Being a cannon fodder female supporting role is not as good as marrying a lucky villain

However, the man in Tsing Yi had already blended into the crowd, no matter how much Chu Yunyi's subordinates searched, there was no trace left.

On the one hand, there are excited people, and on the other hand, rumors that are intensifying. Chu Yunyi's plan cannot be implemented, so he can only go to the Chen family secretly.

Different from the primitive charm of the original family, the entire Chen family is filled with a strong smell of copper.

Even the eyes of the stone lions placed at the door are made of jade.

A carriage slowly entered the side door without anyone noticing it.

Only those who hide in the dark keep this strangeness in mind.

When Gu Ning was having dinner with the Eldest Princess, the spies sent back news.

She obediently placed the cup in front of the eldest princess, sipping the tea carefully, as if she hadn't heard the news.

The spies sent the news and left quickly, leaving only the grandparents and grandchildren in the hall.

The eldest princess lightly put down the teacup, and said quietly: "Ning'er, in your opinion, what is the identity of this person who secretly visited the Chen family?"

Gu Ning raised his head, and looked at the eldest princess with ignorant and harmless eyes: "Grandmother has not missed anything, she must have known the identity of this person."

"You, you!" The eldest princess poked her forehead angrily, "Are you pretending to be addicted? Why are you refusing to tell the truth in front of me?"

"Do you really think that I don't know about the things you did secretly?"

The Eldest Princess smiled, making Gu Ning bow her head guiltily.

After a while, she whispered: "I just want to share your worries. You see, these rumors have already caused Chu Yunyi to suffer. If things go on like this, he will definitely not care about the Chen family. At that time, we can Sneak in and solve the private salt issue completely!"

"Even if the Chen family and others can be captured, the private salt incident cannot be completely eradicated." When the eldest princess mentioned this, a cold look appeared in her old eyes, "Businessmen value profits, as long as they can do it privately." To profit from the salt, if one Chen family falls, there will be tens of thousands of Chen families."

The eldest princess talked for a long time, but there was still silence around her.

She looked at Gu Ning suspiciously, but she saw Gu Ning staring blankly at the front.

"Ning'er, what's wrong with you?" The eldest princess frowned, shaking in front of her eyes.

Gu Ning just came back to his senses, and squeezed out a sentence after a while: "I'm just a little worried, once the private salt flows into the grassland, I'm afraid the Huns will..."

"It's not enough!" Princess Dachang sneered, "The reason why Yan Kingdom has been peaceful for so many years is because we have strangled the lifeblood of salt! If the Chen family is allowed to run amok, we will have no advantage!"

What the eldest princess said was exactly what Gu Ning was worried about.

Now the salt production method used in the state of Chu is backward. If you want to cook a catty of salt, you have to use several times the firewood. This is one of the reasons why the price of salt remains high.

She has several ways in her hands to improve the salt-making method and obtain a large amount of cheap salt, but in this way, the advantages of Chu State over Yan State and Xiongnu have plummeted.

If you want to facilitate the people and maintain your advantage, you can only strengthen the jurisdiction of the border to prevent the leakage of salt.

It's just that for her now, it is undoubtedly impossible for her to accomplish this.

Thinking of this, Gu Ning frowned.

The more the Eldest Princess looked at her expression, the more she felt something was wrong.

At this time, he looked at Gu Ning carefully, and said suspiciously: "What the hell do you have in mind?"

Seeing Gu Ning's lips tightly closed, she said earnestly: "Ning'er, you are the treasure we hold in our hands. If you make a mistake, you and I..."

"When I went out a few days ago, I came across an ancient book by chance." Gu Ning recalled distressedly, "In that ancient book, a method of making salt was recorded."

Hearing this, the eldest princess' heart trembled.

Her eyes became sharp at this moment, and she locked Gu Ning firmly: "What ancient book?"

Gu Ning propped his chin with a sad face, and said intermittently: "I just looked at it casually, and I didn't remember the name at all. That's why I suddenly remembered it when you mentioned it."

Based on the princess's many years of experience, she could tell that Gu Ning was lying.

But this is the granddaughter she holds in the palm of her hand. She is reluctant to say a serious word, so she can only turn a blind eye: "Then tell me, what is the method of making salt?"

Gu Ning said: "Sun salt."

"Salt?" The eldest princess was puzzled.

Gu Ning nodded solemnly, and replied firmly: "It's drying salt, dig a few ponds by the sea, and drying the sea water, you can get coarse salt without a little firewood."

Hearing this, the Eldest Princess looked very serious.

She rubbed her fingers and said quietly: "If so, it will really save a lot of cost."

Gu Ning came to her side and whispered: "Grandmother might as well ask someone to try it, if it is really useful, then the people will no longer have to worry about the price of salt, our country of Chu is surrounded by the sea on both sides!"

The eldest princess looked at her with a half-smile, and said meaningfully: "Ning'er is really lucky, you can get such a big harvest just by flipping through it."

"It's just a coincidence." Gu Ning smiled shyly and quickly lowered his head.

Watching Gu Ning leave, the Eldest Princess' eyes suddenly became cold.

In the dark, Nanny Gui came out quietly.

"Princess, the county lord has changed a lot these days, as if there is an expert behind his back, why don't you let the old slave investigate..."

"No need."

As soon as the Eldest Princess raised her hand, Nanny Gui fell silent.

"Ning'er has grown up, so it's okay to have some secrets of her own." The Eldest Princess said flatly, "What we want to guard against are those who have ulterior motives."

"Yes." Nanny Gui replied softly.

At this time, the eldest princess said again: "You heard what Ning'er said just now, tell An Lin about this, and ask him to send a few trustworthy people to a remote coast to try, if he can dry out the coarse salt , This will be our big hole card!"

Nanny Gui has always obeyed the Eldest Princess' words.

She kept these words in her heart and left soon.

The Eldest Princess looked at the clusters of blooming flowers outside the window, her eyes were gloomy, and she finally smiled in relief.

Gu Ning, who slipped out of the yard, breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense nerves finally relaxed.

Chunyu saw that there were faint beads of sweat on her forehead, and hurriedly reached out to wipe it off for her.

"But the princess knows that you sent people to spread rumors?" Chunyu said worriedly, "Your servant's worry is indeed right. Although your intentions are good, once you are targeted by King Duan, it will be dangerous! The princess will never See you in deep danger!"

Gu Ning snorted softly, and shook her hand in front of Chunyu's eyes: "Then you guessed wrong, grandma didn't criticize me for this matter today."

Hearing this, Chunyu's eyes widened.

At this time, Gu Ning put his arms around his chest and raised his chin triumphantly: "On the contrary, I came up with a good way to solve my grandmother's urgent need."

Even so, Gu Ning still felt a little guilty.

But she will never admit that she did this to throw troubles on other people.

After all, she is just a county head who has no power to restrain a chicken and only knows how to have fun, so how can she figure out these political twists and turns?

Chunyu's eyes are full of surprise, but she has been with Gu Ning for many days, and she can figure out Gu Ning's temperament.

As long as it's something Gu Ning doesn't want to say, she won't be able to find out.

So she followed Gu Ning and nodded: "Since the princess doesn't care about this matter, the slaves don't have to worry about these things."

"No no no." Gu Ning stretched out a finger and waved it in front of her eyes.

There was a chill behind Chunyu, and she looked at Gu Ning with a sad face: "Master, are you going to let the slaves go again..."

"Don't worry, the task I entrusted to you today will never worry my grandmother." Gu Ning patted her on the shoulder, "Just do it."

Although it is summer, the leaves in the capital are showing signs of withering and yellowing.

Gu Qingqiu was sitting in the yard, practicing calligraphy calmly.

Her expression was indifferent, just like this beautiful and gentle face.

Just at this moment, there was a commotion outside the door.

Ban Xia's angry voice came over: "Second Miss, if you continue to make trouble for no reason, this servant will definitely sue the old lady and let her judge!"

"If you want to sue, you have to see if your master dares it!"

Gu Yunwan smiled arrogantly, the maid beside her pushed Ban Xia away, and she strode into the courtyard.

Seeing Gu Qingqiu standing under the tree with a pen in his hand, with haze faintly visible on his gentle face, she smiled, as if she didn't see the forbearance in Gu Qingqiu's eyes, and sat down on her own.

"Big sister, I've heard a rumor these days. I think you must be interested, so I came here to tell you."

Gu Qingqiu saw that she was like a master, without any scruples, and the veins were showing in the hand holding the Langhao brush.

But after a while, she endured it again and sent Ban Xia away.

"Ban Xia, pour a cup of tea for Second Miss."

"Yes."

Banxia looked at Gu Yunwan complainingly, and left reluctantly,

There were only two sisters left in the courtyard, Gu Qingqiu asked with restraint: "What does the second sister want me to do?"

"Big sister, don't get me wrong." Gu Yunwan smiled hypocritically, "My sister came here this time to kindly remind big sister."

Just when Gu Qingqiu was about to speak, Gu Yunwan quickly said: "Elder Sister, do you know? His Royal Highness Duan Wang has hired a beautiful woman in the south of the Yangtze River!"

Hearing this, Gu Qingqiu's face lost all blood, and his hands lost all strength, and the wolf's pen fell on the snow-white rice paper feebly, the black ink color was particularly dazzling.

"what?"

"I said, His Royal Highness Duan took a concubine." Gu Yunwan said slowly, "It was the county lord who took the initiative to take a concubine for him!"

Gu Qingqiu opened his eyes wide in disbelief: "How is it possible?"

She is most aware of Gu Ning's paranoia in dealing with Chu Yunyi. If an ordinary noble girl looks at Chu Yunyi a few times, she will come to her door. How could she take the initiative to take a concubine for Chu Yunyi?

"This matter is settled. If the big sister doesn't believe it, she can only deceive herself and others." Gu Yunwan said eccentrically, "Unexpectedly, His Royal Highness Duan Wang loves you like his own life, but you are not the first to enter the door."