The empress is wild and cool, and I'll help her secure her throne

"You...what do you want to do?"

Li Xiuming looked at Ye Qianxuan holding a wooden stick and stepped back in shock.

"Ye Qianxuan! My father is the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. How dare you touch me? How dare you do it in the Nine Gates Governor's Mansion? How dare you do it in front of my guards?"

"Uncle Zhao! Vice Admiral Li! Quickly apprehend this murderous corpse-stitching dog!"

"Save me! Save me quickly!"

boom!

Ye Qianxuan swung the wooden stick and smashed it fiercely on Li Xiuming's palm!

With a "crack", all five of Li Xiuming's fingers were broken!

"Ah!" Li Xiuming covered his bloody palm and let out a howl!

"You are so brave!" Uncle Zhao roared and was about to take action!

But a righteous spirit locked his body tightly, making him unable to move at all!

Kong Zhongzhi still had a smile on his face, but his scholar robe was fluttering in the wind!

Vice Admiral Li was also furious, but he looked at Duan Zhenggang first!

After all, this is the Nine Gates Governor's Mansion. According to the rules, as the deputy governor, I am not allowed to overstep my bounds without the Nine Gates Governor's permission!

Otherwise, you will be caught again!

Duan Zhenggang, on the other hand, looked calm and composed.

Kong Zhongzhi has already taken action, and the one he attacked was a son of your civil service group, so I pretended not to see it!

Seeing that Duan Zhenggang did not move, Vice Admiral Li did not know what to say and could only suppress his anger.

After all, his ass is not clean either.

If I step forward and overstep my authority to protect Master Li at this moment, I might end up getting myself into trouble!

Ye Qianxuan looked at Uncle Zhao expressionlessly, and imitated his previous tone in a sarcastic tone: "Master, don't worry! I'm by your side, no one can touch you!"

"Come on! I hit him with five fingers! You're going to kill me!"

The whole place was silent!

"In front of Dean Kong, kill this lowly corpse-stitching dog of mine! Quickly!"

Ye Qianxuan roared angrily.

I was almost killed by them in prison. If I don’t vent my anger now, when will I?

Uncle Zhao was held there, unable to even move, and finally had to lower his head.

Li Xiuming covered his broken finger with his hands, and his wailing gradually subsided. Finally, he lowered his head and dared not utter a word.

……

Inside the Honglu Temple.

Qingniao reported to the empress everything that happened in the Jiumen Governor's Mansion.

An Luoyu nodded slightly, a sly smile on her beautiful face: "Summon Kong Zhongzhi to the palace immediately! Oh, bring Ye Qianxuan with you!"

This time, let’s see how you, Dean Kong, can shirk your responsibility!

"Yes." Bluebird nodded slightly, then turned and left.

The empress was in a good mood and then glanced at the maid beside her.

The maid understood and immediately shouted loudly:

"Xuan, Madam Zhenbei Wang!"

Ye Nianxi, dressed in a plain gray and white dress, walked towards her gracefully, like a poem or a painting.

After arriving at the Empress's seat, he knelt on the ground, kowtowed deeply, and spoke softly:

"I pay my respects to Your Majesty!"

"Please stand up!" An Luoyu's face suddenly showed a warm smile: "You are originally a citizen of my Dong Zhou, there is no need for such a grand ceremony!"

"I called you here this time, not only to show my hospitality as a host, but also to discuss the price of wood for winter heating!"

Winter is approaching, and the counties of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty need a lot of firewood every day. The capital alone needs a huge amount.

However, there are few forests in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, so the firewood every year basically has to be shipped in from the other two countries.

Southern Wu and Eastern Zhou have become completely hostile to each other, and this year we may have to rely on Northern Liang to survive the winter.

But Beiliang is not a good man, he will take your life when you are sick!

In the past, wood used for heating was sold to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty for only one hundred taels per ton.

Now that Southern Wu and Eastern Zhou are at odds, Northern Liang is taking the opportunity to raise the price of timber to one thousand taels per ton!

"When I return, I will ask my husband to send me an invitation and try my best to persuade the Northern Liang Emperor to sell the timber to the Eastern Zhou at a fair price." Ye Nianxi bowed her head and said, "At the same time, I am willing to donate 50 tons of timber to the Eastern Zhou in my personal name!"

The empress also knew that Ye Nianxi was just the wife of the King of Zhenbei, and that being able to do this was already the limit.

"Good." The empress nodded slightly. "I thank you on behalf of the people of Dongzhou who are about to face winter!"

"During your visit to Dongzhou, if you have any requests or difficulties, please feel free to raise them with me!"

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I do have something to ask you." Ye Nianxi replied, then raised her head and said:

"Your Majesty, I have a younger brother named Ye Qianxuan who works as a corpse tailor in Corpse Seaming Street. Last night, he offended the son of the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue!"

"I would like to plead for him, hoping that Your Majesty will show leniency and spare his life!"

Hearing this, An Luoyu frowned a little: "He is fine now, and you, as his sister, didn't know?"

"what?"

Hearing this answer, Ye Nianxi was stunned for a moment, her face full of disbelief.

A lowly corpse seamstress offended the son of a third-rank official, and he was fine?

When did the court of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty become so reasonable?

"Ye Nianxi, sometimes you really should get to know your brother better!"

An Luoyu said lightly: "He is a genius!"

"What kind of genius is he? He's just a lowly corpse seamstress." Ye Nianxi shook his head slightly and said with a bow.

I am still dissatisfied with Ye Qianxuan's attitude yesterday.

"Don't you know why he was confined to the lower class? Besides, although he is a lowly corpse tailor, he is also the descendant of General Liu Zaidao. He is also the one who helped me win the poetry competition in this Honglu Temple and defeated the Southern Wu delegation!" An Luoyu said in a calm voice, as if hinting at something: "Oh, to thank him, I even rewarded him with a thousand-year-old ginseng!"

"what?!"

Ye Nianxi suddenly looked up, her expression filled with horror!

Ye Qianxuan, when did you become so capable!

The martial arts can be recognized by General Liu Zaidao, and the literary arts can be recognized by the empress!

Is this still the Ye Qianxuan that his mother and brother talked about, the useless Ye who could only sew corpses and was willing to be a slave?

And that thousand-year-old ginseng was actually a reward given to him by His Majesty!

It’s not a reward for me!

No wonder Ye Qianxuan was so angry when he returned home and saw that they had finished eating!

After all, it is a divine gift!

An ordinary corpse tailor would only have a chance to receive the Holy Gift once in his lifetime!

But they actually ate the thousand-year-old ginseng that Ye Qianxuan had worked so hard to obtain without telling him...

Looking at Ye Nianxi's expression, An Luoyu knew that Ye Qianxuan's original family was not very good.

However, as the ruler of a country, she was too lazy to care about Ye Qianxuan's family affairs. She just said lightly: "Madam Zhenbei, do you have anything else to do? If not, you can leave."

Ye Nianxi retreated in a daze, and the expression on Ye Qianxuan's face when he said "I don't recognize you" yesterday kept coming to her mind.

How much humiliation and disappointment must he have accumulated to make him say these three words so calmly!

Ye Nianxi was shocked!

No, I must go back and ask my mother carefully!

What on earth has Ye Qianxuan been through over the years!