Li Xiaonuan put down the copy in his hand, turned his head to look at the two who were having fun, Ah Ben waved the wooden sword in his hand, and followed Cheng Xuyi to read 'Father...... Bang', Cheng Xuyi was holding a puppet, looking for Ah Ben's sword, pretending to fight around, and laughing speechlessly,

"Little stupid, it's my father's fault, whether I raise it or not, it's my father's fault."

Cheng Xuyi read it extremely patiently, Ah Ben suddenly lost the wooden sword in his hand, turned around and crawled into Li Xiaonuan's arms, looked up at her, and pouted aggrievedly:

"Father...... Thirsty! ”

Cicada Wing hurriedly turned around and signaled to the nurse, Li Xiaonuan waved his hand, hugged Ah Ben, and kissed him,

"Isn't Ben missing his father?"

Ah Ben hurriedly nodded his head heavily, his mouth flattened, and he looked like he was about to cry, Li Xiaonuan hurriedly hugged Ah Ben, gently stroked Ah Ben's back, and comforted him gently,

"Father went to fight the bad guys, and my father also wanted to be stupid, my father wrote a letter to us yesterday, if I miss my father, let's write a letter to my father, okay?"

"Okay."

Ah Ben happily dragged the long tone and agreed, Cheng Xuyi hurriedly jumped off the bed, laughing while helping the cicada wings to set up the paper and pen, Li Xiaonuan hugged Ah Ben, put it to his ear, and whispered:

"Don't call your father's name, do you hear?"

Ah Ben stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around Li Xiaonuan's neck, kissed him a few times, and said flatteringly:

"Stupid."

Li Xiaonuan couldn't bear to blame him anymore, so he moved around him, leaned in front of the couch, took a pen and dipped it in ink, and carefully stuffed it into Ah Ben's hand, Cheng Xuyi knelt next to him, and reached out to press a few pieces of rice paper.

Ah Ben grabbed the pen, drew a crooked circle on the paper very seriously, halfway through the drawing, the pen was soft and scribbled, and a tail came out, Ah Ben appreciated it, and then painted a piece of black mess on the paper, until the ink dipped in the pen was exhausted, then he turned around and handed the pen to Li Xiaonuan, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Stupid!"

Li Xiaonuan took the pen, handed it to the cicada wings, stretched out his head to look at the messy picture drawn by Ah Ben, and praised while laughing:

"Ah Ben's letter is so well drawn, my father must be happy to read it, let's let someone send it to my father, okay?"

Saying that, folding the rice paper, Ah Ben stretched out his hand, excitedly helped Li Xiaonuan press it randomly, the two folded it, Li Xiaonuan handed the 'letter' to the cicada wing and ordered:

"Put it away first, and let someone send it out with the letter later."

"Sister-in-law really wants to send this letter to my brother?"

Cheng Xuyi asked in surprise, Li Xiaonuan smiled and nodded,

"This is a letter from Ben to his father, so naturally he has to send it over."

Ah Ben understood what he said, and looked at Cheng Xuyi unhappy,

"No, no, no!"

Cicada Wing laughed silently,

"The third lady forgot that it wasn't, but you can't say something that the stupid young master doesn't like to hear, the little young master has long understood good and bad things!"

Cheng Xuyi was busy smiling and admitting her mistake to Ah Ben,

"It's my aunt who said the wrong thing."

Outside the door, the mother-in-law reported that the old lady and the princess had come back from the palace, Li Xiaonuan hurriedly got off the bed, sent Cheng Xuyi back, got dressed, and went out with A Ben.

The old lady had a hint of tiredness on her face, changed her clothes, hugged Ah Ben and laughed happily for a while, turned her head to look at the princess and ordered:

"You go back and rest first, I'll talk to Xiao Nuan."

The princess looked at Ah Ben and stood up reluctantly, Li Xiaonuan glanced at the old lady with a tired face, and suggested with a smile:

"The old ancestor has something to explain, but it is better to send Ah Ben back first, he can now learn to speak."

The old lady hugged Ah Ben and praised with a smile:

"My stupid is smart, such a big child, there is nothing he can't understand!"

Li Xiaonuan smiled and didn't answer, only stepped forward to pick up Ah Ben and put it on the ground, the princess didn't wait for the old lady to talk to Li Xiaonuan, and hurriedly said:

"I'll take Ben out to play, come, Ben, will you go to the garden with my grandmother?"

Ah Ben jumped excitedly and agreed, the princess bent over, tied her hands, and stared nervously at Ah Ben, who was leaning over and trotting out all the way, didn't care about retreating, and hurriedly ran out after him.

The old lady watched the two go out with a smile in her eyes, turned her head, and beckoned Li Xiaonuan,

"Come and sit here."

Li Xiaonuan motioned to Mama Bai, Mama Bai quietly retreated with the girls and mothers-in-law standing in the room, Li Xiaonuan sat sideways beside the old lady, slowly beat her legs, looked at the old lady, and waited for her to speak. The old lady sighed heavily,

"Ah Ran is for the refugees from the north."

Li Xiaonuan continued in a low voice:

"I thought about the Queen Mother inviting someone to drink tea at this time, that's it, old ancestor, this thing, it just so happened that last summer, the eldest sister of the Gu family said that the grain in the harvest year must be cheap, it is better to collect some and save it, I answered her, and took some silver out, let her collect it, but really collected some grain in, and now it is stored in the second sister of the Gu family and the eldest sister in a few wedding villages outside the city, you see, or, take out these grains first?"

The old lady straightened up, stretched out her hand to pat Li Xiaonuan, and said with emotion:

"I'll just say that Xiao Ke was able to marry you, which is a blessing he cultivated in his previous life."

Li Xiaonuan pursed her lips and smiled,

"Ancestor's words, but you must say it again in front of Xiao Ke!"

"Good, good! Not only in front of Xiao Ke, but also in front of your parents-in-law, you have to say it a few more times, okay? ”

The old ancestor laughed, and Li Xiaonuan laughed and blamed:

"The old ancestor is laughing at me again!"

The two laughed for a while, Li Xiaonuan moved to the old lady's side, and said in a low voice:

"Ancestor, this soup kitchen, I thought, while our government came forward to set up a few porridge sheds in the name of you and the Queen Mother, and on the other hand, the eldest sister of the Gu family came forward, in the name of Old Madam Li, what do you see?"

The old lady squinted at Li Xiaonuan, stretched out her hand and pointed at her forehead,

"You girl, you have a lot of eyes, so let's leave it at that."

Li Xiaonuan agreed with a smile, and didn't dare to delay more, accompanied the old lady to say a few more words, then withdrew, and ordered someone to invite Gu Yunshan, Gu Yunhuan and Yan to come over, and discussed carefully for more than an hour, a few people went back, and they were busy overnight.

In the early morning of the next day, the Runan Palace, the Ancient Mansion, and the Zheng family transferred most of the servants in the palace, and rushed out of the city in the first batch, to set up sheds outside the city, bury pots, and transport grain.

The porridge shed of Jingbei Wangfu was only slightly late, and it was also set up one by one, cooked thick porridge rice, and began to give porridge, followed by Zhenning Hou Mansion, Qian Family, Tang Family, Min Wangfu and other people, who also went out of the city to find a place in the afternoon and set up a porridge shed, and the next day, all the families in the capital also followed with the large and small porridge sheds, the Queen Mother and the old lady of Runan Wangfu donated jewelry and silver to give porridge, but anyone who can afford it, who doesn't want to come to the scene? In such chaos, who would dare not come out to support the game?

Along the north gate to both sides, the soup kitchen shed a few steps apart, straight out of a mile or two, the hungry crowd has a stutter to eat, and the heart has settled down a little, looking for a place where the leeward sun rises, set up a shack, just wait for the army of the imperial court to send back the good news, then turn back to their hometown.

In mid-March, Princess Cheng took the corpses of King Cheng and Zhao Yuanming, the governor of Longzhou, and quietly entered the capital from the north gate under the escort of hundreds of soldiers sent by Cheng Ke.

Princess Cheng looked haggard and thin, sat in the car, lifted the curtain and looked out.

A few miles to the north of the capital, there are men, women and children in tattered clothes, and the porridge shed with high reed sheds is emitting green smoke and heat, becoming the most conspicuous landmark and center, and those low shacks are scattered around the porridge shed, and in the cold of early spring, there is a panic and sadness of liveliness.

Princess Cheng put her head against the window frame of the car, silently looked outside, not far from the car, a seven or eight-year-old boy, barefoot, holding a pottery bowl that was only missing a big mouth, ran over quickly, knelt on the ground in front of the old woman lying in a pile of rags, and sent the bowl to the mother-in-law with a smile on her face.

Princess Cheng lowered the curtain, hung her head and was silent for a moment, then turned her head to look at Zhou Wanruo, who was next to her, her thin eyes were wide, and said in a low voice:

"Wanruo, my mother is going to take out all the dowry and exchange it for silver porridge to atone for a little bit of your father's sins, and in the future, you will marry and marry...... That's it. ”

"I also have some silver, I will also take it out, mother, I don't want it, I have a mother, don't be sad mother."

Princess Cheng raised her hand to caress Zhou Wanruo's thin and blue cheeks, looking at her daughter with sad and desperate eyes, her tears were like beads with broken threads, and she couldn't stop it.

Zhao Yuanming's body was sent by the Ministry of Rites to the Zhao Mansion that was already white and white, and the crying shook the sky, and the coffin was put into the coffin, and the mourning hall was set up, Li Xiaonuan accompanied the old lady, and went to the Zhao family to cry in the afternoon.

The next morning, the emperor accompanied the queen mother, came to pay tribute to the loyal soul, after the emperor and the queen mother left, the Zhao family was even more feet on the ground, and more and more people came and went to mourn.

The gate of King Cheng's Mansion was closed, leaving only a side door for people to enter and exit, and in the lonely main hall, there was a black coffin, but not even a white candle was lit.

The main courtyard is also pitch black, only the east chamber, lit with the candlelight of the bean dusk, the candlelight is burning quietly, occasionally shaking violently a few times, illuminating the wooden carved clay sculpture on the couch Princess Cheng seems to move.

Princess Jingbei wore a black cloak, the cloak and hat wrapped her face, followed by the feather arrow, the shadow turned into the hanging flower door, entered the house, the feather arrow lifted the curtain at the door of the east chamber, the princess of Jingbei looked at the old and wooden daughter who was sitting upright, her lips trembled, and she barely raised her hand for a long time and waved, and entered the house, the feather arrow put down the curtain, and withdrew from the house lightly, and quietly guarded the door.