotus leaves in one hand and digging down desperately with the other, trying to collect a small handful of water to relieve their urgent needs.

A man stood in the pavilion of the water pavilion, and his noble temperament could be seen only from his back, standing out among a group of ordinary people, and he was followed by a little girl with a long knife on her back.

"Prince Dongyang." Lin Yanxi walked to the Water Pavilion and saluted.

Luo Qiyu turned to look at her and asked, "Did you guess it was me?"

Lin Yanxi tilted his little head and looked at him and said, "Is it hard to guess?"

Luo Qizhen smiled and said, "You are so clever, it must not be difficult, you don't need to call me a prince, just call me by my name."

She curled her eyes heartily, hooked her lips and smiled, "Brother Qiyu."

"Then I don't know what happened when Brother Qiyu came to me today?"

Luo Qiyu looked back and said, "Yinghong."

Yinghong is not very old, she looks a little younger than Lin Yanxi, and her tone is hard, "Yes."

After speaking, she took the sad long knife in her arms and stood outside the Water Pavilion as she fought the hundreds

The surnames all walked around this pavilion, and no one dared to approach.

Luo Qiyu said: "Actually, it's not a big deal, but I just think that maybe the girl may need the help of Dongyang merchants, and I am the most suitable to come forward as the prince of Dongyang."

Lin Yanxi's eyebrows frowned slightly, this Luo Qiyu is really interesting, his status in the palace is extremely low, and as a proton, he can't even leave the palace at will.

But he was well-informed, and he could actually know what was happening outside, and took the initiative to find her and was willing to help Nan Min solve her urgent need.

Seeing her complicated expression, Luo Qizhen smiled and said, "What? Don't believe me?"

Lin Yanxi asked, "My mother once said that when the pie in the sky smashed on your head, don't just be busy and happy, but first ask why the pie hit you."

"Haha, what a quirky girl." Luo Qiyu put away the fan, "Maybe it's to thank you for helping me out that day."

"Don't you want to accompany me for a casual stroll on South Street?" He asked.

said that he was asking, but before Lin Yanxi could answer, he walked in front, Yinghong walked last, Lin Yanxi was sandwiched in the middle, and he could only follow to the front.

"Have you been to South Street before?" He asked.

Lin Yanxi thought about it carefully and realized that he had never been to South Street in his two lives, "No."

On both sides of South Street, there are mostly itinerant vendors, and the management is relatively loose, and on both sides of Chang'an Avenue are shops, and there are officers and soldiers patrolling the street, and no one dares to make trouble, in contrast, South Street is particularly chaotic.

The streets were full of children running around begging.

"Sister, let's enjoy a few copper plates." Two or three children suddenly ran out to surround Lin Yanxi.

Lin Yanxi took out a few copper plates from his waist and put them in their hands, took the money, and the children ran away.

"The sachets on this stall smell good." Lin Yanxi picked up a sachet from a stall, sniffed it under the tip of his nose, and then put it down again.

Luo Qiyu said, "This is Dongyang's Mu Baihua. You like what I gave you."

Lin Yanxi ran to the next stall and said, "Don't."

The two walked a short distance and walked into the largest shop on South Street, Dongyang Pavilion, which was the sixth merchant in the book.

The Dongyang Pavilion is small enough to eat, and large to the very Dongyang-style food table, soft collapse, gemstone jewelry and the like.

The shopkeeper of Dongyang Pavilion saw that it was Luo Qiyu, and saluted, "Your Highness."

"Your Highness, please go upstairs, and I'll go and inform the Pavilion Master."

Luo Qiyu took Lin Yanxi upstairs and sat down in a private room with a view of the street.

He asked, "What do you want to eat?"

Lin Yanxi sat there looking a little well-behaved, "It's okay."

He speculated on the little girl's favorite taste and said, "Let's take a few dishes, the taste is lighter and the taste is sweeter."

"Yes." The personal hospitality of the shopkeeper.

Lin Yanxi's eyes swept out of the window, and at this position, he could see someone in the riverbed along the street directly sticking his tongue to the slightly moist river sand to quench his thirst.

Her mood was inexplicably heavy, the corners of her lips were slightly straightened, and her brows were tightened.

Luo Qiyu followed her line of sight and looked out, and knew the reason why her smile was raised.

She withdrew her gaze and said, "So what's the condition?"