The whole family of villains criticized her wildly, but the princess treated her with medical treatm

Li Fan saw that his plan to kill Huang Zhu was about to be ruined by the eldest princess, and he was extremely angry.

Alas, the emperor is only sixteen, and he is still too naive to be frightened by such an ecstasy.A woman's mouth is a liar.

The eldest princess has no shortage of money for thirty thousand houses. She has already become extremely wealthy by relying on the Maomaoshan salt factory, potatoes, red wine and other businesses.She is exchanging thirty thousand food for peace in Huangzhu!

This Huangzhu is Xie Qingyuan's right-hand man, a rare general who has already begun to show his talents, and he cannot be allowed to thrive in the wind.

If one day he grows into a military monster like Yan Yang, he will be in trouble.

"Master, there is no need to say more, my decision has been made."

Xie Xuanchen's heart was filled with excitement.

Turning his head, he grabbed Mu Tingxue's sleeve and said, "I haven't seen you for many days, and I miss you so much. Why don't you stay and have dinner with me."

Mu Tingxue had achieved her goal, so she couldn't refuse. She smiled and said, "Okay."

She has established a "loyal" persona, so she has to act like a loyal minister.

Those who write "I want to seize the throne" on their faces will fail [-]% of the time. "Build the wall high, accumulate grain widely, and slowly become the king." This kind of late strike strategy is the kingly way.

Xie Xuanchen ordered: "Instruct the Supervisor of Shangri-La to prepare lunch and send it to the imperial study. I will personally congratulate the imperial sister."

There won't be any extravagant celebration banquet, just he and the emperor's sister will eat alone.

There was still an hour before dinner started, so Mu Tingxue took advantage of the fact that the richest bureaucrats and landowners in Yundu were all around and started selling tomatoes.

"The tomatoes in Baidizhou are ripe. Are you interested?"

"Your Royal Highness, Princess, I heard that in Baidi Prefecture, like the reincarnation of Shennong, you produced sweet potatoes with an average yield of 80 shi per mu. Can you please give me some of the God-given food and blessings?"

"The sweet potatoes will mature in about 120 days after they are planted. When they are mature and the seeds are saved, it will definitely benefit you all." Mu Tingxue promised generously.

A piece of flatbread smeared with honey sauce was thrown out.

The heads of all the aristocratic families bit the cake one after another.

They are all sensible old foxes who know that they have to support tomatoes in order to get the share of sweet potatoes.What's more, they had eaten this tomato when the Queen Mother gave it to a banquet before. It was indeed a rare and delicious vegetable.

Mu Tingxue cut open a tomato: "Unlike potatoes, the seed liquid in the middle of the pulp contains rich seeds. Dig out the seeds, and they can all be used as seeds. Each seed can be carefully cultivated to grow a tomato plant." An acre of land only requires one or two seeds.”

Everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

I'm afraid it will be like potato planting, where the cost of seeds is 120 kilograms per acre.This tomato seeding obviously has too much conscience!

"I wonder how much tomatoes can be produced per acre?"

"Eighty shi." A yield of [-] kilograms of good vegetables per acre.

The ministers were overjoyed. Although they could not make food, they could produce eighty shi of delicious vegetables per acre, which was very profitable.The cost of key seeds is still so low.

"What's the price of this tomato, Your Highness?"

"One tael of silver and five pounds." Mu Tingxue bought it from a farmer in Baidizhou, and the price doubled when it was resold.

"Here comes five thousand kilograms of tomatoes."

"I have some land, and it costs [-] catties." I didn't get the potato seeds, so I have to plant some tomatoes to make up for the loss.

……

Mu Tingxue sold vegetables directly in the ancestral temple of the Xie emperors, regardless of whether it was indecent or not, and she didn't care whether the ancestors would be so angry that they would jump out of the coffin board.

As the largest landowner in Yunhuang, Zuo Pu Sheli Fan couldn't hold himself any longer.

He was simmering with anger and couldn't save the dignity to buy tomatoes from Mu Tingxue.But my family has a lot of fields, and I really want to reap the dividends from tomato cultivation.

So, he pushed his son Li Yuan: "Go and buy it."

Prince Jingyu glanced at his father with disdain. When the eldest princess was besieged Baidi City, he expressed his intention to lead troops to rescue, but the civil and military officials in the court objected. After the court, his father gave him a big mouth. .

Li Yuan choked directly: "I won't go!"

Li Fan was angry: "Rebellious? Go and buy one hundred thousand catties. Your mother loves to eat this."

Li Yuandingniu went back: "Stop using my mother as an excuse."

Li Fan's thick eyebrows cluster together like two big earthworms. This son used to be the most obedient, why is he so rebellious now?

"She killed your brother-in-law, also killed your sister, and she was so ambitious that she coveted the throne..."

"Huan'er's death in the rebellion is not so much the responsibility of the eldest princess as it is the responsibility of you as a father. If you hadn't made the wrong bet and insisted on letting your sister marry King Qin Ling to be a child, you would never have ended up like this. This is what happened today.”

Li Yuan snorted coldly, "Besides, Her Royal Highness the Princess has just expressed her loyalty to Your Majesty. She dedicated all [-] food villas to the country. My mother's [-] food villas are as precious as anything. How could she have such a reaction? Heart."

"Loyal? Ha, she was showing weakness on purpose and was just putting on a show!"

An elusive sneer appeared at the corner of Li Fan's mouth, "She made His Majesty take it lightly and feel arrogant and complacent. This is a master's trick, calculating step by step. She showed weakness by showing loyalty, leaving the risk to her opponent and seizing the opportunity to gain." In your own hands.”

And she did succeed and benefited. The emperor revoked the excessive reward, "If one plan fails, the father can only use another one."

Li Yuan was stunned. For a moment, his brain's circuitry couldn't keep up.

I don't know how long I was stunned for, but a familiar voice came from my ears: "Cousin Li, do you want tomatoes?"

"want."

*. *. *

In order to save Huang Zhu, Mu Tingxue showed her loyalty by offering her food and even dined with the emperor.

The younger brother had an unfortunate childhood, perhaps because he lacked love and was very clingy. After dinner, he dragged her to play chess for an hour, and then dragged her to visit the Royal Garden.

During this period, the imperial concubine came to bring cakes and iced fruit to the emperor. She also deliberately flew a kite by the pond in the imperial garden, pretending to meet the emperor by chance.

When flying a kite, he pretended to fall and wanted to fall into his brother's arms.

Xie Xuanchen took a big step back with an expressionless expression.

Nangong Qianqian fell into the pool and cried loudly. A large group of eunuchs and maids went to fish it out.

Mu Tingxue asked: "...Why don't you give her a hand?"

It can be seen that the imperial concubine is working hard to win favor.

Xie Xuanchen blinked innocently: "The weather is hot, and I don't like to be too close to others."

Mu Tingxue looked at her brother next to her arm and fell into deep thought.

As a loyal minister, she could not rebel against the Sacred Heart, so she took the initiative to distance herself from him.

Xie Xuanchen was slightly annoyed, and just when he was about to stick to her again, he heard her ask, "How are you doing, Queen?"

Xie Xuanchen said absently: "Very good."

How could he know whether it was good or not.We haven’t seen each other for almost a month.

Yan Mingyue is different from Nangong Qianqian. She will not take the initiative to flatter him, let alone pester him for nothing.The queen is dignified, she is like a sculpture, and she respects him as a guest.

*. *. *

Huang Zhu temporarily stayed in the guest room of the eldest princess mansion.

This is his first time in Yundu.

Just like a country boy who comes to the city for the first time, he is full of curiosity about everything.

He marveled at the extreme luxury and prosperity of Yundu, marveled at the elegance of the garden of the princess mansion, and marveled at the ostentatious officials everywhere.

Xie Wuya had lunch with Huang Zhu.

"Mom went to the ancestral temple to worship. I won't be back until tonight."

Ya Bao entertained little brother Huang Zhu with ice-cold red wine.

Huang Zhu drank a bottle of it boldly and exclaimed: "It tastes good!"

Before the meal was finished, two palace eunuchs were seen coming into the courtyard. They shouted loudly: "The emperor has sent a decree, announcing that Huang Zhu, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Prefecture, will immediately come to the palace to see him and accept the reward."

Ya Bao glanced at the waists of the two eunuchs, but did not see Dongchang's tooth plaque.

"Aren't your two father-in-laws from Dongchang?"

"Thank you, young master. We are either serving as slaves in the East Factory, but we are just here to pass on a message." After saying this, he bowed respectfully, turned around and left without even asking for the reward.

Ya Bao scratched his head in confusion and muttered: "The eunuchs who came to the government to deliver edicts in the past were all from Eunuch Huang of Dongchang."

Huang Zhu has a simple temperament and does not understand these twists and turns.

He only knew that the emperor had orally announced that he should enter the palace to receive a reward and that he could not delay, so he set off immediately.

At this time, Mu Tingxue had already shown weakness to the emperor and exempted Huangzhu from the ritual reward.But this matter has not yet spread from the royal family's ancestral temple, and no one in the eldest princess's house knows about it.

Huang Zhu entered the palace on the princess's sedan chair.

It was noon in July, the heat was raging, and Huang Zhu's handsome face was covered with hot sweat.When he came to the palace for the first time, he didn't understand many of the rules. The entrances to the palace were tightly guarded, the palace roads were winding like a maze, and every door was guarded by eunuchs and imperial guards.

There is an unwritten rule in the palace. Every official who enters the palace to see the emperor or the queen mother must give a little "toll fee" to the duty officer guarding the gate, ranging from a few taels to dozens of taels. If you smile and say "Thank you, father-in-law" again, you will be released.If you don't pay, you are likely to encounter difficulties from the official on duty, which will prevent you from being able to appear on time. The result will be that you will be punished by the emperor or the queen mother for being late, or even be demoted.

From entering the palace to waiting for the emperor's summons, there were four gates to pass through.

As a local "country bumpkin", Huangzhu obviously didn't know this unspoken rule.

When he reached the second door, he was stopped by a eunuch with triangular eyes and buck teeth: "What are you doing?"

Huang Zhu said truthfully: "I have been ordered to enter the palace to see the emperor."

Seeing that Huang Zhu had no intention of paying, the buck-toothed eunuch looked at him with disdain: "You look at me, magistrate?"

"Chief Soldier of Baidi Prefecture."

"Oh--"

The last note was meaningful, and the eunuch with triangular eyes and buck teeth pointed to a palace road in the south, "Go south as fast as you can, go to the end, then turn to the first road to the east, there is a pavilion with a rich family, and you are there." "

Huang Zhu cupped his hands and thanked her, then followed the direction given by the gatekeeper and eunuch.

Little did he know that he had been deceived and that disaster was imminent - the Zhumen Pavilion was the residence of the noble concubine.