idle mistress

Chapter 99
She was afraid that the smell of blood would attract more powerful beasts, so she climbed and rolled all the way down the mountain with her fainted son in her arms, regardless of her injuries.

Driving all the way back to Huai City, he finally passed out outside the city gate.

"Your Majesty, you'd better not go out of the house in the future. It's dangerous outside, and we'll be terrified when you go out."

Haitang said words of complaint, but the hand that administered the medicine was very careful for fear of hurting her.Xu Weiqiu didn't know that she was feeling sorry for him. Although the wound was painful, his heart was warm.

Under the careful care of the girl Haitang, Xu Weiqiu could go to the ground three days later.She quietly took a look at her son, and felt relieved when she saw him bouncing around in the yard as if nothing had happened.

After another two days, she thought about the business outside and found an excuse to leave the palace again.

Huaicheng, which is usually bustling with people, is a little different from the past. There are many ragged beggars on the streets.

She asked the groom who was driving what was going on, and the groom told her that the southeast region was infested with insects, and Huaicheng had flooded with a large number of displaced refugees.

When she came to her own business, before she got out of the carriage, five or six refugees rushed over to beg for her.

Among these refugees, there are also two or three-year-old children, all of them are sallow and emaciated, as thin as a stick.

Poor god.

Seeing this, Xu Weiqiu was moved with compassion, picked up some scraps of silver with him and distributed them to these people. Unexpectedly, not far away, when the refugees saw two hairs of silver here, a large number of refugees rushed up and surrounded them. surrounded.

For a while Xu Weiqiu had difficulty getting out, finally Xiao Li rushed to the scene and led the guards from the store to help her out, so she was able to escape completely.

Xu Weiqiu leaned on the railing on the second floor of the shop and saw the refugees on the street. Some of them had already collapsed from hunger, and there were groans and shouts everywhere.

There are already so many refugees in a commercial street alone, which shows that the situation is not optimistic.

Unable to watch these refugees starve to death on the streets, she decided to open a warehouse to release food.

Her business name is involved in the grain and oil business, and in terms of grain storage, even the government in Huaicheng may not have as many as she has on hand.

She always had the temperament of doing what she said, so she immediately ordered Xiao Li to gather several managers of the company, and made a decision to open a granary and set up a porridge shed for disaster relief.

Soon, six simple porridge sheds were set up, and in the evening, food for the refugees had already begun.

That night, Xu Weiqiu went to inspect several porridge sheds. He was very relieved to see that the refugees lined up to receive the porridge in an orderly manner, and there were fewer people crying on the street.

It was decided at the moment that as long as the refugees needed, she would keep the porridge shed open.

However, three days later, a person in charge came forward to report to her, saying that the number of porridge recipients suddenly increased sharply. After sending people to inquire, they learned that there were many ordinary people in Huai City who were greedy for petty gains and pretended to be refugees to receive porridge. , according to this momentum, no amount of food is enough to produce.

When Xu Weiqiu heard this, she fell into deep thought. She had heard about this kind of thing for a long time, and she also heard that in order to avoid such things from happening, gruel givers added sand and stones to the porridge.

But she felt that although this method was good, it was too inhumane.

After thinking about it, she wrote a letter and sent it to Zeng Fengyuan at the branch of Pingshitang.

Not long after, Zeng Fengyuan led his staff to bring several carts of herbs she needed.

After Xu Weiqiu explained to the people below how to deal with the amount of these herbs, he walked up to Zeng Fengyuan and patted his back with one hand: "Brother Zeng, I have to trouble you to come again in a few days."

When she touched her hand, the muscles on Zeng Fengyuan's face twitched a few times. He sneaked a glance at her from the end of his eyes, cupped his hands and said, "Doctor Shen is saving lives. I'm a doctor, so I should do my part."

Xu Weiqiu looked at him strangely: "Why are you speaking so politely all of a sudden?"

Seeing her put one hand on his shoulder, Zeng Fengyuan's face changed slightly, and he didn't retreat for a while, and it didn't matter if he didn't.

Xu Weiqiu didn't notice his expression, and said boldly: "Shunyi Building is nearby, how about it, let's go there for today's dinner and eat your favorite sweet-scented osmanthus fish."

When Zeng Fengyuan heard that there was something delicious, he would never be polite to him.So while speaking, she went to pull his elbow, but unexpectedly the man avoided him.

Then he bowed to himself, and said with a troubled face: "Doctor Shen, there is still something to do in the semicolon, let's forget it today."

"Is there something wrong with the semicolon? That's fine." Xu Weiqiu enthusiastically sent him into the car.

As the people walked away, the smile on Xu Weiqiu's face gradually disappeared.

She could clearly feel that Zeng Fengyuan's attitude towards her was quite different from the past. Why did this person become polite when talking to her?

He said something to himself, and he replied, in a proper manner, no longer smiling like he used to, Xu Weiqiu was very puzzled for a while... Why did this person suddenly change his gender?
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Zhao Yan came to Beijing to solve the problem of refugees.

After his appearance, the imperial court has decided to allocate special funds to set up relief stations.

I thought that I had been out of the city for a few days, and the entire Huai City had already been devastated by the influx of refugees.

Unexpectedly, what they saw when they entered the city was a scene of peace. Refugees wandered around the streets, but they did not act aggressively.Even the howling sounds on the street were much less than when he left the city.

shouldn't be...

Zhao Yan was full of doubts, turned his head to the deputy and said, "Meng Qi, go and find out what's going on?"

Meng Qi responded and left, and came back not long after to report:
"Returning to Your Highness, there is a wealthy businessman surnamed Shen in the city who opened six porridge sheds to serve porridge to refugees."

Hearing this, Zhao Yan raised his eyebrows: "Oh, there are such kind-hearted people?"

Meng Qi nodded: "It is said that this porridge shed has been open for more than ten days, and almost all the refugees who entered the city can receive food to wrap their stomachs. Now everyone in Huaicheng calls that Shen Shang a good man."

As for businessmen, they have always been the younger generation without profit, and he has only seen such a benevolent person in books.

For a moment, Zhao Yan's interest was aroused.

"Where is the porridge shed?"

"Not far..." Meng Qi pointed out, "There's one in the open space not far from the street on the right."

Zhao Yan jumped up and got off the horse: "Come on, let's have a look..."

Meng Qi nodded, and led the way ahead. The two were strong and strong, walking like the wind, and soon came to the porridge shed.

Before it was time to serve porridge, a large number of refugees were already waiting in line for the porridge shed to open. Zhao Yan roughly estimated that the line was nearly 300 meters long.

There are men, women and children in line, all kinds of people, and the line is noisy and bustling, and all of them are eager to get their feet up.

Zhao Yan was not in a hurry to move forward, he and Meng Qi stood beside the team and waited quietly.

(End of this chapter)