Chapter 5 — The Eastern Palace Can No Longer Hold Me

She is clearly smarter than the person next to her. That's why I should stay up all night, I should waste my energy, I should put my heart and soul into his hands, then watch him take it to court, winning the praise that resonates throughout the palace. I asked him: "Your Highness, on what basis do you feel that I should help?" He did not expect me to ask that. "The people of Nam District are innocent." "If for the sake of the people, I can give the clues I know to father." "Father will present it to the court." Quy Canh Hanh's eyes darkened. He heard and understood. I can help. Don't help him. He said hoarsely: "Between you and me, has it come to this?" This sentence came too late. I lowered my eyes: "Between His Highness and this goddess, there is nothing." His face was completely pale. At this moment, the servant's voice came from outside the door. "Miss, Master Bui is here, said he figured out something about the last half of the jade bracelet, and would like to invite you to take a look." Quy Canh Hanh suddenly turned his head. Bui Van Chu stood outside the hospital gate, holding a wooden box in his hand. Obviously he did not expect the Crown Prince to be here and stop to pay his respects. Quy Canh Hanh looked at him, his eyes cold. "Young Khanh Bui really often comes to the Khuong family." Bui Van Chu's voice was calm: "The tribute case has not been concluded yet, I will follow the rules." I went to receive the wooden box. "Sorry for bothering Mr. Bui." Inside the box was a broken ring. There was also a thin roll of goatskin. Bui Van Chu said: "The wall inside the broken ring has a clamp layer." "Inside is hidden this extremely thin waterway." My heart was shocked. The waterway was opened, and above was drawn the waterway of Giang Lang area, Southern District. Quy Canh Hanh also saw it. His expression suddenly changed. Nine consecutive series, foreign envoys, Southern District flood. It turns out these two things are related. In my previous life, after I removed the nine-link, I did not find the clamp layer. The other set of bracelets was put into storage by the Queen Mother. In the Southern District flood incident, we only found out that there was someone changing boats at Giang Lang wharf, but we could not find out that the foreign envoy secretly set up the rope. In this life, I broke the jade bracelet, instead causing the hidden object inside to fall out. Bui Van Chu looked at me. "Miss Khuong broke the nine chains that day, but instead dropped a big fish." I heard the teasing in his words. He couldn't help but glance at him. "Master Bui, is it useful to praise me for being clumsy?" He seriously thought about it. "You can say the same." Quy Canh Hanh stood next to him, his face extremely ugly. If this waterway was offered by Bui Van Chu and his father, the merit would have nothing to do with the Eastern Palace. He finally realized that many lumps did not necessarily have to go through him to be able to break them. Nam District was quickly investigated. Bui Van Chu followed the waterway and found out that a foreign merchant team colluded with a Jiangling waterway transport official, secretly swapping boats with relief food and good food out of the border, then using moldy rice to fill it up. His father and Bui Van Chu both signed the dedication. The emperor was angry. The envoy was detained, the official Giang Lang was sent to prison, a chess game that was originally used by the princes to make things difficult for the Eastern Palace was turned upside down by Bui Van Chu. Quy Canh Hanh does not have to bear the responsibility. But it also doesn't get any credit. Everyone in the court immediately praised Hong Lu Tu for being young and talented, and also praised Cong Khuong Thi Lang's method of teaching women. I was mentioned again. Only this time, what outsiders say is not "clever and intelligent, worthy of the Eastern Palace". It was: "That day, second lady Khuong broke the nine chains, but on the contrary, it was considered heartless to make merit." Hearing the two words heartless in my ears made me very satisfied. Mindlessness is good. The more heartless I am, the more no one will miss me and want to put me in the Eastern Palace. Bui Van Chu was promoted to Hong thanks to the case of Nam District

Lu Tu Khanh. The day he came to Khuong's house to give him a copy of the case file, his father kept him for dinner. His mother was very polite to him. Sister A was also there. She sat quietly during meals, occasionally picking up food for her mother, dignified and gentle. Bui Van Chu rarely looked at her. He and his father talked about irrigation, about trade at the Western border, and about the hidden patterns in the envoy's tribute. I heard that I was in a trance and couldn't help but interject two sentences. Bui Van Chu immediately turned around and seriously continued to talk to me. "Miss Khuong, in your opinion, which route should we stabilize the horse salt trade in the West first?" Before I could answer, my sister smiled softly and said: "Master Bui said these things, I'm afraid I'm getting serious again." The dining table was quiet. In my previous life, a sentence like that was enough to make me shut up. I'm afraid I seem to like paintings too much. Afraid that others will feel that I dominate men. Now I pick up a chopstick of bamboo shoots and slowly put them into the bowl. "Master Bui asked me, of course I answered seriously." "If you think it's tasteless, why don't you try this wrapped fish dish first, mother specifically told the kitchen to make it." Sister's smile stiffened. Mother looked at her and seemed to feel that this was not the right time to say this. Bui Van Chu seemed not to hear the undercurrent at the banquet table, so he just brought the topic back.