After the father of the subjugated country secretly read my heart, he became angry.

In the Liu family yard, Mr. Liu hurriedly walked in and asked the boy to borrow the carriage.

"Borrow a more spacious one. Madam, go with me."

The Liu family has been favored recently, and Mr. Liu has been promoted so quickly that the family has not even prepared a carriage yet, and still rents one.

"What?" Madam Liu said when she saw the old man for the first time.

The last time this happened, his granddaughter said he was stupid.

"I have nothing to eat. I want to eat bamboo shoots. I don't want to go to the market to buy them. I have to go to other people's homes to dig them. Isn't it unethical?" Although Mrs. Liu followed the old man, she came out of the village.

But she is also the daughter of a teacher in the village, well-educated and knowledgeable.

She couldn't do such a shameful thing just to eat.

"We went to Xu Jijiu's house to dig. Why don't you let us dig in the emperor's garden? You can think of it!" Mrs. Liu refused.

Mr. Liu clicked his tongue and winked immediately.

Mrs. Liu hissed and thought instantly, "It's our little granddaughter..."

Master Liu looked around and nodded.

Mrs. Liu immediately went to the inner room and gave the boy the money for renting the carriage.

Just as he was about to arrest Mr. Liu and ask him clearly, he heard a laughing call from outside.

"Mr. Liu, are you at home? What are you doing with Mu Xiu today? I'm here to see you."

Mr. Liu quickly frowned, looked at Mrs. Liu, and lowered his voice, "I'll go take a look in front, and you go and prepare a congratulatory gift for Xu Jijiu's great-grandson's full moon."

After that, he went to the front.

The person who was greeted at the door by the guard boy was none other than Hong Xing, Zuo Qiandu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, whom Mr. Liu now worked with.

Mr. Liu is now temporarily serving as the censor of Youqiandu. Although he is a fourth-rank official like Hong Xing.

However, in the hierarchy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the left is respected, and Hong Xing has more power than Mr. Liu.

"Master Hong, what brought you here?" Mr. Liu was a little anxious.

What medicine is being sold in this gourd?

The intellectual blessing his granddaughter gave him only took one day.

He has to catch Xu Jijiu, the bribe-taker!

Hong Xing chuckled, "Of course I came to see you. You just came back from King Liao's fiefdom. How are you?"

Mr. Liu was smart now, "Well, the emperor was considerate and allowed me to go to the palace to see my daughter, and then let me back and let me rest for three days."

The implication is that you should leave quickly, he wants to rest.

Hong Xing raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand to pick up the tea bowl, pretended not to understand, and instead sighed, "Hey, His Highness the Fifth Prince is too young after all."

Mr. Liu stared.

With his intelligence doubled, his memory also soared.

Suddenly he remembered that when he was in the Imperial College, he heard someone say that Hong Xing, the censor of Zuo Qian of the Imperial Procuratorate, was a student of the empress's father.

Hong Xing is a member of the Queen's party.

What do you mean?

The fifth prince is young, but the eldest prince is just the right age! ?

The queen wanted the Liu family to see the situation clearly. The fifth prince had no chance of succeeding to the throne, so why not assist the eldest prince in ascending the throne?

Master Liu immediately blew his beard and stared.

Hong Xing smiled and said, "Master Liu, the current emperor may seem gentle, but he is actually very smart. But since ancient times, it has been difficult for the prince's mother's family, especially the prince's mother's family, to be reused."

"Master Liu is in the limelight now, but did you know that twenty years ago, Chief Assistant Tong Ge held a high position, presided over three imperial examinations, and was the late emperor's most trusted minister."

Mr. Liu narrowed his eyes.

The previous chief assistant, Mr. Tong, was the queen’s father and the grandfather of the current eldest prince!

"But after the eldest prince was born," Hong Xing put down the tea cup, "Mr. Tong Ge resigned and went home to recuperate."

"Nowadays, except for the eldest son of the Tong family, who is serving as the prefect of Jinzhou thousands of miles away, the rest are all great scholars and none of them are officials in the court."

The eldest prince's mother's family was far away from the court.

Just to gain the emperor's trust and put on a show.

Even if the eldest prince succeeds to the throne in the future, the Tong family will only help him wholeheartedly, and will never dominate the court and let his relatives take charge of the family, allowing the Xiao family's royal power to exist in name only.

"Master Liu, do you understand?" Hong Xing looked at Liu Wenchang, "You can't have your cake and eat it too."

"If you want the Liu family to be famous throughout history and build a career, then the fifth prince is too young."

Master Liu closed his eyes.

Are you asking him to choose between two options?

Do you want to be a high official yourself, or let your grandson be the emperor?

"You have done so many things for the emperor now, do you understand what the emperor means?" Hong Xing lowered his voice.

"The prince's name behind the plaque may be too low for the fifth prince."

Mr. Liu resisted and didn't look at him like a fool.

"He who knows the current affairs is a wise man. It's better for Mr. Liu to make plans for the fifth prince early and find him someone to rely on in the future."

Hong Xinggao smiled inexplicably.

Who to rely on is naturally the eldest prince and queen!

Mr. Liu couldn't listen anymore.

He didn't want to argue with a fool.

Please, please figure out the situation first!

His granddaughter said that the eldest prince was not in the emperor's plan at all!

"Master, the rental carriage has arrived, shall we set off now?" The boy came in in time to interrupt.

Mr. Liu hurriedly took the opportunity to stand up and said, "Master Hong, I am in a hurry to give Xu a glass of wine to congratulate him on his grandson, so I won't accompany you."

Hong Xing's face turned ugly, "Mr. Liu, are you rejecting my kindness?"

Mr. Liu smiled and said, "Huh? Master Hong, what do you mean? What did you just suggest to me?"

"Ah, the car rental company charges me according to the time. I can only discuss it with Mr. Hong in detail some other time."

Hong Xing was so angry that he threw away his sleeves and left.

Mrs. Liu then came out of the hall, worriedly asked the servant to carry the congratulatory gift, and got into the carriage with Mr. Liu.

"Are you okay, Master? If we offend them, will we make enemies for our grandson?" Madam Liu was worried. "What this person said makes sense. If the eldest prince... ascends the throne in the future..."

Mr. Liu stretched out his hand to stop her.

He lowered the car curtain and listened to the noise of wheels rolling over the gravel road outside, which reached his wife's ears.

"My granddaughter said that our Xiaowu is the prince."

"!"

Mrs. Liu almost threw the tea cup out of the carriage!

What?

She was the daughter of a teacher in the village, and she suddenly became the grandmother of the prince.

From now on, she will be the emperor’s grandmother! ?

Ouch!

Her daughter Chan Niang will be the Queen Mother in the future!

Mr. Liu looked at his wife's uncomfortably wide-eyed look and shook his head, "Look at your worthlessness."

"I...were you not excited when you heard such a big happy event?" Mrs. Liu pinched Mr. Liu hard.

But Mr. Liu told her in a blink of an eye, "Don't be too happy too early, hey."

He looked in the direction of the car and said, "We, Xiao Wu, are taking over the government of a government that is about to perish."

"...!"

Mrs. Liu also remembered that she heard her granddaughter say it when she entered the palace when her granddaughter was one month old.

Damn it!

"Now there is no money in the treasury, natural disasters are constant, the harvest of the fields is not good, several foreign tribes from all sides are eyeing us, and our army is in a mess, we have no money to raise troops."

Madam Liu raised her eyebrows high.

It's like she finally stood up and took over the control of the family from her mother-in-law, only to find that not only did the family have no rice, but it was also heavily in debt. She really didn't want the control of the family!

"What should we do, old man?"

"Don't worry, aren't we just thinking of a solution step by step? The first step is to dig bamboo shoots."

"!"

*

The home of Xu Jijiu in the Imperial Academy looks more upright than Mr. Liu, and it is a house with three entrances.

This house exudes cleanliness everywhere, with ordinary blue bricks and wooden doors. Even the plaque with the word "Xu Mansion" written on it is a little faded.

The doorman is an old man with gray hair. At first glance, he looks like the cheapest servant.

"Wenchang, Madam Liu, please come quickly."

When Xu Jijiu got the news, he came out to greet him with a happy face. He was wearing an ordinary patched cloth, and the black shoes on his feet had cotton wadding exposed.

Mr. Liu's mouth twitched.

This guy really knows how to pretend! If he hadn't heard his granddaughter's voice, he would never have guessed that such a person had five million taels!

"I have long wanted to come to Mr. Xu's Bamboo Garden to take a look. It must have the indomitable tenacity of a scholar."

After Mr. Liu exchanged pleasantries for a while, he and his wife followed Xu Jijiu into the bamboo garden where he usually entertained guests.

But as soon as Mr. Liu entered and stepped on the muddy ground, he felt something was wrong!

Good guy, is the land in this bamboo garden being dug and turned over every day? Why is it so loose!

There's something really down there!