Shen Ai sent Mu Bai away, thinking that he hadn't seen Jiang Yu for several days since the palace banquet, and he didn't know what he was doing, so he sent someone to give Mu Shi and then took the maid and the guards out towards Jiang's mansion.

She is not empty-handed but brought a small basket of salted duck eggs, the Duchess loves to eat this the most, although she has said the method in detail with her, but the Duchess said that the salted duck eggs made by the slaves are not as good as she did, is this the difference between crossing people? Don't dwell on this issue, isn't it just a few salted duck eggs she has time to do.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of Jiang's mansion, I lifted the curtain and saw that Mama Qin was already standing by the car with an umbrella and waiting, it had been raining continuously for the past two days, although it was not big, but if I didn't use an umbrella, I would have to wet my clothes.

"Mama Qin is good." Shen Ai greeted her politely

Mama Qin smiled and stretched out her hand to help him get out of the car, held an umbrella for him, and said, "County Lord An, the old lady is already waiting for you inside." ”

"I'm tired of my mother." Shen Ai smiled and grabbed Mama Qin's hand and got out of the carriage

As soon as he took off his cloak when he entered the house, he heard the inquiry voice of the Duchess of the Inside: "But little Ai'er is here?" ”

Shen Ai smiled and handed the cloak to Lingcui, took the basket in his hand and replied as he walked: "It's Ai'er who is here, can the old lady think about it?" ”

Seeing Shen Ai coming in, the Duchess smiled and said, "How can you not want to, my salted duck eggs have been broken for two days." ”

Shen Ai walked in and gave the salted duck eggs and pouted: "It turns out that the old lady misses this egg so she wants to love her son." ”

"Hahaha, you're a little clever ghost." The Duchess nodded her little cocked nose and sat down holding hands

After chatting with the Duchess of Guo for a while, and asking about Concubine De's situation, Shen Aicai asked, "Why don't you see Brother Jiang today?" ”

After the Duchess asked Mama Qin, who was waiting, to wrap a piece of dim sum in a handkerchief and give it to her, she said: "Your brother Jiang was pulled out by the five princes early this morning, and I don't know what they are doing, these days are mysterious." ”

Shen Ai smiled and took two bites of his eyebrows, and said, "Ai'er still wants to play with Brother Jiang today, but it's a pity." ”

Duchess Guo smiled: "You can go to Wanyun Tower quietly, your brother Jiang loves to stay there the most except for the mansion." ”

Shen Ai accompanied the Duchess until she was about to take a break before leaving the house.

After getting into the carriage, he asked the groom to drive straight to Wanyun Tower, and when he asked the shopkeeper but learned that Jiang Yu was not here, Shen Ai frowned slightly, thanked the shopkeeper and went back to Shen's mansion.

When he got up the next day, Shen Ai found that it had snowed at some point last night, and at this moment a thin layer had been laid on the ground, but the snow was still falling one after another, and it must have been over the soles of his feet to follow this trend into the night.

Due to the cold weather, the academy has also suspended classes, but the schoolwork is still better, and the three brothers are busy finishing their schoolwork so that they can play with peace of mind.

After staying in the house for a day, Shen Guogong told everyone at the table at dinner that the north had already snowed heavily, and there would be a lot of refugees pouring into the capital in a few days, and the emperor asked the ministers above the third grade to give porridge in front of the door, and their men had to discuss disaster relief, and the matter of soup porridge had to be handed over to the women at home to do.

The imperial study is full of haze at the moment, the emperor's brows have not been opened for more than ten days, and there are more than 20 red expedited concerts on the table, all of which are heavy snowstorms in the north, because the blizzard suddenly fell and could not be prevented, many houses were overwhelmed by the snow, and many people were killed and injured, and even if they were not crushed to death, the cold weather had no shelter from the wind and snow, and many people froze to death on the streets.

However, at this moment, it was revealed that Tanping County, which was the most seriously affected, did not have a grain of relief grain, causing a riot among the victims, and the emperor was furious and sent Qin to investigate secretly, and found out that the county order of Tanping County had exchanged the grain for silver, and spent all day drinking to squeeze the people's fat and ointment and no one reported it, and the annual performance was good, and the heavy snow came suddenly, and the Tanping county order did not have time to prepare before it stabbed the emperor.

A small county magistrate is so bold and reckless to bully the king, you don't have to think about it to know that there must be someone behind it.

The gloomy old emperor glanced at the ministers who were standing below with their eyebrows lowered and bowed their heads silently, and those who could come to the imperial study were all people that the emperor fancied, and it took a long time to hear the old emperor say coldly: "What do you think of Aiqing?" ”

After a period of silence, Prime Minister Zheng Cheng stepped out of the queue and replied: "Emperor Qi, the minister thinks that the most important thing in this period is disaster relief food, although General Fang suppressed the riot in just two days, but if there is no food to eat, I am afraid that the riot will not stop." ”

When the old emperor heard this, he did not say anything, but pondered for a while, turned his head and asked Jiang Guogong and Shen Guogong, who were standing on the side: "What do Jiang Aiqing and Shen Aiqing think?" ”

Jiang Guogong and Shen Guogong glanced at each other and hurriedly said, "The minister seconded what Prime Minister Zheng Cheng said. ”

The old emperor nodded and said, "Then we will transfer grain from the south, and here we will transfer some grain from Jiangcheng first." ”

Prime Minister Zheng Cheng and the two princes knelt on the ground and shouted: "The emperor is wise." ”

Waiting for the emperor to wave his hand, they quickly got up and stood back in place, all the people present were human spirits, the emperor was in a bad mood at the moment, naturally no one dared to move forward, even the emperor has always loved to shoot the emperor's sycophants and sell obedient Zhongshu Ling, Yong Ninghou, Yongchang Hou these days have stopped, with their tails obediently on the court to discuss the work of the court, not as in the past days to drink and have fun.

Prime Minister Zheng Cheng, who came out of the imperial study, deliberately took two steps slower, waiting for Jiang Guogong and Shen Guogong to walk together, and when the three of them walked out of the palace gate together, Prime Minister Zheng Chengcheng breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "The two grandfathers think this method is feasible?" ”

Shen Guogong glanced around as if inadvertently before he whispered: "Okay, yes, it's too long to raise food from the south, I'm afraid that the victims over there won't be able to wait." ”

Jiang Guogong also sighed slightly: "I can only rely on Jiangcheng." ”

Prime Minister Zheng Cheng said: "Jiangcheng also has a disaster, but it is lighter than Tanping County, a few days ago I have written to ask Jiangcheng Zhizhou, he said that the rice warehouse is quite abundant, can be separated." ”

Jiang Guogong sighed: "There are disasters everywhere in the north, and I just hope that the rice and grain that can last to the south have arrived." ”

Shen Guogong asked: "Jiangcheng Zhizhou is your protégé?" ”

Prime Minister Zheng nodded: "Otherwise, how dare I make a plan today." ”

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, their eyes showed a little helplessness, and they each waved their hands and got into the carriage.

The Zhang family and the Mu family in the house have ordered people to prepare, and early in the morning they let people set up a shed on the side of the road to set up a pot and boil the porridge, the owners of each province will not come forward a day or two ago, only ask the steward to watch in the porridge shed, after all, such a large number of hungry refugees poured in, everyone is worried that something will happen, and they will not go out when the order in the city is stable.

Shen Ai, who originally wanted to go to the soup kitchen, followed the Zhang family and the Mu family to the porridge shed of the Shen Mansion on the third day, and when he got off the carriage, he saw that the porridge shed of the Jiang Mansion was also lined up, but only the officials of the Jiang Mansion who had taken pictures a few times watched, and did not see the Duchess of the Kingdom.

On the side of the road, there were not only the porridge sheds of Shen and Jiang, but also other officials, who came to say hello when they saw Zhang and Mu, and the two had to deal with it.

Mu explained that Mama Li and the two maids were optimistic about Shen Ai, because it was almost lunch time when they came, and many refugees had gathered in front of each porridge shed.

Shen Ai also knew that he couldn't run around at this time, so he only stayed in the porridge shack, and when he went out, the Zhang family and the Mu family had already discussed, and they would have porridge with the refugees here for lunch today, so that the refugees could not only know their goodwill but also earn a good reputation for the Shen Mansion, so the soup kitchen was not a simple soup kitchen.

Finally, the porridge was boiled, and the refugees consciously lined up in two pairs, because the Shen Mansion had prepared more big white steamed buns today, and there were many more people in line than the porridge shacks in other houses.

The porridge waste physical strength will be copied by the small house, Zhang and Mu will personally apply steamed buns, one person a bowl of porridge and one steamed bun, the porridge is also extremely thick, hungry A bowl can also be half full, plus the big steamed bun is no problem.

Shen Aili stood behind Mu Shi and looked at the refugees covered in dirt and thin clothes, lining up in the cold wind and snow with slightly broken bowls, some of them were so blue that their faces were blue and their shoulders were shivering, and they couldn't help frowning.

She lives in a prosperous and peaceful new century, and the refugees she has seen are all in other countries far away from her on TV and the Internet.

Shen Ai tugged at the sleeves of the Mu family, who were busy distributing steamed buns, looked up at the team that couldn't see the end, and asked, "Mother, where do these people live?" ”

Mu Shi, who was busy all the time, did not look back: "I live in a newly built temporary shed outside the city. ”

"Is it warm?"

Mu Shi was slightly stunned: "Perhaps... Warm it. ”

Shen Ai was silent for a while and then said, "Mother, I want to go and see." ”

Mu Shi frowned, and said sharply: "No, there are many people there, it's not safe, so you are not allowed to go anywhere if you stay behind." ”

Shen Ai was silent, obediently retreated into the shed, looked at Mu and Zhang, who were busy, rolled his eyes, and waved his hand to Zhao Kang, who had been following him, and whispered to him.

I saw Zhao Kang shaking his head desperately to refuse, Shen Ai sat at the small table dejectedly, worried about how to go out of the city to have a look, just when he saw Shen Erye coming, his eyes lit up.

"Daddy!"

Shen Erye, who had just gotten off the carriage, was staggered by his baby daughter before he could stand on his heels, took two steps back to stabilize his body, picked her up and said, "Why haven't I seen her for two hours, my beloved child misses her father so much?" ”

Shen Ai, who was holding Shen Erye's neck, licked his face and patted his ass: "Definitely, Daddy is so suave and talented, Ai'er is thinking about you all the time." ”

Second Master Shen scolded with a smile: "Little ponyf, let's talk about what you want your father to do for you." ”

Shen Ai shouted: "How does Daddy know?" That's smart. ”

Second Master Shen pinched her little nose as if punishing: "As far as the thief on your face is concerned, anyone with eyes can see it." ”

Shen Ai laughed twice: "Daddy, I want to go outside the city to see where the refugees live, but my mother won't let me go." ”

Second Master Shen frowned: "What are you going to do in that place?" ”

Shen Ai lowered his head and poked his fingers and said, "Look if they live warmly." ”

Second Master Shen sighed slightly: "Don't go, how can the temporary shed be warm?" ”

Shen Ai asked again: "Then how many cotton clothes can Daddy make for 10,000 taels of silver?" ”

Second Master Shen thought for a moment: "Estimate two thousand pieces." ”

"And how many refugees are there now?"

"I heard your uncle say that there are about 30,000 or 40,000 people, but the first batch outside the city is the first batch, and the second and third batches are still on the way, adding up to about 100,000 people, not counting children under the age of ten."