At the end of June of the fourth year of Qingyuan, the sun was scorching and the heat was rolling. The entire Lin'an City was like a huge steamer, and people were sweating everywhere.

Because of the heat of Lin'an City, the West Lake seemed particularly crowded at this time. People who had the conditions to escape the summer and cool off here also moved to the West Lake to escape the summer after the continuous heavy rain in Lin'an.

The many rivers in the city naturally became the most willing places for the people in the city to visit, especially at night, when the breeze blows across the river, the faint coolness penetrates the comfort brought by the boat, and the faint music and singing sounds are like a portrayal of the paradise on earth.

The red candles sway, the green trees conceal, and the talented man and the beautiful woman meet by the river. For a moment, the love and affection are in love. When we are in love, a bright moon hangs in the sky, like a poem and a painting.

Under the water-like moonlight, Ye Qing looked at a jewelry shop opposite, and saw Xie Daoqing walking out of the shop quickly, waved to him in this direction, and then walked towards the tea shop quickly.

Before Xie Daoqing could sit down opposite Ye Qing, he began to complain: "Although the shopkeeper is good, the cost is too high. One ingot of five taels of gold is only enough to make a bracelet and two pairs of earrings. In short, nearly two taels of gold were taken away by them."

"You can ask them to weigh the bracelet..." Ye Qing said to Xie Daoqing, who was a little depressed.

Xie Daoqing, before Ye Qing finished speaking, glanced at Ye Qing and shook his head and said, "He can make a bracelet of three taels, but it's hard to say if it's not enough gold. Forget it, this store is still too unscrupulous."

"Where is the jade?" Ye Qing asked with a smile. Obviously, even if Ye Qing is smart in terms of jewelry, he can be regarded as a complete layman compared to a woman who loves beauty.

Although Xie Daoqing is not very passionate about gold and silver jewelry, just like women with natural understanding of rouge, watermelon, silk and satin, they also have their unique talents in jewelry.

"The gold jewelry is so powerful, jade..." Xie Daoqing curled his lips and shook his head unwillingly, then looked at the antique shop next to the gold shop where she just went into, and said, "It would be better to sell jade to their place to bracelets."

"Maybe you can go to the gold jewelry store to choose some jewelry casually, and I promise that no one will charge you money." Ye Qing smiled at Xie Daoqing, who was slightly depressed.

Bright eyes looked at Ye Qing in confusion, obviously not very clear about what Ye Qing said, so he turned his eyes and said, "You think that gold shop was opened by you. The shopkeeper is smart. It would be better to go to other places. I know a shop..."

Xie Daoqing thought of a gold jewelry store on the Imperial Street, and his eyes were brighter at this moment. As he looked at Ye Qing as he was about to continue speaking, he heard soldiers scolding passersby from the street. Then he saw dozens of soldiers wearing armor, holding goose feather swords and crossbows hanging on their waists, instantly surrounding the antique shop and gold jewelry store.

After the soldiers in armor surrounded the two shops, the guests inside ran out of the shop with nervous expressions.

"What's going on?" Xie Daoqing asked Ye Qing in surprise.

Ye Qing smiled without saying a word, just silently staring at everything downstairs, watching two armoured leaders walk into the antique shop and gold jewelry shop. After no customers ran out, he turned to Xie Daoqing and smiled: "Isn't this normal? In the past few days, aren't some shops sealed by the court every day in Lin'an City?"

"Why did the imperial court seal off these shops?" Xie Daoqing looked at Ye Qing and asked.

"Maybe it's illegal business." Ye Qing looked at the street, and a sedan chair rushed towards him quickly at this time, and his brows frowned slightly in an instant.

At this moment, the sound of rapid footsteps sounded at the entrance of the tea shop. Li Lifang climbed to the second floor to patrol. After finding Ye Qing and Xie Daoqing who were by the window, they immediately ran over.

"Why are you still thinking about here..." After looking at Xie Daoqing, Li Lifang deliberately lowered his voice: "Stop drinking tea, the Ministry of Justice has received the news. Do you see it? Han Yanjia's sedan has arrived, and there is a constable from the Ministry of Justice behind him."

"Han Yanjia is not easy to offend." Ye Qing continued to look at the sedan chair that was coming quickly downstairs, and sighed slightly, "Or why don't you go down and try first, and see if Han Yanjia is coming, is it because of himself or someone else."

"What do you mean?" Li Lifang was stunned. Shouldn't he, the King of Yan, come forward at this time?

"Han Yanjia has never had any interaction with Shi Miyuan, but now he is coming over. Who can you guess it is for?" Ye Qing turned around and asked at Li Lifang.

Li Lifang thought for a while, then shook his head silently facing Ye Qing.

"Li Xinchuan, Lou Yu, Shen Jizu and others are now ill. They haven't been to court for four or five days, right? Who is the most diligent person who has been running into the palace these days?" Ye Qing asked leisurely.

Li Lifang almost blurted out: "The one who has been running to the palace the most diligently these days is naturally the father-in-law Yan Keji..."

"So I guess, the reason why Han Yanjia will come here tonight should be that he cannot get out of touch with Yan Keji. No matter what, whether it is Han Yanjia, Yan Keji, or you, Li Lifang, are both royal relatives, so at this time, if you don't come forward, who will come forward to mediate?" Ye Qing said relaxedly.

"I... Lord Ye, isn't it a bit too cruel for you to use people and offend people? Do you really want to seal the entire Lin'an City? Do you know how many people you have to offend? Don't forget that the Lord has not summoned you to the palace yet, but today... the Lord has started to attend court since that time. The memorial of the Censor of the Court impeached you, flying into the Qinzheng Hall like snowflakes!" Li Lifang looked at Ye Qing speechlessly and said.

Since the day after the incident of the Wangwang Mansion, Lin'an City suddenly fell into an invisible panic. Shops of all sizes, whether they are eye-catching or inconspicuous, and even some of the government offices of the court have been sealed by Ye Qing in the past few days, which has caused everyone to have big and small shops in Lin'an City to be in danger.

"Stop talking nonsense, go quickly, I can't see Han Yanjia getting out of the sedan chair." Ye Qing looked at Han Yanjia slowly walking out of the sedan chair on the street, subconsciously pushed Li Lifang, who had just sat down next to him, picked up the tea cup and was drinking tea.

"Your uncle..." Li Lifang hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand, hurriedly got up and shook the tea that was sprinkled on him after Ye Qing pushed it.

Xie Daoqing was a little surprised that Ye Qing had done the matter of blocking the store these days. Similarly, he also angrily scolded Ye Qing for Li Lifang and watched the scene of the two interacting, and felt it was interesting and funny.

"One day, Ye came to your door to apologize to you, go quickly." Ye Qing looked at Li Lifang who was angry and put down his figure as King Yan and asked.

"If the emperor asks about it tomorrow, you have to take responsibility for this matter yourself. Don't blame me for being ruthless and unrighteous. You have all asked for it!" Li Lifang said helplessly, but in the end he walked up the street.

Xie Daoqing looked at Li Lifang with a relaxed expression and walked away reluctantly. He turned his head to look at Ye Qing for a while and suddenly asked, "The reason why Lord Li obeys you so much is because he has something to ask?"

Ye Qing was slightly stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to see it..."

"It's Lord Li that is too obvious. I'm afraid that only Lord Li thinks it's a secret now." Xie Daoqing said with a smile, while Ye Qing's expression became slightly solemn.

Xie Daoqing had just found a topic unintentionally, but unexpectedly, he completely hit the goal of Li Lifang's thought secret.

Li Lifang has always wanted to make achievements in his title. As for the assignment, he himself knew very well that no matter how hard he tried, it was almost impossible to become a person with his own ability. Moreover, he was not interested in taking charge of the position. As for the back and forth between the six ministries, he was still in a vanity, which made him unable to do so, but he was reluctant to give up the vanity and sense of accomplishment brought by his power.

Ye Qing looked silently as he stood arm around Han Yanjia on the street. After they walked to a secluded place, they began to look serious and didn't know what they were discussing.

At this time, Han Ying quickly walked towards the imperial study of Qinzheng Hall. In the main hall not far behind her, Yan was standing in front of Zhao Kuo.

Since returning to the palace from Prince Xin's Mansion that day, Zhao Kuo first locked himself in the Qinzheng Hall alone, and then went to Deshou Palace alone until the early morning of the next day.

Han Ying and Jia She stayed outside Deshou Palace until the morning of the next day, Zhao Kuo walked out of Deshou Palace, while Li Fengniang and Zhu Yeer both did not sleep well in the Cining Hall for a night.

Li Fengniang thought that Zhao Kuo would come to Cining Palace to find her after going to Deshou Palace, but this time she guessed what Zhao Kuo was thinking wrong.

Not only did Zhao Kuo not look for her, nor did he leave the palace, nor even went to the Qinzheng Hall, but instead locked himself in the Qinzheng Hall again for five days, as he did when he returned to the palace. During this period, neither Han Ying nor Yan, nor Li Fengniang, Zhu Yeer was able to enter the Qinzheng Hall to see Zhao Kuo.

He locked himself in Qinzheng Hall and saw no one, which caused the court meeting to be cancelled for several days. However, when the court officials came to Daqing Hall with the intention of perhaps not seeing the emperor, Zhao Kuo had already arrived in Daqing Hall early.

When Li Fengniang heard the news, she was both surprised and happy, but there was no other news except for the news that Zhao Kuo went to court today.

Han Ying quickly walked into Zhao Kuo's imperial study room, looked at Zhao Kuo in a daze towards the wall, coughed slightly, and said after Zhao Kuo came back to his senses, "The Queen is asking for a meeting in the main hall."

"What are she doing?" Zhao Kuo asked with a slightly raised eyebrows. His eyebrow and questioning behavior at this time looked extremely similar to Ye Qing in Han Ying's eyes. Even... If the two of them were not completely different, Han Ying would have thought that Ye Qing was sitting in the imperial study.

After hesitating for a moment, Han Ying still said, "The Queen... the Queen has something to ask the Emperor for help. Is it... about the Grand Secretary Yan Keji..."

"Yan Keji?" Zhao Kuo's heart moved and asked subconsciously: "Why is it, but it's okay to say it."

"The Lord is afraid there is something unknown..." Han Ying glanced at Zhao Kuo with a calm expression, and said truthfully after pausing, "Since the matter of the Xinwang Mansion was settled that day, Ye Qing has sealed many shops in Lin'an City in the past few days, including some official workshops and shops. Today, Grand Secretary Yan came to the palace to ask for the queen. It is said that Ye Qing would seal several shops tonight, and these shops all have something to do with Grand Secretary Yan. Grand Secretary Yan had no choice but to enter the palace to plead with the queen..."

"Why did King Yan seal these shops?" Zhao Kuo asked with a frown.

Han Ying subconsciously shook her head and said, "I don't know if these shops have committed anything, but... what the queen just said just now is that Ye Qing is like this because you let Ye Qing fully deal with the matter of the Prince's Mansion, which makes Ye Qing take this opportunity to eliminate dissidents in Lin'an City, and even take the opportunity to gain wealth..."

"Let her go back and tell her I will go there later." Zhao Kuo said, stroking his chin and thinking for a moment.

Han Ying looked at Zhao Kuo deeply, then nodded and turned around to leave. However, when she turned around, Zhao Kuo's voice came from behind: "No matter when in the future, remember to call King Yan, not his name. No matter what, he is the most meritorious minister who can have today's atmosphere, let alone the title of King of Yan."

"Yes, I understand." Han Ying frowned slightly and lowered her head to walk into the main hall.
Chapter completed!