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During Fuwan's stay in Jinyun City for the past few days, the magistrate almost wiped his neck and hanged himself in the yamen.

why?The well must be mentioned first.

The prefect lied.This well was repaired by his family in the early years, and the wall was enlarged to enclose it abruptly. It was originally a public well.

Originally, the well was just located in the center of the city, and it was convenient for the surrounding people to fetch water.What's even more rare is that the well was dug deep, and the water quality is particularly clear, and it has never been muddy for decades.Suddenly being bullied by the newly appointed magistrate, the people dared not speak out, so they had to curse secretly, and finally diverted to the east of the city to fetch water.

Fuwan found out the matter and immediately ordered him to open the gate of the courtyard and let the people in to fetch water.

The magistrate was shocked, and his first reaction was to refuse.

——Just kidding, how can he allow those mud legs to come and go at will in the yard of his majestic magistrate?

Don't want to open the door?Fu Wan said it was easy to handle.She re-drafted the Taoist will and ordered him to tear down the wall within a day without delay.

The magistrate accepted the order and almost cried, but he had no choice but to obey.

At the same time, Fuwan stayed up all night to find out the food reserves and water sources in the city.

The official warehouse was empty, but several gentry headed by the magistrate held a lot of surplus food in their hands.She calculated the total amount, enough for the whole city to last until next year.

Then why do some people feel that there is not enough food?It's all because the big households are too greedy, hoarding grain and refusing to sell it, they just want to wait until the price of grain peaks in a few months before selling it.

Fu Wan had a bottom line in his mind, so he called a few people together and had a meal. First he was courteous and then soldiers, first he reasoned, he talked about the situation outside the city, and then he didn't distribute some food to the villagers for fear that they might rebel. Good fruit to eat.

Some of them listened to her words, and when they returned, they handed over a note expressing their willingness to assist the court.

Of course there were those who refused, Fu Wan brought Bai Chan to the door directly.In special times and special measures, she was too lazy to argue, and directly suppressed violently, forcing people to open the granary with a sword on her neck.

After the grain is registered, it is sent to the official warehouse for unified management.

The magistrate watched helplessly as his family's stockpiled food was looted, but he didn't dare to talk to Fuwan, let alone offend the evil star in white clothes next to her.He beat his chest and felt annoyed all night, and fell ill the next day, with a high fever and talking nonsense.

Fuwan didn't know about this at all, she was busy raising money to distribute food.

Grain distribution is also a matter of knowledge. If you are stupid and open the warehouse directly, the result will be swarming looting. "If you have a bargain, don't take advantage of the bastard." If you get free food at home, even if you take too much and put it away, people will not feel sorry, and it will cause a lot of waste.

Fu Wan first drew up a plan, and asked the captain to send a bulletin to the villages to explain the general situation, and then summoned the prestigious patriarchs and elders in the village to beat them.The elders went back to discuss with the parents of each family in the village, and finally decided to send a representative from each family to the city to collect food.

The food is not free, it is just a cheap official food, but it is several times cheaper than before.

Soon, the first batch of villages successfully received food and water.

As soon as the good news spread, other nearby villages were also ready to move, and they sent their patriarchs to negotiate, asking if they could distribute some food to them, and it would be okay if it was a little more expensive.

Fu Wan said that the cheap food is managed by the imperial court, and the price is the same, but the stock is not large, and it is impossible to supply it without limit.

The patriarch immediately became anxious, and begged His Highness to find a way to accommodate him.

Fu Wan signaled them to be safe and calm, and started another topic: "I heard that someone in your village secretly recruited a team to become bandits?"

The patriarchs looked at each other for a while, thinking that she was going to blame them, so they patted their chests and assured: "Those are all unworthy descendants, and I will drive them out of the family tree when I go back!"

"Hey, that's not necessary," Fu Wan stopped them with a smile, "I believe they all have their own difficulties, and they must be unable to survive, so they made such a bad move."

"In this way, you go back separately and try to persuade the children in the clan. Whoever persuades more people to return will let the family come to receive the food first."

Instead of blaming Her Highness Di Ji, she spoke for those incompetent people. The patriarchs were so moved that their eyes filled with tears, and when they returned home, they praised His Highness for being a rare Bodhisattva--though young, he has the grace to tolerate others.

Immediately afterwards, the villages made intensive arrangements.

Anyway, it was the slack season, so everyone threw away their work and headed up the mountain in unison.

What are you going to do?Arrest.

Although Luocao became a bandit, the vast majority of this group of "bandits" are honest young people in essence.

They have thick shoulders, round waists and strong strength. They practice a few moves every day, and are always ready for the imperial court to send people to suppress the bandits.But this time and again, the imperial army didn't wait, but their grandma who was in her seventies and eighties was waiting.

The old ladies walked up the mountain with the help of a few younger generations, and they stood outside the cottage and called their children by their names.

What "dog eggs", "earth roots", and "spring growth" come and go one after another, and the grass slope is very lively.

"Grandma!" Finally someone couldn't hold back anymore, and ran out with a blushing face, "How many times have I said that my name is no longer 'Chunsheng', I am now 'Whirlwind Li'."

The old lady was old and dim-sighted, but she was sharp at cutting people, and immediately slapped him on the forehead.

"Grandpa chose the name, so you don't want it if you don't want it?" After speaking, she greeted the people next to her, "That's it, my family's, tie it up quickly."

The cousins ​​around rushed up and held him down, and regardless of people's wishes, they put on the sack and led them home.

The old lady next to her was a little jealous when she saw her victory in the first battle, she was eager to try, and rushed through the gate of the village to rush in.

The gate of the village broke through in an instant.

It's not that the gatekeeper didn't want to stop him, but he couldn't stop him. He was also held tightly by the seven aunts and eight aunts, and he couldn't take care of himself.

A second before he put it in the sack, he was still thinking, wrong, really wrong!

——If he was caught and beheaded by the court, he would be considered a good man, but this?What is this?

***

The banditry was successfully resolved.

Fu Wan stayed in Jinyun City for another two days, and finally waited for the guards to arrive with the relief money.

She roughly handed over the work, assigned a few personnel to be responsible for supervision, and led them to the next place without stopping.

As usual, Fuwan and Baichan took the lead, and the chief guard followed behind with money and food.With the previous successful experience, the chief guard no longer doubted her decision.

He also sighed with his subordinates, this time, if His Highness hadn't planned for far-sightedness and came to Jinyun City in advance to eliminate the banditry, how could the group of them escort the food and grass to the destination so comfortably?I am afraid that they have been black-handed by gangsters long ago, even if they are lucky enough to survive, the relief food is lost or less, and they will have enough to drink a pot when they return to Beijing.

Apart from the guards, there was also Bai Chan who looked at Her Highness Di Ji differently.

After these few days, she seems to have gotten to know Fuwan again - she thought she was a delicate girl, who usually refuses to take two extra steps and always acts coquettishly asking her to hug her.But when she really has something to do, she can actually carry it, and carry it properly, and no one can do it better than her.

"There are three cities to the south, and the distances are about the same." Fu Wan leaned on the tree trunk to look at the map, and sighed, "The name is quite novel, why don't you go here first?"

She raised her eyes to look at Bai Chan, but noticed a slight change in the other's expression.

Ever since he came down from the mountain that day, at first glance, Bai Chan still had the same cold and paralyzed face as before, but in fact, there were many subtle expressions behind it.Fuwan was with her every day and watched her most carefully.

After Bai Chan gave up on the ruthless way, her whole body was let go, not to mention the emotional fluctuations, and she often clings to her with her hands and feet.

——Recently, I became obsessed with kissing her ears.

Now, Fuwan suffered too much.The most sensitive part of her body is her ears, and her heart palpitations when she touches them with her own hands, let alone having Bai Chan hold them between her teeth.

Now she is like a frightened bird, as soon as she sees Bai Chan approaching, she reflexively covers her red ears.

Bai Chan bent down and handed her the water bag, and asked suspiciously, "Why is your face so red? Did it get sunburnt?"

Fuwan glared at her, snatched Tonton to drink a couple of sips, and said, "I can go to Baiyujing tonight. Last time I mentioned that I wanted to come here, you looked weird, and you refused to tell me. Is it time to say it now?"

"It's not an important matter." Bai Chan paused and said, "You should know that I changed my surname?"

Fu Wan nodded.The family of the Marquis of Dingyuan should have been surnamed Yu.

Bai Chan: "I changed my surname to Bai because my mother's surname is Bai. Bai is a common surname in southern Xinjiang."

"Are they from southern Xinjiang?"

Bai Chan nodded, lowered her eyes for a moment, and said softly: "My grandfather...is the city lord of Bai Yujing."

Fu Wan almost choked: "What, what?"

Before surrendering, the sixteen cities in southern Xinjiang were originally a small independent country, and the capital was Baiyujing.

It is rumored that Baiyujing was built on a towering cliff, which is extremely mysterious, dangerous peaks and steep mountains, and roads are difficult to navigate. The surrounding area is rich in gemstones, and there is even a saying that the city is paved with white jade and gold inlaid bridges.

Fu Wan looked at Bai Chan again, feeling unreal as if the young lady picked up a poor scholar and suddenly won the top prize in high school in the storybook.

It turns out that my wife is super rich... She thought silently, and not long ago, she had lost her lips about a few catties of japonica rice, and couldn't help biting her handkerchief to complain: This world is really unfair.

Regardless of whether the rumors about Bai Yujing are true or not, one thing can be confirmed: it was indeed built on a cliff.

Facing the setting sun, they galloped along the river beach and saw the white city from afar.

The dark Heishui River meanders and rushes, and at the end of the river rises a towering peak with steep rock walls, and a huge fortress-like city is entrenched on the highest point.Surrounding the city is a circle of white stone walls. I don’t know what kind of material the outer wall is pasted on. When the sun shines on it, it glows faintly—it’s really like beautiful jade.

When I got closer, I could see clearly that a part of the building even hung above the cliff, which was very dangerous, as if it might break off at any time and fall into the deep ravine where the waves roared.

This is Bai Yujing in the sky.

Fu Wan was deeply shocked, this is the greatest human creation she has ever seen in her life.

——The isolated city on the cliff, the clouds and the waves are rushing, the white jade is the wall, the moon is on the moon and the stars, just the [-]-foot-high city wall, I don’t know how many craftsmen have spent their efforts to build it.

She couldn't help but rein in the horse, and watched it carefully for a while before continuing to walk forward.

To get to Baiyujing, one had to bypass a large section of rugged mountain roads, the two of them kept on going, and finally arrived at the gate of the city before sunset.

Unlike Jinyun City, even though there was a famine everywhere in southern Xinjiang, Bai Yujing still opened the gates of the city, and many people rushed in and out, and it didn't seem to be greatly affected.

After a closer look, Fu Wan realized that something was wrong.

——These travelers actually covered the lower half of their faces with scarves.

Is it a custom?She subconsciously looked at Bai Chan, but she also frowned slightly.

Fu Wan lowered his voice: "Did something happen?"

"I don't know." Bai Chan shook her head, her legs clamped lightly on the horse's back: "Go in and have a look."