Chapter 108 Rebellion
"Then transport it to the mountain."
Zhou Yunshu looked at the large amount of food in front of her and asked, "Aside from the main road in front of the mountain, are there any other small roads to the Temple of the Goddess of Childbirth?"
Uncle He thought for a moment and said, "There is a path, but it's difficult to walk on. It's probably overgrown with weeds now."
"That's all right."
Zhou Yunshu looked at the sweet trouble in front of her and said, "It's just that everyone will have to work hard today."
At noon, Zhou Yunshu and her group bought three chickens and some fresh vegetables from Damiao Village and made a big meal.
After a short rest after lunch, when the people in Damiao Village started their afternoon work, Zhou Yunshu and the women in her family watched over the luggage, while Wu Gui and Manager Liang took Yan Shilei and his group to transport the food towards the path that Uncle He mentioned.
The road was impassable for carriages, so if one wanted to go up without human help, one had to rely on mules and horses.
They were busy from the afternoon till the evening. Many people in Damiao Village were asleep before Wu Gui and others came back.
When they came back, except for Wu Gui who looked a little better, the others looked extremely exhausted.
Dinner had already been prepared, so they came back, washed up quickly, and started eating.
After Wu Gui recovered, he said to Zhou Yunshu, "We didn't dare let the horses and mules continue carrying the load. If they get too tired, it will be difficult for us to continue our journey tomorrow."
"So almost half of the food was carried up there by Hu Zi and his team. They were really exhausted."
Zhou Yunshu also anticipated this situation, so she spent a lot of money to buy a pig from the village tonight. She used half of the pig's bones to stew radish, braised spare ribs, braised pork, cabbage and pork stewed with vermicelli, and braised pig's blood with green onions.
Each dish is very large in portion, since there are so many strong men in their team.
Especially people like Hu Zi, they are strong and have big appetites.
The plate full of dishes, rice and fifty steamed buns were eaten up by them.
After dinner, Manager Liang and Uncle He briefly explained to Zhou Yunshu the location of the grain storage and gave her the key. Then they went back and lay down to sleep amid the snoring of Hu Zi and others.
Fortunately, they were almost fully recovered overnight, and they all woke up the next day when they smelled the fragrance of food.
Ever since Manager Liang's family joined the team, the meals for the team have been taken over by the women of the Liang family. Their cooking skills are much better than Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen.
In exchange, the Liang family's children studied under Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Yunjia.
The cabbage and meat buns and radish vermicelli and meat buns we ate this morning were made by the women of the Liang family. They tasted just as good as those sold in stores.
Here, Zhou Yunshu and her group had breakfast and left Damiao Village and continued on their journey south. On the other side, in Luzhou Prefecture, Princess Yuyang was seeing Cao Zhengxing off with her son and niece.
The ten holy ladies of the Red Lotus Sect also left with Cao Zhengxing. Originally, there was no need for so many people, but Cao Zhengxing decided to take them to the capital after seeing these ten holy ladies.
Cao Zhengxing sat on a tall horse, holding his snow fox cloak in one hand, and said to Princess Yuyang in the carriage, "Your Majesty has heard of the unfortunate passing of Lord Yang. I estimate that the person who will take over Lord Yang's position will be in office on the day I arrive in the capital."
Princess Yuyang frowned slightly and asked, "Didn't the Lord tell my uncle that our Yu Hao could definitely take over his father's position?"
Cao Zhengxing couldn't help but laugh when he heard Princess Yuyang's words: "Princess, I've only heard of hereditary titles, but I've never heard of hereditary official positions."
"Instead of thinking of leaving this opportunity to a young man who has not yet passed the imperial examination and achieved fame, Princess, it would be better for you to do a favor for someone else."
Cao Zhengxing's words were entirely out of consideration for Princess Yuyang. "Of course, building a good relationship with the new prefect is also a good option."
Princess Yuyang frowned and began to think about whether this was feasible.
Yang Yuhao frowned as he rode on his horse and listened to his mother and Cao Zhengxing casually giving away official positions in the court.
Aren’t they afraid that someone will hear and report it to Your Majesty?
Yang Yuhao had wanted to tell his mother a long time ago that no matter how much His Majesty doted on her, she must not lose her sense of propriety.
After all, the emperor's grace can be given to you at will, and of course it can be taken back at will if you go too far.
For example, now, his mother wants to interfere in the dispatch of court officials, which is really overstepping the line.
"I'll think about it. Lord Cao, take care."
Cao Zhengxing smiled and nodded. When he left, he glanced at Du Huairou who was beside Princess Yuyang, and an inexplicable smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Du Huairou was so frightened by that smile that she got goosebumps all over her body. She felt like he had seen through what she had done.
However, from the time this person came to my aunt's place and then left, they never spoke to each other, and they had not even met a few times.
So why does he see himself that way?
Du Huairou reached out and stroked his chest. Princess Yuyang thought Du Huairou was sick and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I just think... Lord Cao is a little scary."
At this time, the carriage of the Princess's Mansion had already turned around and headed towards the Princess's Mansion. After hearing this, she sneered and said, "It's normal for you to feel uncomfortable looking at a dead eunuch who kills people without blinking an eye."
Du Huairou thought about Cao Zhengxing's appearance and said, "But Lord Cao looks like a young man from a scholarly family."
Princess Yuyang scoffed, holding her handkerchief. "That was all in the past. He's nothing more than a eunuch without any offspring."
"If his parents and elders knew that he castrated himself to become a eunuch for the sake of fame and fortune, they would probably crawl out of the ground in anger and strangle this unfilial son to death..."
Princess Yuyang was excitedly talking to Du Huairou about the bad things Cao Zhengxing had done before, and she didn't notice that the driver sitting on the shaft of the carriage had a slightly strange look on his face.
If she noticed, she would definitely keep her mouth shut, after all, Cao Zhengxing was the most vindictive person.
Yang Yuhao followed Princess Yuyang and sent her and Du Huairou to the Princess's Mansion. He wanted to leave, but before he could turn his horse around, Princess Yuyang called him, "Come in, I have something to tell you."
Yang Yuhao gripped the reins tightly, feeling for some reason that his mother must have called him this time because of Zhou Yunjia's matter.
As expected, as soon as she entered the courtyard, Princess Yuyang asked, "Where did you take that nerd from the Zhou family?"
Yang Yuhao stood there in silence.
During these days when Cao Zhengxing was around, Princess Yuyang never asked about him, and even Uncle Liang was the same as before, acting as if what happened that day had never happened.
It wasn't that I didn't want to ask, I just wanted to settle the score later.
"Do you know that the Zhou family is now a traitor?"
Yang Yuhao stood opposite Princess Yuyang and said, "There must be a misunderstanding."
Princess Yuyang snorted coldly, "Are you like that kid from the Zhou family who's been reading too much and has become stupid?"
"The Zhou family has come to this point. If it weren't for His Majesty's connivance, do you really think that this huge Zhenbei Palace would collapse overnight?"
Princess Yuyang looked at the son in front of her who looked neither like herself nor like Yang Bingtian, and said earnestly: "I captured him, all for you."
"How could it be for me!" Yang Yuhao had heard enough of this kind of talk.
But when Princess Yuyang said the latter sentence, Yang Yuhao was still stunned.
Princess Yuyang looked at her unenlightened son and said angrily, "If it's not for you, then who is it for?"
"Do you know that news has come from the northern border that the roving Zhou family army has occupied a city and rebelled?"
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