Chapter 206: Helmet
Back to the Yucheng Mansion, the acting lord hurriedly helped the master and servant of Fengshanyue arrange a place to live, and now that the two princes of Ming Zhao and Zisheng came down, the main house of the mansion was naturally given to these nobles to live in, and he himself lived in a side room. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Ming Zhao learned that Feng Shanyue and the others were busy coming, and they didn't eat well along the way, so they hurriedly asked people to cook and come over.
Feng Shanyue devoured a bowl, and finally became less hungry and panicked.
"Another bowl?" said Ming Zhao smiled.
Feng Shanyue was also polite and nodded. Ming Zhao personally stepped forward to help her serve the meal, Wen Feichen looked at it and shook his head, the dignified prince actually ran to do the next person's business, love and love are really dizzy!
"Second brother, I heard that there is a very powerful woman who drove the wizard away?"
Zi Sheng rushed over, and when he heard the news, he was very surprised. Although he had no interest in helping Ming Zhao deal with the locust plague, the fact that the wizard was there all day long also made him very unhappy. At this time, he heard that someone had let him eat soft-shelled turtles, and he was naturally very happy.
Feng Shanyue looked at Zisheng dumbfounded, "Senior brother, is this your younger brother?"
Ming Zhao glanced at Zisheng, smiled, nodded, and continued to help her serve the meal.
"Hahaha......" Feng Shanyue couldn't help but laugh when she looked at Zi Sheng, who was wearing a helmet on his head and wrapped tightly, with only two eyes left. Butterfly Dance, who was eating next to her, also laughed, but choked on the rice and coughed earth-shatteringly.
"What are you laughing at?" Zi Sheng raised his eyebrows and looked angrily at the two women who were smiling back and forth.
Feng Shanyue stood up and circled around him, "I said Prince Sheng, are you dressed like this, are you afraid that people will look at your face?"
"I'm handsome and dashing, how can I be afraid that others will look at my face?" Zisheng snorted, "I just hate locusts." ā
Feng Shanyue smiled, reached out and grabbed a handful from his shoulder, and then put it in front of his eyes, "Is this it?"
When Zi Sheng saw it, he immediately jumped three steps away, "You immediately take this disgusting thing farther away, don't get close to me!"
Feng Shanyue handed the locusts in her hand to Diewu, asked her to take them out and kill them, and then clapped her hands, "I have long heard that Prince Sheng is very afraid of locusts, and this time seeing is believing." ā
"That'...... So what?"
"It's nothing, I think you've done a good job with this hat. ā
Zisheng was stunned, he thought that this woman would continue to laugh at himself, but the topic suddenly turned to the hat he made. But speaking of this hat, it is indeed his proud work.
"Hmph! This hat is the exclusive creation of Prince Ben, and is specially designed to deal with locusts. ā
In fact, his hat was a helmet, and then a bamboo strip mask-shaped thing was added to the helmet along the nose and tied to the helmet. This bamboo mask is relatively densely braided, so locusts can't get in. The neck under the helmet was tightly gagged with a cloth to prevent locusts from jumping into the clothing.
Feng Shanyue studied it carefully and shook her head again. Zisheng looked at her expression, the whole person was wrong, she actually dared to shake her head at her invention?
"What do you mean?"
"If it's good, it's good, but it's not over. Feng Shanyue couldn't help but learn the words in "Dream of Red Mansions", "If this helmet is improved, it will be better." ā
"What's wrong with me?"
"Don't you think it's very breathable to carry this? Aren't you uncomfortable on such a hot day?"
Zisheng was indeed very hot at this time, but everyone couldn't see it, because only a pair of eyes were exposed on his face.
"Besides, your eyes are exposed, what if locusts jump on them?"
Ming Zhao smiled and said, "Okay, let's come over for dinner first!" Zisheng, you take off your helmet first, there are no locusts in this house." ā
Zisheng muttered and took off the helmet, and Feng Shanyue saw that it was indeed a handsome and dashing young man, but the expression on his face was not very happy. She smiled and buried herself in her meal. Zisheng sat on Mingzhao's couch and watched her eat with his cheeks on the desk.
"I said, Prince Sheng, can you not look at me so directly?" Feng Shanyue swallowed a mouthful of rice and took another sip of soup.
"Tut-tut, who do you love to look at you? I have never seen a woman eat so unruly, so take a look at it more and broaden your knowledge. ā
Feng Shanyue rolled her eyes, "I've never seen a man who is afraid of such a small thing as locusts, and he will look at people with his cheeks like a woman, and today can be regarded as a long insight." ā
Ming Zhao smiled and shook his head, these two people quarreled, they were clearly still children!
"Okay, you two don't quarrel, Sugizuki, you eat first, I'll introduce you. This is my fifth disciple Sheng, and this is my junior sister Feng Shanyue. ā
Zisheng pouted and turned his head, Feng Shanyue also wrinkled his nose, what an impolite child!
"By the way, Prince Sheng, in fact, I have a suggestion for improving your helmet, do you want to listen to it?"
"You?" Zi Sheng snorted coldly, "You still know this? Forget it, you still have to fight those wizards who are full of nonsense." ā
Feng Shanyue no longer argued with him, turned to Ming Zhao and said, "Senior brother, today we break the wizard's theory of locust gods, so that the people will no longer be afraid of locusts." However, such a large-scale locust plague still needs to be managed. ā
"Yes, when I was in Yindu, I specifically consulted the officials of the Si Agricultural Bureau, but they could only propose this method of beating and burying. ā
"I have heard that locusts multiply very quickly, and according to this kind of weather, it is estimated that a batch will come out in four or five days, and it is useless to tire people to death by just beating them. By the way, has the imperial court allocated disaster relief funds?"
"Yes, yes, but not yet. ā
"Why?"
Wen Feichen continued: "At present, the locust plague is still ongoing, and we have not yet been able to determine the specific situation of the disaster, so we have no way to determine how to distribute the disaster relief funds. If it is distributed hastily, the disaster situation will change at that time, which may make people feel unfair, and on the contrary, cause civil unrest. ā
"So you mean to wait until the locust plague is over before handing out the money?"
Ming Zhao nodded, "This is a safer way." At present, there is still surplus food at home for the common people, and it is not so that they will not run out of food. So I consulted with Daisama to wait until the locust plague was coming to an end, and then we would go from house to house to investigate the damage, and then decide how to provide relief. ā
Feng Shanyue nodded, "This is also a method. But what if you need money to deal with the disaster?"
"This can be borrowed in the treasury of Yucheng, and after the governance is completed, it will be summarized and reported, and the court will subsidize it back. However, Yucheng's treasury is also limited, so there is not much money that can be borrowed. ā
"Alright then, let's rest today, and tomorrow morning, we'll go to the fields to see the specific situation, and then come to ideas. ā
Zisheng snorted, "What can you think of as a little woman? Do you think those locusts are like that wizard, and you can clean them up with a fire?"
Feng Shanyue was stunned for a moment, then raised her head and asked, "Can you say what you just said again?"