Chapter 417

Looking at the couple kowtowing in front of her, Weiwei paused and asked:

"What did she do wrong?"

The couple couldn't help but froze. The man responded quickly and said quickly:

"She stole the adults' food and committed the crime of theft. Please give her a chance because she is still young."

I have to say that the man's words really have some meaning and are not nonsense.

Eating the leftovers in front of the nobles is usually considered blasphemy by the nobles. If they are just a few ordinary people and make the nobles unhappy, they will be killed. No one will do it. Give them justice.

People in the same village will think that this is caused by their failure to educate their children properly, and will not think there is anything wrong with the nobles doing this.

They may even think that their behavior of "indulging" children will bring disaster to the entire village.

And stealing food is another crime.

If you are caught stealing something in this world, you will definitely be punished, but this kind of punishment will definitely not lead to death. Compared with offending a noble and being beaten to death on the spot, it is already a good ending.

And saying this also downplays the discomfort that the behavior of "stealing what the nobles have eaten" brings to the nobles.

Once people are in a good mood and feel relieved, they might let ordinary people like them go.

"She didn't eat secretly, and she didn't do anything wrong." Weiwei shook her head and waved to the little girl again.

The little girl looked helplessly at her parents.

But her parents were kneeling in front of Weiwei at this time, not daring to look up at all, and naturally unable to give any feedback.

After hesitating for a while, probably because she felt that the big sister in front of her was always very gentle, the little girl timidly walked up to Weiwei.

Weiwei bent over and squatted in front of the little girl, letting her white dress fall to the ground and collect dust.

She found that although the little girl's clothes were shabby, she was very clean. They were not as dirty as some of the ordinary people she had seen when she traveled to the mainland before, and there were piles of fleas hidden in their hair.

This discovery couldn't help but make Weiwei, who has a mysophobia, feel very good.

She stretched out her hand to help the little girl smooth the messy hair on her forehead, and she said warmly:

"Why are you picking up something to eat?"

The little girl said timidly:

"Hungry."

"Are you hungry?" Weiwei's eyes flickered, but her tone remained gentle:

"It's just after lunch time, why are you hungry? Didn't you eat at noon?"

"Lunch?" The little girl seemed to be unfamiliar with this term. She thought for a while before saying:

"I had it this morning."

"What to eat?"

"Boiled beans."

"How many meals do you eat a day?"

The little girl didn't know why the beautiful elder sister in front of her asked these questions, but as she communicated, she was no longer so scared, and her speech gradually became smoother. After hearing the words, she immediately said:

"Two meals!"

"Is it all Pacman?"

"Sometimes I cook wheat with beans, and sometimes I eat wheat bran cakes. Wheat and wheat bran cakes are not delicious. They are very hard. I don't like them."

"Have you ever eaten meat?"

"Meat?" The little girl seemed to think of something beautiful and said with some longing:

"I have eaten it before. My father caught a very big field mouse half a year ago. We ate it together as a family. It was very delicious!"

"Are you eating twice a day?"

"No, I only had two meals recently! My parents said that the harvest this year was good. Her Majesty the Queen is kind-hearted and only collected 50% tax, leaving a lot of food, so I can have two meals. But there are only my brother and me at home. Eat two meals, and my parents and brothers and sisters only eat one.”

Because of what happened here, many accompanying Mengchuan City personnel had gathered around.

After hearing the little girl's words, many officials looked at each other in confusion. Some of them moved their eyes obviously uncomfortably and were already sweating profusely.

"When did you pay your taxes?"

Weiwei tried to keep her voice gentle.

But this problem was obviously beyond the little girl's understanding, and she had no choice but to look to her parents for help again.

"Get up and tell me."

The two of them did not dare to stand up and remained kneeling on the ground. The man said tremblingly:

"During the autumn harvest just a month ago, Sir, did we not deliver enough food? We will make up for it now."

Weiwei stood up, looked at the thin little girl in front of her, then looked at the sallow and skinny villagers in the distance, and suddenly sneered.

A large group of senior officials from Mengchuan City immediately knelt down behind them.

The little girl and her family were so frightened that they were at a loss.

Then I heard Weiwei say:

"No need to make up for it. Go back and inform everyone in the village that we will have extra food tonight."

"ah?"

The man who had always behaved very calmly couldn't help but be stunned. He subconsciously wanted to look up at the noble woman in front of him who said something he didn't understand.

Fortunately, his reason still prevailed, allowing him to stop this offensive behavior in time and said quickly:

"I'll go notify you right away!"

After saying that, he took the little girl and his wife and left here as if they were running away.

Only Weiwei, who was standing on the ridge of the field by the roadside, and a large group of noble officials kneeling on the ground were left.

"If I remember correctly, two months ago, I announced the cancellation of all taxes in the territory, and distributed enough rice and salt to every household to have three meals a day, right?"

There was a chill in Weiwei's voice, and her eyes fell on one of the officials:

"If I remember correctly, last month, I opened a batch of grain and let you use this batch of grain to feed livestock, and then take part of it to merchants to exchange for cattle and sheep. Starting from last month, one pound of meat will be distributed to all residents of the kingdom every month, right?"

Is she short of food?

Of course she is not short of food!

The batch of food that Su Yi gave her was originally intended to be enough for more than 2 billion aliens in the North to survive the entire winter and last until the autumn harvest next year. Later, because he got too much food in the interstellar world, he simply gave her a full 10 billion tons.

From that time on, she directly announced the exemption of all food taxes in the territory.

And that was more than two months ago!

A month ago, as Weiwei came into contact with more and more knowledge about Blue Star, she was willing to give more benefits to the people in the territory.

So she waved her hand and directly allocated a full 1 billion tons of grain, allowing the officials of Mengchuan City to use this grain as feed for livestock breeding, and to give all the people in the territory a pound of meat welfare every month.

Because temporary breeding would definitely be too late even with magic, so some of the grain was for them to trade with those big chambers of commerce and exchange for a batch of meat to be distributed first.

And now, what did she see?

The hundreds of millions of tons of grain she had distributed on the books were missing, and the complete exemption of grain tax turned into "only" 50% tax.

As for the free meat, these ordinary people probably didn't dare to do such a thing in their dreams.

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