Chapter Five Hundred and Ninetieth: House Porridge
The Xian Wang heard Xiao Ye's words and said in a deep voice: "Nonsense! As a father, this is just to spur you!"
Xiao Ye said: "That's okay. Anyway, Wan'er will be promoted in a few months. By then, the child will also encourage his son."
When the wise king heard this, he gritted his teeth and said, "How dare you?!"
Xiao Ye was stunned when he heard this: "You also care if I push my own son?"
The wise king hummed: "I can ignore it."
Xiao Ye breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It would be great if you don't care."
The wise king changed the subject and said: "If you dare to spur your son, then I will spur my son too!"
Xiao Ye's eyes widened: "How could you do this?!"
The Xian King glanced at Xiao Ye: "You also care about me spurring my own son?"
Xiao Ye looked at his shameless old father and argued: "This... this... can I ignore this?"
Wise King: "I don't care if you whip your son, but you don't care if I whip my son?"
Xiao Ye gritted his teeth and said: "Can it be the same?!"
King Xian looked at Xiao Ye and said nothing.
Xiao Ye looked at the determined look in King Xian's eyes and finally let out a sigh of relief: "I won't push him anymore. Isn't it okay if I stop pushing him?"
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The second day
Several porridge sheds have been opened in the new city. Starting from today, porridge will be given out. Some civilians who have been displaced due to the war can come here to receive porridge every day.
The commander of the four guards looked at Xiao Ye and said: "His Royal Highness is righteous, and my subordinates admire him."
A fire had almost burned away the remaining grain in the granary, which Xiao Ye had bought with his own money.
Now that Xiao Ye is sitting on the share of Qingxue Study and Zhuye Qing, he already has a lot of wealth, but now he wants to exchange it for food.
The commander of the Four Guards glanced at the porridge shed where porridge was being cooked, and said, "His Royal Highness has given so much money and effort, why not post a notice so that the people here can appreciate His Royal Highness's kindness?"
Xiao Ye shook his head and said: "I could have stopped the fire that burned into the granary yesterday, but I allowed them to burn it in order to plot against the Zhou court. I single-handedly destroyed their hope of living.
, Let’s take all this as compensation today, go watch them cook porridge, I’m a little tired, so I’ll go back first.”
When the commander of the four guards heard Xiao Ye's words, he immediately bowed and clasped his fists, saying: "Your Highness understands the righteousness, and I am resigning."
After that, the commander of the four guards walked into the porridge shed and watched the people in the porridge shed cooking porridge.
Xiao Ye returned to his residence, immediately threw away his sword and threw himself on the bed, covering his head with the quilt: "My prince's money! Money!!"
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porridge shed
The wise king walked in and looked at the steaming thick porridge in the pot, and asked: "Did Ye'er pay for this grain money?"
The commander of the four guards raised his hands and said: "Reporting to the prince, it is indeed the money provided by His Royal Highness."
The wise king nodded when he heard this, grabbed a handful of fine sand from the side and threw it into the pot.
Although the man making the porridge was puzzled by the behavior of the wise king, he did not dare to say anything.
The commander of the four guards looked at the wise king and said puzzledly: "Your Majesty, what are you..."
The wise king said: "If the porridge in this porridge shed is delicious, no matter how much money he spends, he will not be able to provide relief to the victims in the city. Licking a handful of sand and gravel in it can make the real victims come to receive the porridge, and those
People who are not short of food at home will naturally not come to drink these porridge mixed with sand."
When the commanders of the four guards heard what the wise king said, they asked again: "But your lord, how should you answer if those victims ask?"
Yes, you can’t say it was put there on purpose, right?
Although no one dares to resist, spreading the news will have a negative impact on the reputation of the Chu army.
The wise king said: "The fire was put out in time yesterday and the second half of the warehouse was saved. However, the sand and gravel were mixed in due to the fire extinguishing, which was no longer enough for the grain. So it was changed to a porridge to prepare porridge, but it was not enough.
However, the prince was kind and virtuous, so he bought grain at his own expense and cooked it together with the grain in the warehouse, doing charity and giving porridge to the people."
When the commander of the Four Guards heard what the wise king said, he clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty is wise, my subordinates understand!"
The wise king waved his hand and said: "Go."
…
Since it is to provide relief to the victims, you don’t need to pay too much attention to the taste and control the heat when making porridge. You only need to cook the rice in the pot.
The fire in the stove was burning very brightly, and after a while, the porridge in the pot began to gurgle... gurgle... and milky white bubbles rolled out in the pot...
A refreshing aroma also spread, causing many people who had arrived outside the porridge factory early to wait to receive their porridge to swallow heavily.
After the porridge was cooked, the porridge factory began to lay out the porridge. The steaming porridge was poured into wooden basins and served. Soon, people gathered around them. After receiving the porridge, they squatted aside to eat.
A man was squatting next to the porridge factory drinking porridge, hoping to drink it faster before getting a bowl. However, after taking a sip, he smacked his lips, looked at the bowl intently, and said doubtfully: "Hey, this porridge
Why is there sand in it?”
At this moment, a man in ragged clothes holding a bowl came up, squatted next to him, and said: "You don't know, right? These grains were rescued from the granary by the military lords of the Chu State. The rescue was urgent, so
It is inevitably contaminated with sand and gravel.”
After saying that, the man took a big sip.
Another man asked: "Doesn't that mean that the food will be eaten up soon?"
The man in ragged clothes shook his head and said, "You don't know yet, do you? His Royal Highness is kind and has bought a lot of grain. Mixed with the grain snatched from the rice warehouse, it is enough for us to eat."
The people around him heard the man's words and said with emotion: "His Royal Highness is really benevolent, virtuous and virtuous, much better than the Nao Shizi court of Zhou Dynasty."
At this moment, his words were interrupted: "The imperial court? They don't care about the life and death of our people at all. How can they be compared with the wise king and prince of Chu?"
The man in ragged clothes said, "Actually, it's not a bad thing if there is sand in the porridge."
"Oh?" asked a man next to him, "Isn't this a good thing?"
The man in ragged clothes said: "Think about it, if there was no sand in the porridge, how many people would come to eat it? Mr. Fan, whose family has hundreds of acres of land, even brought his whole family here to eat and drink. Just now
He left after eating the sand. If there was no sand here, the grain purchased by His Highness would have been eaten by those people, so how could it be the turn of those of us who are in need to eat?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the people around him nodded in agreement, but there were also many people who looked at the porridge in their hands and blushed...
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Chu State
On the official road back to the capital from Liuzhou, two horses moved forward slowly. The only difference was that one horse was carrying luggage, and the other horse was carrying two people.
One man and one woman.
Xu Qing lowered his head and looked at Xiao Ruxue's pretty face and said, "Are you comfortable riding like this?"
Xiao Ruxue clung to Xu Qing, then stretched out her hands to hug Xu Qing's waist, twisted her body and said, "It's comfortable. Riding face to face like this, I can hold you all the time, and you can also sleep on me."
Xu Qing quickly released a hand and held down Xiao Ruxue: "Xue'er, stay safe and stop rubbing around..."
