Fast time travel: black lotus has no emotion

Chapter 120

In the palace, at some point, a tense atmosphere began to envelope the palace.

The maids and eunuchs became more cautious in their words and deeds.

The noisy imperial garden in the past was also very depressed, Gu Liubai walked along the stone steps to the depths of the rockery.

He Wan supported her hand, which unknowingly turned into her holding Gu Liubai's sleeve.

"Your Majesty, let's go back. We've found everything here, but we haven't found anything yet. There must be nothing to do in this forest."

"I know."

Last night, someone stuffed a note into Liuchun Hall through the crack of the door. The address on the note was written as Imperial Garden.

That's why she wanted to come over and take a look today.

The deeper you go, the sun above your head is covered by the dense forest.

Until Gu Liubai heard a rustling sound in his ear.

She pushed aside the branches in front of her eyes, and found that at the end of her sight, a man and a woman were talking.

That woman, Gu Liubai recognized, was the current fourth prince's concubine Wanfei.

And that man, no, that man was wearing eunuch's clothes, Gu Liubai didn't recognize him.

The content of the conversation between the two was not very clear, only occasionally a few words were sent to Gu Liubai's ears along with the wind.

He Wan who followed behind covered her mouth, unable to speak a complete sentence in a panic.

"... Your Majesty, is that person... Wanbi?"

There is no doubt that that person is Wanbi.

If there was no conspiracy, Gu Liubai would not believe it.

It's just that I don't know, who is the eunuch standing opposite her?

Who would be the one who stuffed the note into Liuchun Palace?
What is the purpose of the people behind it.

A series of questions circled in Gu Liubai's mind, making her confused for a moment.

Gu Liubai took a few more steps forward, but he was still not far away from Wanbi and the others.

She thought she could hear something like this, but in the end she was disappointed.

Seeing that he couldn't hear anything, Gu Liubai turned his head and whispered softly in Hewan's ear: "Let's go back."

"Go back?" Now this time?
He Wan was a little at a loss.

They searched for a long time, and finally found the person they were looking for, but before they found anything, they were going back?

It's just that she didn't dare to disobey Gu Liubai's order, and there was a wind blowing in her ear, which made her startled, for fear that the two of them would be discovered.

After returning to Liuchun Palace, He Wan breathed a sigh of relief. She patted her chest and calmed her violently beating heart.

After calming down, He Wan whispered next to Gu Liubai's ear, "Niang Niang, that note last night...who could have inserted it? Could it be that they want us to catch Wan Concubine her... cheating on her!"

Deep in the forest, the behavior of the concubine Wan and the eunuch was not so innocent no matter how you looked at it.

Gu Liubai's fingertips tapped on the table one after another.

After thinking for a moment, he said softly: "Leave this matter alone."

She is also in the cloud, and the known conditions given now are too few. Wait, since the other party can do such a thing, there must be other backers.

……

Gu Ruchen's boat docked.

He stands on the pier.

The scenery here is quite different from that in the capital.

If it is said that standing at the foot of the capital city, you can feel the strength of the family and the strength of the army, then standing here is undoubtedly witnessing what the real people are like.

Sallow and emaciated, bony.

"The order goes on. This general intends to entertain merchants in the Yingbin Building tomorrow. He intends to use official money to buy a batch of grain here, so that anyone who has grain in their hands can come to the banquet."

As Gu Ruchen said this, he didn't care what the guards behind him would do, or how they would report to the superiors in the capital with embellishments.

The next day.

The gate of the Yingbin Building is full of people, one by one you look at me, I look at you, but no one goes in if they wink.

They were apprehensive to suspect that there was fraud in it, and they were afraid of missing an opportunity to make good friends with the court.

In the end, it was the shopkeeper of Chengnan Wangji Rice Shop who walked in small steps, and stepped into the building when everyone was hesitating.

Anyway, his family has a small business, even if there is fraud, he will admit it!
With one, there will be a second, a third.

The crowd didn't wait and see anymore, and rushed in rushing in clusters.

At this time, it's not that anyone's pace is slow, it seems that if you are a little faster than others, you can gain a relationship with Gu Ruchen.

"Grassmen wait to kowtow to Gu..."

Before all the merchants knelt down, Gu Ruchen raised his arms: "Everyone, please get up quickly."

After everyone was seated, Gu Ruchen explained the reason for his visit again.

"Everyone knows that there is a drought in Longnan for months, so the imperial court sent an official to help the disaster. Passing by here, I saw that the soil here is good. I think it will be a good harvest year after year."

"I don't want to be a fool anymore. I want to meet with you today. I just want to ask how much you would like to ask for a stone of rice now?"

After throwing the question out, Gu Ruchen leaned back, making it clear that he didn't want to interfere too much.

The merchant first glanced at Gu Ruchen speculatively, and reported the number tentatively.

"A tael of silver?"

Gu Ruchen raised his eyebrows, and a chuckle escaped from his throat.

"This...?" Gu Ruchen pointed at the other party: "Could it be that I don't know how to count! In the past, a stone of rice was only worth [-] yuan, but you have tripled it and still have more money!"

He knocked on the desk and looked at the others, seeing that everyone shrank their heads and said nothing.

I was taken aback.

In such a situation, he had already guessed the result before doing this.

"General... General, it's not that our asking price is high, it's because the price of food in all parts of the country has increased. We are a small family, plus transportation and loss, one tael of silver and one stone of rice, the asking price is really not high."

What the merchant said was very pitiful, Gu Ruchen stared at the greasy lump of fat on the other's chin, and the shiny silk clothes on his body.

Without seeing it, his eyes fell on the teapot at hand.

Holding the cup in a calm manner, he put it to his lips and took a sip: "What about you? It's also one tael of silver and one stone of rice?"

Coughing sounded one after another in the banquet building, trying not to cover up Gu Ruchen's smiling eyes.

"That's it!"

The tea bowl knocked on the table lightly, as if it was a compromise with this group of merchants.

"One stone of rice and one tael of silver. I bought as much as you have in stock."

The merchant turned pale in surprise, thinking that if they didn't follow suit, Gu Ruchen would be tough.

I didn't expect the other party to talk so well.

But yes, with the money from the court, do you need to save yourself a little fuss?
"However, my ship is limited. I hope you can send all the food to Longnan. As for the shipping fee...?"

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it's a small matter. We just go out."

Gu Ruchen gave the other party a good look.

Pointing to a person in the crowd: "I remember, you were the first to enter the Yingbin building just now."

The man knelt down and said yes.

"In order to convince everyone, I first collected the rice from his family. As for you, after the grain arrives in Longnan, you will go to the official with a note."

"How do you guys feel?"

These words are full of strong coercion.

It seemed that at this moment, Gu Ruchen really showed his edge.

(End of this chapter)