Yun Shang smiled faintly, bowed, and said in a softer voice, "Father, as you can see, I didn't mean that. It's just that I heard that his majesty was still dealing with the memorials in the Taiji Palace, and I thought that it was colder recently. His majesty didn't wear enough clothes, so I took a cloak to his majesty. I heard that they were discussing that people in Liucang City have suffered a lot of losses because of Xia Houjing's rebellion. Food has been taken away by the traitors, and a lot of crops have been ruined. As many men had been force to join thearmy at the beginning of the rebel, there was no harvest this year."
Xia Huanyu frowned and said nothing. No one knew what he was thinking. Yun Shang smiled and said, "I heard about it, so I thought that we should also be frugal in the palace, and save money to relieve the disaster."
As soon as Yun Shang finished her words, Deputy Minister of Revenue, Lord Wang, said, "The previous preparation for disaster relief were mostly about natural disasters, and we know what herbs we should prepare. But this one was caused by war. We have no experience about that. I heard that the Empress knows some medical skills, so I asked her about what herbs we should prepare."
Yun Shang lowered her head and smiled, "It's too late today. I don't want to disturb Official Wang. I have nothing else to do, so I just record the discussion for his majesty."
"Oh? What have you discussed? Let me have a look. " Xia Huanyu sneered.
Luo Qingyan winked at [Yun Shang, and Yun Shang handed the record to Xia Huanyu. Xia Huanyu opened it and read it carefully. Luo Qingyan smiled and said, "We've discussed it for nearly four hours, and it's quite effective. The imperial edict will be issued tomorrow morning."
Raising his eyebrows, Xia Huanyu closed it and said indifferently, "Something happened in the palace before, and it was a mess. Fortunately, I went there early. But why didn't people in Weiyang Palace know you were in the Taiji Palace?"
Luo Qingyan smiled, "After dinner, I went to the Imperial Garden with her majesty to enjoy the flowers. Later, I received an emergency report and went straight to the Taiji Palace. Her majesty walked in the Imperial Garden for a while and saw that I didn't take my cloak, so she sent it here. We two took a walk in the palace. We don't need to report to the servants."
Yun Shang saw Xia Huanyu's eyes were full of disbelief.
"Something happened in the palace? What happened? " The smile on Luo Qingyan's face gradually disappeared. He looked up at Xia Huanyu with confusion in his eyes.
Xia Huanyu's eyes swept across the people in the hall. He frowned and waved his hand casually. Then he turned around and said, "It's okay. You can continue to discuss your business."
Everyone hurried to see off His Former Majesty. Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan looked at each other and smiled. They breathed a sigh of relief. After staying in the Taiji Palace for a while, the two of them let the others go. They slowly walked towards Weiyang Palace together. Luo Qingyan kept his head down and walked silently, as if he had something on his mind.
Yun Shang looked up at Luo Qingyan from time to time, raised her hand and held Luo Qingyan's hand. She smiled and said, "Xia Huanyu waited angrily at Weiyang Palace today and wanted to blame us, but he suffered a loss. Even if he knows that we are just talking nonsense, he has no evidence to expose us. I'm afraid he's very angry."
Luo Qingyan didn't show any joy on his face. He said indifferently, "But, as Liu Yinfeng said before, Xia Huanyu's love for Xia Houjing is fake. In fact, he has always tricked him. It was just because of him that Xia Houjing fell into this situation. Xia Huanyu doesn't allow us to do anything to Xia Houjing, just because he is afraid that we would irritate Cao Wenxi who then will reveal the two secrets and would shake the State of Xia."
Yun Shang nodded. She didn't know why Luo Qingyan said this.
Luo Qingyan stopped and turned to look at Yun Shang. "If that's the case, it might be wrong that we always think that Xia Huanyu is against us? Xia Huanyu has no intention of targeting us. What he has done is just to stabilize Cao Wenxi and protect the state in our hands. What's more, the reason why he gave the throne to me in a hurry was probably because Xia Houjing started to rebel. He was afraid that Cao Wenxi would reveal the secret, so he passed the throne to me in order to minimize the impact of the scandal between him and her. He was no longer the emperor. Even if the scandal of Cao Wenxi and him was exposed, it was at least difficult to threaten the State of Xia. And then he took Xia Houjing in his hand to threaten Cao Wenxi? "
Yun Shang looked at Luo Qingyan and thought quickly. Luo Qingyan's words made sense.
Liu Yinfeng said that Xia Huanyu doted on him and Xia Houjing for showing Cao Wenxi. In that case, many strange things he had done before had a reasonable explanation.
Not long after Xia Houjing rebelled, Xia Huanyu gave the throne to Luo Qingyan in a hurry. It was true that he was afraid that Cao Wenxi would do anything to help Xia Houjing.
Later on the New Year's Eve, Xia Huanyu left the Jin city. Yun Shang thought he wanted to go to Liucang City in person because he was afraid that Luo Qingyan would kill Xia Houjing. However, Xia Huanyu went to Lingxi City and even asked someone to disguised as him and Hua Lin, kidnapped by Qingsu not because he wanted to deceive Luo Qingyan and Yun Shang. The person he really wanted to deceive was most likely Cao Wenxi.
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