Chapter Twenty-Six: Silver
After the three of them finished eating the wild vegetable dumplings in silence, Su Jingyue said to Xiao Hei: "Xiao Hei, you go to the market that the old woman said to buy some food and come back, not for us." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Yes, ma'am, my subordinates understand." Blackie replied.
"Let's find out who is in charge of Jingcheng again." Yi Qiuwu added next to him.
"Subordinates obey." After Xiao Hei finished speaking, he turned around and went out, and he rode his horse to the market town as fast as he could.
"Yi Qiuwu, what are you thinking?" Su Jingyue felt that it was too quiet, and she saw Yi Qiuwu standing in front of the window with deep eyes.
"What do you think I should be thinking now?" Yi Qiuwu turned around and asked her.
"Well, you should tell the emperor about the people's suffering, and let him send people to fight the flood and provide disaster relief." Su Jingyue thought about the practices of the official government in her previous life.
"Yes, didn't the imperial brother let me come?" Yi Qiuwu replied that she was not stupid.
"You? The emperor asked you to come just for this matter? Su Jingyue didn't expect that Yi Qiuwu was here for this matter.
"Pretty much." Yi Qiuwu replied to her, anyway, the matter of King Fuqing is also related to the flood.
"And we're still on such a leisurely journey?" If Su Jingyue had known this, she would have let him ride a horse.
"Do you think that if I go, there will be no floods, or will the relief food for the imperial court arrive immediately?" Yi Qiuwu looked at her dissatisfied look and questioned her.
"Then what did the emperor tell you to do?" Su Jingyue didn't understand, since it was useless for him to go, why did the emperor do more.
"Reassure the people." Yi Qiuwu replied casually.
"As long as you still appease the people, it's good if you don't scare them." Su Jingyue smiled when she heard his answer.
"Is there some kind of riot in Yangzhou?" Su Jingyue asked, what about rabbits biting when they are in a hurry, let alone people who are homeless and have nothing to eat.
"It's not that far, it's just that someone wants to take advantage of this disaster and do something." Yi Qiuwu replied meaningfully.
"I smell a conspiracy." Su Jingyue said with a sly smile.
"You're smart." Yi Qiuwu glanced at her.
"We're going to the meeting alone." Su Jingyue said that she knew that it was not so simple for him to come to Yangzhou, but fortunately she also came, although she has not played any role at present, but she believes that with her understanding of the history of Chinese dynasties fighting for power and profit, she will definitely be able to help him.
"Going to the meeting alone? That's a good description. Yi Qiuwu praised her and said.
"That's a must." Su Jingyue gladly accepted his praise, not knowing modesty at all.
About an hour later, Xiao Hei came back on horseback, carrying two bags of rice and noodles on his horse.
"Xiao Hei, this little food is not enough." Su Jingyue looked at the two bags of grain and said dissatisfiedly.
"Madame didn't know, because of the flood, the grain stores in the market were all empty, and I went to several grain stores to buy these two bags, and the price of grain has increased five times compared to usual." Blackie replied.
"Then why doesn't the government open a warehouse to give grain?" Su Jingyue asked again.
"It has already been distributed, and the relief food from the imperial court has not yet arrived." Xiao Hei said. He turned his head again and reported to Yi Qiuwu: "Master, Jingcheng is under the jurisdiction of Sun Bao, this person is a Qing official, and he has already reported the situation to the imperial court, it may be that there is something wrong with it." ”
"Above? A group of mediocre officials. Yi Qiuwu said disdainfully.
Su Jingyue took out some rice from the rice bag, and then asked Xiao Hei to send the food to the old woman. She went into the kitchen to prepare dinner, there was only rice, and there was no vegetables, she thought about it or fried rice to eat, fortunately she also found a little oil, while cooking she complained about Xiao Hei, he didn't expect them to eat, so he bought two bags of grain and came back, dry food. So much so that when she brought out the cooked white fried rice without any vegetables, Yi Qiuwu asked, "What do you make, can you eat it?" ”
Su Jingyue said: "Don't pick, it's good to have something to eat, if you want to blame Xiao Hei, I went to the market, I don't know how to buy more things and come back." She pointed the finger at Blackie. Xiao Hei, who had just come back, was at a loss, had he done something wrong?
After the three of them finished eating, sleeping was another problem, alas, the family was surrounded by four walls. Yi Qiuwu took Su Jingyue into the carriage, they sat in the carriage, Yi Qiuwu asked her to sleep on his shoulder, Su Jingyue was not hypocritical, and slept directly on his shoulder. As a result of sleeping like this, the next morning, her neck was sore and her legs were numb.
Although the road was still muddy, they decided to go, and if they were here again, they would have to starve to death.
"Old woman, you eat the food first, and it won't be long before the relief food will come down." Su Jingyue said.
"It doesn't matter what my wife eats, I want you to buy me food at a reasonable cost." The old woman was very grateful to them.
"Alright, old woman, this is what we should do." Su Jingyue held the old woman's hand and said, by the way, she stuffed a silver ticket into her coat pocket. "We're leaving, take care."
"Well, watch out for the bandits, they're on a hill ahead." The old woman reminded them.
Xiao Hei drove away in the carriage, and the old woman stood at the entrance of the village to see them. Inside the carriage, Su Jingyue said, "Did you see that I secretly gave the old woman a silver ticket?" ”
"See." Yi Qiuwu replied, so obvious, unless he was blind, he would not be able to see.
"That's yours!" Su Jingyue was stimulated by his calm attitude.
"I know." Yi Qiuwu didn't understand why she reacted so much, didn't she just give someone a silver ticket, and he didn't have it.
"You can't just give money to someone else in the future." Su Jingyue said that his attitude towards silver made her feel that he was a loser.
"I didn't give it, you gave it." Yi Qiuwu didn't understand, didn't she think what she said was contradictory?
"I mean you don't just give it in the future." Su Jingyue reiterated again.
"I don't bring any money." Yi Qiuwu said. "Usually it's Xiao Hei, they take it."
Yi Qiuwu's words made Su Jingyue speechless for a while, it turned out that people didn't bring their own silver at all.
"Xiao Hei, under normal circumstances, how much silver do you bring when you go out?" Su Jingyue decided to ask Xiao Hei more reliable.
"About 10,000 taels." Xiao Hei thought for a moment and replied.
"Ten thousand taels? You're going to buy half a city. Su Jingyue was shocked, and she went out with 10,000 taels, and she was not afraid of being robbed.
"No, it's not." Xiao Hei also replied seriously.
"No, Yi Qiuwu, I want to be in charge of the finances, I can't let Xiao Hei be in charge, he will lose your property sooner or later." Su Jingyue asked Yi Qiuwu.
"Whatever you want." Yi Qiuwu agreed like this, she likes to be in charge, so let her be in charge.
"Did you hear that, Xiao Hei, hand over the money quickly!" Su Jingyue stretched out her hand and said to Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei didn't expect his financial power to be deprived like this, and he obediently handed over the silver ticket on his body. Su Jingyue counted, there were 14,000 taels in total, how much money did they bring out this time?
"Xiao Hei, I'll give you a thousand taels of silver first, don't ask for it again along the way, you can save some flowers." Su Jingyue said in the car.
Xiao Hei took a thousand taels of silver tickets, he was thinking that it was not enough, whether he wanted to cushion it himself.