Chapter 49:  计划赶不上变化快

Planning can’t keep up with changes. 

“This is what this servant put together.” Lu Yunluo did not dare to take credit for it, “Your Majesty, you can take your time to read it slowly when you are free. This is the green bean soup that this servant brought especially for you. The weather is so hot, Your Majesty can cool off from the summer heat.”

Putting the green bean soup, which he had been carrying for half a day, on the table, he began to prepare for his retreat, “If there is nothing else, then can this humble servant withdraw?”

“Go down ba.” Ji Wu Jue didn’t even look up at her, flipping open the booklet Lu Yun Luo had given him. The first page read: “Those who make a country good must first eliminate its five calamities, and this drought is one of these five calamities. If it is not dealt with properly, it will lead to serious economic recession and social instability and it can even wipe out a country. This prevention and management of drought is a long-term management process…”

“Your humble servant asks to leave.”

Lu Yunluo happily walked out of Shu Xin Hall. 

Her Luck seemed to be pretty good today.

She got the 3,000 taels of silver and left Shu Xin Hall without a hitch. Thinking about it, it seemed that the guy wasn’t so annoying after all.

Lu Yunluo was in a very good mood as she walked in the direction of the Inner Court Division. Soon afterwards, all she had to do was for mama in charge to secretly add two more names to the list.

Not long after Lu Yunluo left, Cao Zhong Quan came back.

“Your Majesty, everything has been taken care of.” Cao Zhong Quan had done his job very efficiently this time.

After being left out by the Emperor for two days, he had only been given such a task, so no matter what he said, he had to get it done properly. 

“Hn.”

Ji Wu Jue answered, turning another page of the booklet in his hand.

He found out that there were many points in it that he had never heard of before.

It was the first time he had heard of the word ‘desertification’ (desert encroachment). 

Picking up the silver pot and preparing to pour another cup of green bean soup, he found that the pot was already empty, so upon seeing this, Cao Zhong Quan immediately asked the palace maid to make it, “Quickly go and make a new pot of tea for His Majesty.”

“Drink what tea on such a hot day? Ask the Imperial Kitchen to send some green bean soup.” Ji Wu Jue looked askance at Cao Zhong Quan and swept him a displeased glance.

Cao Zhong Quan slightly dumbfounded, ‘Green bean soup?’

Didn’t the emperor wouldn’t drink green bean porridge before?

Cao Zhong Quan shook his head, suppressed the doubts in his mind and sent the palace maid to the imperial kitchen to deliver the message.

Lu Yunluo took the silver banknotes and went straight to the Inner Court Residence to find the older woman (mama) in charge of this matter. 

Because she had been here for many times before, and had been informed several times, both explicitly and implicitly.

That mama in charge knew her intention of coming here as soon as she saw her.

Before she could even ask, she was told that this year’s batch of palace maids to go out of the palace had been postponed until next year.

Lu Yunluo still wanted to ask for more information, but then the mama in charge was called away. It turned out that the duties of these palace maids had been replaced by newly arrived ones. Now the departure date was suddenly postponed, they could only rearrange the duties of these palace maids, knowing that there were quite a few of them. The entire Inner Court Division was so busy that ‘both men and horses were thrown off their feet’—badly battered or thrown into confusion after receiving the notice.

Lu Yunluo’s long-awaited day out of the palace was lost, it’s really planning couldn’t keep up with the changes. 

When she thinks of the year she will have to spend in this cold palace, her head hurts.

Now, as she looks at the situation, she still doesn’t know if she will be able to make it out of the palace until next year.

Furthermore, she has offended Yao Guiren so much that she will have to suffer when her grounding period is up.

Moreover there is still Ji Wu Jue who she also has a lot of trouble with. 

It is impossible for her to remain as peaceful as before anymore. 

On her way back to the palace, Lu Yunluo kept her thoughts in order, calculating her next plan.