Chapter 469: Personally Taking Action
The laughter in the room stopped abruptly, and Chu Yuxin hugged her reluctantly, "Sister, can't you stay a little longer?"
Chu Liuzheng smiled and said, "Master is busy, I will come back another day."
"Oh." Although Chu Yuxin was reluctant, she knew that her elder sister had no say in this matter. She let go of Chu Liuzheng, helped to straighten the wrinkles on the skirt, and then took her elder sister's hand and walked out.
The girl solemnly assured: "Don't worry, sister. I will study hard and will not lie. Don't worry about me. I will definitely use my real ability to save up a lot of dowry for you."
"You said that, I took note of it."
"Um!"
Bai and Chu Qin also got the news. Seeing the two sisters coming hand in hand, Bai's eyes were full of reluctance.
Chu Liuzheng smiled and said, "Mother, I will send someone to take you to the palace to talk in a few days."
【The monthly meeting quota cannot be wasted. 】
Mrs. Bai also knew her daughter's difficulties and nodded in agreement.
The family reluctantly saw Chu Liuzheng off and watched her get into the carriage.
Chu Qin embraced Bai and whispered to her in a soothing voice, "Just think of our daughter as marrying far away. You can still see her once a month. Isn't that better than not seeing her for years?"
Bai thought about what he said and found that it made some sense. She felt a little better and started to think about what to bring for her eldest daughter next time they met.
In the carriage, Xiao Jingfan was leaning against the carriage with his eyes closed, resting, with a look of fatigue between his brows.
Chu Liuzheng called out softly, "Young Master."
Xiao Jingfan opened his eyes, looked at her, and pulled his legs inward to make room.
Chu Liuzheng sat down beside him, placed the lunch box at his feet, and asked, "Have you had lunch yet?"
"No." Xiao Jingfan knocked on the carriage and the carriage started moving forward.
[It's almost noon and he hasn't eaten yet. What has the tyrant been doing? Why doesn't Eunuch Zhou try to persuade him?]
Chu Liuzheng bent down to open the food box and brought out a plate of orange-red, flower-shaped pastries that looked like frozen jade. "My mother and I made this golden cake with persimmons. It's sweet and sour. Would you like to try some?"
Xiao Jingfan glanced at the snacks that looked good but didn't touch them.
There was no refusal, which meant it didn't matter whether he ate it or not. Chu Liuzheng, who was very experienced, used a clean handkerchief to pad his hand, picked up a piece and fed it to his lips. As expected, Xiao Jingfan opened his mouth and ate it.
"how?"
"Fine."
"How about another piece?" Chu Liuzheng moved forward with the plate.
Only then did Xiao Jingfan reach out and take a piece and eat it slowly.
[Alas, Tyrant, this glutton, needs to be coaxed even to eat a snack. It's a wonder he can gain weight.]
Chu Liuzheng put the plate of snacks back into the food box, turned around, lifted the curtain and looked outside, wanting to see if there was any ready-made hot food on the street that he could buy to fill the emperor's stomach.
Xie Hui rode over and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Young Master is hungry." Chu Liuzheng looked at the shops along the street, but there was not a single restaurant.
Xie Hui took a look inside the carriage and thought to himself, who was the one who just said that he had no appetite and didn't want to eat? It turned out that he kept it here for someone out of pity.
Tsk tsk!
He said, "Fu Lai Lou is just in front. Their signature dishes are pretty good."
Hearing this, Chu Liuzheng retracted his head.
Xie Hui listened intently, but before he could make out what was being said, Chu Liuzheng popped his head out again. "The young master said he'll have dinner at Fulailou and go back after dinner."
Xie Hui nodded: "Okay, I'll go order the food first."
Chu Liuzheng hurriedly gave a bunch of instructions, which made Xie Hui dizzy. It was the first time he knew that his Majesty had so many rules to follow when eating.
However, this did not pose a problem for Lord Xie. He took Zhou Yuande, who was driving the car, away and let Eunuch Zhou take over.
Zhou Yuande: “…”
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It was already past dinner time, and Chu Liuzheng and his table were the only guests in Fulai Tower, so the dishes were served very quickly.
While the emperor was eating, Chu Liuzheng quietly opened the system to see what Xiao Jingfan had been doing just now. He didn't even have time to eat.
[Oh~ So the tyrant went to Duke Zhong's mansion. His sudden arrival was quite frightening.]
[Strange, why would the tyrant suddenly go to Duke Zhong's mansion when it's not a festival?]
She glanced at the emperor who was eating seriously and continued to flip through the pages.
[Holy crap! The mastermind behind setting up my brother was actually Duke Zhong. Where's the promise of jealousy turning into hatred? So that guy I found earlier was just cannon fodder.]
Chu Liuzheng couldn't help but reflect on whether she had been lying around too comfortably recently and lacked a sense of crisis. Why didn't she think more deeply about it?
I thought the tyrant would send someone to beat up that cannon fodder, telling him to behave himself and stop staring at other people's food. But the tyrant actually took action himself and directly criticized Duke Zhong, the mastermind behind this. This is really impressive. Should I treat the tyrant to a meal?
Thinking of this, she glanced at the food on the table, thinking about paying the bill herself later.
Xiao Jingfan lowered his eyes and chewed the food, thinking: I have enough food to eat, so I am not sincere.
Chu Liuzheng thought about it and felt that it was not a good idea to use the emperor's money to treat the emperor to a meal. She decided to think about it later. The most important thing now was to find out why Duke Zhong suddenly targeted her brother.
"Could it be that Duke Zhong knows what King Xiao is up to, and is planning to replace my brother with one of his own and take a piece of the action?"
"That's not right. The first people to be affected by King Xiao's actions are these powerful families with complex connections. How could they dig a hole for themselves?"
[Hmm... Could it be that Duke Zhong is planning to plant people to sabotage things in advance?]
She guessed all sorts of possibilities in her mind, but she never expected that it was because of herself.
[Frog Fun! What a roundabout way to save the country. If you can't do it, I'll do it to my brother, right? Queen, I'll remember you!]
She gritted her teeth, suddenly thought of something, and quickly searched through the system, finding many details that she had previously overlooked.
[Great! No wonder the Queen didn't let go of the Imperial Garden incident. It seems she's planning to uproot my family while I'm not paying attention!]
If it weren't for Xiao Wu at the grocery store, her eldest brother following King Xiao, and Chu Yuxin being in Lanhui Academy, with someone to protect her when she moved around, with the methods used by Duke Zhong's Mansion, her family would either have four more hostages or four more disabled people, or disabled people who were imprisoned.
She was so angry that she clenched her teeth, and her good mood after returning home disappeared in an instant.
"You're trying to save the country in a roundabout way, creating an accident, right? Who doesn't have a family? The Duke Zhong's mansion is much bigger than my own, and your Queen's hands are not clean either. You've been pretending to be a good person for so long that you've probably forgotten how the tyrant lost his first child, right?"
Xiao Jingfan:? !!
His Majesty the Emperor was so frightened that his chopsticks almost dropped to the ground.
Isn’t his first child Huirong?
Why is there another one?
Where did it come from?
How come he doesn't know?
Countless question marks popped up in the emperor's head, but Chu Liuzheng had already started looking for gossip about Duke Zhong's Mansion and the Queen.
Although it’s a little more, it doesn’t matter. The thing she has the most right now is time.
Wait until she compiles a book of evidence, then, hehe!
Xiao Jingfan glanced at her secretly several times, wanting to ask but unable to. He was feeling uncomfortable when Xie Hui, who had just gone out to buy sweet soup, suddenly walked in and reported, "Master, something happened at home."
(End of this chapter)
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