Ye Youlan's daily life of traveling through time

"Go find two people to take Aunt Lan and the child to live in the farm, and bring them back when she recovers." At this point, Madam Xiao smiled. "I'm not too confident in the others taking care of Aunt Lan, so you should go and take care of her!"

Chunni had tears in the corners of her eyes, but she didn't dare to say no. This new lady was more cunning and intolerant than the old one. She did this just to win the master's exclusive favor.

Ye Youlan received information that the old guys in the Censorate had stopped impeachment in recent days because they sent people to investigate and found that the Li family had no concubines or maids, only a newly married lady, which was inconsistent with the content of the tabloids.

Ye Youlan admired Li Zong and his new wife for their wisdom.

The new Emperor Jingwu of Jingnan Kingdom ascended the throne and sent a ceremonial delegation to Da Chu to make peace. The emperor handed the matter over to Li Zong and told him to do a good job in the reception.

Li Zong began to form a reception team. Song Wen and Qiao Luochuan were both his targets. He kicked out those who disliked him or had ridiculed him from the list.

The reception this time was of high standard and full of benefits. Flatterers stuffed red envelopes and handed over silver notes, hoping to get a share of the pie, and Li Zong accepted all of them.

Li Zong went to the post station to renovate it. Anyway, the court had allocated money for it, so he could make some money from it.

Li Zong asked someone to go to Mingyue Teahouse to customize a gift package. The men he sent went to Mingyue Teahouse to contact the owner and asked for a kickback, but the owner refused and said it was up to him to buy it or not.

Li Zong got angry and went to Xiao's pastry shop to make a batch of gift boxes, which they split equally between the two families.

Ye Youlan and the Seventh Prince felt that Li Zong was becoming more and more daring. If they continued to play the game this way, even if they didn't take action against him, he would be finished sooner or later.

The envoys from Jingnan Kingdom arrived, but problems arose on the first day they checked into the inn. The stable collapsed, and two horses were injured. They were the favorite horses of a general from Jingnan Kingdom. Li Zong went to negotiate in the middle of the night and paid a compensation of one thousand taels to settle the matter.

The next day, everyone got upset from the food served at the inn, and several people kept going to the toilet, which resulted in them being half an hour late for the meeting with the emperor in the palace. The emperor of the Chu Dynasty and his ministers were left waiting like that, unable to say a word.

The emperor glared at Li Zong fiercely, and Li Zong was so frightened that he dared not look directly at the emperor.

At the beginning of the banquet, there was singing and dancing to liven up the atmosphere. However, a string of a zither broke while she was playing. The girl playing the zither was so scared that she knelt down and begged for mercy. The prime minister ordered someone to quickly change the program.

The dancing girls came on stage in a hurry. One of them was afraid and accidentally stepped on the skirt of the girl in front of her, so a row of people fell down at once.

The envoy from Jingnan Kingdom laughed heartily: "What an interesting show!"

The emperor felt as if his face had fallen to the ground and he could never pick it up again, so he winked at the Grand Tutor, who stood up and said that after the meal they could go to the garden to enjoy the flowers and play pot-tossing and archery.

The Jingnan delegation was happy to do so, as this was what they were good at.

When the Jingnan envoys returned to the posthouse to rest in the evening, Li Zong and others were still being scolded by the emperor in the imperial study, and the emperor asked the Ministry of Personnel and the Dali Temple to conduct a thorough investigation.

In order to avoid further unexpected embarrassment, the emperor asked the prime minister to take charge of the situation.

The prime minister came to the prince's mansion as soon as he left the palace. What a smart man he is. When Li Zong was in charge, all kinds of problems occurred. It would have been impossible without the Seventh Prince's manipulation behind the scenes.

Ye Youlan gave her father an idea, to gather everyone at the Royal School Martial Arts Field tomorrow to hold a fun sports meeting, where winning or losing would not matter, and the important thing was participation.

The prime minister asked Ye Youlan to explain in detail. Ye Youlan handed the operating instructions that had been prepared long ago to her father and asked him to go home and study them. All the prizes for tomorrow's event would be provided by Rongji, and the court would not have to pay a penny.

When Prime Minister Ye returned home, he went to the study to carefully read the instructions. He was impressed by his daughter's brilliant ideas, so he asked someone to quickly copy several copies, one to be sent to the post station, one to the emperor, and another to General Ye, asking him to select some people to participate in the competition tomorrow.

The Jingnan Kingdom's delegation was originally angry, thinking that the Great Chu Kingdom's reception was perfunctory, but they were very happy to see the competition project instructions sent by Prime Minister Ye, so everyone began to study how to get more gifts.

The next day, at the Royal Martial Arts School, colorful flags fluttered in the air, and the autumn sun was scorching but not harsh.

The emperor came with his concubines, and he was also attracted by the fun games.

The project designed by Ye Youlan includes a relay race to grab gifts. Within the time of an incense stick, each team of ten people will run to a place fifty meters away to pick up gifts and return. No tools are needed, only two hands are used, and they can take as many as they can.

The second project is that one person is blindfolded and has to catch people in a big circle. Everyone in the circle has a bell on their back, and the bell will ring when they move. If you catch someone, you will get a shopping voucher worth ten taels of silver, which can be used to shop at any Rongji store.

The third competition item is "Carrot Squat". If a team member is eliminated, the opponent will be given one or two taels of silver. The silver is provided by Rong Ji. This game has no limit on the number of people. More than one hundred people from the Jingnan Kingdom delegation can come up and play.

Both sides were very interested, and the entire school martial arts field became lively.

The first event was the relay. Both teams sent out players with nimble legs and feet. The race began as soon as the gong was struck. The two teams chased each other, and the people outside the field shouted "Come on!" in unison, pushing the atmosphere to a climax.

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The activity lasted for a day and both parties reaped great rewards and returned home satisfied.

Ye Youlan calculated that Rongji actually spent less than one thousand taels of silver, but because this event was so popular and was hyped up by the tabloids in Beijing, many of Rongji's similar products were sold out.

The emperor was in great joy and bestowed countless rewards. The envoys from Jingnan Kingdom also sent many gifts. Ye Youlan asked Xiaomei to make another calculation and found that they made a huge profit.

After seeing off the Jingnan delegation, the old men in the Censorate received many letters of accusation, all of which accused Li Zong, the Minister of State, of taking advantage of welcoming the Jingnan delegation to accept bribes and cut corners. Some of the letters even included evidence, such as who gave Li Zong how much silver and when.

The emperor was very angry. No wonder the reception was such a mess. If it weren't for Ye Youlan's efforts to turn the tide, who knows how much more jokes would have been made.

Therefore, Li Zong's case was handed over to the Ministry of Personnel and the Dali Temple for review.

Li Zong had not returned home for several days, and Mrs. Xiao was anxious, so she hurried to the Xiao Mansion to find her brother. Her brother was afraid of being implicated, so he did not let her come. He also secretly handed over the silver that Li Zong gave him to the Dali Temple, and took the opportunity to step on him to avoid implicating himself.

The Dali Temple found out that Li Zong had accepted a total of 5,000 taels of bribes. Fortunately, he returned the stolen money in time with a sincere attitude, and some people pleaded for him. The emperor demoted him three levels to a sixth-rank minister and sent him home to reflect for a month.

It was as if he had returned to the past overnight, and Li Zong was extremely depressed.

He felt a little regretful now. If Qin Yurou hadn't died, it would have been great! She would have definitely given him advice, but it was a pity that he had been blinded by his own greed. Thinking of that rainy night when Qin Yurou looked haggard and disheveled, staring at him with scarlet eyes and asking why, he was very scared.