Looking at the exaggerated performance of the city lord of Xu, several people just wanted to sneer in their hearts.

Don't think that if you are hungry and lose a few pounds, you can exaggerate here and say that your rations are all saved for the people of Jiyang City!

Zhu Xiaozhu put her hands around her chest, and her face was meaningful.

Yan Cijiu and Zhu Xiaozhu stood side by side, very dissatisfied with Zhu Jingting's introduction to him.

Why is my brother not my fiancé and why is my brother not my fiancé?

Why!!

Zhu Jingting felt the resentment of the prince, and came over with a look: Because of convenience!

But this palace is Xiao Zhu'er's rightful fiancé!

Zhu Jingting: Heh, no one can say what will happen in the future!

The son-in-law and father-in-law made eye contact without barriers, and Zhu Xiaozhu looked amazed: "You two really have a tacit understanding." ”

She whispered in Yan Cijiu's ear, and Yan Cijiu immediately protested: "No! It's Hongu who has been smart since he was a child! ”

Okay.

The little prince of the stinky fart.

It's so cute.

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Zhu Xiaozhu's eyes turned into crescent moons, she stood on tiptoe with a doting face, reached out and patted Yan Cijiu's little head: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the smartest!" ”

No one heard the two little ones talking.

Everyone's attention is on City Lord Xu!

City Lord Xu finally ended his performance exaggeratedly, and at the end, he ended with a miserable and miserable action of wiping his tears.

Zhu Jingting immediately showed a smirk: "City Lord Xu has worked hard!" We also know that it is not easy for Xu Chengzu, so the silver taels and fabrics brought were all given to the city lord Xu, and we only asked the city lord Xu to help find his wife. ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say!" This is what the City Lord Xu was waiting for.

He waved his arrogant hand: "Eat first, what does Master Jing's wife look like?" The lord of this castle asked the best painter to draw it, so that he could put up the portrait! ”

"Almond eyes, a mole under the corner of the eye, and a very gentle smile......"

Zhu Jingting was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered the appearance of his deceased wife.

He blurted out unconsciously, and the painter called by the lord of Xu City was revising the portrait over and over again below.

Yan Cijiu and Zhu Xiaozhu were eating with City Lord Xu on the side.

After being hungry for so long, His Royal Highness the Little Prince finally knew that a mouthful of simple white porridge could make people so happy when they drank it in their mouths!

"Yes, yes, that's it!" I don't know how long it took, Zhu Jingting suddenly slapped the table, his expression was extremely excited.

He held the portrait drawn by the painter in both hands, over and over again, looking greedily at the beauty on the painting, a trace of tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes, but the corners of his mouth were with a smile: "Xiaozhu'er, look, this is what your mother looks like, you two are really carved out of the same mold!" ”

Since the death of the mother, there is no portrait of the mother in the house, because the brothers are afraid that their father will see things and think about people, so they all hide it.

Zhu Xiaozhu is also the first time to meet her mother.

Maybe it's because of the blood connection, Zhu Xiaozhu's heart beat violently, and a warm current suddenly poured into her whole body, she couldn't help but lie on the painting, staring at the face of the person in the painting seriously: "It's so beautiful......"

"I heard Master Jing say, you went out to do business for three whole years? Why didn't this child follow his mother? ”

City Lord Xu couldn't help but ask curiously, and there was a bit of temptation in his words.

Zhu Jingting said easily: "After giving birth to my little daughter, my body can't stand the rush, and I can't go to business with me anymore, so I can only stay in Jiyang City." ”

"However, at that time, I didn't have any extra silver taels on hand, and I couldn't afford to hire my mother-in-law to take care of my little daughter and my little daughter, so I entrusted my child, who had just turned one year old, to me......"

"After all, those of us who do business, although we have a hard time on the road, we have silver on hand, alas, we can't starve our children, but it's a pity that my wife, in the most difficult time, I can't even send extra money home, and I don't know what happened to her now."

City Lord Xu showed an expression of understanding: "Mrs. Ling is indeed beautiful and virtuous, let this city lord take a look...... Thirty Fanghua, there is no father and no mother in the family, and there is only one eldest brother. Good! The lord of this city will send someone to find it! ”

But how can this be found?

After all, this person was made up by his father.

Zhu Xiaozhu showed a wicked smile.

The cup was changed for a meal, and the meal was still enjoyed by the guest of honor, but the purpose of King Dingbei's visit this time, in addition to catching a few city lords who were embarrassed and deducting the money for disaster relief, the most important thing was to relieve the victims.

The king of Dingbei said anxiously: "Lord of the city, I see that there are many victims along the way, can we still have surplus grain in our house to open porridge sheds and distribute them to the people?" ”

City Lord Xu's eyes rolled slightly: "Where is there any food, as early as the beginning of the flood, the city lord had already asked the officers and soldiers to distribute a lot of food to them!" ”

"It's just that these bastards are waiting for the court to come to disaster relief every year, and they have long developed a lazy bone when they open their mouths and wait for food every year! Now that the relief food allocated to them by Benguan has been eaten early, there is nothing the official can do! ”

In the end, City Lord Xu may have been really angry, and his expression was gritting his teeth.

Yan Cijiu lowered his eyes, thinking of what he had seen by chance in a book that had been suppressed for a long time.

"In the area south of the Yangtze River, officials and businessmen collude, officials protect each other, the land that should be distributed to the people, all fall into the hands of landlords and officials, get up early and do not wait for the morning rooster to crow, the people will be driven to work, until the sun sets and the moon hangs high, and the family can get three or two mouthfuls of food and return home to rest......

Is it true that the people have been raised to be lazy, or are the officials in the Jiangnan area not properly governed?

King Pi of Dingbei looked at City Lord Xu with a smile: "On the way down, I passed through the city and saw that there are still many shops in the city that have not been closed, why don't the city lord take the silver he brought over and go buy some food for the people to eat?" ”

"Yes, alas, the main reason is that the official has no money to buy food, although those traders have some backlog of food in their hands, but everyone knows that it is life-saving food, and they don't sell it......"

"But to this day, I have no choice but to buy some grain from them first, and then wait for the money to go to other provinces to buy some grain and transport it......"

When City Lord Xu spoke, his face was careless.

King Dingbei nodded: "City Lord Gao Yi." ”

Behind King Dingbei, General Xu Yi didn't know what he was thinking, and his face often revealed anxiety.

City Lord Xu directly assigned a courtyard to everyone and asked everyone to arrange their own rooms.

It can be seen that although this city lord's mansion has often suffered from floods over the years, it is still taking good care of it.

Even if it's just the most remote yard, it's all very delicately cleaned up.

Zhu Xiaozhu blinked her big eyes, her mind was full of the miserable people on both sides of the road, and she clenched her little fists angrily: "I don't believe that there is no extra food in the city lord!" ”