Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife

When Mu Yunyao returned home, she ordered Jinlan to put the jewelry box given by King Yue into the storeroom. She feared that she would never wear these things.

In the following days, Mu Yunyao went to Jinxiu Garden from time to time to discuss with King Yue about the batch of salt and the handling of salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. Unhappy, but some things happened, just like water passing over the ground, it will leave some traces after all.

In Yangzhou City, Li Yuan watched the salt being transported and loaded, and a smile flashed in his eyes: I thought that this time I came to the south of the Yangtze River to check the salt tax, at most it was just pretending to be a good person and accepting some bribes. The credit came to the door, and those officials in Yangzhou City were tired of their jobs, and they even rushed to make a move on the salt administration at this juncture, and let him take advantage of it for nothing.

The salt merchants also breathed a sigh of relief. Although the incident was full of twists and turns, they got through it in the end. They also sold Li Yuanyi a favor and made the eldest prince owe them a favor. In the future, these things may be of great benefit. Useful, as for the lost money, after a few years of hard work, you can always earn it back.

Just a few days after being proud, a piece of news shocked Li Yuanyi and the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. The boat sank and all the salt was gone!

When Li Yuan heard the news, he almost fell to the ground: "What's going on? Didn't they already send more people to be extra careful? Why did something happen?"

The guard who came to report the news knelt on the ground tremblingly and said nothing: "At that time, there was fog on Jingling City, and the fog was so thick that it was impossible to see clearly. Someone was digging a boat from the water. When I realized it, the hole was too big. I can't save it..."

Li Yuanyi was like an ant on a hot pot, walking back and forth non-stop: "Quickly send a letter to Li Munian, no, send a letter to Prime Minister Li, tell him the whole story and let him make up his mind." This time the matter was too big, he couldn't handle it alone, Li Qingzhou had to make up his mind.

Originally, Li Yuanyi wanted to suppress the news and wait for Li Qingzhou's reply. Unfortunately, because of the salt administration case, all forces were paying attention to this batch of salt. Now when something happened, the news swept the entire Dali Dynasty. Before the letter was sent to Kyoto, the emperor had already got the news.

The emperor was furious, and all civil and military officials were silent. Just when the emperor ordered a thorough investigation, another piece of news spread quickly.

The salt tax case in Yangzhou City was caused by the collusion between the salt merchants and the government from the beginning to the end. First, the salt merchants secretly instructed the officials to buy salt in order to make up for the hole in the salt tax deficit, and then lied that the salt had sunk on the Xijiang River , to exchange the salt boat for the boat filled with sand.

After the incident was almost exposed, the salt merchants bribed Li Yuanyi, the governor of Liangjiang to check the salt tax, and framed Yangzhou city salt transport envoy and salt transport envoy Si Tongzhi and others, saying that they were secretly exchanging salt and Li Yuanyi caught them. In fact, it was just the salt merchants who handed over the hidden salt to Li Yuanyi. Otherwise, Li Yuanyi couldn't pinch and count, so why did he go directly to the old wharf when he arrived in Yangzhou City, and searched out the batch of salt? ?

Afterwards, in order to gain credit, Li Yuanyi fabricated falsehoods to confuse the saints, and let the officials who bought the salt, the government servants and other insignificant people take the charges, and saved the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. It is heard that the salt merchants sent A generous gift was given, but the exact amount of silver is unknown.

As soon as the news spread, Prime Minister Li Qingzhou hurriedly entered the palace to face the saint, but he knelt outside the palace for a long time, but the emperor did not see him. The eldest prince also rushed into the palace to intercede, but the emperor also avoided seeing him.

The salt merchants, who thought they could sit back and relax, panicked like ants on a hot pot at this moment. They didn't expect that someone had exposed all the secrets one by one when they thought the matter had been resolved satisfactorily.

In Wu Minzhi's mansion, the salt merchants in the hall looked flustered: "Chief Wu, you have to think of a way. If this goes on, how can we survive?"

Wu Minzhi's expression was slumped at this time, and the leisurely and warm aura on his body had long since disappeared: "You don't need to make noise at my place. If you have this time, you might as well go home and make arrangements for the funeral."

All the salt merchants were dumbfounded, and all of them turned pale: "Arrange the funeral?"

"Does it mean that we are really hopeless?"

"We have evidence in our hands! Didn't we ask people to send all the evidence to Kyoto? If we submit the evidence, maybe we can get leniency?"

"That's right, Chief Wu, we can't hesitate anymore at this time, no matter who wants to get rid of us, we can't just sit and wait for death, we must find a way to earn a living!"

Wu Minzhi raised his head slowly: "Okay, since everyone is requesting this, then we might as well put on a few more supporters when we are dying. This matter has developed to this day and it is still confusing. , or even he was plotted by others, it doesn't matter anymore, we can't find out the real mastermind behind it, we can only find a way to get the eldest prince involved, so that with him on top, Our guilt may be lighter."

"That's the only way..."

In Jinxiu Garden, Mu Yunyao frowned, her fingers and sleeves were covered with blood: "Fourth Master, bear with me, although I sealed the blood with silver needles, but the arrowhead is very deep, and it will still hurt when I pull it out." It hurts."

King Yue half took off the clothes on his shoulders, revealing one shoulder with smooth muscles and lines, half of a feathered arrow was deeply embedded in the side of the shoulder blade on the back, and blood was continuously flowing out.

"It's okay, let's do it." Yue Wang frowned slightly, his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, but his eyes were always pure and unwavering, only occasionally a trace of chill flashed through.

Mu Yunyao washed the dagger with spirits, and then put it on the fire to roast the blade again, firmly holding the exposed half of the feather arrow with one hand, and quickly cut open the wound on King Yue's back with the other hand Some, and then the action was so decisive that he pulled out the feather arrow.

King Yue groaned in pain, but his body remained motionless.

The blood continued to flow down the wound, the color was dark, with a faint fishy smell, Mu Yunyao did not rush to help King Yue stop the bleeding, but kept squeezing the wound around to let the black blood flow more until The blood that flowed out turned bright red, and only then did he stop the bleeding and bandage.

Qin Guanshi watched from the side full of worry: "Miss Mu, how is the prince's injury?"

After bandaging the wound, Mu Yunyao breathed a sigh of relief: "The poison was quenched on the feather arrow. Fortunately, the poison is not strong. After taking a few days of decoction, the poison can be cleared away, but the wound is too close to the back of the heart. If you don't take care of it carefully , I'm afraid it will leave the root cause of the disease. During this period, fourth master must pay more attention to rest, try not to move the left arm, so as not to implicate the wound."

King Yue looked at Mu Yunyao, and shook his head slightly: "Tomorrow, I will set off and rush back to the west of Guangdong."