Chapter 1816 Rong Li's Postscript 4

On the first day of August, Rong Li left the city early.

At noon, the carriage from Fengzhou also arrived at the outskirts of Beijing.

Rong Li met his grandmother, and the two of them felt very close to each other.

Ji Xiaqiu couldn't even wait to get home before talking to her grandson about business. He invited his grandson to get on the carriage and put some picture albums in front of him.

"From north to south, there are everything from thin swallows to fat rings, noble ladies from famous families, and jade from small families. You should hurry up and take a look first."

Rong Li held the picture album and flipped through it helplessly. It had to be said that his grandmother was really worried about his marriage. Look at this picture album. It was so rigorously made that it could be used to open a blind date agency. Not only was it There is a portrait of the girl's family, and a brief introduction to the family's life, ancestral family, hobbies, height and weight, and the degree of rigor, which is more comprehensive than the household registration of the Ministry of Officials.

Rong Li blindly glanced at a few pages, the expression on his face remained calm.

Seeing that his grandson didn't care, Ji Xiaqiu simply turned to the pages he liked and let him focus on them.

"This Miss Li, her family owns a silk and satin shop. She has only one daughter. Her parents treat her like jewels. She is seventeen years old, and she is the right age for you. Let's see if she looks good-looking as well. She looks like a flower. of."

"This Miss Chen is the legitimate daughter of the Cheng family of Nanshui Prefecture. Her family is from a scholarly family and she is very elegant. I heard that she has read poetry and books since she was a child and is rich in knowledge. If she is not born with the wrong gender, she is full of knowledge. , it won’t be a problem to get the top prize.”

"And this European girl..."

"This Miss Fang..."

Rong Li listened to his grandmother like a sparrow, telling him science information one by one, but he didn't answer anything, his expression was dull, and the words went in one ear and out the other.

When his words were almost dry, Ji Xiaqiu patted his grandson on the shoulder and asked, "Did you listen to what I said?"

"I heard it." Rong Li agreed.

"Then which one do you like?"

"It will be all right."

"You can call me anything?" Ji Xiaqiu's eyes widened.

Rong Li shrugged: "Since these girls are all favored by my grandmother, they must be the best in temperament in the family, so no matter which one they are, they must be more than good enough for me, and I will naturally be able to match them."

Ji Xiaqiu was extremely angry: "Does that mean you don't like anyone?"

Rong Li put down the picture album and gave his grandmother a flattering squeeze on her shoulders: "Marriage is an important matter that cannot be rushed."

Ji Xiaqiu went to poke her grandson's forehead: "You are very discerning. It is more difficult than the emperor to choose a concubine. Anyway, I don't care. If you don't like the foreign girls in the picture album, then we will look for them in Kyoto. There are many girls of the right age in Kyoto. Let's Watch it family by family!”

Rong Li nodded: "I listen to grandma."

When Ji Xiaqiu heard this, she became angry again. Why did she listen to her? He was clearly perfunctory and looked at with such a careless look that it really made her anxious to death!

So Ji Xiaqiu began to use the bitter trick: "Grandma is old and won't live for a few more years. Before she died, she wanted to..."

"Grandma, you are in very good health. You will have no problem living for another thirty years. Don't curse yourself." Rong Li interrupted unceremoniously.

Ji Xiaqiu: "..."

After returning to the city and settling her grandmother down, Rong Li planned to go to Qing Le Hall.

Ji Xiaqiu pulled him back: "I'm asking you to go back to Beijing, but I'm not asking you to go to a different place for medical treatment. If you don't have a family, you're not allowed to go to the doctor!"

Rong Li blinked and said, "I'm not going to have a consultation. I have something to do these days, so I won't have a consultation. But I have to go to the pharmacy today to get some medicine."

Ji Xiaqiu hummed: "What's the matter with you? Are you just trying to avoid me?"

"No, I want to enter the palace." Rong Li said, revealing a little bit about what he was doing: "The emperor has thought of a plan for the drought in Dingzhou, and he needs my help in preparing food relief. I won't do it every time these days. Return home in the day.”

Ji Xiaqiu was angry: "I asked you to see the girl, but you said you wouldn't go home every day, and you said you didn't avoid me on purpose!"

"Grandma..." Rong Li coaxed patiently: "This matter concerns hundreds of thousands of people in Dingzhou and is not something to be trifled with."

The main headquarters of Baxiufang is in Dingzhou. Although the Xiufang girls did not suffer from hunger due to the drought in Dingzhou, they did suffer from it. Since the beginning of the drought, Ji Xiaqiu has been sending money to Dingzhou and returning money to Dingzhou. She donated a lot of disaster funds in the name of Xiufang. As an ordinary businesswoman, that's all she could do.

Although she was worried about her grandson's marriage, she was still moved by her grandson's serious mention of the disaster in Dingzhou.

She asked: "Does the court really have a solution?"

Rong Li nodded: "Yes."

Ji Xiaqiu didn't quite believe it: "The crux of the drought is the lack of food. The north is short of food, and the south is also short of food. A few months ago, the imperial court spent 100,000 silver to buy rice from Jiangnan at a high price, which was enough to wipe out all the major grain stores in Jiuzhou in the south of the Yangtze River. Now Jiangnan's The common people only have enough for general use. Even if the imperial court provides another hundred thousand silver to buy rice from Jiangnan, it will be priceless and there is no market. Now there is no surplus food anywhere in Qingyun. The only place where there is still food... "

Ji Xiaqiu said and glanced at Rong Li.

Rong Li shook his head seriously: "The military rations cannot be touched."

Ji Xiaqiu sighed: "The only food left in the country now is for the defense of the border army. You said that the emperor has a way to raise food, but how to raise it?"

Rong Li patted his grandmother on the shoulder: "Anyway, there is a way."

Seeing her grandson's assurance, Ji Xiaqiu could only nod: "If you can really raise food, go ahead. I'll go to various houses for you to see which ones have good girls. After you finish your business, what? You have to choose one for me!”

Rong Li was very good at writing blank checks and immediately agreed: "This is natural."

Ji Xiaqiu couldn't fault him, so just let him go.

Rong Li went to Qingle Hall first, took the medicine that the shopkeeper had prepared in advance, and personally delivered it to the palace.

In Shangqing Palace, Rong Jindong sent the surrounding palace servants away, and when he and Rong Li were the only ones in the palace, he walked down the high platform and came to him and asked: "Is that all?"

Rong Li nodded: "That's all, but we still need a secluded pharmacy to make the elixir soup."

Rong Jindong smiled: "I'll take you there."

Rong Li never expected that Rong Jindong would arrange the alchemy room behind Shangqing Palace. The two places are not far apart, and it only takes a cup of tea to go back and forth.

Rong Jindong opened the alchemy room, and Rong Li saw the well-equipped medicine cabinet and furnace top inside. He glanced around and heard the emperor beside him ask: "Can it be used together?"

Rong Li nodded blankly: "Very comprehensive, beyond my imagination."

Rong Jindong breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good if it can be used together. The disaster is serious and we don't have much time."

Rong Li also became serious. He promised: "I will make the medicine within three days." But he added: "But before that, I have to meet Zhong Ziyu first. I want to test clearly whether his current physical fitness can bear all the medicinal properties. The emperor also knows that this medicine is very dangerous. If the dosage is slightly deviated, the person who takes it will easily die."

Rong Jindong frowned, seeming to be a little hesitant.

Rong Li asked: "Is it inconvenient for him to come out?"

Rong Jindong nodded: "It was very difficult for him to sneak in. It is indeed difficult for him to come out. I will think of a way."