A peasant girl with a special ability uses herself and two wolves to escape famine!

"Where are they? Is there a list?"

The Taoist priest shrank his neck. "I don't know. It's with His Majesty."

Holy crap, do we have to go to Nanzhao again?

"Why did you kill innocent children and sacrifice them to the heavens? Who came up with this idea?"

"I don't know either. As soon as I entered the city, I heard about some drought or something. Then a yamen runner brought me to the prefect. He asked me what I could do to solve the natural disaster. I said that I should offer five hundred young boys and girls as a sacrifice to Heaven. If Heaven felt my sincerity, the natural disaster might end."

"I was just saying it casually, but the prefect believed me and started ordering the people to offer up people. When they didn't have enough, he ordered his men to search and rob people from their homes."

He was truly wronged, and he was helpless too, okay? The prefect was like a brainless idiot; whatever he said was law. To be honest, he even suspected at one point that he was a spy sent by another country.

Xia Ning was utterly speechless; one was just talking casually, and the other took it all too seriously. The prefect probably acted on pure luck, a completely haphazard decision. A thousand lives gone? Could they be any more irresponsible?

No, this Nanzhao man originally wanted the people of Daxia to die, and he probably felt that a thousand was not enough.

Hey!

"What should we do with him?"

"Great Immortal, spare us! Great Immortal, spare us! I have confessed everything I know. The people of Nanzhao are still waiting for you to save them from their suffering. What the Great Xia can give you, we in Nanzhao will give you twice as much."

"Are you all so rich in Nanzhao?" She moved quite a lot away last time.

"Of course, Nanzhao is full of treasures, with jade mines, gold mines, and a continuous flow of wealth," the Taoist priest said with some pride. As a native of Nanzhao, he was proud.

"Then why are your people starving?" She thought it was quite prosperous when she last visited.

The Taoist priest looked mournful. "It's a natural disaster. We can't buy food or clothing outside."

Yes, apart from her, no one else had any supplies.

Where are your gold and jade mines?

"I don't know. It's a secret. Only His Majesty and his close advisors know it."

Well, she knows how to make a fortune quietly.

"Immortal, are you going to Nanzhao? His Majesty will certainly treat you as an honored guest."

No, no, no, he won't. He'll find a way to make me spit out the stolen funds.

Having learned what he wanted to know, and realizing that keeping this person around was a waste of food, he was simply thrown into the storage space.

"Write a letter saying I'm back, that I dealt with the prefect and the Taoist priest, and if they want to live, they should send their children back to their families one by one. From now on, the prefectural governor will be in charge of Qing Prefecture. Give him two days to prepare the transaction funds and a list of the necessary items." She had inquired and knew he was a good official.

Jiang Yi nodded.

After throwing away the Taoist priest's corpse and placing the letter on his chest, Xia Ning's work for the day was finally finished.

He let out a big yawn. Every trade requires staying up all night; it's exhausting! "Baby just finished eating, let's go to sleep. We still need to go out and check on the situation in the prefectural city tomorrow."

"Ah."

She's such a worrywart. Out of a hundred people, only one has passed away, and she doesn't even know where he is or what his name is. Good heavens, the road ahead is long and arduous; her workload is enormous.

"When we exchange this information, we leave it with the officials in each prefecture and tell them to be careful."

"You're right, I'm just meddling in other people's business. It's not like it's my country."

Jiang Yi reached out and hugged her. "Go to sleep."

Xia Ning slept until the sun was high in the sky. When she woke up, the super dad was feeding the baby.

She noticed that the baby was exceptionally well-behaved in the space, and seemed to understand what they were saying; the baby was very clever.

They left the space together and handed him over to Da Bai and Er Bai. He never cried when he came back. It was truly amazing.

Does space make children smarter?

Her face was fair and rosy, clearly well-cared for.

"Let's go out and see if the children have returned home." This time, she will take out more grain, from the prefect's private treasury, to buy supplies, as well as grain from the secret passage.

Almost all the food inside was given by her. She regretted not arresting him and asking him what his intentions were in hiding so much food.

In the morning, the concubine woke up—no, woke up from the cold—and blinked her eyes. Wasn't she serving the master last night? How did she wake up from the cold? Where is the master?

She sat up halfway, staring wide-eyed at the bloodstains on the bed curtains.

"what!"