Traveling through ancient times, the empress insisted on having a child with me

Chapter 141: One Eye Exposed

"What? Xu Lang is not among the escort team?"

When Xu Hongtu received the news, he was stunned.

The housekeeper added: "According to the information obtained by the assassins, Xu Lang has been escorted to the Ministry of Justice and put in jail."

Xu Hongtu sat there for a long time and sighed deeply: "Is this the fate of the Xu family?"

"Please tell me what to do next, Master."

Xu Hongtu waved his hand and said, "Notify Xu Jinming and let them enter Bashu. Just think of it as leaving a lineage for the Xu family."

"Master, what about us?"

Xu Hongtu was silent for a while, and then his face gradually became ferocious: "I will write a few letters later, and you send someone to deliver them at night. If my Xu family is not doing well, then no one else will be doing well."

Ling Chuan handed over the prisoner in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice and finally felt relieved. He returned to San Tiao Xiang at a leisurely pace. This trip took him almost two months in total and he was very tired.

But as soon as he came back, took a shower and changed his clothes, someone came to his door.

The person who came was none other than Madam Li.

If we were to say who Ling Chuan least wanted to see, Madam Li would be the first. Madam Li always acted superior and always taught him a lesson as if he were a junior. Ling Chuan couldn't stand this, but he couldn't refute it. Just from Zhao Youtang's reaction, he knew that Madam Li was not someone he could afford to offend.

Mrs. Li naturally couldn't come to the backyard, but was waiting in the office in Yunfuji's shop. After Ling Chuan saluted her, she waved lightly.

"Sit down. You must have suffered a lot on this long journey."

Ling Chuan couldn't help but curl his lips and thought to himself, this is my place, okay?

"Thank you for your concern, Madam Li. I was being chased in the hot sun. I am lucky to be able to come back alive."

Madam Li asked, "Does the Xu family really dare to send people to hunt you down? Aren't you an official?"

Ling Chuan replied with an exaggerated expression: "What official or not? In the eyes of the Xu family, they are the local emperors."

"Recently there have been rumors that the Xu family worships evil gods. Is this true or false?"

This news was originally spread by Lingchuan. No matter how widely it spread among the people, it would be useless. If Madam Li could believe it without a doubt, it would be completely different.

So Ling Chuan began to make up a story, vividly describing the scene when he discovered the evil god.

However, when Ling Chuan was feeling smug about his storytelling skills, Madam Li said coldly, "You said the Xu family worships the evil god at home? This kind of talk may be fine to fool ordinary people, but forget it in front of me."

Ling Chuan was exposed by someone's words. He felt guilty and said in defense: "Madam Li, you can't say that. We think it is an evil god, but maybe in the eyes of the Xu family, it is their lucky god."

Madam Li rolled her eyes at him and said, "Whose god of fortune is worshipped with human blood? You don't have to explain to me. I don't care about your nonsense. I came here today to tell you that Shengshi Liuli has been renovated and is waiting to open. Please arrange it for me when you are free."

"Yes, yes, I'll go tomorrow, I'll go tomorrow." Ling Chuan felt guilty after being exposed by Mrs. Li and quickly agreed.

Madam Li stood up and said, "There's no need to be so anxious. You should take a few days' rest first. You are such a handsome young man, but you are tanned like coal."

After seeing Mrs. Li off, Ling Chuan looked at himself in the mirror. He had been traveling around Ruyin County for two months, and it was the hottest time of the year. How could he not get tanned?

In addition, the bronze mirror had a serious color cast, so when Ling Chuan looked at himself in the mirror, it was as if he saw a black person, which scared him.

Just then, Cao Huanchun came in, and Lingchuan asked, "Am I very dark?"

Cao Huanchun hesitated for a moment and said, "Not bad, not bad."

"really?"

"Really." Cao Huanchun looked confident.

Ling Chuan snorted and said, "I suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon."

"What did you find?" Cao Huanchun thought there was some important discovery and hurried over.

"I noticed that every time when Madam Li was around, you didn't know where you were hiding."

Cao Huanchun's body suddenly froze, with an awkward smile on his face: "No, no, I just happened to be away for something."

"Don't give me that." Ling Chuan said angrily: "When Zhao Youtang saw Madam Li, he acted like a mouse seeing a cat. You must know Madam Li's identity. Tell me, who is Madam Li?"

Cao Huanchun thought that there was no such plot in the script. How could he dare to reveal the Queen Mother's identity without her permission? So he could only wave his hands repeatedly: "I don't know, I really don't know."

"do not know?"

"Are you still pretending?"

Ling Chuan pressed Cao Huanchun repeatedly, but Cao Huanchun refused to say anything. Finally, Ling Chuan simply analyzed it himself: "You all know this Madam Li, but you all refuse to say it, which shows that she is of extraordinary status. In addition, she is used to treating the younger generation as an elder, so I guess she is of a high generation. So I guess... she must be an elder in the Lu Xi family."

Cao Huanchun was stunned: "This is your own guess. It has nothing to do with me. I know nothing."

In fact, Ling Chuan's words were pure deception. The Lu family is a royal family, and there are many people with the surname Lu in the capital. It is speculated that it is an elder of Lu Xi's family, and the scope is not small. "

Ling Chuan grabbed Cao Huanchun who was about to slip away and said, "Since he is Lu Xi's elder, but his last name is not Lu, could it be... Oh..."

When Cao Huanchun saw Ling Chuan's sudden realization, he thought he had really guessed it. After all, everyone knew that the Queen Mother's surname was Li. So he quickly reached out and covered Ling Chuan's mouth: "Shut up, shut up, just know it, don't say it out."

Ling Chuan was depressed. What the hell do I know? This old Cao is too cautious. He could only continue to ask questions: "Hey, you said that Madam Li went to Yunfuji for no reason. Did she know about me and Lu Xi? Should I behave well in front of Madam Li?"

Cao Huanchun was about to cry. How could he discuss this? In order to get rid of Ling Chuan's entanglement, he could only perfunctorily say: "Yes, yes, Mr. Ling is right. We must perform well."

Ling Chuan then let go of Cao Huanchun and rubbed his chin in thought.

Cao Huanchun felt relieved and was about to leave when Ling Chuan called him again.

"Didn't you come to me for something? Why did you leave before you even finished talking?"

"Yes, yes, yes. The price of sugar has been driven up to more than 330 taels of silver per pound in the market. Liu Quan from Guangfeng has been coming every day to ask when we will have the goods. He just sent someone to ask about it."

"Just three hundred and thirty?" Ling Chuan was shocked. The price was not beyond his expectation, but the timing was too surprising. It was only more than two months. It seemed that he still underestimated the wealth of the bigwigs in Beijing.