There is Room For the Poor Daughter

After the Double Ninth Festival, there is one more thing in Daohua's daily life, and that is to walk horses on the outskirts of the city.

Sometimes she goes with Zhou Jingwan, sometimes she is alone.

Mrs. Li was worried about accidents. Every time she went out, in addition to Wang Man'er and Qin Xiaoliu, she had to bring another woman and two servants behind Daohua.

The days were busy, and the time passed quickly. In a blink of an eye, it was mid-October.

One day, Daohua came back from the outside with red dates, and when she returned to the main courtyard, she saw Mrs. Li sitting with a sad face.

"Mother, what's wrong with you? Did someone make you angry?"

Mrs. Li glanced at her daughter, invited her to sit beside her, and then said with a smile, "With you around, who would dare to bully me!"

Daohua smiled: "Then what happened to you?"

Mrs. Li sighed: "Just now your father came back and said that the batch of grains sent to Fenxi was lost!"

"What?!" Daohua's eyes widened with surprise, "How could it be lost? Didn't the army escort the grain seeds? How can they be lost like this?"

Mrs. Li: "I heard that I encountered a robber."

Daohua couldn't believe it: "Are the robbers so powerful these days that even the army dares to rob them?"

Mrs. Li sighed: "It wasn't the severe drought in the north two years ago. Many people could no longer survive, and they all went up to the mountains to become robbers. Although the past two years have been a little better, the land has not yet eased. Children come, the food production is not high, and the stomach is not full, and the bandits are getting more and more serious."

Daohua frowned: "Don't those robbers know that the grain is about to be planted? They robbed them, so how can others live?"

Mrs. Li: "When you become a bandit, you can still expect them to have a conscience and consider others? Bandits don't kill people casually, thank God."

Daohua looked worried: "Then what should we do now? It's not that the people in Fenxi are waiting for this batch of winter wheat to be planted, and they won't have food until next year. Now that the grain is lost, isn't it going to cause another disaster? "

Mrs. Li shook her head. It is a matter of people's livelihood, but it is not something that she can solve with a housewife.

Daohua sighed, lamenting how difficult it was for the ancient people.

Suddenly, Daohua raised her head abruptly and asked eagerly, "Mother, my father will not be held responsible for the loss of grain seeds, right?"

Mrs. Li shook her head and reassured: "No, your father of grain seed is completely handed over to Governor Guo, and there are official documents to hand over. If the above wants to blame, it is Governor Guo who is to blame, and it has nothing to do with your father. "

Daohua was relieved.

In ancient times, it was important to sit in a row. If something happened to the cheap father, their family and children would not have a better time.

Mrs. Li frowned: "But."

Daohua said: "But what?"

Mrs. Li sighed and said, "Your father wanted to accumulate merit by accumulating grains. If you solve the problem of food and clothing for the people of Fenxi Province, even if your father is not an official there, he will be credited for providing grains. Too bad it's all gone now."

Daohua nodded, then said worriedly: "Governor Guo is Xiao Yeyang's uncle. If he is punished, that guy will be worried."

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived.

The day after Daohua knew that the grain seeds were lost, Xiao Yeyang came to Yan's house.

At this time, Daohua was feeding jujube fodder on the stable side. Seeing Steward Sun and Qin Wuji hurriedly came to the stable, they were about to leave with their horses.

As usual, when encountering Daohua, Steward Sun would have to say a few words of greetings, and Qin Wu would also touch the red dates, but this time, the two just greeted Daohua and left quickly.

"What happened? Butler Sun and the others seem to be going far away." Daohua looked at the backs of several people leaving in confusion.

Qin Xiaoliu, who was on the side, also looked puzzled, and said quickly, "Girl, let me ask?"

Daohua nodded: "Go."

When the words fell, Qin Xiaoliu ran away in a hurry.

After a while, Qin Xiaoliu ran back: "Girl, the uncle is back, and the little prince, he has also come to our house, and now he is in the front yard!"

Daohua quickly threw the fodder in her hand into the manger, frowning and said: "The academy only has a holiday at the end of the month, why did they come back at this time? Is it for grain?"

Daohua quickly walked towards the main courtyard. As soon as she reached the door, she saw Mrs. Li and Yan Wenxiu hurried out.

"Mother, big brother, where are you going?"

Mrs. Li: "Your brother and I have something urgent to deal with right now. We'll tell you when we're done." After saying this, the two hurried away.

Seeing this, Daohua was silent for a while, and said to Wang Man'er behind him, "Let's go, let's go to the front yard and take a look."

After exiting the hanging flower gate, Daohua saw Xiao Yeyang sitting in the pavilion in the outer courtyard.

Unlike the previous high-spiritedness, at this moment, this guy looks a little frowning, with a worried look between his brows.

"What's wrong with you?"

Daohua walked into the pavilion.

Xiao Yeyang was worried about his uncle, Governor Guo. When he saw someone coming to disturb him, he was about to get angry. When he looked up and found it was Daohua, he immediately suppressed his anger and said sullenly, "Why are you here?"

"I should be asking you this." Daohua walked to the opposite side and sat down. Seeing Xiao Yeyang frowning, she asked, "Are you worried about your uncle?"

Xiao Yeyang looked at Daohua and nodded: "Because of the severe drought in the past two years, bandit troubles arose in many places in the north. My uncle was appointed as the governor just to eradicate bandit troubles."

"Among them, Fenxi has the most bandits because of the worst disaster."

"The root cause of the proliferation of bandits is that there is no food. Therefore, in order to completely eliminate the problem of bandits, we have to find a way from the root."

"To be honest, Master Yan has produced high-yield grain seeds. Not only is the royal uncle happy, but my uncle is also very happy, so that he can solve the problem of bandits earlier."

"However, at this time, the grain seeds were lost!"

If there is another confiscation of crops in Fenxi next year, the bandits will definitely become more and more serious. This is a serious dereliction of duty for the uncle who is the governor of bandit suppression. Even if there is a reason for the incident, the uncle will be punished.

"If there is a big mess, it's still easy to lose the official and abandon the noble."

The Guo family also has many political enemies in the imperial court. They will not miss such a good opportunity and will definitely seriously hurt the Guo family.

Listening to these, Daohua's heart is also very heavy.

If you really want to make an uncontrollable mess, I'm afraid you will be exiled and your home will be searched, right?

At this time, Yan Wenxiu came over and looked at Xiao Yeyang: "Little Prince, my mother has already sent someone to collect the remaining grain seeds from each village, but the amount may not be many."

No way, the high-yield batch of grain seeds was planted for too short a time, and their family also harvested a season. In addition to their own seeds, they also distributed some to befriend others, so they didn't save much.

Moreover, it was too unfortunate that the grain seeds were lost. At the beginning of October, the Yan family's fields had just been planted with winter wheat grain seeds.