Chapter 148: Changzhou
Xu's body is thin, but she does not lose the richness of a woman, in this ice and snow, Zhang Weiwen thought that she would feel unwell, but he didn't expect that she was like being beaten with chicken blood, and she was full of excitement - {Sui}{Dream} Novel ัww{mะตng][lฤ}
"Madame is tired, why don't you stop the carriage?" Zhang Weiwen's official position this time is the prefect of Changzhou, so he has to set off ahead of the large army, originally he was not going to bring Xu Shiling over, but after his wife gave himself a show to subdue the three big men with his bare hands, he changed his mind.
Xu Shilang's wife is Hong Xiucheng's cousin, and she is good at martial arts, so Xu Shilang's daughter naturally knows how to do a little kung fu, which Zhang Weiwen heard from others, but Zhang Weiwen knows that his wife knows how much kung fu she can do.
"Tired of tautology? If you are tired, stop, you are not in good health, when you arrive in Changzhou, you have to exercise with me. โ
"That's what Madame said."
Zhang Weiwen got out of the carriage with Xu, and the attendant had cleared two positions in a deserted post pavilion, and the mother-in-law on the side began to cook.
The weather is cold, there are not many personnel changes, and this place is a wilderness, so everyone settled the meal on the spot here, Zhang Weiwen thought that Xu must not be used to eating these rough things, but he didn't think that Xu smiled gently: "It's a different flavor." โ
Zhang Weiwen really felt that he had married a baby.
Zhang Weiwen and his entourage walked for nearly half a month before they arrived in the Hexi area.
Hexi Henan has been the granary of Kyushu since ancient times, the terrain here is flat, densely populated, but it is also the most prone to rebellion, there are large rivers that often flood, and from time to time there will be a great drought, it can be described as a bad fate, but in the early years of the previous dynasty, the imperial court carried out a large-scale population migration, most of the population migrated to the south, so the land of Henan Hexi has also been stable for a lot of time, but after all, it is a river beach plain, so the population is large, and the famine spreads this winter, Many people dragged their families to the southern Changzhou area, Changzhou is the hinterland of the Great Zhou, if there is a civil unrest there, the consequences are unimaginable, so the emperor will be so anxious to send Zhang Weiwen to Changzhou.
At this time, Zhang Weiwen looked at the devastated land from the carriage, the white snow covered the terrifying bones, thousands of miles of people, only a few old trees that had been stripped of their bark shivered in the cold wind, and there was a ragged young girl in the arms and a small baby in her arms under the broken eaves in the distance.
Zhang Weiwen walked up to the little girl who seemed to be asleep and asked, "Little girl, do you report that this child is here?" What about your family? The little girl seemed to be very cold, opened her eyes and said tremblingly: "My mother went out to find food, and I am waiting for her here." โ
"Why don't you wait in the house, it's so cold here." The little girl opened her big eyes.
"It's too scary to go in the house."
Zhang Weiwen entered the house and saw several people lying on the bed, stiff and dead, Zhang Weiwen closed the door and said, "How long has your mother been out?" โ
"Three days," said the little girl, timidly, her dry hair covered with snow and her shoes with holes in her feet. His hands were full of chilblains, as if he was afraid of Zhang Weiwen.
"Is this your brother?" Zhang Weiwen pointed to the motionless baby in the little girl's arms.
"It's my brother." The little girl subconsciously hugged the little baby tightly, Zhang Weiwen suddenly felt a moist eye, he tried to say in a gentle tone: "I want to tell you a fact, maybe it's hard to accept, but there is no way to do it, you know, your brother may be dead." โ
Zhang Weiwen touched the baby's completely cold face, the baby's eyebrows and eyes are beautiful, maybe he will be a very handsome boy when he grows up.
The little girl didn't speak, just looked at the little baby in her arms in a daze.
Then the little girl's tears fell, she looked at Zhang Weiwen in horror, as if she didn't know what to do, she asked tremblingly: "What should I do after my mother comes back?" I promised her that she would take care of her brother. โ
Zhang Weiwen couldn't bear to tell her that if a person went out at such a time and didn't come back for three days, then she would probably die, how could he tell the news to this poor girl.
"She won't blame you, it's not your fault, are you hungry?" Zhang Weiwen took the dry food handed by the guard, and the little girl put the swaddling clothes on her lap, and then picked up the piece of jerky.
"It's meat, I haven't eaten meat in a long time." ๏ผ
"Give her the bread." People who have been hungry for a long time are not suitable for eating meat, Zhang Weiwen commanded, at this time Xu got down from the carriage, sighed, and said: "The dead are great, bury these corpses." The guards buried the bodies in the house, but did not know the names of the dead, so they went to ask the little girl.
"This is my grandma, that's my grandfather, this is my father, this is my uncle."
The crowd was silent, and after packing up, they took the little girl on the road.
Zhang Weiwen was silent along the way, and Xu took Zhang Weiwen's hand and said, "Tautology." โ
"What?"
"What are you doing here?"
"I came for the Changzhou Governor to help the victims."
"In that case? Why are you so worried, the husband cultivates himself to govern the country and level the world, and he can just do it when he sees injustice. โ
"Thank you, ma'am." Zhang Weiwen smiled, and the gloom between his eyebrows and eyes was swept away.
"Mrs. Shi doesn't have to be formal, my princess has admired you for a long time, and I want to ask you to come and pray for the unborn child." Outside the hall door, she said to an old-eyed nun.
"The princess is in love, and the poor nun must do her best to pray for the little prince."
"The princess wants to see you, come with me." Qingque said, the two entered the warm pavilion, it was rare that Jinyu did not lie down, but sat on the couch and read a book.
"Poor Ni has seen the princess."
"Mrs. Shi doesn't have to be polite, sit down quickly." Jinyu looked at Mrs. Jinghui carefully, she was still the same as before, old, and even ugly, but her eyes were gentle and kind.
"I heard that Shitai's Buddhism is profound, so I invited you over to practice in the family temple, I don't know what Shitai wants?"
"It's all up to the princess's arrangement, but there is one thing to ask for."
"Mrs. Shi, please speak."
"The temple where I practiced before has fallen into disrepair, and I'm afraid that this winter, the teachers and princesses in the nunnery."
"I see, I'll go back and add some sesame oil."
"Then the poor nun will take his leave."
"Send Shitai out."
Jinyu looked at Jinghui's somewhat stiff back, and suddenly felt a burst of wetness in front of her.