Helian Yu nodded his chin obediently: "Master, you can go without worry, I can be fine on my own."

Xie Rangchen: “…”

As the days approached the beginning of May, everyone was busy with their own things.

Helian Yu heard a little about what happened after Xie Rangchen returned to Beijing. It seemed that he rejected a girl's request to become his disciple.

This matter was too vague and had little to do with Helian Yu. She had no intention of paying much attention to it. She only listened to one or two things and then stopped listening to the subsequent entanglement.

"Your Highness, tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. The capital has sent us spices, kudzu silk clothes, and some tribute rice and dates, all of which are top-quality ingredients for making jiaoshu."

"Jiangshu." Helian Yu's brain was working quickly, and he had a good idea, "Cidong, call Miss Fang and a few others over, and pick twenty female servants and male servants with good personalities, who are smart and cheerful, and form two groups of men and women, and set up a jiaoshu banquet tomorrow on the Dragon Boat Festival."

"Your Highness, if you want to set up a banquet, you might as well pick one or two young men and women you like from each family, just to entertain you." Ci Dong reminded at the right time.

After all, he had been in Zhaoyang County for half a month, and after his family was confiscated and sealed, no one dared to act rashly, which was already a big enough show of power.

It would be a good idea to show some grace during the Dragon Boat Festival and encourage a few obedient families.

The method is simple, but those who seek profit and know the times will cooperate with it with a smile.

Helian Yu nodded appreciatively and waved at Ci Dong, who crouched in confusion.

Helian Yu patted Ci Dong's shoulder with her little hand, her tone full of satisfaction: "Under my unremitting influence, Ci Dong, you have become smarter."

Ci Dong bent his knees, and his legs almost cramped when he heard that. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he smiled modestly: "I am not even one ten-thousandth of my strength as the master."

"It's not that exaggerated." Helian Yu asked her to stand up straight. She lay on the table, playing with the empty teacup lazily. "How is the meal going?"

"We found that locusts like to eat reeds, barnyard grass, white grass, dogtooth grass and wormwood, but..." Ci Dong obviously had a hard time explaining it in a few words.

Helian Yu pulled her to sit down and poured two cups of warm tea: "Tell me in detail."

Ci Dong nodded and said, "When locusts pass through, they usually appear in groups, like a large gray-black net covering the sky, plundering and eating everything that passes through. They will even eat the wool of sheep and the leather harness of horses. So far, no food has been found in the book that can absolutely attract locusts."

"But I read in a medical book that locusts emit a certain smell, which attracts each other and forms swarms."

Ci Dong's eyes were bright, dark and clear: "Master, if we catch some locusts, let them emit their scent, and gather together, it should be possible?"

Helian Yu propped up his chin and said, "There are two questions. One is how to make sure that the locusts can overcome hunger and pursue the scent of another group of locusts when they pass through. The second is whether we can capture enough locusts to release this scent within two months."

Ci Dong was silent, and shook his head with difficulty: "I can't be sure. Although there is no shortage of locusts in the fields, and the people also call the locusts that are not threatening enough in the fields grasshoppers, it is still too difficult to achieve the two points mentioned by the master."

"No matter how difficult it is, let's give it a try." Helian Yu jumped off the chair, took a purse from the table a few meters away, and put it next to Ci Dong's hand. "Even if the direction is wrong, it can also provide experience. At least it will give later generations a way to avoid it. There are about five thousand taels of silver notes in it, which is enough to support you to do this."

Ci Dong clutched his purse, his heart pounding and his eyes burning with anger as he thought of the difficulty of what he was doing and Helian Yu's absolute support: "Ci Dong will do his best." -The Dragon Boat Festival is here, and the people in Beijing are full of enthusiasm. The streets are filled with mugwort leaves, realgar wine, powder to avoid the five poisons, fragrant rice, glutinous rice, dates, colorful ropes, etc.

On the river on the outskirts of the city, well-made dragon boats competed for the top spot, and onlookers gathered on both sides, eating, drinking, playing and laughing, in a relaxed and comfortable mood.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, at Shangyang Tower, literati and poets would spend thousands of gold coins to compete for the prize in poetry competitions. Young ladies would dress up as men and discuss poetry with talented men under the pretext of outing.

Han Xingzhi was leaning on the railing on the upper floor. He was wearing a thin coat, and two beautiful girls were fanning him. "Mr. Qiao, what do you think of the girl dressed as a man over there?"

Qiao Zhe followed his gaze and looked over. The face was unfamiliar, so he couldn't help but wonder: "Do you recognize him?"

"It's summer now, and I think she won't be able to stand the cold." Qiao Zhe refuted Han Xingzhi with a very cold joke.

Han Xingzhi didn't care, and patted his palm on the railing: "You are so boring. Look at the collar of her clothes, there is a magnolia totem embroidered on it, she must be from the Jiangnan Mu family."

"Don't the Mu family members need an imperial order to come to Beijing?" Qiao Zhe was a man of the underworld after all. He knew some secrets better than ordinary people. "The totem on their clothes is not concealed at all. I think they are here with bad intentions."

"It's a pity for such a beautiful woman." Han Xingzhi sighed, "After so many days, she will be just a pile of bones again."

"What news did you get?"

Qiao Zhe didn't say anything and pulled his wrist into the box.

The door was closed and there was no more sound.

It was lively downstairs, with talented men and beautiful women reciting poems and composing couplets, having a great time.

Helian Sheng was a little disappointed, and dragged Helian Chi to drink: "Fourth brother, among the four brothers, only you and I are unsuccessful in love."

Helian Chi disagreed with his words and sarcastically retorted: "You are the only one who is frustrated."

Helian Sheng drank a lot of wine. He usually didn't care about Helian Chi, but now he cares about it: "Fourth brother, you have never been in the field of love, so you are not as good as me."

"Heh." Helian Chi did not agree with Helian Sheng's idea, and used a blunt knife to cut him, "I heard that Miss Dugu was sent to Jiangnan by the national teacher, and it seems that she was sent with several handsome young men. I wonder what will happen to Miss Dugu after this..."

Hearing this, Helian Shengwu's eyes turned red, and he held the wine pot, feeling extremely aggrieved: "Go away! I don't want to drink with you!"

Helian Chi: "..."

If he hadn't been dragged here, he wouldn't have come to drink.

He didn't quite understand why Helian Sheng couldn't get over it after a month or two.

Since a short pain is worse than a long pain, why is Helian Sheng's short pain a little too 'long'?

Helian Chi stood up and walked out of the hall. After a few steps, he bumped into someone.

Helian Chi dodged quickly and the man fell straight to the ground.

Helian Chi glanced at the person on the ground, said nothing, and turned away.

Instead, the man grabbed his calf.

"Why didn't you hold me up just now!"

Helian Chi pulled back his legs, and the man fell to the ground again, looking at Helian Chi with even more resentment.

"Miss, although there are many people in the hall, it won't make you lose your way and rush into my arms without turning."

"If you want to seduce a prince, see that over there, the second prince, he's drunk, you can take advantage of the opportunity to succeed." Helian Chi kindly reminded, "Try to seduce him while he's not completely drunk, he might take the bait, but when he's too drunk to get an erection, you won't be able to succeed."

Zhuo Liu glanced at Helian Sheng, feeling sympathy and pity.