Imperial County Magistrate

Chapter 13 The Black-hearted Empress
Xiao Linglong opened her eyes, and in front of her eyes was the minister of civil and military affairs who was kneeling on the ground. Seeing her wake up, they were all more happy than during the New Year.

"Your Majesty, you must take care of your dragon body. Hundreds of millions of people cannot live without Your Majesty!" The old master, one of the three princes, wiped away his tears.

Xiao Linglong stood up suddenly and gritted her teeth: "Where is that evil obstacle!"

Zhao Gou, the chief eunuch, said quickly: "Back to your Majesty, Your Highness, Your Highness should be in the East Palace at the moment."

Her Majesty the Empress stood up and looked at the ministers who were kneeling on the ground. She suddenly felt sad in her heart: "My lords, didn't I tell you when I left that you should supervise Xuance well? This is how you do things for me!"

A minister immediately cried out: "Your Majesty, it's not that we don't care, we really don't dare to care. As soon as you left, His Highness Xuance started to attack. If we said a few words, he would always threaten to leave the palace. Your Majesty, you also I know he was..."

The minister couldn't talk any more, but Xiao Linglong was about to explode with anger: "Okay! Since you can't control it, then I'll take care of it! Green Mandarin, bring me the Emperor's Sword!"

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, no, no, you don't have to do this..."

Green Yuan was so frightened that he stammered. Xiao Linglong said fiercely: "If you don't let him have a long memory, sooner or later he will end up in the hands of this bastard!"

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East Palace.

It was quite a strange scene. None of the palace maids and eunuchs were wearing palace clothes. Instead, they were all dressed as ordinary people. There were flower sellers, singers, beggars, thieves, rogue fortune tellers, and fireworks ladies. They looked just like a lively market street. It was really amazing.

On the other side, skinny eunuchs wearing paper pulp armor were fighting with each other, wielding wooden knives and swords. The most outrageous thing was that there were even female soldiers!
A young man in bright yellow clothes was lazily leaning on a wicker chair. The eunuch fanning the palace maid beside him was pouring wine. He felt very uncomfortable.

The eunuch next to him had a frown on his face. As His Highness's personal eunuch, if His Majesty returned to the palace and saw this scene, wouldn't he skin him?
With such a master in the stall, what kind of evil did he commit in his previous life?
The person on the wicker chair is naturally the evildoer Xiao Linglong mentioned, Xiao Xuance, the late emperor's only son and the biological brother of Her Majesty the Empress.

This person is really a strange person, he was originally the sure heir to the throne, but he is so evil that he has no interest in governing the country since he was a child.

Always thinking about leading troops in war and dancing with guns and sticks.

A saying that often hangs on my lips.

"God had not allowed Daqian to prosper. If Gu had been born 30 years earlier, would there still be a small country like Zhou Qijing in the world?"

In addition, he also had a heart that yearned for freedom, and always wanted to slip out of the palace to experience the sufferings of the people. The year when the late emperor died was a time of domestic and foreign troubles.

Xiao Xuance was only 12 years old. While Xiao Linglong was busy fending off foreign enemies, he sneaked out of the palace and made the eunuchs, maids, civil and military ministers anxious like ants on a hot pot.

It took two full months to find him in the outer city.

In two months, this man had a rich experience. First, because he was handsome, he was tricked by traffickers and sold into a brothel to work as a prostitute. He almost lost his anus!
After finally escaping, he was abducted by the troupe to Jiangling Mansion. At that time, the war was going on and the country was in turmoil. He escaped from the troupe by blending in with the refugees, and finally returned to the capital begging for food.

After he came back, he was very excited and asked him why he didn't reveal his identity. He said: "If I were exposed early, how could I understand the various emotions of all living beings?"

Many ministers were immediately confused.

If such a master handed over the throne to him, it would be too stable for the country. Therefore, there was a precedent for a woman from the Qian Kingdom to become the emperor.

Seeing that the little eunuch playing the beggar in front of him did not enter the role at all, Xiao Xuance, who had been begging for a month, became angry.

"I've told you several times, this is not how you ask for food! There is also a culture to begging for food!"

"Come and shout after me, take a look and see that there is a poor beggar here. Auntie is so kind and pity me, a poor man. Give me a steamed bun and some soup. I wish you a long and healthy life... Be more sincere in your words! Look in your eyes. Be sincere, I feel hungry!”

"Why are you just full? Someone bring him down and starve him for three days!"

After saying it again, Xiao Xuance sighed with emotion, "Sure enough, not everyone is a genius like His Highness, Xiao Mingzi, don't you think so?"

Xiao Xuance asked without noticing that someone had been standing behind him for a while holding a sword.Xiao Mingzi was so frightened that she almost peed. When His Highness Xuance was singing "The Lotus Falls" just now, Xiao Linglong was watching from the side, "It's over, it's over, it's over, I'm going to die!"
"Xiao Mingzi, His Highness is asking you something. Are you deaf?"

His Highness Xuance, who did not receive a response, turned his head very unhappy and muttered: "Well, you go and inform the ministers to prepare. Tonight we will play the role of an adulterer and an adulteress who poisons her husband, and let them..."

In an instant, His Highness Xuance felt as if he had been struck by lightning. Seeing a pretty face that was almost twisted with anger, he stammered in fear: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty?"

"Nie Zhan, I must beat you to death today!"

Her Majesty the Empress is angry, and the consequences will be serious!

Being able to personally lead the troops to defend the country, how could Xiao Linglong be an ordinary weak woman?

A sheathed Emperor's Sword was as powerful as seven wolves, and the sound of killing pigs filled the entire harem in an instant.

In just a quarter of an hour, His Highness Xuance no longer had the same high spirits as before when he taught people to beg for food. He was kneeling on the ground crying like a pear blossom with rain in his eyes. I felt pity for him.

"Sister, I'm your biological brother, and you're so cruel! You're going to beat me to death~ wuwuwu~Father, please open your eyes and see..."

Her Majesty the Empress was obviously so angry that even the scabbard of her sword was broken. The palace maids and eunuchs beside her were so frightened that they knelt on the ground with pale faces.

Listening to Xiao Xuance's words, the empress said angrily: "How dare you mention my father! Hang up this evil obstacle and reflect on it!"

His Highness Xuance shut up. If he continued talking, his life would really be in danger today.

A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses. He hasn't made any achievements on the battlefield yet, so it's not worth it for him to belch now.

For a whole day, Her Majesty the Empress was so angry that she didn't even eat dinner.

Green Yuan walked in with a heartbroken food box and said, "Your Majesty, please don't be too worried. After all, His Majesty is still a child, and it is normal for him to like to play."

Xiao Linglong sighed helplessly: "The urchin in the market can do whatever he wants. How can he succeed? The world will eventually be handed over to him. If this continues, won't it destroy my career!"

Seeing Xiao Linglong taking a sip of lotus seed porridge, Lu Yuan felt relieved and stepped forward: "Your Majesty, Mr. Lin came here once before and asked Your Majesty how to operate the batch of tea?"

Xiao Linglong became more energetic when she mentioned this. After all, she spent 10 taels of silver to buy it. If she couldn't sell it, she would lose it to herself.

Wouldn’t the small treasury, which is already not wealthy, be even worse?

Daqian is very poor now!
Putting down the bowl, Xiao Linglong thought for a moment and then said: "According to what Zhao Kang said, let Mr. Lin find a shop outside to sell it, make up some rumors about Tea Fairy Lu Yu, and spread them."

Green Yuan scratched his little head and said with embarrassment: "Your Majesty, do you really want a man to be a groom after drinking every night like the county magistrate said? This is too outrageous."

Xiao Linglong rolled her eyes at the girl: "Didn't Zhao Kang say that the more outrageous the advertisement, the better, and the more brainwashing the better, if it doesn't arouse the curiosity of the public, how can they steal money?"

"Just follow what Zhao Kang said, find a few more people to serve as caretakers on the first day the tea shop opens."

Green Mandarin nodded his little head and cleared the table. He remembered something and asked, "Your Majesty, how do we sell our tea? What is the appropriate price?"

Xiao Linglong picked up the memorial and said without raising her head: "One tael for 100 taels of silver."

With a shake of his hand, Lu Yuan almost threw the tray in his hand. The expression on his face was so wonderful that he admired it in his heart.

If it weren't for His Majesty, then Zhao Kang selling us 20 taels and one tael would have been outrageous.

When it comes to you, it has doubled five times. Not only are your hands black, but your heart is also black!

(End of this chapter)