After rebirth, Her Royal Highness is a black lotus flower

Chapter 224 Do You Often Do This Kind of Thing?
Shen Qianzhao's fingertips gently touched Song Huai's palm, as if directly touching Song Huai's heart.

He turned his gaze sideways to meet Shen Qianzhao's. The little girl's expression seemed pitiful and aggrieved.

Song Huai's compassion moved slightly.
After a long time, he pursed his lips and said, with a difficult voice, "Caiqiu is with you, you are not alone in the room."

Shen Qianzhao: "?" Are you not sick?
She stood on tiptoe, and wanted to reach up with the other hand to touch Song Huai's forehead, to see if she was tired from the journey these days, had a fever, and started talking nonsense.

Listen, can people say this?

Song Huai raised his hand to hold Shen Qianzhao's hand, pulled it down, but looked away, and led Shen Qianzhao forward, to the bright place.

Without looking, he knew exactly what the little girl should look like when looking at him.

It should be wronged, maybe her eyes are watery, she used to use this trick to soften her heart.

Shen Qianzhao blinked her eyes to make her eyes look bright. After a while, she didn't see Song Huai looking at her. She raised her hand and tugged at Song Huai's sleeve, "Why don't you look at me?"

Song Huai looked ahead, "Look at the road."

The tone was flat, with a trace of alienation.

However, Shen Qianzhao saw a bit of embarrassment from it, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

The night was getting dark, passing by a place with bright lights and festoons, under the bridge, a mother-in-law set up a soup stall, leaning on a cane beside her, but there were not many customers, one or two scattered, and left after drinking.

The two couldn't help but glanced a few more times.

Song Huai looked down at the little girl, saw her staring at the mother-in-law, and asked warmly, "Thirsty?"

Shen Qianzhao tapped his head lightly, but he wasn't really thirsty, but now that he saw it, he felt a little greedy.

Song Huai took the little girl next to him and walked towards the soup stall.

When the shadow fell, the mother-in-law caught a glimpse of the shadow on the ground, looked up at the passers-by, and saw a pair of young people with kind smiles on their wrinkled faces, "Master and girl want soup?"

Song Huai nodded, took two broken pieces of silver, and handed them to the mother-in-law, "Trouble old man, two bowls, thank you."

The mother-in-law smiled and waved her hands, "No, I won't take any money for this soup."

Both of them were startled.

The mother-in-law filled two bowls of soup and put them on a small table that was a bit old but wiped clean, "If it's not enough, the old lady will serve it for you."

Picking up the bowl of soup, Shen Qianzhao sniffed it lightly, and was a little surprised by the light fragrance.

Shen Qianzhao took a sip and asked curiously, "Mother-in-law, did you add five-finger peaches to your soup?"

The mother-in-law smiled, "Exactly."

Shen Qianzhao looked around and saw someone looking towards this side, but did not come over. Although the five-fingered hair peach is not a rare medicinal material, the price is not cheap. She asked curiously, "Mother-in-law, why don't you take any money?"

Song Huai didn't know what the five-finger hair peach should taste like, but he also felt that the soup tasted very good.

The mother-in-law smiled and filled another bowl for the two of them, "I, these herbs are grown at home, and they are not worth much. A bowl of soup is just a thirst quencher."

"If the girl likes to drink, you can come back tomorrow. My wife, I am here every day."

Just as he was talking, the two people who helped him took two bowls to drink, thanked him and left.

Hearing what the mother-in-law said, Song Huai and Shen Qianzhao understood that this mother-in-law was here every day, and she didn't take any soup, it was for the victims who came and went.

No one came forward, but there was not much soup left in the pot, presumably many people had come here during the day.

The soup was sweet and refreshing, and Song Huai took a few more sips.

Only then did Shen Qianzhao inquire, "Mother-in-law, just now I saw that there seemed to be many people sleeping in the streets in this city, and many of them were begging. Are they all disaster victims?"

The mother-in-law sighed, "They are all disaster victims from outside."

Song Huai frowned slightly, "But half a year has passed since the disaster, why are there still so many victims?"

Looking at the scene in the city, it doesn't seem that there is no relief, and the money and food for disaster relief in the court should have been distributed.

After hearing Song Huai's question, the mother-in-law smiled wryly, "Young master, I don't know, there were more victims in the disaster half a year ago, but some died of starvation, some died of illness..."

"These poor people, I'm afraid they won't last long."

Shen Qianzhao clenched his fists slightly, "Why, didn't any officials from the court come to relieve the disaster?"

The mother-in-law shook her head, her face seemed distressed, but she couldn't speak.

"It's a crime, son and girl, don't ask!"

The mother-in-law lowered her head, busy with the things in her hands, and refused to say another word.

Shen Qianzhao and Song Huai looked at each other, but they also found the problem.

"Thank you, mother-in-law." Song Huai put down two pieces of silver, and led Shen Qianzhao away.

Back at the inn, several people gathered in one room to eat, but Caiqiu had no appetite, pursed her mouth, "Master, I saw that many people in this city can't eat, and just now I saw someone wearing swaddling clothes at the entrance of the inn." The children in the family went to the inn to beg for food, but were dragged away by officers and soldiers.”

Caiqiu has always been heartless, and she followed Shen Qianzhao since she was a child, so she didn't have to worry about food and clothing. It was the first time she saw such a miserable scene. At this time, she couldn't eat anything, and she just felt that her heart was blocked.

Chengfeng, who has always been talkative, has been silent all the way along the way.

Zhou Yan said slowly, "This place is under the jurisdiction of Mr. Liu, the governor of Xunzhou. The relief money and food have been delivered three months ago."

The implication is that this place should not be such a miserable scene.

What worried Shen Qianzhao was not only that.

If the food and money for disaster relief were really not used to relieve the victims, the people in this place under Governor Liu's jurisdiction would already be complaining, and the situation in other counties in Xunzhou might be even worse.

Shen Qianzhao, who had been smiling all the time before, now had a dignified face and a cold voice, "I'll go check it out tomorrow morning. It's time for Mr. Liu to pay a visit."

Song Huai put two bites of meat into Shen Qianzhao's bowl, "Let's eat first, it's been a day's journey."

Chengfeng looked at the three of them curiously, suddenly thought of something, and grinned, "So how many days are we going to rest?"

He suddenly felt that his sore back after driving for a few days was no longer uncomfortable.

Zhou Yan glanced at Chengfeng, his eyes were flat, he slightly opened his lips, and said two words, "Exhale."

Chengfeng raised the corners of his mouth, Le, feeling that his appetite has improved a lot.

When Caiqiu heard what Shen Qianzhao said, she knew that her master must take care of this matter, and she couldn't help thinking of the thing that she brought with her before leaving Beijing
I sighed in my heart: As expected of being the master, everything is well prepared.

Shen Qianzhao took two mouthfuls of food, tilted his head quietly, looked at Song Huai next to him, and asked tentatively in a low voice, "Old rules. Night visit to the governor's mansion?"

Song Huai paused slightly with the hand holding the chopsticks.

The eyes of the other people on the table fell on the two of them.

Zhou Yan has a lot of meaning.

Chengfeng asked curiously, "Do you often do this kind of thing?"

(End of this chapter)