Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 887

Liu Yinfeng turned around and smiled, "No one is sick. It's just that there is no sign of recovery since Doctor Xue Yan has been treating the Empress for a few days. So His Highness asked me to look for some famous doctors in the State of Xia. The best doctor in the State of Xia is Ghost Doctor. I happened to meet him several times, so I am about to have someone invite him."

Yun Shang smiled. "Memory loss is different from other disease. She needs to recuperate slowly. How could she recover after just some packets of herbal medicine? Hasn't Doctor Xue Yan told you that? You should be patient."

Luo Qingyan nodded and sighed, "You are right. I was being too anxious."

Yun Shang smiled gently and asked Hua'er to take out the bowl of medicine. Yun Shang reached out to touch the bowl. It was just right, neither cold nor hot, after they brought it all the way here in the cool weather.

Yun Shang handed the bowl of medicine to Luo Qingyan and said with a smile, "Your Highness, you'd better take care of yourself first. Get better soon."

Luo Qingyan frowned and took the bowl. He raised his head and drank it up, but full of disgust in his eyes.

It was rare for him to be so lively, so Yun Shang chuckled. She took the empty bowl from him and said, "Your Highness, have you finished your business with Mister Liu?"

Liu Yinfeng nodded, "Everything is fine."

Yun Shang raised her head and looked at Liu Yinfeng, "Mister Liu, why did you say you were going to Liucang City?"

Liu Yinfeng replied with a smile, "It's about the disaster relief. The seventh Prince has only brought the first batch of relief materials. His Majesty ordered me to send the newly raised supplies to Liucang City, and I will set out early the day after tomorrow."

Yun Shang kept silent for a moment and said, "Recently I've heard some news about Liucang City and Siyang City. These news has not been confirmed, but I always feel that there is a trap behind the drought."

"A trap? Why do you say that?" Liu Yinfeng and Luo Qingyan were both confused.

Yun Shang walked around the room and said, "The refugees said that due to the long drought, there is no harvest in the three cities, Liucang City, Nanyang City and Siyang City. People there have nothing to live on, so they have to run away from the famine."

Liu Yinfeng nodded slightly, "Yes, I've confirmed that there is indeed a drought in the three cities this year. Is there anything wrong?"

"The drought is true. But I'm afraid it's fake that they have nothing to live on and have to become refugees. Doctor Chen in the mansion said that she had passed by Liucang City on her way here. She told me that Liucang City indeed suffered from a drought, but she noticed that the field there was covered with weeds without any trace of crops. I thought that the crops must have been cleaned up after they died because of the drought. But on second thought, it doesn't make sense. If the farmers had pulled out the dead crops, why they left the weeds there? Yun Shang said with a frown.

"Jut now when I went to Dr. Zheng's to get the medicine, he told me another thing about Siyang City. He said that when he passed by Siyang City the year before last, he found that the land there was full of prunella spike, which was a kind of herb and was expensive in the pharmacy. The farmers didn't know the prunella spike, so they thought it was just weeds. They pulled out all the prunella spike, preparing to plant crops. Dr. Zheng immediately told them that the prunella spike was a good thing and could be sold at a good price. The farmers went to the pharmacy to have a try, and found that it was true. So they stopped planting crops and lived on the prunella spike in the field."

Yun Shang turned to look at Liu Yinfeng and Luo Qingyan, and said, "I have been thinking about these two things on my way back. Is it possible that... Liu Cang, Nanyang and Siyang did suffer from the drought, but their people didn't live on the farmland. The memorials presented by the local officials, the phenomenon that the corrupt officials misappropriated the relief supplies, as well as the refugees who had escaped here were deliberately arranged by someone to show the court. In order to swindle more relief supplies and money from the court..."

Liu Yinfeng frowned and asked in disbelief, "How could this be possible? It sounds ridiculous." After saying that, he fell silent again. After a long moment, he resumed, "But Your Highness's words made me recall that Nanyang City is the largest producer of silver ore in the State of Xia. Most of the silver in the State of Xia comes from Nanyang City..."

"So, what the people of Liucang City and Siyang City live on are herbs. And for Nanyang people, they live on the silver mine!" Yun Shang suddenly became excited. She looked up at Luo Qingyan. After a moment of silence, she said, "Your Highness, it seems you have let tiger back to mountain."

Liu Yinfeng didn't understand what Yun Shang meant for the moment, but Luo Qingyan said indifferently, "Yes, I'm afraid that it was Xia Houjing who ordered those local officials to present memorials reporting the drought. I have specially asked His Majesty to send Xia Houjing to deliver the relief materials. Isn't it a release of the tiger to the mountain?"

Liu Yinfeng opened his mouth and looked at the couple with a pale face. "Your Highnesses mean that the seventh Prince did it on purpose in order to swindle the relief materials and money from the national treasury and take them as his own."

"Most likely, he is recruiting troops and buying horses there with these things. The three cities are all adjacent to KY City. The general of the State of Xia guarding outside KY City, Feng Ming, is just Xia Houjing's man. Luo Qingyan slowly closed his eyes to hide the ruthlessness in them.

Yun Shang gritted her teeth and said, "Previously, when Xia Houjing escaped from the water prison in Lingxi City, I guessed that he would go to the outside of the KY City and unite with Feng Ming. I couldn't figure out why he would return to the Jin City. I didn't expect that it would be like this."

"Shall we go to the Palace and report this to the Emperor?" Liu Yinfeng said softly.

Yun Shang looked at Luo Qingyan. Luo Qingyan kept silent for a long time before he said in a low voice, "No, no. we are not sure if Xia Houjing has planted any spy around the Emperor. If we rashly go to the Palace to report this, we may alert the enemy..."

Luo Qingyan paused and smiled as if he had come up with some idea.

Yun Shang fixed her eyes on Luo Qingyan. and heard him sneer, "I have a way. Yinfeng, you still go to deliver this batch of materials, pretending that nothing has happened. However, we need to add something in the food for disaster relief."