The Cold King Demands Love and Pleasure

"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet?" Xia Tongsheng rolled her eyes. "Floods provide ideal breeding grounds for germs from corpses and wounds, creating sources of infection. Secondly, disasters lower the population's resistance to germs, making them more susceptible to infection and causing large-scale outbreaks of plagues or infectious diseases. In seasons with more rainfall, air circulation is generally stronger, which makes the transmission routes of germs more extensive and faster, further promoting the outbreak of plagues."

Min Youan didn't actually understand any of that long-winded explanation, and simply said, "So?"

"Ah..." Xia Tongsheng cried out, venting her resentment, "Prevention is better than cure!"

Hearing her shout, Min Youan put down the book in his hand, his gaze sharp to show his displeasure, "You deal with it!"

However, Xia Tongsheng, who was anxious and agitated, obviously did not notice that Min Youan's expression had changed slightly and he was somewhat angry. "What do you mean 'I'll handle it'? I would like Your Highness to post notices to warn the people of Baiyue not to use the polluted water source, to treat mosquito bites promptly and not to scratch them, and to wipe the exposed skin with white wine before meals and before resting every day to disinfect it, and to regularly sterilize the environment and bedding."

Min Youan narrowed his eyes, his gaze gleaming with a sinister light. Was this woman throwing a tantrum at him?

He walked up to her and looked down at Xia Tongsheng. Xia Tongsheng's gaze fell on Min Youan's broad chest, and she could clearly feel a pressure coming from above her head, which made her heart beat much slower.

She took a step back and evacuated the danger zone.

Min Youan then spoke, "Do as you say, you can leave now!"

Xia Tongsheng looked up and noticed that Min Youan's expression was as if he wanted to tear her apart!

She rolled her eyes, gasped, and immediately fled the eye of the storm!

These measures are the only ones Xia Tongsheng can think of. After all, she is not a professional medical worker, and there is very little she can do.

Although plagues may break out after floods, these are all probabilistic. It would be best if no plague occurred, but if a plague does occur, the result of prevention in advance will never be too bad.

However, ever since baijiu became popular, the price of baijiu in the city has been inflated. Cang Jue arrested several baijiu dealers who were inflating prices.

Since ancient times, the common people have never fought against the officials. They thought that as long as these people were put in jail for a few days, they would all start to behave. But they were wrong.

The price of liquor in the city did not decrease; on the contrary, it seemed to be deliberately going against them, and kept rising. Almost no one could afford Baiyue's liquor.

Xia Tongsheng entered the study listlessly, looking dejected.

Seeing Xia Tongsheng's worried expression, Wu Che asked, "Is it impossible to do without baijiu?"

She shook her head. "The alcohol content is already very low. There's no other way. You can't just burn it! If you do that, the person will be roasted to death even if they don't die."

Having spent many years in the military and frequently sustained injuries, Min Youan also knew the importance of baijiu (Chinese liquor)!

However, the current high price of alcohol made Min Yoo-an vaguely sense a conspiracy.

Unable to sleep at night, Min Youan strolled around the yard. The autumn night was cool and refreshing. Xia Tongsheng took a coat and draped it over Min Youan's shoulders, but because of his height, she had to hop a little to reach his shoulder! It was a bit comical.

Min Youan sighed and sat down on a stone bench in the courtyard. "Are you here to be funny?"

Xia Tongsheng pouted, "Can't people show more care and love to each other?"

She brought him clothes because she was worried he would catch a cold, but she was blatantly mocked instead. Xia Tongsheng decided that she would never do anything so ridiculous, no, so embarrassing again!

Min Youan had no patience for her rambling. "What is it? Speak!"

"Your Highness, don't you find this strange?"

"Hmm?" He hummed, his tone full of curiosity.

Xia Tongsheng sat down next to him, her big eyes blinking as she said, "Think about it, you've already arrested several vendors for price gouging, so why hasn't the price of alcohol gone down but instead kept rising? Aren't they afraid?"

Min Youan tapped his fingers lightly on the stone table and slowly spoke, "Because there's a hidden hand behind it all!"

"Since Your Highness has figured it out, why don't you go to the prison and find out the truth?"

Min Youan looked up, his obsidian-like eyes gazing at her delicate face. His usually sharp eyes now seemed so tender, unexpectedly stirring her heart.

Do you think you can even get the answer by asking?

"Why can't they get anything out of us?" Xia Tongsheng really couldn't understand it. Ancient punishments were so terrifying, such as being cut in half at the waist, being slowly sliced ​​to death, and being torn apart by five horses. Just hearing about them was already horrifying. How could they be afraid that they wouldn't talk?

"They've only arrested petty thugs. Do you think they really know anything? Even if you kill them, you won't get any useful information out of them! So all we can do now is wait!"

"Wait?" Xia Tongsheng asked curiously.

"Wait for the mastermind behind this to reappear! He's been driving up wine prices. You think he's just trying to make money? He's just trying to go against us. So, I don't need to go after him; he'll come to us himself."

Suddenly, Min Youan looked at Xia Tongsheng's thoughtful face and smiled helplessly, "You know what? Sometimes you're very smart, so smart that even I'm surprised, but sometimes you're really stupid. I don't even know how to measure your intelligence!"

Xia Tongsheng was displeased. "Hey, isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to be so bluntly sarcastic? I am, after all, Master Guigu's disciple!"

"That's truly his tragedy!"

"..."

"Hmph!" Xia Tongsheng was powerless to refute, and could only glare angrily at Min Youan's amused expression.

His expression seemed to say, "I love that you can't stand me, but you can't kill me."

He patted her head and said earnestly, "This world is not as safe as you think, so don't trust anyone, including me!"

She turned her head and looked at Min Youan's profile. "Can't I even trust the prince?"

Min Youan shook his head seriously, "No!"

Xia Tongsheng nodded as if she understood. To be honest, she had never been exposed to such a competitive society before. In her previous life, she was either in an orphanage or at school, where the environment was relatively simple.

In this life, she was well protected in the Xia family and was almost never harmed. Later, she went to Yunmeng Mountain, where life was even simpler.

Looking at Xia Tongsheng's innocent and naive face, Min Youan felt a surge of protectiveness, a thought that startled him. "It's getting late, go to sleep! I want to be alone for a while!"