154 “Sexy Pampering” Chapter 153

[Father Chapter 28] Mission

What Shen Zhen meant by “changing identities” was actually to disguise herself as Chu Jiao’s bodyguard during the journey and provide her with “personal” protection.

As for “Shen Zhongxing”, due to his weak health, he will be delayed for a few days to meet up with the convoy.

Lin Wenyue had always been in a boudoir, so she didn’t know about the fire in the third room of the Shen House in the capital. After they left the capital, no one knew about it.After all, compared to the turmoil in the court, the small things in the inner house will be forgotten in a few days.

This is also the reason why Shen Zhen dares to use the name Shen Zhongxing to travel outside.

Even if it doesn’t work, even if he is exposed, he still carries other things to protect his life and prove his identity.

This trip was a secret order from the emperor. “Shilang Shen” who was originally in the capital was reprimanded by the emperor for his poor management of the family and ordered to shut up and think about his mistakes, so no one noticed that he left quietly. The Shen family was struggling to raise money. How could they pay attention to Shen Zhen, an “unscrupulous son” who couldn’t help at all and wanted to beat him up.

Shen Zhen does whatever he wants, but Chu Jiao still has to deal with Lin Wenyue.

After the group arrived at the inn, Chu Jiao and Lin Wenyue sat down and had a good conversation, making their identities clear in the process.

Lin Wenyue finally put aside her doubts about Fulai’s identity and breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that after going full circle, although she didn’t see her brother-in-law, she did meet her sister’s nominal “daughter-in-law.”

Chu Jiao was too lazy to delve deeper into the confusion of seniority, and still called “Miss Lin”.

While the two were talking, Shen Zhen had been standing behind Chu Jiao with a fierce look. Lin Wenyue had not dared to look at him since she had glanced at him when he first entered the door.

God knew she was most afraid of such a reckless man, and she was not in the mood to chat with Chu Jiao. She even forgot to ask about Shen Zhen’s affairs. After finishing her meal, she hid in her room alone on pins and needles.

Chu Jiao was so amused that the male protagonist in each world seemed to be an enemy that she could not bear to see against the female protagonist. Whenever she needed to break them up, the two of them would go their separate ways. She was happy and leisurely, as if she was going on vacation to fall in love in different worlds.

The annoying people finally left with understanding. Shen Zhen sat down boldly and asked the waiter to serve half a catty of meat and a pot of Huadiao.

“Do you really think of yourself as a green forest hero?” Chu Jiao looked at the table full of food and raised her eyebrows, “Still you haven’t eaten enough before?”

Shen Zhen picked up a piece of meat, chewed it carefully, and explained, “It’s not that we don’t have enough to eat, but that there are still people who are hungry.”

When getting off the carriage, Shen Zhen blocked Chu Jiao tightly, so Chu Jiao didn’t see that there were actually many refugees wandering outside the post house. They were sallow and thin, and they didn’t have enough to eat.

The drought in the Central Plains has affected millions of people living in it. Some people still stay in their hometowns and wait for relief from the court, while others decide to go north because the closer they are to the capital, the more prosperous they are, the better chance they have to survive.

Shen Zhen couldn’t help everyone. If he did good deeds generously, the refugees might ask for endless amounts of money. At the same time, it is said that wealth is not revealed, so he could only order more food. If he couldn’t finish it in a while, he asked Fu Lai to take it out and “throw it away”. He could help one by one.

Since the implementation of the previous “official donation” policy, the pressure on the treasury has been greatly relieved. Emperor Xie Yu has ordered the immediate mobilization of food relief, which will surely be effective soon. I only hope that these refugees can wait until then.

Shen Zhen’s mission during this trip is also related to this.

Although the national treasury was in short supply earlier, the Ministry of Revenue still scraped together money to provide disaster relief.The south of the Yangtze River has been a land of fish and rice for thousands of years and has always been wealthy. The Ministry of Household Affairs follows precedent and buys grain from grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River and then transports it to the Central Plains for disaster relief.

The money was sent, and tens of thousands of grains were transported to the disaster-stricken areas. However, the imperial court continued to receive urgent reports from counties in the disaster-stricken areas. The casualties and turmoil among the victims continued to increase. Emperor Xieyu was furious and took a series of subsequent measures.

Previously, he was busy appeasing and providing disaster relief, so Emperor Xie Yu had no time to pursue this matter. Now that the situation has calmed down a bit, he has the intention to clean up the court bugs who are cleaning up the corpses.

Shen Zhen received a secret order from the emperor, ordering him to go south and make sure to investigate the whereabouts of the grain, grass and silver that had been provided for disaster relief some time ago. If necessary, he could kill them first and report later.

Of course, Shen Zhen promised to be honest and loyal in front of the emperor, then turned around and hugged Chu Jiao, treating this trip as an outing.

If Emperor Xieyu knew that his close minister was now so addicted to love, he might be so angry that he would take back the Shang Fang Sword given by the emperor.