Chapter 967: Writing a Letter (Thanks to the Reward from Book Friend "Becky")
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang ran in happily with baskets of books and told Man Bao, "The King of Yizhou has come to the capital."
Manbao sat behind the desk, raised his eyelids and glanced at them, then said, "I see. Why are you so happy that he's coming to Beijing?"
Bai Shan said, "Aren't you waiting to sell flowers? Are you unhappy that he has come to Beijing?"
Man Bao was in high spirits, and then she remembered that she was still waiting to earn money from the King of Yizhou.
Bai Erlang chuckled, "When did your memory become so bad?"
Bai Shan asked, "What happened?"
Manbao took a look outside and then told her about the two assassins she saw today.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were stunned. After a while, they said, "Your luck is too good, isn't it?"
Manbao asked, "Is this good luck?"
Bai Shan nodded repeatedly, "Of course I'm lucky. The King of Yizhou put the people in a carriage and pretended they were family members. He obviously didn't want anyone to know about this. And yet you saw it all. If this isn't good luck, what is it?"
"What good would it do me to see them? I can't save them."
Bai Shanze said: "If you saw it, it's equivalent to Lord Tang and Lord Yang seeing it. If they saw it, it's equivalent to Lord Tang and Lord Wei seeing it."
Manbao was stunned for a moment, then finally came to her senses. She thought for a moment and said, "County Magistrate Yang and his men are too far away. It will take a long time for us to write to him and for him to write back to the capital to tell Lord Wei about them."
Bai Jilang: "So?"
"So we can just tell Lord Wei directly," Manbao said, "and then write a letter to let Lord Yang and Lord Tang know."
Bai Shan thought for a moment and said, "Liu Gui seems to know the Wei family. He was the one who delivered letters to the Wei family on behalf of my grandmother several times."
He turned around and sat behind his desk and said, "You write to County Magistrate Tang and the others, and I will write to Lord Wei."
Bai Jilang asked, "What about me? What about me?"
Manbao stretched out his hand to grind the ink and said, "Write to County Magistrate Yang."
Bai Erlang was happy. He hadn't spoken to County Magistrate Yang for a long time, and this time was a good opportunity to have a good chat with him.
Bai Shan's letter was finished first, mainly because his letters were always brief and he was not familiar with Lord Wei, so he just explained the situation, so his letter was even briefer.
Manbao was a chatterbox. She wrote a letter to County Magistrate Tang, and accidentally wrote a lot, and it was extremely detailed. She said, "I don't know what deep hatred those people have with the King of Yizhou that they actually tried to assassinate him twice. But they should be from Yizhou, or at least from the Jiannan Taoist sect. Lord Tang, please investigate further in Yizhou. Maybe you can find other evidence of the King of Yizhou's crimes."
Manbao felt that if those people were not assassins sent by other princes and ministers to kill the King of Yizhou because of conflicts of interest, then it must be a personal vendetta. To force a group of people to kill a prince, there must be a deep hatred, such as the hatred for the murder of her father like Bai Shan.
Manbao doesn't mind having too many allies at this moment.
Bai Shan blew on the letter, waited for the ink to dry, sealed it in an envelope, and wrote Lord Wei's name on it. When he looked up, he saw Man Bao and Bai Er Lang still writing furiously. He was curious and asked, "What took you so long?"
Manbao said: "Wait a little longer, it will be there soon, soon."
Bai Erlang said, "Don't worry, I've only just started."
Bai Shan: ...
Manbao, who said he would finish it soon, changed two pieces of paper after a quarter of an hour and was still writing hard. Bai Erlang next to him also wrote four pieces of letter paper, took one and continued writing.
He was particularly curious and simply leaned over to take a look. "What on earth did you write?"
Man Bao said, "I didn't write much, just a few words about our recent situation, and asked County Magistrate Tang to help take care of my fourth brother and his family. After all, my fourth brother is mainly doing business in Yizhou City now, right?"
Bai Shan looked at Bai Erlang.
Bai Erlang said, "I was just chatting with County Magistrate Yang."
They both looked up and asked Bai Shan, "Do you want to write a few words for them too?"
Bai Shan felt a little itchy, so he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Okay, I'll write a few for them too, and then put them together and send them back."
When Manbao saw that Bai Shan had written letters to Lord Tang and Lord Yang, she simply wrote one to County Magistrate Yang, also asking him to help look after her family and not let the King of Yizhou's people discover their home.
So, half an hour later, Daji received six thick letters. Bai Shan said, "Send them back and find out when Grandmother and the others will arrive in Beijing."
Daji glanced at the six letters and asked, "Master, you only write to County Magistrate Yang and his men, but not to your family?"
When the three heard this, they immediately turned around and went back to the study, "Wait a moment, we'll be there in a moment."
Daji stood outside the study and waited for two quarters of an hour. The three of them brought three thick letters and stuffed them into his hands. "Thank you for your help, Daji."
Daji: ...It’s not a trouble at all. It’s not him who’s going home anyway.
Because these letters contain a lot of confidential information, it is impossible to send them back through the post station. What if they are opened and checked by someone?
So Daji chose a man from the front yard and asked him to ride a horse and set off to deliver the letter the next day.
After finishing the letter, the three of them relaxed. Manbao went to water her flowers and plants, muttering to herself, "You must grow up beautiful and work hard, so that you can make a lot of money for me in the future."
At this moment, the emperor was also looking at his sons. He had just finished checking their homework, and without a smile on his face, he was lecturing them, "We hired such a good teacher for you, but your homework is such a mess. Can't you do better?"
The sons, led by the crown prince, lowered their heads. The emperor was very unhappy and was in the middle of scolding them when a palace servant cautiously entered. He finally stopped and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, someone has come from the Queen Mother's palace, inviting Your Majesty and the other princes to come over for dinner, saying they want to have a reunion dinner."
Since it was a reunion dinner, it was obvious that the Yizhou King and his family, who had just arrived in Beijing, were also there.
The emperor slowly piled his sons' homework and asked, "How is the Queen Mother feeling?"
"Prince Xin'an just wrote a poem, and the Empress Dowager praised it highly. She's in a very good mood."
The Queen Mother was in a good mood, but the Emperor was not. He glared at his sons, stood up and said, "Let's go and pay our respects to the Queen Mother."
On the way, the emperor felt more and more frustrated. He simply turned to Gu Zhong and said, "Go to the guard room and find Wei Qing. It's the Empress Dowager's birthday, and it's time for all the princes to come to the capital to celebrate. Ask him to write an imperial edict ordering all the princes to come to the capital."
Gu Zhong bent down and replied, "Yes."
Entering the Queen Mother's palace, the Prince of Yizhou, who was happily chatting with her, immediately stood up from his mother's side and hurried down to greet her. He bowed and said, "Royal brother..."
The emperor stepped forward and supported him, smiling broadly, "Why are you being so polite to your brother? Sit down quickly."
The Queen Mother waved repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, sit down quickly. Second Brother, take a look. Isn't Fifth Brother much thinner and older than the last time I saw him?"
The next update will be around 4:00 PM
(End of this chapter)
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