klisemfg Chapter 780: The Hunter Lady is the Savior of the Powerful Official 41
Chapter 780: The Hunter Lady is the Savior of the Powerful Official 41
On the way to the capital, Xiao Yunzhou and his companions did not travel fast. When they came across a place with beautiful scenery, they would even stay for two days to let Miaomiao appreciate the surrounding scenery.
Xiao Yunzhou's behavior made Miaomiao, who was a little nervous at first, no longer nervous. However, at night, the candlelight in Xiao Yunzhou's inn would flicker until three o'clock in the morning.
Miaomiao had taken a nap, but she could still hear the sound of writing next door.
Miaomiao wrapped herself tightly in the quilt and decided to have a good talk with him after waking up. If that didn't work, she would rush to the capital as soon as possible and let him review well. No matter how good his memory and comprehension were, he still had to work hard with so many equally hardworking students around.
After reminding herself this, Miaomiao fell asleep again in a daze.
What she didn't know was that Xiao Yunzhou next door was indeed not asleep, but he was not reviewing his lessons. Instead, he spread out rice paper on the desk and sketched the wonderful scene he saw today.
This almost became his habit while on the road. He would draw a picture of Miaomiao every night, but in these pictures, there would always be a pair of his hands on Miaomiao's waist or shoulders, either hugging or resting her, which were all actions he wanted to do but couldn't do at the time.
The candle wick flickered, illuminating the table covered in drawings. Some were open, others neatly rolled, but Miaomiao was vivid and bright in every picture he drew. His vague hands, like invisible chains, vented his unspoken desire.
Only after he finished this painting did Xiao Yunzhou put the paintings one by one into the bottom of the wooden box. He would take them out to look at them every day, and add one more every day to curb his greed...
Xiao Yunzhou didn't know if this was the sweet torture that people talked about. He had to control his reaction and not scare his beloved girl.
Every moment he was with Miaomiao, he had to remind himself that he was just Miaomiao's younger brother now! !
No matter how slowly Xiao Yunzhou walked with Miaomiao, it did not affect the carrier pigeons flying from various places to the Third Prince's Mansion in the capital every night.
What was written there were all code words that only the Third Prince could read and understand clearly. They were about Xiao Yunzhou's list of investigation results on the candidates he could use in the future.
Zhao Jiayu had to admit that his good brother was really capable. Although he was not in the court, he knew a lot about it.
What is this? Censor Wang is an upright person. He was suppressed by the prince for something and could not make a name for himself for himself for several years, but he is a useful talent.
What is the story about Li Gongbu being ostracized despite being proficient in river engineering, he is actually a talented person.
Next to each name are details on how to win them over.
Whether it was "giving him the 'River Defense Chronicle' as a gift", or giving him silver to help his sick mother, or "inviting him to drink apricot blossom wine", etc., these were all ways that Xiao Yunzhou thought of to win him over.
Not to mention, in addition to the officials in the court that he was able to attract or invite after the successful river management, there was also an evaluation of the usability of those famous students that he occasionally met on the way here.
Of course, the most important thing is that Xiao Yunzhou has been reminding Zhao Jiayu to be filial to His Majesty and to move forward in everything, especially when His Majesty is physically weak and mentally most unstable, and many things are easier to handle.
"Let's do what Zhou says. If you can't do it, I will. Everything must be resolved quickly, ruthlessly and accurately."
Every time after reading the secret letter, Zhao Jiayu would instruct different confidants to do what Xiao Yunzhou said. During these days, he would try to spend most of the day carrying a food box to the Imperial Hospital to ask the imperial physician what kind of soup he could make for his father.
In everyone's eyes, the Third Prince was a complete playboy a few years ago, unfit for responsibility. But in the past three years, the Third Prince has become a completely different person.
From the beginning, when he stumbled and completed the tasks assigned by His Majesty, everyone regarded him as an ordinary prince with ordinary qualifications, who even couldn't understand the twists and turns of the court.
But who would have known that in the past year, the Third Prince had made a lot of progress. Not only did he handle everything that His Majesty had instructed him to do properly, but even when His Majesty just had a slight cold, the others only asked a few questions and then went about their own business.
The third prince seemed to have suddenly become smart, and served His Majesty all day long, even more attentively than the eunuch in charge.
The imperial physicians looked at the oil smoke that had not been wiped off the Third Prince's face and the occasional blisters on his wrists, and they all admired in private, "His Highness the Third Prince is the most kind-hearted among all the princes."
This was the evaluation the Crown Prince had always wanted, even for so many years. If he had not ordered someone to assassinate the Third Prince a year ago, in the eyes of His Majesty, the Crown Prince would have been a well-deserved virtuous and kind-hearted person. But now he has become somewhat of a waste.
After all, His Majesty caught a slight cold this time because he was angry about the dirty things happening in the Prince's Mansion.
Ever since the Gao family lost power and the prince married a girl from the Su family as his concubine, all his choices seemed to be going downhill.
Especially after the Gao family's failed restoration, there were even more absurd scenes in the Eastern Palace.
First, the Crown Prince's concubine "slipped" and lost the child, and then the Crown Princess was diagnosed with pregnancy, but before the child was five months old, the Crown Princess suffered the same fate as the concubine and accidentally lost the child.
The two families also started to fight each other because of the dispute over the eldest son of the crown prince. Now the relationship between the Gao family behind the crown princess and the Su family behind the crown prince's concubine can almost be said to be extremely bad.
When you meet someone from the other family, you have to spit three times, wishing you could spread all the filth of the other family all over the street.
There were even storytellers in the folk who secretly changed the protagonist's name and surname under the name "Secret History of the Eastern Palace" and wrote about the prince, his two concubines and all the dirty deeds that were known behind their lives. They even received a warm welcome in teahouses.
Before long, many people with gossipy minds were discussing the matter privately.
"The prince can't even manage his own backyard, and yet he wants to manage the world?"
When these words reached the palace, His Majesty was so angry that he fainted. Then the doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau said that he had caught a slight cold.
Unfortunately, the prince was deliberately deceived and did not know that it was because of him that His Majesty had health problems, and he missed the opportunity to make up for it.
The third prince ignored all these matters and focused on fulfilling his filial piety, as if filial piety was the most important thing at the moment. The more His Majesty looked at his third son, the more guilty he felt.
In order to protect his eldest son, he made his third son suffer too much...
In the court, because the third prince was well-known for his filial piety and had a successful case of river management, even though the Gao family had appeared in it and represented the prince, it was only a trivial contribution, and it was even an opportunity given by the third prince.
Considering these years, the prince, besides being in love, swore in front of the court officials that they would be together for life, and that he would live happily ever after with the eldest daughter of the Gao family and become like Taizu.
Up to now, he hasn't said a word for two years, and he has married a concubine. He can't even control the people in his own room. He is simply incompetent! !
As a result, the memorials impeaching the prince began to pile up on the imperial desk, but His Majesty did not want to change his mind, nor did he want to judge that the prince was not qualified to become emperor because of these incompetent things.
After all, during the years he was in power, he hadn't done anything good that others would praise, so he was still a king without any merits or faults.
However, looking at the third son feeding him porridge, he vaguely felt that this third son was not bad. Perhaps...