Chapter 181 Xiangling with ulterior motives
Qin Wang Zhao Defang was ordered to go to Shandong Road to investigate the silver corruption case in the river management project. He led 1,200 Moyun Cavalry guards and 16 shadow guards to Shandong.
After the news came out, the officials in the court who were involved in the case were terrified and nervous. They sent their confidants to Shandong Road to inform the local officials involved in the case in advance.
The ministers with guilty consciences secretly complained, "Your Majesty, don't you understand that if the water is too clear, there will be no fish? There is no official in the world who is not greedy. As long as they are capable of doing things for you, shouldn't they turn a blind eye and help each other?"
Qin Wang, this fool, hated corrupt officials to the bone, and when he took action, he was thunderous and ruthless. The emperor was able to use this sharp knife well, but it was a disaster for those officials who were full of food!
The court, which had just calmed down after the spread of smallpox in the palace, showed signs of undercurrents again...
Mo Yan was still in charge of guarding the Qin Palace. As the princess's personal guard, Mo Ming was even more vigilant and stayed by her side all the time.
Luo Li didn't feel any danger. The emperor had to deal with the Qin King, and he was using the Qin King as a sharp knife to cut off corruption. He shouldn't do anything to the people in the Qin Palace at this time. What's
more, she was a harmless and silly princess, and she was not a threat to the imperial power.
Zhao Wuji missed the Empress Dowager and Mu Xiu so much that he pestered his mother to send a letter to the Qin Palace, hoping to meet the Empress Dowager for a few days.
Luo Li also missed the smart and cute little Wuji. She thought that there were too many spies in the Qin Palace, and it was too risky to bring Wuji to live in the palace, so she ordered Hong Gu and Yu Li to take Wuji to the hot spring villa outside the city to reunite.
Luo Li brought Tingting and Siyu, as well as Mo Ming and Ni Shan'er, and under the protection of four palace guards, they first took a carriage to the villa in the west of the city to pick up Mu Xiu, and then turned around and rushed to the hot spring villa in the south of the city.
When Wuji heard that the Empress Dowager had sent someone to pick him up, he jumped out of the house happily.
: "Young Master, do you miss Sister Yuli? The lady sent me to pick you up." Yuli greeted Xiao Wuji with a smile.
: "Don't come over!... I won't go with you!" The excited Xiao Wuji turned around and ran back when he saw Yuli.
Princess Wei walked out of the house and stood under the eaves. She grabbed her son in surprise and asked, "Wu Ji, Yu Li is lively and cute. Don't you like playing with her the most? Why are you so scared when you see her?"
Zhao Wu Ji's face turned red, and he said with lingering fear, "Mother, sister Yu Li has learned bad things! Last time at the hot spring villa, she...she hugged me and kissed me endlessly. I am afraid of her!"
Princess Wei really couldn't understand the meaning of some of the inexplicable words her beloved son learned from Princess Qin. She lowered her head and looked at her son tenderly and asked, "What does 'momo' mean?"
Wuji's face turned even redder, and he was shy and embarrassed, "It's... it's that sister Yuli hugged me and shouted 'momo' while biting my cheek and molesting me!"
Princess Wei finally understood that 'momo' means a kiss, and she laughed so hard that her whole body was shaking! The two maids who followed her also covered their mouths tightly with laughter.
Princess Qin was a carefree and naughty maid, and the maids around her were also accustomed to being unruly. Especially the youngest Yuli, who was simple-minded and straightforward, naughty and lively.
"Yuli, don't kiss Wuji in the carriage, or she might get shy and jump out of the carriage and break her leg." Princess Wei smiled and instructed.
Hong Gu and Yuli bowed, and Yuli obediently replied, "Princess, Yuli has made a note. I won't tease the prince in the carriage. I'll kiss him a few more times when we get to the hot spring villa." Yuli said, glancing proudly at the little Wuji hiding behind Princess Wei.
"No!" The little Wuji's blushing face emerged from behind his mother. "...Men and women should not touch each other, I don't want to kiss!
Hong Gu, please take care of her! Otherwise, I... I will... I will be a masked hero every day!"
Little Wuji was so embarrassed that he was about to get angry, but he couldn't bear to say that he would not go.
Hong Gu smiled slightly, turned to her beloved disciple Yu Li and said lovingly: "Yu Li, stop being so sweet to the young master. If you like to play this kind of game, don't we have a little Mu Xiu?" "
No! Mu Xiu doesn't want to be molested either...." Little Wu Ji looked at the smug smile in Yu Li's eyes, and his nervous heart panicked, "Sister Yu Li, how about... let's change to Mu Xiu!"
Wu Ji immediately opened his mouth to object, but saw Yu Li's smirk. He had no choice but to choose to protect himself based on the principle of dying with a friend rather than a traitor.
Princess Wei was already laughing so hard that tears were coming out of her eyes, and she couldn't straighten her back while holding her stomach!
When you are with the people around Princess Qin, you may die of laughter at any time, and you can't be depressed even if you want to!
After spending a few days with Princess Qin at the hot spring villa, she could clearly feel a vibrant joy in her heart, which dispelled the depression that had accumulated over time.
Princess Wei finally stopped laughing, "Wu Ji, everything is packed, hurry up and get in the car with Hong Gu and Yu Li!"
Little Wu Ji looked up at his mother and said, "Mother, when I am not with you, you must take good care of yourself. The Queen Mother, Mu Xiu and I will stay here for a few days and will be back. Tell me about the fun times we played together!"
Princess Wei smiled and waved her hand, "Go! Go!... Tell me about the fun times you played together when you come back."...
Luo Li followed Mu Xiu and went straight to the hot spring villa. When they arrived at the gate of the villa, they saw that the carriage to pick up Wu Ji had not arrived yet, so they got off the car and waited at the gate.
Not long after, Hong Gu appeared in sight driving a carriage.
"Here he comes! Princess, it's Wu Ji!" Mu Xiu was overjoyed.
When the carriage came, Hong Gu pulled the reins, jumped out of the carriage and went to pick up Wu Ji.
Wu Ji was carried out of the carriage by Hong Gu, and he shouted excitedly: "Auntie! Mu Xiu! I'm here...."
Mu Xiu ran over excitedly to greet his good friend. He was caught by Yu Li who jumped out of the carriage. She picked him up and bit his little face: "Little Mu Xiu, do you miss sister Yu Li? Mu Mu!... Mu Mu!..."
Little Mu Xiu was so scared that he struggled desperately and shouted for help!
: "Help!... It's molestation!... Wu Ji, please save me..."
Little Wu Ji was so anxious that he circled around Yu Li, tugging at her clothes and begging: "Sister Yu Li, you've bitten me a few times, please let Mu Xiu go!..."
Luo Li and others stood at the gate watching the excitement with a smile. Yu Li had been naughty enough, so she let Mu Xiu go.
He didn't forget to tease with a wicked smile, "Mu Xiu, it was little Wu Ji who asked me to find someone else to kiss my baby."
Wu Ji's face turned red, and he immediately explained guiltily, "Mu Xiu, it was Hong Gu who suggested that she kiss you instead. I... I just couldn't stop her, and in order to be able to come here, I... I agreed."
Mu Xiu wiped the saliva from his red face, and said magnanimously to his guilty friend, "Wu Ji, please help me. " , it's not your fault! When facing sister Yuli's claws, we brothers can only act according to circumstances and try to escape as many as we can."
Yuli raised her eyebrows smugly and asked, "I just have a pair of claws, I just want to ask you two if you accept it or not!"
Mu Xiu pulled Wu Ji and ran behind Luo Li, "I accept it! Sister Yuli, can't we accept it?"
After watching the three naughty children laughing for a while, everyone walked into the gate of the hot spring villa.
"It's inexplicable, you are not here, who is in charge of the hot spring villa? Will Lin Xian'er sneak into the back yard to soak in my hot spring?" Luo Li asked worriedly.
Mo Ming hurriedly reported: "Princess, don't worry. When I'm not here, Cheng Bo is the manager of the villa. He won't let Lin Xian'er enter the backyard.
No one dares to bathe in the hot spring pool except the prince and the princess."
Turning around the screen wall with a painting of carp playing in the water and inscriptions of wealth and peace, he came to the front yard.
A maid in a light green dress put down the basket in her hand, knelt down and greeted: "I, Xiangling, have seen the princess and the young master."
Luo Li glanced at the maid Xiangling who was kneeling down and saluted with a humble and gentle smile on the side of the road, and waved her hand with a smile: "No need to be polite!" The maid
Xiangling looked at the backs of the Princess of Qin and the young master Zhao Wuzhi who were walking by, her eyes dim and unclear. After the figures disappeared, she turned around and ran back to the small courtyard where she lived.
Xiangling found a piece of paper and pen, hurriedly wrote a note, and put it into a thin bamboo tube. She called a servant to the gate, handed him the bamboo tube, and whispered: "You Qian, quickly send it to Prince Chen's Mansion..."