Fang Xuanling woke up in the morning and found that the weather was much colder. After shivering, he asked his wife to take out the fur clothes for him.

"Where did that fur coat be placed? It was the one Wen Yuan gave me last year, the mink." Not long after my family was moved from Chang'an, many things were still packed in boxes and were not taken out.

Mrs. Fang asked, "Aren't you going to stay on Yuliangzhou? You don't go hunting, what mink coat do you want?"

“It’s cold.”

"It's not cold now. At least it's much warmer than Chang'an. You see, the kang is not burning yet. You just don't want to eat. You are busy until midnight and people are much thinner. If this continues, you have to eat more. I'll go to Li Xiang's house to meet Mrs. Li later today. His family has many industries in Xiangyang, and it is said that they have also raised dairy cows and sheep. I think if I can ask Mrs. Li for a few cows or sheep, and then I'll get some fresh milk for you every morning."

Since Fang Xuanling was promoted to the position of Zuo Pushe, he has become the prime minister of the court. He has various affairs every day and has a lot of trouble every day. He is often busy until midnight. In addition, with the famine now, he said that the people are hard to eat and are reluctant to eat big fish and meat. He eats light food every day and eats little meat. This person looks like he loses weight.

When I took off my clothes at night, I couldn't see a few taels of meat on my body. Mrs. Fang felt very distressed.

"Forget it, I can't get used to fresh milk."

"You have to drink it even if you can't get used to it. You can't bear to brew the milk powder at home. I know that you often give the food from your family to the servants and ask them to take it home. But you have to take care of yourself!"

"I know, I gave Aunt Wang a pack of milk powder yesterday. That's because her daughter-in-law just gave her the baby and there was no nutritional stuff at home. I gave her the milk powder. Aunt Wang is the old man in our family, his daughter-in-law, and that's also the girl who went out of our family."

"I know these, but I don't object to taking care of them, but I always have to take care of myself. You are the prime minister, can't you get any food? I know, you don't want to mess around, but Wenyuan's family has food. His family does not lack these, rice, flour, sugar, milk powder, and jerky. There are a lot of these in his family. We won't just reach out to him to borrow some, and we will still do it in the future. I said you are too rigid.

When Mrs. Fang said this, she was a little angry. The Fang family was not as big as the Li family. Although her husband was the prime minister, she didn’t have much property at home. She still invested some capital with the Li family and became a shareholder, which made a lot of profits every year. Now that the famine is famine, her husband is as generous as Li Chao, and she donated 10,000 stones of grain at every turn.

As a result, all the food at home has been donated.

Even the food rations are still collected from the court every month, and there is no one like this.

"Madam, you don't have to worry too much. I'm just a little thinner, not that I don't have food. We have three meals a day, including breakfast, sometimes midnight snacks, and tea, so what's wrong. The people outside are still hungry. You know, the court has ordered that the quantitative standards for relief grains have been lowered. A man, only 20 kilograms of grain a month, and even fewer women and young women. Where can I eat enough food? It depends on digging wild vegetables outside to cook porridge, but when it gets cold, I can find wild vegetables. I can only add water to cook porridge, thin porridge, and drink a large pot of water, which is just full."

Mrs. Fang was a little angry when she heard this.

"It's always like this in the world. Is there anyone in the world who can't eat enough, and you have to go hungry? What's the reason? You are the prime minister, and you should take care of yourself so that you can better handle military and national affairs and prevent disasters and save the people!"

"Look at Li Xiang, he is also the prime minister, but he will not be as rigid as you. Just worry about the victims, just keep it in your heart. You have to eat and drink."

Speaking of Li Chao, Fang Xuanling could only smile. He was incomparable to Li Chao.

Li Chao is a man who is in a disaster. Others eat braised vegetables, but the Li family's life is extremely comfortable, and they even eat every meal carefully. They raise dairy cows and sheep at home, and they also drink fresh cows and goats milk every day. There is never a shortage of chickens, ducks, fish and meat.

In the middle of winter, his family actually built a greenhouse in the backyard and planted winter vegetables, such as cucumber, cabbage, rapeseed, gourd and eggplant. I heard that it is a shed made of a special silk cloth to keep vegetables warm and sunny, and can also grow summer fruits and vegetables in winter.

He also dug a few very deep wells and irrigated his vegetable garden every day. In the winter, fresh fruits and vegetables are eaten every day.

The prices of grain in the black market outside are getting higher and higher, and grain is extremely expensive.

But the Li family kept so many servants and slaves, but they did not let go of any of them because their family had food. All the servants and slaves in his family could eat enough and did not have to receive relief food at all.

I heard that the food distributed by the servants of the Li family was fine, and the quantity was even greater than the quantity of relief grain.

Many servants of the Li family often take fine grains to the black market for relief grains, so that they can exchange them with a small amount of grains for relief grains, and then use the extra fine grains to exchange for money, which is considered a small payment.

Nowadays, the servants of the Li family are extremely enviable in Xiangyang City. Many people want to marry their daughters to the servants of the Li family. Especially those who are free and free, and are now considered servants hired by the Li family, and there are many people who are scrambling to marry their daughters.

The conditions are also very low, so there is no bride price.

Just two dou of rice or one stone of relief food.

When others eat porridge and eat vegetables, the Li family not only has big fish and meat, but also eats delicious food every day, which makes people envious and jealous. Fang Xuanling and the others have advised Li Chao to be more low-key, but Li Chao doesn't listen.

Li Chao said that the grain he bought and donated to the court were among the best. There was still some food at home, and it was nothing to eat better, so it would be even more difficult to feed his servants. As for the fact that they used these fine grains to exchange for coarse grains, and then exchanged the excess grain for money, or even went to marry a wife or married a son or a wife, Li Chao didn't care and didn't want to care. This was a little benefit the Li family gave to the servants.

Anyway, Li Chao did not embezzle a grain of grain from the official family, and he paid the grain he should buy. He did not ask for it and donate a lot of grain.

It’s impossible that Li Chao can’t eat enough because there are still people in the world who can’t eat enough, right?

This is the difference in values ​​between Fang Xuanling and Li Chao. For Fang Xuanling, seeing the world famines everywhere, he still thought that he would eat well. It would be enough to eat three meals a day. It was so good that he couldn't bear to eat it.
Chapter completed!