food queen

Chapter 645 Disposal, and Overturning Old Accounts (4)
Yun Shuo walked up to Han Qian amidst the greetings, looked at the small porcelain bottle in her hand, and asked in surprise, "What are you holding here? I seem to have seen it before."

"This is His Majesty's stuff, of course His Majesty is familiar with it." Han Qian held the small porcelain bottle and turned it slowly.

"My stuff?" Yun Shuo reached for the small porcelain bottle, but Han Qian grabbed it in his hand and refused to give it to her, "Why don't I remember that there is such a thing?"

Han Qian pointed to the koi carp that were still swimming excitedly in the pond and kept jumping out of the water, and said with a smile, "Look, three pills can make these fish so excited, it seems that this medicine must be a great tonic. "

Yun Shuo hurriedly said, "That's not necessarily the case! The medicine is three-point poisonous, so don't take it indiscriminately."

"This is not poison. If it was poison, the fish in this pond would have turned white." Han Qian smiled and nodded at Wu Miao, "I think it is a great tonic, Wu Miao, otherwise you Try one for His Majesty?"

"Uh..." Wu Miao trembled in fright, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, "It's my blessing that the empress trusts this slave, but this medicine... I think that koi is really weird, slave, slave, slave... "Wu Miao said, looking up at Sun Defu for help.

Sun Defu hurriedly bowed and said: "Madam, the slave looks so excited at those koi, presumably these medicines are nourishing medicines that are beneficial to the love between men and women. I am afraid that Eunuch Wu will not be able to try this kind of medicine. If Madam wants to try, The servant has a good idea... how about finding a cat or a dog..." Sun Defu said, his eyes glanced at the white kitten in Wu Sibao's arms.

"Ha! I forgot about this." Han Qian turned to Yun Shuo with a smile, "So Your Majesty has kept this medicine on him for a long time?"

Yun Shuo's face changed again and again, and he turned around and scolded Sun Defu: "You bastard! Don't be silly here! Get out!"

"Yes." Sun Defu was waiting for this sentence, and as if he had been pardoned for a moment, he quickly kowtowed and dragged Wu Miao to leave together.

Yun Shuo turned his head and gave Wu Sibao a wink, Wu Sibao hurriedly came forward and said with a smile: "Madam, Your Majesty found you a kitten from Persia, look, it's only four months old, and it's very good-looking .”

Han Qian had seen the kitten a long time ago, but because she was still angry, she kept holding it and refused to ask more questions. Now Wu Sibao sent the little cat up like a treasure, and she couldn't help it—then The little white cat is so cute. Han Qian has no self-control about furry things since she was a child, and she wants to hug it when she sees it.

"Isn't it fun? I heard that it was born from a cargo ship in Persia. That female cat gave birth to three, and only this one survived." Yun Shuo sat beside Han Qian, stretching out his hand to tease the kitten, He took the small porcelain bottle in her hand away.

"Well, it's fun." Han Qian gently smoothed the kitten's fur, and said lightly: "It is true that this small medicine bottle fell from you, but it happened last year. I haven't had time to pay attention to it." , I happened to see it from the box of the dressing table when I was combing my hair early today, so I took it out to try, don’t tell me you don’t know what kind of medicine is in it.”

With this reminder, Yun Shuo immediately remembered the origin of this small medicine bottle. It was a medicine bottle received from Shao Suwen last year, and it was lost somewhere later. He had a lot of things to do, so he forgot.

"Well, now that I think about it, it's really not a good medicine." Yun Shuo said, and put the medicine bottle in his sleeve.

Han Qian stood up holding the kitten, and took a cool look at Yun Shuo: "Your Majesty, please take care of it, but don't accidentally give it to someone, and be like those fish."

"Uh..." Yun Shuo looked back at the lively fish in the pond, and broke out in a cold sweat.

That night, His Majesty the Emperor was restless. He threw himself on the bed anxiously without eating and drinking. Instead, he led Han Qian out of the palace, and enjoyed the moon on the high platform paved with white marble.

"Yo, Your Majesty is free today." Han Qian leaned on the couch and took a fan and fanned it gently.

It's not too hot at this time, but there are several pots of mirabilis near here, and the fragrance of jasmine attracts some small insects to dance around the glazed lamp.

"Luo Tongjiang came to Beijing to report on his work a few days ago, saying that the river harnessing project has been completed." Yun Shuo put down the book in his hand, got up and walked over to Han Qian, took the fan in her hand and fanned it for her.

Han Qian leaned on the pillow and looked at the bright moon in the sky, and asked indifferently: "This is a political matter ahead, why is your Majesty telling your concubine these things?"

"It has been more than four years since the river control project started in the spring of the tenth year of Qingping." Yun Shuo said, laughing at himself, "It took four and a half years, not to mention the more than 800 million yuan spent. Two silver coins, just talking about the impeachment of Luo Tongjiang for corruption and accepting bribes, at least four or five hundred."

After hearing this, Han Qian couldn't help opening her eyes, and asked suspiciously, "Hasn't Your Majesty always resisted all opinions on the matter of harnessing the river? Why do you seem to regret it today?"

"It's not regret." Yun Shuo shook his head lightly: "I have never regretted this matter. Let alone four years, even if it is eight or ten years, I am determined to make this year's flood Jin He cured."

"Then it's over?" Han Qian lay back down again, reaching out to hold Yun Shuo's hand, "I still remember that year when I went to the disaster area with you and saw the miserable conditions of the people after the flood, the trees covered with mud , those houses that were washed away and the dead people everywhere... Alas! It’s been so long, and when I think of those things, I still feel panicked.”

"It's my determination to control the river. But this Luo Tongjiang is indeed no longer the Luo Tongjiang we just met." Yun Shuo sneered, "The people I sent came back and said that Luo Tongjiang's hometown is Yingzhou, but Now half of the land in Yingzhou belongs to Luo Tongjiang."

"What... what does this mean?" Han Qian asked in surprise.

"It took Luo Tongjiang four and a half years to heal Jinhe." Yun Shuo sighed with emotion, "It also took four years to earn a large fortune."

"Earn it." Han Qian repeated these two words in a low voice, with a wry smile on the corner of her mouth, "One year to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver. Not to mention that he is the most lucrative river worker in the world. And he does it every once in a while." That's four and a half years."

"Yeah!" Yun Shuo held Han Qian in his arms, gently pinching her thin silk shirt with his fingers, "Do you know that when we were in Jeju last spring, I wanted to kill him. "

Han Qian sighed lowly, and added: "But the project was not finished at the time, so we couldn't let him die."

"Yes!" Yun Shuo sneered helplessly, "I have been the emperor for more than ten years, and this is the most aggrieved thing! The royal brothers rebelled against me, and they all tried their best to want my life, but I didn't It’s nothing if I can’t kill them. I have plenty of ways to make their lives worse than death. But what kind of thing is Luo Tongjiang? I think he was just a down and out person at the time, when the Jin River broke its embankment and his family members were drowned in the flood , He doesn’t even have a meal! It’s me! I saved his life, trusted him, and reused him! I’ve lived all these years and I’ve never treated a courtier with such sincerity! But how did he do it?!”

(End of this chapter)