The Number One Catcher In The Capital, You Call This A Dog Leg?

Chapter 590: Shedding Porridge

The Xian King heard Xiao Ye's words and said in a deep voice: "Nonsense! Being a father is to spur you!"

Xiao Ye said: "It's okay, anyway, Wan'er is due to give birth in a few months, and when the time comes, Hai'er will also go to spur her own son."

Hearing this, King Xian gritted his teeth and said, "How dare you kid?!"

Xiao Ye was stunned when he heard this: "You also care if I urge my son?"

The virtuous king snorted, "This king can ignore it."

Xiao Ye breathed a sigh of relief: "It's great if you don't care."

However, King Xian changed the subject and said, "If you dare to whip your son, then I will whip my son too!"

Xiao Ye's eyes widened: "How could you do this?!"

The virtuous king glanced at Xiao Ye: "Do you care if this king encourages his own son?"

Xiao Ye looked at the old father who didn't want the slightest face, and fought hard: "This... this... can I ignore it?"

The virtuous king: "This king doesn't care if you whip your son, but you just ignore this king who whips his own son?"

Xiao Ye gritted his teeth and said, "Can it be the same?!"

Xian Wang looked at Xiao Ye and didn't speak.

Xiao Ye looked at the resolute eyes of King Xian, and finally vented his anger: "Stop whipping, can't you stop whipping?"

...

second day

Several porridge sheds have been opened in the new city. From today onwards, they will start to give away porridge. Some civilians displaced by the war can come here to receive porridge every day.

The commander of the four guards looked at Xiao Ye and said, "Your Highness is righteous, and I admire you."

A fire had almost burned up the remaining grain in the granary, which Xiao Ye bought with his own pocket.

Now that Xiao Ye is sitting on the share of Qingxue Study and Zhu Yeqing, he already has a lot of money, but at this time he wants to exchange it for food.

The commander of the four guards glanced at the porridge shed where the porridge was being cooked, and said, "His Royal Highness spends so much money and energy, why don't you post a notice so that the people here are grateful for His Highness's kindness?"

Xiao Ye shook his head and said: "Yesterday, the fire that burned to the granary, I can actually stop it, but I indulged them to burn it in order to plot against the court of the Zhou Kingdom. I destroyed their hope of living , All of these should be used as compensation today, go and watch them cook porridge, I'm a little tired, so I'll go back first."

Hearing Xiao Ye's words, the commander of the four guards immediately bowed and cupped fist and said: "Your Highness understands the righteousness, and I will take my leave."

After all, the commander of the four guards walked into the porridge shed and watched the people in the porridge shed cooking porridge.

When Xiao Ye returned to his residence, he immediately threw his saber away and threw himself on the bed, covering his head with the quilt: "My son's money! Money!!"

...

porridge shed

King Xian walked in and looked at the steaming thick porridge in the pot, and asked, "Is Ye'er paid for this food?"

The commander of the four guards cupped his hands and said: "Reporting to the lord, it is indeed the money paid by His Royal Highness."

King Xian nodded when he heard this, grabbed a handful of fine sand from the side and threw it into the pot.

Although the porridge cook was puzzled by King Xian's behavior, he didn't dare to speak too much.

The commander of the four guards looked at the virtuous king puzzled and said, "My lord, you are..."

The wise king said: "If the porridge in this porridge shed is delicious, no matter how much money he spends, he will not be able to relieve the victims in the city. Adding a handful of sand and stones in it will allow the real victims to come to receive the porridge. People who are not short of food at home will naturally not come to drink these porridge mixed with sand."

Hearing what King Xian said, the commander of the four guards asked again: "But my lord, if those disaster victims ask me, how should I answer?"

That's right, it can't be said that it was intentionally released, right?

Although no one dared to resist, spreading the news would have a negative impact on the reputation of the Chu army.

The virtuous king said: "It is said that the fire was extinguished in time yesterday, and the second half of the grain was rescued, but the sand and gravel were mixed in because of the fire, and it was no longer enough to store the grain, so it was changed to a porridge farm to store porridge, but it was not enough. However, the son of the world is benevolent, and he bought grain at his own expense and cooked it with the grain in the warehouse, doing good deeds and donating porridge to help the people."

The commander of the four guards heard the words of the virtuous king, cupped fist and said: "My lord is wise, my subordinates understand!"

King Xian waved his hand and said, "Go."

...

Since it is for disaster victims, you do not need to pay too much attention to the taste and control the heat when cooking porridge, as long as the rice in the pot is cooked.

The stove was very hot, and after a while, the porridge in the pot was gurgling... gurgling..., milky white bubbles rolled out in the pot...

A scent of fragrance also spread, causing many people who had arrived outside the porridge factory early to wait for the porridge to swallow a mouthful of saliva.

After the porridge was cooked, the porridge factory began to throw out the porridge. The steaming hot porridge was poured into the wooden basin and served. Soon, people gathered around, and after receiving the porridge, they squatted aside to eat.

A man was squatting next to the porridge factory drinking porridge, hoping to drink it quickly and go to get another bowl, but after taking a sip, he smacked his lips, looked at the bowl again, and said suspiciously: "Hey, this porridge Why is there sand in it?"

At this moment, a man in ragged clothes came up with a bowl, squatted beside him, and said, "You don't know yet, do you? These grains were rescued from the granary by the military masters of Chu State. They were urgently rescued, so It’s bound to be contaminated with sand and gravel.”

After finishing speaking, the man took a big sip on his own.

Another man asked, "Doesn't that mean that the food will be eaten soon?"

The man in ragged clothes shook his head and said, "You don't know yet, do you? His Royal Highness, Benevolent, bought a lot of grain and mixed it with the grain snatched from the rice warehouse. It is enough for us to eat."

The people around heard the man's words and said with gratitude: "His Royal Highness is really benevolent and wise, much better than the court of Zhou Guo Na Laoshizi."

At this moment, his words were interrupted: "The imperial court? They don't care about the life and death of our people, and they are worthy to be compared with the worthy kings and sons of Chu?"

The ragged man said: "Actually, it's not a bad thing to have sand in this porridge."

"Oh?" A man next to him asked, "Isn't this a good thing?"

The man in ragged clothes said: "Think about it, if there is no sand in the porridge, how many people would come to eat and drink the porridge? That Mr. Fan, who has hundreds of acres of land, brought his whole family to eat and drink. Just now They only left after eating the sand, if there was no sand here, the food His Royal Highness bought would have been eaten up by those people, how could it be the turn of us poor people to eat?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the people around him nodded in agreement, but there were also many people who looked at the porridge in their hands and blushed...

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Chu State

On the official road back to the capital from Liuzhou, two horses moved forward slowly, but the difference was that one horse was carrying luggage, while the other was carrying two people.

A man and a woman.

Xu Qing looked down at Xiao Ruxue's pretty face and said, "Are you comfortable riding a horse like this?"

Xiao Ruxue clung to Xu Qing, then stretched out her hands to hug Xu Qing's waist, twisted her body and said, "It's comfortable, riding a horse face to face like this, I can hug you all the time, and I can even sleep next to you."

Xu Qing hurriedly freed up a hand to hold Xiao Ruxue down: "Xue'er, be quiet, don't mess around..."