() Su Liruo took the woman to see the children, and the two children lay side by side on the bed, sleeping soundly.

Seeing that Su Liruo was coming, Xiao Yuan put down the cloth towel in his hand and said in a low voice: "Princess, the child has already drunk the medicine, and the fever has begun to subside." ”

"Okay, you're good to take care of it."

Su Liruo commanded.

The woman couldn't wait to fall down in front of the bed, and when she saw that her child was safe and sound, she could be regarded as having picked up a life from the ghost gate, and she was immediately grateful and couldn't kneel for a long time.

"The great kindness of the nobleman, I will remember it all my life......"

"Okay, don't kneel yet, let's get something to eat."

The woman's face was ugly because of long-term hunger, and she was dizzy when she knelt down.

Su Liruo took her to the ear room, and had already set up a table of simple meals.

Because Su Liruo told him, this person has been hungry for a long time and can't eat big fish and meat at once, and the kitchen makes all the porridge and side dishes, and the food that is easy to control.

It was simple, but the woman couldn't help but growl in her stomach. She looked at Su Liruo a little shyly, and Su Liruo smiled slightly: "Eat quickly." ”

The woman began to eat. Eats so fast that it's almost gobbling up.

It's been a long time since she's eaten like this.

Su Liruo waited for her to eat before asking, "Where are you from?" ”

The woman said: "The peasant woman is from Maozhou in the south. ”

Su Li Ruoqi said: "Maozhou? Isn't that a prosperous place? Why did you come all the way to the capital? ”

The woman smiled dismally: "Rich? The nobles know that Maozhou has been in drought for more than half a year, and there is no grain harvest, so we really can't eat, so we will drag our families out and survive. ”

Su Liruo furrowed her brows tightly.

Shouldn't it, Maozhou has been in drought for more than half a year? Why hasn't the capital gotten any news?

Could it be that the officials in Maozhou were afraid of being punished and blocked the news? Shouldn't the people of Maozhou be allowed to run out?

There are many doubts.

"Who are your parents in Maozhou?"

The woman thought for a moment: "The prefect of Maozhou is an adult surnamed Zhou. ”

Surname Zhou? Could it be the Zhou Zhi'an she knows?

The man though

is not a peerless good official, but he is also a person with a clear conscience, how can such a matter of human life be at stake to deceive the capital?

Su Liruo thought for a while and asked, "When you left the house, did you get any obstacles?" ”

The woman said: "To be honest, we didn't want to leave our hometown at first, we always felt that as long as we guarded a few acres of land at home, there would always be a turnaround, and the court could not ignore us." ”

Su Liruo thought to himself, the imperial court didn't know about this at all!

"It's still our magistrate, let us all leave Maozhou and go to our own ways to make a living."

Zhixian?

"Is it just one of you who ran out, or is it ......?"

"On the way to escape, I also met many people from Linxian County, and according to them, it was their magistrate who persuaded them to leave Maozhou."

The mystery is growing.

It can be said that it is a coincidence that one county persuades its own people to leave, but if several counties are like this, it should be an order from a higher-level prefect.

It's just that why did Zhou Zhian give such an order? What prefect would drive his people out of his possessions?

Su Liruo was puzzled.

At this time, the people below came to report: "Princess, the prince is looking for you." ”

Su Liruo was interrupted from his thoughts, and he stopped thinking about it.

"When you're full, you can get a good night's sleep, and I'll take you to the room next to your child, and you don't have to worry. The child is taken care of by the people in the house, and you only take care of your own body. ”

The woman is still grateful.

Su Liruo went back to the bedroom, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Shangguan Jin dressing, wearing the clothes he usually wore when he entered the palace, and asked:

"You want to enter the palace?"

Shangguan Jin turned his head to look at her, his face solemn: "Yes." I inquired about the drought in Maozhou in the south for more than half a year, but I didn't hear any news from the capital, so I wanted to go into the palace and ask for an understanding. ”

Su Liruo stopped him: "You entered the palace so rashly, what if you startled the snake?" ”

Shangguan Jin was puzzled: "Hit the grass and scare the snake? ”

He stopped his movements, pulled Su Liruo, and asked eagerly, "What do you know?" ”

"I asked the woman something just now," Su Liruo looked at Shangguan Jin and said, "I suspect that it was Zhou Zhi'an, the prefect of Maozhou, who deliberately let these victims into Beijing!" ”

Shangguan Jin twisted his eyebrows and said: "

Zhou Zhi'an? It's him? ”

He has had a few encounters with Zhou Zhi'an, and he knows that this is a decent person, so it is unlikely that he suppressed the disaster for the sake of his political achievements, so ......

His eyes were sharp, and he exclaimed, "Who is so bold!" ”

He thought of it.

If it weren't for Zhou Zhi'an's concealment and non-reporting, but Jingzhong didn't get any news, then it could only be that someone received Zhou Zhi'an's excerpt, but secretly stopped this fateful excerpt!

So that everything is explained. Zhou Zhian must have seen that he had not replied to the letter for a long time, and wrote many excerpts, but he was like a stone sinking into the sea, he knew that something might be wrong, and he may have guessed that someone deliberately concealed it and did not report it, so he would make this risky move and order the people to make their own lives.

He must know that there are so many people, there must be someone who will come to the capital, and at that time, the capital will definitely know about the drought in Maozhou, and that person will not be able to hide it no matter how much he wants to hide it.

Shangguan Jin figured out this, angrily smashed the cup on the spot, and said hatefully: "If you let me know who is making trouble behind my back, I will definitely cut him with a thousand knives!" ”

Su Liruo held his hand and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid...... It's ......"

Shangguan Jin looked at her expression of wanting to speak and stopped, and guessed.

"You said the prince?"

Su Liruo nodded.

The emperor has not been in good health recently, and the prince has been very quiet and self-conscious recently, and has not made trouble, the emperor sees him very pleasing to the eye, so he lets him participate more in political affairs.

Therefore, if Zhou Zhi'an's several folds can be firmly suppressed, only this one can do it.

Shangguan Jin said angrily: "He is the crown prince, and the people of this world will be his, what does he want to do!" ”

Su Liruo sneered: "He may not think so." Your Majesty treats you kindly, how many times has he confronted you because of this before? ”

Shangguan Jin smiled bitterly: "What a straw bag!" No matter how close I am to Your Majesty, no matter how much Your Majesty trusts me, I am still surnamed Shangguan in the end, his surname is Emperor, and he is the crown prince of the royal orthodoxy, as long as he does not commit the great crime of anger and resentment, who can shake him half a point! ”

The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear.

They could see it clearly, but the crown prince Emperor Chexuan was always afraid, he was afraid that the emperor would prefer Shangguan Jin, who was much more powerful than himself.