Jiang Muyu returned to the palace.

After entering the house, he asked the servant, "Has the prince returned?"

The servant replied: "I am back. I think he is still in the academy now."

She walked towards the college.

As soon as he entered the room, Xu Lang came up to him and said, "The prince is discussing important matters with a senior official inside. Do you need me to inform you?"

"How long have they been talking?"

"It's been an hour."

"Then I'll wait outside for a while."

Jiang Muyu sat down in the yard.

After waiting for only a quarter of an hour, someone opened the door and came out. It was Lord Yao, the Minister of Works. She bowed to Jiang Muyu and left.

Jiang Muyu walked into the house and asked casually, "Master Yao, are you here for the flood?"

"Yeah." Liang Qingchen put down the brush in his hand and raised his head. "What's the matter?"

"It seems that I have come at the right time. Is the emperor ready to solicit good flood control proposals from all over the country?"

"How do you know?"

"Then there's no need to issue an order." Jiang Muyu took out a plan written by Wen Xiu and presented it to him, "Take a look at this first."

Liang Qingchen picked it up and looked at it carefully. He was shocked: "Who wrote this?"

"Wen Xiu."

"Is this why you asked me to borrow the token to see him?"

"right."

Liang Qingchen pursed his lips and said, "How do you know he can write a good plan for flood control? He is still locked up in a cell, how can he know the situation in Jiangnan?"

"Don't worry about how he knew it. You just need to help me hand it over to the emperor."

Liang Qingchen glanced at her and then looked back at the article. The flood control method described in it was very detailed. It clearly stated what to do and how to do it at each step. It seemed to be a good strategy indeed.

He put away the paper and said, "I will go to the palace immediately."

"So soon?"

"The flood is urgent. There are still heavy rains in the Jiangnan area. If we don't deal with it in time, I'm afraid there will be heavy losses. Without food, the people will suffer the most."

Jiang Muyu thought about it and agreed with this. "Then you should go early and come back early."

"Um."

Liang Qingchen went into the palace very quickly.

Inside the palace.

The emperor looked at the paper in his hand and pondered for a long time before he spoke: "Is this really written by Wen Xiu?"

Liang Qingchen, who was sitting at the bottom and drinking tea, replied, "That's right."

"Wen Xiu has been imprisoned for several days. The flood had not yet occurred. How did he know about it now? Moreover, the capital is far away from Jiangnan. How could he know so much about it?"

It was because the ministers in the court did not have a deep understanding of the situation and conditions in the Jiangnan area, and none of the strategies submitted to them satisfied him, so he came up with the idea of ​​soliciting good strategies from the people.

Liang Qingchen said, "This is what Zhao Zhao brought back after visiting him in the prison today. The calligraphy is indeed from Wen Xiu."

The emperor raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "You mean... the plan might come from Jiang Muyu?"

"Zhao Zhao has always been very smart."

The emperor couldn't help but sigh and said, "You really look like a romantic. If I didn't know you well, I would have been fooled by you."

Liang Qingchen smiled and said nothing.

"Originally, I was planning to send whoever wrote the plan to control the flood. Now it seems that Jiang Muyu wants to give the credit to Wen Xiu. I can give her a favor, but there is a prerequisite."

Liang Qingchen frowned, "You want to send Zhao Zhao to Jiangnan to control the flood? I'm afraid this is not appropriate."

"Who said I was going to send her?" The emperor smiled and continued, "I am going to send you, and you can take her with you when the time comes."

"This……"

"Don't be so quick to refuse. You might even gain something unexpected when you go to Jiangnan."

Liang Qingchen thought for a moment and finally agreed.

When Jiang Muyu learned that he was going to Jiangnan, he almost vomited blood. "Why did the emperor send me? Shouldn't he send someone who came up with the plan? I'm just a messenger. What does it have to do with me?"

Liang Qingchen looked at her with amusement: "Do you think the emperor is so easy to fool?"

Jiang Muyu realized it later: "Uh... So, the emperor thinks that the flood control strategy was my idea?"

Liang Qingchen nodded and said, "My brother said that if you can cure the flood, he will give you a favor and release Wen Xiu."

Jiang Muyu wrinkled her nose and snorted, "Since he could guess that the flood control plan was my idea, I don't believe that he didn't see that Wen Xiu is indeed talented. Even if I didn't agree, he wouldn't really kill Wen Xiu. At most, he would demote him."

"My Zhao Zhao is indeed smart. The Emperor is indeed reluctant to kill Wen Xiu for the time being and originally planned to lock him up for a few days, but..."

At this point, his expression suddenly became somewhat pitiful, and his tone softened: "My brother has already drafted an order to send me to Jiangnan to control the floods. If you are not with me, I am afraid I will not be able to complete this mission. When my brother punishes me, the entire Rui Palace will suffer."

Well, Jiang Muyu was powerless to refute. Who said they were husband and wife now? They were just grasshoppers tied to a rope. Once Liang Qingchen got into trouble, she would inevitably be implicated.

The next day, the emperor's decree was issued.

The entire palace began to prepare.

It would take at least a month for Jiangnan to come back, so Jiang Muyu had a lot of things to pack.

In addition to arranging affairs within the mansion, she also had to arrange affairs outside the mansion, and was busy all day long.

She sent Nanxing and Tangtang to the Marquis' Mansion and asked Mu to help take care of them.

I went to the shop and made some arrangements.

The dim sum shop was ready to open for business, so she compiled all the pastry recipes she had previously written for Chef Liu into a book and gave it to the chef in the shop.

Then he gave Chu Yu some instructions: "The follow-up matters will be implemented after I return from Jiangnan."

"Okay, Madam, you must be careful on your trip." Chu Yu said, "Just leave the business of the shop to me. Although I have never run a pastry business, I have opened countless shops, so I can manage this easily."

"Well, I believe you."

It was two days later when everything was arranged.

The palace's carriage left the capital early in the morning. It was just daybreak and Jiang Muyu fell asleep as soon as he got on the carriage.

It was fine at first, but after leaving the city, the roads were mostly dirt and gravel, and the carriage was very bumpy. By the afternoon, she already felt sore in her back.

Liang Qingchen was originally riding a horse and sitting in front of the team, but he got on the carriage in the afternoon. Seeing her haggard face, he felt a little distressed.

"Once we pass the next city, we'll take the water route, and things will be much better then."

Jiang Muyu nodded, too lazy to speak.

Liang Qingchen then held her in his arms, and put a soft pillow under her, saying, "Will this be a little better?"

"Yeah." She was still depressed.