Chapter 389: The Great Calamity
Gu Erniang was a little unable to answer under the strange gaze of people, lowered her head and cried, and said after a while: "Uncle's family really has the heart to help, so we should send food to the Gu family, where can we call our family to come to the door, woo, we went, I don't know how to be treated." ”
Some people think of the reputation of the Ma family, and they also understand Gu Erniang's feelings, but she is afraid.
At this time, Ma Ting, who was riding on the horse, finally couldn't help but speak, she took a sip and smiled: "I have never heard of eating with you and being complained about not being delivered to your mouth, you are rich and noble, and you are mighty and unyielding, so, I will not yin you, nor will I bend you, you go yourself, I didn't beg you to go to my brother's house." ”
As for Ma Ting's words, Gu Erniang immediately stopped crying and obediently walked briskly behind the horse.
I don't know how many people burst into laughter, laughing at Gu Erniang's face swelled and flushed with laughter, she was ashamed and ashamed, and she couldn't take care of Aunt Fu at the moment, so she took a fan to cover her face and turned around and went to the carriage.
Ma Ting laughed, pointed to the carriage behind her and said to the girl: "See, you can't play tricks on this kind of person in the future, you can't finish arguing with her, hit the key point directly, and hit it with one blow." ”
"Yes." The girl also smiled: "What you said is that this is called one force to ten meetings." ”
Ma Ting nodded, and said with a smile: "What else can be rich and noble, mighty and unyielding, have you seen it, as soon as she said that she would go back and starve herself, she would be honest immediately." ”
The girl agreed very much and shouted: "The eldest lady is indeed smart." ”
Li Luan'er was very funny from the side, and after seeing the excitement, she urged Yan Yi to hurry home, and while walking, she was still thinking about when she was free, so she learned this from her sister-in-law, and asked her to follow Lehe.
In addition, Li Luan'er thought again, it was really right to marry Ma Ting to the Gu family at the beginning, and if she wanted to change someone to meet Aunt Fu's mother and daughter, she couldn't say how much she would lose, but Ma Ting was the best able to lower them, not only them, but Gu Cheng was afraid to ask Ma Ting to take it, look at how miserable Gu Erniang cried just now, Gu Cheng didn't even dare to show her face, let alone make decisions for her.
In this way, Li Luan'er also relieved that as long as Ma Ting is there, those people from the Gu family will definitely not appear in the Li family again.
When Li Luan'er returned home, Yan Chengyue was taking Yan Er to prepare to go out, Li Luan'er went to inquire only to learn that the Zhuangzi outside his capital had also suffered a locust plague, Yan Chengyue was planning to go over to take a look, and settle the Zhuang household by the way.
Li Luan'er knew from Yan Chengyue's mouth that the Zhuangzi outside the city was very badly affected, not only the crops, but also a few farmers were also injured, so he hurriedly urged Yan Chengyue to take a look, and if he could help it, he would relieve it, so as not to let these farmers suffer natural disasters and then suffer man-made disasters.
Sending Yan Chengyue out of the house, Li Luan'er felt hungry again, and asked Ruizhu to go to the kitchen to explain, make a pot of meat porridge, and drink a big bowl of medicinal milk, so that she was not hungry, and after waiting for a while, the kitchen made a pot of soup dumplings, Li Luan'er ate a plate, plus a plate of vegetarian fried vegetables, and a braised carp, and her stomach was full.
After she had eaten, the sky was getting dark, the wind was blowing in the courtyard, and Li Luan'er couldn't sit still in the house, so she asked someone to move the recliner to the tree in the courtyard, and she sat on the chaise longue to enjoy the coolness.
Ruizhu sat on the side and fanned, helping Li Luan'er drive away the mosquitoes, flies and small insects in front of her, Li Luan'er saw that she was really hard, so she branched her out, and let go of her spiritual power to make a protective shield to isolate living creatures.
Gradually, the cool breeze was blowing, the shadows of the trees were swaying, Li Luan'er relaxed for a while, and fell asleep on the recliner.
When she woke up, she found that she was lying in Yan Chengyue's arms, and Li Luan'er smiled: "I'm back." ”
Yan Chengyue hugged her and went to the house: "I'm back, you don't know if it's windy outside, Ruizhu doesn't know where you went, I'll teach her a lesson when she comes back." ”
"I told her to go out for a walk." Li Luan'er smiled: "It's better to be bored in the house than outside, by the way, what happened to our villagers?" ”
As soon as she asked, Yan Chengyue's face began to become stern: "The disaster is extremely serious, I went over to take a look, the place where the locusts passed through is simply not a single grass, the crops that the farmers have planted for a year are all gone, even if they want to eat some wild grass and vegetables, there are no wild grasses and wild vegetables, and several houses have also collapsed." ”
"We have been exempted from rent this year, but after this disaster, we have been exempted from rent, and I am afraid that the farmers will not survive." Li Luan'er also frowned when she heard this: "I thought, should we send some food to the farmers, not too much, just enough for them to make a living." ”
Yan Chengyue also agreed with Li Luan'er's opinion, nodded and said, "I asked Uncle Zhou to see how much grain is still in our warehouse and how much can be taken out." ”
The two discussed for a while how to relieve the villagers, Yan Chengyue felt that this topic was too heavy, so he touched Li Luan'er's stomach: "How are you today?" Did the kids make trouble? ”
Li Luan'er shook her head: "It's okay today." ”
Li Luan'er laughed while telling the story of the Lin family's being frightened by the locust plague, and told it like a joke about how Ma Ting subdued the Gu family on the street, and finally praised it: "This Ma family is really a powerful person, I see, just like Aunt Fu and Gu Erniang, I want to turn over under Ma's hands in this life." ”
"What's more."
Speaking of the Gu and Ma families, Yan Chengyue also remembered something: "You don't go out much now, and you don't know some things, but the officials of the Honglu Temple know what kind of life Gu Cheng is living now, and the two in the family are like flowers, but they can only be monks who are tossed by the Ma family." ”
"Oh?" Li Luan'er was a little interested: "What do you say?" ”
"Ma is amazing, since he entered the door, he set a rule for Gu Cheng, saying that her man can only have her, Gu Cheng married her, he was born as her person, and death was her ghost, he couldn't have anything to do with Aunt Fu, let alone go to Aunt Fu's house, if he had any contact with Aunt Fu, Ma couldn't spare them." Yan Chengyue laughed a little when he thought of Gu Cheng's miserable days: "Gu Chengyuan still didn't believe it, one day when he went to Aunt Fu's place, he happened to be seen by Ma's family, he beat Gu Cheng with a whip, and hung Aunt Fu to a tree for half a day, which really frightened the two of them. ”
Speaking of this, Li Luan'er laughed out loud, and listened to Yan Chengyue again: "That's it, forget it, others can only say that Ma is a jealous woman, but Ma is moody, when he is happy, he can call Gu Cheng into the house, and when he is unhappy, he will send Gu Cheng to the study to sleep for ten days and a half months, and sometimes I don't know why, I give Gu Cheng a lot of tonic medicine, and Gu Cheng's false fire rises, and the internal fire can't be vented. ”
Li Luan'er imagined that Ma Shi had poured Gu Cheng with great tonic medicine, but he didn't let him get close, and she couldn't help but laugh and almost burst into tears: "Yes, this kind of hypocrisy should treat him like this." ”
Suddenly, Li Luan'er thought of Yan Chengyue's jealousy again, so she sat up sharply and asked, "You are clearly talking about the Ma family, are you really sarcastic about me?" I can't wait for you when I'm pregnant, and I don't ask you to ask for a little wife, do you have an opinion? ”
Yan Chengyue, who was frightened, hurriedly raised her hands: "Lady, the conscience of heaven and earth, I just want to talk to you about the Gu family, where can I have any opinions, the lady is such a good person, I can't hurt you alone, how can I have any thoughts to please the small, the lady really wronged me." ”
Looking at Yan Chengyue's bluffing appearance, what he said was quite sincere, Li Luan'er was satisfied, nodded and said: "This is about the same, in the future, you are not allowed to say the word nuisance." ”
Yan Chengyue nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, whatever the lady says." ”
Li Luan'er looked at him, and she couldn't help laughing out loud: "Okay, but when I talk about playing with you, you still take it seriously." ”
While speaking, Li Luan'er took a cup of tea and handed it to Yan Chengyue: "Drink some water to suppress the shock." ”
Yan Chengyue took the tea and drank a few sips, and Li Luan'er laughed a few words before resting, and so on the second day, Yan Chengyue brought some grain to Zhuangzi to relieve the villagers, and stayed in the Zhuangzi for several days, not only sent food, but also selected many strong villagers from the Zhuangzi to form a defense team to patrol day and night, in order to prevent outsiders from entering the Zhuangzi, but also to prevent the homeless people who could not survive from entering the village to rob.
Wait until the things in Zhuangzi are dealt with, Yan Chengyue went home and called Li Luan'er frightened, Yan Chengyue is handsome, white and beautiful, and has a good bearing, the whole person is like a fairy, but after going to Zhuangzi for a few days, Yan Chengyue's whole person has lost weight, not only thin, but also black, and suddenly looked, as if he had gone from heaven to the world, it was really uncomfortable to see.
Li Luan'er felt sorry for his hard work, so she asked the kitchen to make some food and nourish him in a different way, and she didn't ask him to a little snack on weekdays, and handled the family affairs properly.
It's just that the Yan family lives a comfortable life, and many people outside can't go on, and there are people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division in the capital who patrol all day long, but there is still some chaos, and there are daily incidents such as robbery, theft, and even murder, which makes the people panic for a while, and even those big families are worried.
There are more displaced people outside the capital, for the peace of the capital, the general stationed in the capital does not let a displaced person enter the city, and many displaced people are guarded outside the city, these displaced people are hungry and begin to loot the surrounding villages, many villages do not leave chickens and dogs because of the displaced people, and the people of a village do not have a living mouth, naturally, the saved food also enters the stomach of the displaced people.
This is not strict, what is even more frightening is that the court has no way to send grain to the border pass, and there may be a time when the border pass soldiers may mutiny because of the lack of food and grass.
The official family has not been in the court for a long time, and Liu Mu has deducted the fold and not handed it in, which has caused complaints inside and outside the court, but there are also officials who have taken advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune in the country, and when the official family hears the news and meets the officials, many things have been irreversible, and the official family is angry for a while, and has done a lot of corruption, dereliction of duty, and framing colleagues.
Naturally, the will of how to deal with these officials was passed down from the hands of Liu Mu, and many officials thought that Liu Mu was bold to pass on the will on behalf of the official family, and the officials of many factions hated Liu Mu to death.
The official family took this opportunity to install some young and poorly born officials in various ministries, but at this time, it was an eventful time, and the contradictions between some eunuchs represented by Liu Mu and court officials intensified, and no one noticed that the six ministries had been replaced with many seemingly inconspicuous but extremely important positions. R1152