Chapter 91 Hot
Chi Yan noticed that his master's ears were a little red, his Adam's apple rolled, and his expression was a little abnormal. He wondered if his master was in love.
Humph, I'll let you watch the prince take a bath for no reason!
However, it was hard for him to understand: Is the relationship between two grown men really so difficult to control?
He asked the servant to prepare some cold water for Ye Hanting. After Ye Hanting soaked in the cold water, he felt that the hot feeling in his body had disappeared a little.
When he closed his eyes, his mind was filled with Chu Li's charming and unconscious appearance while bathing.
He had never discovered this side of Chu Li.
I wonder how stunning she would be if she changed into women's clothes.
He actually had such evil thoughts that he decided to let Chu Li continue to dress like a man!
Otherwise, she might appear in front of other men as a woman one day.
He was sure that there were many men who liked Chu Li.
Ye Hanting slowly opened his eyes. Forget it. He couldn't reveal his true feelings until Chu Li showed her affection for him.
Otherwise, Chu Li would only be afraid of him and wary of him because he knew the secret of her daughter's body.
Ye Hanting gradually regained his composure when he thought of this.
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A maid was kneeling in front of Mu Feng. "General Mu, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince never lets me serve you close to him."
"Besides, the Grand Tutor just went in and asked this servant to leave."
Mu Feng frowned. He originally had good intentions and wanted Chu Li to get in touch with more beautiful women. In this way, he might slowly start to like women.
It seems that it is completely useless.
He has been really troubled by the old man's pressure to get married recently. Only if Chu Li works hard to have children first can he feel less pressured.
Chu Li suddenly appeared behind Mu Feng and she looked at him with a sullen face.
"Uncle, I have already taught Huanyan and Bingxia a lesson. If you try to put someone in my bedroom again, I will not be polite!"
Mu Feng coughed lightly with a guilty conscience, "My uncle is doing this for your own good. Look at how the rumors about you and the Grand Tutor are spreading in the capital now!"
Chu Li sneered, "Uncle, you believe those rumors. I respect the master very much, and he taught me everything he knew. Those are just divisive tactics used by people who want to see me ruined. You believe them!"
Ye Hanting heard it clearly in the house, and his eyes instantly turned cold. Chu Li really had no other thoughts about him, and he was the only one here in the chaos.
Chi Yan also heard Chu Li's answer in the dark, and the corners of his lips curled up.
It turns out that only the master's old house caught fire. The prince didn't like his master. Haha, he wronged the prince.
Mu Feng sighed, "Then you are already eighteen years old, it's time to marry a concubine!"
Chu Li laughed heartily, "Uncle, you are just making the pot call when you are fifty steps away. You are already twenty-six years old, and your child should be able to play with soy sauce!"
Chu Li suddenly realized what was going on and tilted his head to look at Mu Feng, "Oh, is it because my uncle was forced to get married by the old man that he transferred the conflict to me?"
Mu Feng looked a little embarrassed, "Not entirely, I really am doing this for your own good!"
Chu Li smiled cunningly, which made Mu Feng feel uneasy. Why did Chu Li look like a cunning fox? The abacus beads were about to jump onto his face.
Chu Li looked Mu Feng up and down and walked around him.
"Oh, I understand. The daughter of the Minister of Industry, Xue Binglan, seems to like you very much. For you, she is still unmarried at the age of 20. You are so mean, little uncle!"
Mu Feng seemed to be stepped on by Chu Li. He said with a gloomy face: "It has nothing to do with me that she doesn't want to marry. I have already made it clear to her that I will never marry in this life. It's she who insisted on waiting."
Chu Li curled his lips, "Uncle, this is where you're wrong. I heard Xue Binglan is one of the four beauties in the capital, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she also admires military commanders. A woman's prime years only last a few years, so why don't you just marry her and let the old man have a grandson sooner! Then I'll give you a big bag of money as a gift, how about that?"
Mu Feng frowned and said coldly: "Don't mention this matter again in the future."
Seeing that he was really angry, Chu Li didn't want to argue with him anymore.
However, she would not feel at ease until Mu Feng got married. What if the baby in her belly looked like Mu Feng in the future?
She comforted herself in her heart that it shouldn't be the case, as there weren't many children around her who were exactly like their parents.
Chu Li prayed silently in his heart: Oh my God, please, please give birth to a smaller version of her.
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The next morning at court, Chu Li served as regent for the first time.
She listened to the ministers' reports on the situation in various places, as if she was opening the daily morning news.
"Your Highness, Shanku County has suffered from drought and the autumn grain harvest has failed. This is the list of disaster relief funds, please take a look." Minister of Revenue Cui Yue nodded.
Chu Li looked through the accounts, and after a moment, she threw the account book at the feet of the Minister of Revenue.
"It won't take 160,000 taels. The total is 153,517 taels of silver. Take it back and recalculate it!"
Kong Wu looked outside the hall at his uncle Kong Lingqi's immediate superior, Cui Yue, who always took kickbacks. Whenever his uncle was angry about this, he would say a few words about it at home.
However, every time he took kickbacks, no one could find out.
Cui Hao is a habitual offender. His Majesty did not notice any clues, but the Crown Prince discovered that the accounts were wrong at a glance.
The ministers were shocked. How could there be a discrepancy of nearly 6,500 taels of silver?
Chu Li looked at the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Kong Lingqi, and said, "Please ask Lord Kong and the person in charge of the accounting office to calculate whether the silver in the account book is the same as what I said!"
"Yes, Your Highness." The two began to settle the accounts in the hall.
She just used a mathematical formula, which was simple and convenient to calculate the total number.
But if you add them up one by one, it will take some time.
Cui Yue must have secretly taken money from the court on a daily basis. When his father was still alive, he probably embezzled less.
When she went to court today, Cui Yue was certain that she would not be able to understand the accounts, let alone calculate them, and he completely treated her as a fool!
After Mu Feng got the results calculated by the two, his eyes trembled. The way Chu Li sat there confidently and calmly made people inexplicably feel the oppression of an emperor.
The people from the Ministry of Revenue spent half a day calculating just now. How did Chu Li manage to figure out the total amount so quickly?
When Ye Hanting caught a glimpse of the total number calculated by Kong Lingqi, the corners of his lips curled up slightly.
Every time he thought he had seen through Chu Li, Chu Li would always give him a little surprise.
He was also very curious about how Chu Li did it.
Chu Li's eyes were cold and stern, "Don't think you can fool me just because my father is not here!"
The Minister of Revenue Cui Yue had an unpleasant look on his face. The discrepancies in the account book were larger than when Emperor Qingyuan was in power.
There are so many trivial disaster relief projects that have to be distributed equally to each household. With such a confusing algorithm, the prince was able to calculate the actual total amount so quickly.
He pretended to be calm and explained to Chu Li, "Your Highness, the time required to submit the accounts this time is short, and they need to be delivered to the victims as soon as possible, so I roughly calculated a number. After the disaster is over, I will report to Your Highness again how much silver was spent!"
Chu Li suddenly sat up from her chair and walked step by step to Cui Yue.
Cui Yue felt his whole body go numb when he was stared at by him. He lowered his eyes slightly and did not look at Chu Li.
"Then I'll wait and see!" Chu Li's voice came calmly, but it made him feel inexplicably frightened.
It shouldn’t be!
How did the prince calculate it?
Could it be that there was a spy in the Ministry of Revenue who told the prince about this in advance?
That's impossible. Only he and the accounting supervisor knew about this. The accounting supervisor is his brother-in-law, so it couldn't be him.
Cui Yue swallowed his saliva. If no one leaked the secret, then Chu Li, who had been pretending to be stupid, would be really scary!