on the city walls.

Chu Heng's eyes looked coldly at the location of the porridge shop in the Rui Wang's Mansion.

After being grounded for several days, he was finally released from the ban.

And the price is that his uncle Qi Yansong confessed all the crimes and cleared up the relationship between the matter and his mother and concubine.

Despite this, the mother concubine was demoted from a noble concubine to a concubine.

And he himself did not seem to have been directly punished, but in fact, he knew in his heart that he had lost the possibility of competing for the prince.

Because his father would be worried that once he ascended the throne, he would take revenge on those related to the Xu family and hurt King Rui, who was born to him and Empress Xu.

Ridiculous, ridiculous.

He has been planning so far, step by step, but because of such an old incident, he completely missed the throne.

The hateful Chu Lan took this opportunity to buy people's hearts and win over the ministers of the DPRK and China.

Even the Fan family, who had always stood on their own, turned against Chu Lan because of this and began to move closer to Chu Lan.

He can now be said to have lost most of his chances.

In recent days, the government and the opposition have been praising the good deeds of the Rui Wangfu, so he took a look for himself to see what kind of situation this Rui Wangfu was.

"Wei Qingruo is really a virtuous helper, and it's really a pity to be with Chu Yi, a sick man." Chu Heng whispered.

Beside him, Qi Shijing felt extremely harsh when she heard Chu Heng's words, but she didn't dare to make a sound.

She knew that something happened to the Qi family, which made her change from helping her cousin to dragging her cousin down.

During this time, her cousin's attitude towards her was far less than before, and he no longer even stayed in her room.

Chu Heng turned his head to look at her: "Shijing, as the princess of this king, this king hopes that you can be of some use." Today, this king took you out, also to let you see what is happening outside, time waits for no one, you and I don't have time to immerse myself in the sadness of the Qi family's accident. ”

"Don't worry, cousin, I will." Qi Shijing replied firmly.

Qi Shijing knew that she could only answer like this now, her father had been imprisoned, and she couldn't let herself lose her last use value.

Qi Shijing's eyes also fell on the porridge shop in the distance, she also had the heart to learn from Wei Qingruo, but unfortunately now the conditions in all aspects are not available, she has money, although the Qi family was raided, but the emperor read that she was young and already for the sake of Princess Yu, and did not dispose of her, and her dowry was naturally preserved.

But the current situation is that the Qi family has been raided, and she has no available people except for her henchmen in the palace, and even if she has money, she can't dispatch a large amount of grain and grass in a short time.

She needed both resources and the ability to open up various transportation channels, which she did not have at the moment.

What's more, with Wei Qingruo Zhuyu in front, if she does the same thing again, no matter what she does, she will be recognized as Dong Shi's imitation.

And her predicament doesn't stop there.

I heard that Princess Rui has recently been working with some noble ladies in the capital to build an organization called the Qunfang Society, which is specially used to help the victims, and the women involved in it are all women of the elite class.

Many of her former best friends were involved, but she was left out.

The Qi family has been convicted of framing the Duke of Xu's Mansion back then, so she has naturally become a person who has a blood feud with the Rui Wangfu, and Princess Rui will not only not let her participate in it, but will also isolate her.

So although she promised well, in fact, Qi Shijing didn't know what else she could do now.

Unless...... She was able to help the imperial court borrow food from the Tan family in the northwest.

The Qi family and the Tan family have some origins, and she also had some friendship with Tan Xiaoxiao, the young lady of the Tan family, but she didn't know if this friendship could play a role in the face of such a major event as borrowing grain.

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King Jing's Mansion.

"These are the movements of Yuwang's Mansion in recent days."

Xue Shaoyuan finished reporting the information about Yuwang's Mansion to Chu Lan.

Chu Heng has been busy with a lot of things recently, but from the current point of view, these things have no substantive effect, and several families who used to have close contacts with the Qi family are now afraid of Chu Heng, and the Lu family is even more thankful.

He tossed around, but failed to recover the decline.

Chu Lan listened to this calmly, and there was no wave on his cold and angular face, as if everything was expected by him.

Then Xue Shaoyuan continued to report about the Tan family.

"The people we sent to Xi'an Mansion to negotiate with the Tan family failed, and the Tan family said that there was no extra food."

"It's not that they don't have extra food, it's that they don't want to."

According to Chu Lan's understanding of that side, it is impossible for them to have no food on their hands.

But the Tan family refused to lend grain to the imperial court, and the imperial court could not be reluctant.

Chu Lan said: "Send someone to try it again." ”

"Yes."

"Where's the Rui Palace?" Chu Lan then asked.

"Princess Rui has been saving people with soup porridge for ten days in a row, day and night, and I haven't seen any other actions in the Rui Palace."

"How much grain and grass does Princess Rui have in her hands?" Chu Lan asked.

"The subordinates are incompetent, and it has not yet been investigated, but it has only been found that in the past six months, Princess Rui has transported a total of 30,000 stone of rice, 30,000 stone of sweet potatoes, 10,000 stone of coal, and a large amount of cotton to King Rui's mansion."

At that time, the people in the capital still thought that Princess Rui's move was a bit stupid, but now it seems that she is not only not stupid, but also very prescient.

Chu Lan paused, and then asked, "That person named Wang Jin, did you find anything?" ”

"His subordinates have not found any news related to this person, and his guide is also ......"

"So this king can understand that this person's identity may be fake, right?" Chu Lan said.

He had seen Wang Jin in Taizhou Mansion, and now this person has appeared in the capital again, if it is a real person, he must have a way to travel to and from various places.

Now there is no way to prove that this person may not exist.

"My subordinates don't know." Xue Shaoyuan replied.

Chu Lan was silent for a moment, and then let Xue Shaoyuan retreat.

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Chung Yi Bo Fu.

Bai Shi lay down for a while after being punished, but now he can get out of bed.

Sitting in front of the bookcase in his bedroom, flipping through the account books with one hand and making calculations with the other.

The more I calculate, the more annoyed I become, and the more I look at it, the more headache I get.

In the end, he simply took out his anger with the abacus and knocked it a few times.

"What are you doing here? How did you smash the abacus? ”

As soon as Wei Mingyong entered the door, he saw Bai's irritable actions.

"What else? This year, the income of the shop is extremely different, and the grain production on the Zhuangzi is also very low, which is not enough for our family's own expenses! "Bai is very irritable.

"Isn't the first two years of earnings good? The days have come the same, why are you so worried? Wei Mingyong said disapprerovingly.

"Can this be the same? In the past few years, the income was poor, but the family's account was in the public, and the insufficient part of the father and mother would make up for it. Bai gritted his teeth fiercely.