"Miss, it's not me who scares you, it's you who scares me."

Lin Xiao was suffering from heart palpitations because of this little ancestor.

"Your Highness, Master Liu, I will not see you off." Then he turned to Ye Qingwan who was on the tree and said, "Miss, please sit still. I will go get the ladder."

After saying that, he ran out like the wind.

Ye Qingwan glanced at him sideways, took a bite of the candied haws, and said with some disdain: "How tall is it? Do you need a ladder? You are so old, but so timid."

As he said this, he stood up, stretched his limbs, and prepared to jump down to let him broaden his horizons.

This action scared Liu Sheng and Nangong Fusang below.

"Don't jump, it's too high..."

Before she finished her words, she jumped down with a whoosh, without even blinking.

It’s really... Biao!

Both of them instinctively went to pick her up, but just as they took a step forward, she fell steadily to the ground with a thump.

I also know how to lower my center of gravity and stabilize my body...

She jumped down and patted the dirt off her hands with great pride: "The girl next door has grown up, she is as strong as a mountain and as brave as the world."

Nangong Fusang: ...

Liu Sheng: ...

The two looked at each other, not knowing what to say, when she tilted her head to look at them and asked curiously, "Big brother, aren't you leaving yet? There's no dinner tonight."

Liu Sheng and Nangong Fusang looked at each other and said with a faint smile: "Let's go."

The two turned to leave, and Nangong Fusang couldn't help but mutter, "This Miss Ye is really a weirdo. You say she's rude, but she keeps calling me big brother. You say she's polite, but her order to leave is simple and straightforward."

Liu Sheng smiled and said, "Maybe...she is just afraid that we will eat her food?"

Nangong Fusang was stunned for a moment, and was about to say it was impossible. How could there be such a stingy person? This was the prime minister's residence.

But suddenly I thought of her money-loving look at the door just now, and I suddenly felt that it was not impossible.

The powerful and incorruptible Prime Minister actually gave birth to a money-loving child? !

It’s... quite fun.

But he has important things to do now and has no time to explore these things.

After receiving the handwritten letter from the Prime Minister, he immediately set off for Qinzhou.

As the imperial commissioner investigating the case of land occupation in Qinzhou, he was accompanied by five officials and more than ten experts to escort him along the way. The rest of his support was in accordance with the rules for the imperial commissioner.

But before he left Kyoto, he had actually disguised himself as a businessman, left Kyoto first, and went to Yunnan to meet Prince Mu.

Qinzhou was not originally under the jurisdiction of Prince Mu. However, the two places were close to each other, and he had heard about Qinzhou officials deceiving their superiors and oppressing the people.

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In other words, Qinzhou was not within his jurisdiction, otherwise he would have brought all these troublemakers back to the army and dealt with them by military law.

Now, seeing Nangong Fusang, as a prince, personally coming to investigate the case, I feel deeply relieved.

In addition, Nangong Fusang had a handwritten letter from his old friend, so he agreed to send people to pretend to be merchants in Qiaozhuang and gradually infiltrate Qinzhou to be at Nangong Fusang's disposal.

The Prince Mu's Palace sent out a total of three thousand men, all of whom were veterans of fighting on the battlefield. Even if Qinzhou was sealed like an iron barrel, they could poke a hole in it.

With the help of Prince Mu, Nangong Fusang also mixed in with these merchants and entered Qinzhou.

As soon as he left, Prince Mu's confidant asked in confusion: "Prince, you have never participated in court disputes. Why did you rashly help this time?"

Prince Mu is a prince of a different surname and has a large army under his command. These two points alone are enough to make the emperor wary.

Over the years, he has always maintained the principle of not getting involved in court disputes and only guarding Yunnan.

In addition, since they had no offspring, the emperor gradually let down his guard against them.

Now, it is a taboo to rashly send troops to help the prince without the emperor's permission.

Prince Mu had his own considerations: "In one's lifetime, there must be one or two things that one can do immediately. Otherwise, it would be boring to follow the rules all one's life."

"Besides, that old bastard Ye Chengfeng has never begged me in his life. It's rare for him to beg me for once."

Then he looked towards the capital and sighed, "He is in the tiger's den of the court, and it is difficult for him to take a step forward. It is much more difficult than for us. If we can help him share some of the burden, then let's do it."

After hearing this, the confidant stopped talking.

He certainly understood the difficulties faced by the Prime Minister.

Nangong Fusang followed the caravan into Qinzhou. There were not many houses on the country roads, but instead there were large tracts of manors.

Every manor has many thugs patrolling and watching over the laborers in the manor.

The laborers were dressed very thinly and almost all of them worked barefoot in the fields. Many women brought their children with them. The younger ones were carried on their backs in bamboo baskets, while the older ones played by themselves in the nearby fields.

Nangong Fusang took advantage of the break to approach the nearby laborers and pretended to ask for water.

"Old man, can you give me some water to drink?"

The laborers pretended not to hear anything, did not even raise their heads, and continued to work.

Nangong Fusang called out twice more, and before the civilian man could answer, a few patrolling thugs suddenly ran over from a distance and quickly separated him from the civilian man: "Who are you? What do you do?"

Nangong Fusang quickly explained: "Brother, I am a businessman passing by here. I have run out of water and would like to ask for some water to drink."

The thug waved his hands impatiently: "No, no, get out of here."

Nangong Fusang was not angry. Instead, he took out a few pieces of silver and secretly stuffed them in his pocket: "Brother, we are going through the wilderness and there are no houses here. Could you please be kind enough to let us stay for a night? Give us some food?"

The thug weighed the silver in his hand, looked him up and down for a while, and said, "You have so many people..."

Nangong Fusang understood immediately and stuffed another ingot of silver into his hand: "Brother, please help me. We are going to Qinzhou City to do business and we will come back from here after we are done."

What this means is to tell him that this is not a one-time deal, and there will be more benefits waiting for him when they come back.

As expected, he accepted the money with great satisfaction, put away his ferocious expression, and said with a smile: "So you are here to do business in Qinzhou. That's fine. We welcome businessmen the most in Qinzhou."

As he said this, he asked someone to vacate a few rooms for them, put their things in, and let them stay in the manor for the night.

But he specifically ordered that they should not come out after dinner. Especially they should not run around, and they were not allowed to communicate with the local people, otherwise he would not be able to protect them.

Nangong Fusang repeatedly assured him that this was not his first time in Qinzhou and that he was only concerned with doing business and making money and would not listen to or believe anything else.

He smiled: "Sensible."

After Nangong Fusang settled down in the manor, he immediately gave a look to the others. They were veterans and knew what Nangong Fusang was going to do with just one look, so they immediately brought a laborer in for him.