After entering the East Palace, Princess Zheng looked around.

"When I came here a few months ago, there were lush flowers and trees here. Now it has become like this, it shows that the flowers, plants and trees are missing their owner." Zheng Guo sighed slightly.

These words aroused the Crown Princess's worries and she looked sad.

"What's wrong with the Crown Princess? But the Crown Prince is not in good health?" Princess Zheng raised her eyebrows, looking very anxious.

The Crown Princess suppressed her sorrow and said to cover it up: "Your Highness's health is the same as before, but he misses his father and mother too much."

Zheng Guo covered his chest and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that everything is fine. It's the best thing that everything is fine! Your Highness has never left the palace since he was a child, and he is very filial. He must miss your Majesty and the Queen very much after being away for a few months. Now that he is back in the palace, he will often accompany the Queen in the future, which will naturally relieve his pain of missing his mother."

These were all words that the Crown Princess loved to hear. Not only did her eyes soften, but she also spoke in a very kind manner.

"Your Highness once told me that he loved playing with you when he was little."

Zheng Guo pursed his lips and smiled: "When I was a child, I always liked to bully him, but I couldn't help but get close to him."

At this point, Zheng Guo sighed quietly, "To me, he is no different from my own brother."

The Crown Princess' eyes turned red and she took out a handkerchief to wipe them.

Zheng Guo said: "You know, I have never had any ambitions and I only like singing and dancing. I am not as rich as Prince Hongqing."

Zheng Guo quietly stuffed a few banknotes over and said, "I'll send some more in a few days."

Zheng Guo was favored by the emperor, who often rewarded him with money and singing and dancing girls. The Crown Princess knew this.

After making some excuses, he accepted Zheng Guo's money. Then, thinking of what Zheng Guo had just said, he asked in confusion, "What happened to Prince Hongqing?"

Princess Zhengguo was a little surprised, "You don't know about Prince Hongqing? Everyone in the government knows about it."

Then he talked about how Prince Hong Qing colluded with salt merchants to buy and sell salt permits.

"I heard that His Majesty was very angry. Prince Hongqing was really greedy. He spent one million taels a year." Princess Zheng kept shaking her head.

After Zheng Guo left, the Crown Princess opened the banknote.

These are several thousand taels of silver notes.

A total of ten thousand taels of silver.

The Crown Princess held the banknote and thought for a while, then went to find the Crown Prince, "Zheng Guo came just now and sent me a banknote of 10,000 taels."

The prince took the banknote and said with some emotion: "After all, my family is the one I can trust."

But this ten thousand taels of silver is not enough for anything.

"It would be great if I could make a few million taels of wealth right now." The prince sighed softly.

Hearing this, the Crown Princess couldn't help but think of what Princess Zheng had just said.

"I just heard a piece of news from Zheng Guo that Prince Hongqing has taken control of the salt merchants in Jiangnan and has to pay a million taels of silver as tribute every year. Zheng Guo said that everyone in the government and the public knows about this."

"You know everything?" The prince was extremely surprised.

Prince Hongqing is just a prince. What salt merchants can he control?

Those salt merchants were all doing it for the sake of King Zhao's face.

Now that the truth has been exposed, given the emperor's character, he will not let Prince Hongqing and Prince Zhao go.

But what made the prince even more angry was the money. "The King of Zhao only gives me 100,000 taels of silver a year, but he actually gets 1 million taels of silver a year?"

The prince thought of the salt permit again.

Salt permits are the fastest way to make money and profit in the world.

"If we can take this opportunity to get the salt permit business under our control, we will have more money in the future."

How can you do things without spending money?

"Send someone to tell the King of Zhao that I want to see him."

"Don't think that I can do nothing to him now that I'm out of favor."

"Just one word from me..." At this point, the prince snorted coldly.

After coming out of the East Palace, Zheng Guo went to see the queen.

This was the first time Li Jinglan met Princess Zheng.

Princess Zheng looked at Li Jinglan with admiration on her face: "This sister is so beautiful, madam, I like this sister."

The queen laughed and took Zheng Guo into her arms: "What sister? This is your brother Zemei's wife."

"Wow?" Zheng Guo leaned in the queen's arms, his tone was quite exaggerated, "What a pity."

The queen obviously liked Zheng Guo very much, and asked her with a smile: "What's a pity?"

"It's a pity that my brother Zemei knew him first. It would have been better if I knew him first." Princess Zhengguo waved her hand. "It just so happens that I have just trained 20 singing and dancing girls. I'll give them to you."

She took out a few more banknotes and said, "I didn't bring many banknotes today. I only have five thousand taels left. Use them to buy cosmetics."

"As a woman, you don't have to endure the stink of men if you have money in your hands. If Zemei dares to say anything to you, tell me that I will destroy his house and give him a black eye..."

The queen was so angry that she hit Zheng Guo and stopped her from saying anything further. "How can you send a singing and dancing girl to ruin the house when you meet? Jinglan is pregnant, and the house can't be too noisy."

But he took Zheng Guo's banknote and stuffed it into Li Jinglan's hand.

Hearing the Queen's intimate tone when she called Li Jinglan, and seeing the Queen handing the banknote to Li Jinglan, Princess Zheng smiled slightly and said, "What's the point of a person if he doesn't sing or dance."

The Queen smiled and tapped Princess Zheng's forehead, "Nonsense again! By the way, did you go to see the Crown Princess just now?"

Zheng Guo said calmly, "I went to see the Crown Princess. She seemed to be in a bad mood. You know, I am not good at comforting people, so I gave her 10,000 taels of silver."

"Women will be happy if they have money in their hands."

Then he talked about Prince Hong Qing again, "He can earn a million taels a year? If I had known he could make so much money, I should have robbed him in the beginning."

When he said this, Zheng Guo rolled up his sleeves and said, "The more I think about it, the more I regret it. I will go to the Zhao Palace in a while and move whatever I see is good."

The Queen never asks about what's happening outside, and she really doesn't know anything about Prince Hong Qing.

"Is this true or false?" the queen asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Prince Wei told me. If someone like him knows about it, then almost everyone knows about it."

Zheng Guo waved his hand casually, as if he didn't take it seriously at all.

"Okay, let's not talk about this. Your Majesty, do you have any fun things to give Zheng Guo some to play with recently? Hehehe, I'm obsessed with gold recently." Zheng Guo smiled and tried to make the queen happy. "I'll go out of the palace and take a walk around Prince Zhao's mansion in a while. I'll look for something and bring it back to you."

Li Jinglan could sense that Zheng Guo and the Queen had a very good relationship.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Zheng Guo grew up in the palace.

Li Jinglan thought so.

But for some reason, her first impression of Zheng Guo was not very good.

If Princess Ningguo was a domineering princess.

The State of Zheng was like a cloud of fog that was difficult to see clearly.

The most important thing is that Zheng Guo smiled too professionally.

Same with her.

Use laughter as a protective mask.

Seeing that Li Jinglan was just watching without saying anything, Zheng Guo pursed his lips and smiled: "What does Jinglan like?"

"Me?" Li Jinglan shook her head. "I don't really like any of them."

"What a pity. I was thinking of giving you something you like." Zheng Guo thought for a moment, "How about this, I'll give you some toys."

When the queen heard that Zheng Guo was going to give Li Jinglan toys, she was amused: "Zheng Guo may not be good at other things, but when it comes to eating, drinking and having fun, she is second to none. No one dares to claim to be first."

The queen asked someone to bring out a Lu Ban lock, "This is a Lu Ban lock made by Zheng State. It took me two hours to unlock it."

Li Jinglan took the Luban lock.

This Luban lock looks simple but has an ingenious design.

In the previous life, it was popular throughout the capital.

It was actually designed by Princess Zheng?

Li Jinglan pushed it back: "It's too delicate. I'm afraid I can't play it well."

"It's quite simple," Princess Zheng enthusiastically taught Li Jinglan how to play.

Li Jinglan just said that she couldn't learn it.

She never reveals what she likes or what abilities she has in front of others.

The more unfamiliar people she meets, the more she will hide her shortcomings.

Just like this Luban lock, she had played with it many times in her previous life, but she just wouldn't try it.

Princess Zheng Guo taught for a long time, but Li Jinglan just couldn't learn it. Princess Zheng Guo finally gave up and said, "I'll give you a few sets of Nine Links later."

But she was afraid that Li Jinglan would refuse, "I drew these drawings myself."

"Okay, then I'll be waiting for you." Li Jinglan smiled.

After seeing Princess Zheng off, the Queen and Li Jinglan took a walk in the palace.

The queen casually asked, "What do you think of Zheng Guo?"

Li Jinglan immediately replied: "The princess is kind-hearted and generous."

The queen held Li Jinglan's arm and sighed softly, "It's just that I met the wrong person."

"What's wrong?" Li Jinglan felt that the queen wanted to talk, so she turned her head to look at the queen.

The queen then talked about the story of Prince Wei, and then Prince Wei talked about Xu Jingchen.

"No one was optimistic about Xu Jingchen back then. Xu Jingchen was a taciturn person. Zheng Guo was a naturally romantic child. If they were together, one would be taciturn and the other would be talkative. They would never get along... There was also a huge age gap..."

"The result has become what it is now. Xu Jingchen refuses to get married, and Zheng Guo refuses to consummate the marriage with the Crown Prince of Wei..." The Queen said this and shook her head slightly.

Li Jinglan pondered in her heart.

Meeting Princess Zheng today confirmed the rumors from my previous life: Princess Zheng liked Xu Jingchen.

But after meeting these two people one after another, Li Jinglan subconsciously felt that the two were not a match.

Xu Jingchen appears to be a gentleman and a kind person on the surface, but in fact he is extremely murderous.

She always felt that Xu Jingchen needed a woman who could understand him with just a glance, and would not fall in love with an innocent little girl.

Maybe she was mistaken.

Perhaps the more murderous people are, the more they like innocent people.

But, is Zheng Guo really innocent?

Li Jinglan held the queen's arm and walked slowly forward.

Coming out of the imperial city, Zheng Guo saw King Zhao's carriage.

"When King Zhao heard that the crown prince had returned to the palace, he sent him a few thousand-year-old ginsengs and some top-quality tonics." The eunuch stepped forward and whispered.

Princess Zheng raised the corners of her lips slightly, "Go to Prince Zhao's mansion."

--*My mother had bone cement injected today. After I am discharged from the hospital, I have to go to my sister's house to attend a funeral, which will take a few more days. I will slowly update when I have some free time. The main reason is that I am in the hospital now and I really can't write too much. My mother had an IV infusion in the morning. My cervical and lumbar spine are not in good condition. I am having a massage in the rehabilitation department of the hospital in the afternoon. My mother will also have physical therapy in the rehabilitation department in a few days. The ward is not a good environment for typing (everyone goes to bed after 10 pm, I feel embarrassed to type, and I really don't have time during the day).

Children who read this book should pay attention to their parents' health. People over 50 are prone to osteoporosis. My mother was squatting normally at home, and then she broke her waist when she stood up.

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