I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 370 Skyrocketing Food Prices

That night in the palace, Zhang Qinghuan, who wanted to leave, made up his mind to stay by Li Tian's side under Li Tian's persuasion.

At that moment, she had completely handed over her body and mind to Li Tian.

She has even made preparations to stay in the palace all her life, like other concubines who haven't seen both sides of Li Tian for a year, and stay alone in the vacant room.

But he never expected that Li Tian would make such an arrangement to take her out of the palace.

Although there is a feeling of being raised as a canary.

But compared to other concubines, her situation is already very good.

To her, being able to freely breathe the air outside the palace walls was already stronger than anything else.

The only thing is that she can't see Li Tian every day, which makes her feel a little lost from time to time.

However, thinking of Li Tian's identity, she felt relieved.

An emperor should have the whole world in his mind, tens of millions of people and subjects. If he just revolves around her every day, she may feel even more guilty.

In her opinion, perhaps such an arrangement should be her best result.

Her father was released from prison, and her family members were also released. The Zhang family may lose a prostitute, but it will be more prosperous than before, and she has nothing to worry about.

Seeing Zhang Qinghuan's smile, Li Tian finally let go of his guilty heart a little bit.

When the love is strong, there is no need to say more about the warmth overnight.

The next morning, Li Tian turned into an ordinary husband, and accompanied Zhang Qinghuan, whose face was still flushed, to buy daily necessities in the streets and alleys.

This simple scene was Zhang Qinghuan's dream, and she also knew that Li Tian would not be able to accompany her like this every day in the future, so she cherished the time with him very much.

He held his arm all the way, unwilling to let go no matter what.

In order not to let anyone disturb their two-person world, Jiang Bao and Wang Fu were driven far away.

But this was a pain for Li Tian, ​​he had to carry all the big and small bags, and he had to spare one hand for Zhang Qinghuan to hold.

This not only reminded him of those male compatriots who went shopping with their girlfriends in his previous life.

With a sour heart, he shouted,
"I finally understand the pain of shopping with my girlfriend, who will save me! My legs are really sore!"

Although physically tired, he was very sweet in his heart.

In his previous life, he had even dated a serious female ticket. At this time, he not only has a gentle and generous queen and other beauties in the harem.

What's not to be satisfied with being accompanied by such a beautiful ancient and modern beauty.

When it was noon, the two were tired from walking, so they found a place to rest.

In a rather delicate and clean restaurant, the two of them just sat down.

A shop waiter came up to greet them enthusiastically, refilling them with tea, and at the same time handed a Beijing newspaper in front of them. Seeing that the two were reluctant to let go of each other's arms even after they sat down, they said with a smile on their faces,

"Looking at the appearance of the two of you, they should have just got married, no wonder they are so sweet!

The two of you want to eat something. Although the shop is small, the master chef who cooks is from the palace. He can cook many kinds of dishes and keep them to your satisfaction. "

Li Tian is also in a very good mood today, and said very proudly,
"The master master from the palace, he should be very capable, so let me come to a few good ones first, and let me see how his skill is."

Hearing the tone of the shop assistant, he knew that Li Tian and Li Tian didn't seem to be in need of money, so he immediately said happily,
"Then you two wait a moment, the younger one will arrange it immediately!"

Zhang Qinghuan seemed to be embarrassed by the waiter in the shop, and pulled his hand out of Li Tian's arms, poured him a cup of tea, then ironed the Beijing News twice, and unfolded it for Li Tian to read .

Li Tian saw all this in his eyes, held Zhang Qinghuan's little hand, and said with a smile,

"Qing Huan, you are becoming more and more like a good wife and mother!"

When Zhang Qinghuan was told by him, her pretty face immediately turned red, and she spat softly,

"Hurry up and read the Beijing News. If you are talking nonsense, I will ignore you!"

Zhang Qinghuan, who left the palace, completely lost the formality he had in the palace, and His Majesty stopped barking, and even resumed the ordinary words like "you, me" in his self-proclaimed words, which is exactly what Li Tian wished for.

With a smirk, Li Tian deliberately put on a vulgar appearance of a landlord and rich man, spread out the Beijing News with great interest, and read it with great interest.

But looking at it, his face changed involuntarily.

Everything else is fine, just about the same as usual.

Only the part of the second edition that originally advertised made him feel a little strange.

There are many advertisements on it that ask for food at high prices, and the purchase prices offered by these merchants are almost two or three times the usual price.

He said doubtfully,
"I haven't heard of a disaster in that place recently, and the water transportation is also normal. Why did the food price suddenly skyrocket so much?
Could it be that someone is hoarding food secretly and wants to make trouble? "

Seeing that the waiter just came over, he beckoned him over and asked in a low voice,

"Xiao Er, isn't the price of rice a lot more expensive recently?"

Hearing Li Tian's question, the waiter in the shop immediately put on a bitter face, clapped his hands and said excitedly,
"Isn't it? I don't know what happened in the past two days. All the rice and grain stores in the capital suddenly started to increase their prices.

Not only has the price increased, but it has also sold in limited quantities, so that small shops almost have to cross half of the capital to buy some evaluation rice! "

"Half of the capital is like this!"

"Yeah, it's been a few days, and it seems that except for the official granary, the price of grain in the city's grain store has increased several times.

Although the official granaries are cheap, they usually do not do retail business.

There was no other way at this time, so they began to sell them sporadically, but because there were too many buyers, it took more than half a day to queue up.

In order to grab some rice noodles, the shop had people queue up in the middle of the night yesterday, and they haven't come back yet. "

After listening to the waiter in the shop, Li Tian couldn't help saying,
"Do you know why this is?"

The waiter spread his hands and said with a wry smile,

"Guest officer, look at what you said, how can a villain know these things when he travels alone!"

Li Tian waved his hand helplessly, telling him to back down.

I began to wonder in my heart, who is playing tricks, and what is the intention of disrupting the grain price in the capital.

Seeing that Li Tian's expression was not very good, Zhang Qinghuan grabbed Li Tian's hand after the waiter left, and said softly,
"Your Majesty, if you have something to do, you should go back to the palace to deal with it. Qing Huan can go back alone."

Li Tian knew that this matter might be unusual, so he wanted to go back and discuss with Yang Shiqi and others.

But it was hard for him to have time to come out to accompany Zhang Qinghuan for a long time, and he would feel sorry if he went back without even eating a meal.

(End of this chapter)