After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

Yan Mu was afraid that the armor on his body would freeze Xingyi, so he first put Xingyi on the warm bed, and then went behind the screen to take off the armor.

The little girl knew how to sit down, and fluttered her little feet happily. As a result, she was so proud that she leaned back and fell on the soft pillow.

"Ouch, why did you fall down?" Liu Yunxiang hurriedly helped the little girl up. Seeing that she was fine, he didn't care.

Yan Mu changed out of his armor and came back, then held his daughter in his arms, but the little girl's mouth flattened and tears fell down.

"What's wrong?" Yan Mu asked softly.

The little girl ended up crying even more urgently, and went straight into Yan Mu's arms, as if she had been wronged a lot.

Yan Mu couldn't help but look at Liu Yunxiang. Liu Yunxiang was also a little confused, but after thinking about it, he probably leaned back just now. Could it be that he was scared?

No way, the beggar would take her and throw her up casually, and she would fly so high that the little girl was not afraid and would giggle happily.

The little girl was like a little meat ball, white and tender. When she cried, her face turned pink, like a big peach. The more she was coaxed, the faster she cried, until she was so choked that she couldn't cry anymore.

Yan Mu felt distressed and hurriedly picked her up and spun her around, "Xingyi told daddy, who bullied you?"

The little girl was actually a week and three months old. She was a clever girl and really understood what Yan Mu said. She pointed at Liu Yunxiang with her little hand.

Liu Yunxiang raised his eyebrows, "How could I bully you?"

The little girl twisted her little nose and hummed at Liu Yunxiang. It was obvious that she had someone to rely on and she was getting bolder.

Liu Yunxiang thought about it again and guessed it, "Could it be that you leaned back just now and I helped you up but didn't coax you?"

The little girl leaned into Yan Mu's arms and stared at Liu Yunxiang with her big, moist eyes like grapes, "Humph!"

"Ha, Xingyi, you have become more capable." Liu Yunxiang said with a smile.

Yan Mu lowered his head and touched his daughter's forehead, "Bad mother, let's ignore her."

"beat!"

Yan Mu coughed dryly, "But dad doesn't dare."

Liu Yunxiang looked at Xiao Xingyi and hummed: "Your father will always leave, and you will always fall into the hands of your mother."

Xiao Xingyi couldn't stop crying. She didn't expect her father to be so cowardly.

Yan Mu smiled and hugged his daughter, sat on the warm bed, and made a tiger for her to play with.

Liu Yunxiang looked at Yan Mu and felt uncomfortable seeing the scar on his face. She got up and went to the dowry and took out a small white porcelain jar.

"The ointment Chongming gave you to remove scars. He said he gave it to you, but if you don't want it, he asked me to give it to you and ask you to keep applying it for three months. The scars will fade a lot."

She recalled the sour and angry look on Chongming's face when he gave her the ointment. "He is very stubborn. You give him some pillow air. Hey, I want to, but he won't lie down on my bed."

Yan Mu looked at the scar removal cream and sneered coldly: "This scar is life-saving, it's not like you don't know it."

"Then put it away. I hope that one day you will be strong enough to save your life without this scar."

Yan Mu was silent for a moment and then put the box of ointment away.

"I sent people to keep searching, but there is no trace of Chongming."

"Ah."

Chongming is crazy, even if there are flowers and candles, she can't help but worry. But the fate between people can be both deep and shallow. Xu she and Chongming will end here in this life, and she won't force it.

"You want to do business with me?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

Yan Mu nodded and thought for a moment, "But this business depends on whether you dare to do it."

Liu Yunxiang smiled, "I'm not timid, just tell me."

"I want you to open a Lingyun grain store in Yangui City."

"what?"

"As soon as spring starts, use the grain store as a cover to store grain here. Store as much as possible, 20 shi, 30 shi, [-] shi. If you can transport the grain, I can swallow it."

Liu Yunxiang quickly settled the accounts. To be honest, it was not easy to transport ten thousand stones, let alone one hundred thousand stones. After all, this place is in the northernmost part of Da Rong. The road from the Central Plains to this place was long, difficult to travel, and unsafe.

"I can give you money and people." Yan Mu said again.

Liu Yunxiang took a deep breath. She knew that Yan Mu was going to do something big. This food might not only fill his stomach, it could also be used as... military rations!

But as she said, she got on his boat. If he survived, she and her children would survive. If his boat capsized, she and her children would end up in a worse situation.

"I'll try my best." Liu Yunxiang said.

"It's not about trying your best, but you have to save at least [-] stones."

Liu Yunxiang nodded and looked at Yan Mu, "Okay."

After Yan Mu finished speaking, he felt a little pain in his fingers. He looked down and saw his daughter holding his fingers and chewing on them.

Yan Mu smiled, "Are you hungry?"

The little girl raised her head, saliva dripping from the corner of her mouth, "Eat."

"But dad, there's nothing to eat here."

Xingyi's little flesh ball looked at Liu Yunxiang, smiled at her, and started looking for it with his hands and feet.

"My lady..."

Liu Yunxiang hummed softly, "Now I know I'm looking for my mother, but she still doesn't serve me!"

Xingyi continued to cheer Liu Yunxiang, saying something to please him, and finally made Liu Yunxiang laugh.

"Just wait, Mom will warm up the goat milk for you."

Yan Mu left without lunch. Before leaving, he told Liu Yunxiang: "I will continue to send people to find Tuhun Fort. As long as there is a chance, I will not give up looking for your brother."

Liu Yunxiang nodded, "Well, you should take care after you go to Shuoxi."

"The same to you."

Liu Yunxiang let out a long sigh as he watched Yan Mu put on his armor, mount a high horse, and ride away with his whip.

The beggar leaned on the doorrail, "Beijing sent envoys to Shengjing for negotiations. News came a few days ago that the two sides have formed an alliance and agreed not to start a war in the next ten years."

Liu Yunxiang raised his eyebrows, "Isn't this good?"

The beggar sighed, "And Dayong gave Beijin 30 gold, 30 silver, 30 cloth, and [-] cattle and sheep."

"..."

The beggar laughed, "You heard right, we gave it to Beijin."

"But we obviously won the battle."

"But the man above the temple is timid, and the civil servants are broad-minded. They think it is worth giving these things to ensure that there is no war for ten years."

Liu Yunxiang immediately understood why Yan Mu asked her to store food. "The imperial court is so weak and thinks that taking a step back will open up the world, but it will only make Beijin feel that Da Rong is easy to bully."

"Beijing also asked the court to let Yan Mu lead troops to guard Shuoxi, frighten Xiyue, and even cooperate with Beijin to annihilate Xiyue."

"But once Xiyue is destroyed, Beijin has no worries, and is only afraid that it will counterattack Da Rong when it turns back."

"Yan Mu thinks so too."

"But I don't understand. As a woman, I can think of it. There are so many wise men in the court, but they can't understand?"

The beggar let out a long sigh, "There are serious factional disputes in the court, and the emperor is afraid of Yan Mu. The monarch and his ministers are not of the same mind. They are not blind but blind. They can only see their own one-third of an acre of land, and only attack their own." Small calculation."

After thinking deeply all night, Liu Yunxiang asked Zijin to go back to Shengjing to discuss with Zhang Qi the next day. He would start preparations this winter to ensure that grain could be transported as soon as next spring.

Half of the Northland is in winter, so there is not much time for them to transport food. They have to spread out and cannot attract some people's attention.

After the New Year, the weather was getting warmer day by day, and Yan Mu had asked Jiang Yuan to return to Shengjing to help Zhang Qi and the others. But Liu Yunxiang did not relax, but became more and more worried.

Lingyun Grain Store has limited capabilities. Even if it has sufficient money and manpower, it cannot raise so much grain.

That day she went to the street with the beggars and saw more beggars on the street. She couldn't help but wonder: "Seeing that spring is about to begin, these people don't plow the ground or grow food?"

The beggar sighed and said: "There are large tracts of wasteland outside the city. It's not that the people don't plant. It's that the place is too dry and depends on the sky for food. All the seedlings have died in the ground. It's not suitable for farming at all. People here depend on it." They make a living by digging herbs and hunting and selling fur goods, but this kind of livelihood is so unstable that they become beggars when they don’t have enough to eat.”

Liu Yunxiang's thoughts changed, "I do have a good idea."