After eavesdropping on my thoughts, the cannon fodder family went crazy!

"Your Highness, we haven't been of much help. Your Highness must have found the wrong person."

In order not to be targeted by others, Lu Jingyuan was not prepared to help him openly from the beginning. He came to thank him in such a big way, which directly put the General's Mansion into the spotlight again.

"I only came here this time to thank the general for the medicine he donated earlier. My body has not fully recovered before, so it has been delayed until now."

"It's just an ordinary herbal medicine. Your Highness, there is no need to worry."

Lu Jingyuan looked at the prince in front of him, always feeling that there was something sinister and cunning in his eyes, and he didn't want to interact too much with the person in front of him.

"Everything has been moved here, is the general going to let me move it back as it is?"

"I'm afraid His Highness the Crown Prince doesn't know that we have made an agreement with the Queen before. If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't care about the Queen's face at all, he can put these things in the General's Mansion."

The prince saw that he wanted to force them to accept these things, but Lu Jingyuan did not bother him too much.

"Why don't Your Highness the Crown Prince go back and ask the Queen if this is inappropriate?"

[Sure enough, dogs can’t change their habit of eating shit. Even if they are finally lifted from the ban, they still don’t have a long memory. 】

Lu Youyou looked at the prince in front of her helplessly. He was really not suitable to pretend to be such a wealthy man.

The prince's purpose has long been clearly written on his face.

He sent the gifts with great fanfare today just to let everyone know that the general's palace and the prince had formed an alliance.

[After using this trick once and twice, it was not enough. I actually wanted to use it a third time. 】

"The general just doesn't want to give me face?"

"I don't dare. I won't get reward for my merits. I am just an ordinary general. I can't keep such a precious thing at home."

The two men were tit for tat, but Lu Jingyuan was not at all inferior. After all, he was also a general with military power, and his words still had weight in front of the prince.

"If His Highness the Crown Prince insists on keeping these things, then early tomorrow morning, these gifts will appear in front of the Emperor."

For a military general, forming cliques for personal gain is a big deal. How could he put the lives of his whole family on the line?

Even if the person in front of him is the prince, he cannot give in at all.

Lu Jingyuan had already moved out of the emperor. No matter how dissatisfied the prince was, he could not continue the stalemate like this. If he was really anxious and sent these things to the emperor, he would be charged with forming a clique for personal gain.

In the end, the prince could not withstand the pressure brought by Lu Jingyuan and left dejectedly with his people and gifts.

Lu Jingyuan was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Originally I was just helping him out, but I didn't expect that he would repay kindness with hatred. I really can't help him!"

[He is like this to begin with. We are not helping him to make him appreciate our kindness. 】

Lu Youyou persuaded him while helping you calm down.

[My poor dad, everyone in the government is not focused on the little military power in your hand. We can't do this again in the future, so we have to be frightened. 】

The prince made such a fuss today, he must have made sure that as long as the gift landed at the general's residence, the relationship between them would be solidified.

He didn't know how someone as smart as the Queen could teach such a stupid prince. Lu Jingyuan always felt that the prince thought everyone was too simple. It's a pity that the prince never thought that Lu Jingyuan was able to reach his current position not only because of his ability to fight, but also because he must have other merits.

"The Queen also doesn't keep her word. She promised well at the time, but then regretted it later."

Lu Jingyuan couldn't care less about the distinction between monarch and minister at this moment. When he was helping the emperor conquer the country, these princes were still wrapped in diapers. What couldn't he say?

Seeing her father so angry, Lu Youyou couldn't do anything.

The prince is not a wise monarch to begin with. It would be good for dad to discover the true face of the prince now. It is better than being used and abandoned in the end.

However, even if Lu Jingyuan did not go to the emperor to complain, there was always someone who was watching the prince and reported everything that happened in the general's mansion to the emperor.

As expected, the prince was grounded again.

Forming cliques for personal gain was originally the most taboo thing in the imperial court, not to mention that he was still in the position of prince.

Although the emperor has been ignoring Sheng Jingxuan recently, it does not mean that he really likes the prince.

The emperor hated the power of the queen's mother's family, and it was even more impossible for their two sons to inherit the throne, for fear that they would all become queens and control the entire country in the future.

He was always on guard against the prince. If he made such a big move, he would naturally not be able to hide from the emperor's eyes.

After Lu Youyou learned that the prince was grounded, she deeply felt the royal family's ruthlessness, but she still felt that something was wrong.

[Why would the emperor confine the prince at this time? This is not a big deal, why did it happen suddenly...]

Before she could figure it out, new news came from Lu Jingyuan.

Sure enough, the capital began to be in chaos again.

But this time, the chaos was caused by the refugees who were running around and had no way to escape, so they chose to go to Beijing.

Lu Zhiyan also felt that there were more and more people rushing on the street recently, and there were even more people begging on the street than usual.

"This year is a year of great disaster. There was a flood just now, and now the plague is coming."

Lu Jingyuan was still looking sad when he returned home. Judging from the situation reported by the Ministry of Industry, not only the places where people lived were washed away, but the large-scale flood also brought many diseases.

【plague? 】

The elders in the family all said that there will be a great epidemic after the flood. Only today did Lu Youyou realize that this is true.

But why is everything such a coincidence? Does it really follow the plot in the book?

"The emperor wants the prince to go to control the plague. It is estimated that he will set off tomorrow."

Lu Jingyuan still didn't know what the situation was, but the emperor was so cruel that he was actually willing to let his own son go to such a dangerous place.

【This is it! It seems that Sheng Jingxuan is about to take action again! 】

Lu Youyou now feels that the timelines in the book occasionally overlap, just like now, when there is a plague after the flood in the south, and when there is no leader, the one who comes forward to take charge is the prince.

It's just a pity that the prince was so decisive once in a while, but he still couldn't escape Sheng Jingxuan's design. From the beginning, this was a trap they had tried their best to set up for the prince.

The prince was grounded after being reprimanded just now. He would not miss this opportunity to stand out in front of the emperor. That is why he accepted the order without hesitation.