Come on, Jiaojiao, I'm sick too.

The next day, Wen Yuqing received a reply letter from her eldest brother, saying that food had been delivered to her and would arrive in two days, and asked her to hold on and not starve to death.

Wen Yuqing: “…”

Doesn't he know what exaggeration is?!

But they really didn't have much food left, so what should they do? So she immediately went to find Yuanfu to find out what was going on.

When she rushed to find Yuanfu, she found him next to Xiao Juncheng.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Xiao Juncheng frowned and looked at her. Stop jumping around all day without paying attention to your health.

"Um, did I disturb you? How about I come back later?" He probably had something to tell Yuanfu.

"It's okay, that's all." Xiao Juncheng spoke nonsense seriously.

"Oh, I just wanted to ask if we have anything to eat?"

"Don't worry, I won't let you go hungry." Xiao Juncheng replied.

If the imperial grain transport trucks couldn't arrive, he had other options. He wouldn't let them go hungry.

"No, that's not what I meant. I just came up with a good idea." Wen Yuqing said cunningly, her eyes shining. Hehe, isn't this going to make some money?

"Oh?" What bad idea has he come up with again?

Wen Yuqing leaned close to the man's ear and said, "Let's do this, this way..."

Wen Yuqing was concentrating on talking about her plan and did not notice the man's strange expression, while Yuanfu retreated silently.

At this moment, as the girl approached, Xiao Juncheng's nose was filled with the unique fragrance of a woman. His eyes darkened and he took a small step back.

“…That’s a good idea.”

"Hey, I haven't finished yet." Don't retreat in a hurry! At this time, Wen Yuqing hadn't noticed the man's slightly red ears.

"As long as we find out that this account isn't in County Magistrate Yuan's name, then we'll have evidence against him, right?"

"Hmm..." He swallowed slightly.

Wen Yuqing didn't hear the slight dissatisfaction of the compliment. Why did it feel a bit perfunctory?

→_→

Xiao Juncheng: "Hey, amazing, brave and resourceful."

It’s indeed a good idea, and I agree with him.

Is that what she said? Can you please step back a little...

Smelling the girl's sweet fragrance, he felt his breath gradually becoming hotter.

Wen Yuqing felt that something was wrong with him, so she looked up at him and noticed the man's red neck...

Wen Yuqing: “…”

Wow, the sun rises from the west, and it's actually blushing.

She couldn't help but tease him: "Your Highness, why are you blushing? And your neck..."

⊙w⊙

Xiao Juncheng: “…”

"Stop messing around!"

Stop messing around~

Yo yo yo, you are angry out of shame.

Wen Yuqing couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth slightly, so he probably had feelings for her too.

**

Yuan Hong knew that Xiao Juncheng took things out of his warehouse to help the refugees, but he never expected that he was now out of ammunition and food and had to bleed to supply them.

Thinking of Xiao Juncheng's team of soldiers and servants, he couldn't help but feel a pang of pain.

"What? County Magistrate Yuan is unwilling?" Xiao Juncheng said coldly, and couldn't help sneering in his heart. He had greedily taken so much, and now he was going to lose his life by making him bleed a little?

"I dare not, but I cannot supply food for a few days. I still need the food delivery team to move faster."

Xiao Juncheng sneered: "Oh, who knows if the grain transport team can reach Jiangnan in time."

Xiao Juncheng seemed to put some emphasis on the word "arrive", as he might be robbed on the way.

"Don't worry, as long as County Magistrate Yuan prepares some simple food, it will be fine. I am not that expensive."

Yuan Hong was sweating profusely: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is a precious treasure. I dare not neglect him."

"Thank you very much, County Magistrate Yuan. When I return to the capital, I will recommend you to the Emperor."

By then, you can hang your head at the main gate of Prince Duan’s Mansion!

There was a stern look in his eyes.

The next day, Yuan Hong gritted his teeth and delivered the food, with a worried look on his face, as if a piece of his flesh had been cut off.

"Your Highness, this is the food that I and several of my subordinates have gathered together. It's not much, but it should be enough to last for two days." The food transport team should arrive in two days.

"Thank you, County Magistrate Yuan." Xiao Juncheng glanced at the load of food and thought, how could this little bit of food last them for two days?

There is also a female Bodhisattva in his house who has to raise a bunch of children.

"Your Highness, I am sorry to trouble you."

Sister Yuan thought the matter was resolved, but the next day she received bad news: the prince came to ask for food again!

"Your Highness, this...this amount of food is too much for me to provide..."

"Oh? Really? But I heard that your wife brought a few loads of food back to her parents' home yesterday." Xiao Juncheng said with a cold face.

Yuan Hong's heart sank when he heard this. How did he know that his wife's delivery of food to her parents' home was clearly done at night?

Did His Royal Highness send someone to monitor him, or did he already know something...

Yuan Hong's face froze for a moment.

"Your Highness, those grains were saved by this humble official in the early years, just in case of emergency. It just so happened that my father-in-law's family had run out of food and ammunition, so I had no choice but to send some back. Now the mansion really doesn't have much food left."

"No? Then why did I hear that your son held a grand banquet in the mansion to entertain his friends yesterday?" Xiao Juncheng said coldly.

Yuan Hong's face turned dark. This bastard actually gave him such a handle at the right time!

Yuan Hong could only smile and say, "My son was indeed playing with friends at home yesterday and had a few drinks. Your Highness might have made a mistake and there wasn't any banquet. Haha, how dare we waste food in this situation?"

"Waste? Of course there is. Does County Magistrate Yuan think it's a waste to give me some food?"

"I don't dare, my subordinates."

"I dare not or I don't think so." Xiao Juncheng said in a deep voice.

……

In the end, Xiao Juncheng still took a load of grain from Yuan Hong, and by the way, he also asked the shadow guard to secretly spy on Yuan Hong's granary to see how much he could still get.

In addition, he also sent people to do another thing, which was...

"What? The grain truck was hijacked by another gang!" Yuan Hong suddenly stood up at the Yuan Mansion. Who on earth had intercepted the grain truck before them?!

Before their people arrived at their positions, the grain trucks had already been hijacked. This was beyond their expectations. Could it be that some bandit was so bold as to intercept the imperial grain trucks?

In the past few days, Xiao Juncheng had taken away so much food from him one after another. He thought he could take this opportunity to recover, but he didn't expect that someone would take advantage of him first. Moreover, if Xiao Juncheng couldn't get the food, he would definitely take it from him.

I always feel that he knows something and has been against him since he arrived in Jiangnan. This can't go on, otherwise he will definitely leak it.

The most urgent thing was to leave Jiangnan. Fortunately, he had already made preparations for both scenarios.

Xiao Juncheng had already received the grain transport trucks, and it was he who asked the people from Qianjitang to take the opportunity to intercept the transport team. At this time, they saw that Xiao Juncheng was still a little dazed.

"Your Highness?" Why did Your Highness want to knock them out?

"I will give you an explanation for this matter, but there are more important things now." Xiao Juncheng said in a deep voice.

The soldiers said: "Yes."

His Highness must have his reasons for doing this.

Xiao Juncheng looked at the several large carts of supplies. The imperial court would allocate so much every time, but every time two-thirds of it would be swallowed up by Yuan Hong and the people behind him. In the end, the people only had a little bit of food, and they couldn't even fill themselves up with rice soup.

This time he wants them to spit it all out!

But the people in the city will have to hold on for two more days.

In the evening, Wen Yuqing had just returned from distributing grain. When she came back, she saw several carts of things parked in the mansion. She was surprised and asked, "Have the grain trucks arrived?"

But why is it here? Shouldn't it be shipped to the supply warehouse?

"Are you back?" At this time, Xiao Juncheng walked out.

"Well, what's going on?" Wen Yuqing asked, pointing at the trucks of things.

"It's better to strike first, I got it back first."

"what?"

After some explanation, Wen Yuqing understood. Was he planning to make them lose their composure first?

"Yuan Hong should be making some moves tonight. Do you want to go and watch a good show later?" Xiao Juncheng invited.

"Okay."

"Let's eat first." He specially asked the kitchen to prepare some delicious food. Everyone has worked hard these days, especially her. She was weaker than others, but always liked to run outside.

Sitting at the dining table, Wen Yuqing ate two bowls of rice. She was already quite hungry, and tonight's dinner was unusually sumptuous.

Xiao Juncheng had stopped long ago and sat aside, watching her eat hard. Wen Yuqing raised her head belatedly and found that he had been looking at her. She smiled a little embarrassedly: "Hehe, I'm so hungry."

It's definitely not that she eats rudely.

"Well, eat more." As he said that, he picked up another chicken leg for her with the serving chopsticks.

"You should eat too."

He had almost finished eating and now just wanted to watch her eat, grunting like a pig.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile again. It was kind of cute.

Especially the mouth puffing up.

After dinner, the moon was already high in the sky, but the entire Yuan Mansion was brightly lit. Everyone was busy packing their luggage, planning to secretly leave with their family at midnight.

But he didn't know that their every move was under the control of Xiao Juncheng at this time. The Yuan Mansion had been surrounded by shadow guards without knowing it, and not even a fly could fly out today.

Just as they stepped out of the house, they ran into Xiao Juncheng, Wen Yuqing and their group who had been waiting for a long time.

The Yuan family, young and old, were forced to stop. Yuan Hong's voice trembled unconsciously: "Your Highness..."

"Where is County Magistrate Yuan going?"

“No…I didn’t go anywhere…”

It was over. As expected, he was waiting for him to be caught, but the net had already been laid and he had no way to escape.

"Your Highness...I wonder why you are here so late..."

"Wait for you."

"Yuan Hong, thank you for the supplies these past few days. However, I was surprised that a mere county magistrate like you could have so many loads of grain."

"These are all saved by me... Now I am donating them to Your Highness... It is my honor to share Your Highness's worries..." Yuan Hong was still struggling.

Wen Yuqing, who was standing next to Xiao Juncheng, rolled her eyes silently and said, "I don't believe you. How can a small county magistrate accumulate so many things?"

It's like an ordinary civil servant can come up with five million so easily.

Unless you have a mine at home, otherwise...

He was the most successful among all the ancestors of the Yuan family and became a small county magistrate in Jiangnan.

"It seems you won't cry until you see the coffin."

As his hand fell, a group of masked men pushed out several large carts of things from the corner. Yuan Hong couldn't help but take a few steps back. It was over, it was over, all over.

Those carts hadn't even had their canvas covers changed, so how could he not recognize them? These were the embezzled grain carts that he had hidden in a dilapidated temple ten miles away.

How did he find it.

Xiao Juncheng raised his eyebrows in disdain at his puzzled look. There was nothing that Qianjitang couldn't find out.

"Yuan Hong, the people behind you probably don't know that you've secretly hidden so many things."

Yes, he guessed that Prince Duan Xiao Zhuo didn't know about this, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to embezzle so many things. Xiao Zhuo only knew that the court had allocated food and fodder, but he didn't know how much. If it was divided into 30% and 70%, Yuan Hong at least swallowed 50% for himself.

All of these were originally donated by the imperial court for disaster relief. In the early years of the Xiao Dynasty, they fought wars year after year and relied entirely on the soldiers fighting on the front line. Therefore, the emperor was not reluctant to allocate funds to help the people. It was the hard work of their fathers and ancestors that laid the foundation for the current empire.

But nearly two-thirds of the money and food used to help the people have now gone into the pockets of these two people, so their deaths do not deserve it!

But Yuan Hong cannot die now, he has to be taken back to the capital. Xiao Zhuo must be severely punished!

Yuan Hong fell to his knees with a thud, "Please spare my life, Your Highness. This is all Prince Duan's fault. He ordered me to do this."

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Yuan Hong betrayed Prince Duan without hesitation. Xiao Juncheng was disgusted with the man in front of him even more. He kicked him over and said coldly, "All of them will be taken into custody and await their punishment!"

The soldiers on the side immediately took action after receiving the order. They ignored the wailing sounds from the Yuan family and took the people away with expressionless faces. They even kicked Yuan Hong a few times. Bah!

Xiao Juncheng pulled Wen Yuqing onto the carriage and no longer paid attention to the people behind him. The expression on his face was not very good. The Xiao Dynasty had far more than just this one parasite.

"Your Highness? Are you okay?" Wen Yuqing asked in a low voice. At this time, Xiao Juncheng's hand was still tightly holding her wrist.

Xiao Juncheng came back to his senses: "It's okay."

"Really? Why is His Highness's brow furrowed so deeply?" Wen Yuqing said as she was about to reach out with one hand to smooth the wrinkled forehead, but she lowered her hand when she thought of something.

Xiao Juncheng's eyes flashed when he saw this, then he realized that he was still holding the girl's wrist and quickly let go.

"Just thinking about something."

"Oh." Wen Yuqing moved her wrist.

Back at the inn, the two walked together on the path, one in front and one behind, with different thoughts in their minds, until they reached a room facing each other and stopped.

Xiao Juncheng: "Go and rest. You don't have to get up early tomorrow. Now that the food and fodder have arrived, I will order the granaries to be opened and the grain released. Now the disaster victims can have enough to eat."

Wen Yuqing breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and was finally liberated.

"Okay." I can finally sleep in.

"Good night, Your Highness~" Wen Yuqing waved her hand.

Xiao Juncheng nodded.

Wen Yuqing: “…”

What a pig! So she turned around and went back to her room angrily.

Xiao Juncheng looked at the girl's angry back with amusement. He really couldn't do such a childish thing, so he waved his little paws like a kitten.

But: "Good night."