Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

Seeing that he looked anxious, Li Yu put down the teacup and asked, "Are you leaving today?"

Si Er: "Yes, Brother Han Zheng asked me to inform you, Sister Li, that there is an emergency in the capital and we can't stay here anymore."

Li Yu's hand shook and hit the teapot.

She immediately retracted her hand because of the burn, then stared at Si'er and asked, "What's the emergency?"

"Brother Han Zheng didn't say anything." Si'er shook his head and spoke very quickly: "He just said it was an important matter and asked Sister Li to clean it up quickly."

Li Yu: “…” Could it be that the things that cannot be told to Si’er are related to Emperor Tianyuan?

With a startled heart, she stood up and walked quickly to the bed to pack her bag.

*

A quarter of an hour later, Li Yu sat in the carriage, lifted the curtain and looked at the entrance of the government office.

There, Minister Pei, Imperial Tutor Jiang, and Han Zheng were talking to a middle-aged man in an official robe.

This man was the magistrate of Huai'an County. As Huai'an County was close to the provincial capital and the local disaster relief had ended and there was nothing else to do, he was called over to temporarily manage Nanzhou Prefecture.

As for Huai'an County, other minor officials in the county will take charge of it first.

The Huai'an County Magistrate probably didn't expect that he would be entrusted with such an important task, and he looked very frightened.

I don’t know what Master Jiang said, but his expression gradually softened and then became firm.

After a while, the few people finished talking and without further delay, they quickly got on the carriage and left.

*

Li Yu, Han Zheng and Si'er were riding in a car. Si'er was driving and Lu Xuan was riding a horse on the side.

After the car started moving, Li Yu asked Han Zheng directly what was going on.

Han Zheng had no intention of hiding it from her from the beginning, but when he was talking to Si'er, there were people from the government office nearby, so he didn't explain.

Now that they were alone, he said bluntly, "Taifu Jiang received a letter from his family saying that His Majesty had caught a cold and fainted again on the fifth day of July, and did not wake up until the eighth day of July."

The eighth day of the seventh month is the day when the Jiang family writes a letter to Master Jiang.

The other party sent someone to deliver the letter at full speed, day and night, but it only arrived today.

Li Yu: “…” It is indeed related to Emperor Tianyuan.

"Minister Pei and Grand Tutor Jiang didn't say it explicitly, but I can see that they are both afraid of something unexpected happening in the capital." Han Zheng lowered his voice and said, "Sister-in-law, if His Majesty hasn't woken up today, the capital will probably be in trouble."

Li Yu understood what he meant.

If Emperor Tianyuan has remained silent from July 9th to today, Prince Hui will definitely take the opportunity to cause trouble. After all, this is a great opportunity.

Prince Hui could blame Emperor Tianyuan's illness on the crown prince, and then openly rebel under the pretext of "saving the emperor and clearing the court of corrupt officials."

If Emperor Tianyuan wakes up or gets better during this period, Prince Hui will be afraid, and the capital may be stable for a while. Of course, it is possible, not certain. Prince Hui has been in the imperial mausoleum for three years, and he may not take Emperor Tianyuan seriously anymore.

"Nanzhou Prefecture is too far from the capital." Li Yu said, "We can't get the latest news."

"Master Jiang said that we should not stop on this journey if we can, and it would be best if we could reach the capital as soon as possible."

"I think so too." Li Yu said, "Xiaomei is still in the capital, and so are the people in the shop. Although they are protected by Prince An's Mansion, no one knows what will happen when chaos really breaks out."

Speaking of Han Xiaomei, Han Zheng couldn't help but become worried.

*

The two were silent for a while, and Li Yu sighed, "It would be great if we could kill Prince Hui."

It's a pity that I can't kill him.

In the past few years, because Emperor Tianyuan attached great importance to the relationship between father and son and brothers, and there were many experts around Prince Hui, the prince did not do anything to Prince Hui.

But he knew that Prince Hui could not live. If Prince Hui was allowed to live well, he would definitely cause trouble, and many people would surely die.

So he joined forces with Prince An to train a group of assassins from other places. Since last year, these assassins began to assassinate Prince Hui.

The result is obvious, the assassins did not succeed.

Prince Hui was extremely careful about his life. He seldom traveled far away. Whenever he went out, he was always accompanied by a group of guards. The place where he lived was also surrounded by people protecting him.

This was exactly what Mr. Su said to Li Yu when Prince Hui was banished to the imperial mausoleum.

To sum up, although Prince Hui's brain is not very bright, he is not weak, otherwise he would not have been able to compete with the Crown Prince for so many years.

*

Although they tried to keep going as long as possible, Li Yu and his companions were not using a thousand-mile horse, and the horses needed to rest, so they were still delayed on the road for some time.

Fortunately, it was sunny all the way, without even strong winds, and they successfully arrived in the capital after seven days.

During this period, they heard good news.

Emperor Tianyuan woke up on the tenth day of July, and his health gradually recovered. He even held a grand court meeting on the sixteenth day of July.

After hearing this, Li Yu finally felt relieved.

*

The capital was the same as when they had left.

The streets are busy and people are busy doing their work.

Because Minister Pei, Grand Tutor Jiang and Han Zheng had to go to the palace to report, Li Yu, Lu Xuan and Si'er separated from them after entering the city.

Li Yu was not in a hurry to go home. After thinking for a while, she asked Si'er to drive to Taiping Street. This time she was away for the longest time, and she didn't know how the hot pot restaurant and barbecue restaurant were doing recently.

She had to go and see.

It was the afternoon break, there were no customers in the hot pot restaurant, and only Aunt Tian was in the lobby.

Lu Xuan Si'er was going to tie the horse at the back. Li Yu watched them walk away, stood at the door, and then stepped into the store.

Her footsteps made noises, and Nanny Tian noticed it and raised her head from behind the counter.

Seeing that it was Li Yu, she immediately stood up excitedly: "Boss Li, when did you come back?"

"Two quarters of an hour ago." Li Yu greeted her gently, "Madam, how are you these days?"

"It's about the same as before." Nanny Tian looked at Li Yu and said, "Boss Li has lost some weight. He must have suffered a lot during his trip to Nanzhou Prefecture."

"Not bad." Li Yu replied with a smile, "I was just a little tired on the way back. I didn't go with the disaster relief efforts in Nanzhou Prefecture. I stayed at home the whole time, so I wasn't very tired."

Nanny Tian nodded.

The two of them were talking loudly, and other people in the backyard heard them and ran to the lobby.

Seeing that it was Li Yu, everyone greeted her, and Li Yu smiled and replied a few words.

After a while, the helpers went back to the kitchen to work. Li Yu continued to talk to Nanny Tian. When it came to Prince An's Mansion, Li Yu changed the subject: "I heard that His Majesty had caught a cold and fainted a while ago. Nanny, do you know more about it?"

Nanny Tian shook her head. Li Yu had come to the wrong woman this time. The palace was strictly controlling the matter of Emperor Tianyuan's illness and people were not allowed to talk about it. The princess and the prince and princess didn't talk much about it in the mansion. All she knew was what was spread outside.

Li Yu didn't feel unhappy when Nanny Tian didn't explain clearly.

She was just asking casually. If Nanny Tian didn't know, she would ask Princess Jianing and Mr. Xiang. They would always know.

*

After staying in the hot pot restaurant for half an hour, Li Yu went to the barbecue restaurant.

The current manager of the barbecue restaurant is still Madam Yan. As she has nothing to do with those people in the court, Li Yu did not ask her about Emperor Tianyuan's illness, but only asked about the situation in her restaurant.

Madam Yan said it fluently and took out the account book to show Li Yu.

The account book was very thick and Li Yu couldn't finish reading it in a short time, so he put it away first.

*

At the same time, in the imperial study of the palace.

Emperor Tianyuan coughed heavily several times.

Seeing that he was not feeling well, Master Jiang was anxious and wanted to call the eunuch in, but Emperor Tianyuan raised his hand to stop him.

"I'm fine, Lord Jiang, don't worry."

"But..." Master Jiang looked worried and wanted to speak but was stopped by Emperor Tianyuan.

"Don't say anything. Let me finish reading this memorial first." Emperor Tianyuan said as he lowered his eyes. He was not feeling well. The knuckles of his fingers, which were holding the memorial with too much force, turned white.