Take back your luck! Kill your crazy enemy and remarry the scumbag uncle

Chapter 121 Knowing the White Lotus's Prediction

As soon as these words were spoken, the pen in Bai Wei's hand stopped moving suddenly, and the ink dripped down the pen onto the white rice paper, smudged the unfinished words into an ink ball.

"Bai Lian?"

Deputy General Zhao nodded repeatedly, sweat on his forehead: "Yes, I went to almost all the rice shops in the capital, but none of them had much food. Later, I secretly found an opportunity to sneak into the house of the rice shop owner, dragged him out and beat him up, and he said that the second lady had already reserved all the food yesterday."

Bai Wei: "..."

This method of operation is indeed in line with Deputy General Zhao’s behavior pattern, and... it is useful to think of it.

But... why would Bai Lian buy grain? He even emptied out all the rice shops in the capital.

Could it be that she also knew about the landslide and was preparing to stockpile food for disaster relief?

No, that's not right. If it's for disaster relief, why do we need to stockpile food? We only need to purchase appropriate food and give porridge to the victims every day. Stockpiling food will inevitably cause panic among the people in the capital. In addition, a large number of victims will surround the city wall tomorrow. According to the destiny system, the city gates will be closed for three days.

By that time, the price of grain in the capital of Dongqin would inevitably rise sharply.

The grain that originally could be bought for a few hundred taels might increase in price to several thousand taels, or even tens of thousands of taels.

So, this should be her idea!

But how did she know about the landslide? Did Ouyang Qi secretly send someone to follow the current events near the capital? As a prince, he didn't have the face to make money from the national disaster, so he secretly told Bai Lian to do it?

If this is true, his spies must be quite powerful. After all, the place where the landslide occurred is a small village, and the distance is not very close. It takes time to convey the message, and Bai Lian actually ordered people to prepare food early this morning.

Bai Wei put down the pen in her hand and said to the Destiny System with her mind: "When did the landslide happen?"

Lolita Destiny System: "Report to the host sister, it is noon today."

"Noon?"

Bai Wei frowned.

If it just happened at noon today, why would Bai Lian stockpile food?

Deputy General Zhao heard Bai Wei mumbling to herself and thought she was talking to him: "It's not noon, it's morning, General, Miss Bai started buying food this morning. What do you think she is doing? Are the Bai family and Prince Qi's Mansion planning to invest in the food business?"

Bai Wei came back to her senses after hearing what Deputy General Zhao said: "Forget it, you go down first and check how much food is left in the general's mansion."

Deputy General Zhao clasped his hands together, accepted the order and left.

Bai Wei felt like her brain was slowing down.

Bai Lian started to stockpile food before the landslide happened. Could it be that Bai Lian's stockpile of food had nothing to do with the landslide? Was it just a coincidence?

No, that's not right.

During the Spring Banquet, Bai Lian obviously knew the answer to the poem, and she thought that Concubine Wang had secretly given her the answer.

However, during the last spring hunt, Bai Lian also took Ouyang Yi to accurately find the largest prey in the hunting grounds, the giant bear, and even had an arrogance on his face as if he had won.

She could understand if these were coincidences, but what happened today could not be called a coincidence.

If all this is not a coincidence, then there is only one possibility, that is, she has the ability to predict the future.

If it is written like this, everything makes sense!

Including her obsession with Ouyang Qi, because she predicted that Ouyang Qi could become the future emperor, so she wanted to be with him at all costs. It was not an accident on the wedding night, but she had carefully planned it, deliberately entangled with him and let the original owner see it, just to separate the two.

Unfortunately, because of her appearance, some things changed, and Concubine Wang was disappointed with her and decided to give up. So she was unwilling to let Ouyang Qi go even if it meant ruining her reputation and becoming a concubine.

Thinking of this, her eyes turned a little colder.

Because if that was true, then she should be more dangerous than she thought, especially after she knew her ultimate goal.

Just as she was thinking about it, a black figure came to Bai Wei silently.

"General Bai needs a lot of food?"

The person who came was none other than Jianying.

Jianying has been protecting Bai Wei in the General's Mansion. He appears and disappears like a ghost, and Bai Wei doesn't know where he is. But Ouyang Yi must have said something to him, so he has been hiding very well and will not appear at inexplicable times.

"Well, I do need some food, but all the food in the capital has been bought out. It would take too much time to transfer it from other cities."

The General's Mansion has a large population and will have reserve grain, but it won't be a lot. If it is used to rescue the victims, even if everyone's rations are given up, it will only take two and a half days at most. If it is transported to other cities, the round-trip time will definitely not be enough.

"Jianying can go back and ask His Royal Highness Prince Yi for instructions. If His Royal Highness Prince Yi agrees, the capital can provide at least another 100 dan of grain. If that's still not enough, a lot can be transferred back in one day. You can tell Jianying directly how much General Bai needs, and Jianying will go back and report to the prince."

As soon as these words came out, Bai Wei slammed the table and stood up, eyes wide in shock: "One hundred stones? One day is enough?"

Jianying nodded calmly: "One hundred stones, one day."

Bai Lian immediately stepped forward, eyes shining, and said, "Commander Ying, please don't send a message, just send me directly to your prince, okay?"

Jian Ying looked at Bai Wei's shining eyes and felt inexplicably frightened. He had the illusion that his own prince would fall into the tiger's mouth: "..."

Shouldn't he have said this? But he had given his own prince's jade pendant to others.

In Bai's house, Bai Lian was sitting on an armchair, drinking tea leisurely, waiting for the price of food to rise.

According to the plan, there are already quite a few people gathered at the city gate, and there is even a tendency for more and more people to gather.

The guards at the city gates were afraid that letting so many refugees into the imperial city at once would cause all sorts of trouble and panic, so they had no choice but to close the city gates urgently and report the matter to the palace.

In the palace, they began to discuss the countermeasures for this matter, and the discussion dragged on until the third day.

Land in the capital is extremely valuable and most of the inhabitants are high-ranking officials and nobles. No one farms, and food mainly comes from outside. So by the third day, before the city gates were opened, the price of food had tripled.

That would have been fine, but once the city gates were opened, refugees poured in, and the state requisitioned grain for disaster relief, and the grain supply doubled. If wealthy families were willing to give out large amounts of grain to appease the refugees, the emperor would reward them.

In the previous life, it was Bai Wei who helped Ouyang Qi gain praise.

And in this life, only she can help Ouyang Qi. By then, His Royal Highness Prince Qi will look at her with new eyes!

Just when Bai Lian was feeling proud, the maid she had sent out to get information came back with an anxious look on her face. Bai Lian put down the teacup in her hand and asked, "How is it? Has the price of food started to rise? Is the city gate closed?"

The maid shook her head like a rattle: "No, the crops haven't grown, and the city gates haven't been closed."

Bai Lian stood up excitedly and accidentally dragged the teacup, which fell to the ground and broke into pieces: "How is it possible?"

The maid immediately knelt down and said, "I dare not lie, it is true, and, and..."

Bai Lian felt her eyebrows twitching violently: "And what?"

Seeing Bai Lian's unhappy expression, the maid dared not say anything, but could not help but whisper, "Moreover, General Bai and His Royal Highness Prince Yi set up a big tent not far from the city gate and distributed porridge inside."

Bai Lian's face, which had been held high, was visibly cracked!