HCB Chapter 535: State Banquet Advance
Chapter 535: State Banquet Advance
Just as she guessed, three months later, Lu Yuanqi did not receive Xue Yunyun's request for help.
Lu Feiqi still led his team around the outskirts of Xue County. Zhao Ru became the only extraordinary woman who could marry into the palace and become a concubine even when her husband was not around.
Her parents who were far away in Yuncheng were implicated and dismissed from their position as prefect, but Shen Yu knew that this was the consequence for their secret obedience to Luocheng.
From the news sent back by Zhao Ru, it was learned that the head of the Yun family and the Queen Mother had abandoned the old communication channels. Xue Yunyun had lost her usefulness, but her name was saved. In the future, she would only serve as a mascot. After all, she was still the Queen's niece.
After May, the second princess prepared to return to Luo City.
But suddenly it was announced that the "State Banquet in Yue" held every two years would be held a year earlier in order to celebrate the Queen Mother's 60th birthday.
Therefore, Shen Yu and Lu Yingxing had to be forced to go to Luocheng, accompanied by representatives from the newly appointed Earl Mu, Earl Ji, Earl Lu, and Earl Su's mansion.
The Mu family, as orphans of the previous dynasty, surrendered to the new emperor and needed to go to the palace to express their gratitude. The Ji family presented the secret book of Qimen Dunjia, the Lu family presented medical skills and books, and the Su family presented nearly 100,000 volumes of books in exchange for the earl's registration, and they also needed to go to the palace to express their gratitude.
It's just that they kept delaying, and just happened to go with the rest of the people this time.
The wharf in Dong County had been completed before the New Year. This time they no longer needed to take a long-distance carriage, but could choose to travel by water. Although the journey was a bit roundabout, Lu Yingxing was reluctant to let his wife suffer, and naturally the others had no objection. Who wouldn't want to try something new?
This waterway was jointly built by Zhuo Wangfu and Jiangnan Caojia. Starting from Zhuocheng, Lu Yingxing directly negotiated the route. A short section of the route passed through the Licheng Canal and then entered Luocheng Jiangnan County via the lower reaches of Luocheng, which was very convenient.
Therefore, Licheng and Zhuocheng have also established in-depth cooperation. Dozens of workshops in Xi County have already been put into use. Due to the large demand, Shen Yu has long separated the toy production of the "Parent-Child Workshop". The reason why Licheng Prince Lu Chuchen readily agreed to borrow the passage this time is because her wife, Prince Meng Rong, is the exclusive agent of Princess Zhuo's toy workshop.
The people of Mohe were also fully utilized by Shen Yu. Originally, an ethnic area was set up in the commercial street of Nan County just to allow them to retain their own beliefs and better integrate into Zhuocheng.
But since he discovered that they were good at taming animals, Shen Yu discussed with Mo Gu and Tara and decided to transfer most of them to Xi County to manage the jerky workshop, where there happened to be a breeding farm as well.
Those families who knew how to train eagles were directly sent into the army by Lu Yingxing.
Everything in Zhuocheng is proceeding in an orderly manner. Even the people in Youcheng have settled down in the other three counties. Each family can be allocated more than ten acres of land for cultivation.
The seeds were distributed by Prince Zhuo's palace, and after the harvest, the palace bought them back at the current market price. The people's faces were filled with longing for a new life in the future. Such a hopeful life was something they had never dared to imagine before.
At this point, Shen Yu’s planning for the eight counties of Zhuocheng has been completed.
From left to right, the three counties of East, South and West are commercial and industrial areas, the North County in the middle is the main city, and the three counties of Rong, Lan and Ning on the right are all planting areas. They are the granaries of the north and the planting bases for the crops needed by the workshops.
After arranging everything, Shen Yu and the others began to prepare to go to Luo City. There was nothing much to do in the mansion. The only big issue was whether to take the two little kids with them.
According to convention, the newborn sons of the four city princes all need to go to Los Angeles for an audience, but the two favorites are only one year and two months old, and all the uncles and aunts are arguing over this matter.
On the contrary, Shen Yu and Lu Yingxing, as parents, were the calmest. They were afraid that the trip to Los Angeles might not be peaceful, and they had not originally planned to bring their two children with them.
On the first day of June, Shen Yu and his party boarded the carriage with their luggage. In addition to the representatives of the four families, Lu Mu and Prince De also traveled with them.
Mu'er seldom showed up in Luo City before, for fear that he would be recognized by Shen Nian and taken away by force. Now that he is the son of King De and is included in the royal family tree, he will take care of Shen Nian when he returns this time anyway. As his biological son, seeing him off for the last time will be his filial duty.
Lu Feiyao was holding Chenchen and standing at the gate of Prince Zhuo's mansion to say goodbye to them. Next to him was Gao Yong, who was holding Tiantian in one hand and Meng'er in the other.
Lu Yingxing touched his daughter's head reluctantly and said, "Father will be back soon. Tiantian, follow Grandpa, father-in-law and uncles obediently. Father will bring you a gift when he comes back, okay?"
Xiao Tiantian looked at her father and then at her mother, wondering why her father had to see her off before going to "work" today?
She answered obediently, "Okay!"
Shen Yu was quite busy, touching the faces of his son and several younger brothers and sisters, "You all have to be obedient, I will definitely bring you gifts when I come back!"
Yang Er suddenly stuffed a piece of silver into her palm and said, "Sister, you must eat well when you are going on a long journey."
He learned all this from the auntie at the academy, who taught him to pay money when traveling far away.
Shen Yu looked at him and didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Okay, sister accepts it, Yang'er is so thoughtful!"
Mu Ruilin, who was standing by, had also finished teaching her younger brother and sister their homework. Seeing that it was getting late, she reminded them, "Sister, we have to leave."
"Father, grandpa, and uncle, we are leaving, you all can go back!" Shen Yu did not ask the whole family, young and old, to see him off out of the city, but just asked them to say a few words of farewell at the door.
Lu Yingxing picked up Mo Gu with one hand and helped Shen Yu onto the first carriage.
Mogu is the new king of Mohe, so of course he needs to go to the palace to pay homage. This time, even Lightning and Night Wind were brought along. The two half-grown white wolves looked majestic and were responsible for leading the way in front of the team.
Behind them was Lu Mu and Prince De's carriage, along with Mu Hao, Qing Li and Cang Yu.
Mu Ruilin, Uncle Ji, Third Uncle Lu, and Su Wei were in a carriage, followed by the guards from various families. The Second Princess couldn't wait to go to the Nan County Labor Union to play, so they would meet up in Nan County.
Suddenly, Chenchen, who was originally held obediently in Lu Feiyao's arms, suddenly burst into tears with a "wow". He seldom cried on weekdays, let alone cried so loudly.
There were already many onlookers standing outside Prince Zhuo's mansion. When he cried like this, everyone became agitated, fearing that something unexpected had happened.
Tiantian didn't understand why, but was infected by her brother's crying and started sobbing too, "Jin Yi, stop the car!! " But the little princess often fake cried, so the power of her crying was naturally not as shocking as her brother's.
Jin Yi, who was in charge of driving, was suddenly called out. He was so scared that he quickly pulled the reins, turned back with a confused look, and looked for help at Zhuo Wang who had hurriedly opened the car door.
Everyone was busy comforting them, but Chenchen just kept pointing at the carriage and crying loudly.