After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

Yan Mu wondered why Gao Yuanwai was sure that his sister would not help, so Liu Yunxiang briefly told him what happened to the woman.

"That fire destroyed her family, and the person who set the fire was Li Huai, and he represented the government." Gao Yuanwai sighed when he said this, "She hated the government, even Mr. Yang, she didn't even pretend to say it. And your Highness, you represent the government, so..."

Yan Mu took a deep breath, "Her grievances involve the imperial court's levy of an additional [-]% tax in Yanzhou. I can't stand up for her family now. But if she is willing to trust me, I promise her that one day I will give her a Explain. Please explain clearly to Gao Yuanwai and your sister about the falsified accounts. If she really doesn’t want to help, we won’t force her."

The senior official nodded hurriedly, "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will definitely bring the message to you."

After the senior officials left, Yan Mu accompanied Liu Yunxiang to have breakfast.

"It's strange, why there hasn't been news of Li Huai's death outside." Liu Yunxiang said.

"eat first."

"what?"

"I'll tell you after dinner."

Liu Yunxiang was not very curious at first, but after hearing what Yan Mu said, he couldn't wait to know. She sat over, leaned on Yan Mu's arm, and reached out to clasp his palm.

"Speak quickly, I want to know."

Yan Mu raised his eyebrows, "Want to know?"

"miss you!"

"Eat this bowl of rice porridge first."

Liu Yunxiang has no appetite these days, especially when he wakes up early in the morning and eats at most half a bowl. She was wondering whether to eat it, but Yan Mu had already picked it up and fed her spoonful by spoonful.

"If he keeps tossing you like this, just don't let him go." Yan Mu snorted coldly.

Liu Yunxiang glared at him: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Look, you've lost a lot of weight."

"It will be fine when the month is older. Yan was like this when he was a child."

"So it's the boy?"

Liu Yunxiang couldn't help but roll his eyes, "In what way do I call you a brat?"

"You said Yan'er."

"It's so early in the morning, are you still awake?"

Yan Mu snorted and fed her a spoonful, "No matter whether you are a boy or a girl, they are not as important as you."

When Liu Yunxiang heard this, he felt sweet in his heart, "In my heart, you are more important than anyone else."

The two gave each other a mouthful of candy. Yan Mu was so happy that he hugged Liu Yunxiang and kissed her hard. While we were chatting with each other, Feng Zheng came in and grabbed a big bun.

Not seeing anything, he looked at Yan Mu and asked, "Why are you staring at me?"

Yan Mu was speechless and wanted to continue feeding Liu Yunxiang, but she was shy and grabbed the bowl and ate it herself. Yan Mu couldn't help but glared at Feng Zheng again, and saw that he was eating the buns, not affected at all.

"You can still eat it."

"Is there anything you can't eat? Your Highness won't eat it?"

"I didn't see him."

"Can't you imagine?"

The corners of Yan Mu's mouth twitched, "Shut up!"

Feng Zheng chuckled. At this time, Zi Jin hurried in. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "Li Huai is dead! The streets and alleys are crazy. Many people are beating gongs and drums to celebrate!"

Liu Yunxiang was funny, "Li Huai is dead, didn't you know it last night?"

"But girl, you don't know what's going on outside!"

"How did it spread?"

"Say he..." Zijin was about to say, when she saw Yan Mu glare at her, she looked at Liu Yunxiang holding the rice bowl, and immediately closed her mouth.

"How else could I pass it on? It's because Li Huai fell into a cesspit at night." Feng Zheng chuckled.

Hearing this, Liu Yunxiang immediately vomited. He vomited several times, but fortunately he didn't vomit anything.

Zi Jin was so angry that he kicked Feng Zheng, "I didn't see my girl eating. Why are you so ignorant?"

Feng Zheng realized it later and scratched his head in embarrassment, "I thought it wouldn't be the case."

"Then you might as well take this plate of steamed buns to the cesspool and eat it!" Zi Jin said.

"You don't care where I eat!"

"No one wants to care about you!"

"I will have a wife to take care of me from now on."

"You are the only one who can still marry a wife?"

"Why do you look down on people?"

"Who do I look down on? Except you!"

The two stumbled again, and Liu Yunxiang finally suppressed his nausea after taking two sips of the water Yan Mu handed him. But she really couldn't eat anymore. After all, she had no appetite in the first place.

"So Li Huai is really..."

Yan Mu punched Feng Zheng with his chin, "We caught Li Huai first. I was about to suffocate him to death with a pillow, but he felt it was not enough, so he... ahem... threw him into the pit."

Liu Yunxiang looked at Feng Zheng and twitched the corner of his mouth, "You poured that dirty thing on my door and threw Li Huai in. Don't you have any other tricks?"

"I can cut Li Huai into pieces with a thousand swords, which can also relieve his anger, but His Highness said that there should be no traces of his murder. The most I can think of is this method, which can not only kill him, but also relieve his anger."

Zi Jin continued: "I heard that people in the Li Mansion discovered that Li Huai was missing this morning. They made sure that he had not gone out, so they looked around for a long time. A slave went to the backyard to use the toilet and found him. But no one was willing to tell him. People fished it out and only waited for the officials to come before fishing it out with an iron rake. Since the person was already dead, they flushed it with water and it took a long time to flush it out."

Speaking of this, Zijin felt sick.

At this time, people from the government also came to report Li Huai's death to Yan Mu.

"Right now, the government offices in Yanzhou are in chaos. Please ask Your Highness to take charge."

Yan Mu nodded, "I will take over the Yanzhou government affairs for the time being."

Once Yan Mu takes over, the matter of the ancient county magistrate will be easy to talk about.

Sure enough, after Yan Mu left, before noon, Gu County Magistrate released him.

After receiving orders from County Magistrate Gu, Mrs. Gu came to Wanchun Garden to express her gratitude to Liu Yunxiang. Liu Yunxiang also met the magistrate who led the people to dig ditches for the first time. He looks very fair, wears plain robes, has a bookish air, and shows two tiger teeth when he smiles, which makes him a little more cunning.

When Zi Jin delivered tea, Liu Yunxiang saw Gu Zian's hands. Those hands were covered with calluses. These were not the hands for reading, but the hands for holding shovels.

"When will the ancient county magistrate plan to pave stone slabs and stack stone walls to reinforce the section of the canal that flows through your county?"

Magistrate Gu smiled bitterly: "It's not that I don't want to, it's just that I really don't have the money. Last year our Qixian County suffered from a drought, and all the taxes and grain were used up. How can we have the money to build canals?"

“What about other counties?”

"They've already started to reinforce it."

Liu Yunxiang thought for a while and asked Zijin to go into the house and take out some banknotes. "This is 3 taels. I donated it to you on behalf of the Zhenbei Palace."

Upon hearing this, Gu Zian's eyes showed excitement and he thanked him repeatedly.

"Princess, the people of Daiqi County thank you!"

"Gu County Magistrate, you are a good official. A good official will definitely go further. Remember this sentence, always straighten your spine and never bow your head."

Gu Zian nodded solemnly, "Your Majesty will definitely take the princess's teachings to heart today."

After seeing off the Gu County Magistrate and his wife, the senior official came out. Seeing that he was smiling, he knew that his sister was willing to help.

"I am the only girl who has one condition."

"What conditions?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

"She wants His Highness Seventh Prince to go with you to see her."

Liu Yunxiang was puzzled, "Just a meeting?"

"That's what she said."