Listening to Xiao Wenxuan's introduction, Lord Zuo and Lord He of the prefect suddenly realized that what the prince brought back was not an ordinary person, but even the emperor had praised it.

The two sides greeted each other and saluted, let people into the house, and Lord Zuo spoke first.

"Since they are not outsiders, then I will say it bluntly, we are discussing disaster relief fundraising with the prince."

"Yes, the plague in Bingzhou can be described as menacing. From the beginning of the discovery, to the present nearly two months, Bingzhou's grain reserves have been in crisis. If there is no more food to cook, I am afraid that the people who are centrally isolated on the outskirts of the city will not listen to the dissuasion and run back to the city, and then the previous efforts will be wasted. Master He shook his head worriedly.

"Didn't the capital allocate grain to Bingzhou?" Wei Huai'an asked.

"Dialed. It's a pity that the relief grain in the capital was damp in the heavy rain on the way, and when it was delivered here, it was already moldy and inedible. ”

"You can raise money to buy your own food." Wei Huai'an said.

"What we are thinking of now is also this method, Lord Zuo means to let the rich households in Bingzhou take the initiative to raise money, and I mean how much to share according to the record of paying taxes on weekdays."

"It's not a good thing to share, after all, it's a voluntary thing. It is better to gather the merchants together, send a mobilization meeting, and everyone voluntarily contribute money. Xiao Wenxuan agreed with Lord Zuo.

"This plague is not a small loss for merchants, I am afraid that they are not willing to come out." Lord Ho's heart was beating a drum.

"I'll take the lead, I'm willing to pay 100,000 taels."

Su Muling, who had never spoken, stood up, his voice was not loud but weighed as much as a thousand catties.

"One hundred thousand taels? Miss Su, I heard you right, right? ”

Lord He looked at the weak woman in front of him with round eyes.

"Since Miss Su is willing to pay 100,000 taels, my Wei family can't lag behind, and I will also pay 100,000 taels."

Wei Huai'an squeezed Xiao Wenxuan and sat on a bench, his eyes half-closed, and the bones in his whole body were falling apart and leaning on Xiao Wenxuan.

"You also pay 100,000 taels? That's 200,000 taels. Left-sama! Master He looked at Zuo Shuochen excitedly, his beard trembling.

Lord Zuo is not as "uninformed" as him, looking at these two rich men who have spent a lot of money, he hesitated a little: "Thank you two for the people of Bingzhou first." But this silver ...... When will it arrive? "We don't have time to wait for you to get it home!

"Take it, it's 100,000 taels in it, only a little more." Wei Huai'an didn't get up, his hand was raised, and a purse was thrown on the table.

Su Muling did not show weakness, directly took off the purse on his body, took out a thick stack of silver tickets from it, counted them all and slapped them on the table.

"One hundred thousand taels." After speaking, he took out a hosta from his body and slapped it on the table:

"This hosta was brought back by my father from Donggu Island, and it was sold for 100,000 taels in the capital, and I also donated it."

Wei Huai'an recognized this hairpin, and he still pulled it out of the neck of the man in black at that time.

Because of the blood, Su Muling didn't wear it anymore, thinking that it would be sold cheaply or given to those who needed it in the future, which happened to come in handy now.

Wei Huai'an glanced at her, and admired this atmospheric woman in his heart.

"Wei Shizi, Miss Su is really ...... Readily! Holding the purse and silver ticket in his arms, Lord He's face smiled with walnut lines.

Xiao Wenxuan didn't speak on the side, just watched Su Muling and Wei Huai'an take the silver and smash the Lord He, who had been worried for many days, into a smile.

Lord Zuo's eyes have been staring at Xiao Wenxuan's face, and he wonders in his heart: This King of Ningjun has been here for almost two months, and he has never seen his smiling face. How long have these two people come in, the prince's eyebrows and eyes are all smiling, and I don't know who it is, is it Wei Shizi? Or Miss Sue? Lord Zuo gossiped in his heart.

"Cousin, how much do you have?"

Xiao Wenxuan, who was watching the excitement and watching happily, was coldly asked by Wei Huai'an, and was stunned on the spot.

He squinted at him: I'm going to come out too? We just have a representative in our family.

"How much do you ask?"

Wei Huai'an deliberately ignored his eyes and slapped him with his elbow, with a malicious smile on his face.

"When did you see me walking around with tens of thousands of taels of silver?" Xiao Wenxuan glanced at him.

"Cousin, it's not that you don't have money, and the emperor can't count the things that the emperor rewards you every year. Don't pick on the door, take it out. ”

Wei Huai'an deliberately coaxed, who told him to look at Su Muling's eyes just now, as if he was looking at his daughter-in-law giving him a long face.

"I don't have any money now, so I can't make an IOU to pay it back later, right?"

Xiao Wenxuan has no habit of bringing money, no matter where he goes, the people around him will worry about the expenses for him. So now let him take the money, he really doesn't.

"Why don't I lend you some?"

Wei Huai'an leaned into his ear and almost touched his face.

Xiao Wenxuan slapped his face away in disgust: "You still have it?" Then donate it all. ”

After saying that, he pressed him behind him and flipped all over his body.

Wei Huaian didn't expect Xiao Wenxuan to clean him up in public, and he couldn't get up, so he had to beg for mercy.

For the first time, Su Muling saw Xiao Wenxuan playing with people like no one and a child, and she couldn't help but follow the corners of her mouth.

With Su Muling and Wei Huai'an's 200,000 taels of silver guaranteed, Lord He immediately summoned the old wealth from all walks of life in Bingzhou. Talking about the general meaning, and then the 200,000 taels of silver tickets and hostas appeared, the rich families in Bingzhou talked about each other, and finally one of them started first, donated 200 taels, and then everyone took more or less 300 and 500.

Don't underestimate these three hundred or two hundred, there will naturally be more people. In the end, a total of 50,000 or 60,000 taels was collected.

Lord He divided the silver into several parts, and sent people to buy grain in different directions overnight.

Two days later, the people who sent out began to send food back one after another.

The problem of food and medicinal materials was solved, and Fang Ping, who Xiao Wenxuan sent out to secretly investigate the matter of sulfur, also returned.

“…… The subordinates checked, and the one who has been buying sulfur for nearly half a year is Ji Honglei, the largest medicinal herb merchant in Susong County, on the border of Bingzhou and Qingzhou. After interrogation, Ji Honglei confessed that someone spent a lot of money to entrust him to buy it, but he only knew that the person's name was Jiang Kun, and he didn't know where he came from. ”

"How do they trade?"

"At the end of each month, they deliver at an abandoned horse farm on the western outskirts of Susong."

"What about others?"

"Li Feng took people to watch it."

Month?

……

A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Wenxuan knocked on Su Muling's door.

"Not busy today?"

Su Muling let him into the house. These days, he takes time out to visit her before bedtime, and there is no time during the day.

"Come and see you."

Xiao Wenxuan took Su Muling and sat down on the bed.

"How's the wound growing?" He has to ask once a day when we meet, but he still doesn't feel at ease.

"It's already done."

Su Muling's injury was on her left shoulder, and her left hand did not dare to exert force, and it would be a dull pain.

Xiao Wenxuan had been injured and knew that he would not get better so quickly.

Caressing Su Muling's face, he whispered in her ear, "The person who bought the sulfur has a clue." ”

"Really? It's ......"

Su Muling excitedly broke out of his arms, but then "Who is it?" The two words were blocked in Xiao Wenxuan's mouth by his big hand.

"Shh Xiao Wenxuan warned in her ear.

Su Muling knew that he was out of shape, so he quickly shut his mouth.

"There is a medicinal herb merchant in Susong County who has been instructed to buy a large number of people in the past six months, and there is a real master behind him. I'll leave for Susong in a moment, and I'll come and say goodbye to you. ”

"In such a hurry?" Su Muling raised his head again, and after coming, he hadn't seen him a few times and was about to leave.

"Tomorrow they deliver, I have to go."

"This time...... Isn't it dangerous? Su Muling searched in his eyes, trying to find out the danger factor of this operation.

"Don't worry, no. When I'm not there, you try to go out as little as possible, and if you have something, go to Lord Zuo and Master He. ”

"I'm here, don't worry. It's you, bring Shadowless with you this time. "Shadowless kung fu is good, and she is more relieved to be by his side.

"No, there are people around me."

Su Muling only has a pomegranate, and he is not at ease, although this is the government office.

"When I finish the matter of Susong County, we will go back to Beijing."

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

The two talked affectionately for a while, and Xiao Wenxuan saw that the time was almost up, so he got up and left.

Su Muling stood at the door and looked at his back, secretly praying for him in his heart.

***

Xiao Wenxuan took Fang Ping on a journey overnight, and arrived at an abandoned horse breeding on the outskirts of Susong County before dawn.

Ji Honglei was willing to make meritorious service on behalf of the crime and continue to make deals with the above to lure them out, Li Feng and several of his subordinates were ambushed around and watched Ji Honglei.

At the end of the Yin period, the sun had just risen, and seven or eight people rode horses and drove a carriage into the racecourse, led by a black-faced man, who was Jiang Kun who Ji Honglei had confessed to pick up the goods.

Seeing this, Ji Honglei hurriedly walked out of the house and greeted the man politely:

"Boss Jiang, long time no see."

Jiang Kun looked around and asked vigilantly, "Where are the goods?" ”

"In, in. Xiao Wu, ask someone to bring the goods over. ”

Ji Honglei waved his hand, and the guys pushed a truckload of goods out of the warehouse.

Jiang Kun beckoned the entourage to dismount, stepped forward to open a bag and inspect the goods, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Loading."

After a while, a few big men loaded the sulfur on the car onto their own car.

"Boss Ji is really fast, he has acquired so many in such a short time." Jiang Kun took out a silver ticket from his pocket and handed it to Ji Honglei.

"Where, where, the price given by Boss Jiang is high, and the harvest will naturally go smoothly."

Ji Honglei lowered his head and laughed, for fear that he would expose his flaws, how could he bear it in the end, and a dense layer of sweat appeared on his head.

"Is Boss Ji hot? Why did you sweat all the time? ”

Jiang Kun jumped on the horse, tightened the stiff rope, and stared at Ji Honglei with hooked eyes.

Ji Honglei was even more panicked in his heart, and his mouth was not as neat as before.

"I didn't ...... No. Be...... I woke up late this morning and didn't have breakfast...... Hungry, yes, hungry. Ji Honglei wiped his head with his sleeve, and his eyes peeked at Jiang Kun.

"Didn't have breakfast? Hehe, Boss Ji should pay attention to his body. ”

"Let's go."

After Jiang Kun drove the horse around in place, he shouted loudly, and a team of men and horses drove to the northwest.

"Boss Jiang is good to go."

Ji Honglei watched them leave, his legs were weak, and he almost collapsed on the ground.