Chapter Seventy-Eight: Fear
The streets were deserted, with dead leaves and winds, like a dead city.
But after half a month, Huanan has become like this, Guangxi was full of emotion and was speechless.
Walking through a few main streets, Guangxi saw a group of people sitting on the ground on Fanhua Road, ragged and embarrassed.
The moment they saw Guangxi, everyone was stunned, in this bloody and bloody land of suffering, the handsome young man in front of him with extraordinary bearing and brocade clothes looked so out of place.
Guangxi walked up to them with a calm face, glanced around, and said slowly: "The famine has been a long time and the people are struggling to make a living, this is a natural disaster rather than a man-made disaster, the yamen will definitely provide relief to the famine and give everyone an explanation." ”
"Who are you?" asked the person in front.
"It doesn't matter who I am, but I promise to ease the famine and stop everyone from going hungry. Guangxi said.
"What guarantee do you have? You must also be in league with Cheng Xuan's dog official, don't want to deceive us again!" several people said indignantly.
"Hugh is rude!" Pony saw that the people were emotional, and hurriedly blocked Guangxi.
Only then did they notice that there was another person in the pony next to Guangxi.
"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood. Now that you are working so hard, with Cheng Xuan and yourself, there will be no good end. So, please calm down so that we can solve the problem. Guangxi said slowly.
"Let's go back first, tomorrow you continue to the porridge shop, I promise there will be white steamed buns and rice." Seeing their hesitant expressions, Guangxi said again.
Hearing "white steamed buns and rice", everyone swallowed unconsciously, it was a delicacy that they hadn't eaten for a long time.
Guangxi nodded at them, turned to leave, and everyone looked at Guangxi's back, although they had doubts, they were also inexplicably relieved.
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Cheng Xuan was a little surprised to see that Guangxi had come back well.
"Stand down. Kwang-hee said to the black-clothed warriors gathered at the door.
"Third prince, are you okay, those Diao people didn't embarrass you, right?"
Guangxi didn't answer Cheng Xuan's words, watched the others retreat, and then slowly spoke: "Cheng County order, water can carry a boat, or it can overturn a boat." Cheng Xianling naturally had a good idea of why he was in today's situation, and what the people wanted was only the most basic food and clothing, so why did you do this? I have promised the people that tomorrow there will be a supply of white steamed buns and rice in the porridge shop, and the Yamen Treasury should have these grains. ”
Cheng Xuan moved his lips, and said: "It's just that the three princes, if they follow the wishes of these Diao people, then where is the official authority of the Yamen? They have tasted the sweetness, and if they have anything that goes against their wishes in the future, they will rebel, and then the whole southern part of the country will be in chaos!"
Guangxi sneered: "Why is the official so powerful? The people's will will be self-reliant, and the people's will will be strong, and the people's will will be difficult for the official authority to survive. Doesn't Cheng County Ling understand this truth?"
Cheng Xuan sighed secretly, he really didn't want to take out this money, but now, there is no other way, first calm down the chaos in front of him, and it is not too late to make plans in the future. Thinking of this, Cheng Xuan said: "What the third prince said is that the lower officials will do it. ”
Guangxi nodded and walked straight to the courtyard.
Tang Wanru stood at the door, his face was anxious, and when he saw Guangxi coming back, his face relaxed.
"Third Prince, you're back. ”
Guangxi glanced at Tang Wanru, nodded, and pushed the door into the house.
Tang Wanru poured a cup of tea for Guangxi, and wanted to ask something, but seeing that Guangxi's intention was not to speak, he had to give up.
Guangxi drank the tea, but his throat was still dry and aching.
He walked to the desk, picked up the brush and wanted to write something, but he couldn't put it down, sighed slightly, and sat down.
Tang Wanru sat quietly on the side, looking at Guangxi's tired face, a little distressed. She could understand the pain of his exile in a foreign land, and she also vaguely knew that there lived a girl in distant Kyoto who made Guangxi take care of her, and that girl's name was Mu Xiaoxi, and Tang Wanru had heard Guangxi call many times in her dreams.
It's not that he is not sad, but this vinegar Tang Wan knows that he is not qualified to eat it at all. Guangxi has been in the south for some days, but she has been lukewarm, and besides, with lonely men and widows in the same room, Guangxi has never crossed the rules.
Tang Wanru knew that Guangxi was not an extraordinary person, and he had such a good characterization, but Tang Wanru was still a little confident in his appearance, and Guangxi could be so indifferent, that is, he did not have half of her status in his heart.
Tang Wanru felt uncomfortable, and couldn't help but feel a little jealous of the woman named Mu Xiaoxiao, and felt that he shouldn't be like this, and the contradictions were entangled, and it became a matter of his heart.
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The next day, the victims helped each other to the porridge shop, and when they saw the white flowers in the cauldron, the hot steamed buns and rice, they rubbed their eyes for fear that they would be hungry, so they hesitated to go up and gobble it up.
The pony watched from the sidelines, asked the catcher to maintain order, and said to the victims: "Everyone eat slowly, don't choke, eat some steamed buns and drink some porridge!"
No one cares to listen to the pony, and there is no other action than desperately stuffing food into his mouth.
After a long time, all the food was swept away, and the victims were content to burp and sit down on the side of the road.
"That boy really didn't lie to us!"
"Yes, yes, really a good person!"
"We still have to listen to him, and we can't make any more trouble. ”
"As long as you can eat a full stomach, who will make trouble, don't you want to have a peaceful life. ”
The pony listened to their gossip, and waited for them to stop before he spoke: "The yamen is already thinking about it, filling everyone's stomach is the top priority, and the next step is to resume farming, and the yamen will give economic subsidies to every family, and I believe that it will not be long before the south can regain its former vitality." I also hope that everyone will actively cooperate and never have another incident. ”
The victims nodded in unison, and there was some hope for this desperate life.
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The turmoil finally subsided, and Cheng Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when he heard that Guangxi's plan asked the yamen to provide money as a subsidy, Cheng Xuan was very unhappy and did not express his position.
In Cheng Xuan's opinion, this time it was already a "heavy hemorrhage", and if he gave money from the yamen, his loss would be too great. In this poor place in the south of the country, it is difficult to collect money, and if it is repeatedly spent, the county lord will not do it in vain in the past few years.
Guangxi naturally understood what Cheng Xuan was planning, and said something to him, Cheng Xuan understood that Guangxi knew some of his own things, but he was not sure how much Guangxi knew, so after thinking about it, he finally compromised and did what Guangxi wanted.
Things are going well, and the famine is slowly alleviating, but Cheng Xuan's dissatisfaction with Guangxi is accumulating more and more, because Guangxi is meddling in more and more affairs of the Yamen, which has already posed a great threat to his interests.
No matter how valuable Guangxi's exiled body was, if his little power was hollowed out, it would be a very terrible thing, and Cheng Xuan felt unprecedented fear.