The boss of the end of the world travels through ancient times to pamper his little husband

After getting the lanterns they wanted, the family continued to stroll around the lantern festival.

At this time, Zhao Ye saw the Yuanxiao stall on the street and somehow felt a little greedy.

Pulling Li Shao's sleeve, she said, "Husband, look at this small stall selling Yuanxiao. There are so many people there! I guess it must taste great!"

Before Li Shao said anything, the two children started talking in a very supportive manner.

"Wow! Yuanxiao, I want to eat it too. I want the one with black sesame filling."

"I want to eat the one with red bean paste! The one with red bean paste is the best!"

"Daddy, I want to eat Yuanxiao!"

"I only ate a few at the end of the meal, and it wasn't enough!"

As they said that, the three of them looked at him with their big eyes. Li Shao felt his heart tremble, it was so adorable.

I was thinking of taking them to the dessert shop next door, but I couldn't bring myself to say it. I just nodded and said, "Okay, you can eat as much as you want."

"Great! Dad is the best!"

“The best!”

Not to mention that this stall is extremely popular. The boss and his three men are very busy. Five or six tables are full of people, and there are many people waiting for a table or eating while standing.

Fortunately, Li Shao still had some money, so he bought a seat from a customer who was about to get a seat. After a customer sat down and placed his order, all he had to do was wait.

The stall is not big, but there are many flavors of Yuanxiao, such as white sugar, sesame, date paste, red bean paste, nuts... It is so rich that they naturally ordered one of each flavor.

The boss was very honest in doing business. He said that one portion of his Yuanxiao was quite large, and they couldn't finish ordering so many. If they wanted to try different flavors, he could cook for them according to their tastes.

Li Shao smiled and rejected the boss's kindness, telling him to just serve them what they ordered, as there was no way there would be endless food in his house.

When the Yuanxiao are cooked and served on the table, you will see that the Yuanxiao in the coarse porcelain bowl are round and white, exuding an attractive sweet fragrance. When you take a bite, the soft and glutinous skin is wrapped with the sweet filling, leaving a lingering fragrance in your mouth.

After eating one, Zhao Ye couldn't help but say, "Husband, I didn't expect the Yuanxiao from such a small stall to be so delicious. I didn't make the wrong choice!"

"Mmm, it's delicious. Daddy is right. Daddy is the best!"

"Daddy's choices are always the right ones!"

He got ahead of him to please Brother Ye again. Li Shao couldn't help but reach out and gently tap the two little guys on the forehead, "Your father is talking to me, you two little flatterers!"

"hey-hey!"

"Hey, hey, hey! Where do we have that?"

The family was happily eating Yuanxiao and chatting when suddenly two ragged beggars came over.

It was a middle-aged man with a child. They both looked hungry for a long time. They were hunched over and said weakly, "Masters and ladies, please have mercy on us, father and son!"

"My father and I are here to escape disaster. We haven't had a bite to eat for several days. We are almost unable to hold on. Please give us something to eat! My father and I kneel down and kowtow to you! Please save us!"

As he said this, he pulled the child, and the father and son were about to kneel down and kowtow. The boss hurried over and pulled them up and pushed them aside, "Go away, go away! There is no food for you here, don't disturb my customers, go away!"

The boss is very uncomfortable with someone coming to his place to beg for food in the first month of the lunar year. If there weren't so many people watching, he would have wanted to use violence.

"Boss, please be kind! My father and I haven't eaten for several days. If we had any other options, we wouldn't be begging."

"I can not eat, but the children can not bear it. If you have any leftovers, please give me some. I will kowtow to you. Shitou, kowtow to the boss!"

The little skinny child listened to his father very much. He knelt down and kowtowed.

Maybe Zhao Ye was born a soft-hearted person. He couldn't bear to see these things. The adults were okay, but the most pitiful thing was the child. He looked about the same height as Xiaohan and Jin Ge'er, but was so thin that he was just a bag of bones.

The two children might not have inherited Zhao Ye's soft heart. They just looked at him curiously and turned their heads away. Li Shao couldn't bear to see Zhao Ye's uncomfortable look, so he ordered the servant beside him to go to the stall next to him and buy two bowls of wontons and some buns and steamed buns for the father and son.

After hearing his arrangement, Zhao Ye stared at Li Shao with his big eyes and a smile. Li Shao reached out and patted his head, "Are you relieved now? Come and eat."

Zhao Ye nodded vigorously, and the Yuanxiao in his mouth tasted even sweeter.

The father and son who were driven to the corner by the boss looked at the food in front of them and couldn't believe their eyes, "This is... this master... you..."

"Don't call me master. The one sitting over there is our master, along with our husband and two young masters. These are what the master and husband told me to buy for you out of pity for you."

Zhao Xiang almost cried after hearing this. He did not go near Li Shao and the others, but kowtowed towards them with his son, saying, "Thank you, Master, and my husband. You are truly a living Bodhisattva..."

After hearing this, Li Shao and Zhao Ye smiled and nodded to them without saying anything.

Then the father and son began to eat voraciously. It might be because they hadn't eaten for a long time. They ate too fast and almost choked to death. Fortunately, Li Shao asked someone to buy wontons, so they could eat smoothly.

However, even when he was so hungry, the man endured the hunger and fed the child a lot before he started eating. Li Shao felt that this little help was not a wrong thing to do.

When Li Shao's family finished eating and were about to leave, Zhao Xiang, who was waiting on the side, pulled Shi Tou and knelt down in front of them, "Thank you for your kindness, master and husband! My father and I kowtow to you two. Good people will be rewarded. I wish you and your family good health and a long life!"

"Okay, stop knocking and get up. But you just said you were here to escape the disaster?"

Li Shao was a little curious because he hadn't heard of any disaster in Jing Kingdom recently.

Speaking of this, Zhao Xiang's face was filled with grief. He sighed deeply and said, "In reply to the master, my father and I fled from a small village on the edge of Heyang Town, Weizhong County, Lancang Province."

"Although life was not good before, we could barely make ends meet. In the past two years, the government has been levying various land taxes, household taxes, protection taxes, etc., and there are also bandits causing chaos."

"Our village...our village was attacked by bandits...the day those beasts entered the village, I happened to take Shi Tou to the town to see a doctor, so I escaped..."

As he spoke, he couldn't control his tears. The whole family was gone except for the two of them.

"Weizhong County in Lancang Province is very close to the border with the State of Chu. What is the protection tax? Since the so-called protection tax has been paid, does the government not care about the bandits' evil deeds?"

"Ah! Master, you don't know that there are many taxes such as protection taxes. Common people cannot ask about them and can only pay them honestly. As for the riots caused by bandits, the government has been saying that they are tracking them down, but no one has been caught."

"It's not just our village that has suffered from the disaster. I saw that after people died in the neighboring village, the government didn't give any relief, and even took away all the land, saying that the government office was not rich, and that they had to pay the officials for catching the bandits..."

"I felt that there was no way to survive there, so I decided to come out and find a way to survive, so I fled all the way here with my children. You are a good person, but I have to tell you that the border is not safe."

Zhao Xiang looked around carefully as he spoke. Such words could not be said casually, let alone let anyone hear them.

On the way to escape, the father and son also saw many people fleeing secretly. Although he was just a farmer, he was able to make the decisive decision to leave his hometown and flee, which made him a perceptive person.

After he said this, Li Shao had a clear idea in his mind. It seemed that something big was going to happen on the border, and the so-called bandits might not be real bandits.

Li Shao did not comment on his words. He took out a tael of silver and stuffed it into his pocket. "Take this little bit of silver and find an inn or rent a small house. It's enough for you and your son to eat and live for a few months. It's cold now and there's not much work to do. When the weather warms up, you can find a job here or go somewhere else. At least don't make the child suffer."

Looking at the silver in his hand, Zhao Xiang's hands were shaking. He wanted to express his gratitude in a thousand words, but in the end he pulled the child to his knees and kowtowed hard, "Your kindness is so great, and we, father and son, have no way to repay you. Thank you! Thank you!"

"Well, there's no need to keep doing such big formalities."

After Li Shao had the father and son helped up, he took the family home and visited all the places they needed to visit.

After returning home and washing up at night, Zhao Ye lay on Li Shao's chest and said, "My husband, that father and son are so pitiful! And the officials there collect all kinds of taxes and oppress the people. Doesn't the emperor know about it and doesn't care?"

Perhaps it was because he had lived with Li Shao for too long. Under his influence, Zhao Ye no longer looked up to officials and imperial power as much as he did in the past, and he dared to say a few words about them from time to time.

Li Shao touched his head and said, "The emperor is far away from home, especially in border areas. If local officials are colluding with each other, it is normal for the emperor not to know. However, if this continues, there may be chaos..."

Zhao Ye didn't quite understand, "Sir, what's the trouble?"

"Nothing, come on, go to sleep! You've been complaining about being tired and sleepy since you got home just now."

After hearing what Li Shao said, Zhao Ye felt sleepy again and yawned lazily, "Yeah, husband, you should go to sleep too."

She adjusted her sleeping position in Li Shao's arms, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Li Shao smiled and kissed his forehead, then went to sleep. As for whether Jing State was in chaos or not, that was the emperor's business.