Quick Wear: The first person to love the host

Chapter 211: The Enemies in the Capital Have a Fall in Love with Each Other 28

Su Ziyu thought of the scene he saw on the way back to the city, "Father, is there something wrong with the defense of the city gate?"

Father Su sighed and nodded, "The Crown Prince led his troops to war, and many people were withdrawn from the city gates. The refugees found an opportunity to break in, disrupting the peace of the capital. His Majesty was furious and has ordered everyone to distribute porridge to quell the rebellion."

Finally, he added: "You should stay at home for the next two days and pack the things you need to take to Jiangnan. Those refugees are extremely hungry and can do anything."

Su Ziyu responded verbally, but early the next morning he showed up at the porridge stall set up by the marquis's mansion outside the city with a large number of guards.

More than ten sheds were set up at the city gate. Before His Majesty gave the order, no one dared to take the lead. Now all the food in the granary has to be supported to the border areas, and the provision of porridge to help refugees can only rely on the efforts of princes and nobles.

The refugees were pale and thin, and they all lined up to get porridge. Su Ziyu stood in front of the pot with a long spoon and served porridge to the refugees, "If it's not enough, you can come and get more."

The refugees held the porridge in their hands, tilted their heads back and drank it without saying a word, not caring whether the temperature was hot enough to burn their mouths, for fear that it would be gone if they didn't drink it.

Su Ziyu stood there distributing porridge for a whole day. When he went back home at night, his right arm was so sore that he couldn't lift it. Lu Zhu gave him a massage out of concern, "My Lord, why did you go through this suffering when you said you had nothing to do?"

Su Ziyu said nothing.

He went there early the next day as usual, but today he did not distribute porridge in person. Instead, he went to each porridge stall to take a look. He happened to meet Nangong Xi, the only son of the Prime Minister, who was forced to come out by his family.

Nangong Xi was already fat, and when wrapped in a thick cloak, he looked like a bloated ball.

He was sitting there dozing off in a bad mood, but when he saw his mortal enemy Su Ziyu suddenly perked up, he almost gnashed his teeth and said, "Oh, isn't this the loyal and brave prince of the Marquisate who is unparalleled in his righteousness!"

You should know that he didn't need to come here to suffer, because his father heard last night that His Majesty praised the prince of the Loyal and Brave Marquisate for distributing porridge outside the city all day, and he insisted on ordering him to come as well, under the pretext of gaining a good reputation.

Humph, in his opinion, he and this guy Su Ziyu are in conflict.

When he was young, he scratched his face, leaving a scar on his forehead to this day. Now he has grown up and is clearly a playboy, but his father always says that Su Zi wants to be better than him and orders him to learn from him.

Su Zi wanted to hear the sarcasm in his words, but did not pay attention to it. He just nodded slightly as a greeting and stood where he was, staring at the queue for porridge.

"Why are you silent? What are you looking at?"

"I am checking to see how many of these people are genuine refugees, and how many are just ordinary people in the city trying to take advantage of the situation."

Nangong Xi wanted to find a reason to ridicule and embarrass him, but when he saw him answering her question seriously, she suddenly felt a little awkward, so she glanced at the crowd and said, "What's the difference? We are all hungry anyway."

Su Zi wanted to shake his head, "The refugees gathered at the city gate can only rely on this porridge to make a living. If everyone in the city comes to share a piece of the porridge, the refugees will have no way to survive."

Su Zi was about to say something, then turned around and walked back. After his round of inspection, he found that the porridge stalls did not care whether the people who came to get the porridge were refugees or not. Anyone who lined up could get the porridge.

The real refugees could not compete with the strong people and could only be squeezed in the back. The amount of porridge distributed by each family every day was limited, and it was difficult for many refugees to get it.

He returned to his own porridge shed, and in front of everyone, he picked up a handful of dust from the ground and threw it into the thick white porridge that was being cooked. Immediately, someone in the queue protested.

Su Ziyu's face was tense. He just said that this was his family's porridge stall and those who didn't want to eat didn't have to.

As expected, more than half of the people in the crowd left the line cursing and went to queue up at other porridge stalls. The rest were all refugees, and they didn't care at all whether there was dirt in the porridge.

When people are hungry, they can eat anything as long as they can fill their stomachs, let alone porridge with sand in it. In the past two days, they even ate tree bark and white soil.

Su Ziyu's extraordinary behavior was seen clearly by Nangong Xi who came to provoke him. With his instigation, the news of the prince of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery throwing dirt into the porridge pot quickly spread.

That afternoon, Su Ziyu was summoned to the palace by the emperor. "I heard that you put dirt into the porridge pot?"

He had just praised the loyal and brave prince of the Marquis' Mansion yesterday, but today the other party threw dirt into the pot. This was clearly a slap in his face!

Su Ziyu knelt there and frankly admitted, "Uncle Royal, it was me who did it. The people in the city pretended to be refugees to get porridge, and the real refugees could not compete with the strong people. My nephew is stupid and can't think of a good plan, so I can only resort to this bad plan."

The emperor narrowed his eyes and examined the expression of Su Ziyu below him. After a moment, he said, "Is this true? Someone, call the leader of the Jinyiwei."

The leader of the Embroidered Uniform Guard arrived very quickly. After questioning, the emperor found that what Su Ziyu said was true. He first praised Su Ziyu, gave him a seat and gave him tea.

Then he ordered the Jinyiwei to go to the soup kitchens outside the city to help. If they saw civilians pretending to be refugees, they would be beaten ten times in the street to serve as a warning to others.

The emperor wanted to reward Su Ziyu, but Su Ziyu said that he had witnessed many refugees going hungry in the past two days, so he planned to go to the rice-rich Jiangnan area to study ways to increase grain production for His Majesty, and by the way, arrest corrupt officials on the way and borrow some manpower and power from His Majesty.

The emperor was quite happy about this. After the imperial decree of marriage was issued that day, he learned that Miss Xin Si was the one Su Ziyu liked, and the prince also wanted to take Pei Qingcheng away.

The emperor wanted to make further use of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, which made Su Ziyu suffer grievances one after another. He was worried that he had no way to make up for it, but when he heard his words, he agreed without hesitation.

"Okay, since you are so willing, I will give you a sign as if I am here in person, and a team of Jinyiwei, how about that?"

"Thank you, uncle."

Su Ziyu could see that the old emperor did not take his words seriously, and that he was trying to comfort a child, but he was still very satisfied and immediately kowtowed to thank the emperor for his grace.

On the way back home from leaving the palace, the system suddenly spoke, "Host, shouldn't your trip to Jiangnan to collect food and grass be kept secret? Why did you take the initiative to tell the emperor about it?"

"Serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. The emperor will not feel that he is wrong. Besides, you can hide it for a while but not forever. Instead of being sneaky, it is better to be open and aboveboard." Su Ziyu said very clearly.