took hot water and came back to wipe it for her, looking at her unguarded sleeping appearance, Xiao Xiantang was somewhat distracted, but thinking of her tired appearance, Xiao Xiantang held back again, took her into his arms in a wide coat, and slept for the first time since leaving the capital.

The next morning, when the sky was bright, Xiao Xiantang opened his eyes and picked up Mu Chonglan. "I'm going out, you wake up first."

"Hmm." Mu Chonglan rubbed his eyes, and then pasted it again.

She was only wearing a small coat, and when she put it on like this, Xiao Xiantang actually had a feeling that she didn't dare to move, and she was so deadlocked for a long time, until there was a noise outside, he came back to his senses, pinched Mu Chonglan's nose, and forced her to wake up.

Mu Chonglan didn't wake up by Xiao Xiantang's nose, but heard the footsteps, was suddenly awakened, and jumped onto the beam wrapped in the quilt.

Sure enough, as soon as she jumped up, there was a knock on the door outside, it was Xiao Xiantang's colleague, looking for him to go to Lord Qincha together, although he didn't say why, but listening to that tone, it should be very anxious.

Xiao Xiantang wanted to wake Mu Chonglan up and ask her why she was here, but he could only give up first.

Xiao Xiantang went to the conference hall with the visitors, saying that it was the conference hall, but in fact, it was just a larger room in the post station, and there were about twenty-one or two officials and local officials who came to the disaster relief this time.

Because of the events at the Mu family's birthday banquet, Xiao Xiantang now has several vassal colleagues around him, and even each of them has a higher position than Xiao Xiantang, but he still took the initiative to show goodwill, so that when he was coming, some people took the initiative to give up their seats.

Of course, Xiao Xiantang naturally couldn't be so ignorant of the rules, and after a few polite greetings, he found a secluded corner and sat down.

"Look at this situation, I'm afraid we're going to have to stay here for a while." It was Lin Shilang of the household department who came forward to talk, according to his official position, he was Xiao Xiantang's top boss, and he was the person with the highest official position in the household department for disaster relief, but it was a pity that he pressed a minister from above, and he was somewhat aggrieved.

Lin Shilang is a shrewd person, he saw that although Xiao Xiantang was a bought official position, he got the news that Xiao Xiantang's name was added to this disaster relief, and he immediately understood that someone wanted to secretly promote Xiao Xiantang, so he would condescend to make friends with Xiao Xiantang so condescendingly.

It is always good to be an official, to be kind to others, and to have a good relationship.

Lin Shilang is such a character, seeing that Xiao Xiantang just nodded, he didn't mean to talk to him, he was not annoyed, after taking a sip of the teacup, he covered his hands with the teacup, and after thinking of something, he also lowered his voice and said: "Speaking of which, the weather is getting colder and colder, and there is not even a mother-in-law in the warm quilt at night, it doesn't hurt our group of old things, but I don't know that Lord Xiao Xiao's newlywed Yan'er can't bear it." ”

"......" Xiao Xiantang glanced at Lin Shilang, who was a little unreliable, his lips trembled, and he didn't say anything.

He wanted to say: You don't have a mother-in-law's warm bed, but I do.

It's just that it's definitely not appropriate to say this, after all, most of Mu Chonglan secretly ran out of Dadu by himself, that is, he is just an inconspicuous little official now, if he gets an official one day, Mu Chonglan runs out like this, I'm afraid something will happen.

Lin Shilang didn't know Xiao Xiantang's thoughts, and when he saw that he was silent, he thought he was shy, so he giggled, saying that Xiao Xiantang was a young person, and in a few years, he would naturally know what it meant that house flowers were not as fragrant as wild flowers, and no matter how beautiful his mother-in-law was, she would have a day when she was tired of eating crookedly.

When Xiao Xiantang heard the words "tired of eating crooked", his face couldn't help but distort a little.

If you're tired of eating crookedly, you'll have to wait until you eat it.

At the beginning of his marriage to Mu Chonglan, there was an estrangement between the two somehow, Mu Chonglan refused to obey him, and he couldn't bear to force her, and then the two finally had a little heart-to-heart, but there were always various things that delayed that matter, so that he could only live by it now.

Speaking of which, Mu Chonglan actually didn't have any defenses against him, he touched it if he wanted to, kissed it if he wanted to, even if he stripped off her clothes, she just felt itchy at most, it was his own thin skin, and he always refused to ask her directly, so that every time he got better, he would do such and such things.

This time, Mu Chonglan didn't even follow Su Chengmo by his side, and they weren't in that kind of place where there would be danger at any time, so I don't know if it would be a matter of course.

Just when Xiao Xiantang was thinking about whether there was anything or not, another person walked in outside, this person was named Yin Zhiming, a junior official in front of the minister, and he followed the minister to provide disaster relief.

As soon as he entered, a group of officials surrounded him to inquire about the news.

Lin Shilang also came up, but Xiao Xiantang didn't move, but since he cultivated the "Blood Demon Technique", although he has no internal force in his body, he has condensed a lot of blood qi similar to internal force, and the effect of this blood qi is not much different from internal force, so even if he is not close, he can still hear their conversation.

When Yin Zhiming heard everyone's questioning, he whispered helplessly: "It's quarreling again." ”

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, and some people simply sighed.

But Lin Shilang said a little lively: "Hey, why did you quarrel this time?" ”

"What else can it be, isn't it grain and grass."

"Grain and grass?" Lin Shilang narrowed his eyes: "Didn't it approve the slip above?" Just dial it, how can you still quarrel? ”

In this disaster relief, because the situation was urgent, there was not a lot of grain in the treasury, so they first allocated a batch of grain and grass, and then brought official money to the disaster relief team, so that they could buy some grain and grass along the way to make up for it, so they not only helped the victims who fled on the road, but also had the task of purchasing grain and grass.

Of course, this kind of purchase is not really for them to buy from local farmers or merchants, but from local officials, who have long been informed that they will buy good grain and grass in advance.

However, some of these officials are incorruptible, some are wealthy, and some have crooked thoughts, and those merchants or peasant households who sell grain to officials also have their own minds to a greater or lesser extent.

Moreover, I don't know if the Holy God did it intentionally today, this time the disaster relief silver is so much, if it is completely according to the original grain price, it will be fine, but at this time the food price cannot not rise, so these disaster relief silver is simply not enough to buy grain and grass along the way.

Now every place they go to, they have to grind with the local officials for a long time on the price of grain, just like this time, it is clear that the officials here are very rich, but they have a clean breeze on their sleeves, and there is really no extra silver to make up the difference.

In fact, even if this official is really willing to take out this money, he will not dare to take it out, otherwise he will admit in disguise that he is not only taking money, but also embezzling in private?