The hot potato of disaster relief was successfully stuffed out. Although it was not Rong Suihe himself who came forward to take over the matter, Sheng Weiqiao, as Rong Suihe's wife, was not the owner of a large dowry, and the husband and wife were one. She begged him not to handle the matter well, fearing that he would not be able to survive the fire, and she might even accuse him of not repairing his outer curtains and not being able to teach his wife well.
Having achieved his goal, Meng Jiaqian was not only afraid of Rong Suihe's current strength, but also in urgent need of recuperation because of his serious injury. He quickly left the table with the excuse of "too much alcohol". Once he left, Ni Jidao and others did not dare to stay any longer. They all said goodbye.
After the banquet was hastily dispersed and Rong Shuihe and his party were on the road again, Xuan Yu and Feng took Sheng Weiqiao to the carriage and invited Master Wu to join them.
After getting in the car, Jinli took out tea from the secret compartment and made it for the three of them. Xuanyu Feng sneered and said to her niece, "I don't dare! I didn't even say hello to anyone, I just stood up and settled the matter." Landong is here, what are you going to do when you turn around? Don't tell him that my princess is stupid because she has so much money, so you plan to just throw away a thousand or eight hundred taels for them to buy?"
"Then you didn't stop him at that time!" Sheng Weiqiao curled his lips and said, "Besides, we all heard it at that time. Those people had planned it clearly, and they ganged up to bully Mi Zhen. Their aggressiveness, Mi Zhen is in a dilemma. It's okay if we don't know. Since we know, why can't we just watch like that? It also seems that he is too coward. He is separated by a curtain, knowing that people are bullying his husband over there, and he is not allowed to give it to him. Are you coming forward?"
Master Wu twitched the corner of his mouth and thought to himself, Huan Guanlan is a closed disciple. I need to worry about such a small situation
In fact, Rong Suihe didn't trust the Jishan bandits, and Master Wu didn't have much favorable impressions of Rong Suihe. At this moment, he was wondering if Rong Suihe knew the character of his county princess and deliberately let him go. Sheng Weiqiao went out to rescue him
As for the purpose of doing so, Master Wu wondered whether it was possible to let Sheng Weiqiao voluntarily hand over the management and use rights of the dowry after his failure, and whether Yong Wanzhe deliberately put the princess in a disadvantageous situation and forced the Sheng family and Feng family to declare Yu's family. The three companies continue to contribute money and efforts... Anyway, they have no good intentions.
Thinking about this, she looked at Sheng Weiqiao with pity: Such a petty and silly princess who was spoiled by her family would not be able to get into trouble when Rong Suihe became famous and no longer needed her.
Sheng Weiqiao didn't know what Master Wu was thinking. After complaining to Feng Shi, she talked about the wrong considerations for disaster relief, "Auntie, didn't you and daddy tell you before? Let him come to the west." Don't be idle in Xinjiang. If you have nothing to do, just buy some property. It doesn't matter if you lose money. You should train your legs. You can open a shop in Buxian but not a farm. Both the left and right can ask for help. Just pick people from the disaster victims and you can get the best of both worlds. ”
Xuan Yu Feng said: "There are thousands of people, and I am here to play so big? Do you really think that you can lose money casually if you have a large dowry?"
Master Wu also reminded: "Ten percent of those victims are people from the Meng family and Ni Jidao. Once they get involved in the princess's property, they will probably come to do things instead of destroying them."
"He could recruit at most one or two hundred people at first, but that would not necessarily solve the livelihood of those people. With the wages our family gives to the clerks, we can only support a family by going out to gamble and eat and drink all day long. Otherwise, It's absolutely correct, no problem." Sheng Weiqiao said, "As for other people, are you afraid that they won't find anything to do in the vast Western Territory?"
Sheng Weiqiao felt that it was not a big problem that there were adulterers among the victims, "If the position he is seeking is there, he would definitely use the managers in his dowry, and the only way to recruit people would be to recruit those who work in Chunwan." It won't be until three to five years before they are promoted. By then, it will be a question of whether the Meng family is worthy of continuing to serve! How much trouble can a mere clerk cause? "
Xuan Yu Feng said: "How big of a commotion will it cause? I forgot how Xuan Yu Che's family died back then, right? Just because an Easterner mistakenly mistook heartbroken grass and honeysuckle, it turned out that all the chickens and dogs died in the same family. … I don’t want to think too easily!”
"That Dongren's position is not ordinary!" Sheng Weiqiao gave her a red look, "He plans to buy some farms outside the city and recruit people to build them, but he may not even be able to meet him, so how can he harm him?"
Master Wu said: "As for one or two hundred people, it really doesn't matter whether there are any traitors in Bufu. The key is the livelihood of thousands of people. How to solve it?"
"Master, you have experienced battles, and you must know more about war than he and his aunt." Sheng Weiqiao thought for a while and asked her, "Do you think there is anyone in the northwest of Xijiang who is invaded by Ruru? He remembers I heard his grandfather talk about it before, saying that Ruru once was trapped in the east of the important town for several years because he could not attack in the north for a long time. He turned around and invaded the Central Plains from western Xinjiang. At that time, it was too late to receive news from northern Xinjiang. Late at night, I almost let them fight all the way to Chang'an... Is this really true?"
Master Wu thought for a while and said, "He also heard my father mention it once. It was a long time ago in Bu Nao. At that time..." She seemed to choke for a moment before continuing, "At that time, even Duke Huan was still here. So young!”
"Is there such a thing?" Xuan Yu Feng frowned and said, "So, if the Western Xinjiang joins the Eastern Xinjiang, it may not necessarily lead to peace?"
Sheng Weiqiao said: "Not necessarily. It happened decades ago. I guess many people in Ruru don't know about it. Is it because his grandfather mentioned it to him at the beginning, or because General Zhou has an older brother? I happened to be traveling to the western frontier at that time and was caught off guard and died on the battlefield in the east. My grandfather was very sorry and mentioned it accidentally when telling them the story of General Zhou."
"The Princess of the County!" Xuanyu Feng was begging to shut up, but Master Wu suddenly asked, "The Princess of the County is thinking about this matter at the moment. Could it be related to the thousands of disaster victims?"
Hearing this, Xuanyu Feng also looked at her niece curiously: "I am not planning to let them go to the Northern Expedition, am I?"
"The Western Xinjiang Army has never thought about supporting Northern Xinjiang. Why are a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people who have just suffered a disaster going to the north?" Sheng Weiqiao said speechlessly, "Does he plan to let them go to that direction to build some fortifications or something... Anyway, you can’t just sit around and eat!”
Master Wu smiled and said: "Princess, building fortifications is not that simple. If ordinary people do that, they will definitely be regarded as having bad intentions. Although the princess has a noble status, there should be no obstacle to doing that. The problem is not fortifications. It can't be said that construction can be done with nothing. Stones, wood, sand, etc., although the price is much higher than that of the princess, but with thousands of people in the battle, the expense is not small, so count it all If we want to settle the accounts, we might as well just let them eat red rice and forget it."
"That won't work." Sheng Weiqiao shook his head when he heard this and said, "He heard his father say before that you can't be too kind. I remember when I was in Nanfeng County, every autumn and winter, the old, weak, sick, disabled, women and children were given free porridge. Take it, as long as the young and strong laborers are young and strong, why don't you find something to do for them before you give them food. Dad said, if you teach people who have the strength to do things to get something for nothing, they will become more and more beautiful. He is greedy. He thinks about whether he can eat porridge all day long. He wants to beg for meat when he is given rice. At first, he even wished that I had given him all my family property, and he was probably very dissatisfied!"
Xuanyu Feng curled his lips and said: "Oh, I actually remember? He thought I had forgotten it long ago!"
Sheng Weiqiao glared at her: "Aunt! He is your niece, how dare you think of him smarter?"
"I wonder if I'm smart enough to think about what kind of fortifications to do?" Xuan Yufeng looked at her funny, "I'm sorry, I got the exact news that Ruru Ma is here and wants to take a detour from Northern Xinjiang to Western Xinjiang. He said, if the disaster victims were to build fortifications in the northwest, even if they spent more money, it would still be far-sighted. But at that time, Ruru was very focused on entangled with the Northern Xinjiang Army. If I did that, what would other people think? He doesn’t know, so he just wants to say three words: prodigal daughter!”
She sighed, "It doesn't look like my biological father's flesh and blood!"
"..." Sheng Weiqiao was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly said, "Then can you please change it to... um, how about road construction?"