After staying in the church for half an hour and settling the victims, Xu Yue received instructions from Zhao Bei and left first.
Xu Erniang and Zhao Yuanji returned to the inn where they temporarily settled.
As soon as they entered the room, something was wrong with the atmosphere between the two of them. Zhao Yuanji sat down directly at the table, took off the hood on his head, and stared at something expressionlessly, as if he was in a trance.
Xu Erniang glanced at him. Her handsome face had become much thinner and her lips turned blue. She seemed to have turned into the unsociable and taciturn Mr. Zhao when she was in the academy.
"Didn't you eat the food I sent you?" Xu Erniang sat down next to him, holding her chin and looking at him.
Zhao Yuanji turned his head and glanced at her, then withdrew his gaze, looked at the window lattice, and replied lukewarmly: "Eat."
"Why are you still losing weight after eating?" Xu Erniang raised her eyebrows, curved the corners of her mouth, actively livened up the atmosphere, and said jokingly: "Is it because I didn't prepare enough for you, and there wasn't enough for you?"
Zhao Yuanji didn't answer, but Xu Erniang still had a lot of patience. She leaned in front of him and poked his face with her finger, "Just smile, although the living conditions here in Hunu County are poor when we come from Yuyang.
A little, but isn’t it also a good thing to be able to help the victims?”
"You are still the emperor, and this is how you treat your people?"
It's okay that Xu Erniang didn't mention this. As soon as he heard the title emperor, Zhao Yuanji's expressionless face suddenly turned into anger.
He slapped the fingers away from his face, frowned and asked: "Xu Erniang, who are we? What are you going to do? Are you taking revenge on me now?"
Xu Erniang stepped back, raised her hand that was slapped away and looked at it. She reacted quickly, so Zhao Yuanji only hit her fingertips. The green and slender jade fingers were slightly red, which was very beautiful.
But as she watched, the patience in the woman's eyes disappeared little by little.
Zhao Yuanji lowered his voice and asked: "What do you want? I have done so many things you don't like, why don't you kill me?!"
Xu Erniang chuckled lightly and raised her eyes to look at the handsome face in front of her, "Zhao Yuanji, I can pamper you and give you the best food, clothing, and the greatest freedom, but you'd better not do anything between me and my family.
Too many questions, do you understand?"
"Otherwise I can't protect you."
Xu Erniang poured herself a glass of water and said while drinking: "I won't kill you, but everyone in my family, except me, wants to kill you!"
Zhao Yuanji's eyes darkened, "Why don't you kill me? Is it just because of my face?"
Every time they meet, Xu Erniang will praise his appearance. It seems that except for his appearance, he has nothing else!
Xu Erniang nodded appreciatively: "It seems that you are not stupid, so don't always jump around my minefield, and be my favored servant with peace of mind. I can guarantee that you will be rich and prosperous throughout your life."
"As for the throne and the restoration of the Zhao Imperial Court, that's not your concern."
"For a beauty like you, as long as you stay by the goddess' side and serve her well, the goddess will not treat you badly."
Xu Erniang put down her tea cup, stood up, patted Zhao Yuanji's thin shoulder, and said lovingly: "I'll have someone bring you some food. Eat more. What's wrong with being so sick all the time?"
After that, he turned around and walked out of the room, and ordered the post house to cook some food and bring it to him.
Zhao Yuanji was stunned and shocked. Listening to Er Niang's ruthless but doting words, he suddenly felt for Empress Gongsun in the North Palace.
Because he also said similar words to Gongsun!
It turns out that being treated like a useless vase and being ‘pampered’ by someone is actually like this. Angry, but nothing can be changed!
Xu Erniang came back with the prepared food, all of which Zhao Yuanji usually picked up a few extra chopsticks for.
She was indeed attentive to him, but was she really distracted?
Zhao Yuanji asked himself in his heart: Do you still like Xu Erniang now?
The villain in his heart shook his head. He could no longer tell whether he liked it or used it. He only knew that at first, he liked it.
...
It snowed in Youzhou. In previous years, the snow came early, but this year it came two months later than usual. It was December and the heavy snow fell.
With heavy snow flying in the sky, the refugee camp in Hunu County has been set up to accommodate more than 6,000 victims who fled from the south.
The influx of so many people has made Hunu County, a county that was not very popular, become lively.
Because they had to work to pay off their debts, the victims joined in various labors as soon as they settled down, working hard to earn wages so that they could pay off the relief food they owed Xu Jiajun as soon as possible.
Because of this large wave of working people joining in infrastructure construction, the originally impossible task of laying cement roads on the county's main roads was completed before the heavy snow fell.
As long as the road is open, a steady stream of supplies will flow from Yuyang Port, through Yuyang County, through Pinggu, and finally arrive at Hunu.
In the past, if you wanted to transport goods from the east to the west of Yuyang, even with an experienced convoy like Gongsun Hao, it would take about ten days to cross Yuyang County.
But now that there are cement roads, the time has been shortened by half, and the materials at the seaport terminal can be transported to various counties in Yuyang County in five days.
And Xu Jiajun's speed is even faster.
At first, Xu Yue only thought of exchanging bicycles with the tech tree, but her mother-in-law suddenly reminded her that she actually wanted to swap them with the tech tree for brand-new tires.
Moreover, it is much more cost-effective than replacing the bicycle directly.
One energy fruit can only be used to exchange for ten non-warranty bicycles, but as long as the tires are used, it can be exchanged for thirty.
With the finished industrial tires and the accessories made in the iron smelting workshop, a faster four-wheel transport vehicle was born.
With this batch of transport vehicles, Xu Jiajun's transport team only needs three days to complete the task of transporting materials to major transportation hubs in nine counties.
With this kind of logistics speed, if it is placed on the battlefield, soldiers will no longer be afraid of pursuing the enemy too far and starving if the logistics cannot keep up.
Xu Yue has now discovered a brand new way to 'get rich', which is to continuously expand the territory.
The larger the territory, the more various knowledge points can be collected and the social status quo can be observed, and the energy fruits on the technology tree will become red faster.
Many times, without her having to send ancient books, calligraphy, paintings and other items to the laboratory, the newly grown energy fruits on the technology tree would turn red on their own.
Xu Yue felt that the technology tree might have been quietly upgraded without her realizing it.
The current technology tree seems to be beginning to absorb popularity. The influx of more than 6,000 disaster victims has directly caused six more energy fruits to grow on the technology tree.
In order to verify this conjecture, Xu Yue issued a county-wide census task in winter, asking the road soldiers responsible for maintaining roads to clear the snow on the roads and carry out census work in each county.
