Chapter 53: Rebellion Failed
Nanny Xian went to the garden and got a pigeon and placed it beside the couch.
The pigeons stood on the perches and cooed.
Rong Ruxiang looked at the pigeons and fell into deep thought...
At this time, the guards who had chased Ling Chan out came back.
"Queen Mother, I didn't catch up."
Rong Ruxiang also knew that they could not catch up, otherwise she would not have let the owner of Qingyi Tower come in so openly.
"Empress Dowager, this man's kung fu is very powerful, and his lightness skills are amazing."
"After a while, it disappeared."
Rong Ruxiang let out a long sigh. They didn't need to report this matter specifically. She also knew that it seemed that... the affairs of the martial arts world should be left to the people of the martial arts world to resolve.
She waved her hand towards Madam Xian and said, "Go and get the banknotes."
Rong Ruxiang was originally very happy today because Nanny Qu had asked for leave on behalf of Ling Chan and came to Ningshou Palace early in the morning to tell her that Ling Chan had caught a cold.
After hearing Ling Chan's symptoms, she knew that the Bingxin poison was starting to take effect.
But now... all the good mood is gone!
Ling Chan quickly left the palace with her flying backpack on her back. After making sure that Rong Ruxiang's guards hadn't caught up with her, she stopped outside the palace and began to take a detour back to the Ling Mansion.
Gong Lan was waiting in the room. When she saw her coming in through the window, she went to greet her and asked, "Miss, how are you?"
Ling Chan: "Go to the suburbs later, let the sisters work hard, and then go get another ten thousand taels of silver."
"Another ten thousand taels?" Gong Lan hesitated. "Did... you blackmail the Queen Mother?"
Ling Chan raised her eyelashes, "Not bad."
"Then this time...will the Queen Mother send someone again..."
Ling Chan scoffed, "Don't worry, she wouldn't dare."
After a pause, he said, "But...she should contact people in the martial arts world to encircle and suppress Qingyi Tower."
"Gong Lan, does Qingyi Tower have a fixed base?"
Gong Lan smiled awkwardly, "We have a yard and a few acres of land on the outskirts of Yongzhou City. It's our base, so the new sisters will stay there for a while."
"Once the sisters learned how to defend themselves, they dispersed to various places in Daqi..."
Ling Chan asked again, "Where is the Gong family?"
"The Gong family's Floating Cloud Villa is located on Chongjian Mountain within the jurisdiction of Qingzhou Prefecture."
Chongjian Mountain...Floating Cloud Villa, this fits Ling Chan's imagination of the martial arts sects.
"Are there any other relatively steep mountains within the jurisdiction of Qingzhou Prefecture?"
Gong Lan had been to Qingzhou before and was quite familiar with the area. "Qingzhou has two mountain ranges, with a mountain stream running through the middle. The mountains on either side are very steep, and the water below is turbulent."
Ling Chan imagined...this is a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
"Have the sisters conceal their identities for the time being and slowly move to Qingzhou. When next spring comes, we will establish the Qingyi Tower base in Yangshanjian."
"Okay." Gong Lan was surprised and delighted. "Miss, are you planning to expand Qingyi Tower?"
Ling Chan rolled her eyes helplessly and said, "Don't be too happy too soon. If the Queen Mother really uses the power of the martial arts world, the sisters will be in danger."
"I'll tell everyone to be careful."
"Besides paying attention to your own safety, there's one more thing you need to be aware of." Ling Chan turned to Gong Lan and said, "See which sects in the martial arts world are trying to suppress Qingyi Tower."
Gong Lan nodded, "Okay."
After finishing the serious business, Ling Chan raised an eyebrow and looked outside the door, "Is Aunt Qu outside?"
Gong Lan nodded, "Yeah."
When she came back, Hongdou was talking to Aunt Qu outside the door.
Nanny Qu wanted to go in and see Ling Chan, but Hongdou stopped her, saying that Ling Chan was asleep. However, Nanny Qu insisted on going in to take a look.
Gong Lan immediately opened the door and angrily told Madam Qu to stop making noise, and then let Madam Qu leave.
The door creaked open and Hongdou came in with tea and pastries.
"Miss, you're back." Hongdou put down the tea and cakes, ran to Ling Chan and looked her over carefully, "Are you okay?"
Ling Chan rubbed her head lovingly, "I'm fine."
Looking at Gong Lan, "Go and get busy."
After Gong Lan left, Ling Chan and Hong Dou drank tea and ate cakes together, and then had a good sleep.
It was not until the clanging sounds and Ling Rui's voice were heard outside that Ling Chan woke up with a frown.
"Miss, the general has sent those things." Hongdou whispered beside Ling Chan's bed.
Ling Chan yawned and stretched comfortably, "What time is it?"
"It's the twilight hour."
At the hour of You, Gong Lan and the others should have received the 10,000 taels of silver from the Empress Dowager.
"Redo my makeup." Ling Chan sat in front of the dressing mirror.
Hongdou's craftsmanship was not as good as Gong Lan's. She just managed to comb Ling Chan's hair into a simple bun, inserted a few golden imperial hairpins, and changed her clothes.
When Ling Chan opened the door, she saw the yard filled with boxes of all sizes.
Ling Rui was still directing his men to continue moving things into the yard...
Seeing Ling Chan coming out, Ling Rui impatiently picked up a stack of books and threw them in her direction, "This is the list of gifts sent from the palace."
He couldn't let Ling Chan go to the palace to ask for the order...
"The imperial ornaments, antiques, everything, and childhood toys are all still there. The fabrics, supplements, and snacks are gone. I replaced them with silver."
"And your sixteen years' monthly allowance, calculated at ten taels per month, totals one thousand nine hundred and twenty taels, so that's two thousand taels."
"Just order it."
Ling Chan didn't reach out to take the books, so they fell all over the floor.
"General Ling, you have something against the Emperor..." Ling Chan slowly crossed her arms and looked down at the booklets. "General Ling just threw these booklets from the palace on the ground like that?"
She remembered Rong Ruxiang's words and followed suit, "General Ling, are you... planning a rebellion?"
These books are printed with the emperor's seal... Ling Rui was startled and ran over in two steps, squatted on the ground and started picking them up.
The palace sent gifts two or three times every year. After sixteen years, there were forty or fifty booklets.
After Ling Rui picked it up, he respectfully presented it to Ling Chan.
But it was not respect for Ling Chan, but respect for these books.
Ling Chan glanced at Hongdou, who stepped forward to take the booklet and put it on the table in the room.
"I'll arrange for someone to check the food right away. General Ling, please wait here." Ling Chan asked Hongdou to call Aunt Qu, Gong Yu and the two new cooks in the kitchen.
Nanny Qu is the Empress Dowager's person, so Ling Chan doesn't want to ask her to help with the counting. She just asks her to keep an eye on it to prevent Ling Rui from fooling her with fakes.
The people in charge of counting the food were Hongdou, Gong Yu and the two cooks, and this lasted until three in the middle of the night.
Ling Chan took a nap in the afternoon, and the others followed suit. They were not sleepy.
But Ling Rui... had to get up early to attend court, and then collect money after court. He was already very sleepy, but Ling Chan would not let him leave until he had collected all the money, so he could only wait here.
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