Seeing her reaction, Su Wenhua was a little hesitant.
"So you don't know? I thought you were sad because Prince Ning wanted to organize a banquet for her."
Shen Dingzhu was stunned. In order to prevent Su Wenhua from suspecting, she covered her face with her hands: "I really feel uncomfortable, so if you know any details, you might as well tell me."
Su Wenhua laughed: "You finally cheered up. It's nothing to come to the Hundred Flowers Banquet. Prince Ning said it would be held in Huazhuangzi in the city. Although we can't usually enter such a place, we must be here. The Royal Garden is not much different.”
Held at Huazhuang in the city...
Shen Dingzhu thought carefully. If she faked her death and caused a fire, Xiao Langyan would still be attending the banquet when she fled from the mansion to the outside of the city and would not react in time.
By the time he gets the news, I'm afraid she will have been gone for a long time.
The only thing that needs to be worried is that if Xiao Langyan discovers any clues and wants to arrest her, he will definitely control her family first. Shen Dingzhu is afraid that he will rush to Mobei all the way, but will be caught by Xiao Langyan's people. With.
But if she was an insignificant person and ran away, Xiao Langyan already had someone more important to care about, so she wouldn't have to worry about this.
He only needs to escape and find a place to hide for a few days, and then he can go to Mobei to look for his parents after the storm has passed.
"When is the Hundred Flowers Banquet?" Shen Dingzhu asked.
"I heard from the palace that the flowers are blooming at their best. It must be a month anyway!"
When Shen Dingzhu heard this, she was glad in her heart. It was so good that she had time to plan.
Before Su Wenhua left, she asked Shen Dingzhu to be more open-minded. She was still waiting for Shen Dingzhu to enter the palace and continue to sing with her and fight Fu Yunqiu to the end.
The rain in early summer is intensive and more frequent.
It has been nearly ten days since Shen Dingzhu saw Xiao Langyan.
However, from Shen Bi's complaints, I always heard some rumors about him and Ma Shangshu's daughter, such as that they went to the lake today, or that Xiao Langyan gave the antiques he bought to the daughter, etc.
Shen Dingzhu listened indifferently, and Shen Bi was worried for her: "Master, if we don't fight, your status will not be guaranteed."
Hearing this, Shen Dingzhu smiled instead, somewhat self-deprecatingly: "What status do I have?"
Shen Bi was stunned and couldn't answer.
She counted the time and arranged everything properly.
During this period, another news came from the court. It was heard that the Zhou family and the Fu family had terminated their engagement, and Zhou Luli invited himself to guard the border for ten years.
The imperial court quickly approved his request, and Zhou Luli left the capital without delay in just five days.
When Shen Dingzhu learned the news, she was picking up pearls from under the box and asked Shen Bi to take them out and sell them.
"Master, have you sold everything? You have sold a lot of things recently, and you still don't want me to tell you, what do you want to do?"
Shen Dingzhu took her hand and made a "shush" gesture: "Keep some money and feel at ease. Don't ask extra questions. Just go and help me."
Although she has accumulated a lot of money, most of the items that can be sold are inconspicuous and valuable items.
After all, she was still living in Prince Ning's Mansion, so it was not easy for her to sell her jewelry in a big way, so she saved all kinds of jewelry, and now she only has more than five hundred taels.
not enough.
But Shen Dingzhu was not in a hurry, because she was counting the time and the important day was coming soon.
On a sunny early summer afternoon, Guiqin ran in hastily: "Auntie, there is a flood in Jidu. After the news spread to the capital, Wu Ren's letter also came. Take a look!"
Shen Dingzhu quickly sat up, took it and looked at it again.
Takehito said that many businessmen from the south asked him to buy grain, and the prices they offered were double what they had received before!
He asked Shen Dingzhu if he wanted to go out.
Shen Dingzhu immediately pulled up the letter paper and replied: "Don't move for now, there is no time."
She asked Guiqin to send the letter, but Guiqin seemed hesitant.
"Auntie, I have something to say clearly. Every time I send a letter, I have to read it to Eunuch Xu Shou. It should be the same this time, otherwise I won't be able to send the letter."
Xu Shou watched it, which was equivalent to watching it for Xiao Langyan. Although Gui Qin didn't know what happened to Shen Dingzhu and Xiao Langyan, she could guess that the two were probably at odds.
I am afraid this matter cannot be hidden from Xiao Langyan.
Shen Dingzhu was quite calm: "It doesn't matter, just send it out normally. If Eunuch Xu wants to see it, just show it to him."
However, after July 8, the imperial court issued a civil order, saying that the supervisors and imperial ministers, including the eldest prince Ping Wang, had improperly constructed water conservancy projects.
When the emperor found out that they had accepted bribes, he was furious and wanted to deal with these "sycophants" in the court even though he was sick.
He demoted King Ping to a commoner and sent him to the border areas, while the remaining ministers were demoted, dismissed, and imprisoned.
There was a bloody storm in the court.
Anyone who knows Prince Ping knows that he has a simple and clumsy personality. Even if he is a little clever, he has absolutely no courage to take bribes and bend the law.
The reason why he dared to do that was because he had a relationship with the prince behind his back.
All the so-called money he coveted was given to the prince. Now, he took the blame for the prince.
The emperor may not be clear about it, but he just couldn't bear to punish his legitimate son. He repeatedly tolerated and tolerated forgiveness of the prince Xiao Xuanke, and also tried to use the fate of the other princes as a warning.
However, the most important thing for the current plan is to send capable ministers from the Ministry of Works to Hebei Province to continue building water conservancy projects.
There is a lot of rain in spring and summer, and the flood season will soon come. If the dams are not built in time, the people downstream will suffer.
However, none of the ministers in the Ministry of Industry were good at water conservancy. Everyone did not dare to come up with random ideas, and they were even more afraid that if they failed this time, they would be killed.
The matter dragged on for two or three days, and the court was still reluctant to issue an order. Until that day, an official from the Yushitai reported that he recommended Mr. Shen from Mobei to make up for his mistakes.
Everyone knows that the second son of Prime Minister Shen traveled all over Mingchuan Mountains since he was a child and studied water conservancy construction under the late Minister of the Ministry of Industry for many years.
In terms of building water conservancy, no one can surpass him.
Since there is no one available in the court, he will be recalled and given a chance to make amends.
When the zhezi was handed to the emperor, he was taking medicine. Xiao Langyan stood aside, a tall figure with his head lowered, his clothes were elegant and luxurious, and his expression was majestic and silent.
After the emperor drank the medicine, he coughed twice tiredly.
"Lao Wu, is this your idea?" He threw the fold in front of Xiao Langyan.
Xiao Langyan took a look and said, "I don't know."
The emperor only smiled, his eyes were like pebbles, emotionless and lifeless.
A moment later, Xiao Xuanke rushed in hastily: "Father, please approve Second Young Master Shen to go to Jidu to control floods!"
The emperor looked at him with gloomy eyes. Xiao Xuanke did not expect that Xiao Langyan was also there. His expression was dazed for a moment, and then he returned to his previous aloofness.
"Okay, okay," the emperor's hoarse voice contained a sneer that was weak due to illness, "My sons, one or two, are both very promising. For a woman, I dare to recommend a sinner like the Shen family. Am I going to die?"
He suddenly waved his sleeves, and the mahogany tea table on which the medicine was placed fell to the ground, shattering porcelain pieces all over the floor.
