Empress Chongxilong who became a sick and weak emperor

Do you still lack people here?

In the holy city of Miaojiang, on the chaotic and noisy quaint streets, there were two figures standing opposite each other, whispering very close to each other.

They wore the same style of gray cloth and hemp shoes, and they were harmonious in the crowd of people coming and going, but it seemed that the unusualness of the two could be seen at a glance from the gluey eyes.

Xu Huaiqing stuffed the five-color glutinous rice into his mouth in one gulp, his cheeks were bulging and he was chewing, his eyes were bright.

"Is it delicious?" Song Yan lowered her head and asked.

Xu Huaiqing nodded emphatically, gobbling it like a little hamster, and there was a small salted fish he just bought in his cross-body pocket.

He likes hemp and spicy two flavors the most, and he can't stop sweating from the spicy nose.

Song Yan smiled gently, and couldn't hide the pity in her eyes.

They overestimate themselves, and living alone has fallen to the point where they can't even fill their stomachs.

Xu Huaiqing and Song Yan did not bring anyone with them to the Holy City of Miaojiang from the capital this time, and they all stayed in the capital as their respective officials, while they dressed like ordinary people and mixed here.

For now, their life is very comfortable. They bought a remote small yard in the holy city, and vegetables were planted in the yard, so that they could barely be self-sufficient.

As for the capital, it is natural to leave it to their good "sons and daughters", each according to his own ability.

After all, Daxing's internal and external troubles have basically been dealt with, and the rest are trivial matters. With a careful emperor, it is easy to stabilize the country.

The Holy City is the center of Miaojiang, where various ethnic groups live together and are under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. There is a government office here, but it seems to have little effect, because they respect saints and believe in witches more, as well as the mysterious and unspeakable Miao people.

The saint sits on the high platform, the witch walks in the market, and the Miao people who know Gu are even more calm.

Everything is interesting and mysterious.

Song Yan took Xu Huaiqing's hand: "After eating, we will go to the butcher shop to buy meat."

Xu Huaiqing swallowed the food in his mouth, he had never been so gluttonous in his twenty years of life, but just when he was about to agree, he suddenly had sharp eyesight and touched something from Song Yan's neck.

"There are bugs." He said a little angrily.

Song Yan took a closer look and found an ugly black bug on Xu Huaiqing's hand, and quickly patted it on the ground with her hand.

The air in Miaojiang is humid and hot, and there are many mountains, forests and hills, so there are inevitably more unknown bugs.

Song Yan took out a handkerchief and wiped Xu Huaiqing's hands: "Don't be angry, I'm going to make a pack of anti-mosquito sachets today, and we carry them with us."

Before they left, they specially asked the Tai Hospital for various prescriptions, which just came in handy now.

Xu Huaiqing nodded, and dragged Song Yan to buy herbs with a small bag.

Song Yan happily followed.

After the two walked away, a ragged man suddenly rushed up and carefully picked up the bug that had just been knocked out. The torso of the dead bug turned from black to maroon in the blink of an eye, like dried blood.

The villain's eyes filled with tears in an instant, and his heart ached.

This is a bug used to track people. It is divided into son and mother. Now that the mother bug is dead, the bug in his hand is useless.

But it took him three years to raise this worm to produce such a one!

It is precious to him.

The villain is thin, with disheveled hair, dressed like a little beggar, the clothes on his body have long lost their original color, exuding a stench, only seven or eight years old, looks like a girl, but his mouth is sharp male voice.

He has wandered here.

The villain sniffed, and after finally confirming that his little bug was hopeless, he simply buried it in the soil, wiped away his tears, and followed Song Yan's and Xu Huaiqing.

When the bugs are gone, he has to go and talk to people himself.

The villain watched from a distance as the two went to the pharmacy, bought two chicken legs at a cooked butcher shop on the street, and finally took out a bag of sugar from the grocery store, and then walked calmly to the courtyard.

He couldn't help swallowing.

It smells like meat.

Song Yan and Xu Huaiqing returned to their courtyard.

The small courtyard is made of wood, the three rooms are connected side by side, and the kitchen is built separately in a corner of the courtyard.Their yard is huge, with a lychee tree on the right and a vegetable garden on the left with lush green vegetables.

The temperature here is slightly higher, which is very suitable for planting.

Outside the house where they lived, Song Yan specially surrounded it with stones, filled it with soil, and prepared to plant flowers.

So Song Yan and Xu Huaiqing have been shopping and building small courtyards during this period.

They call it familiarity with their new home.

Song Yan and Xu Huaiqing put their things away when they got home, then rolled up their sleeves and started to cook with heavy faces.

But when the former was a dragon and drank blood, the latter was pampered and pampered when he was an emperor, even if the two worked together... Half an hour later, the kitchen was filled with black smoke.

But compared to the previous few times, this time it was much better.

Xu Huaiqing took out the small salted fish with a blank expression on his face, and made two bites.

Song Yan was a little happy holding a pot of steamed white rice: "At least, it was successfully steamed."

Xu Huaiqing nodded solemnly.

But in the end, the two were very satisfied with the meal, white rice with pickled fish, and a big chicken drumstick.

They are undoubtedly very rich. They not only bought this yard, but even bought the surrounding land. Of course, the most superficial thing is to talk about the posture of spending money like water.

Normal people would not buy refined sugar to buy the best rice.

Such a small person is hiding in the dense forest far away and calculating carefully.

He came here specially to scout the site. There is something wrong with the place where these two outsiders live. It was a hot potato before. Several ruthless characters have their eyes on this land, but the people who live there are poor and have no power. Naturally, they can’t protect it. Living, if the past practice is followed, within a month, this family will "have to" sell it at a low price because of desperation.

But now, two foreigners suddenly appeared, and before everyone could react, they boldly packed the yard and land and bought it.

And judging from this posture, it seems to be a permanent residence.

Naturally, those ruthless characters couldn't sit still when they found out about it. After all, they haven't missed a single shot yet, relying on their thugs to do their best, but now they are "occupied" by the unknown people who don't know the rules. ?

So they planned to teach these two people a lesson, to understand who the boss of this land is.

The villain sighed, his face covered with sorrow, he had been following these two for a whole day, and he still hadn't found a chance to make a quick money - selling news, and even lost several bugs.

Just when he felt that he was going to return in vain today, suddenly there was a shock behind him, and he suddenly turned his head, only to find the young man who should have been in the yard standing behind him.

The young man had no expression on his face, just looked down at him.

The villain subconsciously hugged his head quickly, and said quickly: "My lord, spare me!"

The young man stretched out his hand, and the villain's forehead was instantly covered with beads of sweat: "I have news! You can bargain at your discretion!!"

Xu Huaiqing looked puzzled, and took off the bug hanging on the villain.

Song Yan was cleaning the yard, and when he was not around, Xu Huaiqing didn't have the slightest ill feeling towards this kind of bug, and could even carefully observe the twisting bug.

This one is obviously different from ordinary flying insects. Its abdomen is fat and its wings are short and transparent. It looks ugly overall, but it is very energetic.

Xu Huaiqing asked: "What is this?"

The villain took a look, his heart missed half a beat, he quickly cupped his hands under Xu Huaiqing's fingertips, and said loudly: "Gu! Be careful!"

His whole body was tense, but he still insisted on speaking hard when he was extremely anxious: "I know Gu, be afraid, be careful if you are afraid!"

Xu Huaiqing returned the worm to him and asked, "Who are you?"

The surrounding area has been bought by them, only their yard, and this person said to sell news, what news?

They didn't do anything when they came to the holy city, and the sellers rushed to the door.

Urgent?

"Zhang Zao, my name, Zao is very early." Zhang Zao replied.

He carefully collected the worms, and added embarrassingly: "Because I was born very quickly, it is called early."

Xu Huaiqing looked at Zhang Zao's tattered clothes, and said calmly, "Go in."

He is very accurate at seeing people, and he can tell whether there is malice at a glance, but this is just a child, with holes in the shoes on his feet, showing restless thumbs, thin cheeks, looking like he is hungry, and cheekbones. Visibly convex outward.

Zhang Zao raised his head suddenly and realized something when he saw the young man walking into the yard.

He followed and said as he walked, "I'm here to sell news..."

At this time, Song Yan in the yard had repaired two chairs out of wood, and they were chiseled out from a whole piece of wood.

Song Yan looked at Zhang Zao with clear eyes: "Who is he?"

With their keenness, it is absolutely impossible not to notice that someone is following them, but it is more of a kind of laissez-faire.

Even if they are spied on, they have the ability to win face to face with an absolute advantage.

Zhang Zao hurriedly replied: "My name is Zhang Zao." He slowed down and told the origin of his name.

Xu Huaiqing and Song Yan sat on chairs and looked at him curiously.

The invisible pressure suddenly descended.

Zhang Zao swallowed the ten taels of silver that was ready to be slaughtered and said, "As long as one hundred coins, I can tell you what I know."

He asked foreigners to tell the news to get familiar with the folk customs of the holy city, and he usually charged ten coins as a reward.

But this time is different, this time the incident is obviously bigger, and he lost several bugs in the middle.

Although ten taels of silver was a bit inflated, it was worth the price after careful calculation, and he needed it very much.

With twelve taels, he can buy a suit that can cover his body in a short time, so as to increase the price of the news.

For example, from ten to eleven or twelve?

But in front of the two, Zhang Zao couldn't help discounting it a hundred times.

He keenly felt that these two people were definitely not so easy to bully when they first arrived, and he even had a deep feeling that the group of hooligans might fall into their hands.

Song Yan poured out a silver corner from the purse and handed it over: "Tell me about it."

Zhang Zao caught Yin Zi, and whispered in surprise, "It's a bit much."

He put the silver in his pocket properly, and said seriously: "There is a problem with the land you bought. Someone made it clear a month ago that no one is allowed to buy this land. Anyone who knows it knows that."

"And the people who are eyeing this land are very difficult to mess with. One is the local ruffian boss Li Da, and the other is the well-known witch, surnamed Ma. Both of them have thugs under their hands, and you are predators. I am afraid they will In a fit of anger, they smashed the yard and seized the land."

"So this message is to tell you to go away, you are outsiders, they will be more carefree."

What's more, Song Yan and Xu Huaiqing are so rich, if they don't keep it together, they will be greedy.

Song Yan couldn't help laughing.

I kind of want to meet those two thugs and see if they are real kung fu.

Xu Huaiqing focused, one of the reasons they bought this land was because the environment was good and the location was remote, and the other was because the poor family who lived here had only one room left, and they didn’t even have money for the medical treatment of the under-month-old baby. up.

On the day they bought the place, the family gave them fruits to eat, and said that for some reason no one was willing to buy their yard, so that they had to lower the price again and again, and then they waited for Xu Huaiqing and Song Yan to come.

The family was so grateful that it didn't seem like a fake, and even kindly told them a lot of things, and even what to plant in which season.

In the end, Song Yan also generously rewarded the family with money under his instruction. I don't know if the baby's illness has been cured...

No wonder, Xu Huaiqing thought.

He prefers to believe that the family didn't even realize their own situation, and insisted day after day to sell their only property to make a living.

Song Yan asked: "What about the original family?"

They completed the transfer on the same day they paid the money, and then they never met again.

Zhang Zao said: "After treating their children, they went elsewhere. They should have returned to their hometown."

The local hooligans will not be bad enough to embarrass people who have nothing in their hands, and they are also prone to lawsuits.

Zhang Zao is well-informed, and he has paid special attention to it, so he knows it more clearly.

Xu Huaiqing felt relieved.

Come on then, as long as you don't ruin the yard for them.

Otherwise, the land with a radius of several miles is extremely suitable for growing food.

Xu Huaiqing looked at Zhang Zao, frowned and said, "Can you cook by yourself?"

Zhang Zao nodded: "Yes!"

Cooking is not difficult, as long as you mix edible things together and cook, you have to cook them thoroughly, otherwise some things will be poisonous.

Xu Huaiqing ordered: "Go to the stove and cook some food to eat by yourself."

He wanted to show kindness to his people, so he did so.

Zhang Zao was stunned, this person is so weird, and he is not his child, why should he care about what he eats?

But now he is very hungry, so hungry that even with money in his pocket, he can't help but go into the dense forest to find something to eat on the way to the paving.

Lin Zi is familiar with him, he has eaten a lot of edible things, and a few times of inedible ones, but in the end they all survived...

Zhang Zao wanted to refuse, but he acted as if it was a matter of course, but he didn't know what to say.

In the end, Zhang Zao entered the kitchen hand in hand and was stunned to see the bags of crystal white rice.

Not even a little brown rice here.

Zhang Zao washed his hands, solemnly made himself a bowl of white rice, and wolfed it down.

This is the feeling of fullness that I have never felt before, so warm...

Zhang Zao was a little silent, silently marked the bowl he had just used, and went to Xu Huaiqing to bid farewell to Song Yan.

After leaving the small courtyard, he ran fast, tightly protecting the money in his arms.

When he arrived in the downtown area, he went to buy an outfit first, and then went into the big bathhouse on the street to wash himself clean, revealing his original appearance, a little dark, but with handsome features.

Zhang Zao took the remaining money to buy bowls and chopsticks and returned to the courtyard in the afternoon.

"Are you still short of people here?"