Although the second prince has not done much in the palace and is not favored by the emperor, Liu Hu, the father of Princess Jue and Liu Jun, is now one of the top people in the court and the only one who can compete with Yang Xin, Yu Hanlin and others in the court.

Therefore, Liu Jun, with her father's glory, was very powerful among the ladies and ladies, and now she even called Chu Yuan her sister affectionately. After Chu Yuan was stunned, he quickly thought of something, so he

He called her sister affectionately, and even talked about family affairs with Princess Jue on the spot, and put aside those who came to ask questions.

In the room, Chu Yuan held Liu Jun's hand affectionately and entered the door. The maid had already closed the door behind him. As soon as the door was closed, the smile on Chu Yuan's face slowly faded and he politely invited Liu Jun.

After sitting down, he asked: "Princess Jue, your help today is not in vain, right? Just tell me what conditions you have!"

"Mrs. Murong is indeed a smart person. It saves a lot of effort to deal with smart people like you. In this case, I will make it clear that I want Guan Liu'er to marry your eldest brother and become the crown prince!" Liu Jun immediately stopped.

Beat around the bush.

Chu Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly: "So the princess wants to win over my eldest brother? Is Guan Liu'er the only daughter of the governor?"

Liu Jun nodded: "Although Guan Yuan is just a governor, Guan Liu'er's grandfather was a long-term prince in the past, and he is also the queen of the Hou family. He will not insult your Chu family!" [

Chu Yuan couldn't help but laugh and said: "Does the princess really think so? Even the princess said that she was the former Marquis of Changyuan, but now the Marquis has only a false title but no real power, and my eldest brother has military power in his hands, not to mention Guan Liu

Although my appearance is okay, I don’t have much brains, so I’m afraid I’m not worthy of my elder brother!”

Liu Jun's eyes darkened, and he said coldly: "If two people see each other right in this world, how can there be any question of whether they are worthy or not? Even I never thought that the dignified first son of the capital, who is said to have a mysophobia, would be with you.

This concubine who has been married to someone else is hanging around!"

There was no room for Liu Jun's words. It was obvious that he intended to induce but failed to achieve coercion.

Chu Yuan's face was ashen. It seemed that Liu Jun had come prepared today. The Murong family members were still standing outside. If she had a falling out with Liu Jun again, it would be difficult to deal with what happened today.

Especially since she was not pregnant at all. If someone exposed her on the spot, all her hard work would be in vain.

"Princess, what are you doing? I just said that Guan Liu'er's identity is not good enough, so why are you so angry? You also know that now Concubine Wu wants to marry her niece to me.

Brother, Wu Fangting is the niece of Concubine Wu after all. If Concubine Wu becomes the queen in the future..." Chu Yuan hurriedly said with a smile.

When it came to Concubine Wu, Liu Jun couldn't help but feel frustrated. The second prince was not taken seriously because his mother's status was too low. Otherwise, why would the sixth prince fight with the second prince because he was a blind man?

"Your eldest brother is not close to you to begin with, but if your eldest sister-in-law is yours, that's a different story. Will the Murong family dare to make such a mistake?" Liu Jun also softened his voice again.

Chu Huan was indeed not close to her, and because of the incident between the Yao family and Chu Feng, she was worried about Chu Zhantian's accountability, so she rarely returned to Chu Mansion in recent years. Fortunately, all the dignitaries in the capital knew about it.

Her relationship with Chu Huan naturally gave her a bit of a bad reputation, which was why she took charge of the Murong Mansion so smoothly. However, with recent events, she had clearly sent someone to send a letter to Chu Huan asking him to come. As soon as he arrived,

, how could these people dare to embarrass her? But Chu Huan did not arrive.

Thinking of this, Chu Yuan raised his eyes and said, "In that case, I should do my best!"

Liu Jun raised his eyebrows, with a smile of success on his face.

The affairs of the Murong family are naturally related to the interests of the five major family alliances. What's more, Shangguan Yu and the other three major families have long been very dissatisfied with what Chu Yuan has done since he took charge of the Murong family. They immediately jointly issued a ruling with the four major families.

Chu Yuan was naturally dissatisfied with the decision to re-elect the leader of the Murong family and adopted a series of policies to counter it. As a result, the capital's economy was somewhat turbulent.

The capital city's economy was in turmoil, coupled with the severe drought. These days, the emperor had trouble sleeping and eating, and he had been suffering from chronic health problems. He did not go to court for several days, so Li Huang became the prince to supervise the country.

, so he became very busy, and even stayed in the palace for two days.

In the evening of that day, Li Huang sent someone as usual to say that he would stay in the palace tonight. So when it got dark, Chu Yiqing asked someone to close the door and let Yingrun spread a mat under the grape trellis in the yard and take out the lantern.

He came out and watched A Bao reading while enjoying the cool air.

The new Master Zhu is worthy of being the number one master in the capital. He is very knowledgeable. Even A Bao, a somewhat arrogant little devil, admires and respects him very much. So these days, A Bao can calm down and study. In addition to continuing to study every day.

Apart from going into the palace to pay respects to the Queen Mother and the Emperor, she stayed in a villa in the suburbs, which was quite peaceful.

Sun Leisheng was driving away mosquitoes for Abao, and Yu Xiaoyu was studying ink. With the two of them waiting on him, Chu Yiqing felt relieved and concentrated on looking at the river map of Lucheng.

During these days in the capital, Chu Yiqing seemed to be tired of dealing with the powerful people in the city, but secretly asked Lei Yuan to find all the river maps in the Li Kingdom to find a way to solve the drought.

The house was quiet and warm. Suddenly, the door was hurriedly knocked, and a woman's frightened voice came from a distance, "Is there anyone? Is there anyone? Please save our young lady and wife, is there anyone?"

"

Chu Yiqing frowned slightly and put down the drawing in his hand. At this moment, he saw that Fourteenth had already rushed to open the door. As soon as the door opened, a figure rushed in and looked through the dim candlelight at the door.

She looked like she was a maid, but she was frightened for some reason. She was trembling all over and kept shouting for help.

Yingrun was afraid that the man would bump into Chu Yiqing, so she hurriedly led people to ask. After asking, she hurried back and whispered: "Madam, it is said that the wife and daughter of Yang Xin, the Minister of Punishment, met on the way back to the city.

The thief was found two miles in front of our house!" [

When Chu Yiqing heard this, he quickly ordered in a low voice: "Lei Yuan, hurry up and take a look!"

Lei Yuan quickly agreed, flew in front of the maid, picked up the maid with one hand, and flew out.

It was a good night, but it became a little unusual because of this incident.

An hour later, when Chu Yiqing was waiting a little anxiously, there was finally a noise outside the door. The housekeeper also knew that Chu Yiqing was anxious, so he personally led someone to open the door and welcomed him in.

It was Mrs. Yang and her beloved daughter Yang Moer who came in. They seemed to have been frightened a lot. Both of them were in a mess and trembling. When they saw Chu Yiqing, Mrs. Yang's lips trembled and she said

Words come.

Chu Yiqing quickly let the two of them into the inner hall, first asked Yingrun to prepare some tea to calm the shock, and then asked someone to fetch water to wash the two of them. This process lasted a long time.

"We met a thief who insisted on dragging us up the mountain to be the wife of the village. If Han Yu hadn't risked his life to report the news and happened to meet Concubine Chu, we, mother and daughter, would have died today.

I was harmed by a thief!" Mrs. Yang drank the tea to relieve her shock, gasped, and then trembled and briefly recounted the story.

"Mrs. Yang, don't worry, everything is safe now. As long as you two have no losses, just stay here for one night. I will naturally send someone to inform Mr. Yang!" Chu Yiqing hurriedly reassured, seeing that Yang Moer was in high spirits.

He was depressed and seemed to be frightened, so he quickly asked the doctor in the mansion to take a look.

After comforting Mrs. Yang and her daughter, Chu Yiqing walked out of the inner hall. Lei Yuan came to report on his own initiative without her asking.

"Those people don't look like ordinary thieves. They all have strong martial arts skills. Moreover, I bought this land and sent people to search it within ten miles. How could there be bandits? It's a pity that the sky was dark, and those people could not escape.

Hurry, no one has been caught alive, otherwise, we will definitely find some clues!" Lei Yuan reported in a low voice.

Chu Yiqing also felt a little strange. The mother and daughter of the Yang family went to visit relatives in other places. Logically speaking, they should be very careful. There were people escorting them on the road. Why were they still on their way so late in the day? But Li Huang was not here now.

Here, she was not able to make decisions regarding matters involving the Yang Mansion, so she immediately asked Shi Shi to send a letter to Li Huang and report to him what happened today.

An hour later, Li Huang and Yang Xin all rushed over from the city. It was getting late, A Bao had gone to bed, and Chu Yiqing was also a little sleepy, so he immediately handed over the matter to Li Huang and stopped talking.

I was worried, so I went to rest.

In the middle of the night, Li Huang returned to his room, his brows furrowed, as if he had something on his mind.

"What's wrong?" Chu Yiqing sat up and asked.

"It's okay, go to sleep quickly. If you have anything to do, we'll talk about it tomorrow!" Li Huang said, taking off his coat, hugging Chu Yiqing from behind, smelling the faint fragrance on her body, and closed his eyes.

Seeing that he didn't want to say anything, Chu Yiqing stopped forcing him. Perhaps it was because she was easily sleepy when she was pregnant with a child, so she fell asleep after a while.

Listening to the soft breathing of the woman in his arms, Li Huang couldn't help but frown. It seemed that things were getting more and more difficult. The man had already attacked Yang Xin's wife and daughter. Now he really regretted his eagerness to kill Chu Yiqing.

Come on, now that she is pregnant, naturally she cannot be like before, and it is also possible that Chu Yiqing will become that person's target!

Because he was thinking about what happened last night, and because Yang Xin's family was still in the house, Chu Yiqing woke up early in the morning. When he turned around, he saw that Li Huang was no longer in the room. I don't know why, but since she became pregnant, Chu Yiqing

Qing feels a little dead when he sleeps. He is not as alert as before. Now he doesn't even know when Li Huang left.

"Miss, I took Master Yang and his family back to the city early in the morning. I asked my servant to tell Madam that everything is fine with Mrs. Yang and Miss Yang. Madam, don't worry!" Yingrun came in, preparing for Chu Yiqing.

"Finish the clothes you want to wear today," he said.

If yesterday's incident were spread, I am afraid it would ruin the reputation of Mrs. Yang and Miss Yang, especially since Yang Mo'er is currently in the boudoir and is about to find a relative. Chu Yiqing also understood Li Huang's intention of making such an arrangement, and immediately

I didn't take this matter to heart. I just saw that the weather was getting cooler today and planned to go out and take a look. I have been locked up in the house these past few days and I don't know what the drought is like outside!

After breakfast, when A Bao went to the palace to pay his respects, Chu Yiqing asked him to study hard at home. He took Mai Xiang and Lei Yuan with him and asked Shi Shi to drive all the way out, planning to go down below.

Take a look at the village.

Mai Xiang has been stuck in the house these days and has nothing else to do. In addition, there is no property owned by Chu Yiqing in the capital. Mai Xiang is really bored. This time she takes advantage of the opportunity to go out with Chu Yiqing.

, so he proposed to open a few shops in the capital. Chu Yiqing naturally had the same idea, if not for other reasons, just to gain a foothold and save money on food and clothing from the Prince's Mansion. Besides, what was there in the capital?

Everything is expensive, Chu Yiqing has just arrived, and everything needs to be taken care of. Some time ago, it was just a return gift for a banquet, which cost 20,000 taels of silver. This money is in Chu Han, but Chu Yiqing’s entire property has been paid in two months.

Chu Yiqing also needs to be raised on Haiying Island. If I continue to be idle like this, I'm afraid I'll be short of money.[

After making up her mind, Chu Yiqing left this matter to Mai Xiang. Now she didn't know how many days she would stay in the capital, so she naturally had to plan carefully!

As the weather got hotter and hotter, the drought in various places became more and more serious. Chu Yiqing sat in the carriage and lifted the curtain to look out. He saw that the river was extremely dry, with sun-dried lines all over it. The river was surrounded by

There were many people carrying water with carrying poles and buckets.

Asking Fifteen to stop the car, Chu Yiqing was about to get out of the car and take a look when he heard something seemed to be going on in front of him. After a while, two people came out of the group of people chasing each other. The person behind him seemed to be very angry.

, unexpectedly threw out the iron hook on the pole, and the iron hook suddenly hooked on the head of the person in front, with a bang, the person in front fell to the ground, cried out, and lay down

On the ground, the back of his head was covered in blood.

Several more people rushed out from the crowd, they seemed to be the man's wife and daughter. When they saw that the man had his head kicked off, their faces turned bloody with fright, and their bodies were covered with chaff.

The man who had just hanged someone up with an iron hook didn't care about anything at the moment. He seemed to be trying to run away, but was caught by several people. At this moment, a woman in her twenties was wearing an old cloth.

Skirt rushed out from the crowd and went up to bite those who arrested them. More than a dozen people suddenly became a mess.

Seeing everyone fighting for a little water and almost killing someone, Chu Yiqing couldn't help but frown. Now it seems that the drought needs to be solved quickly, but now although she has a river map in her hand, she doesn't know how to deal with it.

Knowing where to start, this matter was really embarrassing for her!
To be continued...