Zhu Di was already a frightened bird, but now when he suddenly heard the old man's words, he was even more frightened.

But he is the king of the leading domain, and he is used to seeing life and death on the battlefield, so he has long been trained to be cheeky, even if he is afraid to death in his heart, he does not show any signs on his face.

"Father!"

"Erchen has never deceived you in the slightest!"

Lao Zhu listened to Zhu Di's discrimination, snorted coldly and stopped paying attention to him.

He didn't believe a word of Zhu Di's words, but he didn't plan to pursue it.

Of course, he really has nothing to pursue.

"Your eldest nephew said in the letter, let us bring you a good voice for him, saying that you worked hard to defend the border for the country, so that the idle tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty who were subdued did not dare to invade the south!"

"Huh?"

Zhu Di was stunned when he heard this, why did Zhu Yunxi mention himself in the letter to the old man?

Does this grandson know something?

I have been operating in Beiping Mansion and Shandong for many years, and the grain channel is also opened through the Lu Wangfu and the Qi Wangfu, and I am only responsible for private transactions with the Liaodong Savages and the Beiyuan Tribe, so I shouldn't leak the news, right?

Zhu Hu saw that Zhu Yunxi had come a long way and didn't forget to greet Zhu Di, and suddenly asked sourly.

"Father, didn't my eldest nephew mention me?"

Lao Zhu glanced at Zhu Hu, and said with drooping eyelids.

"Nope!"

"You speak ill of him in our ears all day long, why did he mention you?"

"Father, why is the son of a minister who speaks ill of him, isn't the son afraid that the eldest nephew will be led crooked by a few masters around him?"

Now everyone has learned to be smart, and if they want to find Zhu Yunxi's stubble, they have always overtaken in corners and talked to the advisers around him.

For example, Gao Ming and others, as well as the students of Guozijian.

The first is that these people's positions are not high, and the second is that the foundation is too shallow, and there is no pressure to attack.

In a word, the imperial grandson is good, correct, smart, and great, and he blames the female officials around him!

"Can you have such kindness?"

Old Zhu glared at Zhu Di unhappily, and then looked at Zhu Di again.

"Fourth, are you sure you didn't do anything bad?"

Zhu Di had roughly guessed at this time that the eldest nephew should not have mentioned to the old man that he was reselling grain, and he had a score in his heart.

"Nope!"

"Why doesn't my father believe in his son?"

"If your father doesn't believe it, you will send Jinyiwei to raid the son's house and put the son's minister in the Jinyiwei prison!"

Seeing Zhu Di's reaction, Lao Zhu was suspicious.

"Forget it!"

"Since you swear by it, let's just believe it."

"But there is something we have to inform you in advance, your eldest nephew proposed, saying that Changsheng's Northern Expeditionary Army should be stationed in Wanquan Dusi to assist you in resisting Beiping together!"

"What?"

Zhu Di was directly stunned when he heard this, Wanquan Dusi is only two days away from Beiping City, once Zhu Yunxi wants to do it to himself, he can come to the city at any time.

It can be said that Zhu Yunxi's move was completely to send his second uncle to stare at him!

Once Chang Sheng is stationed in Beiping Mansion, his every move of King Yan will be under Chang Sheng's surveillance, and he will no longer want to trade privately with the tribes in the north.

"Father, I'm afraid this is inappropriate, right?"

"If Chang Sheng moves to defend Wanquan Dusi, won't Datong, Jinyang and other places be empty?"

"I still hope that my father will think twice, and everything will focus on the overall situation."

Lao Zhu also fell into hesitation when he heard Zhu Di's words, he sensitively noticed that the eldest grandson's suggestion was greasy, and it was clearly aimed at his fourth uncle Zhu Di, just to monitor and restrict Zhu Di nearby.

But now he is even more curious about why the eldest grandson suddenly targeted Zhu Di and guarded against Zhu Di.

Did this grandson find out what Zhu Di did in private, and he didn't dare to tell himself, for fear that he would be angry?

Lao Zhu looked around, looking at King Zhou, whose eyes were rolling wildly, and was looking at him

King Yan, who pulled his head and didn't know what to think, couldn't help but feel a burst of boredom in his heart.

I gave birth to a bunch of things!

"Let's let Chang Sheng move over for now!"

Lao Zhu struggled again and again, but decided to follow the advice of the eldest grandson and move Chang Sheng to the garrison of Wanquan Division.

Zhu Di panicked on the spot when he heard this, he didn't want to live under people's noses!

"Father, once Datong misses, the entire hinterland of the Central Plains will become a horse farm for Hu Qi!"

"Please think twice, don't lose a big one because of a small thing!"

Seeing that Zhu Di was so nervous, Lao Zhu was even more sure of his guess.

"It's okay!"

"Zhu Gui has already finished his marriage, and he will go to Datong in a few days to become a vassal, and he will ......be with him."

When Lao Zhu said this, he suddenly thought that the third Zhu Li was still lying on the sickbed, and fell into sadness for a while.

"Naturally, we will send someone who knows the soldiers to assist, and we will never let Datong lose!"

When Zhu Di saw his father say this, he could only retreat with hatred. He is now basically sure that Zhu Yunxi knows about his lawlessness, so he uses this matter to beat himself!

Zhangqiu Wangjiabao Village.

Wang Dali's family has been without cooking for three days, and they rely on grass roots and bark to feed their hunger.

Just as Wang Dali's hungry eyes were bursting with gold stars, his youngest son began to cry.

"Daddy......

"I'm hungry...... Woo woo woo ...... "

Wang Dali was weak when he heard this.

"If you're hungry, don't save some effort, what's the loss!"

At this time, Wang Dali's mother-in-law, Lin Xiuniang, entered the house with a broken gong and wild vegetable dumplings, and was immediately displeased when she heard Wang Dali's scolding.

"What are you yelling at the child?"

"Why am I blind, marrying such a worthless commodity as you, I can't even afford to support my wife and children......

Lin Xiuniang scolded her husband, and hurriedly greeted her youngest son.

"Baby!"

"Come and eat Tuantuan!"

When Wang Dali heard the word "Tuan Tuan", he hurriedly got up from the kang, pounced on it like a vicious dog, grabbed a vegetable dumpling and stuffed it into his mouth.

This sudden scene directly scared the son of the two, Wang Ling, into crying.

Lin Xiuniang was even more furious when she saw this, pushed her husband away, and stuffed a vegetable ball into her youngest son's hand.

"Eat!"

The youngest son, Wang Ling, took the vegetable dumplings and ate them in a big gulp, and immediately forgot the troubles just now.

On the contrary, after a few mouthfuls of leafy vegetable dumplings, Wang Dali couldn't help but hold on to the door frame and cry.

"What kind of life are we living here!"

"I'm really useless, I'm a waste, I might as well die, woo woo woo ......

When Lin Xiuniang saw her husband crying, she felt uncomfortable.

My husband is also hardworking, but he has worked hard for a year to farm and raise grain, and after paying the imperial grain and national tax, there is nothing left.

Even if he spins and embroiders to subsidize his family, his life has always been tight.

The two saved money to buy three acres of land, and rented twenty acres from Wu Xiucai's family in the village.

I was expecting a good life for this year's autumn harvest, but there were a few light rains this year, and even the ground was not soaked, and it didn't count if there was no harvest, and he owed Wu Xiucai's family 20 acres of land rent......

"Daddy, it's not your fault, it's our life for not making money!"

"Otherwise, if you sell me, you two can still get two life money......

When Wang Dali heard this, his eyes immediately widened with anger.

"What do you mean?"

"Are you still worried about the son of Wu Xiucai's family?"

"You don't abide by women's morals, I shouldn't have tried to marry you cheaply......

Lin Xiuniang was kind-hearted and wanted to sell herself to keep her husband and son alive, but unexpectedly, her husband moved out of her early years as a maid in Wang Xiucai's house to humiliate her, and she was so angry that she committed suicide on the spot.

"You...... Thou hast humiliated me, and I have no longer lived, and thou hast humbled me......."

Wang Dali regretted it after scolding, and when he saw that his mother-in-law was going to die or live, he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.

While the two were pulling the car, Wu Xiucai led an old woman in.

"Is Wang Dali at home?"

When Wang Dali heard that it was Wu Xiucai's voice, he yelled angrily.

"No!"

Wu Xiucai didn't care about this, and walked in with a smile.

"Xiuniang is also here!"

"I came here to discuss with the two of you, whether your family's three acres of land can be sold?"

"If you sell it to me, I will not only give you food for your life, but also free of your rent for this year!"

"What do you think?"

This is a typical situation of land annexation in ancient times.

Every year of catastrophe is a new round of reshuffling of the land.

The local gentry and landlords would buy up the land at a low price, turning a large number of yeoman farmers into tenants.

They then gained fame through the imperial examinations, which gave them the right to be exempt from forced labor and taxes.

If this goes on for decades or even hundreds of years, the country's tax revenue will become less and less, and its finances will gradually dry up.

Wang Dali has endured a lot of hardships and spent a lot of time and energy in order to purchase these three acres of land.

His biggest dream is to buy his son twenty acres of land before he dies!

He got up early and climbed the ground in the middle of the night, and cleaned up the three acres of his own land very well, and all of them were connected to the canal and turned into paddy fields.

Paddy fields are not uncommon in the south, but they are a rarity in the north, and as long as they plant rice for a few years, their family can at least have a good life and clothing, even if they can't get rid of poverty and become rich.

Therefore, Wang Dali valued these three acres of land very seriously, and even if he was hungry and dying, he was unwilling to sell it cheaply.

"How much money does Master Wu plan to pay to buy land?"

"One tael of silver and one acre!"

When Wang Dali heard the price of the land, he was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother.

Ordinary dry land is still eight taels of silver per acre, but he is a paddy field, so he only gives one tael of silver?

However, just when he wanted to curse, Wu Xiucai spoke again.

"Plus three buckets of millet!"

"Three buckets of millet?"

Wang Dali heard the three buckets of millet, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

If there are really three buckets of millet, their family can save some food, and they can almost survive this famine.

However, just when Wang Dali was about to agree, Lin Xiuniang on the side quit.

"No!"

"Those three acres of paddy fields can't be sold!"

"I'd rather sell myself than sell my baby's paddy field!"

"Since you don't want to sell, then your whole family should die!"

Wu Xiucai threw down these words and walked away angrily, and the old mother outside the back door walked in.

"Mrs. Lin, is it true that you just said that you were going to sell yourself?"

"Of course it's true!"

Lin Xiuniang didn't want her son to live such a hard life in the future, so she would rather sell herself and let her son have a field next to her.

"Aunt Zhang, but there are good buyers?"

"Yo!"

"I really let Lin Niangzi say, now the imperial grandson is choosing a concubine in Shandong, choosing a palace maid, and the county magistrate has spoken, as long as the family has a daughter to be married, no one is allowed to marry......

"The county Tian Juren's family also released a message, saying that they would buy a hundred women and give them to the emperor's grandson, so as to have a good future for his son, who is an official in the capital!"

Lin Xiuniang's pretty face immediately blushed when she heard this, and Wang Dali on the side was angry and secretly hated that she didn't have a girl, and she missed a good thing in vain.

"Aunt Zhang, forgive me, I don't have a girl in my family......

Hearing this, Aunt Zhang stepped forward and grabbed Lin Xiuniang's hand and smiled.

"Oops!"

"Although you don't have a girl in your family, you can dress up, can't you also be a girl?"

"I...... Shall I do it?"

"Hey!"

"How big is our Shandong?

, where to go to the whole 100,000 girls, don't you have to go around pulling people to make up the numbers?"

"Don't worry, the candidate for the princess has long been decided, and you are the one who entered the palace to be the palace maid......

"Tian Juren said that as long as he is willing to sell his body, each person will be given three buckets of rice!"

"Three buckets of rice, ah......"

As soon as Lin Xiuniang heard that she could exchange three buckets of rice, she immediately agreed.

"If I can really exchange three buckets of rice, I will sell myself to Tian Juren......

"Then let's talk about it, I'll call someone to bring you rice, and you go back to the city with us, waiting to be seen by the nobles in the palace!"

"If you can be favored by the nobles in the palace, Tian Juren will give you three buckets of rice!"

Not long after, Zhang's mother ran in with a bag of millet, threw down the millet and asked Wang Dali to put his fingerprint on the deed of sale.

Wang Dali looked at his mother-in-law with tears in his eyes, and finally gritted his teeth and pressed his handprint under the repeated urging of his mother-in-law.

"Xiuniang, I'm sorry for you, woo woo woo ...... "

When Lin Xiuniang thought of separating from her son, she was also bitterly heartbroken.

"I'm not willing to ......."

"You two have a good time, you must treat my son well, if you dare to sell my son, I won't let you go as a ghost, woo woo woo ......

Lin Xiuniang cried, and followed Zhang's mother to the county seat in the carriage of the Tianju family, leaving only Wang Dali and Wang Ling, the father and son, to spend their days guarding three buckets of millet.

In order to feed his son, Wang Dali went to the mountains every day to dig wild vegetables, and then mixed them with millet to steam wild vegetable dumplings for his son.

In this way, I have been frugal for more than half a month, and there are still two buckets of millet left at home.

It's just that he himself is getting thinner and thinner with hunger, and his face is more sallow.

He knew why, just because he left all the rice to his son and wanted his son to live on rice.

However, after a long time, his body could not support it after all.

Just as his hungry eyes were dizzy, he suddenly saw a woman walk in outside the door, a woman who was very familiar.

"Xiu Niang?"

"Vigorously!"

"Xiuniang, is it really you?"

"It's me!"

Xiuniang threw down the bag in her hand, hugged her husband and son and cried.

When he saw his husband's hungry face and yellow muscles, he knew what kind of life his husband had lived during this time.

"Vigorously!"

"We're going to have a good life in the future!"

"The food I brought back this time is enough for us to survive the famine!"

Lin Xiuniang pulled the rice bag and shook it vigorously in front of her husband. Wang vigorously put his hand into the rice bag, grabbed a handful of rice and greedily put it in his mouth.

"Incense!"

"Serious southern rice, when it was good in the past, our family also ate it......

"Xiuniang, what are you doing with rice?"

When Lin Xiuniang heard her husband ask like this, her face suddenly showed reverence.

"This is the rice sent by the emperor's grandson!"

"The emperor's grandson ordered people to bring rice from the south, and every household in the county gave it miles!"

"It will be sent to our village in two days!"

"The Imperial Grandson?"

Wang Dali cursed the imperial grandson every day during this time, because the imperial grandson took away his most precious woman.

"Isn't the imperial grandson a pervert, if he wants to recruit 100,000 palace maids into the palace, how can he still send you food?"

"I don't know ......."

"It's just that I heard that the imperial grandson never said that he wanted to recruit 100,000 palace maids, and it was the great eunuch around him who falsely passed on the holy decree and ruined his old man's reputation!"

"It is said that the imperial grandson has cut down the great eunuch, and his head is hung on the tower of the city gate, so that the passing people can throw stones at him!"

Wang Dali exclaimed in surprise when he heard this.

"Ahh

"Didn't say this, the imperial grandson is a good person, and the eunuchs around him don't do anything?"

"Not really!"

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The emperor's grandson is a great man!"

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