Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 113
"That's a good idea!" Sheng Shaoqing nodded, "When the time comes, let the small kitchen marinate another plate of peanuts."

"Hiss—" Sheng Shaoqing just thought about it in his head, and he was overwhelmed by the scene, "Drinking wine and eating small dishes, these days are really beautiful!"

After a few words, Lu Qingfeng reported back and forth that the roadblock ahead had been cleared, and he could move forward at full speed.

"Why don't you hurry up?!"

Cui Yun performed a performance in front of Sheng Shaoqing and instantly changed his face, and immediately changed a stern tone to reprimand Lu Qingfeng. Sheng Shaoqing took the stone that tripped her from her hand and asked suspiciously, "Why are you so disrespectful to Qingfeng today? polite?"

Cui Yun has always been a good-natured person, have you ever seen her speak harshly to others like this?
Of course, annoying people like Zhang Qing are not among those who are tolerated.

"Humph", Cui Yun said angrily, "Who told him to speak rudely first?!"

Seeing Cui Yun being so angry, Sheng Shaoqing was also taken aback, but seeing Cui Yun being wronged, she was obliged to step forward, "What did he say? Tell me, I will make the decision for you!"

Cui Yun's cheeks turned red in an instant, and he faltered, "I didn't say anything."

Sheng Shaoqing straightened Cui Yun's body that she wanted to avoid, and seeing her weird face and evasive eyes, Sheng Shaoqing immediately smelled gossip, "You are, you are not springing up, are you?"

Sure enough, spring is here, the season of revival of all things, even Cui Yun inevitably had some thoughts, no wonder she suddenly mentioned the gossip between herself and Yun Shangshu, so it was to pave the way for herself? !
But, there is Lou Yujing!

How can I forget about idols and abandon them?She estimated that Lou Yujing would soon arrive in the capital! !She is still looking forward to the meeting between Cui Yun and Lou Yujing! !
"Oh!" Cui Yun frowned, "Queen! What are you talking about?!"

"When did it happen? Why don't I know? Why are you and Lu Qingfeng? That building."

Sheng Shaoqing consciously swallowed the last half of the sentence, and only continued, "You will recruit me one by one honestly!"

"No! Queen Mother, you misunderstood!"

Cui Yun hurriedly explained, "It's not what you think!"

Cui Yun danced anxiously, but her mouth kept stumbling. She felt that she would only talk more and more about this matter, so she said angrily, "Queen Mother, you should ask Mr. Lu yourself! I can't explain clearly." up!"

However, Sheng Shaoqing believed in his guess more and more, "Isn't that the only thing, what's so hard to say?"

"If you are in love with each other, I will make the decision for you. I remember that Mrs. Lu's family background is quite good, and she is quite suitable for your status as the daughter of the Cui family, but she is a little younger, her official position is a little lower, and her accent is weird. point."

Cui Yun raised his forehead and said, "Queen Mother, you can pick out three shortcomings of him in just one sentence, do you think Wei Chen's vision is so bad!"

Sheng Shaoqing curled her lips and said, "Emotions are not a good thing. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!"

"Even if I become a monk, I won't marry him!"

Seeing Cui Yun's deliberately raised tone, Sheng Shaoqing thought that this sentence was intended for outsiders, so he just laughed secretly, but then became dizzy from a burst of unexplained jolts.

Seeing that Cui Yun was about to question again, Sheng Shaoqing hurriedly stopped him. Cui Yun asked suspiciously, "Didn't Lu Qingfeng say that the road has been cleaned up? Why are there still stones?"

Sheng Shaoqing paused and said, "I probably know why this time."

"why?"

Sheng Shaoqing looked at Cui Yun without a word, and then looked out of the carriage, alas, don't involve her, a single dog who has been single for thousands of years, if the couple's conflicts arise! ! !
Cui Yun also gradually understood what the queen mother meant, and glared at Lu Qingfeng's position, not knowing how to vent this evil fire.

Lu Qingfeng, who was driving outside, suddenly felt a fiery gaze behind him, and couldn't help but look back, looking at the tightly closed car door, he smiled and shook his head, how could she look at him?
The atmosphere in the carriage gradually became awkward. Sheng Shaoqing rolled the stone in his hand again and again, and the touch in his hand gradually became strange.

Why is this stone so smooth?
"Ajun—"

Sheng Shaoqing called out softly, but seeing that she didn't respond, he could only call her name louder, "Cui Yun——!!"

"Ai--", Cui Yun suddenly regained his composure, "The Queen Mother..."

"Look at this stone, doesn't it seem like an ordinary stone?"

Cui Yun held his breath and took the stone wrapped by the empress dowager, opened the skylight to let in more light from the gradually dimming sky, and carefully identified the oily and slippery stone under the light.

"This—seems to be a kind of landscape stone from Chunshan?"

"But it was deliberately wrapped in a layer of soil and thrown on the official road. If the Queen Mother doesn't take care of it... I'm afraid it won't reveal the true face of Lushan Mountain!"

"So——my hand...is actually mud?!"

"Where's the handkerchief?!!!!"

Sheng Shaoqing's wailing sounded from the entire carriage, and Lu Qingfeng seemed to have heard the movement outside the door, and quickly asked, "Queen Mother, what happened?!"

Cui Yun replied: "It's nothing! Don't ask too much!"

Lu Qingfeng: I am really wronged!
Sheng Shaoqing cleaned up the mud on his hands in disgust, and only then did he care about the landscape stone that Cui Yun said.

"Spring Mountain?"

"This is where?"

[This is a mountain range located a hundred miles away from here. There are many stones with such exquisite patterns, so they will be used as landscape stones. 】

"I didn't ask you, you shut up."

System: Alright, I was disgusted again.

"Chunshan is located between Chenliu and Jiaozhi counties, about a hundred miles away from here. The scenery is very beautiful, especially in spring, when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, it often attracts many tourists to linger."

"However, what is more famous here is not the scenery on the mountain, but a special kind of stone."

"I heard that the color of this kind of stone can change with the light of the sky, so it can change into different colors in one day, and the pattern is very unique and exquisite, so many people put this kind of stone into bonsai. As an embellishment, some people also named it the Sky Color Stone."

"However, although Chunshan is rich in such stones, the output is not high. Most of them require experienced quarrymen to search for them in the mountains. Sometimes a stone that looks ordinary, if you break it open, there may be such a color inside. A colorful sky stone."

Sheng Shaoqing asked curiously, "But Chunshan Mountain is a hundred miles away from Xiayi, how could there be such a stone on the road?"

"What's more, this stone is so precious, how could it wrap itself in mud and run on the official road? Someone must have done it on purpose."

Cui Yun also nodded, "It must be so, but it's really hard to guess why this person's purpose is."

"How long before we arrive in Xiayi?"

Reluctantly, Cui Yun opened a window and asked Lu Qingfeng, "For inquiries from the Empress Dowager, how long will it take to arrive in Xiayi?"

Lu Qingfeng thought for a while, then looked at the surrounding signs, and replied, "If you go all out, you can get there in as little as an hour."

Cui Yun also probed out to look at the sky and said, "Can we arrive before dark?"

Lu Qingfeng pursed his lips and said, "Weichen can only guarantee that the queen mother can arrive here, the team is long...their speed..."

Sheng Shaoqing thought for a while, but still couldn't rest assured that Yuan Che would stay here, "Then stop the car, and we will camp here."

"what?"

Cui Yun turned back in surprise and said, "Queen Mother, why don't you move forward... It will be faster to send someone to Xiayi to report on your legs..."

"No!"

"Right here."

"If there is still an hour's journey to go, based on Mr. Lu's driving speed, it will be at least fifty miles away. It is better to set up camp on the spot."

Cui Yun had no choice but to accept the order, and Lu Qingfeng got out of the car and informed him to set up camp on the spot.

When the imperial army found a place near the water and set up camp with all the people, it was almost completely dark.

In the evening, Sheng Shaoqing glanced at the gloomy sky, looking forward to the heavy rain.

In the middle of the night, it really rained, and Sheng Shaoqing sat in the tent with satisfaction and warmed up by the fire, greedily sniffing the air with the smell of mud and the sweetness of spring rain.

Yuan Che didn't know where he and He Yuning went wild again, Sheng Shaoqing had no choice but to send someone to follow these two little kids who looked like wild monkeys when they left the city, and when Cui Yun entered the tent again, he shook off the raindrops on the cloak and wiped them off. After wiping it dry, he dared to walk up to Sheng Shaoqing and said, "My lords' convoy has also set up camp at the back, but Mr. Wei said that as he is getting older, the traveling speed will be slower. Hearing that the Queen Mother is camping halfway, he will So I took advantage of the situation and returned to Yiling."

"He knows how to enjoy it."

I'm afraid it's because I haven't eaten enough fish in Yiling, so I took the opportunity to sneak back and eat a few more!
Cui Yun also disdainfully said, "Prime Minister Ji is much older than him, and I haven't seen the prime minister's car driving much slower."

"Him? I think Master Wei didn't want to go to Chen Liu at all. He went to see how Yunzhi managed Chen Liu in a good way. Wouldn't he just slap him in the face of Master Wei?!"

Sheng Shaoqing then asked, "Then he knows... Li Lingjiang?"

Cui Yun approached, knelt down in front of Sheng Shaoqing, warmed himself by the fire and said, "I guess it will take a few days, from here to the capital, and then from the capital to Yiling, it will take three or four days anyway." .”

Sheng Shaoqing nodded and said nothing, only listening to the sound of raindrops hitting the tent outside.

"Empress Dowager, Wei Chen went to fetch some stones from the road..."

Sheng Shaoqing's Shensi who had just left was dragged back again, and he said in amazement, "You have been away for so long just now... just looking for this?"

Cui Yun nodded, then shook his head and said, "It's not Weichen...it's..."

"It's Lord Lu."

The three words "Master Lu" in Cui Yun's mouth were almost swallowed into one word. Sheng Shaoqing struggled to recognize it for a long time before he understood that the vague and unambiguous syllable was actually "Master Lu."

"Oh—" Sheng Shaoqing sighed, "So it's Mr. Lu?!"

Cui Yun nodded helplessly in response, and muttered, "This minister planned to go alone, Master Lu insisted on following up, even if he couldn't get rid of him, this minister had no choice but to show his disrespect."

"Anyway, it's all for the Empress Dowager, multiple people have multiple strengths!"

It must be so!
Cui Yun comforted himself in his heart.

Sheng Shaoqing saw that Cui Yun was guilty of being a thief, but she didn't break her heart, and only felt sorry for Lou Yujing in her heart.

Such a good Cui Yun is going to be abducted by that bastard Lu Qingfeng!
Lou Yujing missed the opportunity!

At this moment, Sheng Shaoqing complained about the inconvenient transportation. If Lou Yujing walked faster, or if he was not in such a remote place in Yanzhou, he would have met with Cui Yun a long time ago, so what would happen to Lu Qingfeng? !
She is very confident in Cui Yun!

It's all because of the broken traffic, the first pair of CPs she knocked on is about to end in failure.

However, if it is Lu Qingfeng, it seems to be good.

After all, his father was a magistrate of one state, and his grandfather was Lu Shichang, the assistant minister. It seemed that he and Cui Yun seemed to be more well-matched, and he was younger than Cui Yun. I just don't know what Lu Shichang thought, but he actually assigned his grandson to join him. The imperial army was also assigned an errand to drive a car.

"Queen Mother, you see, these stones are all from Chunshan, and Weichen has found something else this time."

"Oh? Let's talk about it."

"Because of its particularity, the Chunshan Tiancai stone has always been sought after by people, so there are grades and appearances. Today in the car, the sky is dim, and I can't see it very clearly, and I don't understand the key. Just now I found the female secretary who accompanied the driver to identify it, and she said that these days the colored stones are all high-quality stones, and each of them is a one-in-a-million existence."

"A single one is worth a hundred taels!"

In order to let the queen mother feel the rarity of the stone more intuitively, Cui Yun directly threw out the price, hoping to achieve an extremely shocking effect.

Sure enough, Sheng Shaoqing's mouth opened in shock the next second, "This?! Just this?! This stone??? It costs 100 taels????"

Why don't they grab it?Give you back a stone, right? ? ? ? ?

Cui Yun nodded, "That's true, and some more exquisite stones are priceless!"

"Before Weichen asked, I didn't know that the price of this stone had reached such an outrageous level. What's even more outrageous is that even at such a price, there will still be people flocking to it."

"Because it is said that this day's colored stone is derived from the stone left by Nuwa when she mended the sky. If you grind this stone into powder and drink it, you can prolong your life. If you have a chance, you can even become a fairy!"

Sheng Shaoqing: My mother tongue is really speechless!
"What's the difference between this and the previous cold food powder???"

Cui Yun pretended to say, "Hey, there is a big difference between the two. It is said that some people have seen people who have taken Tiancai stone powder with their own eyes, instantly radiant, and some people can rejuvenate because of it!"

"See it with your own eyes?"

"Where's that person you met?"

Cui Yun spread his hands helplessly and said, "How does this humble minister know?"

This is a scam!
This is a true fraud! !

"Moreover, if you want to buy this day's colored stone, you need to pay the membership fee in advance."

"Will...fee...?????"

Cui Yun nodded, "Yeah!"

(End of this chapter)