Traveling through time with billions of supplies to become a farmer's little fortune

Chapter 210 Xiaoqiu asks for help, grandparents starve to death

Su Muyao asked in confusion, "Master Wang looks quite old, but your daughter is still unmarried?"

"The woman who publicly said she had her eyes on the number one scholar was only 15 years old."

Su Muyao was very surprised when she heard this. Lord Wang looked quite old, but he didn't expect that his daughter was only in her teens?

Before Su Muyao could ask what was on her mind, Xiao Xia continued, "This little girl of Lord Wang is also the apple of everyone's eye.

Lord Wang already had a bunch of sons and had always wanted a little girl. He never thought that he would be able to have a daughter again when he was over fifty. He was really spoiled to the sky.

This number one scholar is only 17 years old. There has never been such an outstanding number one scholar in this dynasty, let alone in previous dynasties."

Su Muyao looked at Xiao Xia's lustful face and laughed out loud: "How come you have seen that man? Hurry up and put away your lustful look, otherwise others will see it.

How can a woman be so unreserved? If others knew about this, it would be a disgrace to our Princess Mansion."

"Miss, what are you talking about?" Xiao Xia stomped her feet, covered her face and ran out.

"Beauty can harm people."

Just then Xiao Qiu came into the princess's room, and knelt down in front of Su Muyao with a plop.

"Xiao Qiu, what do you mean? Get up quickly."

The four maids, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, were responsible for managing various trivial matters respectively.

Xiaoxia followed Su Muyao, Xiaochun managed the princess's room, and Xiaodong was in charge of the outer courtyard.

Only Xiaoqiu had to run between the shop and the princess's mansion. That was why Su Muyao rarely saw Xiaoqiu in the mansion.

"If you have something to say, stand up and speak. If you kneel down, I won't listen."

Xiao Qiu stood up quickly and said, "My little princess, I want to take two days off. I received a letter from home saying that my grandparents are dying, and they want me to go home to see them for the last time."

Su Muyao naturally knew Xiaoqiu's life experience, and Xiaoqiu was also a pitiful person.

In the past few years, there had been successive years of drought, which had caused many people to starve to death. At that time, the imperial palace happened to say that it wanted to recruit some maids.

The nanny who was selecting the maid saw that she was good-looking and asked her a question.

In this way, Xiaoqiu sold herself and exchanged two taels of silver for her family, and then followed the housekeeper in the palace.

Later I heard that Xiaoqiu's mother cried her eyes out because of this incident. Fortunately, Xiaoqiu was assigned to the Princess's Mansion and received a considerable salary every month.

We also have a few days off every month. I told the manager that we would go home together on the days off to visit our elderly parents.

It was after that that I started getting in touch with my family.

When Xiaoqiu returned home, her family immediately recognized the person they had been thinking about day and night...

"How could this happen? Are you sick or something else? You'll need to ask the court doctor to accompany you."

Xiao Qiu shook her head and said: "The princess is not sick, but the letter said...she was hungry."

Su Muyao's eyes widened. If she remembered correctly, Xiaoqiu's parents lived very close to Beijing.

It’s not a remote area, so how come people are almost starving to death?

"Okay, bring more food and money from the mansion."

After saying this, Su Muyao thought that since she had nothing to do, she might as well go over and take a look.

"Go prepare the carriage, I will go back with you."

Xiaoqiu didn't expect that the princess was going too, so she quickly knelt down and kowtowed before getting up to call the coachman.

He selected four guards with high martial arts skills from the mansion to go with him. He was not sure what the situation was, but at least he had to ensure his own safety.

In just over two hours, the carriage soon stopped beside a small mountain village.

Xiao Xia carried Su Muyao down from the carriage. When Su Muyao stood up, all she saw were collapsed houses everywhere and the crying of children in the village.

At this time, the villagers who were patrolling back and forth at the entrance of the village heard the sound of horse hooves coming, and thought it was horse bandits coming to rob, so they quickly took out the weapons in their hands and blocked the entrance of the village.

When Niu Er saw from afar that it was his own sister, he quickly called for the villagers to stop.

"Uncle village chief, Xiao Ya is back."

When the village chief heard Niu Er say that Xiao Ya had returned, he asked everyone to put down what they were holding.

When Xiaoqiu came closer, she saw her brother grinning at her.

"elder brother"

"Hey, are you cold? Go back and warm yourself up first."

"Brother, how are grandpa and grandma?"

The young man in his 18s or 19s in front of him had tears in his eyes. "They are gone, but don't be sad. Grandpa and grandma said you should be happy. They are just old... Everyone has to die..."

Xiaoqiu's tears were falling down, and Xiaoxia couldn't stand seeing this the most so she sniffed beside her.

"Brother, this is the little princess I told you about. She is very kind to others. Come and meet her."

When the villagers surrounding Xiaoqiu heard this, they all knelt down and kowtowed to Su Muyao.

They also knew that there was a little princess in the capital who was the reincarnation of a lucky star.

Now, this little lucky star has come to their village, and the most important thing is that people from their village are actually working in the little lucky star's mansion.

Wondering if there is any hope?

Soon the village chief briefly told Su Muyao about the recent situation in the village.

Only then did Su Muyao realize that due to the heavy snow, many houses, which were not very stable to begin with, collapsed.

It was also because of the heavy snow that the houses in some villages were destroyed. The houses in the entire village collapsed. Those who lost their homes became refugees and had no choice but to steal from other villages.

The most unfortunate thing was that their village was closest to the official road and was the first to be robbed by the refugees.

Now every household has run out of food, and some people who have hidden money cannot buy much food even if they use the money.

Therefore, many elderly people in families simply don’t eat it and give the saved bites to their children.

The same thing happened to Xiaoqiu's grandparents. When the family discovered the situation, they found out that all the multi-grain biscuits they gave to her were hidden under the bed by the old man and woman.

Later, the old man and the old woman no longer had the strength to swallow, and the village doctor also said that they were at the end of their life.

Niu Er quickly asked the villagers who were going out to Beijing to buy food to pass a letter to the grocery store, to see if Xiao Ya could receive the letter and have time to come back to see her grandparents for the last time.

When Su Muyao was invited into the village, she found that there were thatched houses in the village, and under the houses were the elderly, the weak, the sick, and many children lying.

These children all looked at the baby in front of them with ignorant and curious eyes.

One of the girls, about five or six years old, asked her elder sister, "Sister, she is so beautiful. The clothes she wears are beautiful, and the thing on her head is also beautiful."

The little guy didn't know how to describe Su Muyao's outfit, and could only say "beautiful".

The woman who was called sister quickly covered her sister's mouth and said, "Don't talk nonsense."

After saying that, he shrank back inside, and the person inside pushed the girl who was holding her sister.

"Why are you squeezing in? There's no seat for me, why are you trying to squeeze in?"

Su Muyao looked at the majority of people who were drowsy and sitting in the haystack without even lifting their eyelids.

"Who are the village chief and the others?"

The village chief who was named sighed: "Alas, there is nothing we can do. These people have run out of food at home, and now they are just lying here waiting to fend for themselves."

After saying that, he shook his head. It was not that he, as the village chief, did not want to help, but every household had no food and they only had half a bucket of miscellaneous grains.

Originally, they could have survived the winter by relying on the food stored at home, but those damn refugees had no food of their own and they robbed them.

There are so many children at home, alas.