Until Yin Zhen left for a long time, Ling Ruo still had these five words circling in her mind, what did the Yellow River burst mean, she had heard too much from Li Wei's mouth.

Thousands of people are displaced and lost, families are broken, people are drowning and starving to death everywhere, if a bad one will even break out of a plague that is difficult to contain, this is a real human tragedy, no wonder Kangxi will urgently summon everyone into the palace overnight to discuss disaster relief.

The longer it drags on, the more likely it is that the plague will break out, and once it does, it will be difficult to count the number of dead.

It rained all night, Yinzhen didn't return all night, Ling Ruoyi didn't close his eyes all night, he finally stayed up until dawn, and immediately ordered Xiaoluzi to go to the front yard to see if Yinzhen came back, and he personally cooked a few snacks, last night Yinzhen was called to the palace as soon as he returned to the house without saying a few words, and he didn't even have time to eat, and he must be hungry this night.

Ling Ruo's movements are extremely fast, and it will not take long for the jade bean cake, chestnut cake, mille-feuille steamed cake and flower cup longan to be ready, as long as it is steamed, in addition to the lotus seed porridge, which is what Yinzhen usually likes to eat.

"Master, Bei ...... Lord Belle is back, and he is in the study at the moment, and the thirteenth master is also here. Xiao Luzi gasped, and as soon as he got the news, he immediately ran back.

"I'll go over right away." Ling Ruo opened the steamer while agreeing, and saw that several pastries in it had been steamed, so he ordered Moyu to take a small plate and arrange it carefully, and put another plate into the food box with the lotus seed porridge, and ordered Moyu to go to the study after carefully lifting it, but she didn't think that she had a meeting with Nian's at the door of the study.

"As soon as Lord Belle returned home, my sister had already made something and sent it, which is really heartfelt." Nian's face was full of smiles, as if she was overjoyed, and behind her, Lu Yi carried a three-story food box, it seemed that both of them had come for the same purpose. Since Ling Ruo was allowed to enter and leave the study, Nian's heart was angry, and he was obsessed and coquettish in front of Yinzhen for a long time, and finally Yinzhen nodded and allowed her to enter and leave the study.

Ling Ruo's eyelids jumped, and he quietly curtched and saluted, "Isn't Fujin the same?" ”

Nian smiled and didn't answer, but walked up to Mo Yu, stretched out his carefully groomed fingers to take the food box from Mo Yu's hand, who was reluctant, and said, "Let me see what my sister has done?" She was just about to open the lid when she suddenly let go of her hand holding the food box, and the food box suddenly slipped to the ground, and the snacks inside scattered to the ground with the lid loosened.

"Oh, look at me, I was really careless, I actually dropped my sister's hard-made dim sum on the ground, it's a pity that my sister has a piece of heart." said that it was a pity, but her face was full of happy smiles, and anyone could see that she was deliberate.

"Is Fu Jin going to be so hard and force each other to leave no room for anything?" Ling Ruo struggled to suppress the surging anger in his chest.

Nian tore off the fake smile on his face and glanced at her coldly, "Hard? You deserve it! Niu Hulu, don't think that if you seal a concubine, you really think that you are the master, in my eyes, you are still nothing. She said that she hated any woman who dared to snatch Yinzhen's favor, and the flower pot shoes left after stepping on the pastries scattered on the ground, arrogant and unscrupulous.

Ling Ruo hated it but was helpless, now she did not have the ability to compete with the Nian clan, no matter how unwilling she was, she had to endure it until the day when she had the ability to fight back.

"This year Fujin is really hateful, master, you have been doing it for so long, but you have been ruined by her." Mo Yu knelt on the ground angrily and picked up the pastries that had not been trampled on.

"What are you doing with it when it's dirty?" Ling Ruo asked puzzled.

"These pastries just fell to the ground, although they can't be eaten by Lord Belle, but the slaves and maids don't matter, what a pity if the master has done so hard and throws it away, it should be a reward for the slaves and maids, the slaves and maids have been hungry for a long time just now." Mo Yu knew that the master of the Dao Dao was uncomfortable, and deliberately picked up and said lightly, so that she would not be so depressed.

Ling Ruo scratched her nose and chuckled: "You, when will you learn to be as flamboyant as Li Wei, be careful that you can't find someone to marry in the future, and then you will wait to cry your nose." ”

"That's right, the slave and maid will wait for the master in the house for a lifetime, so that the master can't get rid of it." Mo Yu replied with a smile, didn't care at all, and was about to speak, when he saw that there was still a piece at the threshold of the study that he hadn't picked up, he hurriedly ran over, and was blowing the dust on the pastry, and suddenly found that there was an extra pair of black boots in front of him, and looked up along the boots, and found that Yinxiang was staring at him, bluffed her, and quickly stood up and saluted.

Yinxiang stroked his shaved smooth head and said: "I said how can there be a sound of talking outside, it turns out to be you this girl, you are so bold, you actually hide at the door and eavesdrop on me talking to the fourth brother, what should you be guilty of?!" ”

"I ...... No, the slave doesn't! Mo Yu was nervous and even called it wrong, in order to prove that she didn't eavesdrop, she raised the pastry in her hand and said in a panic: "It was the pastry that fell to the slave and picked it up, and I never overheard Lord Belle and the thirteenth elder brother talking." ”

She only cared about the confession, and didn't notice the coercive smile on the corner of Yinxiang's mouth, but Ling Ruo saw it clearly, walked over and pursed her lips and smiled: "Moyu is timid, don't scare her in the thirteenth elder brother, if she is scared, how can she be born." ”

Seeing that she was exposed, Yinxiang waved his hand boringly, "The little sister-in-law really protects her subordinates, can't she just joke?" ”

Hearing that Yinxiang was playing with herself, Mo Yu was so angry that her cheeks bulged, and she twisted her head to the side and ignored him, who would have thought that Yinxiang would be interested when she saw her like this, and poked her bulging cheeks with her finger and smiled: "You look a little like a goldfish, stupid, spit out a bubble and take a look?" ”

Mo Yu was about to be angry, scared her for a while, and said that she was like a goldfish for a while, this thirteenth elder brother was obviously angry with her, so no matter how Yinxiang poked her face, she just didn't speak, and it was uncomfortable for him to die.

Yinzhen also walked to the door at this moment, and when he heard Yinxiang's words, he frowned and said with a little displeasure: "It's all burning eyebrows, old thirteen, you still have the heart to joke with your subordinates." ”

Yinxiang shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "It's because of the burning eyebrows that I want to joke and relax, fourth brother, you don't know what to do, from last night to now, my brain has not rested, and I can't turn anymore." ”

"A bunch of fallacies." Yin Zhen reprimanded him and said to Ling Ruo: "Why are you here?" ”

Ling Ruo hurriedly replied: "The concubine saw that Lord Belle entered the palace in a hurry last night, and thought that she hadn't eaten anything, so she specially made some snacks and brought them, but she didn't expect to accidentally spill them." ”

"It's okay, the right people have already sent it." Yin Zhen waved his hand indifferently, and was about to let her go back, Yin Xiang suddenly took the food box that Mo Yu was carrying in his hand, took out a piece from it, and sent it to his mouth regardless of whether there was dust or not, and nodded while eating: "It's delicious, it's really delicious, sweet but not greasy, it's much better than those dim sum just now, fourth brother, you can also taste it." ”

"I'm not in the mood." Yin Zhen shook his head, those snacks sent by Nian's just now, he just used a few bites indiscriminately, the situation is urgent at the moment, he can't provide disaster relief if he can't think of a countermeasure for a day, thinking of the countless people affected along the Yellow River, how can he still be in the mood to eat.

Yinxiang winked at Ling Ruo, signaled her to come in, and forcibly stuffed a piece of pastry into Yinzhen's hand, "Fourth brother, you have to eat it if you are not in the mood, otherwise what should I do if my body collapses, besides, this is a little sister-in-law's heart." ”

"You have a lot of reasons." Yinzhen was unable to say anything, so he had to take it and take a bite, but his eyes were always on the account book spread out in front of the table.

Ling Ruo didn't dare to disturb, so he tugged at the corner of Yinxiang's clothes and whispered, "Thirteenth elder brother, did you discuss disaster relief in the palace all night last night?" Is the damage severe? ”

Yinxiang glanced at Yinzhen on the side, sighed and said: "Henan bursts the embankment, the gap is dozens of miles long, and I don't know how many people were killed or injured, but the main problem now is not this, but the court can't take out the silver for disaster relief." "Yinxiang often enters the Sibeile Mansion, and he knows that Yinzhen does not shy away from Ling Ruo, not to mention that he has always liked this little sister-in-law, and when he sees her asking, he tells the truth.

"How is this possible, the imperial court has collected taxes every year, and in the past few years, there has been no war in the peaceful and prosperous era, how can it be impossible to allocate silver taels for disaster relief." Ling Ruo thought that they were discussing a disaster relief plan, but he never expected that it would be a matter of money, although this disaster relief cost was huge, but it would generally not exceed millions, how could the huge imperial court not even be able to take out a million pieces of silver.