I write novels in the East Palace

On the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the first year of Anchang, Zhou Chengyi returned to Beijing with Fang Guanyan.

Although most of Ruchuan has been repaired, the entire reconstruction of Cangzhou has just been put on the agenda. According to the plan, Zhou Chengyi will stay there for at least a year and a half.

However, the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and there was a sudden news that Empress Dowager Min was critically ill in the palace.

The news came as a surprise and so reasonable.

In Zhou Chengyi's memory, Empress Dowager Min has always been weak and sick, and even her second elder brother Zhou Chengyao was also weak, and they were sick every now and then, so they have been recuperating in Zhangtai Mountain. It seems that her illness is not incomprehensible.

But the strange thing is, ever since Zhou Chengyi saw this Queen Mother Min, she hadn't seen her get sick very often, she looked weak, but she didn't spread bad news from time to time like the second brother.

The letter from the palace was written by Zhou Chengyu, and some handwriting was smeared with mottled tears.

Since the palace change last year, the relationship between Zhou Chengyu and Concubine Chen has continued to deteriorate. Instead, she has become closer to Queen Mother Min. Now that Concubine Chen has moved out of the palace, she only has Queen Mother Min as her relative. One can imagine how uncomfortable she is.

"Yu'er is still a child who will cry when things happen." Zhou Chengyi looked at the traces on the letter, and he didn't know whether to be moved or grateful.

Fang Guanyan silently leaned his head on his shoulder, comforting him silently.

Zhou Chengyi pinched his neck, leaned his head and kissed him reverently on the forehead, "It seems that we have to go back to the palace."

Deciding to go back very neatly, Zhou Chengyi turned around and found Zhong Liyue.

Zhong Liyue has his own news channel, so he naturally knows the news from the palace. He was a little strange and also a little bored, and poured two glasses of water in a row, "You can go back if you want, I won't stop you, and I came here specially to talk to you." say what."

"I didn't come to look for you." Zhou Chengyi looked at his messy clothes and coughed softly.

Fang Guanyan drank tea in silence.

Zhong Liyue paused, speechless impatiently, muttered something in a low voice, and said unwillingly, "What do you want to say, I'll help you convey it."

Zhou Chengyi looked at his uncle instantly as if he was looking at a beast, "Is she really here with you? You—"

"..." Zhong Liyue's face, which was thicker than the city wall, turned suspiciously red, his legs shook twice uncontrollably, and he made a dull sound of thumping, with embarrassment in his voice, "Don't you care so much?" What are you doing, if you have a fart, you can fart and if you don’t, you can get out!"

He paused for a moment, not knowing which string he was poked at, and the tuberculosis attribute suddenly jumped out, speaking quickly and urgently, "You two state officials are allowed to set fire every day? Your uncle and I are over 30 years old Is it easy to find someone, but in the end, a group of you bastards are dangling in front of me all day long, and you can't do anything if you want to do something. Finally, a blizzard prevents you bastards from going out, and after such a short time, you come again Bother me……"

"..." Zhou Chengyi felt deep resentment from his uncle's words, and he could only say one thing about it, "Be careful, don't kill anyone."

He paused, and added, "Two-way meanings don't kill anyone."

That Ms. Shen is also the heroine in this article, not a vegetarian character.

In the original book, Zhou Chengan treated him so well, but he didn't get any benefits in the later stage, and was angered to death.

But Zhou Chengyi recalled that his uncle, as an old virgin in his 30s, should be considered a good man if nothing else, and such things as falling in love and dying should not happen to him.

As for whether life will be created... Zhou Chengyi always felt that in this relationship, his uncle's opinion was not necessarily more important than Shen Ping's opinion.

Zhong Liyue didn't understand what Zhou Chengyi meant at first, so he frowned and said "what", but he suddenly reacted and gave a reaction that a love rookie should have.

"What nonsense are you talking about? How can you do those things if you are not married? This is the kind of person I am in your eyes?"

Very honest three consecutive questions, if the face is not red and the eyes are not fluttering, it is still very successful.

"..." Zhou Chengyi silently imitated Fang Guanyan, took a sip of tea calmly.

After suppressing the shock in his heart, Zhou Chengyi got back to business, "Auntie needs to take care of the construction of Cangzhou, and the officials from Beijing and China are coming one after another. Those people's hands are not very clean, maybe they will smoke some here and there. Be a little greedy. Funds are not much in the first place, and they are all supported by the mines and factories in Tianshui City, so they can’t be used so vaguely.”

Zhou Chengyi frowned slightly as he said that, remembering that Lu Shangshu of the household department had been greedy for disaster relief funds.

Zhong Liyue turned serious, and sneered when he heard the words, and said with a bit of murderous intent, "Cangzhou and Huzhou are all managed by me now, they'd better do things honestly for me when they come, who dares to extend their hands, I broke their feet together."

"Just let them learn a lesson. Now there is one labor force in Cangzhou." Zhou Chengyi reminded.

Zhong Liyue didn't take it seriously, "If there is a shortage of people, I'll let the mail army go."

"The Mail Armor Army still needs to manage the border defense. The civil strife in the Sha Man is not good and needs to be on guard at all times. Aurora's attitude towards Xiao Guo is still unclear. I don't know if she will turn around and take a bite..."

The Shaman battle has been fought for several months. Although Aurora is good at fighting, her form is not good for her. However, because of her lover's rebellion, the ministers of the interior are also very dissatisfied with some of the Queen's actions and strongly oppose it. The three princesses are the crown prince.

The queen was forced to be helpless, and finally pushed the indistinct playboy daughter to the position of crown prince, that is, Aurora's rebellious sister.

"Stable." Fang Guanyan gave such an answer to this.

Both Aurora and her younger sister are the daughters of the former Shaman Emperor Vasily. They seem to be at odds and have no social relationship. In fact, they have already joined forces behind their backs, and they are waiting to pull the Queen down from the throne together.

This is also the direct reason why Aurora dared to rebel, and now Empress Evgenia has pushed herself into a corner.

On the surface, the civil strife in the Shaman seems to be evenly matched, but in fact, most of them fell to Aurora—or to the previous emperor Vasily.

That is to say, no matter how long this war will be stalemate, and who will be the crown prince in the end, the winner will be Vasily's daughter.

What Zhou Chengyi and Aurora signed was a treaty to carve up Beihu, and there was only a wartime peace treaty on it, so after the armistice, whether the two countries will develop depends on the form.

If Aurora wins, the two sides have a chance to negotiate, but if they lose, Zhong Liyue will never let go of this opportunity to counterattack.

The matter of Shaman helping Beihu is a certainty. Xiao Guoshi is well-known. Whether he fights or not, it mainly depends on whether the other master is wise or not. It is impossible to let the next powerful version of Beihu who is not friendly to Xiao Guo grow up.

Zhou Chengyi is not worried about the war, he is worried about the damage to the border due to the war, so the most important thing in Cangzhou at present is the infrastructure.

Laying the ground and renovating the house is still a second step, but the city wall has to be put on the agenda.

Zhong Liyue is a genius in war, but the internal affairs are in a mess, and Shen Ping is basically in charge.

Zhou Chengyi also only mentioned a few important aspects, and he believed that Shen Ping would figure out how to do it.

"Beijing is in a hurry. We will rush all night. It is best to arrive in Beijing during the Lantern Festival. Let's leave now." Zhou Chengyi took Fang Guanyan up and said goodbye.

Zhong Liyue glanced at them, "Just you two? Do you need to arrange someone to be with you?"

"No need. The Ministry of Industry has researched something good and sent it to me. I heard that Sha Man also has this." Zhou Chengyi took out the exquisite flintlock gun from his waist as he spoke.

Zhong Liyue had never seen it before, but he had heard people say, "Is this the gun Pei Ming was talking about?"

"Yes, there is no need for a matchlock anymore, but a gun that can be fired repeatedly by pulling the trigger." Zhou Chengyi said, moving his fingers slightly, and opened the gun body to show him the full bullets inside, with a slight smell of gunpowder inside.

There is no man who doesn't love guns. Zhong Liyue not only loves guns, but also has good marksmanship. It's just that he usually uses a long halberd for melee combat, and guns are useless.

But this flintlock gun is obviously better than the matchlock gun, and shooting at close range will not waste time.

"Give me two." Zhong Liyue said.

Zhou Chengyi raised his eyebrows, and immediately knew who the extra one was for, and he didn't expose it, he just said, "I'm afraid it won't work."

"These are newly made by Li Jiexiong, there are only three in total." Zhou Chengyi said intentionally.

"Can you give me one of three?" The gun in his hand is not so easy to take away, and Zhong Liyue also saw that Fang Guanyan still had one on his waist, and he didn't feel guilty about grabbing it, "You two Just one hand is enough, leave me to your aunt."

Zhou Chengyi didn't intend to take this gun away, but giving it away is not the same as being robbed. He puffed up his face a little angrily, and started to poison his milk secretly, "...now it's my aunt, can people recognize it?" You don't know yet."

"Zhou Chengyi!" This was directly on the point of the talkative uncle, who directly wanted to destroy humanity for his nephew.

Fortunately, Zhou Chengyi slipped away quickly, pulled Fang Guanyan and ran away.

Zhong Liyue gritted his teeth at the back of his nephew running away, after all he didn't leave the people in the room to chase after him, he just muttered, "Obviously this kid called aunt first..."

"I admit it." A muffled female voice came from inside.

Zhou Chengyi and the two hurried into Beijing, just on the day of the Lantern Festival.

Ningshou Palace was a bit deserted, and there were no waiters, Zhou Chengyi went all the way to the outside of the main hall, only to see an old and tired maid.

Zhou Chengyi remembered this person, he had seen him on Zhangtai before, he was Empress Dowager Min's personal maid.

"Your Majesty sees His Royal Highness King Rui." The court lady was well-mannered, but her expression was calm, the same as when she saw Queen Mother Min, she seemed to have no worldly desires, like a walking dead.

As soon as she entered the hall, she could smell a strong smell of medicine. Empress Dowager Min was in low spirits, and felt tired after talking to Zhou Chengyi.

"Have Yu'er visited the Prince Rui's Mansion built by you?" Queen Mother Min said with a smile, "You should go and see, Yu'er really regards you as an elder brother."

"Yes." Zhou Chengyi agreed and left.

When I met Zhou Chengyao outside, his face was pale, and he looked like he had just recovered from a serious illness.

"You are here, have you visited the palace yet?" The first sentence he spoke was also the same.

Zhou Chengyi raised his eyebrows calmly, and immediately guessed that there should be something prepared in the palace, "I'm going to see it, second brother, won't you go in and see him?"

"She just fell asleep, so she didn't go in to disturb her." Zhou Chengyao said and coughed twice, thinking of something that made his face more ugly, "By the way, Fu Qian came to me a few days ago and showed me your new article. ending."

"Huh?" Zhou Chengyi blinked with a puzzled expression.

Zhou Chengyao endured it, but he still couldn't hold back and said, "So who died? What is that wooden statue for? And why is the soul-locking formation? If Lu Boxu dies, what's going on with Duan Hanyi? Those who died Why do people die? Duan Hanyi planned all this? And why doesn’t Lu Boxu know anything..."

"Forget it, tell me now, I don't have the energy to listen, you can write it down and tell me." Zhou Chengyao rubbed his eyebrows and said wearily.

Zhou Chengyi: "..."

Fang Guanyan sighed quietly, and said in his heart as if seeing through everything: This is Fu Yulan's cunning.