The room fell silent for a while, and the three of them had their own thoughts: Xu Yuan wanted to quickly solve the matter here and start the next plan; Zhao Qian thought that Ren Qiu seemed to be very familiar with Xu Yuan, and he still tried to find a way to make him better with himself; Ren Qiu is still thinking about his wife and children, and he is thinking that he has been held hostage since then, and he is a little unwilling in his heart. He turned around and was about to walk out: "The meaning of the two Ren understands it, but I still have to go home to explain to my wife and children, and I will leave first." ”

Zhaoqian stood up: "Since Ren Qing insisted on going back to the house to have a look, then Xu Qing and I had to sacrifice our lives to accompany the gentleman." The three of them went out and came to Yaoshan City, rode slowly in the city, passed by a grain shop, Zhaoqian asked: "General Ren, do you know the current price of grain?" Ren Qiu nodded: "I know, now the grain has reached twenty wen." "What was the price of food twenty years ago?" "Twenty years ago? Twenty years ago, I didn't come here, I was still in the army, I don't know, but when I first came here ten years ago to serve as a county magistrate, the price of food was 10 wen per hundred. "The price of food is high, do the people have more money?" "No, the price of grain is high because the harvest in the fields is less, and the people can't have enough to eat..."

"Why don't you open a warehouse to release grain and relieve the people?" "If you open a warehouse to release grain, how long will it take to save it? If people don't want to make progress, and only know how to rely on the relief of the imperial court, how many people can they help, and how long will they be helped? "What does the general mean is that the reason why he does not help the people is because he is afraid that the people will not want to make progress?" Zhao Qian was a little incredulous. "Not so, natural disasters for many years, where is there still surplus grain, the grain in the south has been transported for too long, there is no grain here, you can only rely on the people to eat tree roots, stay up until spring, in fact, now the disaster has eased a lot, the prince sees that there are weeds outside the city, as long as there is something to eat, the people will not starve to death."

When he arrived at Ren's Mansion, Ren Qiu dismounted, trotted and ran to the house, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard a distant shouting and scolding: "What are you doing here to lock up my mother?" Is it true that the people in our government are easy to bully? Who sent you? Let me out! Where did our lord go? Let me tell you, even if it is a raid, there is no such reason, our lord is a county official, is it that Liu Huizu still refuses to let us go at this point? Ren Qiu hurriedly ran to the house, Xu Yuan and Zhao Qian glanced at each other, Zhao Qian frowned and asked, "What kind of woman is this?" It's such a fierce temperament? Xu Yuan smiled bitterly: "She's a bad star." ”

When I arrived at the inner house, I saw a gorgeously dressed woman holding a boy about ten years old and scolding. The sergeants sent by Xu Yuan didn't care, they just surrounded them and didn't let them out. As soon as Ren Qiu's figure appeared, the woman's face immediately changed: "Ren Qiu! Do you still know that when you come back, your family has been robbed, and you still don't care, is it true that you are willing to die in front of you? Ren Qiu hurriedly said to the two: "Please let the two of you let go of my family, Ren Qiu must be saddled before and after, and there will be no two hearts." Zhao Qian smiled and looked at Xu Yuan. Xu Yuan said: "What are these words, the prince has never thought of hurting the families of the ministers and good generals." ”

"I know you, aren't you the second child of that little inn? What, you've switched to banditry? Any autumn! You don't know how to save me! Mrs. Ren said angrily. Ren Qiu had no choice but to step forward and bring her out: "I haven't had time to introduce you yet." This is Prince Shen, and this is the son of General Xu Shu, Xu Yuan. Mancao's eyes widened: "You are Xu Yuan?" Xu Yuan nodded, "It turns out that you were in the inn that day, and my unruly brother offended you, and you are going to come today and bring your thieves to kill me?" "Don't dare, don't dare, Madame is well aware of righteousness, how dare you hurt Madame in the slightest?"

Ren Qiu saw that these two people seemed to know each other before, and Mrs. didn't even tell herself, and she was secretly a little unhappy in her heart, but she didn't show it, she just said: "This place is really not a place to talk, let's invite guests to talk inside." Zhao Qian said: "That is the case, or ask General Ren to send someone to send the soldier talisman, palm print, and population register, and Chai is waiting here." Ren Qiu didn't say anything, Xu Yuan had no choice but to say: "These things are very important, I'll take them myself, Lord Wang, you wait for me here, and I'll go back when I go away." Zhao Qian nodded, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Then it's hard for you, General Ren, please inside." ”

After a while, when Xu Yuan moved the documents back from the county office, the three of them had already talked happily, and Mrs. Ren even called her son out to ask him to recognize Zhaoqian as his godfather, just when Xu Yuan couldn't figure it out, Mrs. Ren beckoned to Xu Yuan again, "Come on." Xu Yuan walked over, and Mrs. Ren held his hand: "Good boy, let you be wronged, come, Liqiu, come here, call brother, this is your brother Xu Yuan." Xu Yuan was a little speechless in his heart, why did he recognize Zhaoqian as a godfather and call him brother? Isn't this generation lowered? I saw that the boy's eyes were clear, and he came over and saluted: "Brother Yuan." Xu Yuan nodded, turned back to Zhao Qian and said, "Lord Wang, the minister will go first to see if the horses are ready, and then take their leave." Zhao Qian nodded, but Mancao said: "It's not easy to come, where are you going, if you don't leave you here for a meal, wouldn't it seem that we are not polite?" ”

Liqiu hurriedly pulled Xu Yuan's sleeve, "Brother Yuan, stay, I want to go out for horseback riding with Brother Yuan." Looking back at the vines, "Mother, is it okay?" Mancao nodded: "Go ahead, come back early." Xu Yuan shrugged, it seems that he is going to see the child today. He took Liqiu on his horse, galloped out of the city, and Liqiu said: "Brother Yuan, do you know why I want to come out with you?" Xu Yuan glanced at him, the ice-sculpture villain, particularly clear: "How do I know, don't you want to study?" Liqiu said: "This is actually a reason, if you stay at home to eat today, I will be able to eat meat, if you still insist on leaving, then I can only eat vegetables today." ”

There was also a depression outside the city, and Xu Yuan frowned when he heard his words: "You mean, your family rarely eats meat?" Liqiu nodded: "Dad said that the imperial court has been affected by disasters for many years, and the family must set an example, and the family is not allowed to eat meat, but my uncle's family, their family can eat meat at once." Xu Yuan thought of the fat-headed and big-eared Wang Yuanwai and nodded: "I know that your uncle can't eat meat for a meal, so why don't you go to your uncle's house to eat?" As soon as Liqiu said this, his small mouth pursed: "He said that my father was a small county official, and my mother was angry, and then we never went to my uncle's house again." ”