"Jun Sheng, I have already asked people to take over the Lin family's bookstore, you go and help me take over, I should not meet with the Lin family. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

I haven't seen Chen Junsheng for a while, he has grown a little taller, his complexion is not as sallow as before, he has taken off a lot of childishness, and he is already a man.

Mei Xueyan asked Zou Lao to buy the Lin family's bookstore for her the day before yesterday, and it cost four hundred taels, which is also that the bookstore really can't hold on, and it is losing money every day, so Lin Erlang simply sold it for cash early, and four hundred taels is almost just the price of the store.

has no time to hand over yet, Mei Xueyan can only ask Chen Junsheng to help.

"Me? I'm afraid I won't be able to do it......" Chen Junsheng said unconfidently.

"You have been an apprentice in the bookstore, you are the most familiar with it, and the shopkeeper has helped you, you have a relationship with him, you go this time, and the people who can use it will try their best to keep it, and those who are not right-minded will resign."

Listening to what Chen Junsheng said, the shopkeeper is a sentient person, Chen Junsheng used to be an apprentice without wages, just food and housing, the shopkeeper made an exception to send a few copper plates every month, and took him into the Lin Mansion to visit Mrs. Chen and Mei Xueyan, Mei Xueyan also accepted his love.

Chen Junsheng rubbed his hands nervously, this was a major matter involving a few hundred taels of silver, and he had never done such a major matter.

"The shopkeeper is kind to me, and if he had helped, I would have done this."

Mei Xueyan nodded and said, "Also, the furnishings and books in the shop will be left first, and I will go back and replace them when I have time."

"Huh? Yan Niang, you don't still want to open a bookstore, do you? Chen Junsheng asked strangely.

"yes, what's wrong?"

Chen Junsheng has done this business and knows more than her, Mei Xueyan wants to hear his opinion.

"But the Lin family is folded on this...... Wouldn't continuing to do the bookstore business pick up a loss-making deal? Will...... Are we also unlucky? ”

"The loss is because of poor management, think about it, before Lin Erlang became the owner, was the bookstore business acceptable? Since Lin Erlang took over, it has become less and less every day, which shows that things are man-made. As for the theory of bad luck in feng shui, it's just nonsense. ”

"That's right...... I heard that after Lin Erye took charge, he often defaulted on his wages, and often embezzled the silver on the counter, so that the shopkeeper didn't even have the turnover silver. ”

Chen Junsheng reluctantly accepted it, but he was really worried, for fear that he would accidentally lose a few hundred taels.

"You just have to do it, and if you have something, go to the county government to discuss with me."

Today, many beggars suddenly appeared in the city, and Mei Xueyan had already seen more than a dozen waves of people on the way to the county government.

Mei Xueyan took a closer look at them, although they were dressed plainly, like villagers in coarse cloth clothes, they were not as ragged as beggars, although their bodies were gray and dirty, they were all clean in comparison, but some of their eyes were red, and some of their faces were like dead ashes.

After entering the city, they did not beg along the streets like beggars, but found a place with tiled walls to hide, and some went to relatives, and the street corners and temples in the city were crowded.

It's more like a fleeing homeless person, something happened to her, Mei Xueyan was too busy to ask, and hurried to the county office first.

Sure enough, nearly 100 people from the county government were all in the lobby, and Wu County Ling was pacing back and forth with his hands, so anxious that his butt couldn't touch the chair.

At this time, the city soldiers came to report.

"Lord County, thousands of refugees have poured into the city now, and if this continues, the open space in the city will be crowded, and these refugees have nowhere to settle. Don't stop outside the city, or the city will become a mess. ”

Wu Xianling hesitated for a moment and said: "Let's put it into the city first, they are all homeless poor people, and there is not even a place to shelter from the wind and rain outside the city, you should first step up public security, don't make a big mess."

Mei Xueyan saw that everyone was in a hurry, so she could only ask Mr. Zou.

"Old Zou, where did these refugees come from?"

"The embankment of Huangsha Pass has collapsed, the flood has flooded dozens of townships, the fields are gone, the houses have also fallen, and those villagers have nowhere to flee but to flee to the city to seek shelter.

Mei Xueyan encountered a flood for the first time, and seeing the current situation, I am afraid that it is very grim, the farmers' houses are the foundation of their lives, and many houses are ancestral, and these are all gone, which is equivalent to eradicating their way of life.

In this era, the most miserable thing is to leave their hometowns, the villagers have no other crafts, rely on the mountains and fields to eat, no wonder the victims on the road are like ashes.

"Recently, it has only been drizzling, and there has been no flooding, so how could Huangsha Pass suddenly burst the embankment?"

Huangsha Pass is a bend of the Wei River in Lin'an County, because the bend is large, so it is surrounded by fertile land in the plain, there are thousands of good fields, for flood control, the county government has built a tall and strong river embankment in the early years, and Huangsha Pass has always been a rich place.

The burst of the levee has destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of families.

Zou Lao said quietly: "This matter has nothing to do with Master Ma's book, and he can't get rid of it!" It is said that Wu County Decree will allocate money every year to repair the river embankment in case of accidents, but after he took office, he filled his pocket, and most of the silver fell into his pocket, and there was not much left to really repair the food, but he asked a few people to pick up a few loads of stones and sand, do you say that it will not be an accident? ”

Mei Xueyan was shocked, she originally thought that most of the money that Master Ma was greedy for came from wealthy businessmen, but it turned out that he didn't even let go of these relief funds for peasants and workers.

Not only the horse master book, but also the previous master book, after many years, the disaster finally appeared.

"Lord Prefectural Commander, I think this is a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster. The misfortune arose from the fact that the master of Ma misappropriated the money of the people's livelihood for his own use, and caused countless evils, and it was difficult for the people to be angry just by imprisoning the prison, and he should be sentenced to death! ”

There are already people who are indignant and want to condemn the master of the horse to death, and the amount of dirty money in the master of the horse is so great that beheading is also in accordance with the law.

"He will inevitably die afterwards, and this official will do justice for the people." Wu Xian Ling Tie said with a blue face, "But the most important thing before is how to deal with the flood, seeing that there are more and more victims, saving people is the most important thing, the city is already overcrowded, what can you do?" ”

Everyone was silent, and the disadvantages of the imperial examination became apparent.

From the imperial court to the magistrates, they are all selected by the imperial examination, and the imperial examination emphasizes literature and history, although it can be known by taking history as a mirror, but after all, there is a discrepancy with the people's feelings.

In the face of such a major flood disaster, all the officials panicked and did not know how to deal with it.

They have encountered a flood and drought once in their lives, so where do they come from?