Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

The more Xie Cheng'an thought about it, the angrier he became. He pushed all the pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk to the ground. He still couldn't get rid of the depression in his heart, so he sat on the chair, gasping for breath.

The person who was even more angry than him was Prince An Li Junze, who was in Prince An's Mansion listening to his subordinates' report on today's poetry meeting.

"This piece of trash, I really overestimated him in the past. A top scholar like him has fallen to this point now. This is really unprecedented." Li Junze exhaled and said unhappily.

The subordinate was called Wang Quan, and he was a little angry at this time. Hearing what his master said, he continued, "Hu Er has been missing for a while. He didn't even think of contacting us, but tried to get in touch with Mr. Nanshan. It seems that he is a brainless person."

"Come to think of it, Hu Er has indeed been missing for some time. You haven't found any clues at all?" Li Junze picked up the hot tea on the table and took a sip before asking.

"Yes, we have lost track of this person since the Qionglin Banquet. My subordinates have secretly asked people to investigate for a long time. They all said that the last thing they heard was that he was taken away from Ruyi Casino, and the person who took him away seemed to be a government official." Wang Quan said cautiously.

"Anyway, Xie Chengan is a useless chess piece. It doesn't matter whether Hu Er can find him or not. If possible, make him shut up forever." Li Junze narrowed his long eyes. He didn't like the feeling of being out of control.

"Yes, I'll arrange it right away." Wang Quan said, turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait, nothing happened on grandpa's side, right?" Li Junze called Wang Quan again. He felt a little uneasy. There had been no peace in the Hanlin Academy in recent days, and he was worried that his grandfather could not cope with it.

"There is no news at the moment. I have arranged two people to keep an eye on it. If Your Highness is worried, how about I go over and check it out myself?"

Before Wang Quan finished speaking, there was a knock on the door. "Your Highness Prince An, this is Li Huan, I have something to report."

Ji Huan was one of the two people sent to keep an eye on the Hanlin Academy.

"Come in." Li Junze had just finished speaking when Li Huan walked in. Because it was raining, even though he was wearing a straw raincoat and a straw hat, his clothes were half wet.

"Your Highness, the dean asked me to bring you a letter. Please open it yourself." As Li Huan spoke, he took out a letter wrapped in oil paper from his arms and handed it respectfully to Li Junze.

Li Junze took the letter in his hand with a puzzled look on his face. Why would his grandfather think of sending him a message at this time?

Without further delay, he tore open the envelope and took out the folded letter inside.

When Wang Quan and Ji Huan saw Li Junze opening the letter, they both took two steps back to avoid seeing the contents on the letter.

When Li Junze saw the contents of the letter, his eyes lit up and he couldn't help but laugh out loud with excitement.

"Haha, April 9th ​​is indeed a good day." After laughing, Li Junze sighed and said something that left the two of them puzzled.

"Wang Quan, go and get ready. Take ten guards with you and go to Xiangyang City in the next two days. I don't believe that he can escape unscathed this time. Humph..." Li Junze turned around and gave Wang Quan an order.

"Yes."

Gu Xunwei came out of the incense-making room with a tired look on her face. While letting Chenxiang massage her arms, she listened to Baizhi telling her about what happened to Xie Chengan and Gu Qiongsi at the poetry meeting today.

"Young Madam is really amazing. She was able to find the poetry collection where they plagiarized other people's poems, which surprised those literati." Bai Zhi said with a smile.

That's right, the collection of poems that Wu Yi took out, which could confirm that Gu Qiongsi and Xie Chengan had plagiarized, was the one that Gu Xunwei gave to Wu Yi. And that booklet did not exist in this world as Gu Qiongsi thought, but she let it slip when she was showing off in front of Gu Xunwei in her previous life.

At that time, Gu Xunwei was very envious of Gu Qiongsi's talent, so she said modestly, "It's nothing, it's just borrowed from a few local folk songs."

Moreover, there was no need for me to say anything, as Gu Qiongsi handed me a booklet, which contained all the nice poems that I had copied herself.

There were some marks on it. Gu Xunwei simply made a booklet of several poems that she liked with the same marks, and specially asked an expert to make the booklet look old, so that it looked as if it had been circulated for a long time, but in fact, they were all written recently.

"Well, I hope everything goes well. Wu Yi has done a great job. You should help him redeem the singer he has his eyes on." Gu Xunwei said indifferently.

"Yes, I understand. What about Zhang Yuanming?" Bai Zhi asked.

"Here, help him find a doctor who can treat his mother's eyes. Give him as much silver as he needs." Gu Xunwei felt much better. Everything that could be solved with money was not a problem.

"Okay." Bai Zhi agreed with a smile, turned around and ran out of the house.

"Why aren't you wearing even a raincoat? You must be soaked..."

Bai Zhi, who was running very fast, obviously did not hear clearly what Gu Xunwei said, but Chen Xiang, who was standing beside her, smiled and comforted Gu Xunwei.

"Young Madam, don't worry about her. She is in very good health."

After hearing this, Gu Xunwei sat down again and looked at the rain falling outside. It had been raining for four days, and some low-lying areas in the capital had already been flooded.

She thought for a moment and said to Chenxiang, "Manager Li should have delivered the mugwort, right? Tomorrow we will start making incense to repel mosquitoes and epidemics. Mosquitoes and flies are most likely to breed after a heavy rain, and epidemics may break out in flooded areas. We should prepare more in advance."

"Well, Manager Li sent over two large wooden boxes this afternoon, which should be enough. He said that he had sent over all the mugwort that could be collected in the capital." Chenxiang nodded. She had been with Gu Xunwei since she was a child, so she knew a little about making simple incense, including cloves.

However, they are only limited to the more common formulas, and they completely avoid the formulas in Gu Jiaxiang Fang.

"By the way, Madam, Shopkeeper Xiaobai has also asked someone to send the account books of Wangyu Tower over for you to take a look." Chenxiang said, turning around and taking out two thick account books from under the pillow of the couch and placed them in front of Gu Xunwei.

Gu Xunwei frowned helplessly and complained to Chenxiang, "Manager Bai is so anxious to throw the account book to me. Is he worried that I have nothing to do these days and am too idle?"

Although she was questioning, there was no trace of blame in her tone.