Abandoned daughter takes charge of the family, so rich that even the best people can't envy

Chapter 440 Ballad

Xiao Qingmei bowed her head to the ground, "This is not a self-torture trick. It is this servant who coveted something she shouldn't have coveted. This servant knows she was wrong. Please, Your Highness, save this servant. This servant is willing to offer what I have in my hand to you."

As a secret guard of the Hidden Sect who has not yet debuted, he is forbidden to have a private affair, especially since this woman actually gave Su Mo cartilage powder.

She did not do this in private. In order to save the face of the princess' husband, after Su Mo left angrily, the woman was caught on the spot by the Hidden Sect's Discipline Hall.

Anyone who commits this kind of mistake will be punished severely to serve as a warning to others.

They were all stripped of their martial arts skills and thrown into the animal sanctuary in the back mountain to feed the wild beasts.

The woman was confident of her skills and tried to escape.

But one punch was no match for four hands, and she soon lost the upper hand. Only then did the threat of death frighten her.

Instinctively, she wanted to ask Su Mo for help.

So she tried her best to escape, but when she saw Song Jinxiu's carriage, something suddenly came to her mind and she said those words.

She was smart enough to know that if she asked Su Mo for help, she might be adding insult to injury.

The Crown Princess came and left in a hurry.

He said he came to select secret guards, but he only took away a little girl.

This girl was even chosen by a maidservant serving the Crown Princess.

Therefore, the Crown Princess's purpose of coming was not to find the secret guards.

These days, the Crown Princess spends her days inspecting the Six Paths Gate and reading some manuscripts.

And she had seen those manuscripts before...

I don't have any bargaining chips to use with the Crown Princess, so I don't know if these manuscripts can be used...

Although she didn't know if it would work, she wanted to take a chance.

Song Jinxiu frowned. Not long ago, this man was looking for Su Mo for a date, but in the blink of an eye, he committed a capital crime?

She also said that she coveted something she shouldn't have coveted. Could it be that her seduction of Su Mo was exposed?

Su Mo has let go of this matter. Even though it was resolved for Song Jinxiu, she did not expect that someone would die in this matter.

Song Jinxiu did not judge the rules of the Hidden Sect.

Although she felt that the secret guards had no say in their death and were indeed pitiful, they were also not allowed to have private affairs.

Imagine if her secret guard fell in love with someone else, and he would give some of his feelings to that person. And if that person was also against her? How could she dare to trust him, to entrust her life and death to him?

Therefore, this hidden system also makes sense.

If he doesn't care, this person is Su Mo's childhood sweetheart. If this person loses her life because of this, Su Mo will finally let go...

Song Jinxiu glanced at Su Mo, whose brows were furrowed like a river, and then asked, "Are you willing to give up your martial arts and become a commoner?"

The woman's eyes lit up and she kowtowed fiercely, "Thank you, Your Highness, for not killing me. I am willing to do it."

For the secret guard, being a free civilian is the best outcome.

This was just a small episode and Song Jinxiu didn't take it to heart.

But the woman was also trustworthy and asked Yinzong to send her a manuscript book.

When Song Jinxiu opened it, she saw the handwriting of the first sect leader.

The woman said she found it in a cave.

It should be that the first clan leader lived there and stayed there.

Beijing.

Liu Renxiu acted decisively and ordered people to re-carve the ancestral tablets, and then temporarily used a small Buddhist temple to the east of the ancestral hall as the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors.

However, when the ancestral hall was demolished, the remains of four people were found in the four corners of the building.

A large number of snake bones were found under the six coiled dragon pillars.

Who would bury the dead in the four corners of their ancestral hall? Or bury a bunch of dead snakes under the coiled dragon pillar?

It's obvious that there's something wrong with this.

Liu Renxiu was so angry that he couldn't eat or sleep at night. He never expected that the emperor was so cruel that he would let people tamper with the ancestral temple.

How could I, who worked diligently for the country and the people, have such a foolish ancestor?

Eunuch Hai said worriedly, "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself. The princess said that the crown prince is still waiting for your instruction!"

"Well, since he is so cruel, don't blame me for digging up his grave and exploding his bones."

Eunuch Hai was horrified, "Your Majesty, are you planning to dig an underground palace?"

Liu Renxiu's eyes were icy. "The coiled dragon pillars in the underground palace are exactly the same as those in the ancestral hall. If there's a problem here, how can the underground palace be safe and sound? While Kangle is away from the capital, dig it up. If our ancestors have grievances, then they should all be directed at me."

Eunuch Hai sighed. It was no wonder that His Majesty was angry. Who would want to dig up their own ancestral graves? But the emperor had gone too far.

"Your Majesty, what should we do with the remains of these people and snakes?"

Liu Renxiu said, "When Kang Le left, he said to burn all these filthy things and then put them in the sun for 49 days."

On the 20th of the winter month, Song Jinxiu's carriage had just entered the capital when it was stopped by the Minister of War Zhou Kunran and the Minister of Rites Cheng Gui.

Song Jinxiu frowned as she looked at the two old men whose noses were running from the cold. She asked in surprise, "You two old men are waiting here, but what happened in the capital?"

Zhou Kunran said, "Your Highness, you are back. After you left, His Majesty demolished the ancestral hall and blew up the underground palace of the imperial mausoleum."

Cheng Gui rubbed his nose and said, "Your Majesty may have done this in secret, but can this be concealed? The Imperial Censor reported it to the emperor, and he was even dismissed from office. Now the people in the Imperial City are in a panic, and there are all kinds of rumors."

Song Jinxiu frowned, "So the two elders are waiting here, have you heard some bad rumors?"

Zhou Kunran sighed and said, "Your Highness, I will speak frankly. Some people say that the fate of Cangwu is cursed, and the culprit is Emperor Shengde."

Cheng Gui also said, "It is said that Emperor Shengde sacrificed the fate of Cangwu to the evil god in order to achieve immortality. Now that His Majesty knows the truth, he blew up the underground palace of the imperial mausoleum in anger."

Zhou Kunran nodded. "There are still rumors circulating secretly that Cangwu has reached its end, and that the solar eclipse is a prophecy. This is a rumor that someone has secretly spread."

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper with a ballad written on it:

The song of famine, sung until the throat breaks, brings sorrow to nine out of ten listeners; natural and man-made disasters continue year after year, all because the emperor lacks virtue. Without virtue, without virtue, the vast expanse of grain is barren, you ask for immortality, but I shall not…

Song Jinxiu couldn't help but frown: "Where did this come from?"

This is a reactionary ballad.

Throughout history, whenever such songs were spread, they were closely related to the rebel army.

When the common people spread songs, they were not so bold as to directly accuse the emperor of lacking personal morality. They only sang about their own suffering.

Only those with ulterior motives would incite the people to oppose royal rule.

Although the Holy Emperor did have some shortcomings in his virtue, His Majesty the current one is wholeheartedly thinking about the people. And I, too, work so hard for the people of Cangwu, am I not also working so hard for them?

Moreover, although there have been many natural disasters recently, there has not been much damage.

The drought was severe, but thanks to water wheels and canals, it was a bumper year.

When the locust plague broke out, although the grain production was reduced, every household raised chickens, ducks and geese that were fat and strong.

Song Jinxiu also asked the government to purchase these chickens, ducks and geese at a fair price.

Not only did it make up for the loss of grain, but there was also a surplus compared to previous years.

That is to say, although there was a disaster this year, the people had a good harvest. So where did these songs come from?