Shen Yuerong returned to the Shen family, but her expression became more gloomy, which made Qinghua, who was standing beside her, a little at a loss.
"I just heard from the Queen Mother that she is not granting a marriage between the young lady and the prince, and..."
"Don't you think the Queen Mother looks at me in a strange way?"
Shen Yuerong looked at her, "According to common sense, although I am the descendant of Divine Doctor Shen, not only my father's death, but also the decline of the Shen family, have all passed for so many years, but... the queen and she seem to not want to mention these things."
"Perhaps it is because they used to have a very good relationship with the master, so they don't want to acknowledge the master's death."
Shen Yuerong shook her head.
"Perhaps in the past, I would have believed that the Queen Mother and the Queen were both sad because of me, but now that the facts are before my eyes, I have to be a little worried."
"you…"
"Do you remember what the Queen looked like when we first went to see her?"
"The Queen is waiting for you..."
"She didn't plan to take me to see the Queen Mother at first. It was because I kept asking about my father and what happened in the past that the Queen didn't know how to talk to me, so she took me to see the Queen Mother."
Moreover, when she was speaking just now, although the queen seemed enthusiastic, in fact, no matter what she said, her eyes were always on the empress dowager, for fear that she would make the empress dowager unhappy because of talking too much with Shen Yuerong.
"Perhaps the Queen just doesn't want to offend the Queen Mother."
Shen Yuerong shook her head, feeling that this matter would definitely not be as simple as it seemed.
"Send someone to help me check and see if anyone knows the real cause of my father's death. And by the way, ask Qi Bo and the others for me."
"good."
…
A city in Jiangnan.
Chi Mu frowned, looked at the report in his hand, and then looked at the people sitting under him.
"Is this what you guys are doing lately?"
"Your Highness. It's not that we don't want to do a good job. It's just that the flood season has just passed and there is water everywhere. Even if we want to rebuild our homes, it's a bit difficult. So we have the funds, but... there are not enough people, so we can only do it bit by bit."
"What do you mean by sparsely staffed?"
Chi Mu looked at the figure still walking outside the tent.
"This is an entire army of thirty thousand soldiers. I have left it all to you. How come thirty thousand soldiers are not enough for you? How many do you want?"
"Your Majesty, this is really not our fault. Please understand clearly."
“I don’t want to know whose problem it is.”
He could no longer suppress his temper, but still wanted to speak.
"I just want to know when you can make arrangements for these people. Even if you can't rebuild their homes, you should at least give them a place to live and food to eat instead of letting them wander around in the wild all day, which makes people feel distressed."
"These subordinates are all working on it, but... there are not enough people, and the place is not big, so there is no way to arrange for everyone. Please give us some time later, Your Majesty."
Although Chi Mu wanted to force them immediately, he also knew that they were all following orders and wanted to give him a warning.
"Forget it, you guys go down."
After he said this and watched them all leave, a man sat in the coach's seat with a somewhat annoyed look on his face.
Fang Mu poured him a cup of tea.
"This matter is so difficult, has Your Majesty thought about what to do?"
Chi Mu looked at him and shook his head.
"Those few people are officials promoted by the prince. If I do things too drastically, it will only force them to rebel more and privately obstruct what I do. Since they are unwilling to do it, we will do it ourselves."
Chi Mu's original duty was just to supervise. He just needed to sit in his seat and help solve any problems that arose.
But he felt so sorry for these innocent people that he could only build their homes together with them personally.
To the extent that he had trouble sleeping day and night, and he lost a lot of weight in just a few days.
And with his help. In addition, the 30,000 soldiers really worked hard, and finally they cleared up a piece of land for these innocent people to build their homes.
But we are faced with a big problem.
Chi Mu looked at him, "Say it again?"
"Your Highness, you don't know how scarce the money is now. The money we gave you has been almost spent on your construction. Even if you want more now, I only have... less than a hundred taels of silver."
He simply couldn't believe that almost every place had invested 100,000 taels of silver, but now there was only less than 100 left.
"Don't joke with me, or I'll kill you if I find out!"
The butler was a little scared and knelt down on the ground.
"I dare not deceive Your Majesty. There are accounts for all these things. Your Majesty, please look through them yourself."
As the butler spoke, he had someone bring the accounts and put them in front of him.
He looked at the stack of accounts and missed Shen Yuerong a little at this moment.
Although Shen Yuerong had taught him a lot of skills, it would take some time to finish calculating these accounts.
He frowned, having only read two or three whole pages.
If this continues, before these accounts are settled, those innocent people will starve to death.
He had no solution, so he had to send Fang Mu to go privately, "Go back to the capital and try to raise as much money as possible. By the way, if Shen Yuerong has nothing to do in the capital, ask her to come over."
"yes."
This was something that could be resolved with just a letter, but the man still made him run a trip.
By the time Shen Yuerong got the news, three or two days had passed.
"If he is in trouble, why doesn't he just send a message? Instead, he has to ask you to go there. It will take several days to go back and forth, and we don't know what will happen."
"My Lord is just worried that if you were to go on the road alone and encounter any danger, you would..."
Shen Yuerong sighed and instructed Qinghua, "In the face of national crisis, every citizen has a duty to perform. Go find Boss Du and see if they can get some money out. We will get through the difficulties in Jiangnan first."
"yes."
Shen Yuerong also knew it. After what happened last time, the Shen family shop probably didn’t have much spare money, but unexpectedly they still took out more than one million taels.
"Didn't you say last time that there was no more money in the shop?"
"Recently, some clothes and jewelry have become popular among the rich, and the shop immediately grabbed people to order them, so there were quite a few deposits."
These were deposits the women paid for the decorations.
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