Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Two quarters later, Shen Zheng and Liang Fu left Yonglu County Government Office, boarded a carriage, and continued on their journey towards Liuyang Prefecture.

Liang Fu was still thinking about what Diwu Tanwei had just said.

"There will be news in three days..." He looked at Shen Zheng and asked, "This girl is quite arrogant. Is she the girl from the fifth family in Shangjing that Master Bo mentioned?"

Shen Zheng nodded and said with a smile: "If we search together, there will always be multiple ways."

"That's good." Liang Fu had been thinking about "glass" and "glasses" all the time, and it would be a lie to say he wasn't in a hurry.

......

This time, entering Liuyang Prefecture City was much smoother than Shen Zheng's previous two visits. When the gatekeepers heard that it was the Tongan County Magistrate who came, their faces were filled with curiosity.

"Your Excellency is on duty at the government office at this time. Please, Lord Shen, come with me."

After saying that, he quickly called a colleague to take over the shift, and personally drove a horse and led a few people to the Liuyang government office.

On the way, Shen Zheng lifted a corner of the car curtain and carefully looked at the changes in Liuyang City over the past few months.

It was freezing cold, and there were fewer people selling fruits and vegetables on the street. Instead, there were more hot meals and foods that could temporarily fill the stomach. There were even two stalls selling animal skins on the corner of the street.

For ordinary people, animal skins are very expensive, but they are also the best choice to keep warm in winter.

Fox fur, mink fur, and the like were only worn by the nobility, so they could not afford them. But ordinary people could afford the "animal skins" made of rabbit skin, dog skin, and even cat skin, after all, "a skin can be worn for many years and passed down from generation to generation." To be cruel, rabbits, dogs, and cats are animals that can have many cubs in a litter, so if you grit your teeth and raise them, you can eat their meat and skin them.

On the stall, there were "animal skins" on the top shelf. Shen Zheng recognized one of the patterns: it was tabby cat skin.

In her previous life, she had seen many breeds of cats. The fur of the tabby cat was not as fluffy as that of foreign breeds of cats. Instead, it was short and "solid", and even a little "shiny and slippery" - perhaps... this was the reason why people chose to make fur clothes out of cat skin.

Shen Zheng felt a pain in her heart and finally chose to turn away.

——When the granaries are full, people know etiquette; when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace.

Although this sentence is not very appropriate at present, in an era when people can barely fill their stomachs, this kind of behavior cannot be stopped, and people who need warmth cannot resist the "skins of animals".

The word "dog butcher" in "most righteous people are dog butchers" is not a made-up word for the sake of a neat couplet, but rather that before pork became the staple meat for humans, dog meat... was the staple meat for humans.

Shen Zheng considers herself to be a bit of a "saint". She feels sorry for cats and dogs, but she also feels sorry for the common people.

She does not have supreme power and cannot stop people from making and wearing "beast clothes", but she can change the status quo.

If there were cheaper and warmer clothes, people would not think of "skinning" to keep warm, just like people now eat more pork instead of dog meat.

Cotton coat!

Some people know that cotton clothes are warm, but the cotton production in the central part of Da Zhou is not high. First, the quality of cotton is not very good, and second, and most importantly, there are many cotton pests, and breeding is difficult, so few people will grow cotton specifically.

Shen Zheng twisted her fingers, thinking seriously.

Winter still has two months to go...

If Wei Que and Wang Guangjin come back in time, she can arrange for Tong'an Cloth Workshop to make some cotton-padded clothes first and put them on the market to see the effect! With cheaper and warmer cotton-padded clothes, people will not bother to raise animals and then skin them.

Shen Zheng was just about to ask Liang Fu about his opinion on the matter when there was a sudden noise outside the carriage.

"Whoa..." The carriage trembled slightly and stopped. Xiao Yuan came over and said, "Sir, there is a traffic jam ahead. It looks like we won't be able to get through for a while."

Shen Zheng lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw a crowd of people and a lot of noise in front of the carriage, which completely blocked the road ahead of them.

Looking at these people again, their expressions were different. Some were smiling, as if they were talking about something funny after dinner, while some raised their fingers and tapped lightly, with obvious disgust on their faces.

"What are you doing!" The gatekeeper frowned and rode forward, "Why are you all gathered on the main street? You're blocking the road, disperse!"

The gatekeepers were not like the constables in the government office. They had truly seen blood, so their scowls were naturally a little scary.

The people who had gathered to watch the excitement dispersed one after another, but they kept muttering, "Sir, even if we give way, you may not be able to get away."

If Yu Zhengqing had not warned his officers and soldiers not to attack the common people, the common people would not have become so bold as to dare to challenge the officers and soldiers.

After the crowd dispersed, the scene ahead became apparent.

Shen Zheng was a gossipy person, so she couldn't help but lift the curtain and look in. Liang Fu had also been unable to sit still for a long time, so he took the opportunity to look in with Shen Zheng.

This sight made Shen Zheng stunned, because the person in front of her was someone she knew.

"Mo Qingwan..."

"Do you know her?" Liang Fu tilted his head curiously, frowned and asked, "The clothes that girl is wearing are very strange, like wedding clothes, and..."

It also seems unlucky.

Whose wedding dress has white flowers embroidered on it?

Besides, which bride rides a tall horse alone without any trace of the groom?

Doubts arose in Liang Fu's mind, and Shen Zheng then remembered that Liang Fu had never met Mo Qingwan. She explained: "Mo Zongkai is her brother."

"Tsk..." Liang Fu had of course heard about Mo Zongkai's experience. He was disgusted and said, "Are all the Mo family members mentally ill? It's ok that the younger brother is a homosexual, but what is the older sister doing?"

Shen Zheng looked at Mo Qingwan who was confronting a middle-aged man and said softly, "Perhaps she is the most normal member of the Mo family."

Liang Fu sensed the deeper meaning of this sentence and asked curiously, "Then what is she doing? Getting married?"

Shen Zheng nodded, "It's a marriage. From today on, she is no longer a daughter of the Mo family, but a wife of the Yue family."

Perhaps Mo Qingwan is not anyone’s daughter, nor is she anyone’s bride, but just “Qingwan”.

Shen Zheng didn't expect Mo Qingwan to act so quickly, nor did she expect her wedding to be so "grand".

She could have had a small wedding and not been stopped on the street and forced to accept those unfriendly looks.

"Where's the groom?" Liang Fu looked around for a long time, but couldn't find anyone dressed as a groom. He couldn't help but frown and said, "She is a well-dressed little girl, but how come the groom is nowhere to be found? Isn't this ridiculous?"

It doesn't matter if the groom is missing.

Shen Zheng smiled softly, "There are even more 'nonsense' ones."

"What?" Liang Fu was stunned.

"Let's go." Shen Zheng lifted the car curtain and stepped out first, "After all, we can't go to Baiyun County today. You can just watch this 'farce'."

Liang Fu was even more confused. Shen Zheng's words just now clearly showed her appreciation for the girl, but why did she call her girl's marriage "a farce"?