Revenge? Let Them Come at Her!

Wen Qiuyu was stunned. She looked at Zhou Wanwan, who was sitting calmly beside her Zhou Wanwan, and said:

Do you know everything?

How did you know? That's impossible; nobody knows this.

Zhou Wanwan looked at her calmly and said, "If you don't want people to know, then don't do it in the first place. Do you think I won't recognize you just because you changed your face?"

"You really know that you're deliberately playing me?" Wen Qiuyu said, her face flushed with anger.

Zhou Wanwan looked at her and said:

"Should I call you Miss Wen or Madam Lu? Didn't you start this mess?"

So you want to become my aunt-in-law and then take a share of my shops in Beijing? That's quite a clever idea.

Madam Lu, I truly don't want to be your enemy, but you've repeatedly caused trouble in front of me, so you can't blame me for this."

Wen Qiuyu was furious:

"We just want to survive, but you always block our way, leaving us with nowhere to go."

Why did you do that?

Zhou Wanwan looked at her coldly and said:

"Am I blocking the road, or are you trying to block my road?"

Don't make it sound so nice; just send them straight to the authorities.

Wen Qiuyu roared, "Zhou Wanwan, you'll get your comeuppance sooner or later! Just you wait!"

Liu Dalang was so angry that his eyes turned red.

Do you believe I can slap you to death?

Wen Qiuyu, you're disgusting! You arranged those people, didn't you?"

Wen Qiuyu glared coldly at Liu Dalang and said:

"You spineless coward, get the hell away from me."

You clearly knew Zhou Wanwan's plan all along, why didn't you tell me sooner?

Liu Dalang said coldly, "Zhou Wanwan saved me, she saved my whole family's lives, so what are you?"

Wen Qiuyu and Wen Dongyu were quickly tied up and sent to the county government office.

The magistrate looked at them and said, "You audacious scoundrels, daring to use a travel permit without permission! Give them twenty strokes of the cane and send them back to their place of origin."

He had barely finished speaking when the two of them were pulled away.

Wen Qiuyu screamed, "Zhou Wanwan, you'll get what's coming to you! You just wait!"

She had barely finished speaking when the sound of horses' hooves came from outside, and a eunuch jumped down from his horse and said:

"By the grace of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: Wen Qiuyu and Wen Dongyu are of noble birth and of suitable age."

He is hereby ordered to rise immediately, proceed to the capital immediately, and enter the palace to await selection for the imperial concubine selection. There shall be no delay. He shall immediately receive this imperial decree and express his gratitude!

Wen Qiuyu stood up, glaring venomously at Zhou Wanwan, and said, "Looks like your luck isn't so good! Zhou Wanwan, we'll see."

After she left, Shen Yu'an wiped the sweat from his brow. "This imperial edict came at just the right time, didn't it? I have a bad feeling about this."

Zhou Wanwan said calmly, "It's alright, it's good to let them take a stroll around the palace."

Shen Yu'an whispered, "Aren't you afraid? What if they retaliate against us?"

Zhou Wanwan scoffed and said, "Revenge? Let them come at me!"

Zhou Wanwan didn't have much time to play with them, mainly because things hadn't Taiping in the city lately.

Shen Yu'an looked at her and said, "Recently, many refugees have been flocking to our area, so this winter will probably be difficult."

Zhou Wanwan frowned and said:

"Has the Great Xia Kingdom not issued any policies?"

If that's the case, wouldn't we be under tremendous pressure?

Shen Yu'an thought for a moment and said:

Logically speaking, people from other counties shouldn't be coming to our area.

But these are extraordinary times. I heard that several counties couldn't take it anymore and started coming here.

The government couldn't control it at all, and some of them were from other prefectures. Dongshan Prefecture was next to Luochuan Prefecture, Sharang Prefecture, and Tianling Prefecture.

Life in these three places was far more difficult than in Dongshan Prefecture; they were extremely poor.

Luochuan Prefecture is full of pits and thin soil, nothing grows well, and it gets flooded with even a little rain.

A little drought kills the crops, and you can't harvest much grain all year round.

The Sharang Prefecture is all sandy soil, not fertile, and water cannot be retained, so the crops planted are sparse and the harvest is pitifully small.

Tianling Prefecture is mostly mountainous with little flat land, and there are only a few plots of land suitable for farming, making it difficult for the people to grow enough food to fill their stomachs.

These three prefectures were already poor, and this year they were hit by famine, resulting in a complete crop failure.

The people had no food and could not survive, so they had no choice but to bring their families and flee to our side.

Zhou Wanwan said calmly:

It's not that the government can't suppress it, it's that the government is unwilling to suppress it.

"After all, there are so many people, are we really going to let them starve to death?"

Shen Yu'an looked at Zhou Wanwan and said:

"So what do we do now?"

If these people come to Yunxi County, should I drive them away?

Should we make arrangements or not?

Zhou Wanwan thought for a moment and said:

"We'll investigate and keep the good ones in Yunxi County, and kick out the bad ones."

Yunxi County is about to start building city walls to enclose the entire area.

To prevent these disaster victims from flooding in all at once.

Shen Yu'an nodded and said:

"We've been doing this for a while now. We already had city walls here, and now we just need to reinforce them."

We have tree people, and those tree people are very fast. In addition, we have bricks in our own mountain stronghold, so we can finish it very quickly.

It's not just Yunxi County, but also Anyi County, Huaiyuan County, and Chengping County; they all did it this way.

Zhou Wanwan nodded and said:

"Then we don't need to worry about the others. When we enter the city, we'll stop these people and pick a few to take."

The land I bought is located at the border of Yunxi County and Anyi County. I'll arrange for those people to go to the estate to farm it."

Shen Yu'an said softly, "I understand."

Sure enough, the next day, as soon as Zhou Wanwan went out, she found many refugees dressed in tattered clothes.

The eyes of these refugees were different from those of ordinary people; they stared intently at the pedestrians on the road, as if searching for something.

Several refugees looked at Zhou Wanwan with shining eyes and whispered, "This is definitely a big fish. Look at the gold bracelet on her wrist."

"Follow her."

Zhou Wanwan strolled around the city with two maids following behind her, naturally making these people extremely envious.

The refugees were itching to pounce, Zhou Wanwan sighed and said, "Let's go outside the city. We have to give them a chance to act."

The carriage took them directly to the outskirts of the city. As soon as they arrived, dozens of refugees rushed up and surrounded Zhou Wanwan's carriage.

Zhou Wanwan looked at them and said, "Are you robbing me?"

The leader of the refugees laughed and said, "That's right, we're robbing you. Hand over all your gold and silver, and your grain too."

"Boss, this horse is nice! Shall we take it?"

The refugee chuckled and said:

"Forget it, we'll just take the gold and silver, we can forget about the horse."

Little girl, we had no choice, we were just too hungry. Don't worry, we won't hurt you.

No sooner had he finished speaking than another group of refugees arrived, this group even outnumbering their own.

The leader of the refugees chuckled and said, "Zhao Lao'er, I didn't expect to run into you again."

Zhao Lao'er looked at him with a stern face. "Wang Mazi, I found this person first. Don't you know the rules?"