Is Shizi ill today?

Chapter 527 Food Robbed
"Why did you wake up so early?" Chen Jiuzhen was a little surprised
Shen Qianqiao put the tray on the table, looked up at the door, the sun was high at this time, it was almost noon.

She lifted her foot and walked over, looking at the books piled up into a hill, and then at the person buried in front of the desk, she felt a little worried: "Aunt Zhen, is something wrong?"

"It's okay." Chen Jiuzhen hurriedly closed the account book, took her hand, and stood up with a smile: "Let's go to have breakfast with my aunt."

"It's time for lunch," Shen Qianqiao muttered dissatisfied.

Chen Jiuzhen was startled, raised her head to look outside, and murmured, "It's so late."

"Aunt Zhen, you still said that you have nothing on your mind. Look, you are absent-minded." Shen Qianqiao froze, with a puffed up face: "Didn't you ask me to tell you everything? It's wrong for you to hide it from me now." Yes, we are family!"

Chen Jiuzhen met the girl's serious face, sighed softly, patted her hand, pulled her down, and sat around the table.

She added half a bowl of rice for the two of them, "It's not that my aunt is busy, so my aunt doesn't want you to worry."

"Is Master Cao busy?" Shen Qianqiao asked quickly.

Chen Jiuzhen paused her hands and looked at her suspiciously: "How do you know?"

"You can guess it with your toes," Shen Qianqiao curled her lips. She and Aunt Zhen have no other relatives in this world. Something about the master.

"You girl!" Chen Jiuzhen scolded, and gave her two bites of food.

"It's not a big deal," she paused, looking at the delicate girl in front of her, she became so big in a blink of an eye.

"How are you and the eldest son of Prince Duan's mansion? When will he come to propose marriage?"

Shen Qianqiao was suffocated for a moment, why did it involve her again?
"Aunt Zhen, what I'm talking about now is Master Cao's matter. After all, he will soon become my uncle. I should care about it."

Shen Qianqiao leaned over and took Chen Jiuzhen's hand: "After all, when I was injured, Mr. Cao was very kind to me. If I don't even ask now, then I have no conscience."

Chen Jiuzhen couldn't help laughing, raised her hand to caress her face, and stroked the hair on her face behind her ears.

"Currently disasters are happening all over the place now, and the people don't have enough to eat or wear. Mr. Cao's family started as a landlord, and he is in charge of half of the grain business in the north. I heard that this matter somehow got to the ears of the emperor, and I thought he was This time, Master Cao took the initiative to donate [-] dans of food. He originally thought it was a waste of money to avoid disasters, but the food was raised and was robbed during delivery."

Shen Qianqiao's face changed slightly, this matter is a big deal, if someone takes advantage of it, it may cause disaster.

"Is the emperor to blame?"

Chen Jiuzhen nodded, with even more melancholy on her face: "Fortunately, Mr. Cao is always righteous, and many ministers in the court speak for him. The emperor asked him to raise another batch of grain within three days. This time, the palace The Imperial Forest Army personally escorted them."

"But you can't raise food?" Shen Qianqiao asked.

Chen Jiuzhen glanced at her and nodded slightly: "The amount of grain is not small. At that time, he went around to buy the surplus grain from the tenants in the countryside at a high price. Now there is a famine in many places. I'm afraid it's impossible to approve it, and now that many merchants are stockpiling grain, I'm afraid they will sit on the ground and ask for prices."

(End of this chapter)