44. Do not dry the wind and moon
The next day, the carriage was small and light, not as luxurious and bulky as her previous jade chariot.
There were several people in Goshha, who were his personal attendants, who were all sitting on horseback at first, and when they saw her coming out, they immediately dismounted, swept their sleeves and beat Qian'er: "Greetings to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess." โ
She said that she was not polite, and the people standing in front of the carriage saw her in men's clothes, and their eyes were full of amazement. She wears moon-white silver silk dark stripes, a jade belt around her waist, and a gold crown on her head, which is clearly a girl's face, and she can't be confused when she wears men's clothes. However, the heroic posture is still a little sassy, because it has to match this dress, take a big step, and shake it with a folding fan scratching and scratching, not like a merry boy, like an uncle who bets in the gambling house.
He laughed, "What are you doing like this?" โ
She said that it was easy to move, turned back to Tonghuan and Xiaoyou and said, "Look at so many people, it doesn't matter." Wait for me at home, don't run around, and watch the courtyard. โ
The copper ring bowed to her, "Your Highness be careful all the way, if you have anything, you will order Yu Chengfeng, don't be greedy for fun, and get separated alone." That place is strange and scary, the homeless nose is next to the eye, no one knows who, remember? โ
She said, "I remember everything." He came to pick her up, and she jumped up and got into the car.
It was the first time she had gone out by land, and she was full of curiosity, so she leaned on the window and looked out. The road surface is uneven, and sometimes it hits rubble and stones, and it is a heavy bump. He kept urging her to sit down, but she didn't listen, and finally banged her head with a bang, grinning, and almost crying.
He was busy looking, rubbing the wound for her with one hand, frowning and saying: "Nanyuan is short of money, the official road has not been repaired for several years, and it rained heavily for half a month last time, so it is inevitable that there will be potholes." You have to be obedient, sit obediently, and turn around and let the sand blind, and it is you who suffers. โ
She was stunned, "Why is it that there is no money for road repairs, and all of it is used to help the victims?" How can it go on like this, the huge Nanyuan has been hollowed out, and in the end, won't it affect the people of Jiangnan? โ
He said, "People are constantly pouring in, but they can't see death without help, it's really helpless." โ
She groaned, gritted her teeth, and said: "Three times in a row, ask the cabinet to come up with ideas, or disaster relief or guidance, they have to have a detailed explanation." Moreover, the number of people must also be controlled, and each major road will send troops to guard it, and it will no longer flow into Nanyuan. If you save this head and hurt the other, in the end, this thing will still be messed up. โ
She had such a determination, which really surprised him, he thought that she was kind and soft-faced, and it was inevitable that a woman would be kind, but he didn't expect her to be decided, which really suited his spleen and stomach. He deliberately tested her, "It's a pity that the vassal king can't garrison troops, and if you want to set up checkpoints, you still need to have people in hand after all." โ
She glanced at him, "Whether it belongs to the garrison or not, it depends on the number of people." I remember that the county king must not exceed 1,000, and the vassal king must not exceed 5,000, and it should not be a problem to hold the Huaining line with the mixed guards. The rest will be handed over to the states and counties, and those who can help will be helped, and those who can't be helped can't be carried. Since they have helped each other, they have done their best...... It's just that where so many homeless people came from, people can't understand it. โ
He turned his face away and coughed slightly.
Where tens of thousands of displaced people came from, this is really impossible to say. It is true that the king of Chu drove all the people fleeing the famine into Nanyuan, and roughly counted that there were about twenty or thirty thousand, and as for the extra 20,000 out of thin air, he naturally arranged it. The vassal king does not garrison troops, but in fact, it is just a superficial article, which prince has no horses in his hands? This Daye is dying, the turbulence is predictable, there is King Wusi in the west, King Zhen'an in the south, he is called Nanyuan here, in fact, it is in the east, in terms of strength, it is probably a three-legged tripod. It is undeniable that he is plotting the world, but everyone is ready to move. King Zhen'an talked to himself, and moved the vassal king's mansion to Bijiewei, the further north, the closer to the Jingshi, what does this mean, except for the muddy emperor in Beijing, everyone understands.
However, if you have soldiers, in the end, you still have to avoid people's eyes and ears, and scatter those reserved forces around the fiefdom, especially at the junction of the various domains, and if you want to move in the future, you can regroup, and the goal is much smaller in peacetime. Huaining's 20,000 horses mixed in the disaster victims during the day to recuperate, and only practiced at night. She said that the main roads were guarded by troops, and he had already implemented them, and once he entered Anqing Mansion, there would be no return, and he was not afraid of spies mixing in among the victims.
He took her on the road so that she could see how rotten this country was, but she was very smart and not an ordinary girl in the boudoir. Let's just say that girls practice calligraphy, most of them are hand-handed hairpins, at most they are flying white. As for her, she is practicing chapter grass, and she is in a hurry, and her words are vigorous. She is a woman with wise roots, what she values is not the cool breeze and winter snow, she has the world in her heart. He sometimes hopes that she can be stupid, the more dementia she enjoys, and the smarter she is, the more she suffers from it. It's too thorough, and it's always hurt to hurt itself......
If he doesn't think about this, it's useless to think about it, all he can do is take good care of her.
She was alive and kicking at first, but after a long time, she couldn't. In the end, the delicate girl, who usually walks steadily, gets into the car, nests in the square inch, shakes her bones all over her body, and in the afternoon, she just wants to sleep.
She held her head with one hand, like a chicken pecking rice, he looked funny, reached out and patted her on the shoulder, "Sleepy? โ
She was awake for a while and said no, after all, it was rude to sleep in front of him, and she felt that she could still hold on.
He spread out his hand and patted it on his leg, "Lie down, it's so uncomfortable to sit and sleep." โ
Wanwan was very hesitant, as soon as the two of them got closer, she slept on someone's lap, which was not suitable. This kind of moment is the most important to pay attention to the image, maybe wait a little longer, yawning and sneezing in front of him, it will not be a problem.
But he couldn't help but say, and pulled her over, "What is there to be polite with me?" It's not that I haven't seen you sleep, rolling from one end to the other. I thought at the time, this princess looks so big, and when she falls asleep, this is what she looks like. So I can stand how ugly you are, so don't worry about such a trivial matter. โ
She struggled, "Nonsense, how ugly I am, but it's hard to control myself when I fall asleep!" Don't you sleep? Can you still shake the willows like this when you are asleep? โ
When he heard this, his face turned green, "When did I shake the willows?" โ
She pursed her lips, and wanted to say that you did enough work last night, otherwise where did you get the flute? Where did the tea set come from? You're still wearing such nice clothes...... As a result, I couldn't control it, and this relationship was forcibly established by you.
He understood what she was thinking, and stared at her for a long time, and suddenly laughed uncontrollably.
He laughed loudly, she leaned into his arms, and she could feel the vibration of her chest, rumbling, vivid, and she was getting more and more embarrassed.
His fingers caressed her cheek and sighed, "I look like this in your eyes!" Anyway, I use the depth of affection, and there is nothing to be ashamed of letting you see. My heart has always been empty, and there is nowhere to settle. Thank you for coming last night to save me from displacement and to give me a branch to live on. I didn't tell you how I lived in the past, I didn't think about it from time to time before the wedding, and after the wedding, you ignored me, and I began to be afraid, afraid that if it went on, you and I would go farther and farther away, and we would never be close again. I have the cheekiness to pester, you hate me, I am embarrassed and sad, and I can't be at peace when I am out doing things. Okay now, let's decide, in the future, it will go on like this, no one is allowed to change the hexagram, can it be successful? โ
Emotionally speaking, once you love, you probably can't get it back. She remembered the love she had for the factory minister before, but she never exported it and never got a response. Love is a matter between two people, wishful thinking cannot last long, after all, it needs to warm each other to be warm. Now that I am married, it is natural to fall in love with each other, and there will be no guilt. It turns out that being loved is this feeling, no wonder Yinlou always shows a happy smile inadvertently, she was envious at the time, and she can't help it, but now she also understands it, very good. He said that he had a branch to live on, and he was not so, struggling in the world, and it was a blessing to have a shoulder to lean on when he was tired.
She relaxed, leaned on his lap and muttered, "I wanted to sleep, but I was completely sleepy by you." โ
He looked down at her, very close, tenderness in his eyes like a tide, "You promise me." โ
can't wait to tie up, also because I don't know the bottom of my heart. Wanwan looked at him, laughed slowly, nodded and said, "I promise you." โ
So this trip to Huaining is not like checking the disaster, the wind and the sun are beautiful all the way, and the journey is slow, more like playing in spring.
Wanwan usually looks steady, after all, she has a lot of playfulness, and she flew a kite halfway down, the kite flew in the sky, and the rope was pulled into the window, so she leaned on the car to fly the kite. Seeing that it was about to fall, he dragged it a few times in time and put it from Ning Guofu to Huaining.
If there is a unique Jiangnan poetry along the way, then after arriving in Huaining, the situation is very different. Huaining's population was originally not large, and the mass migration of disaster victims suddenly doubled overnight, and the small county town was almost overwhelmed. Outside, new news kept coming back, and Wanwan's kite was broken, and she crouched down at the window to look, and saw that there was a lot of mourning.
She grew up in the capital, and the bustle and peace of the capital are not available here. The walls are old, the skin of the walls is mottled, revealing gray bricks, and inside the walls are the ubiquitous homeless people, and adults drag children, filling every corner. It is said that now because the weather is warmer, the number of casualties has decreased, and there was a heavy snowfall last year, and the roadside is full of lying down. The second lady said that his face was full of sadness.
"Pull the snow with your hands, and there are people buried underneath. When the corpse was turned out, it was hard, and it was pulled by a row of cars, horizontally and vertically, as little as ten cars and eight cars a day, and as many as one or twenty. That tragic situation, you didn't see it, the white-haired people sent the black-haired people, the children chased the cars, the whole city was full of crying, walking around at night, as if entering the drunken capital, what a mad person! It's better now, it's hot, there's no need to burn charcoal, and the bedding is enough, so I'm worried about it. In case of the plague, so many people will die not one or two, but a large area. I have sent people to sprinkle quicklime everywhere, and the honeysuckle is drunk when it is finished being fried, so let's go and dry it, and it is difficult to say whether it is used or not. โ
Wanwan sniffed carefully, there was always a stench in the air, like what she had smelled in the upper courtyard. She tugged at the sleeve of her shirt, "Why is the smell so big?" โ
He lowered his eyes to look at her, helpless, "There are too many people, eating, drinking, and Lazar are all in one place, can it not stink!" If it goes on like this, it won't work, and I think about reclaiming the wasteland at the foot of the mountain, which was used to divide the boundary between Xiangchu and Nanyuan, and now I can't take care of it. With so many mouths to feed, relying solely on the supply of Suzhou and Hangzhou, the people of Jiangnan also have hardships. I wanted to let the victims feed themselves, grow millet and corn, and have a good meal in the fall. You can't rely on people to help you for a lifetime, and if you are self-sufficient, you can live in Huaining from now on. โ
Wanwan let out a long sigh, and when she looked around, it was white and gloomy. The children in the ragged clothes were frightened, staring and covered with dust. She remembered Lan Zhoulai, he was about the same age as them, he was dressed in fine clothes, but they were wolf bรจi ragged.
"Look at how much dry food is in the bag." She turned her head to Yu Qiyao and said, "Take it out and divide it, the child is pitiful." โ
As soon as the words fell, a bunch of children heard the wind and moved, as if they had pressed a machine spring, and jumped up on the ground and swarmed towards her. Even if I sympathize with them, this overwhelming situation is also frightening. She was frightened, but fortunately he was there, and he kept her behind him silently, and those goshkha drew their knives to stop, but the crowd did not disperse, and hundreds of clay pots and notched porcelain bowls still rang loudly.
He was annoyed, hatefully scolded the bastard, "It's really a bottomless pit of dissatisfaction, the porridge factory gives relief three times a day, how can you still be reincarnated like a starving ghost!" โ
Shu Cun was the leader of Goshhari's class, and he hurriedly stepped forward to disperse the people. An old woman grabbed him with trembling hands, her gray face, cloudy eyes, and expressionless muttering: "Hungry, hungry......"
Liangshi's face changed, and he turned around and walked in the direction of the porridge factory. A charity point was set up in the south and north of the city, because before it was time to put porridge, only a few officials were busy under the shack. Seeing a group of people coming in a hurry, he couldn't recognize who it was, so he opened his throat and shouted: "Stand, what are you doing!" The porridge factory is a heavy land, and idlers are exempt from approaching ......"
No one listened to this, and Goshha circled an open space, and when he went to look, he saw that the firewood in the stove had long been extinguished, and the porridge boiled in the pot was scooped out and put into a large wooden barrel, and the result was that the clear soup was low and the rice was missing. The wind and thunder suddenly rose between his eyebrows, and he asked sharply where the steward was, and a man wearing an official hat trotted all the way over, looked upward, and hurriedly arched, "I have seen the prince in my humble position, but I don't know that the prince is here in person, and I have missed the welcome, and I ask the prince to forgive me." โ
He didn't answer, picked up a chopstick and inserted it into the bucket, "I used to give orders five times, the chopsticks floated and the head fell to the ground, what is the situation now?" He let go of his hand, and the bamboo chopsticks immediately rippled on the water, and he sneered, "Where is the Wanshi grain that Su Hang took?" But after only half a month, can you finish eating? โ
The little official knelt down with a thud and kowtowed, "Lord Mingjian, the lowly position only cares about this porridge factory, how much rice grain comes, and how many bowls of porridge soup can be boiled in the lowly position." It's just that these two times are getting less and less, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, so many people are waiting, only add more water, so that everyone can have a hot mouth. As for the rest, I don't know anything about the lowly position, and the prince wants to ask about the sin of the lowly position, and the lowly position is really a great injustice. โ
Shuquan kicked him over, "I usually look at you five or six, but when something happens, all of you become the eight kings with shrunken heads!" The master has only been back for a month, and you have been in a mess here, saying, who is in charge of the grain depot, is it your Shaxian Order, or Sun Tongzhi? โ
The little official was kicked to the ground, and he didn't dare to delay, so he knelt back again, and said with a crying voice: "The county commander said that the matter is big, and he is in charge." Master, don't be angry, it's useless to rush at me, let's pass on the Sha County Order to ask, he handled the matter, and it's right to ask him. โ
Seeing this, he lowered his hand and said back and forth: "Master, don't worry, the slave will go to the county to take people." Let Dachun and them wait for you to go back to the post station to rest, this long journey, not only will you be affected, but Your Highness will also be lacking. There are many disaster victims, seven gourds and eight scoops, there is always something unpleasant, you and don't be impatient, let's do it one by one, there are slaves in the horizontal and vertical, you first raise enough spirits, and then ask not too late. โ
This was indeed something he didn't expect, because the victims were mixed with his people, so Huaining's rations were absolutely enough. As a result, now that the food is gone, even the soldiers who have affected him are hungry, and it is obvious that someone has filled his pockets and made a fool of him.
He pressed it, and in normal times, it would not be hindered to run for hundreds of miles, but now that Wanwan is here, she has not experienced this, and she stood beside Yu Qiyao in a panic, and was confused by the qiฤ in front of her.
Well, take it slow for a while and settle her down. He nodded, "You mobilize people and soldiers to divide into two routes, and take Sha Wansheng all the way to the first, the boundary of my Nanyuan, whether it is within the jurisdiction of the officials under my control, whether he knows the county or the same knowledge!" The other way to seal the granary, arrange a meal tonight, and then try that bastard at dawn tomorrow. โ
Shu Cun took the order, he turned around and took a breath, smiled at her dismally: "You see, the great calamity is at the head, there are still people who make this kind of wealth, and now people's hearts are rotten." โ
She lives deep in the palace, living a life of clothes and stretching out her hands to eat and open her mouth, where will she understand the smoky world outside. just looked at him, his face was full of loneliness, "I didn't expect the people of Daye to live such a life." โ
However, what he didn't expect was still to come, and he didn't try the Sha County order that night, but waited for his wife. When Mrs. Sha arrived at the post station, she didn't say a word, and went into Yuwenliangshi's bedroom.