MTL - The Crown Prince Chases His Wife-Chapter 74 meet

Lingshan, an unnamed villa.

The hot spring water is introduced into the warm pavilion, and the water is gurgling and warm.

Qin Yan, who was lying on her back on the soft couch, didn't know whether it was because of the heat in the room or the trembling caused by the person in front of her. A thin layer of sweat floated all over her body, and her tender white and smooth skin revealed a seductive blush.

Qin Yan bowed slightly, leaned back her slender neck, and breathed softly with satisfaction.

After calming down for a while, Qin Yan propped up his upper body, still with a hint of seductive phoenix eyes, looked at Feng Zhan at the end of the couch, and spoke, his voice slightly hoarse:

"You know so much?"

Feng Zhan raised his head, there was still desire in his deep black eyes, and his hair was casually draped over his sturdy body, which was a little more unruly than usual.

Qin Yan suspected that Feng Zhan was using her beauty to tempt her.

But Feng Zhan always hangs her on the ground, which makes Qin Yan slightly annoyed.

Seeing that Feng Zhan did not continue, Qin Yan frowned and kicked out suddenly, but the white jade feet were caught by Feng Zhan's big palm and squeezed lightly.

Qin Yan pulled his feet back, Feng Zhan's palms also loosened, and then slowly got up, took the robe he took off in the warm pavilion before entering the pool, and put it on.

Feng Zhan sat on the short table next to him again, picked up a pure white fleece blanket, walked to Qin Yan's side, and put it on Qin Yan's body gently.

After that, Feng Zhan stood up straight and looked at Qin Yan deeply, with a very serious tone:

"Qin Yan, Gu has never had another woman before, and from now on, whether it is the Prince's Mansion or the harem, you will be the only one."

"If you have any concerns about your relationship with Gu, you can tell Gu."

"What you want can be given to you alone. This is your treatment, and it is also the treatment of the Crown Princess."

Qin Yan frowned, and the prince came to her again.

Qin Yan grabbed the soft pillow by his hand, smashed it at Feng Zhan, and was caught by him.

The corners of Feng Zhan's lips raised a happy arc, leaned over and placed his thin lips on Qin Yan's smooth forehead, and moved them away in an instant.

Feng Zhan stretched out his hand and gently stroked Qin Yan's messy hair on the side of his face, his eyes were gentle, and his voice was hoarse and mellow:

"It's a blessing for you and me to meet among thousands of people, Qin Yan, don't live up to the fate bestowed by God."

After Feng Zhan left, Qin Yan pulled on the fleece blanket, wrapped himself up, relaxed his body, and began to meditate.

However, Feng Zhan's words just lingered in Qin Yan's mind for a long time, lingering, and seemed to be deeply rooted in her heart.

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Song Zhi saw that His Royal Highness the Prince stepped out of the warm pavilion and left, and immediately followed.

But looking at the look on the hall below, it doesn't seem to be very good.

Failed?

Song Zhi was sullen in his heart, and followed the prince back to His Highness's courtyard with great strides.

His Highness went straight to a tea table in the room, cleaned his hands, and brewed tea.

Song Zhi stood aside, muttering in his heart, this... tea after the fact?

Feng Zhan drank two cups of clear tea, put down the tea cup, and said solemnly to Song Zhi:

"How is the fleet?"

Song Zhi's thoughts were instantly withdrawn from the gossip, and he replied with a solemn expression on his face.

"The secret guard has just received news. Today, shortly after His Highness left the ship, the fleet was attacked."

"The killer's water is excellent, and they all dive out of the water, and there are even people from Dongying in it."

"It's foggy today, but thanks to adequate preparations in advance, the fleet didn't lose much, and there were no casualties."

Feng Zhan's eyes were cold, Dongying people...

After a while, the prince said in a low voice:

"Can the fleet reach Yunshui Town tomorrow?"

Song Zhi replied:

"If the fog clears tomorrow, the fleet can continue south and arrive at the town about tomorrow evening."

"Well, let's go down." Feng Zhan waved Song Zhi away, raised one hand to support his forehead, and the other hand with well-defined joints, playing with the wrapped Jiqing teapot on the table.

Feng Zhan didn't want to force Qin Yan, so he would give her some more time, but if Qin Yan still couldn't get over the knot, he wouldn't mind using another method.

Qin Yan was destined to be his crown princess.

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The next day, the weather was clear and the morning mist in the mountains gradually dissipated under the sun, revealing the original appearance of Lingshan. At this time, the leaves of the trees on Lingshan are already red and yellow, circling and falling in the rustling autumn wind, a quiet and beautiful scene.

Qin Yan was quite hesitant about Feng Zhan's behavior of hanging her last night, so she ordered Ji Nanfeng to prepare another carriage to go down the mountain.

Seeing this, Feng Zhan sighed lightly, and let her be temperamental.

The two cars were one after the other, still without guards, only the dark guards who were hidden in the dark followed along the mountain road to Yunshui Town.

Yunshui Town gathers ships, carriages and horses from south to north, and there are many dignitaries and wealthy businessmen among them, so Qin Yan and Feng Zhan's carriages will not be too conspicuous.

The horse-drawn carriage passed through the lively street market, but the crowd was extremely crowded.

Feng Zhan was riding alone in the car, the frame was blocked by people for a while, Song Zhi admonished in front of the car:

"His Royal Highness, this is the only road that can lead the carriage to the Caoyun Dock, but for some reason, the front is too congested. Your Highness, you can only get off and walk."

Feng Zhan raised his eyes and stretched out his hand to lift the curtain on one side. The street market was bustling with people, and there were indeed several carriages parked on the side of the road, making it difficult to move forward.

"get off."

Song Zhi heard the words, lifted the curtain, set up a step stool beside the car, and the prince got out of the car.

At this time, Qin Yan in the car behind also got out of the car.

Song Zhi and Shen Ying respectively handed over the frame to the dark guard, and they walked through the crowd with the two masters and walked along the market.

There are a lot of wealthy businessmen here, Qin Yan and Feng Zhan's clothes are not conspicuous, but the extravagance of the two is still eye-catching.

The closer you get to the center of the street, the more crowded the street is. Feng Zhan and Qin Yan are both happy and quiet on weekdays. This kind of scene really makes both of them frown frequently.

Walking to a rouge booth, the uncle behind the booth looked at the two very-looking people in front of him a few times, and suddenly called out to stop them.

"This son, this son..."

Seeing that the man in the black brocade robe did not turn his head, the stall owner wanted to reach out and grab his sleeve robe, but Song Zhi's cold eyes blocked him.

And Feng Zhan and Qin Yan, who were walking side by side, also stopped and turned around.

The stall owner's face loosened, and he tried his best to suppress his voice and said:

"My son, I advise you not to go any further, and take your wife out of town. If the servants of the Mu residence see you two, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of Yunshui Town today. "

The aunt at the clay figurine stall next to him also nodded in agreement:

"Yeah, yeah, I've seen a lot of men and women who were forcibly dragged away by the Mu Mansion on the street these days. Your appearance is so outstanding, it's even more eye-catching."

The stall owners on the left and right nodded their heads frequently.

Song Zhi asked suspiciously:

"Stealing people on the street?"

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The stall owners saw that a few people seemed to be foreigners. At this time, everyone on the street was going to watch the fun, and there was no business, so they began to tell the few people in front of them the gossip they were talking about these days. :

"Look, you are not local, tsk tsk, Mu Mansion, but the first noble family in Yunshui Town."

"You should know about the Yu family in Yangzhou. The Mu family is the same as the family, but they have several generations of in-laws."

"The Mu family can't be offended, and the Yu family can't be offended."

"The Yu family once had an adopted daughter who was a young lady from the Shangjing Prime Minister's Mansion. I heard that that young lady might be the crown prince's concubine of the current prince, and the queen's wife in the future."

"Then this Yu family is half a family member of the royal family. You can't offend it, you can't offend it."

"The Crown Prince's dragon boat will pass through Yunshui Town in the next few days. The Mu family is doing a beauty contest for the Crown Prince."

"I heard that all the beauties presented by the town in front of you, the Crown Prince confiscated all of them. This time, the Mu family is very generous. In addition to the good family son, they also prepared Yanji, elegant prostitutes, nuns, Taoist nuns, widows... They are really fat and thin, and they have everything. Ah, I wonder if the Crown Prince will be satisfied this time..."

"I also heard that the Mu family has prepared a young and beautiful man this time. There are rumors that the prince is not close to women, maybe he really likes men, not necessarily..."

The stall owners glanced at Qin Yan and then at Feng Zhan, tsk tsk.

"Young master, you should leave quickly. Your lady is stunning. Even you... I'm afraid the Mu family won't let it go."

Feng Zhan's complexion was getting darker and darker, but Qin Yan raised his eyebrows and looked at the prince beside him.

"It seems that His Royal Highness Prince, Yan Fu is not shallow."

The surrounding stall owners only thought that what the stunning woman in front of them said was just sighing like them, not knowing at all that the protagonist in their mouths, the prince, was standing in front of them with a dark face at the moment.

Feng Zhan turned his head to look at Qin Yan with a teasing face, stretched out his big palm, and held Qin Yan's slender hand hanging by his side irresistibly.

"Don't get lost, ma'am."

Feng Zhan took Qin Yan and continued to move forward amid the dissuasion of the stall owners, but before taking a few steps, Song Zhi took the prince and Qin Yan to another path that also led to the pier.

Before setting off, Song Zhi had already engraved the map in his head. They were here to avoid people's eyes and ears. What the stall owners said was not without reason.

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Qin Yan's resentment against Feng Zhan last night has not dissipated at this moment. He tried to break free from Feng Zhan's palm several times on the way, but Feng Zhan strongly stopped his movements.

And Song Zhi and Shen Ying were muttering in their hearts, the two masters should consider it to be fun.

After about half a stick of incense, they arrived at a busy wharf.

Feng Zhan stared at the situation on the pier, and only for a moment, Feng Zhan took Qin Yan into an ordinary tea shop beside the pier, and chose a corner position, and asked for a pot of ordinary tea. Sit quietly, but the tea is not in the mouth.

Qin Yan guessed what, the prince chose Yunshui Town, an important water transportation town in the south of the Yangtze River, to investigate personally. This trip is scheduled to be related to water supply.

There are many people coming and going in the tea shop, and there is no shortage of voices that are neither high nor low, which will spread to this inconspicuous place in the corner.

"Cousin, if it goes through the day after tomorrow, a shipment of ten taels of silver will cost fifteen taels tomorrow, but if it goes through today, it will cost twenty taels. This is a robbery, cousin."

"There's no way, we have to bow our heads at the Mu's pier, and let's endure it. Twenty-two is twenty-two, which delays the trip. It's not easy for the two of us to explain to the owner."

"But every ten miles, there is a place where a flag is set up and a card is set up to buy road money. When this shipment arrives in Shangjing, the extra customs clearance fee can be paid for the goods."

"Hey, just raise the price of the goods. That's what everyone does. The capital city is full of powerful people, and there are so many who can afford high prices. Don't worry about it. I tell you, Li San, we ship this Whatever it is, it’s better than those grain households who were expropriated, they are even worse.”

"Hey, cousin, what's this saying?"

"Heh, this grain household handed over the grain, and there are various types of extra consumptions that are delivered to the water transport officials. If a grain household needs to pay one stone, it actually has to hand over as much as three to four stones. "【1】

"How much?"

"I'll count it for you: one is the "foot price", and every shi of regular grain adds five buckets and five liters; the second is "crossing the river rice", and one bucket is added to every one stone; Two liters are added; the fourth is "rat consumption of rice", and each stone is changed to 4 liters of rice, and the other is 7 liters of rice; A stone is worth half a tael of silver..." [2]

"I've heard this before. It is said that there are other names that can scrape oil and water from grain farmers. In comparison, our shipping is not the worst."

"These Cao officials are so bold that they donated so much grain in their own right, so aren't they afraid of being investigated?"

"The Cao officials in Yunshui Town are all raised by the Mu family, and the Mu family relies on Yangzhou for their home. The Yangzhou home is behind the Zuo Xiangye of Shangjing, who dares to investigate."

"I don't blame those officials for blackmailing the grain households. After this layer of exploitation, what will be left in their hands in the end? How many children are there? This has to be named. One day the government really wants to investigate, and the first to suffer. It's them pawns."

"It's all poor people. Go, pay the money, and get off the boat."

"Yes."

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Left Chancellor?

Qin Yan raised her eyes and glanced at the dark-faced prince Feng Zhan. Is the prince going to attack the Zuo Xiangfu?

Feng Zhan's slender knuckles tapped lightly on the table, and he looked back at Qin Yan.

At this time, a group of people came in at the door of the tea shop.

"Quickly take a sip of tea and take a rest, the boat with the second lady and the madam is about to arrive, and they must be well-served. The Prime Minister of Beijing must not have a bad impression on the people of the clan, and the clansmen are still watching him for promotion ."

"Only the madam brought the second young lady back to worship the ancestors, the eldest young lady and the son didn't come back?"

"You bastard, there's something you can tell me about your master? Just do our business well."

"I heard that the eldest miss is now the current imperial conferred county master. She has a noble status and seems to be at odds with the lady. How can the lady invite that noble person."

"Take care of your mouth, what you should say and what you shouldn't say. If you make your wife unhappy in a while, you will be bored."

"Okay, let's go, go to the pier and wait."

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A group of people went out in a mighty manner.

This time, it was Feng Zhan's turn to look at Qin Yan with inexplicable meaning.

The two of them looked at each other and knew in their hearts that the prime minister in this group of people was Qin Wenzheng, the right prime minister.

Qin Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, Song Mei and Qin Nian chose this time to go back to Yangzhou to worship their ancestors?

When things go wrong, there must be demons...

The author says:

[1] "The grain households handed in the grain ... as much as four stone." From the data;

[2] "One is the 'foot price'...the silver and half the grain." From the data.