met free Chapter 205 Chu Xingchen pieced together the plot in his dream and came up with a bold guess.
Chapter 205 Chu Xingchen pieced together the plot in his dream and came up with a bold guess.
System [Host, your mission has failed. This mission has been withdrawn. We will unlock a new mission for you. Complete the hidden plot of the Palace Banquet and gain 10% favorability with the capture target.]
Upon hearing this, Lin Yiyi felt like crying but had no tears.
She thought she was lucky enough to be the heroine of a novel, but it was not as simple as she thought.
The maid she sent out yesterday said that Mo Yunsheng had been standing at the dock, waiting from noon until dark, until the guard on duty couldn't stand it anymore and said that the ban on Sanxian Island was over and asked him to take the last boat back.
He gave his attendants many instructions, asking them to remember to send a message to Dongli Academy if a woman was looking for him, and then he left reluctantly.
Su Liyue was shocked, fearing that perhaps Mr. Mo had already had someone in his heart before he met her.
Later she asked the servant, and it turned out that he was waiting for a woman named Qin Xue.
Su Liyue sighed. She knew there was something fishy going on. The target of her pursuit had someone else in his heart.
Maybe her strategy mission was not as simple as she thought.
Lin Yiyi [System, what is that hidden mission?]
System [Host, the mission can only be unlocked when the main storyline progresses to the Palace Banquet plot.]
It turned out to be the case.
Lin Yiyi sighed and asked softly.
[Tongzi, what were the palace banquets like in previous years? What do I need to prepare in advance?]
System [Host, actually, you just need to attend the palace banquet and complete the mission. Before the banquet, you need to search for Mr. Mo more often to cultivate his favorability and increase your strategy points.]
Lin Yiyi was thoughtful when he heard this.
Mo Yunsheng is currently studying at Dongli Academy. Otherwise, she would have transferred from Juxian Yashe to Dongli Academy.
After all, the one who is close to the water gets the moon first, which is also a good idea. So she asked the system for information and began to find a famous teacher to seriously tutor her, planning to go to the New Year after the palace banquet.
Su Liyue planned to take part in the entrance examination of Dongli Academy next spring, get in openly and become Mo Yunsheng's classmate. After all, studying was the least strenuous thing for her.
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Chu Xingchen was busy and had not returned yet.
He pieced together the plot of the dream and came up with a bold guess. Perhaps the Chu Xingchen and Su Yingxue in the dream were the Chu Xingchen and Su Yingxue from his previous life.
These days, Chu Xingchen used the foresight and premonitions he gained from his dreams to determine their authenticity. The Liu family's ancestors rose to prominence through shipping and water transportation, controlling the shipping routes of the Great Qi. His men had been lurking within the family for years, but the Liu family's strict hierarchy and rigorous management had left him unable to find any loopholes.
Until Chu Xingchen dreamed of his past life. Several years later, he found out that the Liu family took advantage of the convenience of ship and water transport routes to smuggle and sell illegal salt, and even used the interlayer of long-distance ships to smuggle banned substances. Without reporting to the government, they brought the banned substances back to their own seaport, and then transferred them to water transport routes to sell them in various places, forming a top-secret smuggling chain.
Chu Xingchen had long wanted to remove the Liu family, this wealthy pawn. The Liu family was considered extremely wealthy among the four great families.
Because the Liu family was extremely wealthy, when the late emperor attacked Da Qi in his early years, the Liu family contributed the most grain, silk and other valuables.
The Liu family today is a far cry from the Liu family of the previous emperor's time. There's a saying in maritime and water transport circles: "Seven out of ten ships are Lius, two are officials, and one is commoners." This speaks volumes about the Liu family's prosperity.
This time, he sent many secret guards to keep an eye on the ships and ports where the Liu family smuggled banned goods in his previous life, and there were also many potential middlemen who tipped off the family.
In the past, Chu Xingchen had no direction and could only investigate bit by bit. Now that the direction is clear, the reply he received soon also confirmed his dream.
It's all real.
Chu Xingchen vividly dreamed about his past and future lives. But so what? He wasn't the Chu Xingchen of his past life. He could discern what would help him succeed, and he could also change the course of certain events.
For example, his future with his sister.
Chu Xingchen felt that Su Yingxue had also been reborn. So after falling into the lake, she suddenly changed her ways, and her attitude towards him was completely different. She even began to care for him, and her eyes were filled with awe whenever she looked at him.
Su Yingxue reminded him more than once that he would be a flying dragon in the future, and she also made him sure that she also knew the ending of his previous life where he became the emperor of Qi Sheng.
But Chu Xingchen didn’t understand. Since she was also reborn, why didn’t she take the initiative to kill him to eliminate future troubles even though she knew that he would destroy her homeland in the future? Instead, she chose a conciliatory policy, cultivating him, training him, and taking care of him?
Chu Xingchen didn't understand.
But he took half a month to finally seize the account books of the Liu family's smuggling of banned items and salt, as well as a large amount of banned items. He used the influence of the Princess Palace in the court and the opposition to seize the Liu family's shipping personnel and the stolen goods.
The Liu family is indeed still the Liu family. In the previous life, the Liu family buried the most abundant gold, silver and jewelry of their ancestors, as well as the part of the property that was divided up from the Nangong family, deep in the ancestral tomb in the Liu family temple compound.
Originally, the Liu family had made this move as a backup plan in case the smuggling business was exposed one day and the family's property was confiscated. However, this time, their cleverness backfired.
Chu Xingchen effortlessly swallowed up the huge assets of the Liu family for generations. Overnight, all the Liu family's secret guards in the suburbs of Beijing were killed, and Chu Xingchen emptied the Liu family's retreat.
Back then, the Nangong family's forces had been dispersed by the Liu family, scattered across various shipping lines. With the memories of their previous life and the help of Shopkeeper Chen, this time, like the Qin family, they vanished silently. No trace of them remained, no trace of their bodies.
Chu Xingchen, leveraging the influence of the Princess' Palace, forced the Liu family to defect. After all, the ancestral tombs had been completely dug up during this period, leaving the Liu family with only their external glory. If Chu Xingchen were to continue with the ironclad evidence in his hands, it would be enough to bring about the demise of the entire Liu family.
The Liu family now thought that it was Su Yingxue who defected, but they had no idea that the real person in charge of the Princess's Palace was actually the humble Prince Qi who was looked down upon by others.
And that person's current public identity is the only beloved lover of Her Royal Highness the Princess.
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Chu Xingchen finished his work that day, and the Liu family's affairs came to an end. Now the Liu family became a hidden chess piece in Chu Xingchen's hands to monitor Xuanyuan Luoshan.
Chu Xingchen returned to the palace that day. The winter night wind was cold. He was dressed in black and came in the dark, carrying the token of Her Royal Highness the Princess.
Chu Xingchen entered the palace in front of the palace gate. The guard on duty looked at the token in his hand with some sarcasm in his eyes, but because of the status of Her Royal Highness the Princess, he still let him in with a smile.