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The bright sunlight shone through the windowsill and fell on the brocade quilt embroidered with lotus flowers. Qingchen danced happily in the light, and a girl leaned against the bed, which was Ruolan. She was leaning against the head of the bed, lowering her head, and her black hair fell from her neck like a waterfall, as if she was asleep.

"Water..." A slight voice sounded, immediately awakening her. When she rubbed her eyes, she saw that the prince was haggard and his eyes were covered with bloodshot. She nodded quickly and said, "Master, wait a moment." She took a pillow to him and brought a bowl of honey water from the small stove on one side, and fed him a spoonful of spoons.

After drinking seven or eight spoonfuls of warm honey water, the burning feeling in my throat finally became lighter, but my head was still buzzing and aching. Qin Lei patted his head hard and said with a hissing: "When is it?"

Ruolan smiled and said, "It's Chen Shi, you've been sleeping for nearly nine hours." After Qin Lei finished drinking the water, she sat behind him and reached out to massage his head gently.

Under Ruolan's gentle care, Qin Lei's head finally stopped hurting and his thinking became normal...

Starry memories appeared in my mind, Qin Lei shook his head and said uncertainly: I seem to be drunk..."

Ruolan smiled bitterly and said, "Well, I'm so drunk."

"It seems that it's still talking nonsense..." The little memory slashed, forming shining silk threads, connecting intermittent memories.

Ruolan whispered: "I said something..."

"I also hit someone..." The line moved into a face, and everything yesterday finally became a complete picture. Qin Lei slapped his forehead hard and said, "It seems that he was still drilling into the bottom of Mrs. Li's skirt..."

After saying that, he covered his face with both hands and wailed: "This is a shameful person..."

Seeing the prince's appearance, Ruolan felt distressed and wanted to laugh, so she had to reach out and stroke his back and said softly: "It's okay, it's all over. We won't drink so much in the future."

Qin Lei nodded, patted his cheek hard and said, "Well, I won't drink so much in the future." As he said that, he turned over and went down to the ground, shouting, "Shi Gan!"

"Yes!" Shi Gan's voice sounded outside the door.

"Tell the team to prepare, we will set off early tomorrow morning and go to Jingshan Camp!"

"Ah... obey the order!" Although he was a little surprised, Shi Gan still responded loudly.

Ruolan in the room also said unexpectedly: "Didn't you say that you will wait until Sister Shi Yun's injury stabilizes before leaving?"

Qin Lei moved his stiff limbs and smiled helplessly: "Why do I have the face to stay here? Let's leave earlier and avoid the limelight."

Ruolan was slightly disappointed, but she knew that the prince was not suitable to meet Mrs. Li, so she had to nod obediently and help him remove his clothes while asking softly: "Where is Mrs. Li? It seems that she is going to live in the mansion?" What happened yesterday, in order to prevent the sheep from entering the tiger's mouth, Mrs. Li was even more unlikely to leave her daughter.

Qin Lei didn't speak, letting Ruolan take a shower and change clothes for herself. After washing and changing her clothes, she whispered: "Shiyun's mother is angry at this time. I'm just doing it in vain. She won't see me." Ruolan was silent and said to herself: 'The wife of other people is tough and does not have to take full care of the prince's face.'

Qin Lei didn't know what she felt in her heart, but he still said to himself: "Let him come and go freely. After last month, I will come to the door to apologize again." Ruolan couldn't help laughing and said softly: "Master, you are too funny."

Qin Lei carried her soft waist with his back hand and laughed, "My heart is hurt, please help me heal my wounds." As he said that, he picked up Ruolan tremblingly and said strangely, "Baby, why are you so heavy?"

Ruolan shook her head hard and said, "No... I should pay attention to my diet... my clothes are not small at all."

Qin Lei forced himself to carry Ruolan's little sister to the bed, and suddenly realized, "It turns out that I'm exhausted..."

Ruolan covered her mouth and chuckled, "Master, people say this is what happens after a hangover."

"I want to swear to quit drinking!" Qin Yutian swears to the sky: "One pound a day is definitely not enough..."

Ruolan was about to get up when she heard this and fell on the bed again, sighing in her heart: "Is this considered quitting drinking?"

The palace of the Prince of Longwei County has always maintained a decisive style. When Qin Lei's spirit is refreshed, he went to the palace to say goodbye. It was originally planned, so it didn't take much verbal trouble. Besides, it is now a critical moment to win people's hearts, and Emperor Zhaowu is not willing to stay in the capital. He just asked the reason briefly, and Qin Lei stammered and nodded and let go.

Before Qin Lei retreated, Emperor Zhaowu just remembered and said casually: "Your second brother will be on an envoy tomorrow. Let's leave after sending him." Qin Lei nodded and replied softly.

He went to the Empress Dowager and Concubine Jin to say goodbye. The old empress dowager was unhappy these days and was tilted on the bed. Qin Lei asked with pain in his heart. The old lady shook her head and smiled: "As aged, her body is old and her bones cannot stand the trouble of God. The days of winter and spring every year are the most difficult to endure."

The old eunuch Qiu next to him also said: "In the past years, the empress dowager went to the west to dissolve it, but she has never been there for the years."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang smiled and said, "I am old and I can't resist the bumps in my body." Then she stopped mentioning this matter. After a few words from the grandparents and grandchildren, she let Qin Lei go to Concubine Jin. When she arrived at Concubine Jin, she still had nothing to say. Somehow, the relationship between the mother and son became more and more strange, and they always looked a little different. However, the seventh brother was still very intimate with Qin Lei. After playing with him for a while, Qin Lei said goodbye to Jinyu Palace.

Seeing that there was still some time, he went to Yongfu to take a look. Yongfu was frightened during that assassination and fainted immediately, but his body was still not as good as before the spring outing. Qin Lei naturally felt extremely guilty, but Yongfu fainted for that day and felt very sad.

After talking to Yongfu for a while in the palace, it was getting late, so Qin Lei left the palace.

The sky is full of red glow, which makes the solemn king cart look even more magnificent.

"Prince, are we going home?" Shi Gan asked softly.

Qin Lei shook his head and said softly: "No, go to the Jiang family."

Shi Gan responded in a deep voice and led the convoy to the large mansion on Guangyuan Street, Dongcheng. At this time, the sky was dim, and the century-old courtyard seemed even more mottled and vicissitudes, tall and majestic. Two red lanterns hung in front of the door, vaguely showing the word "Jiang Mansion" on the door, but the bronze door was still tightly locked.

As if the situation reappeared last month, Shi Gan stepped forward and knocked on the door, and the old man with a tall hair and beard poked out his head.

Fortunately, although the old man had a white beard, he had a good memory and did not forget the identity of the visitor. While ordering people to open the door, he informed him inside.

After a while, the energetic old man Jiang came out and joined hands with Qin Lei to enter the front hall with a smile.

The two of them chatted and watched the tea. The old prime minister smiled kindly and said, "Have you ever had a meal?"

Qin Lei shook his head calmly and said with a smile: "I want to say I have used it, but my stomach doesn't agree."

The old prime minister laughed and said, "Okay, okay, don't treat the old man as an outsider, that's great. Although the old man has eaten, he can't say he has to have another meal with His Highness." As he said that, he ordered the housekeeper, "Prepare meals for the prince," the housekeeper was about to go down, but the old prime minister added, "Don't forget to get more wine and meat to send it to the prince's entourage."

Qin Lei called the housekeeper and said with a gentle smile: "My men don't have any meat, just serve some big pieces of pork, beef and mutton. As for me, just serve a few plates of pickles and some porridge."

Old Master Jiang shook his head and smiled, "What can I do? The little girl Yun Shang blames the old man for being negligent."

Qin Lei smiled embarrassedly and said, "I was entertained by all the Jinshis yesterday, but I was in a hangover because I was in trouble. Whatever I eat today is the same as chewing wax. Let's eat some porridge to nourish my stomach."

Only then did Mr. Jiang nod and said, "Reason." Then he asked the butler to prepare to go with his order.

For the chefs of wealthy families, the side dishes are naturally easy to get. In just a quarter of an hour, the housekeeper brought someone to serve a few cans of porridge and a dozen cool side dishes.

The old and the young were happy to attend the table. Qin Lei drank two bowls of yellow rice chestnut porridge in a row. As expected, he felt relieved. Then he put down the bowls and chopsticks and smiled at the old prime minister: "The food in the house is very good for my appetite."

Old Master Jiang twisted his beard and smiled, "However, it's not that the whole family doesn't enter the whole door?"

Qin Lei thought to himself: 'You are so thick-skinned.' He joked with the old man, and then he turned to the point. The old prime minister laughed and said: "I have thought about it over and over again afterwards, and finally tasted some taste. I found that Your Highness performed quite well in the process of eliminating Wen Yanbo."

Qin Lei chuckled softly and said, "The old man has been too rewarded. If there weren't a few elders mediating behind him, I don't know how many troubles would have been made in this matter."

Grand Duke Jiang shook his head and smiled, "It's still the way Your Highness is like an antelope hanging on the horns, and there is no trace to be found. This made Prime Minister Wen fall into the jar without any sense of consciousness. We are just taking advantage of the situation."

Qin Lei shook his head, not wanting to review the story, and said softly: "After Wen Yanbo left, His Majesty finally took control of the regime, and now he has adjusted the chiefs of various departments and offices on a large scale. I am afraid it will be the turn of the local officials next month."

The old prime minister nodded and said, "Yes, if you follow this posture, you may have become His Majesty's one-man show before your cabinet can play a role."

Qin Lei whispered: "So we need time, we must distract His Majesty's attention and give the cabinet the opportunity to seize power."

"Will the plan come out?" Old Lady Jiang likes Qin Lei's free and easy-going spirit of strategizing.

Qin Lei smiled and said, "Just about to ask for advice from the old prime minister."

Grand Duke Jiang smiled and said, "From the old man, your highness has already taken care of it. Come to me, it's not just to find some confidence."

Qin Leidon got up the teacup and smiled indecisively: "No matter what, please give me some advice."

Grand Duke Jiang smiled cunningly, but turned the topic elsewhere: "I heard that the girl next door has already lived in Your Highness's house?"

With a 'puff' sound, Qin Lei sprayed all over the floor and wiped his mouth and smiled bitterly: "Old lady keep some verbal virtue, I and Miss Li are innocent."

The old prime minister laughed and said, "I believe it, but others don't."

Qin Lei said with a grim face: "When Miss Li's health is better, Mrs. Li will pick her up."

Only then did Grand Duke Jiang smile and said with a smile: "That's good. Miss Li is no better than Yunshang, my daughter born in Beijing. She has been famous since she was a child, and the people who proposed marriage were almost over the threshold of her family." As he said that, he added a cup of tea to Qin Lei: "Give it a misleading example, like the little lamb, and I don't know how many wolves are staring at her."

Qin Lei smiled bitterly and said, "It's really not very impressive."

"But the words are rough and not rough!" The old lady glared and said, "You think, if you marry such a girl who harms the country and the people, you will not become the public enemy of the wealthy families in Beijing." He said with a sincere smile: "So my Yunshang is better than the Li girl. She is so beautiful that she has no one in Beijing. She is safe and down-to-earth, and can be a bodyguard."

Seeing that the old lady spared no effort to promote her granddaughter, Qin Lei was amused and crying, but the problem was really unsolvable. He could only drag it on like this to see if there was any opportunity to negotiate with the two companies.

But Old Lady Jiang’s question had to be answered, so Qin Lei had to change his mind and said, “Don’t worry, old lady, I will never give up Yun Shang.”

The old man could not have thought that he had the idea of ​​carrying two houses on one shoulder. He happily stroked his beard and smiled: "Okay, good vision. I wonder when your highness will go to Tangzhou to hire him?"

Qin Lei thought to himself: 'The emperor is really not in a hurry.' But now he has said that, so he can only honestly say: "It should be earlier, but now we are going to prepare for the military exercise. I want to wait until the military exercise is over and solve this problem immediately."

Old Mrs. Jiang didn't care about the military affairs and thought to himself: 'Can a large military exercise last half a year if you die?' Then he smiled and said, "Okay, then wait for the military exercise to end. The old man is looking forward to your wedding banquet."

Seeing that he finally came to an end, Qin Lei said with relief: "Old man should talk about how to deal with it so that he can prevent the cabinet from becoming a vassal."

Speaking of being serious, Jiang Taigong also put away his disrespectful look and smiled faintly: "I have been an official for more than 30 years. I have discovered a phenomenon that any yamen has a greater use, and any yamen has greater power and naturally has a higher status. So..."

Qin Lei understood and said, "So if you want the cabinet not to be in name only, you must let it play an irreplaceable role."

The old lady smiled and said, "No, so your highness, please find something for your Majesty."

Qin Lei chuckled and said, "Do you still need to find it? It's about to start spring, and the five provinces in the east and north are going to spend the spring famine; the water conservancy project in the capital area has not been completed yet; and Your Majesty has promised to re-register nationwide this year and re-determine the property tax burden; and our Great Qin war reserves are at the lowest point in history. If we do not step up the replenishment of food, fodder and weapons, once the war starts, we will suffer a great loss. These things will be carried out at the same time. If Your Majesty deals with it alone, it will not be possible to do it without eating or sleeping, so we will naturally count on the cabinet at that time."

Old Master Jiang shook his eyebrows and said with a smile: "It seems that the reason why Your Majesty wants to monopolize power is mainly due to the season... The court in winter is too idle. From now on, we cannot let the court be idle, and we know that everyone is used to the cabinet."

Qin Lei smiled and said, "But there is a question. How can His Majesty realize this problem early?" He spread his hands and said, "Or it would be too late."

"Let them start writing memorials and put these problems in front of His Majesty in advance." Jiang Taigong is worthy of being a veteran of the ups and downs of the officialdom. When his eyes rolled, he came up with a solution: "To make the problem worse, for example, if the spring famine will die, you can write 'Hungry people everywhere, and you can eat each other'. In short, how to write tear-jerking, it's best to make His Majesty cry when he is sad."

"Then you can assign tasks to the heads of the department and the officials of the border in advance." Qin Lei smiled and said, "With the task on his body, His Majesty naturally cannot replace it easily... As expected, Jiang is still so angry, with righteous words without leaving any traces, without any side effects."

The old prime minister laughed and said, "It's still a bit bad, but the officials are busier."
Chapter completed!