After the new year, the fourth prince took over as an agent of the government.The illness came like a mountain, and Emperor Qingyuan was bedridden.

The collateral effect is that other princes are ready to move. They used to act secretly, but now they are starting to create momentum for themselves.

The fourth prince didn't know that his name was written in the imperial edict by Emperor Qingyuan, so he was still trying to fight for it, hoping to use the famine in Xizhou to win the hearts of the people.

Xie Ning was busy with the accounts in the mansion, when Qiu Lian came over to pass the message: "Master returned to the mansion and went straight to the study."

Xie Ning glanced at the funnel, it was four quarters and it was past noon, and Ji Nian must be hungry and busy again.

"Take it here, I'll go get the master a bowl of noodles."

The old duck soup stewed in the kitchen for the two baby dolls was just cooked, and the dough was prepared daily. Xie Ning took a knife and thinly sliced ​​a pot of noodles. Full of duck meat.

Xie Ning personally carried the bowl and went to the study.

Zhou Jinnian was flipping and writing, and he felt hungry only when he smelled the aroma of food.

The old duck soup is milky white, the meat is crispy and mellow, and it looks very appetizing. Zhou Jinnian took the noodle bowl, took a sip of the soup, and then flipped through the book while eating the noodles.

Xie Ning didn't bother him either, and quietly read what Zhou Jinnian wrote.

This kind of quietness was disturbed by the two little guys. Little Jingcheng and his younger sister ran over like a little milk dog smelling.

The two baby babies can walk independently, but they are stunned.

The short pier in the front raised his two little hands upwards, and the little milk ball in the back opened his arms left and right, crossed his legs together, and appeared at the door of the study.

"Hey!" Little Pang Cheng called out to the two fathers in the house with a small mouth.

Seeing the bowl in front of my father is really familiar, isn't that for eating?

Xiao Jingcheng, who understood, was terrified. He squatted down with his claws raised, his little hands clutched the threshold, and his buttocks pouted to move forward.

He raised his right foot a few times, but he couldn't cross the high threshold, so anxious that he yelled, "Woo horse!"

In the end, the nanny carried him across the threshold and put him in the study.

Little Jingcheng raised his two little hands again, swaggered and rushed to find his father. Zhou Jinian picked him up and put him to sit on the desk.

The daughter is in her arms.

Little Jingcheng sat on the desk in a small group, with two chubby feet facing each other, pointing at the noodle bowl with his claws, "Oh!"

"Call me dad." Zhou Jinian knew that his youngest son wanted to eat.

"Hmm..." Xiao Jingcheng rushed forward, but was embraced by Xie Ning.

And Sister Wan is young, but she actually knows it, knows that her father loves her and will respond to every request, looking up at her father, "ah..."

Zhou Ji Nian immediately twirled the noodles that were as long as her little finger and fed them into her daughter's wide open mouth.

Little Pangcheng swallowed saliva, shook his head to look at his younger sister, and imitated, "Ah..."

Zhou Jinnian cut off the noodles with chopsticks, the chubby Cheng was in a hurry, thinking that his father would not eat them, he embraced them with both hands and shook them up and down.

It was also very hard to eat, and then Xiaopangcheng finally got a small noodle.

Xiao Pangcheng sucked and sucked, and the noodles disappeared in his mouth. The noodles were stewed so soft that he swallowed them without even chewing.

Sister Wan lost interest after tasting it. She kicked her legs and fell to the ground, walking back and forth. She had to look at every corner of the study, and she had to touch every piece of wood with her little claws.

She is quiet most of the time, only moving her hands and feet quietly.

Little Fatty Cheng smacked his lips, unable to taste the flavor, "Ah..."

Zhou Jinnian fed him again, while Xie Ning took advantage of something in his mouth and hurriedly carried the youngest son out of the study. He knew that his husband was busy with court affairs recently and he didn't want the children to disturb him.

After swallowing the noodles in Xiao Jingcheng's mouth, he clamored to go back to eat, kept kicking his legs, and hummed anxiously, "Mmmm... woohoo!"

"Cheng'er, let's go find brother and play with him." Xie Ning rubbed the back of his head to comfort his little emotions.

Sister Wan sat obediently in the nurse's arms, her two little paws were holding each other, she looked at the noisy brother in front of her with a small face, and was silent...

The group moved from the master's study to the young master's study.

Brother Yu was practicing calligraphy with a brush in his hands. He was very happy to see his younger sister coming, "Daddy! Where did my younger sister come from?"

"He came from the garden." Xie Ning put down his youngest son, put his arms around Brother Yu's shoulders, and looked at the writing written by Brother Yu.

After playing in the small study for a while, the two little dolls couldn't stay any longer, and the three little masters went to the garden together.

Xie Ning ordered his servants to prepare some fruits to send, and went to Ji Nian's study by himself.

In the study, Zhou Jinnian was still in the same posture as before, sitting at the table while reading and writing, the dishes and chopsticks had already been taken away by servants.

Zhou Jinian waited for Ning Lang to approach before he said, "The hungry people in Xizhou are going to grab food, and the fourth prince will personally go to suppress the mob."

When natural disasters and man-made disasters occur, the way for ordinary people to fight against famine is to flee from famine first and then rebel.To put it bluntly, famine means insufficient food, low agricultural productivity, heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and corrupt officials selling grain and grass without permission. Natural disasters are just the straw that broke the camel's back.

"Food prices in the capital are also rising recently. There is no news about the caravan I arranged to deliver the food." Xie Ning couldn't help but feel anxious. The emperor's ears were so few words in the report. One can imagine how dire straits Xizhou is currently in. realm.

After this day, the imperial court encouraged big families to donate food and transport it to the disaster area.

The amount of food raised was not satisfactory. The famine in Xizhou could not be just a problem of Xizhou, but a problem in the general environment.

The problem is that there is a lot of food in the whole country, and it is not enough for the people of the whole country to eat.

But the price of food in the capital has risen, and the couple sang a play together, of course with the support of the fourth prince.

So the imperial court arrested the shopkeepers of the rice shops who had raised prices, the big households who donated less food, and so on.

Since ancient times, the imperial court has raided the homes of rich households as soon as they can’t get enough food. There are only talk of peasant uprisings, but no tricks of merchants.

When the people in a dynasty can't eat enough to eat, and the court can't care about the construction of civilization, the court can only scrape off a layer of fat from the rich.

As a victim, Xie Ning called the family members of these businessmen to discuss countermeasures.

……

Xie Ning took a seat at the big restaurant in the capital, and Xie Ning was leisurely drinking tea. A group of rich people were ants on the hot pot, so he stood up and offered a move.

"The imperial court just wants food, so let's just give it. When the national treasury is full, it's not like we won't return it."

The rice shop family is in pain, "I don't know when I will be able to pay back..."

Some sellers of gold, silver and jade were even more anxious, "The court wants food, but your family has it, but my family eats porridge, and this gold can't be used as a food donation!"

Xie Ning stood up, "If you all believe in my Xieji firm, I can find a way to donate your gold to the imperial court as food."

"..."

If there is one person who is willing, there will be a second person who is willing. Let the dead horse be a living horse doctor, at least you don't have to worry about the imperial court raiding your home.

So Xie Ning took these belongings and hired a caravan to go to another country to exchange food, and he paid all the travel expenses for Xie Ji's business.

Xie Ning reached an agreement, and the court released him.

The heavy burden rested on Xie Ning, but fortunately Zhou Ji Nian was behind him to support him.

At the end of March, the Fourth Prince set off from Xizhou with a small amount of food, and went to the disaster area to wait for Xie Ning's supplies.

……

The disaster of famine made Xie Ning cherish food even more.

At noon on a certain day in April, when the family was having dinner, Xie Ning personally fed Miss Wan with a small wooden bowl, and Miss Wan tapped with a small wooden spoon in her hand, but she opened her mouth obediently when the food came.

Xie Ning confirmed that his daughter came to repay her kindness.

Similarly, the seventeen-month-old little Jingcheng came to take revenge, and ran all over the hall after eating, and the nanny chased him with a bowl.

He walks very steadily now, but his hands are short and his legs are short, he walks like a waddling duckling, even though little Jingcheng is keen on walking at the moment, he wants to be hugged by his father when he goes out.

At first Xie Ning frowned to see his youngest son making a fuss while eating, but he didn't make any noise to affect his youngest son's appetite.

Little Jingcheng climbed up the rattan chair in the corner intently, and the nanny watched the opportunity to scoop up a spoonful of rice and fed it, and he opened his mouth by the way.

It's just that as soon as the food entered his mouth, he spit it out with a "poof".

Now Xie Ning couldn't take it anymore, he handed his daughter's job to Lin Jin's father, went to carry Xiao Jingcheng out of the lobby, and found an empty corner.

"Are you hungry?" Xie Ning held back his anger and asked calmly.

Probably all the babies were very happy to be picked up. Little Jingcheng hugged his father's leg with his little face up, with an innocent and cute expression on his face, "Ah wow... da da..."

Xie Ning bent down and put a finger on his forehead, not allowing him to snuggle up to him, and asked again: "Can you eat well?"

Little Jingcheng blinked his big eyes, pointed his little finger into the room, "Huh?"

Xie Ning squatted down, looked at his youngest son, nodded and said, "Well, everyone is eating in the house, can you eat well? If you spit out the food again, Daddy won't eat it for you."

Little Jingcheng pouted, on his chubby little face, his mouth was round.

"It's useless to pout. Do you know how many hungry people in Xizhou can't eat? They gnawed on the bark, and you just ruined the rice like this?"

Little Jingcheng stopped pouting, and pursed his lips to walk into the house, not wanting to face his ferocious father anymore.

Xie Ning thought he was being obedient and went down the steps for him, so he didn't stop him and followed behind him.

Little Jingcheng walked up to the threshold, turned his back, sat on the threshold with his buttocks first, then slipped his little buttocks and slid on the floor of the room, then lay down on his upper body, lifted his chubby legs, and successfully escaped from prison.

"Hahaha..." Brother Yu held the bowl and looked at his younger brother and smiled. He didn't know that he had done this before when he was a child.

After crossing the threshold, little Jingcheng got dirty all over, alas... It's all because of the high threshold of the Zhou family.

Now the nanny mixed something delicious and then fed it to Xiao Jingcheng. He saw it was meat, and ate it in one bite.

When he sent another spoonful of rice, he didn't like it again, this time he didn't have a 'poof' in his mouth, he just pushed the spoon with his little claws, and spilled a spoonful of rice all over the floor.

Xie Ning was really angry, he didn't want to save any face for his youngest son.He and his husband worked hard for the famine in Xizhou, wishing to treat one grain of rice as ten grains, and not waste food just because their son was young.

Xie Ning went over with a straight face, and carried Xiao Jingcheng out again, and put him under the eaves outside the lobby.

He became serious, his brows and eyes were cold, "Why are you disobedient today? Eat well if you are hungry, and stop eating if you are not hungry."

Turning around, he told the nanny and servants, "You are not allowed to feed the second young master privately."

Just because Xiao Jingcheng is the only young man in the Zhou family in the capital, everyone in the house dotes on him, especially the two elders. Anyway, the older Xiao Jingcheng becomes, the more disobedient he becomes.

Obviously he can understand, but he can't speak, but he just doesn't listen.

So today he has to take a good break of his youngest son's temper.

"Wow... ah... ah..." Xiao Jingcheng was startled to cry by his father's serious expression and angry tone.

His big eyes were full of tears, his mouth was opened wide, and he let out a sharp cry, and he still looked at his father cautiously with a pair of teary eyes, so aggrieved.

"Ah... ah ah..." Xiao Jingcheng sat down on the ground, crying loudly.

Xie Ning looked at him condescendingly, he rarely made Cheng'er cry, but there were some principles that he couldn't compromise on.

The Zhou family absolutely does not allow extravagant and coquettish offspring, for Cheng'er's own future, and for his Xie Ning, don't wait until he gets old, it will be terrible if he can't control Cheng'er.

Brother Yu's heart aches, although he only wanted his younger sister at first, but his younger brother is also very cute.

Look at my brother crying, his little face is dirty and red.

Brother Yu put down the bowls and chopsticks, ran to kneel down in front of his brother, put his arms around him in his arms, "Brother, eat well, don't waste it."

"Who knows that every piece of Chinese food on the plate is hard work." Brother Yu wiped his younger brother's face with his sleeves, imitating adults to coax the child, "Don't cry, don't cry, brother hug."

Little Jingcheng was buried in his brother's arms, clutching his brother's skirt tightly with his small hands, crying, "Haah... haah... woo... um..."

Yu Geer held his younger brother's little butt, let his younger brother's short legs wrap around his waist, sat on his lap, and kept coaxing: "Don't cry, don't cry, brother protects Cheng'er."

As a father, Xie Ning's heart softened when he saw his younger son's tears, so it was impossible to stop his eldest son from coaxing Cheng'er.

Seeing Brother Yu loving the younger brother so much, I felt relieved, and sighed when I thought of Cheng'er.

Sister Wan grabbed the small wooden spoon, ran up and hugged Daddy's calf, "Woooo..."

Xie Ning lowered his head and went crazy, why did his daughter come to join in the fun?They are really three brothers and sisters, my dear.

Little Jingcheng cried and cried like this, hugged his brother to sleep, and then Xie Ning carried him back to his room.

While Cheng'er was sleeping, Xie Ning went to the stove to boil soybean flour mochi for the three brothers and sisters, and kept Cheng'er's lunch in the pot by the way.

Prepare to wait for the baby to wake up, feed, apologize, play with, and laugh.

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