Ci Dong ran to the yard excitedly and heard the voice before he saw the person.

"Yes." Helian Yu raised his eyes slightly and teased Ci Dong, "How is your part?"

Ci Dong smiled sheepishly: "Your Highness, there has been no progress yet. I will try harder."

"Don't worry." Helian Yu felt relieved and advised Ci Dong, "You can take your time with this matter. This year, we should be able to kill 70% to 80% of the locusts with the medicine bricks that wake up spring."

Cidong was happy for Xingchun from the bottom of his heart, but he also felt anxious because there was no progress on his side.

Helian Yu glanced at Ci Dong and reminded her: "Don't rush for quick success. Everything will come in due time."

Ci Dong nodded quickly, suppressing the anxiety and restlessness in his heart.

For several days in a row, half of the medicine boys and doctors in Zhaoyang County were doing one thing - making medicine bricks.

Helian Yu had a plan. She gathered the medicine boys and doctors in a farm in the suburbs and did not allow them to return to the county until they finished making the medicine bricks. The remuneration was sufficient, so they were naturally willing to stay.

This way, people can avoid panicking in advance.

Not until all the medicine bricks were completed did the county government issue a notice to resist the locust plague. The people held the distributed medicine bricks, unable to tell whether they were happy or sad.

In front of the notice at the city gate, people lined up to receive medicine bricks, with each family limited to one.

"Do you think this thing can be useful?"

"It will definitely work! You can disbelieve anything, but you can also disbelieve Princess Zhaoyang? My second uncle's cousin lives in the capital and he envy my life now. Isn't all this done by Princess Zhaoyang?"

"That's true, but locust plagues are different. They only happen once every few decades. I'm afraid..."

"There's nothing to be afraid of. Even if this thing doesn't work, the princess will definitely save our people."

“That’s true.”

On the top of the city wall, Helian Yu was strolling slowly, looking towards the direction of the capital.

"In ten days or so, the wheat in the fields will be ripe." Helian Yu said softly, "Master, you haven't sent me a letter for so long. You are so heartless."

"Master, how about... we write a letter back to the Imperial Master?" Caiyun asked tentatively.

"No." Helian Yu snorted, "He is busy and I am busy too, how can I have time to write to him."

Caiyun retreated without making any noise. -June 28th.

Capital city, Imperial Master’s Mansion.

In the misty hot spring pool, the jade-like handsome figure was half-hidden, lying with difficulty on the edge of the white jade pool, with her gorgeous lips half-open, emitting painful moans.

a long time.

The bright moonlight lasted so long that it gave way to the dawn.

Finally, there was no movement in the lingering mist, and the brilliance within could no longer be seen.

July 6th.

News of the locust plague in the north reached the palace.

July 7th.

The princes divided up the relief work and went there in person.

July 12th.

Princess Zhaoyang returned to the capital, but the welcoming banquet was postponed due to a locust plague.

July 13th.

Princess Zhaoyang's maid Xingchun was given the surname Xia and appointed as the chief pharmacist of the pharmacy, assisted by two pharmacists and six nymphs.

July 15th.

Ghost Festival.

Helian Yu slipped out of the palace and went to the Imperial Master's Mansion before night fell. Only Caiyun was with her.

Helian Yu got off the carriage, but before he could knock on the door, the gate of the Imperial Master's Mansion opened.

Chang Zuo walked out, still carrying his sword on his back, "The Master is waiting for you in the study."

Helian Yu snorted, nimbly avoided Chang Zuo and ran in, with Caiyun following closely behind.

"Xiao Changzuo! You're a dead wood man!"

Chang Zuo was suspicious. He was a martial artist after all, so how could his body be as stiff as wood? Helian Yu's scolding was too unreasonable!

Chang Zuo closed the door and didn't take Helian Yu's words to heart.

On the other side, Helian Yu ran into the study at a very fast pace, brewing anger as he ran.

The moment my left foot stepped into the study.

Helian Yu has made up his mind.

"Master! You have no heart!"

Xie Rangchen raised his eyes to look at her, his eyes as calm as autumn water were filled with a sense of rightness: "Yeah."

Helian Yu's angry face was caught off guard by the "hmm".

Hmm? Admitted it? How should she act next? "Come here." Xie Rangchen waved at her. "I haven't seen you for two months. Yu'er has grown taller."

Helian Yu blinked, and a layer of shyness rose up in a rare moment. He rushed towards Xie Rangchen, hugged his thin waist, and said arrogantly: "Master! You didn't even send me a letter! Did you take in a wild disciple behind my back?"

Xie Rangchen was so choked that he didn't know what to say, so he put his hand on her back and answered her question very seriously: "I don't have any apprentices."

Helian Yu snorted, raised his head and said in a spoiled tone: "Master is so good, of course I believe in you. After all, Master can't find another disciple as smart and powerful as me."

Xie Rangchen's clear eyebrows and eyes slightly frowned, holding back the overflowing thick ink, just like the clear wind and bright moon in the past: "Yeah."

"I was away for three months and did a lot of things. It was great."

Helian Yu heard this, his black and white eyes brightened a little, his arrogant face was filled with sweetness and softness, and he rubbed against his arms skillfully: "Of course ~ Master taught me well ~ I am also very smart and hardworking ~ How will Master reward me?"

"What do you want?"

Xie Rangchen raised his eyes and looked towards the open window. The bamboo and trees outside the window were lush and green, quietly calming the viewer's restlessness.

"Master, I don't lack anything, so - you owe me!"

Xie Rangchen pulled his gaze back to her bright little face: "You can be more careful. If you have any requests in the future, can I not agree?"

Helian Yu raised a finger and shook it gently, her eyebrows raised, and her sophisticated and dissolute look made Xie Rangchen couldn't help but suspect that she had been to some brothel.

"Master, don't be so confident. If I ask you to eat shit, you definitely won't go."

Xie Rangchen chuckled softly, his eyes and eyebrows were so gentle that they could drown people, and Helian Yu couldn't help but tremble at the tip of his heart.

He...he wouldn't punish her again! "I'm short of a kind of ren zhong huang, please trouble Yu'er to spend time and energy to make it."

Ren Zhong Huang, originally named Gan Zhong Huang, is a special kind of licorice!

The production of Ren Zhong Huang is quite time-consuming.

In winter, put licorice powder in a bamboo tube, seal the tube, and put it in the manure pit.

Take it out in the spring of the following year, dry it in the shade, then take out the licorice and dry it in the sun.

"Master, Master." Helian Yu tugged at Xie Rangchen's robe pitifully and agreed obediently, "When winter comes, I will definitely make it for you."

When winter comes, Helian Yu will no longer be the Helian Yu of today.

Give him a zhonghuang?

dream!

She has a bad memory and can't remember~ Xie Rangchen's eyes were filled with smiles, and he became more gentle.

His slender fingertips touched Helian Yu's ear, and he said softly and clearly, "Don't worry, it's winter in Holly Garden now, you can do it without any worries."

Helian Yu was speechless, opened his mouth and swallowed again.

Facing Xie Rangchen's "gentle" gaze, she hardened her heart——

"good!"

Go ahead! At worst, she can sneak into his room at night! Stick to him! Sleep?

Sleep! Smother him!