But even if she knew, she wouldn't take it to heart. At worst, she would just deal with it as it came.
[Tuanzi, check where Master Liu is? ]
【Hey! 】
After a cup of tea.
【Hello, I checked. 】
Oh, where is it?
[Sir, besides looking up Mr. Liu, I also looked up someone I had located before. They are both in Zhulin Village.]
Hearing this, Li Mengyue's mind instantly flashed back to the scene when she first came to this house.
[The other person is Zhu Sijin.]
[Su Yu, you're right, it's Zhu Sijin. Now these two are together again.]
[It seems the recent locust plague has kept them quiet for a while, but now they're causing trouble again.]
[Su, you collected so much food from here before. Without food, Master Liu can't do anything he wants!]
【That’s not necessarily true.】
Li Mengyue never assumes anything about people with bad intentions, and she knows they are definitely up to no good.
In fact, Li Mengyue's guess was correct. Liu Quan had been scared out of his wits since he discovered that the food had disappeared.
When he was first assigned to Wuning County, he was glad to be favored by the Second Young Lady. As long as he could get things done, he wouldn't have to worry about being favored by the Second Young Lady. Maybe he could even take advantage of this opportunity to soar to fame.
He never expected that before he could finish his work, the food he had secretly bought disappeared.
Although he didn't know why the Second Young Lady asked him to buy food secretly, he knew that he had to get this done. If he did it well, he might be able to ask the Second Young Lady for mercy and help him escape from slavery.
However, the food he had bought with great difficulty disappeared without his knowledge, and he no longer had the energy to deal with Li Mengyue.
He originally wanted to buy some more food, but who could have imagined that just as he took action, a locust plague broke out throughout Qingshan Prefecture, causing food prices to rise sharply.
The second lady of Qianben gave him 20,000 taels of silver, but he only spent 10,000 taels, thinking that he would keep the rest for himself.
But the food was gone, so he had to use the remaining 10,000 taels of silver to buy food.
Even if there was no locust plague, it would not be easy to buy a large amount of food at once, not to mention that there was not much harvest in the fields due to the ravages of the locust plague.
Therefore, he has been very worried about buying food during this period.
It is not without results now. The grain we buy from him is two-thirds as much as before.
Although he has not yet met the requirements of Miss Er, he believes that if he works harder, there will be no problem.
What he didn't expect was that even if he tried his best, he still couldn't buy food.
At this time, he thought of Zhu Sijin and wanted him to help him buy food in the village.
But Zhu Sijin couldn't do it at all, so he went to find Zhu Lei, the village chief of Zhulin Village and Zhu Sijin's ancestor.
Zhulin Village, the village chief's home.
Zhu Lei looked at the man sitting in the seat, thinking in his mind.
Although under his leadership, Zhulin Village has gradually developed from a small village of a few hundred people to a village with more than 2,000 people, it has become something he is proud of.
But he knew that if he wanted to make the village better, he would be powerless.
The reason why he made Zhulin Village stronger was that his ultimate goal was to help his family move up a level. He wanted the people above him to see his abilities, promote him, and give him the opportunity to pave the way for his children.
But no, that's fine. He has absolute authority in Zhulin Village, and his words are final. No one dares to disobey him.
Even though he was just a village chief, he had already satisfied the life of an official.
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