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While Yun Ruo was walking away, she met Scarlet Jade on the way back. He gave her a faint smile, "Have you finished discussing the matter?" Yun Ruo Lu felt that there was no need for her to answer him, although she did not hate this person, and did not want him to meddle in other people's business.

"Do you really think he needs to rush to make weapons?" He continued to speak to her.

Not long after she left the Embroidery Villa, the carriage stopped a little in front of her. From those words, she was naturally able to understand what was going on.

"What do you know?" She felt that this Scarlet Jade must know something.

"Do you know that when Yuchi Xuan started his army, he was the greatest customer of this villa? If it wasn't for the fact that they had a deep friendship, this villa wouldn't have sold this weapon to Yuchi Xuan in large quantities." If there is a war, the amount of damage to the weapons will be obvious. Although there is a weapon workshop in the imperial government, the production of the weapons is still limited, and during the recent rainy season, there are many rusted marks on the weapons in the imperial government's armory. However, the imperial government has yet to start purchasing weapons, and he has not sold them to anyone else in large quantities. Scarlet Jade said to her.

In truth, her heart was filled with questions as well, but what she hadn't expected was that this Heartless Heartless had already made inquiries regarding the affairs of Yuchi Kingdom. He had even made inquiries as to where Yuchi Xuan had purchased the weapons.

While deep in thought, Yun Ruo raised her head, only to see that the scarlet jade had long since disappeared. She sat in the carriage and thought about what Chiyu had said. If what Chiyu said was true, then why did the Manor Lord agree with him that there would be no weapons until the next month, or was the Manor Lord simply being meticulous?

"Turn around!" When she thought here, she immediately opened her mouth. This manor lord does not seem to be simple!

She used her movement technique to fly into the Plum Garden Villa, only to see someone speaking inside. It was the housekeeper with the fan and the master of the Plum Garden Villa.

"Tomorrow morning, the emperor will report that the Imperial Concubine has come to ask him if he wants to buy a weapon and confirm that there is such a thing." The manor lord had called a subordinate over.

Sure enough, Chiyu was absolutely right. The manor lord of the Embroidery Villa was indeed not ordinary. If that manservant were to report to Yuchi Xuan, she would definitely be suspected. Although she was strong enough to flee the imperial palace, her plan wasn't as simple as fleeing the palace.

On the morning of the second day, a servant indeed arrived at the entrance of the Imperial Palace. However, even if it was a person from a wealthy family, they would not be able to enter the Imperial Palace.

As expected, the person brought a identity token and entered the palace. However, it was impossible for him to see the Son of Heaven directly. Yun Ruo was well aware of this, so she specifically told Ke Yunjin that she must patrol the royal study of the Emperor today.

"Stop, who are you? Why are you in this palace? " Ke Yunjin's words seemed to be just a routine. In fact, he had already been waiting for this manservant for a long time.

"Reporting to this official, this subject has the right to hand over his identity token to the emperor. This is Hu Ming's identity token." He took out the identity token for Ke Yunjin to see. Ke Yunjin looked at it, it was a token that could be used to enter the palace, and people of different identities in the palace all had different identity tokens. The privilege of this identity token was to be able to pass a secret letter to the Emperor.

"Just leave it to me. I'll hand it to the emperor. I'm the emperor's guard commander." Ke Yunjin had a serious expression on his face.

"Then I'll have to trouble this official." With that, the attendant handed the items over to Ke Yunjin. The emperor was not in the imperial study at this time of day. He went to see Yun Ruo Yao after leaving the imperial morning court, and she purposely let Ke Yunjin act here. Usually, when people came to look for the emperor, the consular eunuchs would bring him here.

In addition, Yuchi Xuanxuan had only been the emperor for less than a year. How could the Embroidery Villa send people to the imperial palace often? She had taken advantage of this.

Yun Ruo wandered back to the Cloud Jade Palace and opened the secret letter. The secret letter stated that she had come to the Embroidery Villa. She picked up the usual fire piston used by the palace maids and burned the secret letter.

At noon, she pulled Yuchi Xuanming over for lunch. Although her eyes were cold, she said, "Your majesty, chenqie knows that the weather is relatively humid these days. Last time, I remembered that Your Majesty read the imperial report and found that the weapons inside the library seemed to have rusted. Her words had made her voice a little softer, but the expression on her face was not smiling, nor was there any gentleness in her eyes.

"Oh? Is there a suitable candidate for my beloved concubine? " Yuchi Xuan's eyebrows twitched as if he was surprised that Fang Xingjian had suddenly raised this topic.

"As far as chenqie is concerned, I can hand this matter over to General Ke. General Ke has been marching and fighting for many years, so he is naturally an expert in weapons." Yun Ruo Lu quickly said while it was still hot.

"That's a good idea. Then we'll just rely on our beloved concubine and hand this matter over to General Ke." Yuchi Xuan knew about the purchase of weapons, but he knew that there was a lot of oil for him to fish for. This Ke Yunjin was also Jinsi's husband, so it seemed that she treated one of his maidservants better than him. Yuchi Xuan couldn't help but feel a hint of bitterness in his heart.

However, what Yuchi Xuan would never understand was that in Yun Ruo Lu's heart, this servant was no longer a servant; instead, he was a sister who had shared hardships with her. Sometimes, sisterhood could be so wondrous, even for someone who could be protected with their life. Perhaps in her heart, only Yuchi Chen was of equal importance to Jinye.

He had always used the Jin Se as a bargaining chip to threaten Yun Ruo and had always felt that Jin Se was the only one whom he could entrust his trust to in Yun Ruo Lu, right?

Just as he agreed, Yun Ruo Lu did not speak anymore and focused on eating, not uttering a single sound. He knew that if he did not agree, he might never come back here for dinner again.

In the end, he left the Fine Jade Cloud Palace.

She watched him walk into the distance, a look of unspeakable hatred in her eyes. That gaze seemed to wish that it could turn into thousands of silver needles and pierce towards Yuchi Xuan.

However, her gaze was still a gaze after all. No matter what, it would never truly turn into thousands of silver needles, but the hatred in her heart would never be dispelled.

Just you wait! The good show is about to begin...

At night, she brought some tonic to see Yun Ruo Yao. Actually, Yun Ruo Yao sometimes wondered if her little sister already knew that she was the one who did all those things, so every time she brought something, it would be to her harm. But she always used something that Yun Ruo did, and would call someone to check it every time. Furthermore, there was nothing unusual about the fetus in her womb. Thus, he temporarily lowered his guard.

Yun Ruo would occasionally go out during these few days. Of course, she was also there to purchase weapons. However, the weapons she purchased were of inferior quality. Naturally, these large villas had their own workshop. Their own smelters could make weapons that could fight. However, these small workshops could also make weapons. Of course, it was only for the production of inferior weapons.

In other words, those ordinary weapons looked no different from ordinary weapons. However, those that entered the battlefield and those ordinary weapons immediately broke the moment they came into contact.

At this moment, Yun Ruo Lu even had an even crazier idea. If she were to replace all the spare weapons from Yuchi Xuan's armory with those from the battlefield, what would happen if she were to place in those inferior weapons that were produced by the small metallurgical workshop?

During the night, she discussed this matter with Ke Yunjin.

"There have been no recent wars, and it is possible to do so. It's just that we can't replace too many of them at once, or else they'll be easily detected. " Ke Yunjin said.

She intended to replace two-thirds of the weapons in the armory and mix them with normal weapons for at least a year. That was because the weapons used by the soldiers now were not in the armory, and every soldier or guard was equipped with a weapon. Only when they were recruiting new soldiers every year would they be issued with new weapons, but this was still a long time before that happened. Her plan would definitely be carried out within a year.

At that time, she would have Yuchi Xuan atone for everything he had done in the past. She would have him experience the feeling of living a life worse than death. It was a mistake to let him know that he had ascended to the throne. To him, becoming an emperor was the beginning of a tragedy. An indescribable coldness appeared in Yun Ruo Lu's eyes. Ke Yunjin and Jin Se looked at Yun Ruo Lu and sighed in their hearts.

Actually, Jinsi only wished for her young miss to be happy.

After Yun Ruo Lu returned to the Imperial Palace, the envoy of the Southern Champion Kingdom that had not appeared for a few days once again appeared within the Imperial Palace, and even appeared in front of Yun Ruo Lu.

Recently, Yuchi Xuanxuan had been running to Yun Ruo Yao's place more frequently. It seemed like the Imperial Physician had recently said that the child in his womb was unstable. After all, he was Yuchi Xuan's own child. If he heard of this, he would naturally accompany Ruo Yao more. Even if he didn't love Ruo Yao, how could a father possibly ignore his own flesh and blood?

Yun Ruo Lu was happy and quiet. To her, in this palace, the Yun Ruo Yao she didn't want to see the most was not ranked first. The only one who could be ranked first was him, Yuchi Xuan.

Sometimes, Scarlet Jade would appear in front of her and speak a few words to him. However, it was only a few words, and he seemed to be avoiding something as he quickly left.

Whenever this happened, Yun Ruo Lu would feel that the back of Chi Yu seemed very familiar, thinking that she had seen him somewhere before.

But he really did not know anyone from the Southern Champion Kingdom, much less have any sort of relationship with this Prince from the Southern Champion Kingdom. Perhaps he had been too tired recently. She sighed.

Fortunately, there was one good thing that happened recently, and that was that in a few more days, it would be the birthday of Xiangqing. Right now, Xiangqing was in the imperial palace. She would not reveal the same innocent smile she used to, but at least she was still a master in the imperial palace.