When I woke up the next morning, I was still thinking about going to eat roast mutton, and I got up earlier than Zhou Jingchu.

She sat on the kang neatly dressed, and her big eyes were thinking about how to eat mutton.

When Zhou Jingchu woke up, she saw that she had gone through roast mutton, shabu mutton, and mutton steamed buns in her mouth, and she suddenly cried and laughed.

"Are you awake?" As soon as he opened his eyes, the thing immediately opened his big round eyes and was full of excitement to pull him up. "Oh, lord, let's go eat roast mutton."

Half a sentence is inseparable from the roast mutton, Zhou Jing Chuti laughed and laughed, so he had to get up to change clothes and wash.

Qiu Qin was thick outside the door early, and when she saw them come out, she greeted them and said respectfully, "Lord Wang, General Sheng sent someone over, saying that it was for Miss Nan's counselor to introduce scenery and culture." ”

Zhou Jingchu didn't have much to say, and then took Nan Xiang's hand to eat breakfast.

The counselor was a plainly dressed, honest woman.

Seeing that the two of them were elegant and leisurely, the appearance of the talented woman was very eye-catching, and she sighed in her heart that she was really from the capital.

The woman came forward and saluted them one by one, "I have seen the prince and the girl." ”

Nan Xiang smiled and nodded, sat on the stool and beckoned her to come over and "eat together".

She smiled and was very lively and bright, which made the woman feel good at once. But she was afraid of the majesty of Zhou Jingchu, so she didn't dare to step forward, just waited on the side.

Breakfast is a few bread buns, a little dry and difficult to eat. It's freshly ground corn paste, and it's still steaming hot.

Nan Xiang bit the steamed bun a few times as hard as a stone, and was very frustrated and couldn't put her mouth down. She gnawed the left, couldn't bite on the right, and there were a few red stripes on the tender jade's face. The big eyes are bulging, and there is a posture of not believing that he can't cure a bun.

When the woman saw her so amused, she was also very close, and perhaps she saw that she was about the same age as the children of the family, and she was loved.

She stepped forward to take the dry and hard steamed bun in Nanxiang's hand and told her, "Soak the dry and hard steamed bun in the corn paste first, it will be softer and faster, and you can't bite it when you eat it, and you will choke your throat." ”

Nan Xiang was very studious and soaked half of the steamed bun in the hot corn paste, and after a while, the soaked steamed bun was brought up. Sure enough, the soaked buns immediately became soft, and they were soaked in a heavy stream of corn juice. She opened her mouth and took a sip, and sure enough, it was a lot better.

As soon as she eats it, she grins happily, "Thank you, aunt~" Ouch, this aunt's cry is so sweet, and the old woman who listens to her loves her even more.

Zhou Jingchu had a handsome face, and his eyes watched the little thing's every move. Seeing that she smiled so sweetly at outsiders, there was a little bit of a bad feeling in my heart for a while.

Reaching out to the dried bun in her hand, she directly pulled it away, and said coldly, "Eat your corn paste!" ”

Nan Xiang Nunu mouthed, glared at him angrily, not understanding what kind of madness this dog day was going on.

She didn't understand, but the old woman saw through it, lowered her head and secretly covered her mouth and smiled, now the young man, the old woman eats all the vinegar.

After eating breakfast in a hurry, Nan Xiang took Zhou Jingchu's hand and was about to eat roast mutton, even dragging it, "Hurry up." ”

Zhou Jingchu couldn't, so he had to let Dashan prepare the carriage.

The woman knew how to go, so she sat in the chariot and led the way.

Along the way, the street scene is continuous, and the early morning vendors get up early to do business, and the shouting and shouting have their own characteristics, which is very lively.

Zhou Jingchu didn't need to look at it to know that this product wanted to run out again. Without saying a word, she was pulled into the carriage, and criticized with a stern face, "Sit well, run around again, and go back!" ”

There is no way to do this, so you can only hang your head and puff up, and those who dare to be angry and dare not speak can hang up the oil bottle.

Qiuqin followed the car, covering her mouth and snickering.

Although the woman knew the location of the mutton, she didn't dare to go there, so she had to ask Zhou Jingchu for instructions.

"Back to the prince's words, we have a shortage of materials in the northern city, and the mutton is there, but it is too thin, and most of the sheep are the treasures of the villagers, and the big guys are probably reluctant to sell them."

Zhou Jingchu didn't expect that after only two years of hard work, the Beicheng, which was still prosperous in the past, would become like this.

The whole radish and pickles sold on the street have no meat foam, let alone fatty and meaty roast mutton.

He frowned and wondered, "The imperial court has also posted a lot of subsidies in the past two years, why are you still so poor?" "The Queen Mother takes out her private money every year to subsidize the frontier soldiers, why is she still so barren? Isn't it greedy by Sheng Nanjing himself?

He was busy with all things in the court, and other officials took care of the affairs of the frontier, because he only heard the news of the palace people's return, but he never thought that the current situation here was not as rich in resources as the court said.

The woman thought about it, was cramped for a long time, and finally didn't complain anything, but said, "The prince walked around Beicheng with the old woman, and he knew what the current situation was here." ”

Zhou Jingchu was puzzled, and with a "hmm", he asked the old woman to lead the way and look around every corner of Beicheng.

The adults and children I saw in the places I passed along the way were all skinny. The originally fertile and plump land is no longer verdant, but bare, not even a single weed, only loess all over the ground.

Even the endless grassland is withered and yellow, and it is obvious that the grass has been almost pulled by cattle and sheep.

The more Zhou Jingchu looked at it, the more solemn his face became, his voice was already very displeased, and he said angrily, "What's going on!" What about the disaster silver and seeds sent by the imperial court? ”

In this city, where is the barren land outside the city, and where is the fertile land and fertile resources?

The old woman knelt down in front of him with a thud and cried, "The prince is wise, the imperial court has not sent disaster silver at all in the past two years, let alone disaster silver, not even a seed!" The people in our city still eat from General Sheng's house. If the imperial court doesn't send people over for treatment, I'm afraid we won't be able to survive. ”

The woman wept as if she were crying, and she knelt on the ground and wept a handful of snot and tears, and her expression was sad and not as if she were faking.

Nan Xiang hurriedly helped her up, frowning and wondering, "Isn't it true that the imperial court said to the outside world that the matter of sending disaster silver over is simply fake?" ”

"Impossible!" Zhou Jingchu frowned, and denied it without thinking about it.

The Queen Mother has always loved the people like a son, and the executioner has always been him, how can that helpless woman tell a lie if she is dedicated to goodness?

It's just that it's barren here, and there's no way to fake it. There must be something hidden in it!

Nan Xiang pursed her lips, feeling that he believed in the Queen Mother too much.

At first glance, this old woman is an authentic peasant woman in Beicheng, and she looks sad and sad, and every word is sincere, and it does not seem to be a fake.

If she didn't cheat, it must be a fraud by the court.

The court dared to issue disaster silver and announced that it had been issued, and it is estimated that only the queen mother was there......

Otherwise, who has so much power that he dares to deceive the regent and the queen mother with military salaries?

Nan Xiang frowned at the willow leaves, very puzzled, full of doubts about the queen mother.