Tiddlelem's personality is not bad, but she has quirks, which is what Zhou Shu said about her.

During the few days I lived in the palace, I heard that the queen had punished herself for not eating dinner for two days because of a trivial matter. Zhou Shu had also heard some similar stories from Tourel, which made him feel very strange.

In order to dispel possible troubles, Master Zhou took the initiative to mention that he had a fiancée. The fiancée in his mouth is naturally a sick princess, and the situation is too specific to mention.

After her Majesty's expression was enriched for a while, she suddenly became relieved, as if she had figured out something, and suddenly smiled brightly at Zhou Shu, and blessed him with a future marriage.

Tiddlerum did see this god-like man as her destined candidate, but she didn't have any intentions. Zhou Shu's hair color is brown, and the color of his pupils is the same, which is very inconsistent with the royal family's eugenics standards.

There is still a lot of royal blood in the West Country, but the king is just a little less. It is not uncommon for the great nobles with royal blood to spread their genes in this country, and it is not uncommon for people to have Asian characteristics.

If Tiddlerum wanted to get married, she basically had to find someone from among her distant relatives who would go along with the request, and she could only think casually about a foreigner with brown hair and a cute smile.

Now that she heard that this foreigner had a fiancée, she gave up completely. It is already difficult and emotional, and there is only one-sided good feelings, like the leaves of a tree crumbling under the autumn wind. The appearance of his fiancée was like a meteorite that crushed the camel, directly smashing the queen to the point of losing her temper.

Both of them felt the awkward atmosphere just now, and Ted didn't plan to leave after performing his facial expressions, so he wanted to talk about something serious to relieve the embarrassment.

Just when Tiddlelem was chatting with Zhou Shu, the big-headed soldier, about the inability to beat the crop yield with eight poles, a waiter reported that someone was looking for her. It seems that there is a very strict problem in the city.

In a country with a powerful single combat unit like the Patronus, it is still difficult for mortals to march to battle. In order to deal with these guys, there are bound to be many strange things that will evolve on the part of the human army.

Tiddlelime walked to the gate and listened to a middle-aged bearded man whisper something about the situation, which naturally could not escape the reconnaissance of Zhou Shu, who had long ears.

The bearded man seems to be the minister in charge of military resources, and this position seems to have a very high status in the western country. Now this guy is sweating profusely about the situation of more than two dozen hidden warehouses underground in the national capital.

"All the stored grain. It's all tainted by the Patronus. The armor and iron side are also troublesome, and they are made by the god of the swamp......"

The god of the swamp, the god of the East Country. There are many people who believe in him, but it has nothing to do with his job, and there should be no one who worships swamps and wetlands, at least not in civilizations that don't care about environmental protection at this level.

This swamp god of the East Country is committed to the army, and has basically become one of the military gods. The Patronus was in the form of a mouse, not exactly like a rabbit like the Moon God, but the size of a rat compared to a larger cat.

This thing is not good at fighting. However, with the characteristics of the mouse, it is much stronger than the rabbit-born moon god in terms of burrowing. Relying on his expertise in this area, he also came to destroy the materials in the underground warehouse of the West Capital.

Rats are in many cases a symbol of the plague, and the easiest way to get rid of it once and for all is to burn down the city and build a new one. There are also more difficult ways to let the residents of the city have the idea of living a hygienic life.

Like most Patronus, the Swamp God has the special ability to make his surroundings extremely humid, so he is worshipped as the god of the land.

By virtue of this ability. The grain in the warehouses of Nishinokuni is rotten, and the iron is rusty. And these happened only overnight.

In order to fight against the Patronus, the army hid the precious war materials very secretly. But obviously, they haven't done enough, and this will be regarded as a hand of inconvenience.

Tiddlelime didn't have any idea about it, and only thought about shedding tears after she asked about the amount of loss.

This time it was not only the military warehouses that were unlucky, but also the civilian warehouses. The grain and spices hoarded by the big chamber of commerce were unlucky. Moldy in the truest sense of the word.

As queen, Tiddlelem could only give orders to empty the warehouses, pick and choose what was available, try to keep public opinion as low as possible, and open the treasury to buy food from other cities.

This time the loss was very severe. Just after the autumn harvest, the military of the West Country had just purchased a large amount of old grain from previous years and hoarded it, but now it is completely gone.

They knew very well the simple truth that they couldn't put their eggs in one basket, and there were so many underground warehouses in the western capital that 80% of them were found and contaminated. The underground warehouse was hot and humid, the temperature was like summer, and mold spread all over the underground buildings overnight, but it was a very difficult process to clean up the mold.

And the location of these warehouses was found, meaning that they could no longer be used in the future. The excavation of these warehouses is much more difficult than the cellars, and the cost of money is also very huge, and the loss of this time can be said to have touched the bones of the royal family, and it is very painful.

Zhou Shu listened to it and shook his head in his heart. The previous marshal on crutches also asked him to sneak attack the warehouses of other cities, but he was preempted. It's not that he complains, but because the location of the underground warehouse has been found this time and the king was attacked at his home last time, the country's secrecy system is really worrying. There is also the reputation of the princess, and I don't know how to make a propaganda agency to wash it down, so I let a princess live all day long with the name of someone else.

Just as he had just complained in his heart that other people's secrecy was not doing well, the bearded man complained to Tiddlelem, saying that there were ghosts in the system and wanted to get a clearance.

Tiddle didn't allow for a large-scale operation, just let him, the manager of the warehouse, do it, and the conversation ended.

When he came back and sat next to Zhou Shu, Her Majesty seemed to want to talk about what had just happened. Zhou Shu said very honestly that he had heard those words.

"My ears are very sensitive. ”

"That's right. Teed joked, "Then I'm going to put you on the list of suspicions of the inner ghost." ”

Zhou Shu also grabbed his head on the side, and said embarrassedly, 'You found out'.

The living state of the queen of a country is like this, maybe she is in a good mood today, and suddenly someone ran over and slashed a thunderbolt on the face.

Tiddlelem said he has been in charge since he took charge. I already hate being approached by others out of the blue, and there is no good news every time.

"Is there a shortage of food?" Zhou Shu asked.

"The food is fine, at least the military side is okay. However, the losses of the merchants will be troublesome, and they will definitely pass them on to the residents. Rising food prices are a nuisance, and our national treasury does not have extra money to help keep them down. ”

Zhou Shu never felt that money was a problem, and he casually opened and turned out a box of gold in front of the princess. This box of stuff is about 0.5 cubic meters. The gold inside should weigh about eight or nine tons.

Gold is such a heavy thing, almost 2.5 times denser than iron, and although it is inconvenient to carry, it is quite easy to store.

Suddenly, he gave a lot of money to others, and then caused them to be patronized by robbers. Zhou Shu will not do this kind of thing again. If it were Tiddlelem's temper, eighty percent would have self-harmed and apologized.

He helped a queen this time, and naturally he was not afraid of being robbed of her money.

Unfortunately, His Majesty Tiddle was not willing to accept this grant. She felt that this money was conjured up by Zhou Shu out of thin air, and it came from the wrong way. With her thinking, Zhou Shu dared to be sure that this guy had a conflict with the sick princess. Minutes will be played to death.

"How could it be conjured out of thin air, it was all dug from the ground by that fellow from the Freedom Eagle. She's good at burrowing, you forgot?"

Zhou wrote a letter to Hu Zou, and Tiddle remembered the Freedom Eagle that could control the stones.

She picked up a gold coin and looked at it carefully, which made someone who had just finished lying nervous.

"The gold she dug up, and then you came and smelted it with fire and poured it into gold coins?"

Zhou Shu nodded shamelessly, he was very sure that with the IQ of this guy in front of him. You can fool around casually.

"Okay. Since you insist on giving it to me, let's talk about the conditions. ”

Most of the contradictions in this world. In the end, it can be summed up as an economic contradiction, especially when the market economy is active enough. Capitalism has been sprouting in this country for a long time, and it has been separated from the agrarian civilization for 800 years.

Tiddlelem was also a little dizzy when he saw the gold, and his heart beat faster to calculate the proportion of the country's tax revenue for these things. The rate at which the gold mines in the hands of the West Country is almost one-third of the annual production. That's all that goes into the treasury every year.

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, the boss of a country likes money more than anyone else, and it is impossible for people with high fortune to be in a high position, because they are incompatible with the needs of ordinary people.

Zhou Shu didn't plan to trade this gold for anything, he just wanted to help. If he doesn't make a move. Military operations, which have now stalled, have been delayed for even longer because of the food problem. He really can't afford to hurry up and become famous and then go back to Baiyue Kingdom to marry his eldest lady.

Tiddlelem obviously didn't think that pie in the sky had this kind of fall, it had already caught up with the pie rain, and it didn't matter whether people could accept it or not, they crackled and smashed it on their heads.

"Do you want land, or a higher official position?"

"I just want to help you, really. ”

"But I want to give you something in return. ”

"I can't take care of the land, I have to stay with you, don't I? ”

"Then I'll give you a knighthood. ”

"Doesn't that mean I'm using money to buy you a knighthood? ”

"But I have nothing else to give you. "Tiddle has never spoken so bluntly in his life. She can be more tactful, and she is technically better at that way. But in the face of Zhou Shu, she couldn't be tactful.

"I didn't even think about getting anything out of you. If you have money, you can use it with peace of mind, I just hope that the country can speed up its recovery. ”

At present, Zhou Shu is in a state of being a master of art, and since he can fly, his whole person is not as cowardly as before. In the past, he would not have done such an abrupt act, nor would he have told those unconvincing lies so blatantly. It doesn't matter now, courage is all practiced, but boldness is definitely a shortcoming in his living environment-

After Zhou Shu left, Tiddlelime sat alone by the chest full of gold. Holding a coin and looking at it.

Although it is difficult for gold to leave traces of time, it is not impossible to see. She looked left and right, and finally determined that the gold coin really seemed to be freshly minted, at least not the kind that was decades old. It was impossible for her to believe Zhou Shu's words, but in this case, she had no choice but not to believe it, what country would mint so many gold coins in one go?

Plus the dragon head badge printed on the gold coin. There is no trace of any regime, not like the official currency issued by any country, which also echoes the characteristics of private coinage.

There are many privately minted gold coins in Nishinokuni that are not in circulation and only have their precious metal value. In Tiddlelem's opinion, Zhou Shu didn't seem to be lying.

"I shouldn't doubt her ......," the Queen muttered to herself in the empty room, "I have wronged him once." ”

Tiddlelime grabbed the coin and leaned against the box. What appeared in front of him was Zhou Shu's face. She thought about the sentence that Zhou Shu had just said to her, 'I just want to help you', and the whole person was a little distracted.

"I shouldn't have doubted his ...... Need to punish ......"

The princess said this, flicked her forehead vigorously, and then chuckled to herself as she lay on the gold.

After returning to his residence, Zhou Shu called Nattie and Freedom Eagle, who spent the whole day in the kitchen of Nishino Country.

There are chili peppers in this country, but not in the country of White Moon. The two have fallen in love with this flavor of food, eating and drinking in the name of heroes.

Zhou Shu listened to Nati talk about what the two of them ate all day, and always felt that these two guys should go to the Big Stomach King competition. Warriors are like that. Food can be quickly absorbed by the stomach and turned into energy, and no matter how much you eat. It's a little embarrassing to always run the toilet.

His old man found a god in the shape of a mouse in the Book of Summons. He had just asked about the Swamp God, and he thought it was probably this guy. Obviously, this thing relied on its own ability to dig holes and run away, and did not leave after destroying more than eighty percent of the city's underground warehouses, probably planning to wipe out the last remaining ones.

Zhou Shu called his own team and prepared to quickly deal with this big rat. Stop wasting food.

He once said that as long as there is something in this world that has been bought with money, there is no such thing as waste. For example, if a giant buys half of the world's grain with the golden eggs laid by a goose and throws it into the sea, the food will not be reduced. It's just that the price of food will rise, and only more food will be produced in the coming year, and the number of people who will lose leftovers will also decrease when the price increases, and this is the role of prices. But that was when the productive forces were sufficiently developed, and it was clear that the world did not have this characteristic, and that the grain was in urgent need.

Early the next morning, Zhou Shu grabbed a cat-sized dead mouse and went to see Her Majesty, ready to surprise her, and then was successfully stopped by the guards in the small garden leading to the main hall......

Yesterday he wandered all night and finally found an underground warehouse. This is not difficult for Freedom Eagle to find, after all, the premise of her control of the stone is to perceive the stone. The buildings underneath the ground affect the density of the stones, and they are easy to find.

Zhou Shu also relied on luck to squat and squat at the rats that came to pollute the food. Freedom Eagle easily trapped the mouse with a stone as if he had caught Zhou Shu and the Fifth Knight before. But it's a pity that this thing is not slippery like a loach, and it is good at digging holes, and it can escape quickly after being caught.

Against such an opponent, a gun is the best weapon. So Zhou Shu learned from the TV, sandwiched two extremely strong planes, ignoring the recoil, and suddenly killed the enemy, making the warehouse full of gunsmoke except for the musty smell. By the way, the guards were so frightened that they peed their pants.

It is already the limit to be able to walk into this flower palace with a dead mouse, and this is still for the sake of Zhou Shu is battle hero. If you want to enter the main hall where Your Majesty lives, it is definitely too much.

After informing His Majesty, Zhou Shu unsurprisingly grabbed the rat's tail and wandered around the garden for two hours, only to wait for His Highness Tiddleleme, who had arrived in a hurry, and then was startled by her very girlish scream.

"It's the god of the swamp, it's clean, although it looks dirty. Zhou Shu knew that it was the mouse in his hand that frightened the queen girl, so he hurriedly explained.

Tiddlelem believed what Zhou Shu said that he had killed the god of the swamp, and he had killed enough of the guardian gods of the enemy country anyway. But he still can't accept him catching a dead mouse.

"You put that thing down! Throw it away!

The queen's shouting attracted the guards, and it was the first time for Zhou Shu to see Tiddlelime so excited, so he hurriedly lit a fire in the garden and threw the dead mouse into it.

Tiddlelime took out a silk scarf to wipe Zhou Shu's hands, but Master Zhou didn't take it, so he took out a towel and wiped it, and then threw the dirty towel into the fire.

"Please forgive me for not being able to shake your hand. "Tiddle Lime seemed genuinely freaked, but at least knew how to joke.

"I wanted to surprise you. Where is your joy?"

"Wait until the scare you gave me has passed!Your Excellency Zhou Shu, you are really enough!"

"Angry!?"

"It's scared!"

Zhou Shu shrugged his shoulders, but he liked the frightened queen now, and her tone of voice was quite cute.

"By the way, I have bad news for you. Last night I went to catch mice, and I thought the rest of the storehouses in the city had also suffered. ”

"I already know this, and I've heard about your troubles, and some guards have witnessed you killing the patron saint of the enemy country. I believe that the news will spread soon. ”

Tiddlelem said that she had just been unable to get out to see Zhou Shu and was just discussing what happened last night. However, the current food shortage is not the main problem, the carts and horses transporting food are already on the road, and tomorrow they will be able to buy food from nearby villages and towns, although the march is not enough, but the daily use will definitely not be affected in any way.

What was being discussed at the council was why the swamp rats were running to destroy the rations at this time. From this behavior, it can be seen that it seems that they do not really want their army to take the initiative at this time.

If this is true, then there is probably something wrong with the invading army of the East Country, and it seems that this is a good time to attack. (To be continued......)