As soon as I was reborn, my fiancé came to propose marriage!

Chen Yan caught a glimpse of a dark purple robe approaching and thought to himself, Mrs. Zhao has been coming to the grain store quite frequently recently.

He looked over expressionlessly and nodded slightly at her. To be honest, they were not familiar with each other, so they did not plan to communicate too much.

Mrs. Zhao approached and greeted him as if no one was around. Chen Ping saw that the proprietress was still as enthusiastic as last time, so he told her everything about the bandits.

The village chief and Chen Jixiang thought that Mrs. Zhao was someone Chen Yan met when he came to the town to sell game.

When he heard Chen Ping talk about this, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. After all, the fact that their village had caught bandits would be known to everyone sooner or later, so there was no need to hide it.

When he mentioned "bandits", Mrs. Zhao's heart began to beat violently uncontrollably.

Chen Si beside him also stopped moving for a moment, and then returned to normal.

He nodded secretly to Mrs. Zhao, and Mrs. Zhao's wildly beating heart slowly calmed down. Chen Si never made any mistakes in doing things.

She believed it would be the same this time!

Chen Yan noticed the momentary panic of the two people.

Chen Ping didn't think too much about it. After carefully comparing the prices and types with the village chief, he called his waiter to come and help weigh the food.

Seeing that he was alone, Madam Zhao quickly stepped forward and said, "Mr. Chen, I know you are a smart person, and I believe you can understand my painstaking efforts to avenge my daughter."

She said it so bluntly, which was a threat in itself, but she had to say it in such a high-sounding way.

Chen Yan was not interested in Zhao Nian's death. If anyone else hurt his daughter, he would be even more ruthless!

He glanced at Mrs. Zhao very quickly, then spoke calmly.

"Chen didn't understand what Madam Zhao said. I only know that my daughter-in-law went to your house some time ago and saved your daughter's life. She is the lifesaver of you and your daughter."

Who doesn’t know how to knock?

Mrs. Zhao was such a smart person that when she heard this, she knew that Chen Yan had no intention of going against her, so she let down her guard and smiled sincerely.

"Mr. Chen is right. You and your wife are the saviors of our Zhao family. I will never repay kindness with enmity."

"It's just that you guys have helped me a lot now."

She emphasized the word "very busy" so much that Chen Yan didn't understand what Mrs. Zhao meant by "very busy".

Did he save Zhao Ruozhen?

Or did he hide the fact that he hired a killer from her?

She moved closer to Chen Yan and quickly stuffed something into his hand, her expression more solemn than ever before, "This is my thank you gift, please accept it!"

The touch in his hand felt like a banknote. Chen Yan was about to return it, "Third brother, why are you still standing there? We have to hurry back. I haven't slept all night and I can fall asleep while standing."

Chen Ping stood at the door and shouted at him.

Mrs. Zhao seized the opportunity, turned around and left, disappearing from his sight.

Chen Yan was left alone there, and it would be bad to neither return the things in his hand nor not return them.

He had no choice but to put it in his pocket when no one was paying attention. He originally thought it was another silver note and planned to return it in town another day.

Unexpectedly, when he entered the house and opened the door, he found a message.

A piece of news that shocked him so much that he felt dizzy!

.........

When Cui Yunzhu woke up, she learned that they had actually captured two bandits last night. Chen Yan and his men had not slept all night and had taken them to the government office early in the morning.

I also find it strange. Are there really such stupid bandits?

When he heard him talk about what Mrs. Zhao said to him, he couldn't help but feel worried.

"Could it be that he has murderous intentions towards us?"

Cui Yunzhu was a little nervous. Mrs. Zhao was able to contact the bandits. If she really wanted to kill them, it would be a big trouble!

Chen Yan shook his head, "No."

He had already read the contents of the paper and knew that Mrs. Zhao was willing to reveal such an important matter to them.

I guess he wanted to use this great favor to exchange for their silence.

After seeing the note he handed over, Cui Yunzhu was shocked beyond words.

"How could this happen? In the previous life, famine was clearly not going to break out until the end of the year. Why did Madam Zhao get this news now?"

When Chen Yan heard his wife's question, he shook his head helplessly.

Cui Yunzhu remembered that in her previous life, even the high-ranking officials in the government and some big merchants were caught off guard by the sudden famine.

Grain stores were robbed and smashed, all the silver on the counters of shops was looted, and even the government office was looted by starving people.

Some people even took weapons to beat the officials and forced them to pay grain.

Such a chaotic situation proves that the last famine came suddenly.

But the news that Mrs. Zhao brought was that her father, who was doing business far away in the north, said that some villages there had begun to experience a decline in grain production and rivers had dried up.

Isn't this exactly the same lie they made up to deceive Zheng?

She thought to herself, her rebirth would not lead to such a result that her words would be followed by her deeds, right?

"There's more behind it, turn over and take a look."

After hearing Chen Yan's reminder, she noticed that there was another line on the back of the letter. After she read it carefully, she stood in the room in silence for a long time.

He didn't speak for a long time.

At the end of the letter, it was written that a fifth-rank official in the capital had proposed that the population movement in various regions should be restricted after the first month of the lunar year, and even the migration of household registration would have to wait until next year.

His words are of little importance, and although no one accepts his opinions now, once the news from the north reaches the capital, I believe that the higher-ups will soon take them seriously.

Since the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty, there has never been such a ridiculous regulation.

Isn't it obvious that restricting population mobility and household registration transfers is just locking people in their own counties?

Doesn't this mean...

She was shocked and looked up at the man. "Isn't this the same as if someone knew that famine would break out soon, and then refugees would flee southward, and the entire Great Xia Kingdom would fall into chaos?"

"This world is full of wonders. It seems that you are not the only one who has this opportunity." Chen Yan said in a deep voice, "I just don't know how much this person knows, and what does he want to do with everything he knows?"

"No, if he wanted to save people from danger, he wouldn't have made this suggestion."

Cui Yunzhu eagerly grabbed Chen Yan's hand, and the past flashed through her mind, with refugees running around, burning, killing, looting, and eating their own children...

She was so uncomfortable that she could hardly breathe. "Think about it, if everyone is trapped here, last time everyone knew that the further south you go, the more food you will have. What about this time?"

“Even if they are ordered not to move, when the moment of death comes, won’t they stand up and resist? Then the riots will surely come again, and there will be no way to stop them.”

"You can only fight violence with violence!"

Chen Yan thought exactly the same as she did, "If this man really wanted to turn the tide, he wouldn't have proposed this initiative. Since he is a Beijing official, he must have many ways to gather officials together to come up with the best plan to reduce casualties."

"But he didn't. If it wasn't for his own profit in the dark, I can't think of anything else."