Liu Zhang had his hands on his hips and looked like a little bully. He seemed to be sure of his idea and shouted very loudly.

"You are beggars and you are thieves!"

Xingyi curled his lips, picked up a piece of ribs with chopsticks, shook it deliberately to Liu Zhang, and then took a bite: "You can only call others thieves if you can't eat them. That's all you can do!"

"Wow! I don't allow you to eat ribs, I don't allow you to eat roasted lamb legs, give me these delicious things!" Liu Zhang sat on the ground and cried loudly.

Liu Yunxiang thought the crying was annoying, so he said to Jinyan, "Give him a bowl of meat."

Jinyan responded and just picked up the chopsticks when Mrs. Cheng ran over and saw her son sitting on the ground crying. She didn't ask what was going on and immediately shouted to Liu Yunxiang: "Auntie, you bully a child, why are you so shameless?"

Got it!"

Liu Yunxiang waved his hand to Jinyan and said, "Feed this bowl of meat to the dog later."

Jinyan chuckled and said, "Okay."

When Liu Zhang heard this, he cried even louder, "I want to eat meat! It's all mine! They are not allowed to eat it!"

When Mrs. Cheng heard what her son said, she took another look at the dinner table and knew what was going on. She flattened her mouth and rubbed her neck and said: "My child is young, what's wrong with eating a few pieces of your meat? After all, we are all a family, why bother?"

The calculation is so clear."

Jin lost his temper and said: "It was the second wife's grandma who suggested eating separately. For the first two meals, you ate meat and we ate boiled vegetables. At that time, why didn't you say that the family should not care about each other?"

"My master is talking, but you, a slave, dare to interrupt. You really have no rules at all!"

"I'm not your slave!"

"you!"

"Sister Jinyan is not a slave, we are a family!" Xingyi shouted.

"Auntie, look at how unruly these people are, you..."

"I think they are right." Liu Yunxiang looked at Mr. Cheng, his eyes cold, "It's not your turn to interfere in matters in our courtyard."

Mrs. Cheng was so angry that she couldn't really break up with Liu Yunxiang. She immediately pulled her son to leave, but Liu Zhang was unreasonable and insisted on taking away two plates of meat and vegetables for him to eat alone.

"Okay, Mom, just ask the kitchen to cook it for you tomorrow, don't be embarrassed!"

"But mother said we don't have much money, so we can only eat a small plate of meat for each meal!"

"You you!"

Mrs. Cheng was embarrassed by her son, so she stretched out her hand and twisted her son's arm, which made Liu Zhang cry even louder.

"You go ahead and cry, I don't care about you anymore."

As she said that, she walked out and took a few steps before she remembered something.

"That's not right, aunt. Logically speaking, if you are a woman with a child, you will have to rely on your parents' support when you return to your parents' home. How do you have the money to buy these?"

Liu Yunxiang raised his eyebrows, "Why, you still want to check my family background?"

Mrs. Cheng was choked and speechless, leaving Liuzhang to continue crying here, while she waved her sleeves and walked away.

Liu Zhang was really capable of crying. He cried so much that his head was buzzing. Zi Jin got angry and went over to pick up the child and throw him out. Jin Yan saw that he was crying so pitifully that she gave him the bowl of meat.

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"From now on, when you eat meat, you must give me a bowl, a big bowl!" Liu Zhang said arrogantly while eating.

Jin Yan took a sip and said, "Who gave you the face!"

Early the next morning, Liu Yunxiang went to Lingyun Grain Shop.

Zhang Qi said that after spring, floods occurred in several southern states one after another. Tens of thousands of people were displaced and the crop fields were flooded.

"There will definitely be a huge increase in food this year, but I don't know if the food produced in our large field in the north of the town can be transported here to alleviate the famine that is coming soon."

In the past, there was no need to worry. The owner was the princess of Zhenbei, and no one's caravan would be stuck there, nor would they be stuck in Lingyun. But now the situation is different. I'm afraid they just have food and can't get out.

Liu Yunxiang thought for a while and said: "Let's put this matter aside for now. As long as we have food, we won't be afraid. By the way, you said there is a flood in the south and the people are displaced. Can the government provide disaster relief?"

Zhang Qi sighed: "The riots in the south were just over, but they were hit by floods again. The people had nine empty houses, and the government was actually empty. The treasury must not be full, so there is not much money that can be invested in disaster relief. According to our work in the south,

The store manager and shop assistants said that the area at the center of the disaster was already full of people with hunger, but the situation was not yet at its worst. When the weather gets hotter, there might still be plague, and then in the fall, there will be no food in the fields to harvest.

People will only become more desperate, let alone winter."

"How much food do we have now?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

"Last year Zhenbei had a good harvest, and there are still almost 100,000 stones left."

Liu Yunxiang nodded, "Get ready, I need these 100,000 stones of food."

Zhang Qi didn't ask Liu Yunxiang what he was doing. He just nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go downstairs and prepare it for you as soon as possible."

After coming out of Lingyun Food Store, Liu Yunxiang asked Zijin to bring a message to Su Rumeng, saying that she wanted to see the queen again.

When she returned to the Vice Minister's Mansion, she came in through the back door and arrived at the door of the west courtyard. Jin Jinyan came back from outside. His face was full of anxiety, but he was relieved when he saw her.

"Girl, the young master got into trouble with a few people in the front yard."

Liu Yunxiang frowned, "Who is it?"

"It is said that they are people from the gambling house who came to collect gambling debts."

Liu Yunxiang's mind suddenly changed and she guessed what was going on. She hurried to the front yard and saw Liu Yunxiang and several domestic slaves entangled with several sturdy men.

"What's wrong with your Vice Minister's Mansion? You can't not repay your debts!"

"I clearly promised that I would only owe ten days, but it's already been a month!"

"Servant Liu is already in jail. If we can't get the money today, we won't even think about it in the future. If we come back, your mansion may be sealed!"

Liu Yunxiang walked over and shouted loudly: "Stop fighting!"

Following this sound, Liu Yunheng saw that it was her, and first asked the people around him to stop, and then took a few steps back.

"You are also from this family, but are you here to pay back the money?" the nurse from a gambling house looked at Liu Yunxiang and asked.

Liu Yunxiang ignored him and turned to Liu Yunheng, "But Liu Er owes a gambling debt?"

Liu Yunheng nodded solemnly, "It's him."

"This is the second room's business. Why are you rushing to the front? Besides, you should show up." Liu Yunxiang frowned.

"This is a family affair, how can I not show up?"

"What about the people in the second room?"

"My second uncle is lame and still lying in bed, my eldest brother is on errands, and my eldest sister-in-law has gone to my mother's place."

"You want money?"

Liu Yunheng nodded, "We have to get rid of these people first."

Liu Yunxiang told her brother to leave it alone and hurried back to her courtyard. After her brother left, she had an extra thought and asked the people in the gambling shop how much money Liu Er owed them.

"One thousand taels!"

One thousand taels is not much, but Liu Yunchang cannot get a hundred taels for a year's work, let alone an ordinary person, whose annual food and clothing expenses are only twenty or thirty taels.

Liu Yunxiang asked Zijin to block these people. She went to the east courtyard where Mrs. Liu lived, and when she came to the door of the main room, she heard Mrs. Cheng saying to Mrs. Liu: "Madam, the people from the gambling house are outside, saying that if you don't

To pay back the money, they smashed up the front and back yards of our minister's house."

Mrs. Liu said angrily: "There is always a wrongdoer and a debtor. If they want to cause trouble, they should also cause trouble to the second brother!"

"People don't recognize this. They only recognize that we are a family."

"But it's one thousand five hundred taels. It's not like you don't know what's going on in the house. How can I come up with so much cash at once?"
Chapter completed!