Murong Yun raised her head to Miao Miao with a helpless expression and waved the whip in her hand for practice.
On one side, Li Yunjin, who had already taken her place as a female official in the princess's mansion, was waiting on the side with Xiao Cui.
Xiao Cui looked at this person who was trying to steal her job from the corner of her eyes. In order not to fall out of favor, she even worked much more considerately than usual.
It wasn't until a message came that Murong Yun stopped, panting heavily, and drank a cup of tea first. Seeing this, Xiao Cui quickly stepped forward to wipe her sweat.
"County Princess."
Li Yunjin dismissed the maid who had brought the message. She was mainly responsible for managing the miscellaneous items in the palace and the property and shops under Murong Yun's name.
And the news that just came was from Village.
"Shopkeeper Si said that there are some problems with the farm output of the princess's farm outside the Capital. They hope the princess can go and check it in person."
Personally?
It was just one of the many properties under Murong Yun's name. Normally, he wouldn't tell her about it, let alone let her see it.
But this Si Luo was someone she had dug in advance from Baili Shuangxue. Since he became the shopkeeper, the money he earned had directly doubled.
Moreover, all the tasks were taken care of extremely well. Since she had to go there in person, could there be something wrong in the Village?
"Xiao Cui, is there anything special about the Village property outside the Capital?"
Xiao Cui tilted her head and thought for a while, then answered with a little uncertainty: "It's not different, but the princess's nanny and her family are raising their children there."
"Ah, by the way, that nanny has been taking care of the princess since she was a child. If the princess wants to investigate something before, she can ask that nanny."
When Xiao Cui said this, Murong Yun also thought of this nanny. After the original owner lost her memory at the age of ten, this nanny took the whole family to the village to work as a steward.
Because she was the only nanny around her, the original owner still had a sense of intimacy despite her amnesia, so she was treated very well.
Logically speaking, with such grace, Nanny should be able to take good care of Village. Why would Si Luo sue her?
"Can you tell me what the problem is?"
Murong Yun looked at Li Yunjin with confusion. Li Yunjin had been staying in the princess's mansion for a few days and knew a lot about her properties. When she asked her about it, she explained the whole story to her:
"The Village grows the best elixirs. Shopkeeper Si Luo manages the princess's medicine shop. When cleaning the herbs, he found that the elixirs produced by the Village do not match the area occupied."
"Therefore, shopkeeper Si came to the door in person to see what was going on. Unexpectedly, the Village steward, the Nanny, actually drove him out in a hurry."
"After that, he noticed something strange, so he sneaked into the fields behind the Village and found that half of them were planted with the banned elixir Huan Luo Flower..."
Huan Luo Flower
Murong Yun's tiger body trembled, and she let go of the small whip in her hand.
There was a surprise in her eyes. This thing was not a good thing. It was somewhat similar to the modern poppy flower. It was an elixir that was forbidden to be cultivated in South Chu.
Of course, it has medicinal value, and because it is rare, the price of Huan Luo flower on the market has always been extremely high.
However, it is not a commonly used drug. Apart from its own hallucinogenic addiction, there is a need to pay attention to the dosage, growing Huan Luo flowers is of great value.
This elixir is very delicate. It requires extremely high water, soil, light, and temperature. If exposed to it for a long time, it will gradually become poisonous. The person who planted it may die before it can bloom.
To protect the lives of the people at the bottom, it was designated as one of the elixirs that was prohibited from cultivation at the beginning of the founding of the Country.
Most importantly, this thing is part of the plot.
In the book, Baili Shuangxue discovered the fishery in the village during an outing and found out that the stewards of the village were buying and selling slaves for cultivation and exchanging human lives for elixirs to make huge profits.
To save those slaves, Baili Shuangxue of course struck hard and then met the original owner on a narrow road, because the original owner had already crossed paths with Baili Shuangxue at that time.
Therefore, even if she did something wrong as a steward of the Village, she still insists on maintaining it, and of course, she will be fixed by the protagonists in the end...
Fortunately, it's autumn now. According to the timeline in the original book, Baili Shuangxue will only find out about this in the spring of next year.
As long as she handles this matter now, she can avoid another plot point.
I have to thank Si Luo for reminding her of this plot.
"Princess? What's wrong with you?"
Xiao Cui picked up the whip on the ground and looked at the dull look on her princess's beautiful face, feeling a little puzzled.
Recently, the princess has become more and more fond of wandering.
"No, it's nothing. Since Si Luo said it, it's up to me to take care of it. Prepare the carriage. We'll go now."
"Then County Princess, do you need to change clothes?"
Xiao Cui asked thoughtfully. After all, she had to go out. According to the princess's past personality, she was not allowed to go out and not dress up beautifully.
"No need, just take the bone staff and set off directly."
Murong Yun didn't have any thoughts about dressing up now. She just wanted to fly over and burn all the Huan Luo flowers.
Murong Yun went out in a carriage, and then a man walked out of the door of the General's Mansion next door, holding a silver shell fan in one hand and a food box in the other.
It was Hua Zhu. Since Murong Yun was injured a few days ago, the eldest sister-in-law would prepare soup for Murong Yun every day with a heavy belly, and she would also ask him to deliver it in person.
The reason was that he failed to protect his sister and instigated Murong Yun to abolish Luo Wuqi.
Hua Zhu would never go against Li Jiang's wishes, and because of Murong Yun's previous behavior, he had some change of mind, so Hua Zhu half-heartedly became a delivery boy.
"Not there? Where did you go?"
Hua Zhu picked up the food box and asked Li Yunjin, who was staying at the Princess Mansion in front of him, with a knot in his brows.
"The County princess has something to do at the village outside the Capital. Fourth Young Master might as well give me the food box. The County princess will definitely drink it when she comes back."
Li Yunjin said, and wanted to take the food box from the other party's hand. Unexpectedly, Hua Zhu took a step back and had no intention of handing the food box to her.
"No need, I will send it to her personally. Where is the Village?"
Hua Zhu frowned, with eagerness in his eyes. Since he returned home, Li Jiang was afraid that he would go wandering around again.
Don't leave the city, the farthest road he walked this month was from the General's Mansion to the Princess' Mansion, which suffocates him.
Now that Murong Yun left the city, didn't he have an excuse to get some fresh air?
After giving the soup to Murong Yun, he could go out to play outside the city and then go home. At this time, he would go hunting. The rabbits, deer and other things on the mountain should be quite fat.
Therefore, the two siblings walked out of the city gate one after another.
Murong Yun did not ride a special luan frame carriage this time. After all, it was not a glorious thing, so she only used an extremely low-key wooden carriage from the Princess Mansion.
However, the Luan guards she brought were about twenty, overtly or covertly.
"Princess, look, isn't that Prince Qi? And that Miss Baili."
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