Quick Wear: The Development of a Pure Cannon Fodder

After Cheng Ting left, Helan Xin continued to take Yu Ziyin on a boat trip. The two drank tea and ate snacks, chatted and talked about their troubles. They were very happy, but Yu Ziyin still couldn't find anything at the market to give to Shao Lian as a birthday gift.

Finally, she thought, isn't it common these days to say that no matter what you give as a gift, it's not as sincere as making something yourself? So why not hunt a fox and make a fur coat for Shao Lian?

After thinking about the feasibility of this, the next second, she pulled Helan Xin to go horseback riding and hunting.

He Lanxin was a little worried about Yu Ziyin's hand. How long would it take for it to recover? But when she saw Yu Ziyin get on the horse and whip it off, she immediately chased after him.

Xi Que and Helan Xin's maids could not ride horses, so they could only stay where they were and wait. Only a group of guards who could ride horses and people from the hunting ground followed them.

In the forest, a woman in green was riding a white horse, holding a whip and reins. She looked at the woman in white beside her, secretly comparing who was faster. The hair of both of them was blown away, and their dresses were flying, extremely unrestrained.

The two men drew their bows and aimed at the prey at the same time. The alert white fox realized that it was being targeted by two hunters, and immediately ran deep into the forest, followed by the sound of horse hooves.

Yu Ziyin's eyes were sharp, and the arrows he shot blocked the white fox's way. The white fox was frightened and wanted to run past like a slippery loach. The next second, an arrow hit the white fox's abdomen, and the white fox struggled on the ground for a while and then stopped moving.

Helan Xin put away the bow, smiled at Yu Ziyin, and ordered his men to dismount and catch the white fox.

"Ziyin, this fur is great! If it's made into a fox fur coat, it will definitely be warm and soft." Helan Xin stroked the white fox.

Yu Ziyin nodded. Although the two had already hunted the white fox, they had no intention of leaving. Since they were already here, how could they not have fun?

Last time they were injured and didn't have enough fun, so now Yu Zinyin and Helanxin are riding their horses to their heart's content in the forest. When they see prey, they draw their bows and shoot arrows. The two cooperate with each other, one of them moves quickly to block the road, and the other one seizes the opportunity to shoot directly, not giving the prey any chance to react. Few of the prey they have set their sights on miss, and even if there are, it is because the prey is always alert and starts running away at the slightest movement, so the two of them cannot catch up.

It was already dusk when they packed up to say goodbye. Yu Ziyin still looked at He Lanxin reluctantly, "Then I'll leave?"

"Oh, let's go back, we have plenty of time! I'll send it to you when the fox fur is processed!" Helan Xin pinched her little face.

"Ah."

Yu Zinyin returned to Lanyue Pavilion and took a shower as usual before going to bed. During this time, her cat Bai Xue jumped up and sat on her again. She held it and lay on her side. Maybe she played too hard today, and heavy sleepiness gradually fell on her eyelids, and the whiteness in front of her eyes gradually faded.

In her dream, she dreamed that her sister still couldn't get over her own death, but when faced with other people's questions, she still answered everyone's questions with a smile as if nothing had happened. But this was the biggest abnormality.

Yu Zinyin felt a tightness in her chest and woke up crying.

But she found that it was already morning. She sat up straight and wiped the tears from her face in a daze.

"My queen?" Xi Que heard the noise and walked in. Seeing that Yu Ziyin was awake so early, she asked, "Why are you awake so early today?"

"I can't sleep." Yu Zinyin shook her head weakly and got up. She was helped to put on her clothes and started to eat breakfast.

She did not answer Xi Que's other questions. Her life went on as before, she practiced singing and walking with her opera master, and went hunting and horse racing with He Lanxin whenever she had the chance. Time passed little by little in this process.

Prince's Mansion Study...

Shao Lian learned from Lord Wang that Cheng Ting had returned to the Imperial College to resume his post only a few days after his decline. Even the most complicated and trivial matters would be handled by him personally, and he never asked others to do them. This gradually changed the opinion of the newly appointed Imperial College Supervisor, who had many opinions about Cheng Ting.

"Your Highness, do you still need my help?" asked Lord Wang.

The two men's conversation did not take other officials into consideration. Naturally, other officials understood the prince's underlying intentions and felt a little jealous of Cheng Ting, who was valued by the prince.

However, a top scholar who had just entered the court and was now demoted to a minor civil servant was actually still secretly taken care of by the prince. He was really lucky.

If Yu Zinyin knew what they were thinking, she would definitely say, this is fate, you don’t understand.

"Leave him alone." Shao Lian waved his hand. He folded the memorial in his hand and asked Shang Liang to pass it to the adults in turn. "Take a look at this. Now that the disaster relief money has been distributed, the people in many places have still united to rise up in rebellion. If they hadn't killed a local governor not long ago! I'm afraid this matter would not have reached His Majesty. Last night, His Majesty issued an oral order, asking me to investigate this matter strictly. I am really curious now. Why did such a thing happen and report it now?"

After Lord Wang opened it and read it, his expression gradually became solemn. "Your Highness, calm down. His Majesty already knows about this matter, but he hasn't revealed it in court. This is to give you time to deal with it. We only need to deal with it within this time. Even if this matter is over, His Majesty will not reveal it in court and embarrass you."

The prefect in charge of the area was still confused and anxious, wondering why he was summoned to the Crown Prince's study today. Now, after hearing the Crown Prince mention this matter and learning that His Majesty also knew about it, his face was filled with fear. He walked out with a pale face and knelt on the ground under Shao Lian's sinister gaze, "Your Highness, please calm down! I have no intention of hiding anything!"

Shao Lian's eyes were filled with gloom, and he looked at the prefect as if he were a dead man. "Since you have no intention of hiding it, those people have been rising up in rebellion for over a month, why hasn't anyone mentioned it in the court?"

The prefect's mouth was trembling, and the gazes of the superiors around him made him terrified. Cold sweat covered his forehead, and kept dripping down his temples to the ground.

Seeing that he remained silent, Lord Wang snorted, "Huo Qi! Have you had enough of wearing this official hat? How dare you not respond to the Crown Prince's question!"

"No, no, no! It's not like that..." Prefect Huo Qi felt as if his vocal cords were knotted. "Your Highness, the disaster relief money was indeed delivered to those people! I wouldn't dare to be greedy even if I had a hundred guts! It was those people who were greedy and wanted more. They tried to make a deal with me, asking for more money. I thought there were only a few hundred people, and I could just send soldiers to garrison them... I didn't expect them to dare to kill the prefect. I was truly unaware! I beg Your Highness to see through this!"

After saying that, Huo Qi kept kowtowed on the ground. Even when his head was broken, he did not dare to stop.

No adult dared to plead for him. Everyone could feel that the prince was angry. Who would dare to offend him at this time?

Finally, Shao Lian proposed to go to Qingcheng for investigation in person. Huo Qi was temporarily detained in the imperial capital and no one was allowed to meet him.

Lord Wang was the first to object to Shao Lian's decision to go in person.