newbobooks Chapter 153 This person is really talented in crooked ways
Chapter 153 This person is really talented in crooked ways
Lu Xinling's maid was an expert at getting information, and soon she found out that several princes had entered the palace.
But since they were in Cai’s courtyard, they couldn’t seem to find a suitable excuse to go there.
However, Lu Xinran was silently calculating the span of Cai's courtyard in his mind.
Although the Sun family is prominent, Sun Linyuan is still the head of the Sun family. Cai has not yet lived to be an old lady, so her courtyard is only in the most central position in the backyard. The courtyard is not the magnificent one with five entrances and exits.
As long as they go around to the back of the yard, the distance should be just enough for them to find Song Junhe's booklet.
She thought this as she walked, without saying anything, and the people around her all followed her tacitly.
Behind them were the ladies who wanted to join in the fun. They kept a distance from each other and walked towards the back of Cai's courtyard under the surprised gazes of the servants in the Sun Mansion.
[This is it, this location is just right~]
The familiar voice almost made Song Junhe, who had been tense, jump up.
He was about to leave Cai's courtyard without even thinking about it, but Song Junhua stood up and stopped him with a forced smile.
"Brother, today is the old lady's birthday. You left for several months and just returned to the capital the day before yesterday. You haven't seen the old lady for several days. How could you leave in such a hurry?"
His words sounded so high-sounding that Song Junhe wanted to slap her in the face.
"Prince Yu just came back. He has been busy for the court and has not had time to rest properly. Let him find a courtyard to rest properly. After he rests, he will have time to talk to an old woman like me."
Cai hurriedly spoke up to smooth things over for her precious grandson, but unfortunately, after being an onlooker for so long, Lu Xinran's speed in flipping through the booklet had increased significantly.
However, while she was talking, she had already read all the newly updated contents in Song Junhe's booklet at a glance.
[I said that people like him would not let go of the disaster relief money! ]
[He used the tricks to the extreme. Of the 500,000 taels of silver used for disaster relief, he spent less than 100,000 taels on the people.]
[He used rhetoric to make the officials in Jiangnan think that he would become the crown prince, and he gained nearly 200,000 taels of money from these officials.]
[He also took the opportunity to have someone use the silver to buy a farm in the south, and then... huh? These farms were not used for farming, but people fenced in the land, leveled the land inside, and had people practice on the farms.]
[Training? Why would a prince like him train his own soldiers? ]
The last sentence clearly conveyed confusion.
She was still speculating on Song Junhe's purpose, but Song Junhua finally had a relieved smile on his face.
It doesn't matter why his good brother is training private soldiers. This action is enough for him to take advantage of the opportunity to bring him down.
[Song Junhe doesn't want to train several thousand people and then bring them to the capital to force the emperor to abdicate, right? ]
[Almost all the money he embezzled was spent on farms and recruiting people.]
[He also sent people to search for people in the nearby mountains, hoping to find some skilled people from the bandit dens in the mountains.]
[Before he returned to Beijing, quite a few people had gathered at those farms, most of them refugees who had heard that he could have enough food and warm clothes and gathered there.]
[He used the relief money to buy himself farmland and property, and then those refugees who could not get help from the court had no choice but to sell their lives to him in order to survive and then move into the farmland he bought with the relief money.]
[What logic! I am impressed!]
[This person is really talented in crooked ways.]
[If this kind of person becomes emperor, the Chu kingdom will definitely fall in his hands without the second generation being needed.]
In Cai's room, everyone looked at Song Junhe in surprise.
Providing disaster relief in this way...he is such a genius!
Song Junhe's face turned from red to white and then from white to black. He had obviously handled this matter very carefully. As long as he could avoid Lu Xinran, the true story of the matter would not be known to others.
But, he just returned to Beijing!
"Brother, why don't we go to the palace together later to meet our father?"
So many people heard about this, there was no need for him to find ways to frame someone.
The more Song Junhua thought about it, the more proud he became. His position in his father's heart had always been second only to Song Junhe.
With the charge of raising private soldiers, Song Junhe will never be able to hold that position in his life.
[No, no, he has already covered up this matter and mentioned it to the emperor.]
[The emperor took the beauty he had specially brought back from Yangcheng, and did not investigate further what he had done in Jiangnan.]
[He claimed that taking these refugees into his farms was a way of giving them a place to settle down and a kind act of mercy. The court officials who supported him even wrote memorials praising him, which Zheng He would hand over to the emperor in a day or two.]
[He really did a lot of work during his trip to Jiangnan this time. He had no time to rest. The emperor should give him a model worker award and let all the court officials and princes follow his example~]
Everyone eavesdropping: "..."
Cai weakly picked up the tea bowl and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead while drinking tea.
She knew that this young man from the Lu family was a nuisance and could not be kept!
No, she would not let that guy harm her precious grandson again even at the risk of her life.
Cai was furious, and Lu Xinran, who was standing outside the back wall, sneezed loudly.
"But you caught a cold?"
Kong walked forward with concern and wanted to raise her hand to touch her forehead. Lu Xinran inexplicably felt a bad premonition in her heart.
The word "it's okay" that was about to come to her lips turned into "Aunt, why don't my sister and I go back home first? Please help us talk to grandma."
Kong nodded immediately. What this girl said just now almost exposed Prince Yu's past.
And it's the kind of secret that can cost someone's life.
She was now afraid that Prince Yu would do something desperate and reckless, so it would be a wise choice to return home while everyone was still in shock.
As soon as the two of them left the Sun Mansion, they met a few people from the Zhang family who were late in arriving in front of the courtyard gate. When Zhang Shui'er saw them, she immediately came up to them.
"What are you doing?"
"My sister is not feeling well. I will go back home with her first."
Zhang Shui'er looked at Lu Xinran, whose face was rosy, with suspicion, and always felt that... this was a lie.
It was not until she watched them leave and learned from others what had happened after they entered the room that she exclaimed in shock.
"Prince Yu, is he going to die?"
Mrs. Qiu twisted her arm, looked around and told her not to talk nonsense.
It's not that Prince Yu is risking his life, it's obviously that girl who is risking her life, as she dares to dig out everything.
Cai, who had already made up her mind, arranged 108 ways for Lu Xinran to die. Just as she asked her trusted nanny to arrange them, she received news from the servants.
That damn girl actually slipped back to the Lu Mansion first.
Lu Xinran returned to the mansion to check the system, and as expected, the health points were not calculated.
"Tongzi, how many life points do you think we can calculate this time?"
The system came out excitedly and calculated for a while, "If Song Junhe is going to be in trouble, we can at least settle for one month."
If the emperor is willing to demote him completely, then three to five months is possible.
As everyone was sighing, Cuizhu walked in quickly.
"Miss, the eldest lady asks you to come over for a moment. She said someone from Shuntian Prefecture wants you to come over for help."