It's hard to love a concubine

Chapter 160

Another man also echoed, "I know this kid, he is Shen San's kid, he is a good fisherman, he is the best at knowing where the fish are, his life was barely passable, but when the weather was bad last year... It wasn't because he sold his daughter because he couldn't pay the fish tax, and later he was reluctant to snatch her back from the brothel. Later, some people said that he went to Xia Zhen and became a pirate, and some people said that he carried his daughter and threw himself into the sea. "

Qian Xiyao listened silently, feeling her nose was sore, she looked up at the emperor, and saw that his mouth was tightly pursed, but the hand holding her was much tighter.

After a while, Qian Xiyao heard the emperor ask Wanfu who was on the side, and the emperor stood aside and asked, "Who is this Lord Yang?"

Wanfu said, "It's Yang Si, the guard here, and he is Yang Yue's younger brother." Yang Yue is a general under the Marquis of Xinyang, but ever since he married the niece of King Rong, he and Marquis Xinyang seem to be at odds.

While the two of them were talking, Wu Quan had already arranged things properly. I don't know what identity he had revealed. The two guards didn't dare to say anything. They were trembling all over, and they didn't even dare to look at Wu Quan. With a snort, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Waiting to return to the inn, no one was in the mood to eat seafood.

But Qian Xiyao thought that buying things should not be wasted, so she borrowed the kitchen of the inn with Xiang'er, she didn't expect Wanfu to be able to cook, she said how could the empress cook, she only let Xiang'er stay, the two of them would only last for a while A whole table of seafood came out.

The little boy squatted on the ground, eating up the steamed buns soaked in abalone juice, and said after finishing eating, "Actually, life was not so difficult before." The little boy glanced at the noble man sitting on the top seat, Thinking that he had asked someone to save him just now, he could not stop crying. He rubbed his belly and said, "I heard from my father that when there was no sea ban, our small town was very prosperous, and every family lived in three rooms. The tile-roofed houses, steamed buns made of white noodles, etc., were eaten casually, and later the sea was banned, and there were no merchant ships coming here, so we could only make a living by fishing."

"The sea ban imposed by the imperial court was just to protect you from pirates."

Xiaotong blinked his eyes, and felt that this old man was talking like an official. Although the words were sloppy, he still understood, and said, "My father once said..."

The emperor glanced at the boy.

Xiaotong also knew that these words might be a little bold, but when he thought of his father's resentful expression when he said it, and the plight of his own family, he couldn't help saying, "The court is incompetent, and they had to open the sea ban if they couldn't wipe out the pirates, but my father said, I would rather It's better to be killed by pirates than starve to death."

As soon as the words came out, the room was quiet, no one thought that such a young child could say such words, obviously it was his father who said it.

(End of this chapter)