Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 197 - 195: Absolutely No Involvement

Chapter 197: Chapter 195: Absolutely No Involvement

After returning from Grandma’s house, Xiao’er received a reply from Shangguan Xuanyi.

It was an encrypted letter, a method Xiao’er had taught Shangguan Xuanyi and Di Shaowei back in Qinghe County, based on modern chemical knowledge that iodine changes color when it interacts with starch.

After Xiao’er used iodine solution to restore the text, she squinted at the contents of the letter.

The letter mainly discussed the proposal regarding the bar and housing construction, particularly praising the compensation for land appropriation, stating that it was indeed a good deed for the poor. Shangguan Xuanyi and Di Shaowei were both prepared to get involved. In addition, they should involve the magistrate and the Lai family in the real estate development, after all, the dragon could not suppress the local snake.

The reason for the encryption was: After the central examination, the Emperor would secretly visit and stay at her house!

This was like a bolt from the blue!

Because of the winery, Xiao’er felt her family was already in hot water!

At this point, the Emperor mentioned coming over, isn’t that like a ticking time bomb for her family?

If anything went wrong, even two lifetimes would not be enough to compensate!

Originally, for the matter of the winery, Xiao’er wanted to have a plan before discussing it with Shangguan Xuanyi, but now it seemed impossible.

She had to eradicate any danger or instability in her family at the earliest! To create the safest and most stable environment to welcome the Emperor!

Xiao’er prepared the starch solution and began to write an encrypted letter.

In the letter, Xiao’er didn’t mention anything special, just that her family had bought a winery, and surprisingly the owner turned out to be her grandmother’s father, then she mentioned the ordeal of Master Shi and added that with the help of her great-grandfather’s caravan and fleet, the products from her family could be sent anywhere in the country.

Knowing who Shangguan Xuanyi was, as soon as he received the letter and read the beginning, he sensed something unusual.

After seeing the end, he couldn’t help but stand up and head out of the palace.

After Xiao’er sent the letter, she went to find Shen Chengyao. The central examination was in early February, with three sessions, each lasting three days, and it wouldn’t be finished until mid-February.

Shen Zixuan and the others were departing for the Imperial Capital to participate in the central examination today.

The Emperor wouldn’t arrive until after the central examination, probably around mid-March, arriving around the end of April.

It seemed that the villa on the hilltop of her family needed to be urgently completed and decorated.

With the Emperor coming to her house, living in the villa on the hilltop would be the most comfortable and safest!

Xiao’er didn’t know how long the Emperor would stay. Her family’s winter wheat would probably mature in mid-late May. Letting the Emperor witness the bountiful harvest of two seasons within a year, her family should receive more rewards!

On second thought, having the Emperor come seemed like a good thing! Of course, it would have been better if it wasn’t so troublesome!

Receiving the Emperor is frustratingly troublesome!

Xiao’er quickly received a reply from Shangguan Xuanyi, suggesting that Master Shi should sell the caravan and the fleet, and he would find someone to take over all these issues!

Xiao’er frowned, this was not the best solution.

Why would Shangguan Xuanyi choose to do this!

Imperial Capital

Shangguan Xuanyi and Di Shaowei were drinking tea in a room.

"Look, the best thing would be for that girl’s family to coax that monster out. I don’t understand what you’re thinking! By assigning people to take over the caravan and fleet, given that he’s both crafty and cunning, he might very well retreat!"

Shangguan Xuanyi lightly stirred his tea with a cup lid, "Everyone knows that the Marquis Shengping family is close to us. With this relationship, he may not necessarily fall for it."

"That girl loves to make money and has endless means to do so. If we investigate a little, we’ll know the truth. We don’t need her to do anything. We just need her to pretend to be leasing the caravan and fleet for the sake of making more money, regardless of what others are transporting. We’ll insert our people first, and we won’t believe that we can’t fish him out in the long run!" Di Shaowei attempted to persuade Shangguan Xuanyi to change his mind!

Shangguan Xuanyi remained silent. Of course, he knew this tactic was good, but he didn’t want her to get involved in this muddy water and didn’t want to bring her any danger.

"Now their transfer of the caravan and fleet indicates that they have realized the trouble from the Shi family is not merely a clan dispute over the winery, but someone has set their sights on the Shi family’s caravan and fleet! Isn’t this alerting the snake in the grass?" Seeing that Shangguan Xuanyi was unmoved, Di Shaowei felt like knocking on his head to see if his brain was stuffed with porridge. He was so confused about this matter.

"It just requires a bit more time and manpower. Someone is running short of silver, we’ll push a little harder, and he’ll fall into our trap soon enough." Shangguan Xuanyi insisted!

"Why would you bother with such troublesome methods when there’re better ones! Are you possessed?" Di Shaowei was so angry that he started speaking without a filter.

"I don’t want to involve that girl."

"Nothing will go wrong if we keep an eye on it!"

"Even the most careful plans may have a slight oversight, and more importantly, I don’t want to use her!"

Di Shaowei held his forehead, this guy was just too much! He also treated that girl as his own sister and cared for her too!

God, what are you doing! Why don’t you strike this idiot with a thunderbolt to wake him up!

What on earth counts as taking advantage of her! Whatever! He wouldn’t bring this matter up again! Anyway, he was the one who was going to handle this matter. He would discuss it with the girl himself!

He believed that she would definitely be willing to cooperate.

"Is the Emperor really planning to make an incognito visit to Shengping County?"

Shangguan Xuanyi nodded, which is why he had been very busy lately. He needed to prepare for the central examination.

After the examination, he had to assign official positions to those who passed, and knew which positions were vacant in each region! He absolutely couldn’t place the wrong people in important positions!

Moreover, he had to use these vacancies to balance and restrain all the major families.

He also had to arrange for the Emperor’s incognito visit, the route, and security work!

He also had to resolve the issues of the Imperial Court after the Emperor’s incognito visit.

With so many tasks piled up, he was extremely busy!

He volunteered to stay in the Imperial Capital for a few months on a rotation basis with his two elder brothers, then followed the Emperor on the tour.

His brothers were so happy when they heard that he wanted to switch shifts, saying, if the Emperor was not going to Shengping County and not staying at her house, he wouldn’t be willing to follow the Emperor on his tour, where he would have no freedom at all!

"Has the Emperor had enough of the dreary palace and is now following the example of his sons, running away from home?"

Shangguan Xuanyi put down his teacup when he heard this, "When did I run away from home? How come I’m not aware of this?"

"My mistake, my mistake!" Di Shaowei quickly apologized.

"Don’t think that by changing the topic, I don’t know what you are planning. This matter cannot involve her, I’ll say it one last time!" Shangguan Xuanyi looked at Di Shaowei seriously, expressing his determination.

Di Shaowei surrendered, "Okay, I’ll absolutely do as you wish, even if things blow up, I won’t involve her, is that okay!"

Shangguan Xuanyi nodded.

Di Shaowei was speechless, is this any way to play!

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