Before and after the lighting of the lamps, at Prince Shun's Mansion.
Just as Feng Bailing and the two little ones were preparing to surprise Dugu Wu, Dugu Wu had just returned from the Ministry of Revenue.
He hadn't slept all night and the Ministry of Revenue was exceptionally busy today.
Several outlying villages near Chu City had suffered a severe drought, with crops withering overnight, leaving the villagers with no harvest this year.
With autumn approaching, the villagers would have no harvest to store, and this year's imperial taxes were sure to be a problem.
Dugu Wu had gone to the suburbs during the day and found that the rivers had not dried up, the rainfall in the past month was normal, and no other villages were experiencing drought, leaving him puzzled as to why only these villages' crops had suddenly withered.
He knew there was something strange about the situation but had no leads for the time being.
