After searching for the treasure that day, it coincided with the Duanyang Festival1 and Jiang Rui gave the Little Emperor two days off.

Two days later, she went to Chongzheng Hall again. As soon as she entered, she felt that the atmosphere was not right. All the internal attendants lowered their heads tremblingly and did not dare to breathe. She glanced at Lu Xingzhou, but saw him looking at the memorial in front of him with a gloomy face.

During this period, she often came to the Chongzheng Hall and Jiang Rui found that Lu Xingzhou was concerned about the accidents of the dynasty. As the Chief Eunuch of the Palm Seal and the Governor of the East Factory2, he was busy with daily affairs, so he always spends a lot of time reviewing memorials. Even when the first emperor was there, he was not as conscientious as him.

He became a treacherous minister in charge of the government for pleasure. Like him, she doesn’t know where the fun is.

However, perhaps for this reason, the first emperor passed away so long and the Little Emperor was ignorant, but the court still operated as usual. The people’s life was not affected. The ministers scolded a word or two in private, but no one really wanted to fight to the death to bring down this eunuch. Even the Empress Dowager Xie’s father, Master Xie, has recently been temporarily settled after the previous plan was exposed.

Of course, what really makes them dare not act rashly is the authority and power in Lu Xingzhou’s hands.

Jiang Rui paused before walking towards the inner hall.

When the Little Emperor saw her, he dared not speak loudly, but looked carefully at the outer hall, and said: “Queen Mother, there is a flood in some place and Lu Gonggong is very angry.”

Jiang Rui nodded, “Then let’s be quieter, don’t disturb him.”

The two lowered their voices, one teaching and one learning. The Little Emperor was listening attentively. Suddenly, he heard an object in the outer hall hit the ground, accompanied by a gruesome rage: “These fools!”

The Little Emperor was obviously startled and his whole body trembled. Jiang Rui hugged him hurriedly and patted his back lightly.

“Queen Mother… Is Lu Gonggong angry?” The Little Emperor said cautiously.

“Don’t be afraid, Queen Mother is here.” Jiang Rui comforted him.

It seemed that she could not teach anymore today. After she calmed down the Little Emperor, she simply asked him to go out with a few internal servants, so don’t be frightened here.

She herself also went out of the inner hall. Only after walking a few steps, she felt that something had been stepped on under her feet. After she looked down, it was an unfolded memorial and there were several books scattered on the ground. The internal attendants did not dare to pick them up.

Seeing her staring at the ground, Hanyan picked it up and handed it to her, “Niangniang.”

Jiang Rui hesitated for a while before taking it over. The memorial stated that the reason for the flooding was that there was a lot of silt in the river water, which was deposited at the bottom and the river bed increased year after year. As a result, the river water overflowed the river bank and flooded.

Jiang Rui held the memorial, looked at Lu Xingzhou, walked over slowly, and gently placed the memorial on the bookcase.

“I have a few words, I don’t know how to say it.”

Lu Xingzhou looked up at her and twitched the corners of his mouth. Although it was a smile that could not be dealt with, his expression was not as gloomy as before: “It turns out to be Niangniang, please say something.”

Jiang Rui did not want to sell anything and said directly, “Has Lu Gonggong heard of the method of attacking sand in the water of the bunch?”

Lu Xingzhou was stunned for a moment, wrinkled his long eyebrows, and thought carefully. He quickly figured out what to understand and asked: “Please enlighten me, Niangniang”

“I dare not enlighten Gonggong. I read several miscellaneous books when I was in my boudoir. The author mentioned in the book that if the river contains a lot of sand, the flow rate must be slow, and the sediment is easy to deposit. The solution is to build embankments to bind the water, attack the sand with water, and wash the bottom of the river. I don’t know if it makes some sense in Gonggong’s opinion?”

The more she said, the more the haze on Lu Xingzhou’s face disappeared. In the end, he smiled and said: “What’s more? I have a lot of admiration for Niangniang.”

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