Chapter 198: Sudden Change in the Storm
Zhu Jian couldn't bear it in his heart, but for the sake of his master's plan, he could only nod ruthlessly: "It was the prince who sent his subordinates out to find the princess, please go back with the princess and her subordinates!"
"The night is cold and dewy, and there are many snakes, insects, rats and ants by the river, so the princess should leave with her subordinates!"
Mo Ruxue was motionless, under the cool moonlight, looking blankly at the calm river, and muttered to himself: "The lantern I put last time obviously arrived on the other side safely, why didn't my wish come true?"
"Sure enough, it's all a liar!"
She wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve and stood up, her cloak falling to the ground.
She bent down and picked it up, this is the cloak of the concubine!
Ten fingers clutched the cloak tightly, and her heart was like a knife, it turned out that the concubine asked him to send someone out to find her.
Does he just not want to see her like that?
Spreading out the palm of her hand, a piece of mutton fat jade pendant was held tightly in her hand all the time, and with her body temperature, the dark green tassels fell to her hand.
Tears fell on the jade pendant, Mo Ruxue couldn't help rubbing her hand, and whispered: "I still treat the things he gave me as a treasure!"
The bamboo sword recognized at a glance that this was the jade pendant that Xiao Yonghan had worn since he was a child, and regarded it as a treasure.
A parabola was crossed, and the jade pendant was thrown out by Mo Ruxue, and was quickly caught by the bamboo sword eye before it landed.
Zhujian stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
She turned around resolutely: "You go! I don't want to see you! You can return the jade pendant to him!"
How dare Zhu Jian leave, he followed her not far away.
Mo Ruxue didn't go far before she saw Cao Lao standing on the side of the road with a lantern, looking at her kindly.
"Enough crying, my old man is still going to come and see the excitement, hey, it's a step too late!"
Mo Ruxue couldn't help laughing: "Can you see it?
"Tsk, how old is the child, and you still want to save face! Let's go, go back with me! Have you eaten, do you want to give you a note?"
Mo Ruxue pursed her lips and said, "Can you eat the noodles you cooked?"
"Hey, I'm talking about you...... I really haven't cooked it! I'm just polite, you are serious!"
Back in Murong Mansion, Mo Ruxue personally cooked a pot of sauerkraut meat and silk noodles.
"It's so fragrant! girl, I didn't expect you to really know how to cook!"
"Of course, it's a must-have survival skill. Otherwise, if you take me to the rivers and lakes in the future, I will be hungry every day!"
Hearing this, Cao Lao's face became solemn: "What's wrong with you? Xiao Yonghan's kid is looking for you all over the street tonight, why didn't he go with you?"
"He came to me?"
"Yes, I came with him. Cao Lao pointed to the bamboo sword standing at the door.
Mo Ruxue stared sharply at the bamboo sword, and sneered: "It can't be that the concubine forced him out, right?"
Zhu Jian smiled awkwardly and explained: "No, the prince is very anxious, it is the prince who asked his subordinates not to tell the princess...... The prince did run all over the streets and alleys with his subordinates to find the princess. ”
"Oh, he must be embarrassed! He really wants to save face and suffer the crime! I will accompany you back tomorrow to scold him!" Cao Lao acted as a peacemaker and hurriedly said good things to Xiao Yonghan.
Mo Ruxue was noncommittal, although she still had a straight face, her face softened a little.
Mo Ruxue beckoned Zhu Jian to sit down and eat noodles together, and a pot of noodles was divided among the three of them, and the soup base was drunk by them.
After eating the noodles, Zhujian was driven back by Cao Lao, saying that he would go back to report to Xiao Yonghan.
Cao Lao burped contentedly: "This noodle is good! ”
"Hehe, dare Ouyang Xun didn't call you to eat every day?
"Ahem, their family eats rice every day, and I'm tired of eating it! The table full of delicacies from the mountains and seas is not as good as your bowl of sauerkraut and meat and silk noodles. ”
Mo Ruxue didn't have other cooking skills before, so she would cook noodles and make fragrant sauces.
"I can make more noodles! What spicy beef noodles, braised pork rib noodles, spicy beef offal noodles, tomato egg noodles, fragrant seafood noodles and so on. ”
"In addition to noodle soup, I will also make mixed noodles, and the boiled sauce will be stirred into the noodles, and it will be fragrant!"
Cao Lao couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and said expectantly, "Then when are you going to make it for me?"
"I'm not going to make it for you! I'm just telling you about it. ”
Cao Lao: "......"
Cao Lao glanced at Mo Ruxue, raised his head arrogantly and said, "Don't do it for me, I'll go back and find the cook to make it for me." ”
"Even if you look for the cook of Fumanlou, he may not be!"
"I don't believe it! The seafood porridge that people cooked last time was very good, I only said a name, and people will, such a smart chef can't even make a bowl of noodles?"
Mo Ruxue came to Cao Lao's side and lowered her voice and said, "That's the recipe I gave, I am the owner of Fumanlou, the seventh son, they really don't know how to make noodles." ”
Cao Lao looked at Mo Ruxue in shock, and frowned: "What you just said is true?"
"It's true! I have told you all my secrets, and you will cover me in the future. When I live on the streets, will you please take me in?"
Cao Lao sneered: "You are living on the streets! Why don't you help me now!"
"The industry of the seventh prince is all over Kyoto, and the name is quite loud! I was thinking about when to visit him, but I didn't expect it to be you!"
No wonder I usually go to Fumanlou for dinner, no matter what I order, they do it, and they never collect money. ”
"I originally thought it was recorded in Ouyang Xun's account. By the way, is Ouyang Xun also doing things for you?"
Mo Ruxue nodded: "To be exact, he is the boss." I haven't even bothered much, hehe!"
"Who else knows who you are?"
"Xiao Yonghan also knows, recently I found out that Dai Duo of Mo He Country also knows, and Dai Duo has met with me. ”
"Then it is estimated that Xiao Yongyan already knows that it is not a good thing for you to be rich and rival the country!"
Mo Ruxue: "I made an agreement with Xiao Yongyan that I would pay him a tribute of 100,000 taels of silver every year, and the grain and cloth would be determined as appropriate, and he would not touch me for the time being." ”
Cao Lao smiled meaningfully, she was really too young!
If she knew who was the mastermind behind the assassination of Rong He, I am afraid she would not be so calm.
Cao Lao knew that the treasury had been empty in the past few years, and these silver and grain cloth were exactly what Yan needed the most.
He patted Mo Ruxue on the shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work! You are known as the Prince of July, and I have heard of all those good deeds in Kyoto." It is a blessing for me to have a woman like this! "
"Rest early! Tomorrow Uncle will take you to scold that stinky boy of the Xiao family!"
Mo Ruxue actually didn't really want to go back, but there were some things she still wanted to ask in person.
"Okay, let my uncle bother!"
The next morning it was overcast and it seemed to rain.
Cao Lao took Mo Ruxue to Luowang's Mansion, but was stopped at the door by the guards.
One of the guards walked up to Mo Ruxue and whispered, "It's not the villains who are stopping the princess, it's the prince who said that the princess won't let the princess in......"
"What?" Cao Lao was furious when he heard this: "Is Xiao Yonghan crazy?
Mo Ruxue suddenly had a bad premonition.
After a while, Xiao Yonghan came out, holding a bright yellow holy decree in his hand.
"Xiao Yonghan, what do you mean?" Cao Lao looked at him dissatisfied.
"Elder Cao, you can take a look at this decree first. ”
Cao Lao snatched the holy decree over, and after reading it, his face changed greatly, and he looked at Mo Ruxue and stopped.
Mo Ruxue hurriedly took the holy decree over, and the words in it gave her a headache.
Her face became more and more ugly, and after reading it, she asked Cao Lao in disbelief: "What this holy decree means is that Mo Xu is corrupt and perverts the law, and the Mo family is all under house arrest waiting for investigation, right?"
Cao Lao nodded helplessly.
Xiao Yonghan couldn't bear to look at her haggard face, so he hardened his heart and didn't look away.
He paused for a moment and said coldly: "Your letter of resignation, I will send someone to the Mo Mansion later." ”