The Humble Family's Daughter Has A Spatial Pocket! novel Chapter 229

Chapter 229: Chapter 211, The Grain Seeds Are Lost_1

After the Double Ninth Festival, another activity was added to Daohua’s daily life, and that was to ride horses in the suburbs of the city.

Sometimes she went with Zhou Jingwan, and sometimes she went by herself.

Madam Li was worried about accidents, so each time Daohua went out, in addition to being followed by Wang Manman and Qin Xiaoliu, she also had to bring along an old maid and two young servants.

As days became busier, time flew swiftly, and before they knew it, it was mid-October.

One day, when Daohua returned from outside leading the red jujube horse back to the main courtyard, she saw Madam Li sitting with a worried frown on her face.

“Mother, what’s wrong? Did someone upset you?”

Madam Li glanced at her daughter, beckoned her over to sit beside her, and then smiled, “With you around, who would dare to bully me?”

Daohua smiled, “Then what’s the matter?”

Madam Li let out a sigh, “Your father just came back and said that the batch of grain seeds sent to Fenxi has been lost!”

“What?!” Daohua’s eyes widened in surprise, “How could they be lost? Wasn’t it said that the grain seeds were to be escorted by the military? How could they still be lost?”

Madam Li: “It is said that they encountered bandits.”

Daohua could hardly believe it, “Are bandits so powerful these days, daring to rob even the military?”

Madam Li sighed and said, “It’s all because of the severe drought in the north two years ago. Many people couldn’t survive and turned to banditry. Though the past two years have seen slightly better times, the fields have not yet recovered, and the grain yield is low, unable to fill bellies, so the banditry has become more and more serious.”

Daohua furrowed her brows, “Don’t those bandits know that what they are robbing is the grain seeds to be planted soon? By stealing them, how are other people supposed to live?”

Madam Li: “Can you really expect people who have turned into bandits to have a conscience, to consider others? We should already be grateful that the bandits don’t kill people recklessly.”

Daohua looked worried, “What do we do now? Wasn’t it said that the people of Fenxi were waiting to sow these winter wheat seeds for food next year? Now that the seeds are lost, won’t there be a disaster again?”

Madam Li shook her head, the matter concerned the people’s livelihood and was not something a woman from the inner house could resolve.

Daohua sighed, lamenting how difficult life was for the people in ancient times.

Suddenly, Daohua raised her head sharply and asked urgently, “Mother, with the grain seeds lost, Father won’t be held responsible, will he?”

Madam Li shook her head and reassured, “No, your father had delivered the grain seeds intact to Governor Guo, and there is official documentation for the handover. If the higher-ups are to blame anyone, it would be Governor Guo, not your father.”

Daohua then felt relieved.

In ancient times, the practice of implicating the whole family was common. If her father got into trouble, their entire family would suffer.

Madam Li furrowed her brows, “However…”

Daohua’s heart skipped a beat, “However what?”

Madam Li let out a sigh, “Your father had hoped to accumulate achievements through the grain seeds. If the food problem of the people in Fenxi Province had been solved, even if your father wasn’t an official there, providing the seeds would still be credited as meritorious. It’s a pity that it has all come to nothing now.”

Daohua nodded, then said with a worried look, “Governor Guo… is Xiao Yeyang’s uncle. If he were to be punished, that fellow would likely be worried.”

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

The very next day after Daohua learned of the grain seeds being lost, Xiao Yeyang arrived at the Yan Residence.

At that time, Daohua was in the stable feeding the red jujube horse, when she saw Butler Sun and Qin Five and a few others rushing over to the stable, leading the horses away in a hurry.