007 What to look for
When Pei Qing got up after changing her clothes, she walked all the way downstairs without seeing Li Yi's figure, until she pushed open the door on the first floor, only to find that he was standing outside the door with his arms crossed, leaving her with a cold and high-spirited back.
"In the future, you will not be allowed to enter my house without being summoned by this princess." She whispered softly behind his back.
Li Yi did not turn around, nor did he reply.
Pei Qing didn't wait for him to respond, she walked directly past him and walked out, and the wind brought her a faint order: "Keep up, I'm going to the granary to have a look." ”
Li Yi lowered his arms, and there was no expression on the face covered by the face towel, but the eagle-like sharp eyes did not look at her again, and followed her directly without saying a word.
Pei Qing walked slowly through the palace, everyone she met along the way stopped what they were doing and gave it to her, she smiled and nodded in response, and sometimes stopped to encourage a word or two, provoking an excited response from everyone who was forgiven by her.
Walking to the door of the granary, the palace steward Zhang hurriedly came, it was a cautious middle-aged man, who had always been submissive to Princess Rui's explanation.
"Princess Qiyu, there are still 2,800 catties of grain stored in the palace warehouse." Steward Zhang said cautiously, "Now is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, the price of grain is high, should the food in the house be saved?" ”
He had to ask this question because Pei Qing had just given food to all his subordinates.
Pei Qing nodded, and ordered unhurriedly: "No need to provincial, from today onwards, set up a porridge shed at the gate of the palace, and this princess will face the whole county to give porridge for two months, until the new grain comes down." ”
Steward Zhang instantly stiffened, he couldn't believe his ears, and he asked in disbelief: "Soup kitchen?" ”
With more than 2,000 catties of grain in the library, how many days can it last? There are thousands of people in Xixian County, even if each person only eats two taels of grain a day, the daily consumption of grain will be hundreds of catties, and the Wangfu only lasts for a few days.
And it's good, why do you want to give porridge to the whole county? The palace has always been poor, and the princess used to follow her to farm, so it was easy for the princess to change her approach and raise some money to buy some food.
Princess, she doesn't think that money is blown by the wind, right?
Pei Qing ignored his resistance, and replied softly: "That's right, I heard that people will starve to death every year when there is no harvest, as the princess of the feudal town, I have the responsibility to save the people of the former county and not let anyone starve to death." ”
Steward Zhang listened to it and was simply entangled to death, is this a matter of responsibility? This is a problem of no food stockpiled at all!
Pei Qing ignored his embarrassment, and said lightly: "You don't have to worry about the porridge, you just need to take the grain out of the warehouse." ”
Seeing that the princess looked like "I have made up my mind", Steward Zhang had to have the courage to say: "Niangniang, please forgive the little one, this little food in the house...... I'm afraid it won't last more than three days. ”
"Can it last for three days?" Pei Qing nodded thoughtfully, "Yes, the porridge can be boiled a little thicker." ”
Steward Zhang: ......
Ignoring Steward Zhang's painful expression, Pei Qing gave an order, and in less than an hour, a porridge shed was set up on the square at the entrance of the palace, and several cauldrons were lined up, bubbling with rice.
Several people from the palace took out the gong and began to walk the streets and alleys according to Pei Qing's words, shouting while beating the gong: "The princess and the mother are giving porridge, each person can receive two bowls of porridge every day, the old and young women and children are given priority, and the villagers who are poor and have no food have gone to the palace to receive porridge and feed——"
In less than half an hour, everyone in the small land of Xixian County knew one thing: Princess Rui Nianxi County was in a stage of green and yellow, and deliberately helped the people in the form of soup kitchen, regardless of whether they were high or low, as long as they did not die, they had food.
Originally, the period of March and April is the most difficult stage for the poor family, the price of grain is the highest in the whole year, but the income is not much, the family has few people or enough strong labor can still get through, and the family has many people or few strong laborers, they can only depend on their fate, and if they have a good life, they will not die of hunger, and their life will not be good...... Before you get any new food, you'll become a starving ghost.
Now, Princess Rui has given porridge to the world, and everyone has seen the hope of survival.
"Princess Niangniang, living Bodhisattva!"
"Was the princess sent by heaven to save her life?"
"The princess herself has to go to the fields to farm, but she generously gives us all the grain to eat, saint!"
……
Regardless of men, women, old and young, in the case of semi-spontaneous and (by others) and semi-marketing, on this day, they all realized a fact: Princess Rui of the Rui Wangfu is different from all the concubines of the vassal kings, and different from all nobles, she is really willing to care about the life and death of the small people!
At night, Pei Qing browsed the system before going to bed, and the result-
System: [Merit +98, the conditions for the host to exchange for high-yield cotton seeds have been met.] 】
System: [Host, Rice, Hunger, More Merit, More Merit!] 】
System: [Host Bull Break Plath!] The host is mighty and domineering! The system will be able to restore 5% of its functionality today! 】
……
Pei Qing listened impatiently, and directly turned off the system broadcast.
"Okay, I'll exchange cotton seeds when I get up tomorrow," she said, taking off her coat and burrowing into the bed, "I'll have to find a way to get more food......
As she spoke, she fell asleep.
And Li Yi, who "didn't dare" to enter the second floor again, waited downstairs for a long time, until her breathing became long and soothing, and the whole person fell into a deep sleep, and then swept to the second floor without touching her feet.
Li Yi sat down on the chair lightly, facing Pei Qing's bed in the dark, his eyes flashing slightly in the night, but his eyes were complicated and difficult to understand.
"It's been another day, but it's a little more mysterious...... What exactly are you going to do? ”
His voice was lighter than that of Qingcha, and when it was close to the sound of air, it could hardly reach Pei Qing's ears.
Pei Qing was sleeping in the futon, and naturally she couldn't find out that Li Yi was "yang and yin", ignoring her order and entering her boudoir again.
As the night deepened, the man at the table sat upright like a turquoise stone, as if blended into the ink, except for a little faint breathing, almost like a wood carving without a sense of existence.
Suddenly, he stared at the window, and at the narrow edge of the window, a crane's beak quietly protruded from the outside, which was the famous crane's beak smoke bottle on the rivers and lakes.
In the next moment, without waiting for the poisonous smoke to erupt from the crane's mouth, two jade-white slender fingers pinched the crane's beak in the air, followed by a choking cough outside.
The smoke poured back, and the gangsters who came to sneak attack caught the road, and the smoke that was blown out flowed back into his mouth.
There was a faint sound outside, "Not good!" Immediately after, there was the sound of clothes breaking through the air.
Not long after, through the window, the voice of Li Yi's subordinates came.
"Lord, the gangster has run away." It was the man in black who reported Pei Qing's life story that day, "Our people have chased after him." ”
Li Yi hummed in a low voice in the window, and commanded softly: "Follow the vine and touch the melons, and kill them all." ”
The subordinates outside the window immediately responded, and after a few moments there was no sound.
These few rabbits fell up, the sound was slight like falling leaves, Pei Qing, who was sleeping on the bed, didn't notice it, breathed long, and slept peacefully.
*
As soon as the morning dawned, in the main courtyard of the palace, the six maids who had just been bought by the princess yesterday were exercising in the morning, and they saw their new masters hurrying in their steps, contrary to yesterday's leisurely and tranquil, and rushed into the house like the wind.
Behind her, Li Yi, who she named "Instructor", followed behind calmly with long legs as usual.
However, Pei Qing's sentence of "no one should follow" instantly made the six maids of Zamabu stand up straight and blocked his way.
Li Yi Junyi's eyebrows furrowed, and he shouted to the six people: "Get out of the way." ”
The six maids glanced at each other, first shrunk for a moment, and then stiffened their necks and said, "The princess has an order, and no one is allowed to enter." ”
Li Yi glanced at them in disbelief, just one night later, these people were loyal to Pei Qing, her magic power was so great?!
"Since the princess has appointed me as the head of the guard, she is to let you listen to my discipline." He said coldly, "Did you want to disobey Shangguan when you first came?" ”
The six village women who had never experienced any big scenes were stunned on the spot, and he easily bypassed them and drove in.
When he walked inside, six people reacted.
"If it weren't for the princess who bought me, I would have starved to death on the side of the road now, and I think I can only listen to the princess."
"Me too, the princess bought my money to save my family's life, and her family gave her life."
"I sold myself to the funeral husband, if I hadn't followed the princess Niangniang, the clan would have eaten up my desperate household, and I would have been sold into the ravine to be rationed to fools, and yesterday I swore to myself to be loyal to the princess Niangniang."
……
The 6 women are all from a hard background, and they all rely on Pei Qing to buy their lives to stay alive, in their opinion, they can't find such a good hostess in the whole world, and the palace is very well treated, so they naturally die for Pei Qing.
The hesitation of a few people was only a period of time, and soon they made up their minds, ready to wait for the "instructor" to come out, and then listen to the princess's intentions, to see if they wanted to attack him.
Pei Qing came to find an equivalent exchange, her system is open to all worlds, ordinary gold and silver treasures can be exchanged for items, and things that are not available in other worlds can also be used to exchange for items.
And now, her own money is not enough to spend, so she is naturally reluctant to take out the money, so she plans to empty the white wolf to see if there are any impractical rags in the palace, so that they can be used to trade cotton seeds.
In addition to the palace warehouse, that is, there are belongings in the main courtyard, Pei Qing originally wanted to find out if he had any royal palace costumes and other gorgeous clothes, this kind of thing still has a part of the audience in the world, at least those aesthetes and historians will be interested.
However, the dilapidated palace of the broken vassal king is worthy of the name of poverty and whiteness, not to mention the palace clothes, even the hairpin ring does not have a set, and she has been looking for a long time without finding anything that can be used for system exchange.
"What is the princess looking for?" A light and cold bass voice sounded behind her, and Li Yi leaned against the door frame with his hands in his hands, watching her busy work lightly.
Pei Qing sighed, suddenly turned around, and showed a regretful look on his face: "Guard Li is young, but he didn't expect to have an ear disease, I suggest you take a look early, don't fall into the root of the disease." ”
Li Yi was stunned and subconsciously asked, "Ear disease?" ”
"Didn't I say no one was allowed to follow up, didn't you hear?" Pei Qing's peach blossom eyes were sparkling, and he asked malily, "It seems that there is something wrong with Guard Li's ears." ”
Li Yi: ......
He took a breath and stood up straight, because he was eight feet tall, he had such a straight chest and waist, which brought Pei Qing a sense of oppression.
She couldn't help but take a step back.
"Don't talk about him left and right," Li Yi raised his jade-white fingers and rubbed his eyebrows, his eyes, which had always been as beautiful as the deep sea, rarely flashed a trace of exhaustion, "What are you looking for, I'll find it for you." ”
Pei Qing opened his lips slightly in surprise, and soon asked suspiciously: "What do you know?" ”
Li Yi's face towel moved slightly, and her long eyelashes drooped and stared at her: "Does the princess want to find the prince's collection?" I know where, I'll give it to you. ”
"Oh......" Pei Qing suddenly said, and then there were even more doubts, "You know the prince very well?" What is your relationship with him? ”
According to the memory of the original owner, the late King Rui was frail and sick and bedridden all the year round, and he rarely saw anyone, even she, the "bought" princess, had never seen him.
King Rui was rejected by the royal family, ignored by the courtiers, did not have any resources in his hands, and estimated that he did not even have a friend, so it cannot be said that his father did not love his mother, but it could only be said that he was destined to be a widow.
A person like King Rui can actually have a confidant?
As if seeing Pei Qing's doubts clearly, Li Yi explained lightly: "The prince is kind to me, and at the same time treats me like a brother, I know everything about him." ”
This explains why his martial arts are so high, but he still has to stay in the palace as a guard, and it also explains why he followed up.
Pei Qing's eyes rolled slightly, and he immediately flashed to the side generously, and said politely: "It turns out that you are such a guard, disrespectful and disrespectful, you come, you come and bring me the prince's collection." ”
Li Yi took his eyes off her face and walked briskly towards the Eight Immortals table in the bedroom.
As soon as he walked like this, Pei Qing immediately found that although the Eight Immortals table was also a table with four legs, it was different from other tables in that the legs were particularly thick.
She took a light breath and pursed her lips with some regret.
It's really, it's dark under the lights.
"Why didn't I see it sooner? Tut. ”
The soft girl's voice was like a feather, sweeping over the ear chakra of the sleepless man last night, making him turn his head silently.
Like a toy, Li Yi turned over the heavy pear blossom wood Eight Immortals table, removed the four table legs with a few brushes, and then slowly withdrew a few scrolls from it.
"The prince has collected a few pictures of the mountain dwelling painted in the former court painting sanctuary," he raised his eyes to look at Pei Qing, "If the princess is short of money, she can find someone to sell it, and she should be able to get a few thousand taels of silver." ”
Pei Qing didn't answer his words, she stared thoughtfully at the thing in his hand, as if she was distracted.
The fact is that she was activating the system to determine if the scrolls could be used as general equivalents.
The identification function of the Wanjie trading system has also been restored to the previous 5%, and the identification results will come out soon, which is possible.
So Li Yi saw that Princess Rui, who was stunned one moment, suddenly bloomed with a mysterious sweet smile the next moment, she took all the things in his hand, hugged him in her arms, and turned around and left without saying a word.