Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

Chapter 540 The Reason Why Xie Ruiyuan is Poor

After everything was arranged, Li Mengyue stayed in the room with her child, with no intention of going out for a walk.

You have to know that they were not traveling very fast because they were carrying four babies along the way, so they were not very tired.

But even so, Li Mengyue still wanted to stay with the children.

After all, this is an unfamiliar county town. Even though she is surrounded by many secret guards, her own fighting power is relatively high. If she encounters a dangerous situation, she has nothing to be afraid of.

But she really didn't dare to joke about the baby's safety. She was prepared for the worst. If something really happened and she couldn't turn the tide, it would be too late to regret.

Therefore, it is better to stay in the room and feel more at ease with the babies.

Besides, the four babies are only three months old and so young that it is not suitable for them to go out.

Li Mengyue had no intention of going out for a walk, so she just played with her baby in the room.

Since Li Mengyue didn't go out, Qingning naturally couldn't go shopping either. She stayed in the room and helped take care of the four babies.

At this moment, Qing Ning looked at the picture of her young lady and the baby together, and her heart unconsciously calmed down.

A breeze blew gently outside the window, bringing bursts of light floral scent into the room, which intertwined with the warm atmosphere in the room, creating a most heartwarming picture.

In Qingning's eyes, her young lady's eyes were full of tenderness and affection. She gently played with Sibao's soft hair with her fingers, as if she was touching the most delicate silk in the world.

The innocent smile on the young lady's face was like a newly blooming flower, so beautiful and pure that it seemed to be able to melt the winter ice and snow in an instant.

Suddenly, Sanbao, who was lying next to him, grabbed his mother's sleeve with his little fingers and held it tightly in his hand, unwilling to let go, as if that sleeve was an indestructible support in his little world.

Qing Ning felt that her young lady sensed Sanbao's trust and dependence on her, so she lowered her head unconsciously and gently kissed Sanbao on the forehead. All her young lady's love and blessings for Sanbao were contained in that kiss.

Looking at such a warm moment, Qing Ning felt that the air around her seemed to have solidified in an instant. She hoped to freeze this moment and wish that time would not pass so quickly but slowly.

Li Mengyue didn't know Qingning's thoughts. Now looking at the cute baby, she no longer had any regrets in her heart. She once again sighed that God was kind to her and let her experience the feeling of being a mother.

She was so lucky to have four babies at once. She knew that the first, second, third and fourth babies were destined to be her lifelong concerns.

But she is very happy about it, and she really hopes to accompany her four babies as they grow up.

Seeing the baby being so well-behaved, Li Mengyue began to hum a gentle lullaby.

Qing Ning had never heard such a tune before. The singing was gentle and melodious. It felt like the willows swaying in the spring, the breeze gently brushing across the heart, or like the breeze in the summer accompanied by the chirping of cicadas, bringing unprecedented peace to the soul.

The four little babies fell into a sweet dream with this gentle voice, their little faces filled with happiness.

Li Mengyue coaxed the four babies to sleep and was about to ask Tuanzi why the task of collecting gratitude points had not been completed yet.

You should know that when the locust plague came last year, under her leadership, the entire Qingshan Prefecture did not suffer much loss of grain, but instead allowed the local people to earn a small amount of money.

Later, refugees from Guangping Prefecture and Yongkang Prefecture came to Qingshan Prefecture, and she made an indelible contribution to the relief of refugees.

She could say with confidence that if it weren't for the grain and large amounts of money she provided, she would not have been able to come up with the idea of ​​building the water conservancy project.

With only 600,000 kilograms of grain allocated by the court, Xie Ruiyuan would never be able to settle hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Even though Xie Ruiyuan had some private property and a lot of income on a daily basis, there were too many places to spend money, so it was already good enough to maintain a balance between income and expenditure every month.

To be honest, she didn't expect that Xie Ruiyuan, a prince, was not as rich as her.

Later, she asked Xie Ruiyuan where the money went. It turned out that the 300,000 troops in the north were all supported by Xie Ruiyuan, and the military pay alone required a lot of silver every year.

This is not the biggest expense. Soldiers who retired from the battlefield had difficulty making a living when they returned to their hometowns due to their disabilities. Xie Ruiyuan took out a large amount of silver and money to subsidize these veterans.

Of course, Xie Ruiyuan does not mean to support these veterans for free, but to provide them with jobs so that they can support themselves.

Even so, the amount of money invested in this every year is an astronomical figure, which is definitely more than the money spent on maintaining an army of 300,000. This is why Xie Ruiyuan, despite having so many industries, is still short of money and is a poor bachelor.

To be honest, ever since she knew that Xie Ruiyuan was willing to support retired veterans, she had developed a sense of admiration for Xie Ruiyuan in her heart.

Xie Ruiyuan is a true commander. He can lead soldiers to win battles on the battlefield and arrange the soldiers' lives after the war. He also tries his best to find ways to resettle soldiers injured on the battlefield.

Although the living conditions are not very good, they can still have enough food and clothing, and they don't have to beg on the streets and lose their military dignity.

After learning that Xie Ruiyuan had done this, she did not stand idly by, but instead thought about solving the problem of veterans thoroughly from the root.

But even if she had food and money, it would not be easy to actually implement this idea.

You should know that the veterans that Xie Ruiyuan helped were not all from the Northern Territory, there were also veterans from other military regions. As a result, the number of veterans was not just tens of thousands, but an astonishing 500,000.

She still remembered how surprised she was when she first heard this number. If it was tens of thousands of people, it would be fine, but as many as 500,000 veterans were supported by Xie Ruiyuan alone. What did this mean? She knew it clearly without Xie Ruiyuan's explanation.

Thinking about how Xie Ruiyuan couldn't even come up with a mere one thousand taels of silver in front of her, she felt that Xie Ruiyuan was too cowardly to be a prince. No matter what, how could he not be able to come up with a mere one thousand taels of silver?

When she learned about the retired veterans, she understood why Xie Ruiyuan had no money, because no matter how much money he had, it would be difficult to support 500,000 people.

Moreover, Xie Ruiyuan was only a prince, not the emperor, and could not legitimately allocate funds from the national treasury. However, the state also gave money to retired veterans at the moment of their retirement, but the money was too little to allow the veterans to maintain their lives.