After being forced to marry as a substitute, I became famous in the limbo

Chapter 78 The Truth
Zhe Liu didn't have time to react too much, but nodded a little dull.

Mu Jingzhao didn't say any more, just turned his head and glanced at the study behind him, then turned and left.

It wasn't until Mu Jingzhao's footsteps gradually walked away that Zheliu came back to his senses in a daze. So, last night, did Jiang Ning and Mu Jingzhao share the same room?

Zhe Liu's eyes widened, and he began to process the information he had just received in a chaotic state.

You must know that although everyone in the whole palace knew that Jiang Ning and Mu Jingzhao were in love with each other, no one could tell the specifics.

The only person who knew a little bit about it was Jiang Ning's personal maid.

But for such a long time, Zhe Liu watched the two of them quarreling and being more than lively, but they always lacked the intimacy that lovers should have.

Although Mu Jingzhao also had a precedent of staying overnight in the cold palace, but each time, he left late at night, and the two of them never stayed in the same room overnight.

Therefore, Zhe Liu always believed that the relationship between Jiang Ning and Mu Jingzhao was just a cover made up by Jiang Ning to earn money from everyone, and it was not as close as everyone said.

That's why Zheliu worked so hard to make Jiang Ning win Mu Jingzhao's favor.

And now, she seems to have succeeded?

Zhe Liu took a deep breath, as if he hadn't recovered from the shock not long ago.

She walked quickly to the door of the study room, and cautiously pushed her index finger against the door frame. The door creaked open with a small crack. Zhe Liu hesitated for a moment, then leaned forward, her eyes fell. On the bed next to the bookshelf.

The quilt on the bed was neatly folded aside, and there was no wrinkle on the neatly spread sheets.

Somewhat inexplicably, Zhe Liu exhaled lightly, she took a step back, and when she was about to close the door and leave, she caught a glimpse of a petite figure beside the desk from the corner of her eye.

Zhe Liu smiled, then closed the door and left.

When Jiang Ning woke up, the sky was already bright, she opened her eyes, her thoughts were in a trance for a moment, and then she finally realized where she was.

The prolonged heavy pressure made her arms numb for a while, she raised her sore neck with some difficulty, and twisted it left and right twice, which relieved the discomfort between her neck a little.

Even so, Jiang Ning still didn't dare to act rashly. She leaned back a little tiredly, and slumped on the chair, feeling the convulsive numbness spreading all over her body.

After an unknown amount of time, she finally tried to support the chair with her hands and stood up.

There was no one in the hall, the table top of the originally messy desk had already been tidied up, and the traces of Mu Jingzhao's vigorous writing had long since disappeared.

It was noon at this time, and some dazzling sunlight shone into the hall from the window, illuminating a small corner between the bookshelves.

A burst of warm ink fragrance spread in the room with the sunlight, and drifted into Jiang Ning's nose leisurely.

She closed her eyes, barely suppressing the slight discomfort in her body, "Your Majesty?"

She yelled in a moderate voice, but there was no response from the hall.

"Your Majesty, all the vegetables you planted were eaten by bugs."

Still no response at all.

Jiang Ning rolled his eyes, then sat up from the chair in an instant, and walked slowly towards the depths of the bookshelf.

Even after being moved into the cold palace, Mu Jingzhao's bookshelves remained as orderly as in the royal study, with each row and column arranged in an orderly manner, making it very convenient to look up.

After going through life and death in the palace so many times, Jiang Ning became more and more proficient in doing such things.

She walked slowly among the bookshelves, and found Gong Guo's historical events in the past two years almost effortlessly.

She took out the book casually, and quickly searched through the pages, but after a while, she found the relevant content of the Yantie official camp that year.

The things recorded in it are not detailed, and the description in the text is not far from Jiang Ning's imagination.

When the new emperor came to the throne, in order to consolidate the regime and solve the fiscal deficit accumulated by years of war, he began to suppress salt merchants and implement the government-run policy of salt and iron.

Qingshui County, where the Jiangning family was located, was the first target.
It took only three days for Mu Jingzhao to issue the task, and the hard bone of Qingshui County was gnawed down. From this, the policy was logically spread across the country.

Soon, the treasury deficit was gradually resolved.

This matter has been recorded with a full page, almost all of which are praises and praises for Mu Jingzhao's wise and martial policy, and there is nothing else.

The implementation of the government-run policy of salt and iron is known as the most wise decision Mu Jingzhao has made since he took the throne.

However, in this history book, there is no substitute for the bloodshed and sacrifice in it.

Jiang Ning suddenly felt a little ironic. She stared at the words and sentences on the book. The strong handwriting on it looked like bloodstains, covering every inch of her relative's skin ferociously.

She knew that she was not qualified to criticize Mu Jingzhao's actions, but equally, she could not forgive her either.

Jiang Ning's hand holding the page kept tightening as she read, and the strength of her fingertips left a series of hideous creases on the page.

She bent down, exhaled heavily, and her eyes fixed on the paper between her fingers.

A sense of powerlessness came to her like a tide, and the powerlessness when she woke up instantly hit her, her legs gave way, and she fell down.

She sat down leaning against the bookshelf, and the open book was scattered in her hand.

"Ma'am, are you awake?" Zhe Liu's voice came from outside the door, and Jiang Ning's thoughts were interrupted instantly. She looked towards the source of the voice, and saw Zhe Liu's figure gradually approaching on the door and window.

She picked up the book at hand, quickly closed it, and put it back in place.

However, because her movements were too flustered, the book was only half stuffed in, and the back of the other half was suspended in the air, making the book look extraordinarily out of place in the neatly arranged bookshelves.

Zhe Liu pushed open the door, and saw Jiang Ning panicked between the bookshelves at a glance.

Jiang Ning dodged and blocked the book behind him.

Even so, Zhe Liu remembered the name of the book in an instant.

"Niang Niang, why didn't you answer my words when you woke up?" Zhe Liu said so, but there was no sense of blame in his words.

Jiang Ning suppressed the uneasiness in his heart reluctantly, and smiled slightly, "I didn't hear it just now."

"Well, it's almost time for lunch now."

Jiang Ning nodded, but still did not leave.

"You go first, I will come right away."

Zhe Liu nodded slightly, and walked out first, Jiang Ning pushed the book into the bookshelf.

listen to her

(End of this chapter)