Dressed as the best old lady in the famine years, I suddenly became rich

Chapter 188 Chen Xiaoniang ran away

"I'm afraid there aren't even many Dongzhu of this size in the palace." Princess Chen picked up one of them, "Aunt Yang and the others were so generous, and they gave it to a box full of it!"

Li Jin took a look and said hurriedly, "If I had known it was such an expensive gift, I would never have accepted it!"

After saying that, Li Jin secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, he didn't take back the title deed to the gem mine. Otherwise, how could he have the dignity to interact with Aunt Yang?
On the way back, Ke Muqing told Ke Xiucai what Li Jin told her.

When Ke Xiucai heard this, he shook his head and said, "In my opinion, the Crown Prince of Shu will probably turn the court's attention to Chen County first."

"Why does dad think so? Hasn't the imperial court always paid attention to the barren land of Chen County?" Ke Muqing was puzzled.

"For the Crown Prince of Shu, the current situation has gone against the worst plans. If he can take over as King of Shu and have the court specially confer him the title of Prince, that would be another matter."

"Don't forget about the fire weapons. The imperial court has always taken a close look at these weapons. They are only found in the firearms camp. You said that fire weapons suddenly appeared in Chen County. How could a sinister villain like the Prince of Shu not take action on this matter? article?"

"If the imperial court knew that Chenjun was hiding a fire stick, would they think that Chenjun was the one who wanted to rebel? By detaining King Chen, wouldn't it mean that the Crown Prince of Shu has a disobedient intention to suppress King Chen on behalf of the court?"

Ke Muqing just stayed there. She really didn't expect this.

"If the Prince of Shu brings people into Prince Chen's Mansion to search, and if the Prince of Shu's people find out that there is indeed a fire in Prince Chen's Mansion, wouldn't it bring disaster to Chen County?"

Five thousand fire poles can stop the soldiers of Shu County, but they can never stop the soldiers of the imperial court.

"No, you have to go back and tell Prince Chen's Mansion about this." Ke Muqing patted his thigh, then drove Yang Sanqing, who was riding a horse, to a carriage, and rode back on his own.

As soon as the guard at the gate of Prince Chen's Mansion saw Ke Muqing coming back in a hurry, he rushed to greet her and asked, "Is there something urgent, Madam?"

"Yes! Suddenly I remembered that I have something to tell your heir apparent." Ke Muqing nodded and got off the horse.

The guards immediately took Ke Muqing's horse and sent someone to call Li Jin.

Li Jin hadn't returned to the yard yet. The family was still looking at the gifts from Ke Muqing. When he heard that Ke Muqing was back, Li Jin put down the things in his hands and ran out with the servant.

"Auntie, what's the emergency?" Li Jin asked hurriedly as soon as she saw Ke Muqing.

Ke Muqing pulled Li Jin aside to talk, "I told my father what you told me tonight on the way."

Ke Muqing told Li Jin Ke Xiucai's conjecture, and then said, "If my father's analysis is correct, then your Chen County may have been targeted by the court and the Prince of Shu, and you must hide the accusation!" "

Li Jin chuckled softly when he heard this, "Maybe my father also guessed this, so after getting the fire stick, he found a place that only the three brothers and my father knew about and hid it. Chen County is so big, there are so many The prince of Shu came to our city with his people to hide the things. Even if they dug three feet in the city, they could not find half a trace of Huo Zhu. "

"My father recently ordered people to make a few iron balls that look like firecrackers, with charcoal fire and firecrackers inside. If the Prince of Shu comes with people from the court, we in Chen County will only have these things. "Li Jin smiled confidently.

"Don't hide it in your own family's property." Ke Muqing warned more worriedly.

"It's natural. Don't worry, aunt. My second brother hid the fire in person. He didn't even bring any bodyguards with him when he hid it." Li Jin thanked her, "Thank you so much, aunt, for thinking about Chenjun." Ke Muqing smiled. He smiled and said, "That's good, I'm just worried."

Also, King Chen is not a fool. If they can think of it, so can King Chen.

Ke Muqing was relieved to see Li Jin being so confident. With a palace as big as Prince Chen, it would be natural for him to have a trump card that no one knew about.

Ke Muqing was relieved and rode away again, thinking that it looked like he could get more fire sticks for Prince Chen's Mansion. Anyway, Prince Chen's Mansion had a good place to hide things.

Ke Muqing rode a horse faster than the group in the carriage. After going back and forth, it took him a short while to catch up with the group.

When we got home, the neighbors had already rested, so everyone took it easy.

But unexpectedly, Mrs. Du and her daughter-in-law ran over in a panic as soon as they entered the door.

"Master! Oh no! Miss Chen has run away!"

Mrs. Du said, "There was no one at home at night. My daughter-in-law and I had nothing to do after dinner. We were thinking that we would be leaving in a few days and had to clean up the house and return it to them. So we, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, started cleaning the yard. Chen Xiaoniang went back to the house and lay down alone."

"My daughter-in-law and I were so busy that we didn't notice when Xiaoniang Chen left the house." Mrs. Du said, "When we finished packing and returned to the house, Xiaoniang Chen was gone, and even her things were gone! "

The house was very big, and Mrs. Du and her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were cleaning everywhere, so naturally they were not prepared for Xiaoniang Chen to run away suddenly.

"Is there anything missing besides her own things?" Ke Xiucai asked.

"A few taels of silver from my daughter-in-law and I are missing." Mrs. Du said truthfully. "The kitchen is missing a bag of more than fifty kilograms of grain, some prepared dry food, and several water bags."

If it weren't for the lack of these things, Mrs. Du and her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law wouldn't be sure that Chen Xiaoniang ran away.

When Yang Jiye heard this, he hurriedly said, "Why is she running away! Mom, let's go find her quickly? Where can a woman like her run in vain? Has she no brains?"

"If we accidentally lost her, we would find her back no matter what." Ke Muqing said, "But she ran away on her own and stole the family's belongings. Why should we look for her? "

"What would you do if you brought back a thief like this? Should you bring her back and send her to the government? If the escaped concubine is found, she will inevitably be sold out or beaten to death. So you want to bring Miss Chen back and send her to the government?" Should the government kill him?" Ke Muqing asked Yang Jiye.

"Mom, she is a weak woman after all. She can't speak now. If she ran away with these things, she might meet some bad people." Yang Jiye couldn't bear it.

"We found her today. Please handle her escape with care. In the future, she will steal more things and continue to escape." Ke Muqing expressed his position, "Anyway, since she dares to run, then it means this The family cannot keep her, her heart is not in the Yang family, and she is not of the same mind as us. If you are looking for her, I will not stop you, but..."

"I will go to the government office early tomorrow morning to cancel my account and tell everyone that Miss Chen of the Yang family suddenly fell ill last night."

"If you find her back, my Yang family will definitely not recognize her as Miss Chen."