Chapter 74: Blocked by Others

The Emperor felt somewhat displeased: "They forced my hand."

The Empress Dowager scoffed: "You drove the child to a dead end, yet you won't allow him a bit of temper? They were merely escorting servants."

"I have investigated; those two accepted gifts from the Imperial Concubine and deliberately beat and scolded him along the way. If it were me, I would have taught them a harsh lesson as well."

The Emperor stood up: "Your son still has important matters to attend to, I shall return first."

The Empress Dowager let out a cold snort: "If they do not return, then this birthday banquet might as well not be held."

The Emperor truly could do nothing about the Empress Dowager; he would have to visit her less often during this period.

Just as he was thinking this, the Empress Dowager claimed she was feeling unwell and demanded the Imperial Concubine come to serve her. Like last time, she had all the maids and nannies who followed her sent away, leaving only the Imperial Concubine alone.

The Empress Dowager sat, so she had to stand by the side the entire time, and from time to time, the Imperial Concubine had to serve her while she rinsed her mouth.

However, this time the Emperor's mind was made up; he did not inquire about the Imperial Concubine's affairs at all, nor did he have any intention of letting Yan Ze and the others return to the Capital.

In any case, he still had other children he could groom.

They might be a bit slow-witted, but diligence could make up for clumsiness.

If those two also failed, there was still the Imperial Grandson Yan Qing. After the Second Prince met with disaster, Yan Qing was now being raised by the Empress Dowager's side. The tutors said he was intelligent, and the Empress Dowager often praised him as well.

The more the Emperor thought about it, the more feasible he felt it was.

One day, Yan Ning sat up in bed in the middle of the night, feeling somewhat displeased.

It was already March, and news had yet to arrive from the Capital for them to attend the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet.

Yan Ning felt somewhat displeased; she had attended her Great-Grandmother's birthday banquet every year in the past and would always send the Empress Dowager some little surprises.

This time, she could not go back.

The next morning, seeing Yan Ning's dark circles, Yan Ze asked: "What is it, did you not sleep well last night?"

Yan Ning sighed: "Yes, we have no way to go and offer our birthday wishes for Great-Grandmother's banquet, and at Great-Grandmother's age, I don't know if we will ever be able to meet again."

Yan Ze was likewise in a difficult position.

If Yan Ning were to rebel and truly kill the Gou Huangdi, the Empress Dowager would certainly feel hurt.

After all, she was the Empress Dowager's own flesh and blood; both the palm and the back of the hand are made of meat.

After a long while, Yan Ze finally said: "Find someone to send some coral, jade, and Glazed Glass; find two trustworthy guards to deliver these to the Empress Dowager."

Yan Ning thought it was feasible.

Besides these, Yan Ning also wrote a letter, the gist of which was that they were living very well in Lingnan, the Empress Dowager need not worry, and she also thanked the Empress Dowager for helping her family purchase a residence and shops.

At this moment, Yan Ze tugged at her: "Don't be upset, we will definitely be able to see the Empress Dowager. My Trading System has refreshed; I'm going to take a look and see if there is anything I can bring to the Empress Dowager. You help me stand guard."

Yan Ning looked left and right, then directly closed the doors and windows.

To avoid anyone coming in and discovering her father standing there blankly.

Yan Ze opened the Trading System, and both sides could see each other's environment.

The man opposite Yan Ze was named Lu Ge. At this moment, both of them began to size up the other's environment.

Yan Ze looked at the ruins behind him; it was pitch black, and there was a dilapidated vehicle with a dented door, as if it had been struck by something.

It was actually someone from a post-apocalyptic plane.

Lu Ge also began to size up Yan Ze's background: the antique-style table, the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, plus this person's clothing—it was not hard to guess it was an ancient plane.

Both of them saw disdain in the other's eyes.

Lu Ge: What can an ancient plane do? Trade cold weapons?

Yan Ze: What can a wasteland plane do? Trade trash?

Lu Ge asked: "Do you have anything?"

Yan Ze nodded: "We have many seeds, high-yield Corn, Sweet Potato, and Potato, just not sure if you can use them."

"Besides that, we can also provide large amounts of seafood and meat."

"What do you need?"

Lu Ge then said: "I need seafood and meat, give me some seeds too. I have stones here with strong radiation that I can give to people I don't like, and there is also spirit spring water."

Yan Ze asked: "What can spirit spring water do?"

Lu Ge: "As long as there is a breath left, drinking the spirit spring water can save them; it is very effective for healing wounds, and if you drink it often, your body will become stronger, and it should also be able to beautify and nourish the skin."

Yan Ze was overjoyed; the wasteland world actually had so many good things.

Yan Ze immediately sent half of the seeds his family had kept, labeled them, and placed them into the trading box.

"You will have to wait for the meat; I will send a few cows and sheep over to you."

The other side very readily gave dozens of bamboo tubes filled with spirit spring water.

Yan Ze came back to his senses from the trade and handed one to Yan Ning: "You taste it and see what the effect is."

As they spoke, the father and daughter drank the spirit spring water together and only felt their entire bodies were comfortable.

Yan Ze took out the fifty bamboo tubes and put them into Yan Ning's Storage Space; the Cold Storage should be able to hold many.

Yan Ning coveted this spirit spring water and said to her father: "We must send more meat and strive to exchange for more spirit spring water."

She liked to hoard things when she had nothing to do, and there was a lot of pork inside, all exchanged with Chen Yuan, and she also liked to stuff seafood into the Cold Storage whenever she had nothing to do. After so long, she had a lot of seafood in her warehouse.

For the time that followed, the father and daughter secretly bought cows and sheep, and when they saw no one around halfway, they sent them into the trading box.

The other side had a way to preserve meat, and hearing Lu Ge say he liked to eat seafood, the father and daughter kept catching fish on the boat.

After trading for several days, the other side was finally satisfied.

Then he gave them another one hundred barrels of spirit spring water in exchange.

Yan Ning:!!!

There were actually one hundred barrels of such a large barrel of spirit spring water!

Yan Ning and Yan Ze were both shocked by his grand gesture; did this spirit spring water not cost money?

Likewise, Lu Ge thought the same; his spirit spring water was inexhaustible, and he could send as much as he wanted, but just one hundred barrels could be exchanged for so much seafood and live cows and sheep.

They could even try raising cattle and sheep!

This business is incredibly profitable.

The day to hand over the Glazed Glass has arrived again.

Yan Ning carried a basket full of Glazed Ornaments on her back and went to find Gu Feichen and Bai Yu.

Who would have thought that in an alleyway, she would see Bai Yu.

At this moment, Bai Yu was being surrounded by two burly men, and one of the men even wanted to make a move!

As she drew closer, Yan Ning even heard them say: "Quick, hand over the method for making Fireworks!"

Bai Yu was naturally unwilling: "I won't tell you even if I die; to think you are soldiers, yet you have the nerve to rob by force!"

One of them said: "It is your honor that we have taken a liking to your things; not just anything can catch my eye."

The other immediately chimed in: "And you made the method for Smoke Bombs public, which is useful for marching and fighting, yet you dare to hide it? How can you be so selfish?"

In short, these two engaged in a whole lot of moral kidnapping, and they were just one step away from calling Bai Yu a traitor.

Bai Yu: "I said, if you want Smoke Bombs, we can make them in various colors and sell them to you!"

Bai Yu would not listen to them, and these two were preparing to knock him unconscious and take him away.

Yan Ning and her father rushed over with two guards, "What do you want to do?"