After finishing the meal, Li Chen waved his hand and asked the serving ladies to leave.
This was not the first time for Zhao Rui to be uninvited. When he saw Li Chen's actions, he knew what was about to happen next.
Her pretty face flushed, and she whispered to Li Chen who was walking towards her: "Your Highness, today, I cannot serve Your Highness today."
Li Chen was stunned when he heard this.
It shouldn't be.
I just gave Zhao Rui a beating during the day and then promised her family benefits. Why is she still so coy now?
Logically speaking, shouldn't we rush forward to show our gratitude?
"My concubine is having her period..."
Zhao Rui lowered his head and told the truth.
Li Chen's face darkened and he felt a little disappointed.
But this doesn't trouble Li Chen.
Li Chen leaned over and whispered something into Zhao Rui's ear.
Zhao Rui's eyes widened. Following Li Chen's words, a layer of blush spread visibly on her pretty face, which was already reddish, and finally dyed her crystal clear ears red. This shows what Li Chen said.
What a huge impact it had on her.
In this era, etiquette and law are more important than heaven. Both men and women tend to be conservative, and women regard chastity as more important than life and are unlikely to come into contact with those crooked ways.
But Zhao Rui accidentally met Li Chen.
Li Chen's proposal shattered Zhao Rui's three views...
"I said yes, so of course it's no problem."
Li Chen himself became excited. He pulled Zhao Rui up and came to the dormitory. After putting down the curtain, he half leaned on the sofa and looked at Zhao Rui with encouraging eyes.
Zhao Rui's face turned red as blood.
She mustered up her courage...but the next second, she flinched again.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, why don't you submit me as a concubine and go first..."
Zhao Rui, who wanted to escape before the battle, begged.
How can Li Chen tolerate Zhao Rui's troubles now?
He didn't say a word when he heard this, but only expressed it with his eyes.
Zhao Ruixia's cheeks were flying, and a pool of spring water in her eyes was almost dripping...
Half an hour later.
"Your Highness, I will take you to bathe."
Seeing Li Chen getting up, Zhao Rui stood up with difficulty and said.
"No need."
Li Chen said warmly: "Just let the palace maid serve you. You rest first. I have to read the memorial later, so I don't have time to come over."
After finishing speaking, Li Chen left.
That figure looked very much like a scumbag who just left after having a good time.
After taking a bath under the service of several palace maids, Li Chen put on clean clothes and returned to Xi Zheng Palace refreshed.
In the Xi Zheng Hall, the fire was burning brightly, but most of the coal these days contained bituminous coal, so the windows had to be opened for ventilation, otherwise it would choke people to tears in just a quarter of an hour.
Li Chen remembered that there are a large number of high-quality anthracite coal deposits in Xishan Province. Unfortunately, the disaster is serious now, and there is no condition for large-scale mining and excavation of the deposits at the moment, so we can only wait until later.
After reading the basic memorial, Li Chen frowned slightly.
The most important thing in the country right now is disaster relief, and disaster relief requires food, but there is a very serious problem.
Because natural disasters have lasted for several years, they have become more and more serious, and the worsening of the disaster has directly led to a reduction in food production.
Even though there is money in the national treasury, it is difficult to buy food in the market.
Hiding profiteers is certainly part of the reason, but the main reason is the reduction in grain production.
The supply is low, but the demand is expanding, resulting in the absurd situation where food is now more expensive than gold.
There are only two ways to fundamentally solve this problem.
In addition, cultivated land will be opened up to increase the area of grain cultivation.
There are also some new staple food crops suitable for large-scale planting.
Obviously for the current situation, the latter is the best solution.
"Sambo, go and summon Liu Sichun from the Liu family. I want to question you."
