Reborn as the crippled king's favorite

Murong Jiu has always hated the fifth princess.

In the dream, she had treated the fifth princess sincerely for the sake of the second prince, but the other prince not only looked down on her, but even humiliated her even more.

The fifth princess has always been interested in her eldest brother Fu Heng, but nothing compares to her own interests. Instead of watching the Fu family being slaughtered, the so-called love is nothing more than that.

The fifth princess instead entangled Lou Zixi, which Murong Jiu did not expect.

But then I thought about it, wasn't my eldest brother seriously injured and fell into a flash flood a while ago? The fifth princess must have felt that her eldest brother was gone, so she immediately and firmly entangled Lou Zixi.

In the dream, the fifth princess looked down on Lou Zixi.

Lou Zixi was lame and had no fame. He was just a staff member of the Second Prince. He looked gloomy all day long and was very thin. He was completely different from the Lou Zixi who was standing in front of him at the moment.

Nowadays, Lou Zixi is a new rich man in the capital. He is highly appreciated by the emperor. He is known as the number one scholar in the new science. He is excellent in poetry and policy. He has become the dream lover of many pregnant girls in the capital.

With his majestic appearance and elegant temperament, it is not surprising that the fifth princess takes a liking to him.

Murong Jiu frowned and said, "The fifth princess must be on guard against misbehavior. Even if the marriage is arranged, we must be careful of her getting in the way."

This is not to be alarmist, the fifth princess and the second prince are indeed of the same blood, and both of them are people who will never give up until they achieve their goals. However, the fifth princess is much stupider and more arrogant and domineering than the second prince.

Shopkeeper Chai nodded in agreement: "The fifth princess is a princess after all. If Zixi is really forced to show her innocence, the emperor will definitely turn to the fifth princess."

Lou Zixi said: "I will not give her such an opportunity. Since I have decided to be engaged to Miss Sikong, I will not let others take advantage of it."

"So good."

Murong Jiudao.

She felt that Lou Zixi was responsible. Just now she was worried that Lou Zixi was using Miss Sikong as a shield to get engaged to her. After hearing this, she knew that no matter what the reason was for him to marry Miss Sikong, he would definitely not marry her. Let down the other party.

She didn't want to give any advice on other people's marriages, so she only wanted to invite Miss Sikong to her house to enjoy flowers and tea if she had the chance.

Lou Zixi lowered his head, his eyes filled with a bit of complexity.

Murong Jiu congratulated him again, and then everyone got down to business.

"There is indeed something wrong with the people you asked to check last time, but they haven't been exposed to important things yet. We pretended not to know as you said. We also rechecked the account books they handed over. There is no problem yet. problem found."

Shopkeeper Chai said.

"They don't dare to alert the enemy. They will look for opportunities to make a move. Keep an eye on them first. They have other uses. I called you here today for another matter, which is also about the fourth prince."

As we all know, the Yan Gang and the Caobang court have repeatedly banned them, which has fattened the bellies of many people. The fourth prince has long been secretly colluding with others, and it is one of the fastest ways for the fourth prince to make money.

However, the growth of maritime transport has had a great impact on Caobang. Caobang's home field is the Grand Canal, but now many seaside terminals have been opened. Many large ships can go directly from Tianjin to Fujian and other places, and the speed is much faster than taking the Grand Canal. .

Caobang naturally lacked oil and water.

But private salt is still a huge profit. There is a chamber of commerce under the Fourth Prince, which is secretly engaged in private salt trading. On the surface, it is just tea merchants from the north and the south.

Of course, the fourth prince had many other hidden businesses, but judging from the timeline, only this private salt business was revealed after Murong Jiu's "death".In other words, for other businesses, the Fourth Prince may have been prepared and prepared for it, but when it comes to private salt, he must be confident enough.

Besides, money comes in very quickly from private sources, so there is no way he would cut off this huge wealth path just for precaution.

Whether it is recruiting troops, raising a private army, or recruiting talents, money is needed. Money is indispensable for anything.

What Murong Jiu wanted to do this time was to directly cut off the fourth prince's private salt business, go straight to Huanglong, expose the fourth prince's private salt well, and then take advantage of the opportunity to obtain the fourth prince's profits.

This is not a trivial matter. She needs to discuss it with Shopkeeper Chai and the others to formulate a complete plan.

"The princess is saying that the private salt well owned by the fourth prince is outside Luzhou City, not far from the capital. It is only a day's journey. My subordinates feel that it is better to go and investigate in person in order to make a better plan. "

Lou Zixi said.

Murong Jiu nodded: "That's exactly what I thought. I plan to ask Chang Chonghai to go there. He has strong martial arts and can find out clearly."

After all, a dream is a dream. She has been "reborn" for more than a year, and there may be some changes. It is necessary to investigate carefully first.

"Guard Chang is tall and eye-catching," Shopkeeper Chai said.

"Don't worry, Senior Brother Miao has already made a human skin mask as thin as a cicada's wings. I've seen it and it can look real."

Shopkeeper Chai and Lou Zixi were both surprised. They didn't expect that human skin masks could be made.

To be honest, Murong Jiu was also shocked at the time.

It took the master several years of tinkering to create fake skin that resembled human skin, but making facial features was indeed too difficult. Who would have thought that Miao Wuxie actually had a talent in this area.

He had been making human skin masks a long time ago. Later, Zhuo Yinzhu was disfigured. He locked himself in the room and said he was giving Zhuo Yinzhu research on medicine to treat burns. In fact, all the expensive medicinal materials given by the second prince were used in Make a human skin mask.

Not long after he returned to Beijing, he successfully made a human skin mask that fit the human face, and first quietly sent it to the palace.

At that time, I, my master and the prince saw it and were all amazed.

Because the mask was made slightly larger, and a circle was selected, it fit perfectly with Chang Chonghai's face. His facial features changed, as if he was a different person. People who are not familiar with body movements will definitely not be able to recognize him when they see him. .

"That's great. We can make a plan first, and wait until Guard Chang has found out more about it, and then we can finalize it in more detail."

Murong Jiu first told her plan, while Shopkeeper Chai and Lou Zixi were perfecting it. Neither of them asked her why she knew it in such detail. They never asked more than they should.

It was tentatively finalized, and after confirming that there were no loopholes, the two of them started to prepare things that could be prepared in advance, and stayed to eat before leaving the palace.

As soon as he left the palace, Shopkeeper Chai patted Lou Zixi on the shoulder and said:

"Marrying Miss Sikong is your own decision after careful consideration. You should have cut off those thoughts that you shouldn't have."

Lou Zixi looked up at him with a calm expression: "Brother, I have never had undue thoughts about..., she is an indestructible existence in my heart, like a goddess above the nine heavens, I look up to her."