Chapter 232 Hug
The carriage stopped outside the second door. As soon as Xia Zihan got out of the carriage, Chu Jingqi came over to greet him, stretched out a hand and said with a spring breeze, "I will help you down."
"Why are you here?" Xia Zihan seemed surprised to see him, but she didn't feel surprised at the same time. She looked at the hand stretched out in front of her eyes and said, "I can go down by myself."
She was not one of those delicate women who had to get a step stool and be supported when getting out of the carriage.
"Ayu." The voice was full of resentment, "I was worried about you, so I rushed here after breakfast. I was afraid that you would be bullied by your stepmother."
"Don't worry, she can't bully me." Although Xia Zihan said this, she still put her hand into his hand helplessly.
"Ah..."
Suddenly, Chu Jingqi pulled hard, and she fell off the carriage unprepared and fell into a slender embrace.
The slender and soft body was tightly held by a body that was not tall but very powerful.
At that moment, Xia Zihan's mind went blank, and the world became quiet.
The servants around him all lowered their heads in a hurry, looked at the sky, or looked left and right, pretending not to see this scene.
Until...
"Haha." A slightly childish but already changing voice came from the ear, "Ayu, are you not standing still?"
Xia Zihan finally came to his senses, and then became furious.
This bastard actually complained first.
"Chu Jingqi, you... you are not allowed to enter my yard again." Xia Zihan gritted his teeth angrily and blushed, pushed him away, turned around and left, not forgetting to tell Chu Cong, "Stop him and don't let him enter the second door. ”
Chu Jingqi secretly yelled something bad, which made his Ayu angry. He hurriedly chased after her, "Ayu, don't be angry, I was just joking with you."
The moment he held her hand, he suddenly had the desire to hug her. Unexpectedly, his hands moved faster than his brain. When he came to his senses, he was already holding her in his arms.
With an innocent look on her face, Chu Jingqi was about to follow Xia Zihan into the second door, but Chu Xing and Chu Fei stopped her with her hand, "Prince Chu, my master has an order, please don't embarrass me."
Chu Jingqi's face turned cold instantly, and her whole body exuded a cold aura. She looked at each other with Chu Cong and Chu Fei for a long time, then gritted her teeth and turned around to go to the lobby.
Xia Zihan returned to the room, calmed down, and then took the two maids Chu Lin and Chu Kui to the Zeng family's house.
In the afternoon, the head of the farm came.
He reported, "One hundred thousand taels of silver were all turned into grain. According to the instructions of the county boss, a total of five small houses were rented for storage. It may be that our purchase of grain during this period stimulated the grain merchants. The rice has now grown to ten cents. It’s a pound of money, County Lord, do we still want to buy rice?”
"Well, go ahead and buy another hundred thousand taels of silver before the price of food rises."
This is a great opportunity to make money. The more grain she purchases, the more she will earn.
Xia Zihan took out the 10,000 taels of silver that Qi Mei gave her two days ago and handed it to the head of the farm, "This is 10,000 taels of silver. I will send Chu Cong to you for the remaining 90,000 taels of silver in two days. ”
The head of the farm took the money and nodded in agreement.
After sending Tianzhuangtou away, Xia Zihan remembered that she had warned Chu Jingqi before, and she didn't know if the bastard had told Chu Xuanyu.
The Chu family has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on hand. If there is a shortage of food, the soldiers will not have enough to eat. Where will they have the strength to fight?
She remembered that this flood caused chaos in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time before it calmed down. But in winter, the north also experienced severe cold and snowstorms. The Tatar tribes living in the north were short of food and clothing, and many cattle, sheep and other animals froze to death. people.
Near the end of the year, fifteen tribes of Tatars joined forces to invade the border of Dasheng Dynasty and captured Shuimu City in one fell swoop.
At that time, the border was experiencing war, the people were in dire straits, and corpses were everywhere. However, the capital at the feet of the prince was bustling with activity. Every household was happily preparing for the New Year and various banquets. There was no trace of the fireworks of the war in Shuimu City.
Later, when she went to the Song family to pay New Year's greetings, she heard Song Huai say that after the Tatars invaded Shuimu City, they killed men they saw, robbed things they saw, and humiliated women they saw.
Shuimu City was massacred by the Tatars overnight.
At that time, Chu Xuanyu and his wife died, Mrs. Chu was said to be seriously ill because of Chu Jingqi's anger, and Chu Haoyu was a coward who was afraid of death. Although the Chu family had tens of thousands of troops, they had no commander to lead them.
She heard Song Boqing say that the emperor originally wanted to send troops from the Chu family, but the Chu family had no commander available, so he had to send the Northwest General Li Hongdao to lead his troops. The second prince led his 50,000 troops to help.
It was that time that Chu Jingqi was forced to run away from home by Chu Haoyu and the Yu family, and became an ordinary soldier under the Second Prince. During the two-year war with the Tatars, she made several military exploits before climbing into the army. He went to the position of a young general next to General Tian under the Second Prince.
And she heard that there was a shortage of food and grass on the border at that time, and the Second Prince lost 20,000 of his 50,000 troops, and half of them died of hunger and freezing.
Otherwise, given the Second Prince's ability to lead troops and fight, why would it take two years to drive away a mere few thousand Tatars.
The battle was so difficult because the soldiers lacked food, clothing, and clothing, and their horses had no grass to eat.
But in this life, Chu Xuanyu is not dead. Once something happens to Shuimu City, the emperor will definitely send him to fight. When the time comes...it will be the Chu family soldiers who will bear everything. Xia Zihan couldn't bear to see something happen to the Chu family soldiers controlled by Chu Xuanyu, so he gave Chu Jingqi a few words before.
I don’t know if this bastard went shopping with his father for grain, grass, cotton, etc.
Thinking of this, Xia Zihan couldn't sit still. She called Chu Hao, "Go and find out where Ma Bao is, and tell him that I have something to do with Prince Chu."
"County Lord, Crown Prince Chu is at Master Qi's place. When I sent the grapes to Master Qi just now, I saw Crown Prince Chu and Master Qi talking." Chu Hao reported.
"Go and tell him that I have something to do with him and ask him to come over."
"Yes, County Lord."
Chu was so blessed that he retreated.
Not long after, Chu Jingqi came.
"Ayu, are you looking for me?" Chu Jingqi entered the door, took three steps and two steps at a time, and stood in front of Xia Zihan, "What are you looking for so urgently?" He stared at her eyes with tenderness.
"You guys go down first." Xia Zihan did not answer him, but first waved to Chu Hao, Chu Cong and others, "Guard at the door and no one is allowed to come near."
"Yes, I will leave this slave."
Chu Xing and a group of maids quickly left the house, and Chu Haohei, who finally walked out, closed the door.
Xia Zihan motioned Chu Jingqi to sit down, and asked straight to the point with a serious face, "Aqi, I told you before that this year might be a year of floods and snow disasters. Have you told your uncle about this?"
Chu Jingqi was stunned, "Is this why you came to me?" He thought she had forgiven him and wanted to allow him to enter and exit the second door freely.
Well, a little disappointed.
He curled his lips and said softly, "Although such a big thing is your guess, I would rather believe it than not. I told my father the day you told me. When my father entered the palace I secretly asked Qin Tianjian in the palace, and Qin Tianjian said that there may be floods in the Jiangnan area, but he is not sure yet.”
"But my father would rather believe that he had it, so he transferred all the money he had on hand and sent people to the south to buy food in an area with less rain."
"My father also thought that if there was a snowstorm in the north, the Tatars would definitely not stop, and there would definitely be war on the border. My father also allocated some money to buy cotton and grain."
"My dad said that this year's military pay will be coming down soon, so he will put down some money to buy things first. He will wait for the military pay to come down and then look at the situation. Once there is a snowstorm in the north, he will also purchase a batch of military supplies."
Chu Jingqi didn't hide anything, and told Xia Zihan some of his father's plans.
Hearing this, Xia Zihan felt worried for a long time and then said, "That's good, tell my uncle that there will be a snowstorm in the north this year. Once the Tatars invade, my uncle... will probably go to the border to fight. Tell him, Be prepared.”
This statement has been made very obvious.
It was obvious that she seemed to know everything in advance.
Chu Jingqi stared at her with a deep gaze, as if thinking about something. Xia Zihan was flustered by his stare, and said angrily, "What, you don't believe it?"
"I believe it, Ayu, where did you get the news?" Even the Qintian Supervisor was unsure of the news, but Ayu would say categorically that there would be a snowstorm in the north.
And surprisingly, he didn't doubt the truth of her words at all.
"I can't say." How to tell him that she was reborn after death and knew so clearly about several major events in the next few years?
Then he still doesn't treat her as a monster?
"I promised that person not to tell anyone his identity." Xia Zihan casually fabricated a fictional character.
Chu Jingqi did not force her to say it, but just said, "Ayu, last time you said there would be floods in Jiangnan, my father has already reported it to the emperor, and the emperor may have taken action."
"The emperor transferred the food?" Xia Zihan said in surprise.
As a loyal minister, Chu Xuanyu would definitely not hide such a big matter from the emperor.
She had already considered this when she told Chu Jingqi.
She even hoped in her heart that Chu Xuanyu would tell the emperor about this matter, and then the emperor would make good arrangements for the floods in the south of the Yangtze River, so that not so many people died like in the previous life.
Although she did not have the ability to save those people, and she was not a good person like the Savior Bodhisattva, she did not want to watch so many people die.
All she can do is hope to secretly spread the news to the emperor's ears. In this way, if the emperor can make some decisions before the people run out of food, Jiangnan will not be the same as in the previous life, and will eventually appear. Robbery, murder and hegemony are coming.
Chu Jingqi shook his head, "There is a grain depot on the south side of the Yangtze River. The weather has been good in the past few years, and the border has been stable for a few years. There has been no war. Jiangnan has accumulated a lot of grain, which should be enough to cope with a flood."
Why did Mao starve to death in his previous life?
Xia Zihan wanted to ask impulsively, but when she thought about it, it happened in the past life. What happened in the previous life had not happened in this life. If she wanted to ask, Aqi would not treat her like a madman.
(End of chapter)