"Co here!"
"My lord, madam?"
A servant entered from outside, and Long Yue stood up and said, "Go to the General Mansion and call Cao Xiao over!"
Many warehouses storing dicinal herbs are under the Cao Family’s na, not to ntion transportation. If the Cao Family doesn’t contribute at this ti, it’s as if they’ve been hit on the head by a door!
Half an hour later, Cao Xiao stood yawning in front of Long Yue.
Seeing him like this, Long Yue was truly exasperated!
"A shao, why are you still in bed so early in the morning? How can you call yourself a descendant of a military family behaving like this?"
Long Yue huffed, feeling at this mont like she was the elder chastising an unworthy younger generation.
Cao Xiao lowered his head, frightened by Long Yue’s fierce deanor, and weakly said, "I was playing with Le Xi last night and lost track of the hour, so I got ho very late..."
Looking at him, Long Yue wore an unbelieving expression: "Really?"
"Really, truly! If you don’t believe , ask Le Xi!"
Heh, everyone knows Le Xi is clever. Who doesn’t know you two are as close as wearing the sa trousers? She’ll definitely help you cover up!
Long Yue couldn’t be bothered to argue this point: "Right now, Kaiyang County is in serious disaster, urgently needing relief supplies, especially dicinal herbs! Didn’t I store a lot of herbs in your family’s warehouse before? Now, take them out and quickly send them to the disaster area!"
Cao Xiao was montarily stunned, then realized Long Yue’s well-intentioned plan was to earn him so rit.
She truly is a great niece!
Cao Xiao gave her a grateful look and then went out.
The task of delivering relief dicines requires quick action without the slightest delay, so after thanking Long Yue, he hurriedly got to work.
Li Qingmu watched Cao Xiao’s departing figure and suddenly said, "Yue’er, if you were an enemy, now is the best ti to plunge Dazhou into chaos, would you let it pass?"
"No, I wouldn’t!"
Li Qingmu nodded: "The Emperor only removed those Da Rong spies within the court, but how many of them are among the populace? I fear they’re countless, right?"
Long Yue knew this man too well, he had just started, and Long Yue already slled a whiff of conspiracy.
"So, you plan to use A shao as cover, luring them out and then capturing them all at once?"
The man squinted and smiled: "Who knows better than you, my dear?"
Long Yue didn’t want to hear his sweet talk: with a stern face, "You scoundrel, why didn’t you say so when A shao was here? Are you trying to put him in danger?"
Li Qingmu’s eyes were deep, "If I told him then, with A shao’s temperant, could he really keep it a secret? Even if he could, his facial expressions would have betrayed him long ago!"
So, he’s keeping Cao Xiao in the dark to lure out the remaining Da Rong elents!
"Li Qingmu!"
"Hm?"
"I’m telling you, you have to handle this perfectly and flawlessly, or if anything goes wrong with A shao, I won’t let you off!"
Li Qingmu smiled faintly: "That’s easy, I’ll go personally later, and I’m sure I can handle it perfectly!"
"No way!"
Hearing his words, Long Yue grew even angrier, knowing full well his health, couldn’t he care a little? Why must he risk his life like this?
Watching his wife’s annoyed and exasperated expression, Li Qingmu felt a warm current in his heart; his little wife really does care about him, at least more than A shao.
Who says only won like to compare? n do, too, with minds as narrow as a needle, always liking to quibble!
Seeing his smug little look, Long Yue knew what he was thinking and couldn’t be bothered with him, heading to tend to Xiao Rui’er.
Suddenly, a violent cough ca from behind, so severe it seed to tear his heart and lungs.
Long Yue’s heart trembled, quickly turning around to see the man clutching his chest while coughing, feeling a chill despite herself, ignoring Rui’er’s wailing cries, and went to fetch water.
Next to the teapot was a small jar of fragrant honey; per the master’s advice, it was best to give Li Qingmu honey water when he coughed to relieve the associated pain.
Long Yue had always followed this advice.
Bringing the honey water and helping him drink it, Li Qingmu’s cough eased a bit.
Long Yue looked at him with a face full of reproach.
"Look at you, your body is this weak and you still think of running around? Were it not for the Emperor’s edict, who knows where you’d fly off to! Don’t you care about your health a little? Do you not want to feel a little better?"
Long Yue rambled on, while Li Qingmu just smiled silently.
Being scolded by his little wife actually felt quite nice. As the saying goes, beating is caring, scolding is love!
He picked up the cup, drinking a little more, as the oppressive feeling in his chest gradually dissipated, replaced by a refreshing coolness.
He yawned, squinting his eyes, feeling a bit drowsy.
Maybe because he had been busily running around since early morning, he was fatigued.
"If you’re tired, rest, don’t push yourself!"
With a fierce face, Long Yue felt this man truly didn’t appreciate the value of his life. As she soothed Rui’er, she urged the man to get to bed.
Long Yue felt that her temper was worsening being with this man.
Later, Li Qingmu’s morial was presented on Qi Yun’s desk.
It included various asures about disaster relief and maintaining local stability, and also contained a secret letter.
This letter was sealed with beeswax and glued in the middle of the morial.
Qi Yun checked the wax seal for integrity before opening it.
He took just one look and was a bit shocked, followed by a wry smile.
This child...
"No wonder his injuries never heal, exhausting his mind and body, how can his health improve?"
Smiling wryly, Qi Yun summoned Chen Zhong.
"Let the Imperial Hospital select so of the finest dicinal herbs and send them to the Li Mansion!"
This was imperial favor, sothing many could not dream of receiving even a sliver, yet Li Qingmu received it often.
This news spread quickly and was soon used by those with ulterior motives.
In the Political Affairs Hall.
This place is the power center of all Dazhou. Previously, three Pri Ministers worked here, but now Pei Shangqing was dismissed and sent to a local post due to the involvent with his adopted son Pei Jinheng, leaving only Pri Minister Cui Yuanhe and Vice Pri Minister Di Jing here.
Cui Yuanhe and Di Jing are both loyal people, having a good opinion of Li Qingmu, to the point that Cui Yuanhe regards her as a junior relative.
"Mr. Cui, the Emperor just rewarded Mr. Li with dicinal herbs, but there are people outside saying this indicates he’s becoming a powerful minister. Barely in his early twenties and already receiving such imperial favor, how will it be in the future?"
A clerk entered and said softly, also testing the opinions of the two Pri Ministers.
Cui Yuanhe, upon hearing this, imdiately bristled, repeatedly sneering.
"Although Mr. Li is young, his achievents are earned through his own hard work, even at the cost of his health. What’s wrong with the Emperor rewarding so dicinal herbs? Should he be as miserly and unkind as they say?"
At this mont, Cui Yuanhe was working on a docunt, but annoyed, he threw it to the ground, pointing at the clerk and scolding, "Those people are worthless! Unable to do anything themselves, they can’t stand others’ abilities, always scheming and not advancing. If they had even a fraction of Mr. Li’s loyalty, could they say such things?"
Di Jing said, "Mr. Cui is right, petty conversations can’t be trusted, we need to take a stance on this matter!"
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