IHOEAYSTTTIW Chapter 70

Chapter 70: You are so important! I can’t live without you!!! (一｀д′)

Ministry of Works.

Yun Qi sat behind his desk, flipping through the reports submitted, the accompaniment of the Vice Minister of Works in his ear as usual.

“Your Highness is righteous, the seeds that Your Highness brought…”

Yun Qi closed the book, impatiently correcting, “I’ll say it again, these seeds were found by the Princess Consort.”

“Yes, yes, yes.” The Vice Minister of Works wiped his sweat and continued chanting, “These seeds brought back by the Prince and Princess Consort are easy to grow and thrive. If the yield is really as Your Highness said…”

Yun Qi massaged his temples, his head aching from the noise.

Weren’t these people all selected through the imperial examination? Why do they keep repeating the same thing?

Do something else.

Yun Qi quietly glanced at the Vice Minister of Works, making sure he was still immersed in his chanting, before replacing the reports in front of him with the recent situation of the Li family, which had been sent up by his subordinates.

After Yun Qi returned to the Capital City, he didn’t waste any time. He categorized the seeds Lin Yan brought and sent them to the Ministry of Works, and compiled his recorded planting methods into a book. At Gu Zhan’s request, he also investigated the Cheng family’s affairs. By the way, he borrowed people from the Ministry of Justice to find the monk. Now he’s starting to investigate the Li family, and incidentally, he’s petitioned the Emperor to let him meet the National Teacher.

Yun Qi’s conscience was clear.

He just wanted everyone to have food to eat, just wanted to send Lin Yan home. What’s wrong with that?

But these actions, in the eyes of others, were ill-intentioned, especially in the eyes of his brother.

The new Emperor was already suspicious, but Yun Qi didn’t care.

No matter what the National Teacher said, he would fake his death and leave after this matter was over. From then on, there would be no Prince An, no Yun Qi, only Mo Qi.

The door panel was gently knocked twice, and a servant came in to salute: “Your Highness, Lord Feng.”

Yun Qi hurriedly hid the booklet and asked in a deep voice, “What is it?”

The servant bowed: “The Princess Consort has returned and asks if Your Highness would like to return for lunch.”

“I…” Yun Qi looked down at the things in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and finally shook his head, “I still have some things to do here, I may be late to return.”

The servant responded and withdrew.

Vice Minister Feng began a new round of chanting: “Your Highness has worked hard, dedicating yourself to the Great Zhou. The Princess Consort and Your Highness are of one heart, and will surely understand…”

Yun Qi pretended to sort out the accounts, but his attention was not on them at all.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to go back, he just didn’t know how to face Lin Yan.

Now that he had done almost everything he needed to do, it was time to confess to Lin Yan, but how could he say those words? So Yun Qi found a reason for himself. The matter of Lin Yan’s return home had not been investigated yet. When he found a way back, he would go to Lin Yan to apologize with thorns on his back.

If this matter succeeded, then it would be the moment of separation between him and Lin Yan. If it didn’t succeed… if it didn’t succeed, would he really have to hide it for the rest of his life?

Yun Qi was still lost in thought when a sharp announcement shattered his thoughts: “The Emperor has arrived—”

Yun Qi closed the accounts in his hand and went out with Vice Minister Feng to greet him, kneeling and bowing: “Long live the Emperor, long live, long long live.”

“Royal Brother has worked hard.” Yun Song helped Yun Qi up and waved his hand at the trembling ministers behind him, “You may withdraw first. I’ll have a private chat with Royal Brother.”

The ministers were granted amnesty and retreated after bowing.

The new Emperor sat down in the main seat very naturally. He took a breath and pointed to the seat beside him: “Sit.”

Yun Qi bowed to thank him and sat down on the seat somewhat fearfully.

The new Emperor clicked his tongue and casually flipped through the reports on the table: “Now there’s no one here, Royal Brother is still being so formal with me.”

“There is a difference between ruler and subject…”

“Stop, stop, stop, I hate this kind of formality the most.” The new Emperor picked out the booklet from the reports that contained the Li family’s secrets and his expression became a little colder. He picked up the booklet and flipped through it casually, his tone not much different from before: “Royal Brother, besides being busy with the Ministry of Works these days, you’ve also sent people to investigate Mother Consort’s affairs?”

Yun Qi perfunctorily replied, “I just want to fulfill Mother Consort’s last wish.”

“Those crazy words, are they worth Royal Brother’s effort?” The new Emperor sized up Yun Qi, and seeing that he was still as respectful as usual, he finally relented, “Forget it, I’ve already sent people to investigate the matters that Royal Brother wants to investigate.”

Yun Qi stood up from his stool to thank him: “Thank you, Your Majesty.”

“Sit down.” Yun Song waved his hand at Yun Qi, putting on a distressed look, “You’re newly married, you should spend more time with Imperial Sister-in-law. Running around like this, Imperial Sister-in-law will probably blame me.”

When Lin Yan was mentioned, Yun Qi’s eyes softened unconsciously: “He won’t…”

“Even if Imperial Sister-in-law is virtuous, the ministers in the court will still gossip about my being ungrateful.” The new Emperor sighed deeply again, looking very troubled, “There have been rumors in the court recently that our brothers are at odds, and some have even started thinking crooked thoughts.”

The meaning in the new Emperor’s words was very clear.

Yun Qi didn’t need to worry about these messy things in the court, he should quickly go back to his wife and warm bed.

Yun Qi didn’t want to stay here any longer since the new Emperor came. Now that the new Emperor had spoken, Yun Qi simply got up to take his leave: “Your Highness is right, I will…”

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the window. The new Emperor slammed the table, a little annoyed: “What’s all the noise about?”

“An…” The person outside rushed into the room, and was stunned when he saw the two people sitting in the room. He hurriedly saluted, “Minister of Works Wu Nian pays his respects to His Majesty, and to Prince An.”

The new Emperor raised his eyebrows, a little surprised: “Minister Wu? You’ve always been steady, what’s wrong with you today?”

“Your Majesty, please forgive me. Prince An brought…”

Yun Qi glanced at Minister Wu, wanting to correct him.

Yun Qi had said these words many times, and Minister Wu quickly changed his words when he received the signal: “The seeds brought by Princess Consort An are very good. The wheat in the suburbs of the Capital City has more than doubled its yield compared to previous years.”

The new Emperor snorted an “hm” from his nose, and the look he gave Yun Qi also changed from before.

“This new variety of wheat will ripen in the next two days, but for some reason, a patch of it suddenly fell over. Small water-stained light brown spots have begun to appear on the spikelets and glumes of the wheat. In severe cases, it will spread to the entire spikelet until it turns into a pink gelatinous mold layer…” Minister Wu held up a few diseased plants, “Your subject really doesn’t know what the reason for this is, so I had to bring these diseased wheat plants for Your Highness to take a look.”

Yun Qi’s mind flashed with lines from the TV series Lin Yan watched.

“If you’re not feeling well, find an imperial physician. I don’t know how to treat illnesses.”

At this moment, it was just like that moment.

The new Emperor’s visit this time was originally meant as a warning, and he had finally managed to appease the person, but suddenly such an accident occurred.

Yun Qi glanced at the wheat and shook his head: “I don’t understand this…”

“These seeds were brought by Your Highness. If Your Highness has no solution, then… then…” Minister Wu glanced at the pillar beside him, shouting “Your subject can only thank the world with my death” and rushed towards the pillar.

“Pull him back.” The new Emperor stood up suddenly, watching the junior officials of the Ministry of Works hugging his legs and hugging the pillar. Only when there was no possibility of Minister Wu seeking death did he feel a little relieved. He let out a long sigh and sat back on the chair, complaining with disgust, “Killing yourself over such a small matter, really…”

This farce had just begun, and Yun Qi didn’t want to delay here for even a second. He ignored Minister Wu’s resentful gaze and got up to take his leave: “It’s getting late, I’ll go back first…”

Seeing that Yun Qi was about to leave, Minister Wu couldn’t care less about etiquette in front of the Emperor and pleaded sadly, “Your Highness, you can’t leave. If you leave…”

Yun Qi moved even faster, almost fleeing.

“Enough, enough.” Yun Song looked at the person kneeling on the ground and suddenly changed his mind, “Royal Brother, just go with him, lest he come to me again in a few days, giving me a headache.”

Yun Qi only hated that he didn’t move fast enough and didn’t manage to escape. Now he could only grind his teeth secretly as he looked at the kneeling person, quickly calculating reasons to refuse in his mind.

“Imperial Sister-in-law is virtuous and will naturally understand.” The new Emperor buried Yun Qi’s reasons lightly and even thoughtfully compacted the soil, “If Royal Brother is worried, you can send Imperial Sister-in-law something.”

“Send…” Yun Qi took out a hairpin from his arms and showed Yun Qi the half that hadn’t been carved, “This hairpin isn’t finished yet, sending it over now…”

The new Emperor snatched the hairpin away, and a new excuse came to him, “It’s just right to let Imperial Sister-in-law carve the remaining half.”

Yun Qi muttered for a long time and finally found another lame excuse, “He’s still waiting for me to go back for dinner.”

“I’ll send someone to tell him, Royal Brother, go with peace of mind.” The new Emperor glanced at the memorial on the table and threw out the last bait, “When Royal Brother returns, I’ll allow you to meet with the National Teacher.”

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