The first victim to receive the porridge was so excited that he quickly ran to the corner.
As soon as he ran to the corner, he was about to drink the porridge excitedly, when he suddenly saw that the porridge in the bowl was yellow with a lot of pebbles in it.
He immediately walked towards Gao Yang and asked: "Sir, may I ask why this porridge is yellow and why there are so many pebbles in it?"
Just after he finished asking, other people who brought the porridge also asked, "There are a lot of stones and a few worms in my porridge. It's so disgusting. What's going on?"
"This porridge is too dirty. Can I drink this porridge?"
Sir, is this the porridge served by the Queen?"
The people who received the porridge in front of them all held their bowls and asked.
When Gao Yang heard this, a glint flashed in his eyes.
He had already thought of his words.
He looked at everyone with a troubled expression and sighed, "Please be patient, my Majesty is particularly concerned about everyone. She is worried that everyone will be hungry, so she told me to give out good porridge.
But I'm sorry, I really can't do anything because there is no good rice on the market anymore.
We need a large amount of rice, but we can't buy so much good rice. Even this old rice was bought at a high price! I also want everyone to eat good rice, but it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.
Due to the locust plague in the north last year and floods in the south of the Yangtze River this year, there was no grain harvest.
There is no good rice on the market at all. If you don’t believe it, you can go to the grain and oil store and ask. There is nothing I can do about this situation now, so please be patient."
Upon hearing this, everyone's doubts were dispelled.
They hurriedly said, "I see, it turns out there is no good rice in the market, it's not that the queen wants to lie to us!"
"This old rice was bought at a huge price.
In this era of famine, it is good to buy this old rice.
This is the queen's heart for us, we must not let her down.
What happened to Chen Mi?
Let’s clear the sand out of it and remove the bugs, and we can still eat it!”
"Yes, let's remove the sand and we can still eat it!"
"That's right, we've all fallen to the point of eating Guanyin's soil, so what else can we choose?
It’s good to have this old rice, come on, everyone, drink quickly, don’t waste such good food!”
As the people said this, they randomly picked out the sand in the bowl, held the bowl in their hands, and drank the porridge.
They were really hungry. Even if there was sand in the porridge, they still ate it deliciously.
Seeing that these common people believed it, Gao Yang looked proud.
These people were so stupid, they were played around like dogs by him.
He fooled her casually, and they were grateful to the queen. It was so simple.
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In the study room of Prince Li's Mansion, Chu Xuanchen was sitting on a chair reading a book when Mo Li walked in.
"My lord, my subordinates found out that Mrs. Wei asked her bodyguard Gao Yang to transport the embezzled money to her villa.
She also asked Gao Yang to spend 100,000 taels of silver to buy rice and noodles for disaster relief, but Gao Yang only spent 20,000 taels to buy a batch of old rice that was infested with insects.
The rice was full of sand, so Gao Yang used the rice mixed with sand to provide relief to the people.
But the people were deceived by him, thinking that he could not buy good rice, so they ate rice mixed with sand and were grateful to the Queen!"
Report from Mo Li.
When Chu Xuanchen heard this, he immediately slapped his palm on the table and said angrily: "How unreasonable! This king thought that Mrs. Wei just wanted money, and even if she was providing disaster relief, she would also feed the people well.
As a result, her people actually gave the people such rotten rice to eat?"