The scumbag wanted to wipe out the whole family, but rebirth ruined him!

The shopkeeper saw Zhao Huayin coming and hurried forward to greet her: "Why are you here in such a cold day?"

Zhao Huayin was unequivocal and asked the shopkeeper directly: "Did our shop ask you to line up so early? There are so many people waiting outside."

"To answer the young lady, I came here early in the morning and saw many people queuing outside. Without your order, how could I dare to let people queue here?

I think it’s because the weather is getting colder and everyone is afraid that the price of charcoal will go up, so they want to buy some charcoal to store at home.”

The shopkeepers of each shop were selected by Zhao Huayin and Yan Qi, and their character should be trustworthy. After asking, Zhao Huayin had no doubts.

"I just saw people outside, they are all freezing. If this continues, people will be frozen to death before they can buy coal."

The shopkeeper was also worried: "Yes, I also asked the shop assistants to persuade them. The shop has enough charcoal and the price has not increased. I asked them to buy it slowly, but they didn't listen to my advice!"

The shopkeeper shook his head helplessly, but Zhao Huayin seemed to be thinking about something.

"How about this, shopkeeper? Don't limit yourself to selling in the store. Gather everyone in the store, build a shed at the door, take down all the chopping boards in the store and put them at the door.

Set up a long stall, add more people to sell coke at the door, and hang a sign to clearly state the price of coke, and also hang a deed that the price will not increase.

In addition, if someone insists on queuing, charcoal basins will be placed at regular intervals so that people in the queue can keep warm. "

Zhao Huayin made all the arrangements in one breath, and the shopkeeper quickly sent people out to do it one by one.

There was coke burning in the shop, and the heat from the furnace was radiating out, making the whole shop warm.

Seeing the shopkeeper go out, Zhao Huayin asked Liuyun and Dianxue to inform the shopkeepers of other shops to do the same.

As for the shops in the surrounding districts and counties, the journey was quite far, so Zhao Huayin asked the people Yan Qi left with him to find a way to write to the shopkeepers there.

With Zhao Huayin's arrangement, the people queuing outside were talking about it and praising the owner of the shop as a living Bodhisattva.

The queue outside eased somewhat, but Zhao Huayin did not leave the shop and stayed in the inner hall all day.

The wind and snow outside continued to blow, and at dusk there was a tendency for the snow to grow stronger. Zhao Huayin frowned, and it was just like in her previous life, with heavy snow lasting for a whole month.

At present, the stock of coke in each shop can still sustain for a while. After the signs were hung up today, there were not so many people queuing outside.

Of course, there are also some people who saw the coke oven outside, felt the heat of the oven, and couldn't wait to buy the charcoal stove and coke.

The shopkeeper was smart and had already arranged the categories of goods in the outer stalls.

Although she was worried, this was all Zhao Huayin could do at the moment. She planned to write a letter to Yan Zhao and Yan Qi after returning to ask about their recent situation.

The heavy snow made the sky look very dark. When Zhao Huayin came out of the shop, it was just dusk, but the sky seemed to be getting dark.

The clerk was cleaning up the chopping board outside the shop and gathering the leftover coke into the warehouse. There were inevitably some crumbs left on the ground after cleaning up.

As soon as the guys left, a thin figure rushed out from the alley next to the shop.

Zhao Huayin looked closely and saw a little boy in tattered clothes.

He was wearing torn shoes, his hands looked black, and his nose was running from the cold, but he nimbly picked up the coke crumbs that had fallen to the ground and put them in his lapel.

Zhao Huayin frowned slightly and walked forward directly: "What are you doing?"

Zhao Huayin's voice was very gentle, but the little boy was frightened and trembled: "Miss... Miss, I picked these up. I'm leaving right away, leaving right away!"

After he finished speaking, and before Zhao Huayin could react, he quickly ran away from the alley next to him.

"Hurry up and follow and see!"

Zhao Huayin shouted to a guy beside him.

After receiving Zhao Huayin's instructions, the guy chased after the child.

"Girl, it's cold outside, let's get in the car quickly."

Seeing that Zhao Huayin didn't move for a long time, Dianxue urged her.

"No hurry, let's go to the inner hall and wait and hear what the guy says when he comes back."

After saying that, Zhao Huayin went back to the store and went to the inner room to wait for the waiter who was chasing the child.

It took about an incense stick of time for the waiter to come back.

"Girl, I followed the child to the City God Temple outside the city, where there were a dozen children about his age.

The City God Temple had been in disrepair for a long time and was already leaking everywhere. How could those children, half-naked, survive such cold weather?

The child came to the city to look for food and saw that the stove outside our shop was warm, so he wanted to pick up some charcoal slag to take home for heating.

I didn't make things difficult for him. I bought some pancakes for the children nearby and hurried back to tell the girl."

"City God Temple? How come I didn't know there was such a place?"

Zhao Huayin tried hard to think, but still couldn't remember where the City God Temple was in the city.

"Girl, that is a dilapidated small temple outside the city. Poor people from the west of the city used to worship there in the past, but now no one goes there anymore."

Liuyun was familiar with various places in the city and was busy answering Zhao Huayin's questions.

Zhao Huayin nodded and then asked, "Are all those children orphans? Are they locals or did they come from other places?"

The guy was smart and asked for information about the children in detail.

"I asked around, and they all fled from nearby Fuzhou. I heard that their hometown was hit by a disaster, and the adults in their family had passed away. They had no choice but to follow others to the capital."

"A disaster?"

Zhao Huayin's heart skipped a beat. The news of the snowstorm in her previous life first came from Fuzhou, not far from the capital.

Could it be that some other disaster had occurred there before the snowstorm?

"Have you found out what disaster happened?"

"After asking around, I heard that they were hit by a drought first, which reduced the grain production last season, or even caused a total crop failure. Then there was a plague in the early fall, and many local people were killed or injured."

Zhao Huayin only felt her body shake.

I originally thought that as long as charcoal fire was prepared for the winter, the people there would always be able to survive. I didn't expect that the news from the previous life was wrong.

Fuzhou not only suffered from the snow disaster, but also had drought and plague before.

In this case, the local people are living in dire straits, and if Yan Qi goes there directly, he might be in danger.

Feeling anxious, Zhao Huayin couldn't help but clench her hands on the table into fists.

"The situation in Fuzhou is so serious, didn't the local officials report it to the court? There's not even a whiff of it in the capital!"

"I don't know about the younger ones. After all, they are all children and it's hard to tell."

Zhao Huayin suppressed the surging emotions in her heart and thought carefully. She decided that this matter could only be reported to Shangshu Zhao.

However, it would be difficult to explain this matter when attending court. After all, Zhao Huayin had no substantial evidence. Should she ask the court to send people to question the children?

This approach obviously doesn't work.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Huayin made up her mind: "Enter the palace! I want to see the Queen Mother."