Chapter 1174: Alternative Way

Mu Yangling held a stack of manuscripts and immediately slammed the table. “I don’t care about the other newspapers. However, The Lily Times must be set up as soon as possible.”

Zhu Liang lowered his head and said, “Your Highness, The Lily Times is independent from the newspaper office. Considering most of its content is written by women, it’s probably not ideal to get men to review it, right? However, it’s too difficult to find someone who can work in The Lily Times in the capital.”

Most of the women who were willing to work came from poor families. Most of these women did not have much knowledge, so how could they review the manuscripts?

While there were many talented women in the capital, how could they be willing to work?

Mu Yangling rolled her eyes and was about to speak when Little Fu ran over with Little Leopard and Baozhu.

Mu Yangling immediately shut her mouth. The newspaper office was important, but the kids were also important. After waving her hand to dismiss Zhu Liang, she caught Little Fu, who was rushing over, and shifted him to the side. Then, she immediately caught Little Leopard, who was rushing over like a cannonball.

She knocked on Little Leopard’s forehead and said, “How many times have I told you not to run so fast? What if you bump into the person in front?”

Little Leopard held his forehead and shouted, “There’s a huge bump now! It’s so painful!”

“Nonsense. I didn’t use much strength.” Mu Yangling scolded him with a straight face.

“It’s true. If you don’t believe me, feel it.”

As he spoke, he grabbed his mother’s hand and touched his head.

As Little Leopard had just shaved his head before the new year, at this moment, the hair on his head was only half a finger long. Sensing a small bump, Mu Yangling was immediately surprised. “How is this possible? I clearly didn’t use any strength.”

Little Leopard looked at his mother with grievance.

Baozhu covered her mouth and snickered. Little Fu shouted anxiously, “Fourth Aunt wasn’t the one who caused it. We were hit by something. I also have a bump. Look, look.”

As he spoke, he lowered his head and let her touch the back of his head.

Mu Yangling went to touch it. Indeed, there was a small bump.

Mu Yangling looked at them suspiciously and asked, “Did you bump into each other?”

She did not believe that someone would rush to the King’s Residence to smash things on the children’s heads.

The two children shook their heads repeatedly and said aggrievedly, “We’re very obedient. We weren’t naughty at all.”

Baozhu vouched for them. “They didn’t cause this.”

“Then who did it?”

The three children shook their heads in unison.

Baozhu said, “I didn’t see him.”

Little Leopard said, “It’s a hidden weapon. It flew over from the wall and hit us.”

A little older and more eloquent than the other two, Little Fu said clearly, “It flew in from outside. My younger siblings and I were planting flowers under the wall for fun when the hidden weapons flew in with a whoosh.”

“Where’s the hidden weapon?”

Little Fu and Little Leopard took out two brocade bags from the small bag they carried with them.

Mu Yangling took the brocade bag with a strange expression and asked, “This is the hidden weapon?”

The three children nodded with absolute certainty.

Mu Yangling opened the brocade bag and saw a few manuscripts and a stone inside. The other brocade bag contained the same things.

Mu Yangling was a little speechless. So the method of submitting manuscripts had already developed from a delivery to the main gate to a flying delivery over the wall?

Little Fu rubbed his head and looked at Fourth Aunt aggrievedly. He shouted, “Fourth Aunt, you have to help us catch the assassin. Don’t let them harm others again.”

Mu Yangling couldn’t help but tap his forehead. “It’s not that serious. Don’t make a fuss.”

“But it really hurts.”

Little Leopard nodded with tears in his eyes and looked at his mother aggrievedly.

Although Baozhu was not hit, she felt the same way and looked at her mother with the same aggrieved expression.

Mu Yangling stood up and said, “Let’s go. Bring me to the place where you were hit.”

The three children immediately led the way.

Recently, the three children had been obsessed with planting flowers and grass, and their short-term dream was to plant flowers and grass on every inch of Prince An’s Residence.

The flower beds in the garden were planted with precious flowers and plants left behind in the previous dynasty’s Minister Qin’s Residence. Although Mu Yangling wasn’t an expert in botany, she knew that they were precious, so she didn’t allow them to destroy them. Thus, the three children could only set their sights upon the corners.

Recently, they had finished planting flowers and plants at the foot of the fake mountain and the lake, so they had no choice but to start planting under the wall.

Early this morning, the three children carried their small bags, which were filled with flowers, grass, seeds, and various snacks. Each of them took a small hoe and ran to the base of the wall.

They chased after the butterflies, caught a few dragonflies, and wreaked havoc on a few bushes of flowers. After eating some snacks, they took out a small hoe and started working away. However, they had only worked for less than half an hour when a brocade bag filled with rocks flew in from outside the wall and hit the back of Little Fu’s head.

Little Fu immediately jumped up and shouted, “Enemies!”

Baozhu rolled on the ground according to what her mother had taught him. As she could not control her body well, she rolled some distance away. Little Leopard’s memory was not good, so he forgot what his mother had taught him, raised his head, and looked at the wall. Alas, the moment he looked up, a brocade bag hit his head.

One hit the back of the head, and the other hit the part a little above the forehead. The cousins’ bumps looked perfectly symmetrical as they stood together.

When Mu Yangling followed them to the wall to take a look at the situation, she saw that there were still traces of their labor on the ground.

Mu Yangling looked at the pit they dug and asked, “Are you sure that plants will grow from this?”

The three children nodded in unison. “We’ve asked the gardener. He said that this would do.”

Mu Yangling asked Spring and the others to patrol along the wall while she stood in front of the pit and discussed with the children. “That’s because the gardener gave you chrysanthemum seeds and morning glory seeds that survive most easily. Actually, Mother likes roses more. Why don’t you try planting these?”

“Roses have thorns,” Baozhu said hesitantly.

“That’s good. That can help us guard against thieves.”

The servant girls’ lips twitched. What thief dared to come to the King’s Residence and commit atrocities? Would thieves who had the guts to come be afraid of the thorns of roses? Most likely, it was to guard against the young masters, right?

Little Leopard was immediately tempted. “Then let’s plant roses.”

As soon as they finished speaking, the people who were checking on both sides returned. Everyone had bags in their hands. Even though Mu Yangling had already expected this, she could not help but open her mouth wide when she saw so many bags.

Spring said helplessly, “A brocade bag was thrown in when we went over just now. Your Highness, how did the people outside know that we would discover these bags? If the young masters don’t come here to plant flowers, won’t they have wasted their efforts?”

Mu Yangling held the bag and said, “They probably just did it with a glimmer of hope. Though I empathize with them, such a method is not at all worth advocating. What if someone gets seriously injured?”

One had to know that in order to throw the bag in, they had filled it with rocks. What if someone filled the bag with bigger rocks and the bag accidentally struck the vital parts of someone?

Mu Yangling touched the small bumps on Little Fu and Little Leopard’s heads and put down the bag. She said, “Place a wooden box outside the wall and leave an opening for them to submit their manuscripts. If someone throws a bag in, don’t show it to me and just treat it as trash.”

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