Demon King and Concubine

Chapter 198 Meeting in the Cold Palace (1)
Her face suddenly changed again, biting the hair in her hand, she began to cry, and said, "But Lu'er is dead, she died in front of me in order to save me, woo woo woo."

She was half mad and half awake, sometimes laughing and sometimes crying, driving Concubine De almost crazy.

Concubine De sat on the ground and kept backing away, her expression panicked, the woman suddenly raised her head after crying for a while, and then pounced on her.

"what--"

Concubine De screamed in panic, but the woman grabbed her shoulders firmly, pinning her down on the ground so that she could not move.

"Cheng Peilan, where is my son? Where did you take my son?"

"Let go, let me go! I don't know what you're talking about, isn't your son dead? He's already dead!"

The woman clasped her shoulders and shook her vigorously, hitting her head on the ground with a "bang bang", laughing and crying, "You nonsense! That's not my son at all, no! , Where did you get my son? Tell me, tell me!"

His Highness the Third Highness was so worried about his mother and concubine who had been locked up in the cold palace, that he felt depressed, suffered repeated injuries, and fell ill in bed again.

Everyone in the world said that His Highness the Third Highness was filial, dragging that hurt body into the palace, not hesitating to annoy the emperor but pleading for mercy for the mother and concubine, it's really admirable and admirable.

But at this moment, the Third Highness, who should have suffered repeated injuries and was so heavy that he couldn't even get out of the bed, was lying leisurely in the Izumo Pavilion, looking at Tian Tian who was looking down at the account book with his chin resting, and suddenly let out a soft sigh , said: "You said, should I go to the cold palace to visit her?"

"go with!"

"Hey, I really don't want to go."

"Aren't you a filial son? Just yesterday you dragged your wounded body and ran into the palace to seek mercy from the emperor. How could you turn your back on your mother and concubine who lives in the cold palace afterwards?"

"Well, Tian Tian is still thoughtful."

"..."

Duanmutian ignored this idle and flustered guy, and continued to read the accounts indifferently. Suddenly, he paused with his hand turning the page, looked up at him and said, "There was a flood in Zizhou in the south, has the imperial court allocated funds to go to rescue the disaster?"

Jun Xiuran was taken aback, and said: "This is natural. How can the court ignore disasters that happen to the people?"

"Then do you know how much the court dialed?"

"One million taels of silver, [-] dans of grain, and countless necessities such as cloth, silk, oil, salt, etc." Jun Xiuran said casually, but after he finished speaking, his heart moved, his brows raised slightly, and he said, "Why do you suddenly ask this? "

Duanmu Tian put down the account book, but his eyes still stayed on some of the rows above, thoughtful.

Seeing this, Jun Xiuran couldn't help but walked down from the couch, and went to her side to look at the account book in front of her. It was as if he had seen a heavenly book, and he couldn't understand what it meant by the sketches on it. .

The corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily, his expression stiffened.

His majestic Third Highness, who knows astronomy and geography, has always had a small account book at his fingertips. He never thought that facing the account book used by his family Tian Tian, ​​he would not be able to understand anything!

"Tian Tian, ​​what does the above mean?"

"Ledger." She answered it as a matter of course, as if he didn't know that it was very, very strange that it was a ledger.

His Highness's expression became more and more rigid, he stretched out his finger to point at the Gouhuahua on it, adjusted his mood, and continued to ask shamelessly: "What do these Gougouhuahua mean?"

"number."

"Uh……"

Duanmu Tian seemed to have finally realized that he might not know these numbers, and suddenly raised his eyebrows lightly, looked at him with a smile that was not a smile, and asked softly, "Could it be that the third highness doesn't know these characters?"

Oops, isn't that illiterate?

His Highness the Third Highness looked up at the sky, but was speechless.

However, in front of a certain person, His Highness the Third Highness has always regarded face as nothing, but after being silent for a while, he lowered his head and studied carefully again, saying: "This method of keeping accounts seems to be different from the usual method."

Duanmu Tian was slightly surprised, then nodded, and said: "It's really different, it's simpler and more convenient than the current bookkeeping method."

"Tiantian, what did you think of it?"

"...That's right."

Directly ignoring the pause in front of her, she winked and said brightly, "My Tian Tian is really amazing!"

"..."

Seeing her speechless slanted eyes, Jun Xiuran chuckled, then changed the subject, and said, "What did you find here?"

Duanmu Tian quickly regained his composure, looked down at the sketches again, and murmured, "There's nothing special about it, it's just a donation to Zizhou, but I seem to have heard people say Since then, the people of Zizhou have been displaced, and the imperial court’s disasters, money, disasters and food have disappeared for a long time.”

Jun Xiuran's eyes froze immediately, and his back subconsciously straightened a bit, concentrating on his thoughts.

"Who is responsible for the waterlogging in Zizhou this time?" Duanmu Tian asked again.

"Prince."

"Oh!" Duanmutian said in a soft voice with a strange look on his face, "It's an unpredictable time in the court, and I think the prince is a smart person, and he shouldn't drag himself into the palace just for the sake of a million taels of disaster silver and tens of thousands of grains. In a dangerous place, even if there is a private possession, it should be the officials below. However, if we just look at it from our standpoint, no matter who the private possession is, the prince is responsible for this matter, then his failure It is hard to shirk the blame. Recently, because of the matter of the Concubine De, you seem to have been suppressed a bit miserably, why don't you take this opportunity to win back?"

Jun Xiuran's eyes flickered with purple light, but he was looking straight at her, making Duanmutian feel puzzled and feeling uncomfortable all over.

He suddenly let out a long sigh of relief, and said: "Tiantian is so considerate of me, I'm really happy. It's just that I just recently lost a lot because of the jade ganoderma, and the family is almost unable to open the pot. It's really embarrassing." what."

"..." When can he be serious and serious?

But after sighing, he straightened his expression immediately and said, "It's a good opportunity to find some stumbling blocks for the prince, but I don't know that the official under him dared to withhold the disaster money and food, it's really courting death!"

"Then what are you still standing here for?"

"I'm suffering from repeated injuries, and my body is so painful and weak that I can't get out of bed."

"... Let the news out."

"Isn't that tripping the prince, but making a wedding dress for someone else?"

The other person naturally refers to the second prince or the fifth prince.

Duanmu Tian couldn't help the veins popping up on his forehead, he stared at him coldly, then turned his head and said indifferently: "It's up to you!"

He rubbed his nose, a little innocently, and seemed to have a narrow smile, and said softly: "Why don't you invite the old concubine into the palace."

(End of this chapter)