The palace is quiet, and the empress of the cold palace is acting as a demon

Chapter 251

Ning also agreed to finish dinner with Qin Wan in the evening.

But a table of dishes turned hot and cold, and after several rounds, Qin Wan didn't wait for Ning Yi to return to Chonghua Hall.

"Liuying, go and find out if the meal has been passed on from the Xuanzheng Hall. If not, you can ask someone to make something simple and send it to you quickly, and then ask what happened." Qin Wan said to Liuying worriedly. Said.

Liu Ying curled her lips: "Mother, it's okay to pass on the meal, but let me inquire about what is going on in the Xuanzheng Palace. I will kill you to inquire about it. Now you are wholeheartedly preparing for your wedding with His Majesty and your queen." The canonization ceremony is fine, you must not participate in government affairs and military affairs, the servants are really afraid."

Qin Wan smiled softly: "Okay, okay, can't I stop asking?"

According to Qin Wan's instructions, Liuying went to help Xuanzheng Hall pass on the dinner.Ning was not there, and Qin Wan had no appetite, so he asked Li Yu to remove all the food, and stared at the map of Kyushu in a daze.

After a while, Liuying came back and saw Qin Wan looking at the map, without saying a word, she took the map off the wall, rolled it up and said coldly: "Your Majesty, I can't read this map anymore."

Qin Wan had no choice but to smile bitterly: "How about the Xuanzheng Hall?"

"It seems to be very busy over there. I have asked the kitchen staff to order noodle soup and send it there according to the number of people. It is estimated that His Majesty will not be able to come back tonight." Liu Ying said with a sigh, and then tied up the map and handed it to Carp. She found a place to hide where the empress could not find it.

In this way, under Liuying's "close supervision", even though Ning Yi did not return to Chonghua Hall from Xuanzheng Hall for many days, Qin Wan still had no idea what happened.

The things she has to deal with are nothing more than what kind of curtains to use for the big wedding, what color to embroider on the dress, what kind of flowers to use, and so on.

"Liu Ying, you can do whatever you want without asking me about everything. And make it more solemn, remove all the fancy parts and unnecessary ceremonies, and I don't want to see those things after canonization. Madam ordered that all palace banquets such as flower viewing banquets be cancelled, and all activities are only left to go to Ziwu to watch incense." Qin Wan ordered.

Liuying said: "Those wives are looking forward to attending the banquet, so that you can get to know their daughters. Now the wives in the city say that Mrs. Du is so successful because Miss Du is favored in front of you. .”

"It's because they have such terrible thoughts that I can't easily meet them." Qin Wan said with a smile, "Whether the adults can get promoted or get rich depends on their own abilities, and I can't get any cheap from me. Du It is really unfair for Liang to become the internal envoy of Zhili by his own ability, but it is said that he was promoted because of Du Yueer's favor with me."

Liu Ying said from the side: "That's not because everyone knows that His Majesty loves the Empress, and thinks that your words of pillow talk might make those officials work hard for ten years."

Qin Wan smiled wryly: "It's still windy on the pillow, I haven't seen Ning Yi in how many days."

"Then you go to the Xuanzheng Hall to see His Majesty." Li Yu interrupted abruptly.

Hearing this, Qin Wan and Liu Ying exchanged glances.

Qin Wan said: "Let's go, Liuying, let's go to Xuanzheng Hall to see Ning Yi."

Qin Wan brought Liu Ying to the Xuanzheng Hall, and saw many officials and generals hurried out of the Xuanzheng Hall, all of them frowned, with serious faces, when they saw Qin Wan, they bowed their hands and hurriedly left.

They were followed by Mrs. Du Liang who also had a bad complexion. When he saw Qin Wan, he immediately saluted seriously: "My humble minister Du Liang, I have seen Mrs. Qin."

Qin Wan asked politely, "Lord Du, why are there so many people entering and leaving the Xuanzheng Palace? What happened?"

Du Liang said: "Reporting to Mrs. Qin, the Yangtze River flooded, and the people on both sides of the river were severely affected. In some areas, there were riots caused by the victims, and in some areas, plagues occurred due to the disaster and the heat..."

Qin Wan was puzzled: "Isn't Changhe always building water conservancy, how could it suddenly cause such a big problem?"

Du Liang said: "It is said that a wealthy businessman in Chizhou built hundreds of ships and held a ceremony on the Changhe River to show off. The noise disturbed the river god of the Changhe River, and the river god was furious, thus causing a disaster."

In the past, Qin Wan would have scoffed at them, calling them feudal superstitions, but now she knows that there are such things in the heavens, and so do the river gods.If I remember correctly, when she was sending flowers to the banquet in the heaven realm, she had seen the Lord Changhe River God from a distance.

Qin Wan recalled with squinted eyes, and murmured: "If that lord loses his temper, then the rich businessman must have done something quite annoying..."

Seeing Qin Wan's appearance, Liuying immediately said, "Ma'am, what are you thinking about? As soon as you think about things now, my heart is in my throat."

Qin Wan ignored Liuying's anxiety, but asked Du Liang, "Is there any good way to deal with the flood now?"

Du Liang shook his head and sighed, "Your Majesty has opened a storehouse to provide relief and deployed troops, but the wrath of the River God has not subsided, and there is still no cure."

Qin Wan thought about it, she couldn't control this matter, even if Qin He stepped forward, it would be useless.

It's like the household department can't control the affairs of the Ministry of Industry, and the internal officials can't control the affairs of the military camp.What's more, Qin He and her had never had any contact with this Lord Changhe River God when they were in the heaven, so they couldn't get any face.

Qin Wan thought again, the last time she went to Taiyue to ask Haotian for help, even if Haotian didn't come at all, just thinking of Ning Yi's expression of wanting to kill someone after knowing it, she knew that it was unrealistic to ask Haotian to help.

Thinking of this, Qin Wan said to Du Liang: "Thank you Lord Du for telling me, you can go and get busy. Since His Majesty is not free at the moment, it is inconvenient for me to disturb you, Liuying, we are also returning to Chonghua Hall."

Du Liang bowed his hand and resigned, while Qin Wan turned around and returned to the palace with Liu Ying.

On the way back to the Chonghua Palace, Qin Wan said to Liu Ying: "Let's put aside the matter of the big wedding, I guess Ning Yi won't be able to take care of it for a while."

"But empress, you and His Majesty have been procrastinating on this big wedding..." Liuying frowned.

Qin Wan sighed: "In the eyes of the floods in the south, if the emperor is still busy with the wedding at this time, what will the common people think... Let it go, don't rush this moment."

Liuying had no choice but to obey orders.

Back in the Chonghua Palace, Qin Wan sat by the window with her chin resting on her hands. The hot air made her uncomfortable. She fanned her round fan, looked at the constellations in the sky, and thought of the Lord River God whom she had only met once.

He seems to be only ten years old, wearing a dark black cloak, short black hair, bangs almost covering his big and bright eyes, although he is a beautiful little boy, his face is cold and cold. any smiles.

"What kind of thing is it that angered Lord River God?" Qin Wan thought about the whole problem and ordered the carp to find strong food.

When Lie Xie arrived, he asked Qin Wan warily, "Ma'am, what are your orders?"

"Liexiu, I have something to trouble you. Now take someone to Chizhou to investigate and find out what the rich businessman in Chizhou did to anger Lord Heshen?" Qin Wan said.

Lie Xie frowned: "Ma'am, do you want to take care of Chizhou's affairs?"

Qin Wan pouted: "I don't care, I'm just curious."

"Yes, I'm going to Chizhou right now." Lie Xie was a person who never complained about work, but after she took the order, she realized that Qin Wan's words of "curiosity" would definitely make everyone feel uneasy.

(End of this chapter)