After meal.
Xu Yi sent Zhao Shou away, picked up a wooden hairpin and walked into the study.
The empty study room had already been lit by Zhao Shou.
Compared with outside the house, the temperature inside the study makes people feel warm all over.
He picked the oil lamp on the desk with the end of the hairpin.
In an instant, the study became a little brighter again.
He reached out and picked up the file he had just finished reading.
Leaning on the Taishi chair, he read carefully by the light of the oil lamp.
As the pages of the dossier slowly turned.
Xu Yi's brows wrinkled from time to time.
After a while.
Xu Yi, who frowned, put down the file in his hand and rubbed his sore eyes.
Get up and push open the window sill, letting in the cold air outside the window.
It seems that only this can relieve the boredom in my heart.
Through volumes of files, Xu Yi deeply realized that the drought in Guanzhong was far worse and more troublesome than he imagined.
The Zhou Dynasty has gone through more than 200 years since the founding of the country by Emperor Taizu.
During these two hundred years, countless aristocratic families, large and small, were born under a subtle influence.
There are some century-old families among them.
This severe drought was a disaster for the court and the people.
However, for these rich families, it is nothing more than a gluttonous feast.
The severe drought in Guanzhong is located near the capital. Since the beginning of the drought, the imperial court has allocated money and grain for disaster relief more than once.
A lot of money and food were indeed allocated, but the disaster situation has not been reversed at all.
There are even more and more violent gestures.
For this reason, the imperial court vigorously arrested corrupt officials.
As long as they are found to have touched money and food that should not have been touched during this drought.
It ranges from a person's head falling to the ground, to a severe outcome from confiscating the house and killing nine tribesmen.
However, this is still treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.
Killing a corrupt official will not have the effect of killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.
On the contrary, it will be counterproductive and frighten the enemy.
As a result, those undiscovered black hands act more secretly.
After all, everyone is lucky.
Xu Yi stood by the window sill, looking up at the dark night sky, his brows sometimes furrowed and sometimes gentle.
It's hard to see what's going on in his heart.
Within the next three days.
Xu Yi almost never leaves the file in his hands.
Whether he is eating or sleeping, he always holds a volume in his hand.
Zhao Shou was so worried that he almost thought that his master was possessed by evil spirits.
At noon three days later.
Xu Yi was lying on a deck chair in the courtyard, basking in the sun while flipping through the files in his hand that he had read countless times.
"Sixth Master."
Zhao Shou looked at Xu Yi with dark circles in his eyes with worry.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Yi turned over and asked without looking back.
"Sixth Master, you have read this file many times."
"Don't have a clue yet?"
Zhao Shou walked to the recliner with the copper kettle, picked up the copper kettle and poured it towards the teapot on the small wooden table next to the recliner.
In the past few days, the consumption of clouds and mist in Lushan Mountain has obviously exceeded before.
"After reading the book a hundred times, its meaning will be apparent. The same is true for this volume."
Xu Yi stood up slowly, picked up the tea cup on the small wooden table and drank it all in one gulp.
In three days, Xu Yi read the file countless times.
Some details that were not noticed at the beginning gradually emerged in these three days.
At least, Xu Yi now is far more confident than Xu Yi three days ago.
"Then, does Mr. Liu have confidence in this disaster relief?"
Zhao Shou put down the copper pot and served Xu Yileng a cup of Lushan Yunwu again.
"It's too early to say that."
"You have to wait until you leave Zongzheng Temple to know everything."
After all, the dossier was written by others, and Xu Yi would not draw any private conclusions to anyone without witnessing it with his own eyes.
This is not only due to his own personality, but also due to his eight years of confinement.
Blessings depend on disasters, and misfortunes depend on blessings.
The word caution was deeply engraved in Xu Yi's bones during his eight years of confinement.
It's not that he doesn't trust Zhao Shou, but that he's afraid that walls have ears.
It is not difficult to find out through constant study of those files.
The drought is not only caused by natural disasters, but also by man-made disasters.
As for how powerful this man-made disaster is, it is absolutely impossible to tell from the files alone.
While the master and servant were chatting in the courtyard.
Three days later, the door of Youningyuan was knocked on again.
"Go and have a look."
Xu Yi waved his hand casually, already having a guess about the person coming.
Tomorrow is the ceremony to worship the heaven, and the measurements have been taken in the dressing room a few days ago.
You don't have to guess who's coming.
as expected.
It doesn't take a while.
Zhao Shou walked in with four maids with a smile on his face.
"Sixth Master, the dressing room is here to deliver the court clothes."
Before he reached the couch, Zhao Shou shouted loudly.
Xu Yi raised his head and glanced at the trays in the hands of the four maids in the dressing room, and nodded slightly.
Then he signaled everyone to put it down and left on their own.
"Master Liu, please take a look."
Compared to Xu Yi, Zhao Shou seemed to be more excited.
Xu Yi smiled and reached out to pick up the black robe placed on the first mahogany tray.
With a shake of his hands, a black python robe with extremely exquisite workmanship material appeared in front of the master and servant.
The black giant python on the python robe can be considered quite majestic.
The water virtues of the Zhou Dynasty were still black. The emperor had a black robe with five claws and a golden dragon. The prince had a black robe with a green dragon with four claws. The prince of the county had a black robe with a three-claw dragon.
As for the prince, before he became a feudal lord, he wore a black clawless python robe.
Among the princes, there is only one exception in court uniform, and that is the crown prince.
In order to highlight the transcendent status of a country's crown prince, the crown prince's court uniform is a black unicorn robe.
"Master Liu, do you want to try it first?"
Zhao Shou looked at the black python robe in front of him, his face flushed with excitement.
This was the first time Zhao Shou had seen this kind of python robe.
Although Xu Yi also wore black clothes in the past, but those clothes without any pattern at all, how could they be compared with this kind of python robe that symbolized the identity of the prince.
"No need, I took the measurements in the dressing room, so I'm sure there won't be any mistakes."
Xu Yi folded the python robe and placed it on the tray.
Turn around and look at the other three trays.
On the tray are a white jade engraved gold crown, a dark jade silver-wrapped belt, and a pair of dark blue boots.
Staring at these princely court uniforms that were three years late.
Xu Yi waved his hand slightly, signaling Zhao Shou to send him into the room.
After Zhao Shou leaves.
Xu Yi looked through the file in his hand again.
The arrival of the prince's court uniform only means that he can leave Zongzheng Temple Youningyuan for a short time tomorrow.
Whether we can completely get rid of Zongzheng Temple Youningyuan depends on the files in our hands.
And this natural and man-made disaster that swept across the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan.
At night.
In the bedroom, Xu Yi placed the file in his hand in the box again.
He turned around and threw the prince's court clothes neatly arranged on the bed on a chair beside him.
Take off your cotton robe and sleep in your clothes.
Tomorrow is destined to be a turning point in life.
Whether we can completely get out of Youningyuan of Zongzheng Temple depends on tomorrow.
