After traveling through time, I became the aunt of the loyal dog emperor

"Hehe, you are the emperor, you have foresight and a sharp eye."

Wan Ning felt embarrassed as if she had been seen through. She smiled foolishly and looked at Ziheng with ill intentions: "There is indeed one more thing. The last time we were attacked by rumors, the grain donation activity was almost stalled. In the end, thanks to the help of Zhuli, the shopkeeper of Cuican Building, she voluntarily gave up fame and wealth. However, such behavior should be rewarded. But I have no idea about the choice of reward."

Then she pretended to be distressed and looked at Ziheng tenderly, hoping that he would speak up for her, but her eyes looked so touching under the candlelight.

Ziheng smiled knowingly. He had long known that the "righteous act" of Cuican Building was a play that Wan Ning and Zhu Li had prepared privately. In terms of Cuican Building's donation in this event, it was far less than the top two, but the meaning and effect of donating when the rumors were spreading were completely different. As for the prize, I'm afraid Wan Ning had already promised it, but now she pretended nothing happened in front of him.

He tried his best to defend her and hold back his laughter, but he didn't have the heart to expose her, so he stood up straight, waved his hand and pointed to the bookcase beside him, pretending to be calm and said, "You can pick whatever you want here!"

"Really?" Wan Ning's voice was filled with joy. She jumped up from her chair and walked to the bookshelf to take a closer look. "Since the emperor has spoken, I won't be polite."

After saying that, he scanned the bookshelf in circles, but his sight was soon attracted by a small wooden box in the corner of the third shelf: the dark red wooden box was a little simple, and the edge of the box seemed to emit a faint white light, which seemed different from other things.

Wan Ning was talking to herself, but her eyes were always fixed on the wooden box, and her body walked towards it involuntarily. "Alas, this thing shouldn't be too expensive. Although Cuicanlou has helped a lot, it can't steal the limelight from the top two. After all, they have contributed the most things and effort, so we must not steal the show!"

Ziheng immediately watched Wan Ning's every move from behind with nervous vigilance, and became more and more flustered as she got closer, until she really took the wooden box in her hands and played with it. He just didn't want her to find out what was in the box now. He wanted to stop her but was afraid of alerting the enemy and making things worse, so he approached her calmly and cleverly put forward his opinions to attract her attention.

"Then how about giving them a plaque? We can ask the craftsmen in the palace to make it specially, and then send it to them as a royal award. How about that?"

Hearing this suggestion, Wan Ning seemed to have her heart seen through. She turned around excitedly, her face full of appreciation, and she was very excited: "This is a great idea. It doesn't steal the show, but it can also express the royal appreciation. Since you have come this far, I will also ask for a copy of the emperor's calligraphy. Don't worry, this time it will not be in vain, there is a gift for you!"

After saying that, she put the wooden box she was playing with on the table and searched her pockets. Ziheng took advantage of her inattention and quietly put it away. When he turned around, Wan Ning had already taken out a brown paper package from her body and carefully opened the wooden carved spear she bought at the market.

"Dangdangdang, this is the gift for you. I hope you like it." Then he handed the wooden spear to him and pointed at it and introduced it: "I bought this at the market. It's not a valuable item, but when I saw it for the first time, I felt that it looked exactly like the one in your house, as if they were scaled down in size."

Of course he liked it very much, and more importantly, the misunderstanding that weighed on his mind was resolved. He thought she was dating Mu Xiu, but it turned out that she was buying him a gift, how could he not like it? He even liked it more than he expected, and immediately walked to the desk, spread out a piece of paper, picked up the pen and prepared to write, and asked with his head tilted like a happy peacock: "Yan Yan, what do you want me to write?"

Wan Ning walked to the side and ground ink with great foresight. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Since he is a businessman, then write the four words 'Model of Merchants'. I will find someone to make a plaque and send it to him. It will be beautiful!"

Ziheng picked up the pen and stood on the other side of the table, silently watching her hard work. He smiled unconsciously, then carefully dipped the pen in ink and wrote it with a big stroke.

It was already very dark when they finished all this. Wan Ning could not stay any longer, so she returned with all her things. The way back was still very smooth. She was so happy and excited that she did not notice that Ziheng had sent someone to follow her secretly until she successfully walked into the gate of Xiang Wanxuan.

For the fledgling Wan Ning, the attention of the people is the only advantageous weapon she has.

Therefore, how to keep this matter hot for a long time is what Wan Ning has been racking her brains to do recently. She has thought of many ways over and over again, one of which is not to rush to send out the prizes of the grain donation competition, always leaving a suspense for the people of the whole city, but this also makes some dark people feel scared, and they always want to play some tricks before the truth comes out.

For example, Wan Ning only stayed in the palace for a few days this time, and she relaxed her vigilance against things outside the palace, and rumors about her began to spread outside the palace. It was probably that some princesses were not trustworthy, and they cheated everyone of their food without really wanting to give out the prizes. When she returned to the palace, she would not come out again. People in high positions would not listen to the voices of ordinary people!

If such a clumsy and stupid rumor had reached Wan Ning's ears at any other time, she would have just smiled helplessly, thinking that no one would really believe such a stupid lie. But this time it was obviously organized, and the rumor quickly went through iterations and developed into several other versions.

Some people said that she was collecting food for the disaster victims, but in fact she was collecting money for herself. The cheap food was sent to the disaster area, while the valuable gold and silver became the princess's personal property. The rumors became more and more detailed and outrageous, as if someone had seen her putting the valuables into her own treasury.

When the rumors outside the palace intensified and spread back to the palace, Wan Ning was in the Empress Dowager's palace. Only then did she realize that the rumors outside had changed their form.

This is the first time she has returned here since she was drugged and beaten by the retired emperor in the Empress Dowager's Buddhist temple. However, after returning from outside the palace this time, the Empress Dowager treated Wan Ning differently: not only did she often send palace maids to deliver things to Wan Xuan, she also invited her to visit her palace again.

Although she was nervous about receiving the invitation again, she could not keep avoiding it now. She just had to tell them that she was not afraid at all. However, the scenes of being drugged and beaten last time were still playing in her mind. The scars on her body that were healing became itchy and she could hardly breathe. Seeing her uncomfortable look, Wan Tao wanted to jump out and refuse the invitation on the grounds that the princess was unwell.