The widowed sister-in-law is embarrassed, she criticizes the villain like he only wants to be a love

Jiang Ci looked at Yan Shu seriously: "Are you willing to give me a chance to fall in love?"

Yan Shu: "..."

She didn't know what to say for a moment. She thought Jiang Ci would think her thoughts were shocking after learning about her attitude towards marriage, but she didn't expect that he hadn't given up yet?

Jiang Ci stood up and squatted in front of her, looking at her affectionately.

"Since you men and women in the fairy world will fall in love and get to know each other first, should you give me an equal opportunity? If we don't meet your expectations during our relationship, I will respect your choice. Even if you decide that I am a death row prisoner , I have to really commit a crime to seal the coffin, right?"

Yan Shu nodded subconsciously, what he said seemed to make sense.

No, why was she carried away by his thoughts?

Seeing that she was a little shaken, Jiang Ci continued: "We have a term of three years. If you don't want to marry me after three years, I will never force you."

Yan Shu thought deeply, three years later Jiang Ci had already taken over most of the Sui Dynasty. Even if he didn't like anyone else, people around him would persuade him to marry to expand his power.

By then, he will no longer be so obsessed with her when he is about to enter his weak years.

"Okay, it's only for three years. If you change your mind and like someone else within three years, remember to tell me in time. I will never be a stumbling block for you."

Jiang Ci could hear the perfunctory tone in her words, and was afraid that the little fox had other plans in mind. The three-year relationship was fake and was just a delaying tactic on her part.

But he was still happy in his heart at this time. At least she agreed to try to accept him, instead of continuing to use her status as uncle and sister-in-law to isolate him from him.

"I'm sleepy, go to bed early..."

Only then did Yan Shu look at his surroundings and found that there was only one bed in the tent.

Jiang Ci saw her staring at the wooden bed in a daze, so he got up and picked up a blanket from the couch and spread it on the floor.

"I slept on the floor."

Yan Shu glanced at the ground. Although there was a layer of carpet in the tent, sleeping on the ground in this extremely cold weather was too painful.

She thought of a folding bed in the space and took it out.

"Come and help!"

Jiang Ci stepped forward to help open the folding bed.

Yan Shu took out another duvet from the space.

"This folding bed is a bit narrow and it's just right for me to sleep on. You can go sleep on the bed."

Jiang Ci shook his head: "You will continue to treat patients tomorrow, and you need a good rest tonight. You go to the bed, and I will sleep here."

Yan Shu saw that he insisted on sleeping on the folding bed, so he had no choice but to go back to bed and sleep.

Jiang Ci waved his hand to extinguish the candles in the tent, and the surrounding area fell into darkness.

Neither of them felt sleepy for a while after lying down.

Yan Shu began to think about how to get along with Jiang Ci next. If Jiang Ci was not a prince, maybe she would not have so many worries.

Close your eyes and force yourself not to think too much. Since you have agreed to a three-year agreement, let's take it one step at a time.

Jiang Ci lay sideways on the folding bed, his deep eyes as sharp as a hawk in the dark night. No matter what, he would not let go.

From the moment she took the initiative to show her kindness to him, she was destined to be entangled with him throughout her life.

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next day

Before dawn, Yan Shu was woken up by a gust of cold wind.

She opened her eyes and looked towards Jiang Ci, but there was no sign of him on the folding bed.

Yan Shu suddenly woke up. He opened the quilt and quickly put on his shoes and got out of bed. He walked out of the tent and looked outside. He saw a vast expanse of white and heavy snow blowing in his face along with the howling cold wind.

She tightened her cotton-padded clothes and squinted her eyes against the biting cold wind, looking around for Jiang Ci.

Not long after, a familiar figure came back carrying a basket of charcoal.

Seeing Yan Shu standing in the cold wind, Jiang Ci quickened his pace and came to her.

"Why did you come out?"

"I just woke up and found that you were not in the tent, so I wanted to come out and take a look. It started to snow heavily outside again."

Jiang Ci squeezed her cold little hand.

"The charcoal basin is out. I just went out to get some charcoal and came back."

The two entered the tent, Jiang Ci rekindled the extinguished charcoal basin, and the tent quickly became warm.

Yan Shu huddled around the charcoal basin, his cold body gradually feeling warm.

"The snow has only stopped for two days and started falling again. If it continues like this, the refugees outside Lingquan Town will probably freeze to death. There are at least ten to twenty thousand strong laborers among these people. It is a good time to win people's hearts. Chances are, the batch of food stored in the space can also be put to use."

There were originally more than 300,000 kilograms of grain stored in the space granary. Adding in the grain plundered from the Gu Mansion and Guo Chengsi Mansion, the amount was estimated to be more than three million kilograms.

Based on the calculation that each person eats two kilograms of grain per day, an army of 20,000 people would eat 40,000 kilograms of grain in one day, and three million kilograms of grain would only be enough for two and a half months.

Thinking about it this way, the food she saved was still far from enough.

After settling in, the fields in the space should be used as soon as possible.

Jiang Ci nodded: "There is no need to take out the batch of food in the space. I have also stocked up a batch of food in Lingquan Town. It should be enough to meet the current urgent needs."

A trace of surprise flashed in Yan Shu's eyes. Jiang Ci had been almost inseparable from her all the way. He actually stocked up on food in Lingquan Town without anyone noticing?

She didn't know about such a big thing until now. This guy's concealment was really deep.

"When did you stock up on food?"

Jiang Ci smiled and explained: "Before fleeing famine, food prices skyrocketed. Many grain dealers in Nanwei Prefecture began to hoard large quantities of food. I also took advantage of that time to order people to hoard some."

Yan Shu's eyes brightened slightly: "So this batch of grain was transported from Nanwei Mansion to Lingquan Town?"

"Not all of them, some of them were collected from Xinyang Mansion."

"How much food did you store in Lingquan Town?"

"There should be fifty thousand loads."

Yan Shu was shocked and took a breath. Fifty thousand dans of grain was equivalent to five million kilograms. Jiang Ci actually started hoarding a large amount of grain as soon as the price of grain showed signs of rising. If it were not necessary to support the army, such a batch of grain would now be Wouldn’t it be a huge profit to resell it?

No wonder the foundation left by the Feng family has grown rapidly in just a few years after being handed over to Jiang Ci. With such a keen insight, if he did not fight for the throne, he would definitely become the richest man in the Sui Dynasty based on his talents. .

Moreover, based on her understanding of Jiang Ci, he has hoarded millions of kilograms of grain in a small town called Lingquan, and there are probably food bases of his all over the country.

By comparison, the three million kilograms of grain he had hoarded was really not enough in his eyes.

"The food problem is solved, what are your plans next?"

Jiang Ci took out a Kanyu map from his arms.

He spread the map of Kantu on the tea table, raised the candle and approached it in front of the map.

"This is Xinyang Mansion, this is Nanyang, and this is Tongzhou."

Yan Shu followed his finger and listened carefully as he continued.

"Back then, the late emperor entrusted Nanyang Prefecture to King Wuling, not only to let King Wuling lead an army of 100,000 to guard the Nanyu area, but also to frighten the Liu family. The Liu family and the Feng family made great contributions when our ancestors conquered the world, but the two families The choices made by the family were different after the ancestor became emperor. The Feng family is full of loyalty, but they admire power. Several generations of Feng family heads have been trapped in the whirlpool of fighting for the right to inherit the throne. It can be said that the whole family has succeeded in defeating several Feng family members with a huge gamble. The daughter has been promoted to the Feng throne, and the descendants of the Feng family have become famous in large numbers. Such a century-old family will eventually become a thorn in the emperor's eye, which is why His Majesty is dedicated to eradicating the Feng family."

Yan Shu sighed in his heart, how could he allow others to sleep on the side of the bed? No emperor would allow his ministers to be more prestigious than himself.

The Feng family was too popular and was the main reason why it was wiped out.

"What about the Liu family?"

"When the world was first settled, Xinyang Prefecture was a barren land because it was mostly mountains and hills. The head of the Liu family gave up the opportunity to stay in the capital and only asked his ancestors for such a desolate place to retire and return home. The ancestors thought of his achievements. So Xinyang Mansion was made the Liu family's fiefdom, and the descendants of the Liu family have always behaved in a low-key and smooth manner, and have always lived in peace and harmony for hundreds of years regardless of hereditary status."

Yan Shu concluded: "Judging from the endings of the Liu family and the Feng family, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Retreating from the rapids is the right way."

Jiang Ci looked at her with fondness in his eyes: "You summed it up well, but if a minister acts too low-key, he will also be jealous of the emperor. After a hundred years of hereditary inheritance, the entire Xinyang Mansion has become the Liu family's world, even if it is Even when the emperor comes here, Liu Bin's words may not be effective, so the ancestors intended to weaken the power of the Liu family, so they placed King Wuling in Anyang, and placed the fief of King Qi in Tongzhou. These three states are separated by the Qilian Mountains Pulse, forming a countervailing force."

Yan Shu held his chin with one hand and his eyes fell on the mountain range pointed by Jiang Ci.

It turns out that Xinyang, Anyang and Tongzhou are only separated by a mountain range. I have to sigh with emotion at the excellent use of the late emperor's check and balance technique.