Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 135
Just now, Cui Yun was not served in the warm pavilion, and she asked Miss Aning, but she also said that she didn't know where Cui Yun was now. Why is it so difficult to find someone who can be seen without any trouble on weekdays?
"What are you looking around for? Don't you know that in the palace this is a crime?"

Cui Yun's voice suddenly sounded behind Lu Qingfeng, Lu Qingfeng looked back in surprise, but a different emotion crept up in his heart.

"Ms. Cui, I'm here to find you."

Cui Yun nodded and asked indifferently, "What's the matter? Tell me."

It was the first time for Lu Qingfeng to have such a cold face from Cui Yun. Although he didn't understand what he meant, he still thought about the important business and continued to ask, "I just want to ask, just these few days, who is there?" Have you seen the queen?"

Cui Yun immediately became vigilant, "Why are you asking this?"

Lu Qingfeng waved his hands again and again, "No, no, I don't mean anything else, and I will definitely not harm the Queen Mother, but now Master Xia and I encountered a strange thing in Fengchun..."

"You mean Li Dabao?"

"Yes! Ms. Cui also thinks this person is suspicious?"

Cui Yun nodded and said, "The queen mother has never seen this person before, but she is quite familiar with this person in her voice, and even forgave him for his disrespect many times!"

Lu Qingfeng was also surprised, "How could this be..."

Cui Yun became angry when he saw Lu Qingfeng, and his tone became unfriendly, "However, what does the Empress Dowager have to do with you?"

Lu Qingfeng pulled Cui Yun aside and whispered, "Do you know who this Li Dabao is?!"

Lu Qingfeng saw that Cui Yun's pair of autumn eyes were full of doubts, his heart moved slightly, and his tone was still serious, "He is one of the masterminds behind the Tiancaihui!"

"what?!"

"How can you let such a dangerous person see the queen mother?!"

Seeing that Cui Yun's tone became agitated, Lu Qingfeng quickly tugged Cui Yun's sleeve to calm her down, "It's the one who the queen mother asked Mrs. Lin to bring along a handbook, how can we intervene?"

"Doesn't Officer Cui feel strange?"

Cui Yun pondered for a long time before slowly opening his mouth and said, "That's why you came to ask me who the queen mother has met before. Do you think someone mentioned Li Dabao to the queen mother, and even pleaded for him?!"

Seeing Lu Qingfeng's affirmative expression, Cui Yun also became serious, thought for a moment and said, "Since arriving in Chenliu, the Queen Mother has not only reviewed the memorials, but also met the adults in the Nuan Pavilion every day, and the discussion has never involved Fengchun."

Lu Qingfeng hurriedly asked, "Is there no one else?!"

Cui Yun frowned, and said in disgust, "What are you in a hurry for?! Let me think carefully!"

"Yes! I remembered! Princess Lin Yang came back yesterday morning and said that Princess Qinghe reluctantly agreed, and Mrs. Li came here in the afternoon and brought a new purse to the Queen Mother."

Lu Qingfeng touched the back of his head, "Who is this Mrs. Li?"

He entered the palace late, and before driving the carriage for the empress dowager, he was in charge of guarding the outer palace, so he didn't know anything about the people in the inner palace.

"Mrs. Li, she was born in the Li family of Jiangzhou, and she is the elder sister of Li Lingjiang, the shepherd of Yuzhou."

"That means...she and Li Lingfeng are also related?"

Cui Yun nodded, "That's natural."

"Does Officer Cui know what they all said to the Queen Mother?"

Cui Yun frowned and said, "Lord Lu, please forgive me for not being able to tell you this."

Lu Qingfeng thought about it for a while. If Cui Yun leaked the queen mother's words, it would be really harmful. Now that he has the clues, he should check the rest by himself. The lady officer is gone! I will resign!"

After finishing speaking, Lu Qingfeng ran away like a gust of wind, leaving only Cui Yun who was eating ashes on the spot and her words "Hey! Wait!" messed up in the wind.

Cui Yun stomped angrily, "I won't eat you if you run so fast!"

"Really! Pass! Score!"

Ah Ning, who had been watching the excitement for a long time, suddenly came out, and whispered behind Cui Yun, "What's wrong with Ms. Cui? Who made you so angry?"

Cui Yun glanced at Aning's expression, and knew that she was teasing herself, "Hmph, you asked me after watching in the dark for so long?"

Aning could only shrug her shoulders and said, "I'm just curious, how can the unsmiling and strict female officer Cui be so irritable recently?"

Cui Yun asked suspiciously, "Am I very irritable recently?"

"Hmm...why doesn't it count?"

"Yesterday, Chunzhu accidentally broke a clay pot. You scolded him so much that you are still crying in the backyard."

"This morning, the queen mother just said that the food is too salty, and you almost dismantled the back kitchen."

"Hiss..." Cui Yun couldn't believe it, "Is this really me?"

"That's right, the servant girl doesn't believe that the firecracker that exploded at one point in front of me is still the gentle and generous female official Cui, so I saw you rushing out just now, so I followed up to find out."

"My servant always thought that you were taken away by someone, but I didn't expect it to be..."

Fall in love.

Cui Yun held her cheeks and asked, "I...have I really changed a lot?"

Aning mustered up his courage and nodded: "It's very big."

"Didn't you realize that Lian Qiao has been afraid to come to you again recently?"

Cui Yun muttered and sat down. Seeing Cui Yun's distraught appearance, Ah Ning also felt that what he said just now might be a bit serious, and said distressedly, "Ms. Cui, do you still remember what you said to the maidservants before?"

"Your ambitions, and your unwillingness, how come you encounter such obstacles, and you seem to be a different person?"

Cui Yun lowered her head and kept silent, and Ah Ning wanted to persuade her again, but Cui Yun raised her hand to stop Ah Ning's words, "A Ning, you don't need to say any more, I already know it myself."

"Thank you for telling me this today, otherwise I wouldn't know how wrong I was."

"I didn't take it seriously when the queen mother tried to persuade Princess Linyang. I didn't know what the song meant when I first heard it, but I was already in the song when I heard it again... What is the difference between me and Princess Linyang back then?"

"Go and do your work first. The plowing ceremony will be held in three days. There are still many things to do in front of the Queen Mother. I...I want to be alone now."

Ah Ning saw the comprehension look on Cui Yun's face, but the hands in the sleeves were tightly clenched, and she was worried, but she could only step back and go into the East Nuan Pavilion to serve the Queen Mother.

Seeing Aning walk in, Sheng Shaoqing asked casually, "How are the clothes sent to Si Yisi changed?"

Recently, I have been traveling all the time, not to mention the exhaustion, and the food is not fresh. Sheng Shaoqing lost two or three laps of weight when he arrived in Chenliu, and the dress he brought from Beijing was also a lot wider. The company asked the female historians to change it according to the current size.

"what?"

"Ah! Hu Siyi said that it should be delivered tomorrow for the mother to try again."

Seeing Ah Ning's chaotic appearance of just waking up from a big dream, Sheng Shaoqing asked suspiciously, "Where did you come from? Didn't sleep well last night or are you tired today? Why are you so confused?"

Aning grinned and just wanted to wave his hand to deny it, but Sheng Shaoqing said directly, "When you lie, you like to grin with your right mouth the most, but your eyes like to look at the left. Tell me, what are you hiding from me?"

Aning clasped his hands together and prayed: Miss Cui, don't blame me for this!
"nothing………"

"Ok?"

"Well, actually, it's because Mistress Cui has been a little strange recently. She seems to have some conflicts with Mr. Lu, so she has been unable to think about food and drink, can't sleep at night, and has become irritable."

"I only looked at her as if she had lost a lot of weight, but I didn't think she was irritable?"

She had also lost a lot of weight, so she thought that Cui Yun, like her, lost weight because of acclimatization!

Aning smiled wryly, "Naturally, Miss Cui would not dare to do so in front of the Queen Mother, but many people have already complained about Miss Cui, and the servant girl is worried that someone... will wear small shoes for Lady Cui in front of the Queen Mother."

Sheng Shaoqing said with a meaningless smile, "How could I possibly believe those pretentious and divisive words?"

Aning said solemnly, "It's one thing whether the Queen Mother believes it or not, but if Mistress Cui continues like this, I'm afraid she will lose a lot of hearts, and it won't help her at all!"

Sheng Shaoqing thought about it for a while, Cui Yun is not good at working, and her prestige will be greatly reduced, and she said seriously, "I know, I will have a good talk with her."

"You just said that she became like this because she had a fight with Lu Qingfeng?"

Aning shook his head, "From the maid's point of view, it doesn't look like it."

"It's like Miss Cui's wishful thinking."

"how you said that?"

Aning thought to himself, "The servant girl has been in the palace for several years, so she still has some insight."

Sheng Shaoqing: Okay, here comes another one who is trapped by love.

why!why!why!
After a burst of anger, Sheng Shaoqing suddenly vented, "A-Ning, go down first, and talk to her after I take His Majesty to the farm."

It was agreed to go to the old age together, but she secretly baked the oil.

Didn't they agree to see different possibilities? Why did one or two accidentally fall into the trap of love? !

【Host, besides sleeping, do you have any other hobbies? 】

Sheng Shaoqing was taken aback by the sudden question from the system, and took a moment to speak:
"Can you get extra points for this question?"

system:……………

【cannot. 】

Sheng Shaoqing: The rejection is really straightforward.

"Then you shouldn't have known when you backed me up?"

"Besides sleeping, food should be the only thing that can make me love so deeply."

[Okay, I need to ask more. 】

[You actually have no interest in the most beautiful feelings of human beings, but this coincides with us. 】

"Hey, I can't say that, I was very interested in it before."

"But since I've found that sleeping makes me happier, I don't need to."

System: 6.

"And I am also committed to getting every girl who is trapped in love out of the predicament, either fiercely happy or fiercely single!"

[Host, you should base yourself on the present moment and devote yourself to making Yunzhi's strategy succeed, otherwise, your prestige value will break the bottom line again. 】

Sheng Shaoqing:? ? ? ? ?

"I've been working hard recently!! Why are points deducted!!!"

[It's not that I deduct points, but that you agreed with Yunzhi and Ji Wenxuan, and you have mortgaged some of your points. If the plan succeeds, your points will increase exponentially, but if the plan fails, you know... ...]

Sheng Shaoqing:! ! ! !Didn't you say it earlier? !
The system was wronged and said: [I said, every time you agree with them, I remind you to be cautious, but you didn't care! 】

A picture suddenly flashed in Sheng Shaoqing's mind, and he felt a bad premonition, trembling, "What you said...couldn't be the gray number that flashed by when I promised?!"

【hold head high! 】

[This is a newly developed function that allows you to see changes in points more directly. 】

"Then why don't you just say it's a point deduction?!"

The system wondered, [Because this is not a point deduction, but a mortgage! 】

"What's the difference between that and deducting points?!"

The system still needed to explain, but Sheng Shaoqing immediately told him to shut up, "Stop talking, I understand, I'm going to work overtime now!"

Regardless of Sheng Shaoqing's stop, the system insisted on explaining, [The point deduction means that this point will never be returned, and the mortgage is temporarily withdrawn. There is a certain probability that this point will be doubled back, and it may also be doubled deducted, so the two are the same. Different! 】

"Okay, okay! It's different! Let's go!"

Sheng Shaoqing rushed back in a frenzy, and found out the nearly one month's data submitted by Yunzhi. The data she originally planned to use for research tomorrow seemed to have become points that had been pledged at that time. If she didn't work hard, But he was about to be crushed!
Chenliu is the one with the most barren land and the least population among the three nearby counties. Apart from certain geographical factors, the more important factor is the extremely frequent wars when the Jin Dynasty fell.

The war caused countless people to lose their lives. Without people, the land would naturally have no one to cultivate.The remaining arable land was firmly controlled by the local big landlords. In order to protect their own land, they even raised many soldiers at home.

The remaining people either became the tenant farmers of the big landlord, or became the guardian of the big landlord.Tenant farmers pay high land taxes, but they still may not have enough to eat.But the landlord doesn't care whether they have enough to eat, the landlord only cares about whether they can pay the tax, therefore, those who can't pay can only leave their hometowns, join the gang of beggars, and become one of the begging refugees.

Great Liang had been established for many years, and the only one who really paid attention to this matter was the late emperor.

But tax exemptions are useless.

What they lack is land.

In order to fight against the unscrupulous landlords, Yunzhi, the conscientious landlord representative, has now implemented many new laws in Chenliu. No matter what happened before, where he lived, and how much tax he evaded, as long as you are in Chenliu, you are willing to reclaim wasteland and how much you open. , these lands are yours.

At the same time, men over [-] years old are entitled to [-] mu of land and [-] mu of land, and women are not allowed to buy and sell land privately. Five households are one neighbor, five neighbors are one mile, and five miles are one party. Each level has its own official. If someone flees and migrates, they will be held accountable layer by layer and must be severely punished.

In a word, if you migrated before, you can let the past go, but now you want to run away, there is no way!
(End of this chapter)