Qingzhi summoned two Suning guards to carry the corpse away, and suddenly remembered something, “Madam, how did you know at a glance that the person was an assassin from the Black Robe Sect?”
Chu Zhi really choked for a moment. Could she really say that in her previous life, she had to send a group of such people to the west every now and then?
“You also know that I haven’t been back to the capital for a long time. I used to be a member of the Jianghu (martial arts world). As a Jianghu person, I always have my own connections.”
Qingzhi looked like he was being taught. They naturally also had involvement with the Jianghu underworld. The Suning Guard and the Criminal Justice Division each had their own cultivated secret agents, but it was obvious that those secret agents couldn’t compare with Madam’s connections.
Madam should be more powerful.
Qingzhi and the others dragged the corpse back to Lan Huaiyu to report, but Chu Zhi stood at the street corner and didn’t leave.
“You call Yingjie and the others over, we’ll go back now.”
“Madam, why don’t you go see the Duke? Just now, your decisive action was equal to saving the Duke’s life, a great achievement.”
She shook her head, “I still won’t go to add trouble to him.”
Qingzhi didn’t understand, why would it be adding trouble?
After Xia Ying and the others came over, they left the alley with Chu Zhi and returned to the street to buy candied chestnuts.
After strolling around and eating for a while, a team of fiery horses approached from behind, and a luxurious carriage stopped next to them.
Qingzhi jumped down from the carriage shaft and placed the carriage stool. Then the car window was also pushed open, revealing Lan Huaiyu’s jade-like handsome face, “Get in the car and go home.”
Chu Zhi got into the car with a pile of food in her arms.
Lan Huaiyu sat upright, noble and unattainable.
But after she came in, he reached out and took the several oil paper bags from her arms and placed them on a small table on the side, then poured her a glass of water.
“Do you like to eat these snacks?”
“I haven’t eaten them before.”
Hearing her say this, Lan Huaiyu thought that she had lived a very hard life in the border town countryside before. Thinking about it, the nunnery was indeed simple and hard, vegetarian without meat. A little girl like her probably hadn’t even eaten much meat.
In fact, Chu Zhi suddenly realized that she had been very confused in her previous life. Why did she work so hard to make Chu Zheng and Liu Shi think highly of her that she even abandoned her normal desires?
Eating, how interesting!
She took a dragon’s beard candy and continued to eat, her sweet eyebrows moving and her eyes brightening.
Lan Huaiyu looked at her, and after a while, he silently took the large bag of candied chestnuts and peeled them.
“Today, thanks to you taking action in time, otherwise the assassin would have escaped. As you said, you are a master.”
“I never brag.”
His brown eyes were filled with laughter, and he took another look at her appearance of hiding her merits and fame, “Why didn’t you go back to find me after killing the assassin?”
“I am your wife now. If outsiders know that your wife is a master, wouldn’t it cause you trouble?”
“Why would it cause me trouble?”
Lan Huaiyu was puzzled.
Chu Zhi was also surprised, because that’s what Feng Shi said when he decided to let her take action in her previous life.
She was a woman, and nominally his concubine. If she had extremely strong kung fu, she would have to explain it to the emperor, empress, his uncle, and others.
Moreover, she couldn’t lead troops into battle, because there were no women in the military camp.
In order to avoid these troubles, creating a Ying Feng would solve those troubles easily.
No one would investigate where Ying Feng’s high martial arts came from, and entering the military camp would be smooth. As long as everyone worked together to kill enemies, everyone would be good brothers.
Seeing that she didn’t speak, Lan Huaiyu didn’t ask any more questions and put the peeled chestnuts in her hand.
“By the way, you promoted Chu Zheng and he gave you a thank you gift. I’ll give it to you when we go back later.” The money she took from Chu Zheng was not meant to be embezzled, but as his hard work fee.
“Do you really think that knowing that your enemy is the Chu Zheng family, I would kindly promote him?”
She raised her eyes to look at him, her cheeks bulging with the chestnuts in her mouth, “What do you mean?” He was indeed promoted.
Lan Huaiyu also looked at her cheek, wanting to poke it with his finger.
He held up his slender fingers and said, “Originally, I wanted to transfer him away from the Six Departments, nominally demoting him but secretly promoting him to hold real power. But knowing that you have grievances, I will directly promote him, making him the target of public criticism. I heard that Cao Qian of the Five City Military Command came to the door today. There will be many such things in the future.”
Chu Zhi instantly understood that this promotion directly made Chu Zheng a target.
But Chu Zheng probably doesn’t even understand it yet.
“So you don’t have to give me Chu Zheng’s thank you gift, keep it to buy snacks.”
“Are you sure you don’t want to see what the thank you gift is? A solid gold Buddha, this tall.” She gestured.
Lan Huaiyu couldn’t help laughing, “Then you can buy a lot, a lot of candied chestnuts.”
The Imperial Palace.
Inside the brightly lit Imperial Study, An Yu reported all the events of the Duke’s confiscation of property today one by one.
The emperor, leaning back on the soft couch to relieve his back, closed his eyes slightly, with ordinary features and a gentle temperament. But as his thick eyebrows furrowed, the imperial aura came down, and An Yu, who was still reporting, paused.
“What Duke? I have already granted him a title, Prince Shunyang!”
“Your Majesty, please forgive me.”
An Yu pleaded guilty, and then no longer said the word Duke when reporting, but called him Prince every time.
The emperor was pleased.
Duke, Duke.
Those two words entered his ears and reminded him that Lan Huaiyu was a eunuch, which he didn’t like to hear.
After An Yu finished reporting, Feng Yanzhao opened his eyes, “So the woman with extremely high martial arts skills who suddenly appeared today is Prince Shunyang’s consort?”
“Yes, this subordinate personally saw the Prince pick up the person on the road and return to the mansion together.”
Feng Yanzhao laughed, “I see that his complexion has improved a lot these days. It’s true that he was lucky in love, and it’s also a surprise.”
The chief eunuch Jiang Chuan immediately said, “If there is a consort protecting him, Prince Shunyang will no longer fear the assassination of dog thieves in the future.”
“That’s right. Hmph, the He family only knows how to do some dark tricks, assassinating him on the night of his wedding. Today, Tang Baixin’s family was confiscated. If there is another time, the He family will have to break another arm. It depends on whether they are willing to go all out?!”
Jiang Chuan repeatedly agreed.
Feng Yanzhao got up and walked to the bird stand on the side. A thrush bird with golden yellow body and white eyeline jumped onto his arm.
He stroked it lovingly, “Order the Yu Fang to choose a bird that suits a young lady’s heart and send it to Prince Shunyang’s consort.”
“Yes.”
Jiang Chuan accepted the order, and wondered if he should make a suggestion to the emperor?
His old man loved birds, he loved them since he was a child, and regarded these little guys as treasures, but others might not like them.
Prince Shunyang’s consort grew up in the border town countryside, where there were many birds in the mountains and forests.
He knew that the emperor wanted to please Prince Shunyang, and even began to please the consort.
But if the things sent didn’t suit her heart, wouldn’t that be a blunder?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that his thinking was right, but when he touched the emperor’s eyes, he looked at the thrush bird on his arm as if it were a treasure…
Forget it, if he really said that his old man’s treasure was worthless, he would be scolded!