Volume 2 Jihui Ningdu Chapter 173 Food Shortage on Chinese New Year's Eve
Seeing Jiang Shenyu suddenly cry out, Xu Xiang hurriedly walked over and took a closer look at the woman's face.
Although she was dressed plainly, her face was extremely handsome, and even if she was unconscious, she couldn't hide her alluring face.
Xu Xiang suddenly remembered who this woman was, wasn't this the Qiao Luoer girl from Qingyin Fang in Linzi City?
"Why did she come to Ningdu?" His first reaction was doubt, since Xu Xiang saw her for the first time, he felt that this woman was not simple, even if she was nominally loyal to Jiang Shenyu, but after all, she still had a background in Beimeng, and Xu Xiang's suspicion of her was only serious.
Therefore, their plan to leave Linzi was not known to her. And now, she suddenly appeared in the Xu Mansion, is there such a coincidence in the world?
He didn't believe it.
He vaguely felt that Qiao Luoer seemed to have known that they were in Ningdu, so he deliberately sent it to the door himself.
At this time, Jiang Shenyu had already walked over in person and helped her up.
"Young lady, ...... you" The people around hurriedly persuaded her, after all, this woman's origin is unknown, if she is the target of the Ming family's search, then the entire Xu Mansion will be accused of harboring criminals, and the entire Xu Mansion will be implicated.
"Qing'er, help me help her to her room. In addition, I asked the kitchen to get some white rice porridge. Jiang Shenyu didn't pay attention to it so much, she still trusted Qiao Luoer very much.
Qing'er walked over and helped Qiao Luo'er back to the east wing with Jiang Shenyu, Xu Xiang didn't stop her, at this time Qiao Luo'er suddenly appeared, he wanted to see what she wanted to do!
Xu Xiang asked Xiao Fan to arrange a room for Luo Min and prepare to eat, while he went to the utility room to see the construction process of Wei Cheng's grandfather and son's pressurized water well accessories.
It wasn't long before he heard that Jolor had woken up, so he decided to get to her bottom and went to the east wing.
When she came to Jiang Shenyu's room, Qing'er was guarding outside the door, and there were two people in the house, Jiang Shenyu and Qiao Luoer.
After getting Jiang Shenyu's consent, he entered the room.
At this time, Qiao Luoer was lying on Jiang Shenyu's bed, looking sickly, and when she saw Xu Xiang walking in, her eyes flashed with an imperceptible light.
"Luo'er has seen His Highness." Qiao Luoer pretended to get up, and Jiang Shenyu held her down.
"Luo'er, if you are weak, don't salute. We are incognito in Ningdu now, and no one knows our identity, so you can just call us by our names in the future. Jiang Shenyu said with concern.
"Miss Luo doesn't need to be polite, you should take care of your body first." Xu Xiang also said.
"Thank you, Princess, thank you, Your Highness. It's just that Luo Er never dares to call the princess and Her Royal Highness by name, so I will call you young master and young lady like the people in the house. Jolor said with a grateful look on her face.
"Miss Luo, why did you come to Ningdu?" Xu Xiang found a stool, sat down, looked at her and asked.
"Changsha, since the eldest brother leveled the East China Sea Wujun, Qingyinfang is Xinyangjun's industry, which has been affected to a certain extent, and all the girls have been driven out. Later, she followed others to Linhe City, not wanting all her money to be cheated, so she came to Ningdu to make a living in desperation. Jiang Shenyu explained for her, Qiao Luoer had explained to her like this before.
Xu Xiang smiled slightly, this excuse is really clumsy!
Not to mention that with Qiao Luoer's appearance, even if Qingyinfang falls, she will be able to find a bigger Qinglou in minutes, and she can also become an Oiran. Just from what she said, she was cheated of her money, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that this statement is simply funny.
Who is Jolore? The secret spy of Beimeng, surviving in a big city like Linzi, can be quietly undiscovered, will she be deceived?
It's just that Jiang Shenyu seems to trust her very much, coupled with Qiao Luo'er's pitiful appearance now, Jiang Shenyu is concerned and chaotic, and he won't think of such a layer, and he trusts her very much.
Xu Xiang didn't intend to expose her clumsy lie, so he said: "Since you came to Ningdu, you will live in Xu Mansion in the future, and accompany Shenyu." ”
"Changsha, did you agree to take Luo'er in?" Jiang Shenyu's eyes flashed with joy, Qiao Luoer is a person in the dust, and ordinary nobles will not take a woman in the dust at home.
She wanted to take in poor Qiao Luo'er, but she was worried that Xu Xiang would not agree, so she was thinking about how to talk to Xu Xiang, but she didn't expect him to mention it first.
"It's nothing, she's your person, and naturally she can stay with you. It's just one more person and one more pair of chopsticks. He said lightly.
Even if he didn't agree to take Qiao Luo'er in, he knew that Qiao Luo'er would definitely try his best to come to Jiang Shenyu's side.
It's just that he still doesn't understand, how did Qiao Luoer know that they were in Ningdu? Could it be that she got the news from Beimeng? Beimeng knows that he is still alive?
"Thank you, Your Highness, thank you, Princess." Jolor said gratefully.
"Miss Luo, how long have you been in Ningdu?" Xu Xiang asked again.
"Luo'er arrived in Ningdu yesterday."
"Oh, that's right." Xu Xiang nodded slightly, and then said, "Then you have a good rest first, if you need to tell Shen Yu, I'll go and get busy first." ”
After Xu Xiang left the East Wing, he called Xu He over, "Xu Xiang, can you contact Xu He now?" Let Xu He check on Qiao Luoer. ”
"Young master, now that Ningdu is in this situation, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to pass on the news." Xu Yi shook his head.
Now that almost everyone is trapped at home, Ning Ducheng is allowed to enter rather than exit, and it is estimated that it is difficult to pass on the news.
"Oh, have you ever been in contact with Lao Yang? How is the Yellow River beach now? ”
"Not yet, according to the previous law, Lao Yang's people should have entered the city yesterday. It's just that Pujiamen is now controlled by the Ming clan's wind cavalry camp, and they can't get out after entering the city, and they should have given up entering the city. ”
"Okay!" Xu Xiang rubbed his forehead and sighed, feeling a great headache.
Ningdu was under martial law, and the thirteen city gates were all controlled by the Ming clan, and the soldiers of the original city patrol division were all restrained to the city gate camp of the city patrol division and were not allowed to come out.
Originally, there were more than 200,000 displaced people outside the city of Ningdu, but since Xu Xiang moved the largest group of displaced people outside Zhenchuan City to the Yellow River Beach, there are only 50,000 displaced people outside the Xuanwu Gate, and there are less than 10,000 displaced people outside the other city gates.
Xu Xiang plans to wait for the houses on the Yellow River Beach to be built, and then move the displaced people there.
There were as many as 50,000 displaced people outside Xuanwu City, and the guard of Xuanwu Gate, Long Yun, the commander of the city patrol division, provided rice porridge and tents to the displaced people with his own efforts, so that these 50,000 displaced people were not starved to death and froze to death.
Now that the Ming army has entered the city, Long Yun has also been placed under house arrest by Yang Wu in the City Patrol Division, and the Long family has also been surrounded by Ming's soldiers, so these homeless people have naturally run out of food.
Long Yun Xu Xiang has seen this person, about thirty years old, heroic and extraordinary, bold personality, and a righteous face on his face.
When he heard that Xu Xiang had resettled 140,000 displaced people outside Zhenchuan City to the Yellow River Beach, and planned to build a town on the Yellow River Beach, he agreed very much, and gave Xu Xiang some food support for this.
After all, it is not a long-term thing to let the displaced people outside the city gate, so it was discussed at the beginning, and after the houses in Huanghetan Town were built, the people would be relocated.
Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, but there is no joy in the camp of 50,000 displaced people outside Xuanwu City.
They are now facing a problem, which is that they have no food.
Long Qi is Long Yun's younger brother, and he is also responsible for pacifying the displaced people outside the Xuanwu Gate, and all the food of the displaced people is handed over to him for unified dispatch and distribution.
What happened in Ningdu City, he naturally knew.
The grain that Long Yun transported over last time was eaten three days ago, and now he can't enter Ningdu, and he can't get food.
Fortunately, he still had some gold and silver on him, so he used this gold and silver to let his men go to a county town more than 30 miles away to buy grain.
However, this year is a year of great disaster, and there is not much grain in the county, and the price of grain remains high, and the grain he bought with gold and silver is only enough to support three days.
Today's Chinese New Year's Eve is over, and tomorrow there will be no food.
He had been sitting in the tent all morning, and even though his men had brought him some food, he could not eat. It was the first time he had worried about food when he had grown so big.
"Second Young Master, you haven't eaten for a day, let's eat something." The subordinate persuaded.
"Anan, is there any news in Ningdu City?" Long Xuan asked in a hoarse voice.
"Not yet...... Now Ningdu City has become a pot of porridge, I heard that everyone is at home and dare not go out, and whoever goes out will be arrested by the soldiers of the Ming clan and killed as a rebel......"
Long Xuan clenched his fist in his right hand, making a "squeak" sound, and then slammed his fist on the table, making a loud noise, and a thick anger appeared on his face, "I never thought that the Ming clan would dare to do such a rebellious thing!" ”
"Second Young Master, the matter has come to this, why don't we go into the city? Don't we still have a private army of 800 people on Yunlang Street? We took people to rescue the people of the Long family. ”
Long Yun's brows furrowed into the word "Chuan", it is not difficult to save the people of the Long family, after all, there are so many families and nobles, it is impossible for each family and nobleman of the Ming family to send a large number of soldiers to guard them, and there are only about three or four hundred people when they are full.
The key is to save Long Yun! Long Yun is now under house arrest in the City Patrol Division, where there are a large number of soldiers.
If Long Yun is not rescued, let Long Yun lead the soldiers of the Xuanwumen battalion of the city patrol division, and then negotiate with the Ming clan, the Long family may suffer a catastrophe.
"It's useless to talk about this now, I don't know what he Ming's thoughts! The problem I am most worried about now is that these 50,000 homeless people will run out of food tomorrow......" Long Xuan shook his head, obviously he was already desperate.
"Second Young Master, our Long family has done everything in benevolence and righteousness, and has raised these homeless people for two months in vain, and now we have no food, so we can only let them fend for themselves!" Anan said that he was very puzzled by Long Yun's raising of these homeless people.
"No...... The eldest brother has already promised Xu Changsha. These displaced people cannot be allowed to starve to death. ”
"But ......"
"There is nothing to do, my Long family will do what they say. Take my Lingyu to the county seat, and then go and exchange it for some food, and support it for two more days, maybe the situation in Ningdu will change. Long Xuan untied a piece of beautiful jade from his waist and handed it over.
"Second Young Master, this is ...... The old lady's ......" Anan looked dumbfounded and didn't dare to pick it up.
"Needless to say, go ahead. Today's Chinese New Year's Eve, the displaced people must not be left hungry. Long Xuan waved his hand.
"Second young master, second young master......" At this moment, suddenly the voice of a servant outside the camp gate came eagerly, and then a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy walked in.
"What's the matter? Didn't you see that the young master was busy? Anan glared at the little boy fiercely.
"Eh, it's okay, little plug, what's wrong?" Long Xuan asked kindly with a hint of a smile.
"Second young master, there's a lot of food coming out there......" The little boy's face was full of excitement.
"What?" Long Xuan cried out in surprise and asked, "What grain?" Whose grain? Is it the grain that was transported from Ningdu City? ”
"The food team is a fairy sister, they came from the other side of the mountain, saying that they were giving food to the young master." The little bolt shook his head and said happily.
"Over the hill?" Long Xuan was confused.