Arriving at the main hall, Xiao Jijia then asked: "Shouldn't the government provide all relief food?"
Zong Yinghao smiled bitterly and said: "My dear nephew, I don't know. Thank God that the officials here do not exploit the people. It is simply impossible to get them to provide food for relief."
When Li Qi heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "Don't the emperor know?"
"Emperor?" Zong Yinghao said helplessly, "The mountains in our place are high and the emperor is far away, so the prefect is the emperor here. What Nephew Li Xian doesn't know is that plague breaks out all year round in the southwest, the land is barren, and the annual tax revenue is not as good as that of a small town in South China.
,How can the emperor of such a place care?"
Hearing this, Li Qi was also speechless.
Aren't the emperor afraid of rebellion by the local people?
But think about it, if you don’t have anything to eat, why should you rebel?
Moreover, there is also a local emperor who is a governor, and I am afraid that he has some signs of it. In order to keep his official position, the governor will kill him.
"Originally, the harvest this year was pretty good, but who wants to be affected by this plague? Many people will die this year." Zong Yinghao said with emotion, "Now I can only do what I can do."
After discussing it for a while, Zong Yinghao obviously didn't want to talk more about this matter, probably because he was afraid of ruining everyone's mood.
So he and Xiao Jijia chatted about some past events, but while chatting, they couldn't avoid talking about Xiao Jijia's father, and then the topic became deeper again.
Li Qi couldn't say anything, so he just drank tea aside. Zong Yinghao was afraid that he would be bored, so he arranged for his servants to take them down to rest.
Li Qi and his party were arranged to go to Beiyuan. They didn't have a good sleep in the bed during this period. I don't know if it was because they were too tired or something else. Li Qi fell asleep soon after lying down.
When I woke up, it was already dark.
Li Qi got up from the bed and saw no one. Tang Yun and Wei Xinshan did not know where they had gone, and Weigang was also missing.
Calculating the time, it should be dinner time, and they must have gone to eat.
After sorting it out casually, Li Qi came out of the room and was about to find something to eat.
I went to the main hall along the way I came during the day. When I passed through a bamboo forest, I saw some firelight and the sound of people talking in the bamboo forest.
Li Qi didn't pay much attention to him at first, but when he heard someone say: "Miss, Mr. Xiao is here today, aren't you going to meet him?"
"What's there to see?"
"But the master said that he wants to betroth you to him. Aren't you curious about what he looks like?"
"That's what dad meant, not mine."
"But……"
"Okay, don't talk about this. The meteor will come soon."
Li Qi was stunned for a moment and thought: Xiao Jijia came here to get a wife?
Thinking about him, I couldn't help but think of Sai Qianqian. Does she know?
And what the hell is that flying star from the sky?
Li Qi came over curiously, wanting to see what Xiao Jijia's future wife looked like.
In order not to be discovered, Li Qi carefully went deep into the bamboo forest.
Looking up, I saw a woman in plain clothes playing with something on a stone table, and beside her were two servants and several maids.
Looking from Li Qi's position, he could only see the woman's back.
Judging from the back, this woman has a pretty good figure, but I don't know what she looks like.
Just when Li Qi wanted to change his position and take a look at the woman's appearance, the woman suddenly raised her head, holding something in her hand and asked: "What time is it now?"
A maid said: "At the moment of Hai hour."
"Huh? Why haven't the flying stars appeared yet? Did I make a mistake in my calculations?" the woman said to herself.
Just when this sentence was finished, a maid suddenly pointed to the sky and exclaimed: "Miss, look!"
Li Qi also looked up in the direction pointed by the maid, and saw a meteor streaking across the sky filled with stars.
Li Qi was stunned for a moment, but before he could think about it, meteors sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain. The dense meteor shower pierced the sky, almost trying to light up the entire night sky with sparks of fire.
As a modern person, Li Qike had never seen such a huge meteor shower, and he was stunned for a moment.
The meteor shower lasted for a while before disappearing.
When Li Qi came back to his senses, he saw several pairs of eyes staring directly at him.
He didn't even know when the lantern shone in front of him.
Mainly because the meteor shower just now was so shocking that he was a little carried away for a while.
"Who are you?"
I saw a woman with a delicate face and a heroic spirit in her eyebrows asking.
Damn it, Xiao Jijia is quite handsome, and his future wife is pretty pretty.
"Um...my name is Li Qi. I just happened to be passing by and came over to take a look." Li Qi explained.
"Li Qi?" the woman frowned slightly, "Are you the guest who came with Xiao Jijia?"
"Exactly." Li Qi smiled, "I wonder what I call this girl?"
As if she knew Li Qi's identity, the vigilance on the woman's face gradually faded, and she said, "My name is Zong Mixing."
"It turns out to be Miss Zong, I'm sorry." Li Qi smiled and said, "Just now I saw that Miss Zong, you seemed to be guessing the time of the meteor shower? I wonder how the girl guessed it?"
"Meteor shower?" Zong Mixing frowned slightly and quickly responded, "Are you talking about those flying stars from the sky?"
"Exactly."
"Why do you call them meteor showers?"
"Because it's a rain of meteors, isn't it called a meteor shower?"
"Meteor?" Zong Mixing rolled his eyes and said, "This is the first time I have heard of this name, but it is very appropriate."
"Miss Zong hasn't answered my question yet." Li Qi said with a smile, "How did you calculate the time of the meteor shower?"
Zong Mixing hesitated for a moment and motioned for Li Qi to follow her.
When I came to the stone table, I saw a star map on the stone table, and there were also many strange-shaped stones on the table.
Although Li Qi knew little about astronomy, he still knew some constellation charts.
"What is this?" Li Qi asked.
"This is the star map." Zong Mixing said.
Li Qi pointed to the bamboo stick on the side and said, "Can this one work?"
"This is a scale used to calculate the positions of stars and the time of flying stars in the sky."
Looking at these exquisite things, Li Qi couldn't help but sigh, damn it, can't you tell that this girl is an astronomy enthusiast?
No, if she were a simple astronomy enthusiast, how could she calculate the time of the meteor shower?
Could it be that she is an astronomer?
Were ancient astronomers already so powerful?
Can you actually calculate the time of the meteor shower?
Seeing Li Qi staring at the star map without saying anything, Zong Mixing asked: "Master Li, do you know the star map?"