Chapter 152 White and tender feet
Wen Jiu nodded gently and asked, "How is the trial going, Sir Liu?"
"It went quite smoothly." Su Peisheng hesitated for a moment and then said, "It also involves the Shanxi Governor. I'm afraid the master will be too busy to deal with it for a while."
Then Su Peisheng smiled and said, "Miss, you don't have to worry. I see that the snow has stopped outside and the people have been taken back to the charity hall for resettlement. The master has also sent people out to distribute porridge. Now everyone is praising the master."
Wenjiu nodded, took out a few more snacks for Su Peisheng to fill his stomach, sent him out the door, and then got straight into bed, covering himself tightly.
"Owner……"
"Don't make noise," Wenjiu said, "I'm so sleepy now. If it's not a matter of life and death, don't call me." She finally figured it out. Even if she was worried about it, what was going to happen would still happen. It's better to live comfortably!
Xiao Jin: “…”
Seeing that she was really asleep, Xiao Jin stared at Wenjiu's belly with his dark eyes for a long time.
When he returned to the space, he found that the Emperor's Heart Tree had actually grown several flower buds. Xiao Jin circled the Emperor's Heart Tree several times, and suddenly frowned tightly. He took out a pen and wrote quickly for a long time.
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A little after midnight, the Fourth Master emerged from the dungeon, followed by the Ninth Master, who also had a frown on his face.
"Fourth brother, how do we report this to the Emperor? I always feel that Liu Yu's words are somewhat credible."
After all this fuss, it turned out that all of this was a big drama directed and acted by Liu Yu, the prefect of Jinyang Prefecture.
Heifeng was his disciple in the past. The reason why they called themselves Heifengzhai was because they used the reputation of Heifengzhai to rob local officials and gentry of their money and used it to help the people.
Speaking of which, although Jinyang cannot be called prosperous in recent years, it is self-sufficient and has achieved fruitful harvests from farming.
However, last year the local granary caught fire and tens of thousands of grains were destroyed. Liu Yu wanted to take the blame, but the newly appointed Shanxi Governor Wang Xiaolian refused.
The granary suffered a disaster, and not only the prefect of Jinyang Prefecture, but even the governor of Shanxi would be implicated. Wang Xiaolian still had a bright future in his career, so he naturally did not want it to be ruined. So he secretly suppressed the matter and did not report it to the court.
I had originally thought that I would wait until the next year when the grain harvest would be better so that I could fill the hole in the granary.
But things don’t go as planned and another snowstorm hits.
Knowing that Shanxi and other areas had ample grain, the imperial court withheld funds for a while. However, Wang Xiaolian had no grain to provide disaster relief. This dragged on for quite some time, and by the time the imperial relief grain arrived, the disaster in Jinyang had already occurred.
Liu Yu originally wanted to ask the local wealthy families to donate some money and food for the emergency, but the wealthy families were indifferent and just cried poor to him.
He thought of a way and asked Heifeng to deal with the bandits and steal the food to help the people. This is how they managed to hold on until their group arrived.
"Let's wait and see." The Fourth Master frowned slightly. "The local granary is heavily guarded, and the walls are mostly made of stone to prevent fire. How did the grain burn? It's still unknown whether it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster."
Jiu Ye's face also looked ugly: "Could it be that someone deliberately wants to burn the food supplies? Who is so cruel? There are so many food supplies. If they were still there, how could Jinyang have reached this point?" Jiu Ye gritted his teeth in pain.
The Fourth Master patted his shoulder and said, "It's getting late. Go back and rest. We'll discuss this matter tomorrow."
Jiu Ye clasped his fists and said, "Fourth brother, go to bed early too." After being busy for so many days, Jiu Ye suddenly relaxed and realized that his whole body felt very heavy. He said hello and went back to his room.
Liu Yu's mansion is not big, with only two entrances.
The Ninth and Tenth Masters slept in the guest rooms on the west side, while the female family members slept in the west wing of the rear house.
The Fourth Master pointed to a room on the west side of the front yard for Wenjiu to live in.
This wing room is not even as big as the Fourth Master's study. It is furnished with the most ordinary mahogany table. A little further in, there is only a step-through bed and a mahogany wardrobe.
Wenjiu was already fast asleep, her head resting on her arm, curled up in a ball. She seemed to be sleeping restlessly, her brows still slightly knitted.
The Fourth Master sat in front of the bed and couldn't help but gently pull up the quilt for her, leaving only her little face exposed.
Creak.
Suddenly hearing this sound, the Fourth Master turned around and saw Su Peisheng carrying a basin of hot water into the room.
The Fourth Master frowned and said, "Get out."
He waved at Su Peisheng.
Su Peisheng was startled and immediately left the room. Standing at the door, he couldn't help wiping the sweat from his forehead.
He was really going backwards in time. How could he have just barged in there? Did he think this was someone else's bed?
After a while, his master came out quietly and even closed the door tightly.
Su Peisheng couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat. Although he knew that his master doted on the girl, this was the first time he saw his master being so cautious. He really couldn't believe his eyes.
"Stupid thing, what are you still standing there for?" The Fourth Master waited for a long time but Su Peisheng didn't come to serve him, so his brows furrowed even more.
Su Peisheng was startled and glanced at the corridor: "Master, how can we wash in this place? How about we go to the side hall? I have already boiled water."
The Fourth Master waved his hand and said, "Don't bother." Then he washed his hands and face in his basin, rinsed his mouth, and tiptoed into the house.
Su Peisheng didn't come back to his senses until the door in front of him was closed tightly. He stared at the door for a long time without blinking.
The Fourth Master took off his clothes and got into the quilt.
The person on the bed was very small. Perhaps because she was cold, she shrank her neck due to the cold.
The Fourth Master couldn't help but frown and directly took the person into his arms.
Wenjiu vaguely felt the warmth, so he rubbed it, and his brows relaxed a little.
The Fourth Master shook his head and laughed, "What a clingy person! He has to cling to me even when he sleeps."
Pleased by her unconscious expression, the Fourth Master hugged her tighter.
A faint fragrance came over, and the Fourth Master felt that the string that had been tightly stretched for recent days had finally loosened a little.
Her body was fragrant and soft, and it was very comfortable to hug her, but not long after, the Fourth Master let her go again.
Sweat was already breaking out on his forehead. He gritted his teeth, turned his head away, closed his eyes, and went to sleep.
Even if he is the master, he would not wake someone up in the middle of the night to sleep with him.
Obviously, he had never been interested in this before. He didn't know what had happened to him.
Just when I calmed down a little, the clingy guy behind me came over again.
A pair of soft and boneless little hands tightly wrapped around his waist and abdomen, even rubbing it faintly.
"Warm! Wine!"
Grabbing the pair of mischievous little hands, the Fourth Master took a deep breath and said in a hoarse voice, "Sleep well."
The image of her white and tender feet stepping on my chest when she was emotional suddenly appeared in my mind.
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