Chapter 49: Chapter 37 of the Hui Dynasty

Broken down in the house, clams/toads, and dirty eyes?

Zhou Rushui wrinkled her nose, she lifted the gauze hat from her hair with a cold face, and asked with a puffed face: "Am I ugly?"

Shu Ying wanted to say: "The master is a beauty." But seeing Zhou Rushui smearing the turmeric powder on his face, he puffed out his cheeks at this time, and his beautiful and delicate face was really round and lovely, and he couldn't help laughing for a while, and he choked when he wanted to speak.

Seeing that she wanted to speak like this, Zhou Rushui was self-aware, and she pouted and complained: "I knew that I wouldn't erase these Rausch things given by my brother." As he spoke, he took a handkerchief and wiped it on his face.

Before leaving the palace, Gongzi Musheng gave her a small bottle of turmeric powder, saying that she was asked to wipe some on the road, so that her complexion would be more ugly, so as not to attract more attention. She originally loved to be clean, and she felt uncomfortable smearing with this thing every day, but now she is ugly by humanity, and she is even more uncomfortable. In this way, Zhou Rushui came back to his senses, and asked Shu Ying in a low voice: "The Lu family son you are talking about, but Mr. Jun Ci, who is benevolent, love-oriented, vain, and tireless all day long?"

Seeing that she childishly threw aside the porcelain bottle containing turmeric powder, Shu Ying was in a better mood for a while, so she couldn't help laughing and said lightly: "What the female monarch said is true, it is indeed that Lu Junci." โ€

Hearing this, Zhou Rushui nodded, threw the handkerchief aside, and took a photo of himself carefully in the mirror. Wu Zi smiled at the bronze mirror, then picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip of tea, and said in a low voice: "In the past, the queen mother valued Mr. Junci very much, and after Mr. went, she also sighed pity. It's not a bad thing to be able to accidentally touch Mr.'s light now. โ€

As she spoke, she winked at Shuying again, birds chirped outside, her long eyelashes fluttered, and her eyes were as smart as birds fluttering their wings. She smiled, took Shuying's hand hidden in her sleeve, and said with a little delicateness: "We're all angry, those girls outside are the most boring, hum! Leper โ–กโ–กโ–กโ–ก? They are leprosy! Besides, what's wrong with the broken household? Didn't San Lang say it? Shaohua is white-headed, but in an instant, these individuals and things really don't have to waste the energy of this palace. โ€

Zhou Rushui sighed, and took out a dried apricot from her purse and fed it into her mouth, the dried apricots were so sour that her red lips that seemed to be smeared with red rouge were slightly upturned, and her quiet eyes looked at the mountains in the distance through the veil, and her thoughts flew away.

That night, it rained heavily. The crowd had no choice but to camp next to the woods.

When the tent was set up, Jiong Qi stood outside the tent in a robe, his hands around his chest. Seeing his appearance of going vigil, Zhou Rushui looked at him with amusement, and only glanced at him when he entered the account, and then quickly withdrew his gaze.

After a while, he instructed Shuying to tie the curtains in the tent, and Zhou Rushui paid attention to Jiong Qi, who had stood up outside and blew a cool breeze for a long time, and called out of the tent in a cold voice: "You come in too, if you are sick, Ah Ying and I will not drive." โ€

She ordered it again, and asked Shuying to go out of the account and invite him a few times. But he didn't want to, Jiong Qi didn't listen to it at all, and he didn't move like a mountain.

In this way, Zhou Rushui was really angry and funny, she didn't know what to think, got up, lifted the tent, grabbed Jiongqi's ear, dragged him to the tent, and said angrily as she walked: "Didn't my brother move you in the past?"

Because of her actions, Jiong Qi was already stupid! Thinking that he was the seventh master of the Geng family on the surface, and secretly the commander of the left guard, he would never have thought that one day, he would be dragged away by a sister-in-law who had not yet reached the end of his ear! In this way, Jiong Qizhi seemed to have been hit hard, and after being stunned for a long time, he raised his face with round eyes, and then consciously wanted to wave Zhou Rushui's hand away.

But just before his hand was raised, Zhou Rushui had already raised his eyebrows, and let go of his hand one step ahead of him.

Instantly, Jiong Qi felt a chill in his ears, and when he raised his eyes again, he saw a curtain hanging in front of him, and the curtain cleverly divided the tent into two, Zhou Rushui turned around and entered the other end of the curtain.

Immediately afterwards, he listened to Zhou Rushui snort him like a bead: "It is said that the donkey that pulls the mill must have a carrot tied to its head before it pulls desperately." If you are really a donkey's brain, you can't move without seeing the sigil. Tomorrow, I will tie the sigil to your head, and see if you will listen to your call!"

These words are imposing, and it is really funny when you think about it, and the sister-in-law's voice is even more crisp and pleasant, and she is as tactful as a warbler. For a while, Jiong Qi couldn't say anything more, he rubbed his ears and froze in place, and it was only after a long time that he replied in a dumb voice: "My subordinates don't dare." Although he disobeyed the orders of a sister-in-law of the Left Guard, he was a dignified man, and no matter how bad he was, he would not really bully her, not to mention, she was also the sister of the former prince.

It stands to reason that autumn will not begin until a few days later, even if the summer will go and the weather will cool down, the weather should not be so cold. But it is partial, and the climate of Zhou has not been very good in recent years.

On this day, due to the heavy rain the night before, the road became extremely difficult to walk. The carriages were often muddy as they passed, and many of the carriages in the same row were stuck in the mud. At noon, the sky was still cloudy, but it did not rain, and it was so hard that people's hearts were stuffy. The sister-in-law couldn't help but complain about this gloomy day, and this year's weather has been strange since the beginning of spring, and it is not always pleasant.

They said that the weather was really unpleasant, but according to Zhou Rushui, this climate was not just unpleasant.

According to the few memories left by Zhou Rushui, the bad climate of Zhou is only the beginning now. Later, in the past ten years, landslides, earthquakes, strong winds, floods and droughts, locusts, and plagues have occurred from time to time among these countries, and it can be said that disasters have not stopped. Looking from the back to the front, it can be said that there are people in every family, some families die, and some people mourn by the whole family. For example, Zheng Guo, because the entire Xiao clan of Lanling was wiped out, King Zheng's edict could not extinguish the anger of the gate lord clan, and in the end, a generation of kings had to commit suicide to stabilize the country.

In the previous life, after this annoying autumn, the approaching winter was the most difficult day for the Zhou Kingdom.

She remembered that one day, she climbed up the corner tower, only to see the soldiers standing guard so frozen that they couldn't even hold their weapons, and some even froze into zombies when they were on duty, and the next day they melted the ice and ran out of breath, and they were sent to the coffin for burial.

Snow was covered and the west wind was strong. However, later generations recorded this qiฤ“, but the words are extremely concise, but just a few words: "Heavy snow, the sky is very cold, the ground ice is like a mirror, and the walker cannot stand." "In just one line, countless sufferings are hidden. Covering up the rare bitter cold, only in the territory of Zhoutu, it is the bad luck of the people freezing and dying.

At that time, the common people had no food, no clothing, and no burning, and the people in the northern counties had to flee to the warmer south, but the weather was cold, and there was no food left, and many of the victims died on the road after not being able to go far. Later, a large number of refugees poured into Yedu, and Gongzi Musheng was impeached by Gongzi Zhan Yan for privately opening the palace courtyard to accept refugees.

Because of the impeachment of Gongzi Zhan, the king of Zhou, Li He, Gongzi Mu Sheng, had a weak temperament, acted recklessly, and had a bad routine, so he was directly punished with a three-month grounding and a fine of three years.

However, during the three months when Gongzi Musheng was grounded, Gongzi Zhan was in charge of disaster relief. Gongzi Zhan is not a selfless person who runs for the benefit of the people, on the contrary, he has always regarded the people as lowly and is only willing to take care of the interests of the nobles. Therefore, during the disaster relief, he said that he wanted to settle the refugees in Xiangtang Mountain and give them a pure land, but in fact, after moving the refugees all over the city, he closed the city and locked the door, and no longer cared about the lives of those refugees. So much so that in the spring of the following year, when the city gate was opened again, everyone saw that most of the trees on Xiangtang Mountain had been cut down, and most of the refugees who were sent there in winter were also killed and injured, and there were countless dead bones frozen to death in the mountain, and there were many charred corpses that were burned alive in the mountains and forests due to improper fire.

Because there were too many dead people, too many corpses were not buried, and after the beginning of spring, the decomposition of the bones was not treated in time, which caused the plague, and for a time, several towns around Yedu became the hardest hit areas. At that time, the people in Yecheng were panicked, as long as the southwest wind was blowing, the stench of the corpse* could be smelled when the window was opened. It wasn't until the situation reached that it could not be controlled, and King Zhou remembered his son Mu Sheng and ordered him to treat the disaster with Xie Xiang.

This is also why Zhou Rushui will lie to his son Mu Sheng, saying that the prince gave her the blood book of the sixth son in a dream, 'Salt and ginseng mud, lack of clothes in winter.' 'That's it. After all, if there were enough preparations, enough food and clothing, Zhou Guo would not have died so many people. The picturesque Xiangtang Mountain in the past will not become a dry forest ghost mountain that people can avoid in later generations.

And the most important thing is that disaster relief and disaster relief are not only for disasters, but also for the people!

Due to the bad weather, the convoy barely stopped all the way. But even so, they didn't meet any people along the way. Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, it was as if it was evening, the wind was howling like a knife, and the thunder rang like a gong for several hours. Thinking that there would be a heavy rain in the near future, and that if they couldn't find a place to rest, they would have to camp in the open again, and the faces of the people were not very good.

But when it was time to arrive, a group of people saw the smoke at the foot of the mountain not far away, and for a while, there was laughter in the procession, and many sisters-in-law laughed and said: "Great! There may be a village ahead! We finally don't have to sleep in the open!"

So, the carriage and horses galloped all the way towards the cooking smoke.

But they didn't want to, and when they reached the foot of the mountain, all the hearts of the people were groaning, and they looked around, and there was no village where they could live in it!

From a distance, this tea house at the foot of the mountain is very small, with only an east kitchen and a thatched hut for guests to rest for a while. At this time, the door of the east kitchen was open, and a large pot of hot water was boiling inside, and it was because the water was boiling that they saw the smoke. In the thatched house, a thin little er was squatting in the middle of the thatched hut and playing with the bonfire, and from time to time, he also turned over the chickens that were roasting on the wooden frame.