Reborn ten times, she is the real daughter of the Marquis Mansion and she doesn't pretend anymo

The boys slept until the afternoon, and after quickly washing up, they came to the front hall, greeted Gu Chengsheng and General Qin, and also said hello to the Qin brothers.

When the Qin brothers were young in the capital, they also dealt with Xiao Ke, Xiao Yue, Zheng Zizhuo and others. However, later the Qin family followed the Gu family to guard the northern border, while the Xiao family and the Zheng family went to the southwest.

We hadn't seen each other for many years, but since we both came from military backgrounds, we soon found ourselves chatting to each other.

When Mrs. Gu Er saw that everyone was up, she hurried to prepare the meal.

We prepared a mutton pot with wild mushrooms, pork stewed with vermicelli and spicy cabbage, a bowl of red date chicken soup, a bowl of bean sprouts, a bowl of fried tofu, and a can of sour duck.

Of course, it was Yuntang who brought out the sour duck, mainly because the border town was short of food, and they had to prepare several tables of food at once. It was impossible for them to be as sumptuous and delicious as in the capital.

In other words, each bowl has a simple flavor with border characteristics.

Just when Mrs. Gu was unable to put together a few tables of fresh fish, Yuntang took out the sour duck.

Not only were the jars that were to be placed on the table, but thirty more were also given to Madam Gu Er to be delivered to the homes of other generals living in border towns.

These two streets are home to the families of generals.

The generals often came back from the army occasionally, and in order to avoid separation from their families, they also lived here, even though life was hard.

Yuntang was born here and was abandoned on the way back to Beijing.

The people here don’t know what happened to the youngest daughter of Marquis Yong’an.

Yuntang came here as Gu Chengfeng's junior apprentice brother "Little Taoist Priest", and not many people knew that she was the real daughter of the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion.

Or, such news may not have been transmitted from the capital.

Yuntang wouldn't mention it either.

There were six dishes on the table, and the portions were quite generous. There was no rice, but hot steamed buns made from 20 grams of flour were served directly from a steamer.

There are also several large clay stoves with fire burning and pots on them, and on the pots there are several layers of large steamers. Placing them in the hall can both increase the temperature and prevent the steamed buns from getting cold too early.

Steamed buns will become hard when they get cold. How can these rich young men from the capital city chew them?

Although many of them come from military families and have learned martial arts since childhood and are able to endure hardships, the hardships in this border town are probably unimaginable, and the Gu family will never let them suffer such hardships.

But there were no large white steamed buns for them to eat in this border town, and the steamed buns with two jin of flour were already surplus for entertaining guests.

The soldiers eat four-grain noodles, which are not soft and delicious but can fill the stomach. Soldiers and generals are treated the same.

The young men in the capital had never eaten steamed buns made of corn and wheat flour, but none of them expressed curiosity, as they all knew that there was a food shortage in the border town.

At this time, they felt a little regretful that they did not bring their own food. Now they were all eating the rations from General Jingbei's Mansion, and there were still many of them.

In the end, everyone felt full when they were 80% full.

After being in the Guards Camp for so long, they were all familiar with each other. After one of them opened his mouth, the rest tacitly did not dare to eat more.

Yun Tang and Yun Xuanmo didn't say anything. After Yun Tang finished a bag of steamed buns made of two-grain flour, she took out a bowl of sweet tofu pudding to go with it. The boys' eyes lit up and they all looked at her eagerly.

It would have been better if they had had a bowl of tofu pudding while eating the steamed buns just now.

Yuntang rolled his eyes at them and didn't offer any extra food. He just put away his bowl after he finished eating.

At this time, Xiao Ye sighed: "It seems that Junior Master's stockpile of food is not much."

If there were dozens of bowls, Junior Master's generosity would definitely give some to them.

Yun Tang then spoke slowly: "I bought this at the Chuanzhou morning stall. There are only a few bowls left."

Madam Gu couldn't help laughing when she heard this. Apart from her strength, Xiao Tang'er was just a child.

The King of Yan also has the temperament of a child.

After all, we finished lunch and took a short break before splitting into two teams.

One team followed Gu Chengsheng and his team eastward to Ningzhou Prefecture. After sending the people over, Yuntang came back and took another team to Ningwu County east of Ningzhou.

The heavy snow blocked the roads, and places with people could only shovel roads near their homes.

Now that the first month of the lunar year is almost over, common people, government offices and even garrisons in various places will try their best to clear the roads. Only by clearing the roads can they communicate with the outside world.

But it is still difficult to go further, especially when there is a shortage of food, you have to maintain your strength and avoid getting sick.

When the imperial court's relief could not reach every part of the country, it was up to the local government offices and the people to save themselves.

It’s not like there hasn’t been heavy snow in the North in previous years. This kind of icy and snowy environment is also very common. The people in the North naturally have their own survival abilities, but...

Last winter there was a snowstorm, which made the situation even more serious, and the soil was also severely frozen, which directly affected grain planting.

Fortunately, the autumn crops were harvested last year, so there will be no problem in January and February.

But Yuntang and the others won't have time to deal with these things in February.

After dividing the personnel into two teams and settling them in the two cities of Ningzhou, Yun Tang and Yun Xuanmo took Gu Chengsheng to their own grain store in Ningzhou.

It was learned that the grain store had long been sold out and other grain stores had no surplus grain. General Jingbei had already passed on the message at the beginning of the snowstorm that any merchant who wanted to hoard grain and raise the price would have their property confiscated if caught.

General Jingbei himself is a farmer who owns countless fertile fields and also holds military power, so the merchants naturally dare not cause trouble.

With the big grain shops run by the family in the twelve prefectures taking the lead, there was no trouble.

The grain store is out of food.

Yun Xuanmo allocated enough grain to the grain store according to Gu Chengsheng's allocation, in order to cooperate with the government office in selling grain according to household registration and population, and asked the government office to arrange for the distribution of porridge and to count the number of poor households and farmers and distribute some grain as relief.

Farmers would keep some food for themselves after the autumn harvest and sell the surplus after paying grain taxes. However, since there was no wheat harvest this year, there is naturally a shortage of food for future generations.

When the people in the government office saw that it was General Gu who came in person, how could they dare to be negligent?

Gu Chengsheng also warned the city defenders that he would place spies from the army in the city, and if anyone dared to embezzle, sell or hoard the goods, they would be dismissed from office and their property would be confiscated.

As expected of a general in charge of the army, even his threats were simple and direct. No matter whether the city defenders were good officers or not, everyone was trembling in their hearts, so how could they dare to act rashly?

Although different government offices have their own responsibilities, the military power in the local area has always been greater than the jurisdiction of the government offices.

What's more, the grain was delivered personally by the generals of the Northern Border Army, but there was no official document, so it was not official grain or relief grain through regular channels.

Gu Chengsheng also asked the people what supplies they needed most and distributed some to each of them.

How could the people in the yamen dare to be negligent after seeing this?

They counted the quantities very carefully, made a list and made a document, which had multiple people sign and seal the document, accepting the supplies and ensuring that the detailed destination of every pound of grain was recorded.

Gu Chengsheng was in charge of all these matters with the government office. Yun Xuanmo was only responsible for distributing food, and the teenagers cooperated in counting and accounting. Yun Tang watched from the side and took a break.

After finishing his work in Ningzhou City, he went to the next place and then returned to Ningwu County to take people to the new place. Now he went back and forth day and night.