Origin System, I have a barren mountain

After a long wait, Cheng Yunmo finally met Lord Liu, who had arrived early in the morning, on the second day.

Lord Liu looked very haggard, as if he hadn't slept well yesterday.

"Have you eaten, Lord Liu?"

Seeing Lord Liu's expression, Cheng Yunmo couldn't help but ask.

At the same time, Granny Qing gestured to the palace maid Ning to bring over clean bowls and chopsticks.

Lord Liu then sat down and, while eating, said, "Miss Cheng, the grain from that barren mountain is probably all inedible."

"Huh? What?"

Cheng Yunmo glanced subconsciously at the table in front of him, which was full of vegetables and grains from the barren mountains.

"No, I'm referring to the barren mountains that His Majesty took away."

At this moment, Cheng Yunmo realized that Lord Liu knew what had happened on the barren mountain.

"How to say?"

Lord Liu couldn't help but sigh and said, "The desolate mountain originally belonged to you, Lord Cheng. It was a place where all sorts of evil spirits once lingered. Even though these spirits have left, some things still need a long time to be suppressed before they can slowly return to normal."

A barren mountain that needs to be nurtured is manageable with Cheng Yunmo around, but without him, the ultimate fate of the barren mountain that was taken away by Yuanli is obvious.

It's perfectly normal that Cheng Yunmo didn't know about this.

The two benefactors whom Cheng Yunmo referred to as He Bai and Hei were never mentioned from the beginning. Instead, they hoped that the desolate mountain would be taken away by the emperor and others.

They may have thought the problem would get serious, but they didn't expect it to happen so quickly. Or perhaps, these people, regardless of their own character, don't care about this matter.

After thinking it through, Lord Liu gave a wry smile.

When Cheng Yunmo saw Lord Liu, the old man, looking sad, he couldn't help but feel sad as well.

"I don't know what I can do. I can't exactly go to the palace and take back the barren mountain, can I?"

Even if she did go, in reality, the connection between the desolate mountain and her had long been severed.

Even if we find such a barren mountain, we don't know what to do to protect it and ensure everyone's survival.

The other two people present felt heavy-hearted upon hearing these words.

“The barren mountain has become like this, and Cheng Yunmo is no longer the Junior Imperial Advisor. If she hadn’t lived a relatively long life, we wouldn’t even have been able to see her again.”

Granny Qing said with a wry smile.

I don't know how many people still want to go to the palace, but the situation there is far more complicated than people imagine.

"Wait, what about His Majesty?"

Granny Qing belatedly realized something: why hadn't the Emperor sent any news of his critical illness, and why did he seem perfectly fine?

That's when things got strange. Everyone knows that most of the grain available now comes from barren mountains.

If the emperor never ate grain from barren mountains, that would be plausible.

If that's the case, then from the very beginning, the emperor didn't really trust Cheng Yunmo, and only maintained a superficial level of favoritism.

Cheng Yunmo wasn't stupid; she realized what Granny Qing meant.

I don't know why, but I suddenly smiled.

Even she herself didn't know why she had laughed for no reason.

Granny Qing regretted her words; she shouldn't have said them. Hadn't they made Cheng Yunmo feel uneasy?

"sorry."

Granny Qing apologized sincerely.

"So, it's very likely that the emperor is no longer an ordinary person."