Chapter 692: Speculating Expansion (1)_1
By the end of September, the weather already carried the chill of early winter, and the leaves on the fruit trees had turned yellow, with only the tips of the leaves maintaining a touch of deep green, which wouldn’t withstand the night’s frost.
Despite the warm sunlight shining on her and the padded clothes she wore, Mo Yan felt a chill through her entire body.
No wonder, with such great achievements in high-yield rice, that he wanted to attribute them to her and grant her the title of County Lord—it was all part of this scheme. It was indeed a "poisoned pie," and more ridiculous was the fact that she had contributed the "filling" herself, and now she was forced to accept it with no strength left to resist.
The benefits of the Imperial Family, indeed, cannot be touched!
Mo Yan looked up, seeing the worry in Xiao Ruiyuan’s eyes, opened her mouth and after a long time managed to find her voice, "As a ruler of a nation, he has no way to deal with his own minister, so he roasts me over the fire to draw the Lin Family’s firepower. Does he think I alone can deal with the Lin Family?"
Xiao Ruiyuan didn’t know how to comfort her. He reached out to hold her somewhat cold hand in his palm and said with a firm tone, "Yanyan, no matter what his intentions are, I, Xiao Ruiyuan, will always protect you."
The warmth that covered her hand seemed to touch the bottom of Mo Yan’s heart. She nodded lightly and, after pondering for a moment, said, "He is so wary of the Lin Family yet does not take action against them. It seems that they must have some leverage over him! We must find out what this leverage is, and if possible, remove it. Then the Lin Family will be of no concern!"