Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Rainstorm Approaches
The dark clouds in the sky cover the sky and the sky does not move, the underground night wind rises and the wind is raging, and a delicate balance is maintained between the sky and the earth, the static and the moving, but it brings an invisible pressure to everyone in the heaven and the earth.
In this dark night, a thought came to the minds of all those who had not yet fallen asleep
- Rainstorms are coming.
Yang Shen, who was busy between heaven and earth and in the wind, felt even more.
He didn't have a chance to find a place to shelter from the rain, he just wanted to be busy before the rainstorm fell.
The back garden of the county magistrate's mansion has been razed to the ground, and the vacant space is used to place the "wealth robbery" income of the princess of the rivers and lakes.
The chests were either gold or silver, and they were all precious goods.
It is the result of the princess of the rivers and lakes in the past month.
On this day, it will be handed over to the princess's subordinates to take away and go to "help the poor".
Yang Shen was busy in the open space, arranging the boxes neatly. This is his first time working on this, so he doesn't need to do much. The main transportation was still done by the attendants known as Jiang Zuo.
This squire's martial arts are extremely profound, and his methods are even more unpredictable. Every time he went out into the darkness, he could bring more than a dozen boxes from nowhere, stacked on top of his hands, and the boxes several people high were arranged vertically, not moving in the wind, and it was very easy to look at the young man's appearance.
As soon as he threw it, the box was thrown to the ground, neatly aligned, and there was almost no need for Yang Shen to do anything.
But he didn't wait, and every time he walked around correcting the position of some boxes that were not allowed to change.
It looks a little busier than Jiang Zuo.
For a whole hour, when the entire back garden was covered with boxes, Jiang Zuo finally stopped moving, and ordered Yang Shen to stand and wait in the wind, and walked into the cave where the goods were hidden.
Yang Shen's awe of Jiang Zuo is even greater than that of the princess of the rivers and lakes.
So he honestly stood in place, looking ahead, holding his sword on the ground, enduring the tearing of the wind, feeling the increasingly oppressive breath between heaven and earth.
After what felt like hours had passed, someone finally came.
A group of black-clothed people, armed with narrow knives, quietly surrounded the entire back garden, narrowing the encirclement in the middle little by little, and when Yang Shen found them, they were already deeply surrounded.
The black-clothed man's gaze was as cold as a blade, staring coldly at Yang Shen, making him feel a chill to his bones in the wind. Regardless of whether they were the princess's subordinates or not, as a person who was on guard outside, he had the obligation to report it.
He secretly clenched the golden sword, his eyes drifted to the cave, and when he was about to make a sound, he saw the carriage without horses slowly driving out, Jiang Zuo and Xu Heng followed behind the carriage, the former walked out of the cave and looked around at everyone, shouting: "Welcome to the princess of the rivers and lakes!"
Yang participated in all the black-clothed people knelt down together and shouted in unison: "Respectfully the princess has arrived!"
The girl in the goose-yellow palace dress walked out of the cave in a kneeling greeting, looked at her group of subordinates, and was extremely proud in her heart, and happily let everyone calm down.
After leveling down, a man in black came out of the crowd and said to the princess of the rivers and lakes alone: "One hundred and eight people from the capital of wealth and words, on the order of the prince of Ma, report to His Royal Highness for His Highness to send and drive!"
"Good, good. The princess nodded with a smile, raised her finger and pointed to the gold and silver treasures all over the back garden, and said happily, "Well, this is this month's harvest, you can take it back, but you have to settle the refugees who are homeless due to the plague in the southeast sea frontier." ”
"Yes!"
The leader of the men in black clenched his fists and waved his hand behind him, and more than a hundred of his men scattered, checked and confirmed the boxes of belongings, and then moved away from here one by one.
Cai Ziwei acted carefully, and had already arranged everything when he entered Xianyang Fu. More than a dozen carriages took turns to load boxes, some carrying boxes, some driving cars. The whole process was orderly and extremely efficient, Jiang Zuo and Yang Shen were busy for nearly an hour, and they completed it in half an hour.
Seeing that her subordinates were so powerful, the smile on the face of the princess of the rivers and lakes was even stronger, and when the property was about to be moved, the leader of the wealth and word guard came to the princess of the rivers and lakes, and his tone was respectful, but in fact he reproached: "Your Highness's harvest this time seems to be not as much as last month, and your subordinates dare to ask, why is this?"
As soon as these words came out, the princess of the rivers and lakes had not yet spoken, and Jiang Zuo behind her was already furious, and a "presumptuous" instantly knelt the man in black to the ground.
"Bold!, Your Highness's behavior, can you blame it?!"
The young man in black stepped forward and just wanted to punish him slightly, but was stopped by the princess of the rivers and lakes: "Jiang Zuo, forget it, it is indeed not as much as last month." The girl's tone changed, and she was very aggrieved, "In the past two months, the corrupt officials have been looted, and the rest have not found any evidence of the crime, so it's not easy to start!"
She looked at Yang Shen who was standing on the side: "Even if you find Yang Qing who has the ability to hunt for treasures, it will be a drop in the bucket, and you won't be able to increase the harvest for a while!"
"According to the opinion of his subordinates, the second mansion of Xijing is extremely rich, even if we have punished the corrupt officials, there are also rich businessmen, and the wealth in their hands is not inferior to that of the corrupt officials. The man in black looked at the princess's eyes, cautiously made a suggestion, and saw that the princess's face became contradictory, and hurriedly cast a killer move, "The corrupt officials, rich businessmen, and tycoons don't lack that money, but those refugees are lacking!
"What?!Did I not make enough money before for them to use?!"
The princess of the rivers and lakes was anxious when she heard this, and hurriedly asked carefully, with an anxious look.
Yang Shen, who was watching all this, had a bright heart: the princess of the rivers and lakes was undoubtedly used.
This month's robbery is already millions of taels of silver, which is less than last month, so what a terrible amount of gold and silver will be obtained for two or three consecutive months. So much money is used to help refugees, and how many people can't be saved.
How could this be too little?
Judging from her concerned expression, the princess of Jianghu still believes it and thinks that her "robbing the rich" is really "helping the poor". But it is very likely that she was deceived.
Yang Shen secretly glanced at the young man behind the princess, but did not see anything unusual. The princess was so deceived that the attendants who defended the princess so much did not react? Could it be that he was in league with the man in black?
By the way, these one hundred and eight people call themselves Xudu Caiziwei?
Does Xudu refer to the ghost town of Xudu in the East?
Why did the princess of the rivers and lakes far west have something to do with the ghost city of Xudu?
It's all weird.
In the midst of Yang Shen's many concerns, the black-clothed man of Caiziwei had already moved the remaining boxes, and one hundred and eight people gathered in front of the princess of the rivers and lakes again to bow down to her, thanking the princess for her tireless efforts to raise money for the refugees living in dire straits.
Hundreds of people knelt down and saluted, and they could no longer arouse the slightest interest of the princess of the rivers and lakes. The words of the leader of Caiziwei before made her heart full of guilt, and she thanked her subordinates for letting them get up with just a wave of her hand, and she was ready to let them leave without bothering to say anything.
The princess didn't have anything to say, but the leader of the men in black had something to say. The head of Caiziwei clapped his hands, and a person was brought to the princess.
"Your Royal Highness, this person is the guard of Menyang City, yesterday he lied that the princess came to Menyang City to steal the tribute grain, and framed the princess in the world, the crime is extremely evil, please punish Your Highness!"