Then Yang Zhijin turned his gaze to Li Mengyue. He knew that Li Mengyue was not talking about refugees for no reason, there must be something else.
Thinking of the locusts that have been a headache for countless people since ancient times, Li Mengyue corrupted them into something magical and wiped out more than half of them with an army of ducks.
His intuition told him that Li Mengyue would bring him more surprises regarding the refugee issue.
"Lord Yang, the refugees at the city gate are just the beginning. There will be a constant influx of refugees. Have you thought about how to deal with it?"
Only Li Mengyue said this. If it were anyone else, Yang Zhijin would think that the other person had ulterior motives and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to do something.
However, based on Li Mengyue's experience in exterminating locusts, Yang Zhijin would unconsciously believe Li Mengyue.
"I wonder what Miss Li has to say?"
"No good idea, I just have some grain here that I can sell to the county government at a low price."
After listening to what Li Mengyue said, Yang Zhijin was a little disappointed. He thought Li Mengyue would have some good ideas and just sell him food.
He was well aware of the harvest in Xingyi Village. Although it was not affected by the locust plague, the entire village's combined grain harvest, after paying the grain tax, was not enough to eat and there was no way the remaining grain could be sold.
The Li family has even less land, only three acres of dry land, and they grow soybeans instead of rice.
The yield of soybeans is not as good as that of rice, and the yield of three acres of soybeans will not be much.
Suddenly, he thought of the more than 30,000 ducks. If he sold all the ducks, with the current grain prices, even if he bought a large amount of grain, it would not solve the current problem.
Li Mengyue didn't know what Yang Zhijin was thinking. She was very anxious now. If she delayed for a moment longer, the victims would starve to death.
The most urgent task was to get the government to open the granaries and release grain as soon as possible to allow the victims at the city gate to survive temporarily. As for letting the victims survive, she already had an idea.
"How much food, and at what price?"
This question was not asked by Yang Zhijin, but by Xie Ruiyuan.
Li Mengyue looked at Xie Ruiyuan again at this time. She still didn't know the identity of the child's father.
However, seeing County Master Yang's invisibly respectful attitude towards the child's father, she knew that the father's identity was not simple.
Maybe she can find a breakthrough from the child's father.
She had no choice but to find County Magistrate Yang, after all, she wanted to save all the refugees heading north.
Only someone with enough power can help her do this.
Even if she asked County Magistrate Yang to help, she could only rescue the refugees who came to Wuning County. She could also contact the local county magistrates in other counties, but it would still be troublesome.
Li Mengyue did not thank Ruiyuan, but asked directly: "What is your identity?"
After Li Mengyue asked this question, Xie Ruiyuan didn't think anything of it, but Yang Zhijin was extremely surprised.
He thought they knew each other, but he never expected that Li Mengyue didn't even know the identity of their friend.
That shouldn't be the case. As the daughter of the prime minister, she must have had many opportunities to attend palace banquets. How could she have never seen the emperor become the prince?
Even if her good friend was not in the capital in the past few years, the daughter of the prime minister should not be unaware of Prince Chen.
Just when Yang Zhijin was confused and couldn't figure it out, Xie Ruiyuan directly revealed his identity.
"My title is Chen."
"ah!"
Li Mengyue was shocked by these words. At that time, the title of Prince Chen was only the third prince.
So, she also raped a big shot.
Xie Ruiyuan saw Li Mengyue's surprised expression and felt that this was the right reaction.
It was because Li Mengyue was too calm every time he saw him, which made him doubt his own charm.
If he could win Li Mengyue's favor because of his status, he wouldn't mind at all. Li Mengyue was taking advantage of his status to bully others.
When Li Mengyue learned of Xie Ruiyuan's identity, she was shocked for a moment, but then she didn't think anything of it.
She didn't know why the imperial court didn't send anyone to provide disaster relief, allowing the refugees to reach Wuning County. But she knew one thing: this was her chance, an opportunity to gather enough gratitude to earn her money.
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