I, the prince, only want to be deposed.

Chapter 147: Pepper Room Palace, Bow Hanging on the Door
at the same time.

The Pepper Room in Weiyang Palace.

"Ok?"

Liu Che, who was having dinner with Wei Zifu in the Pepper Room, suddenly felt an inexplicable chill and shivered unconsciously.

"Your Majesty, what's going on?"

Wei Zifu quickly put down her chopsticks and looked over with concern.

Wei Zifu has been living a very comfortable life recently. This month alone, Liu Che has slept in the Pepper Room three times.

Even a few days ago, Liu Che ordered someone to hang a bow on the left door of the Pepper House, making the entire harem think that Wei Zifu had given birth to another prince for Liu Che.

This is a big joke.

Traditionally, a bow would only be hung on the door when a prince was born. How could it be hung before the baby was born?

However, since it was something Liu Che wanted to do, Wei Zifu naturally could not interfere and never asked too many questions. Anyway, as long as he was happy and remembered to come to the Pepper Palace often, it would be fine.

"Nothing, I just thought of Liu Ju for some reason."

Liu Che did not say that while he was thinking of Liu Ju, he also had a bad feeling in his heart, so as to avoid Wei Zifu from being suspicious.

However, he has secretly decided to go to Ganquan Palace in the near future to talk about his feelings with the God and see what the God has to say.

"Your Majesty ordered Juer to go to Donglai to wait for the gods. I wonder when he will be back?"

Wei Zifu picked up the chopsticks again and continued to add food to Liu Che, and asked calmly.

"I will call him back when the time is right."

Liu Che said ambiguously.

In his mind, the right time would be when Liu Ju got rid of Gongsun Qing. As for how long it would take, that would depend on Liu Ju's own ability...

……

Half a month later.

Liu Ju and his entourage finally arrived at Donglai County.

At this time, there were three more people in their convoy: Pang Yuer, Pang Yuer's mother, and Pang Yuer's sister who was about the same age as Liu Ju.

The accompanying medical officer had already examined Fatty Yuer's mother.

His diagnosis was: Bi Qi.

Liu Ju really didn't know what disease this was, so he asked a question.

So I got the explanation from the medical officer that "Yang Qi deficiency and excessive internal coldness have caused the imbalance of Ying and Wei Qi and poor blood circulation, which has led to the blockage of Qi and blood..."

Liu Ju really couldn't understand these vague things, so he had to change the way he asked:
"Okay, okay, just tell me if you can cure it or not."

When he heard this, Huo Guang couldn't help but get excited.

Because he had already known the secret that Liu Ju was actually a "miracle doctor" when he was pacifying the Kingdom of Nanyue. He thought that Fatty Yu'er was lucky to have met a miracle doctor like Liu Ju.

If the medical officer cannot cure this disease, we can appreciate Liu Ju's miraculous medical style again!
But the medical officer said in a very uninteresting way:

"Your Highness, Bi Qi is just a minor illness. He only needs to take medicine for a few days, and then I will give him acupuncture. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be able to get out of bed in about five days."

"Then leave it to you."

Liu Ju immediately became a hands-off boss.

This was because Liu Ju did not want to delay his journey because of such a small matter.

Fat Yuer was worried about his mother's condition, fearing that if she was not cured, it would delay his trip to Huang County to ask Immortal Xu for medicine and blessings, so he went with the caravan after getting Liu Ju's consent.

Half a month has passed now.

Although Fat Yuer's mother is still a little weak, she can walk on her own without any help. It seems that she will recover after some time of rest.

In this way, there is naturally no need to go to the Immortal Xu to ask for medicine and blessings.

However, Fatty Yuer and his sister named Jiujiu still insisted on repaying their gratitude to Liu Ju before leaving.

Their ideas were very simple.

They had no money to give to Liu Ju, and they had nothing to give to Liu Ju, so they worked for Liu Ju.

Collecting firewood and fetching water, making fire and cooking, lifting and carrying things, in short, as long as it is something they can do, they rush to do it, without any intention of saving their energy.

During the past half month, even the Qimen warriors and Jianzhang riders had fallen in love with these two sincere brothers and sisters.

Sometimes I even chat and joke with them.

Seeing this, Liu Ju tacitly agreed to their repayment of favor, since it was convenient anyway.

According to Pang Yuer, their mother has several relatives from her mother's side in Huang County. After they send Liu Ju to Donglai County, they will leave with their mother and go to join their relatives in Huang County.

Now the city of Donglai County is within sight.

"Your Highness, we are so grateful for your kindness. The three of us kowtow to you!"

The mother and her two daughters went out of their way to find Liu Ju, knelt before him and kowtowed three times before leaving, looking back every three steps.

The one who looked back the most times was the younger sister named Jiujiu.

Every few steps she took, her mother had to pull her back:
"Go, go, stop looking. His Highness is a very important person. It is a great blessing for him to be able to talk to you. Forget about the wishful thinking in your heart."

"But mother, His Highness looks so beautiful when he smiles."

"You can't just look at the beauty. The prince is the phoenix in the sky, so what are you?"

"Mother, are all the people in the palace as good as Your Highness?" "Your Highness is a good person, but the taxes are also imposed by the people in the palace. When your father died two years ago, if the taxes had not been raised so high, our family would not have to sell the land..."

"..."

Although Liu Ju did not treat Jiujiu as a replacement for Yishuo these days, he would occasionally chat with her to relieve his boredom.

For example, ask about the customs and culture of Donglai, learn about the local tax policies and living conditions, and find out if there are any places worth visiting in the area.

As for her, Liu Ju didn't really have any extra thoughts about her.

It was not because of her identity or her appearance. In fact, this girl who was about the same age as him was also quite pretty.

But she was really not Liu Ju's ideal type, so he was not attracted to her.

……

The governor of Donglai County was named Zhang Tao, a tall and thin man in his fifties.

In response to Liu Ju's arrival, Zhang Tao, like the previous county magistrates, arranged a lively welcome and had already tidied up the mansion befitting of a prince.

There is naturally no need to say more about these.

It was not until the welcoming banquet that Liu Ju finally made his first request to Zhang Tao:
"Grandmaster Zhang, is there any open and flat area in the county city suitable for organizing a large gathering?"

"I wonder how many people are involved in the large gathering Your Highness is referring to?"

Zhang Tao leaned forward slightly and asked with a smile.

"It will be fine if it can accommodate several thousand people, and tens of thousands would be best. There must also be a high platform the size of a living room. It doesn't have to be too high, as long as the people below can see everything that happens on the stage."

Liu Ju said according to his own idea.

"This……"

Zhang Tao stroked his beard and pondered for a moment before finally saying,

"If that's the case, I'm afraid the millet field in the west of the city is the most suitable. That place will be requisitioned as a training ground. If Your Highness wants to use it, I will order someone to build a high platform."

Zhang Tao did not ask Liu Ju what he wanted to do with this place. In his mind, this question was completely obvious. He didn't even think about what the prince was here for.
It is nothing more than holding sacrificial ceremonies to invite gods, right?

However, whether this can be accomplished remains to be seen.

Although people in Donglai often claimed to have seen fairies on the beach or in the sea, he had been the prefect here for nearly ten years and had also seen pavilions and towers appear out of thin air on the sea, and sometimes even saw people walking in the pavilions and towers.

But he had never seen a god descend to the earth.

"Then I'll have to trouble Governor Zhang."

Liu Ju smiled and said,

"I heard that there is a Huang County about 60 miles away from the county town. There is a man called 'Xu Shenxian' in the county. It is said that he is the great-great-grandson of Xu Fu from the Qin Dynasty. He seems to be somewhat of a god?"

"Your Highness has also heard about Immortal Xu?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Tao suddenly perked up and looked radiant.

"People mentioned it so often along the way that it was hard not to hear about it."

Liu Ju nodded slightly.

"Speaking of this Immortal Xu, Your Highness has asked the right person!"

Zhang Tao immediately spoke incessantly,

"If I were to tell you who is the most capable alchemist in Donglai, it would be none other than this Immortal Xu."

"Your Highness, you may not know that I was ill last year. My abdomen was swollen like a bucket. I was in pain for half a month. I sought treatment from many doctors, but none of them could help me."

"Later, I heard about this Immortal Xu, so I spent some money to ask him to come and ask for medicine and blessings."

"He gave me a pill, and after I took it, he chanted a spell. Unexpectedly, I had diarrhea the next day. This lasted for three days, and the swelling in my abdomen actually disappeared. I no longer felt any pain since then!"

"And a few months ago."

"A fisherman went to see a fairy to check his fortune before going out to sea. Fairy Xu just counted with his fingers and told the fisherman that it was not a good day to go out to sea, otherwise something unexpected might happen."

"The fisherman listened and rested at home that day."

"Your Highness, guess what? The other fishermen who went out to sea that day really encountered a storm, and six of them died in the sea!"

"There was also the Jia family in Huang County whose cow gave birth to a calf, and they also asked Immortal Xu to bless it."

"Xu Shenxian only took a look, returned the money, and left without saying anything, shaking his head."

"Later, Jia's cow had a difficult birth, and both the cow and the calf were lost!"

"There is also the wife of the Chen family in the county city who has not been pregnant for many years. She also went to ask Immortal Xu for blessings and pray for a child."

"Immortal Xu only brought her into the temple and blessed her six times. Not long after, she became pregnant, and gave birth to a boy..."

"..."

"Alright, alright."

Seeing that Zhang Tao was talking endlessly and getting more and more outrageous, he had already covered the fields of seeing a doctor, fortune-telling, seeking children, and even the affairs of animals. Liu Ju finally interrupted him and asked,

"Since this Immortal Xu is so powerful, why didn't Governor Zhang recommend him to my father?"

"I have thought about this before, but when I asked Immortal Xu, he said that his great-grandfather Xu Fu had told him in a dream to practice here and that he could not leave, let alone enter the court."

Zhang Tao shook his head helplessly and said,
"Since this is the teaching of our ancestors, I cannot force him to do it, so I have to give up."

"But since Your Highness has come to Donglai, you should be able to invite him to come and have a chat. Maybe you can even ask him to help Your Highness summon the gods."

(End of this chapter)