The next day, Shen Wan and Xie Jingyan had breakfast together.

Xie Jingyan went to the study, and Shen Wan was about to go for a walk in the garden. Just after leaving the hospital, a maid ran over and said hurriedly, "Princess, it's not good, the emperor asked the prince to go to Wangzhou to provide disaster relief!"

Shen Wan frowned when she heard this. Before she could say anything, Yin Shuang said, "Why did the emperor ask the prince to go to Wangzhou to provide disaster relief?"

The maid said, "This is true. The emperor announced in the morning meeting that he would first allocate 300,000 taels of silver and 100,000 dans of grain and grass to Wangzhou for disaster relief. If it is not enough, the treasury will allocate more."

Yin Shuang was also a little anxious. She looked at Shen Wan and said, "I'm going to Wangzhou to provide disaster relief. If the prince can't come back in a month or two, what will happen to the princess?"

Shen Wan said, "Then let's go too."

Yin Shuang said, "The princess is pregnant, will the prince agree?"

Shen Wan, "..."

She was joking.

Why did this maid really believe it?

The emperor knew Xie Jingyan's temperament, and Xie Jingyan did not take the initiative to go there. There was no way the emperor would hand over the disaster relief work to Xie Jingyan in the morning in front of all the civil and military officials. Being disobeyed by his son was not a face-saving thing.

Furthermore, there was no flood in Wangzhou at all, so she didn't dare to let Xie Jingyan go to Wangzhou even if he had the courage to do so. She wanted to see how King Cheng would stop Xie Jingyan from going to Wangzhou.

Yesterday's morning court meeting, there was no result from the discussion on the disaster relief matter. Today's morning court meeting, the officials continued to discuss the disaster relief matter.

Disaster relief could not be delayed, so the emperor asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate 300,000 taels and 100,000 dans of grain and grass to Wangzhou.

After the money and food for disaster relief have been settled, it's time to decide who will be sent to provide relief. Wangzhou is the fief of King Cheng, and it is safest for King Cheng to take charge of this matter. He takes care of his own fief.

But Princess Cheng was seriously ill and King Cheng couldn't get away, so he had to send someone else to go. King Cheng recommended someone, but the emperor didn't agree and said, "Let King Ling go to Wangzhou to provide relief."

King Cheng stood up and objected at that time, "The disaster in Wangzhou is serious. It may take two or three months to come back from the disaster relief. Princess Ling is pregnant with Liujia. King Ling may not be able to come back before she gives birth. Princess Ling several times She was assassinated even when she went out, so it was more important for Prince Ling to stay in Kyoto to take care of her, since the disaster relief was not something that Prince Ling had to do. "

Several ministers also stood up to agree with King Cheng and opposed letting Xie Jingyan go to provide disaster relief.

The emperor said, "Prince Ling is not worried about Princess Ling. He has accepted this job. What do you have to worry about, my beloved ministers?"

One sentence silenced everyone's mouths.

King Ling loved Princess Ling so much that he made his wife unhappy. They were worried about something that King Ling didn't even worry about.

The matter was settled.

The Ministry of Household Affairs worked hard to load the disaster relief money onto the carriage and transfer grain from various grain depots. They wanted to prepare the disaster relief money and grain immediately.

But just when the household department was almost ready, King Cheng entered the palace with a letter to find the emperor.

The letter was sent from Wangzhou. Although King Cheng had never been to the fiefdom several times, Wangzhou would send a letter to Beijing every ten days to inform King Cheng of the current situation in Wangzhou so that King Cheng could feel at ease.

But the letter sent this time did not mention the word flood from beginning to end. He asked the boy who sent the letter, and the boy said that it had rained for two days in Wangzhou and the river had risen a lot, but it was not nearly as high. to the point of disaster.

King Cheng presented the letter to the emperor for review. He suspected that there was something wrong with the sudden flood in Wangzhou, which had always been in good weather. He wanted to see the six hundred miles sent to Beijing that day to be expedited.

The emperor showed the "Liu Baili Express" to King Cheng for review. After careful inspection, King Cheng found that the "Liu Baili Express" was not written by the prefect of Wangzhou. Although it looked similar, it was a forged handwriting.

King Cheng also asked a bachelor from the Hanlin Academy to identify the handwriting and confirm that the Six Hundred Miles Express was a forgery. If the book was a forgery, the disaster was obviously fake.

King Cheng suspected that someone was using the Wangzhou flood to transport grain and wanted to burn the grain and grass halfway. Although King Cheng exposed this, he still wanted to use the trick and asked Xie Jingyan to transport fake grain and grass to Wangzhou to lure the snake out of its hole...

Can the emperor agree?

He was tired of watching Cheng Wang act patiently.

Cooperating with Cheng Wang to lie would mean that he would risk the lives of innocent soldiers and even Xie Jingyan who were transporting food and grass.

Wangzhou Iron Mine and Floods, the Emperor was extremely disappointed with King Cheng.

The emperor was sitting on the dragon chair. Almost every word Cheng Wang said made the emperor's eyes look more disappointed.

The emperor did not expose Cheng Wang's lies, but only rejected Cheng Wang's proposal to lure the snake out of the hole and sent him away.

However, the six-hundred-mile expedited discount was false. This caused an uproar in the court. Everyone found it incredible. It was necessary to strictly investigate who was so bold. If we did not severely punish him, we were afraid that someday the border would also send false news. That would be too much. Terrible.

The disaster in Wangzhou was fake, so Xie Jingyan naturally didn't need to go to Wangzhou to provide disaster relief.

He was supposed to leave for Wangzhou to provide disaster relief. After breakfast that day, he accompanied Shen Wan out of the house and went to the Yun family to attend the outing banquet.

The Yun family was full of joy.

Madam Yun had a smile on her face.

Before Shen Wan went to see Mrs. Yun, she went to give Yun Rui makeup. Yun Rui blushed when she saw Shen Wan. Shen Wan looked at it and couldn't help teasing her, "My cousin is so good-looking, no wonder Xuan Rui is so beautiful." Prince Ping said he was happy to marry him back. "

Yun Rui's ears turned red from embarrassment, and she stamped her feet and said, "No cousin has ever teased me like this!"

Shen Wan blinked and said, "I'm not joking, I'm telling the truth."

Yunrui became even more shy.

She knew that Shen Wan was telling the truth, because her eldest brother went to visit Prince Xuanping and returned home, so he said the words exactly as they were. She was so embarrassed that she almost ran away with one of her shoes.

Shen Wan sat with Yun Rui for a quarter of an hour, and Yun Rui was reluctant to let Shen Wan go.

Walking to Liushuang Courtyard, Shen Wan saw Yun Mo coming from a distance. When she got closer, Shen Wan asked, "Do you like it better?"

Yun Mo nodded, "I've been feeling much better these past two days. If I feel a little nauseous, I can suppress it by eating a sour plum."

The two of them walked into the yard while talking.

Mrs. Yun saw the two of them, especially Shen Wan's swollen belly, and there were two wrinkles in the corners of her smiling eyes. "Counting the days, we will see our great-grandson in more than two months."

"Fortunately, the Wangzhou flood is not real, and Prince Ling doesn't have to go to the disaster relief. Otherwise, grandma would be really worried about leaving you alone in Prince Ling's mansion."

Shen Wan and Yun Mo sat next to Mrs. Yun, and Mrs. Yun held their hands with a smile on her face.

While they were talking, Yinshuang walked in from outside, walked to Shen Wan and said, "Princess, the Emperor has granted the marriage of Princess Yong'an to Young Master Cui..."

Shen Wan was stunned, "Which Young Master Cui?"

Yinshuang was also confused by this question.

There are not many young masters Cui in Kyoto.

Yin Shuang said, "He is the cousin of Crown Prince Xuanping, the eldest young master of General Cui's residence."

Shen Wan, "...???"

Why did the emperor grant the marriage of Princess Yong'an to Young Master Cui?

If she remembered correctly, General Cui was a fourth-rank official, and Marquis Xuanping was on their side. How could King Cheng agree to marry Princess Yongan to Young Master Cui?

Moreover, Princess Yong'an in her previous life was married off by the Queen Mother while she was still in her filial piety period after the death of Princess Cheng.

Shen Wan asked Yin Shuang in a low voice, "Do you know why the emperor granted them marriage?"

Yinshuang replied, "The Queen Mother asked the Emperor to grant them a marriage."

Shen Wan was even more confused now.

Not only Shen Wan found it strange, but everyone in the civil and military circles in the court was not surprised by this matter. This marriage directly added to the conversation at the Yun family's wedding banquet. All the officials and wives were speculating on the intention behind this marriage.

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