Rebirth: Miss Xiao doesn’t want the heir apparent anymore

"Your Majesty, Weird weather has been happening around the city since this summer. First there was hail that damaged the crops, and then there was no rain for two or three months, resulting in no harvest."

"I know this. I have already sent people to deliver food."

Emperor Qing looked serious, and Shan Tie continued sadly:

"It's not that there's no food, it's just that food prices keep rising. Ordinary people like grassroots don't have much savings and can't afford it."

"Then how have you survived these past few months?" Emperor Qing probably guessed that the food sent did not reach the hands of the people.

"People in the village have been living on wild vegetables throughout the autumn. The young and strong people will go to the mountains to hunt some game and pick some wild fruits. This is the case in several neighboring villages. The village chiefs also jointly went to the county government for help. After several attempts with no results, they went to the Prefect's Mansion. The Prefect not only ignored them, but also surrounded several villages, saying that there was an epidemic in the villages and no entry or exit was allowed. In winter, it started to snow again, and the mountains were closed by heavy snow. "The people had nothing to eat, were cold and hungry, and the elderly and children were almost unable to survive. When they arrived, the prefect sent troops to take them and burn them, saying that they died of the epidemic."

"Where are the officials I sent to provide disaster relief?"

Emperor Qing was furious, and his face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost. Yang Fan looked complicated and didn't know what he was thinking.

"The common people don't know that. The common people and the young and strong people in the village secretly ran out from the back mountain. We were chased by the prefect along the way. We split into several groups. There were originally more than a dozen people, but they were all killed. Well, the Cao Min was very good at water and strong, so he hid in the water and escaped, escaping the disaster. The Cao Min came to the capital alone."

Shan Tie's face was sad, and his eyes burst out with sparks of anger, "Your Majesty, every word of the common people is true."

Emperor Qing clenched his fists angrily, his eyes flashed with fire-like glare, and his chest heaved violently.

"Yang Fan, take this person to Dali Temple and let the Minister of Dali Temple take good care of him."

"Yes." Yang Fan cupped his fists and saluted, suppressing the doubts in his heart, Emperor Qing got on the sedan and returned to the palace with a gloomy look.

The people at the gate of Pingyang Hou Mansion also left one after another, still discussing in low voices the matter of circling the city.

After this incident, the guests in Pingyang Hou Mansion lost interest and left one after another.

Yang Siying left the Pingyang Marquis Mansion with a melancholy and worried look on her face. Zhang Yuewei was talking to her at the side with a serious expression. After sending her to the sedan chair, she sighed and got on the sedan chair to return home.

Morning light in the courtyard

"Xi'er, did anything like this happen around the city in your previous life?"

Mu Chennian looked sad. It was really hard to imagine the feeling of the people surrounding the city starving to death and freezing to death.

"No, at this time in the previous life, when Nan Yuanmiao ascended the throne, no one came to complain about the city. However, it is unknown whether there was any disaster in the city."

Xiao Zixi frowned. In her previous life, Hou Xianfu of Pingyang was at home, and Mu Chennian did not interfere with the affairs of the court. Apart from staying in the Marquis's residence, sulking with Mu Chennian, and taking care of the children, she did not know what was happening in the court. What happened, but with Nan Yuanmiu's character of being very happy about success, even if there was such a thing, he would suppress it and not let anyone know.

"Xi'er, you've been tired for a long day, go to bed quickly."

Mu Chennian put away the sadness in his brows, looked at his beloved wife tenderly, stretched out his hands to hold her in his arms, and soon heard Xiao Zixi's even breathing.