Traveling through time and space to become a lady of a noble family, but she only wants to escape

Chapter 163 Changfeng Comes to Give Birthday Gift

After a while, Lu Jiliang gritted his teeth and replied: "...Your Majesty, is there really only one way to go, which is to reduce the power of the vassal states?"

Emperor Xiangyuan said: "I want to apply all the good strategies of the Thirteen States to the whole territory of Great Yan. If I don't reduce the number of vassal states, how can I convince the people of the world that I, as the emperor, have to rely on the good strategies of King Jing to govern the country?"

The royal family has always been like this, and they value face more than anything else. Lu Jiliang had nothing to say.

"Ji Liang, after the implementation of this good policy, there will be no more barriers between the Thirteen States and the Great Yan mainland, and the reduction of the vassal states will be achieved without bloodshed. How can this be bad? Besides, as long as Brother Chuan has no second thoughts, I have no intention of taking his life."

Lu Jiliang's lips moved for a moment, and finally he said in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty is wise."

Emperor Xiangyuan seemed very satisfied. After a few more words of consolation, he let Lu Jiliang leave the palace.

A corner of a piece of clothing fluttered out from behind the screen in the imperial study, and the figure of a servant boy appeared.

There is a stranger in this house!

Emperor Xiangyuan frowned and said, "Lu Jiliang is uneasy."

The servant boy whispered, "Your Majesty, in my opinion, Lord Lu has no second thoughts. He is just too stubborn and stubborn, which makes him waver. Even if Your Majesty is not targeting King Jing, Lord Lu would do the same if it were someone else."

"I know this very well. It is precisely because he is such a person that I picked him up and used him for my own benefit."

"Then your majesty is worried..."

"He has a pure heart and is not motivated by profit. Songying, tell me, if he goes off the rails one day, how can I control him?"

This question was difficult to answer, but the boy said without hesitation: "Just like your majesty made King Jing."

June, Qing County.

An uninvited guest came to the Lin Mansion.

When Bai Zhi was practicing acupressure with the secret guards the day before, she was surprised to find that she had broken through a small bottleneck, so she drank two more cups of milk tea in excitement and ended up falling asleep in the second half of the night.

I woke up at noon and saw a figure beside the bed.

Bai Zhi had just woken up and couldn't see who it was, so she subconsciously grabbed him and said, "Chu Yunchuan?"

The figure shook his head: "It's me."

It's not Chu Yunchuan, but the voice sounds familiar. Bai Zhi suppressed her disappointment and rubbed her eyes, then looked closer - the figure became clearer and clearer, and finally it was Chang Feng's face.

Bai Zhi: "...Long time no see, but can you change your habit of sneaking into other people's houses without making any noise?"

Changfeng nodded thoughtfully.

"looking for me?"

Chang Feng took out a simple-looking dagger from his bosom: "His Highness's birthday is coming soon, and I brought him a birthday gift. Where is he?"

"It's in vain. Your prince has gone to Ningzhou." Bai Zhi grabbed the coat on the bedside and hastily put it on. "He won't be back for a while. I'll send you a message when he comes back... Or you can just stay for a while, and I'll arrange a room for you. You don't have much to do in the state capital anyway."

Chang Feng asked: "What are you doing in Ningzhou, Your Highness?"

"..." Bai Zhi choked and didn't know what to say for a moment.

When she was chatting with Chu Yunchuan, she heard him say that Changfeng had suffered a lot following him in the past few years, and he didn't want Changfeng to work so hard anymore.

Bai Zhi went alone to capture Ge Zhen. She always felt that Chang Feng would kill her if he knew about it.

"He...he has official business." Bai Zhi cleared her throat, "King Jing is always busy."

"Going somewhere so far away to be busy?"

"All thirteen states are under his jurisdiction. No matter how far away, we must go."

"I haven't heard Fang Zhiheng mention it."

Bai Zhi was tired of prevarication and simply slapped the bed: "They are all busy people, but you are the only one who is idle and keeps making noise."

Chang Feng wanted to ask more, but Bai Zhi stabbed him back with a glare: "Whether you want to leave or stay, give me a clear answer."

"Let's go." Changfeng said without any hesitation.

Bai Zhi was a little surprised. She thought he wanted to stay and wait for Chu Yunchuan for a few days. "You are so decisive. What else can you do when you go back?"

"I promised Fu Yao that I would help him take care of his younger siblings."

"Where's Brother Fu?"

"Fang Zhiheng sent him out to do something."

As soon as these words came out, Bai Zhi felt something was not right. Fu Yao had no official position, so why would Fang Zhiheng send him on an official mission? Even if he was a helper, it would not be right. There had been no major incidents in Weizhou recently, so the governor's office should have had sufficient manpower.

Could it be that Chu Yunchuan called Fu Yao away?

Thinking of this, Bai Zhi asked tentatively: "Didn't Doctor Fang tell you what he sent Brother Fu out for?"

Chang Feng shook his head: "I asked him, and he said that even if he told me, I wouldn't understand."

Based on Bai Zhi's understanding of Fang Zhiheng, he would not speak like this. He was obviously hiding something. It seemed that something really happened to Chu Yunchuan.

But - Bai Zhi subconsciously looked at the thick pile of letters from Ningzhou on the desk. Ever since she complained about the noisy words, Chu Yunchuan's letters have been less verbose, and there has been no sign of recovery recently. Judging from his habit of becoming verbose when encountering difficult things, there should be nothing to worry about... right.

So Baizhi waved her hand, let Changfeng have a simple meal, and then let him go back to where he came from.

After eating and drinking and seeing them off, Bai Zhi just sat down at the table and was about to write a letter to Chu Yunchuan to ask about the details, when Qiaoqiao jumped in and said excitedly: "Sister, I want to go to Ningzhou!"

Bai Zhi was caught off guard: "What?"

"Ningzhou! Ningzhou! The engineering officer wants to send people to Ningzhou to help build fortifications!"

"You came all this way to borrow someone?"

“I can’t borrow it anywhere else.”

"…What do you mean?"

"It is said that there is a plague in Ningzhou now. The government has distributed medicine, but it is of no use. The plague is getting worse and worse. Everyone says that this time is unusual and may be a precursor to something big. As the saying goes, a storm is coming." Qiaoqiao spread her hands, "So several counties without plague started to make a fuss. They want to reinforce the city walls and not allow people with plague to enter. Ningzhou has many craftsmen, but few of them can repair city walls. Hehe, it happens that I, the great craftsman Baiying, have participated in the repair of the city wall in Qing County and have a wide range of experience. Sister, you are not allowed to tell me not to go!"

"Strange..." Bai Zhi frowned, "The people were clamoring to repair the city wall, and the governor was so obedient that he traveled thousands of miles to send a letter to Fuzhou to borrow people?"

Qiaoqiao didn't quite understand the pros and cons, so she just said, "It doesn't look like a letter from the governor, mother said it was from... the provincial official?"

Bai Zhi immediately asked, "Wei Fuguang?"

"Ah?" Qiaoqiao didn't understand and looked at Baizhi blankly, "Sister, who will help whom?"

"Pfft." Bai Zhi laughed and grabbed Qiaoqiao, dragging her to sit on the bed. "I surrender to you, ancestor. Are you going to Ningzhou to tell mother?"

Hearing Bai Zhi say this, Qiaoqiao immediately understood that she was not going to stop him, and she started to laugh again, "Of course mother knows! That's what mother told me. But mother was worried that I would also be infected with the plague, so she made me drink tonic medicine for a few days before letting me go."

"Don't keep calling it a plague, ancestor." Bai Zhi relayed Chu Yunchuan's description of the severe cold in the letter to Qiaoqiao, and then said, "Although it is just a minor illness, you still have to listen to me and take the medicine honestly. Don't make me worry."