Chapter 114: Lin'an Rebellion
Du Xiaoxi was puzzled why the master called her to go or nodded, "Senior Brother Huai, wait, I'll come right away." Although I don't know why Du Xiaoxi still decided to take a trip, although her master is unscrupulous, he has always been good to her, and he won't cheat her for no reason.
"Dad, don't worry, I'll definitely be fine, Master and Senior Brother will definitely take care of me!" Du Xiaoxi hugged the little burden to comfort the worried family.
"Gone!" Huai was weak, saw that the time was not early, stopped his waist and picked up Du Xiaoxi, threw the person directly on the horse, jumped up and patted the horse's buttocks, and hurried towards the dock.
Horseback riding!
The first time in the past life and this life!
Du Xiaoxi was frightened and clutched the saddle tightly in his hand, for fear of accidentally falling off.
Huai Miao felt that his junior sister's cowardice was too embarrassing, "I look at you, I can't fall off!" ”
"Oh!" Du Xiaoxi responded, and his body was still tense.
In his previous life and in his current life, Du Xiaoxi, who had only sat on a donkey, finally saw the height of the horse.
Du Xiao likes to be quick and thinks that when she has money, she must buy a batch of strong horses for Daddy Du, so that the donkeys in the family don't have to be oppressed by Daddy Du.
Du Xiaoxi's buttocks were about to fall into four petals, and finally arrived at the dock.
"Uncle Liu, why are you here too, Brother Xiaotu?" Seeing the two people waiting on the shore, Du Xiaoxi was surprised.
Liu Yao pursed her lips and smiled at Du Xiaoxi, and when Du Xiaoxi was hugged by the horse, she held her hand, Liu Erye looked at the two villains holding hands and smiled: "The master said that this trip can cure Xiaotu's dumb disease." Nanling was in turmoil, and he was so relieved that he decided to go with him.
"That's great!" Du Xiao liked to look at Liu Yao happily.
Without waiting for Du Xiaoxi to say anything more, Huai weakly pushed Du Xiaoxi and urged: "Get on the boat, the people on the boat are still waiting." ”
Several people got on board, only to find that there was no Master of Joy on board. Senior Brother Tranquility, who hadn't seen him for a long time, was actually on the boat.
The two were drinking tea on the deck, beckoning Du Xiaoxi and a few people to sit.
"His Majesty the Emperor sent the Nine Emperors to supervise the disaster relief matters, there will be no danger in this trip, you don't have to worry, as for the question of Liu Xiao's benefactor, just go with the flow, don't force it." The Master of Joy instructed a few people and said a few more words.
Second Master Liu nodded gratefully, looking at his son with a happy face.
Although he kept comforting himself that his master was not dumb, he just couldn't think about it in his heart. But in the past few years, my son has refused to say a word. He, the father, was desperate. Now that the master has given him clear hope, how can he not be happy.
Although Du Xiaoxi wondered why the master was becoming more and more omnipotent, he was also happy that Liu Yao could get better.
Du Xiaoxi glanced at the people on the boat and found that there were not many. There were a few more guards, and there were no escorted ships nearby. How can it be a prince traveling, this is too simple.
Tranquility glanced at Du Xiaoxi, who was looking around, as if she knew what she was looking for, but she didn't explain much. But I was thinking about what to do in the future.
The Nanling Earth Dragon turned over. It also happened at the same time in the previous life.
Countless dead and wounded, starving thousands of miles.
The emperor sent the crown prince to come to the disaster relief in person. In the absence of silver and food, Nanling suffered countless casualties, and in the end, it was the prince who borrowed money and silver from the major Buddhist temples to survive the difficulties.
In the previous life, at this time, he was still learning to read and write with an old eunuch in the cold palace. He didn't know if Nanling really had no money or food, but in this life he knew that it was definitely not.
This life. The people of the Buddha realm colluded with the remnants of the previous dynasty to be exposed, and Emperor Jiayuan ordered that monks should be forbidden to be officials. I don't know if it's because the crown prince is closely related to Buddhism behind him, and the person who oversaw the disaster relief this time became him.
A prince with a Buddhist background but incompatible with any faction. It will not overindulge the various sects of Buddhism, nor will it save face on the Buddhist temple.
In the tranquility of all kinds of thoughts. After crossing many mountains, they finally reached the South Ridge.
Nanling is not a city. The name of a place, but the general name of the vast southeast region, because of the mountains and rivers here, with the most hilly terrain, it is collectively called Nanling.
The Nanling ground movement involved nearly 100 counties in three prefectures and eight prefectures, and was the largest ground movement disaster experienced by Dashang since the founding of the People's Republic of China. No one knows how much pressure is on Tranquility, who oversaw the disaster relief this time.
Their first stop on this trip was Lin'an Mansion, which was the most severely affected.
Lin'an Mansion is the pearl of the south of the North-South Grand Canal, and it is also the second largest city in the south of the canal.
In the midst of the ground movement, several river embankments near Lin'an burst, and the waves of the river swept away countless people, and those who were crushed by the collapsed houses did not escape the fate of death.
It can be said that today's Lin'an City is empty nine out of ten.
As for why he went to such a place that was almost dead first, Tranquility naturally had his considerations.
The embankment of the breach has long been blocked by the surviving people, but almost no boats dare to stop here, and the passing boats are eager to flee for their lives and move away from this place.
The group got on the boat, and there was not a single person waiting on the shore.
The people who reacted to the blow by the river for a while walked along the collapsed houses into the distance with heavy thoughts.
The once prosperous wharf is now collapsed, and there is no figure to be seen, but occasionally passing by a place, you can smell a strong or faint smell of corpses.
There were so many people that they couldn't even find the person who collected the body.
The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground sounded, and several people looked in one direction in unison, and when they walked over, they found a little boy with a withered face who was throwing something from the ruins into the distance.
"Amitabha, the little donor mourns, I don't know how to go to the county government?" Master Joy finally saw a living person and hurriedly stepped forward and asked.
"Follow this path to the end." The little boy didn't lift his head, and continued to dig into his hands.
Knowing the way, several people slowly walked forward in the direction the boy pointed.
As they walked, they could feel more and more the desolation and loneliness of the city, and the living people they met along the way could be counted on one hand.
"This is it." Tranquility sighed and looked at the yamen that was still standing.
Du Xiaoxi also sighed, the best building is always the public building, and I can't be fooled.
"My lord? But the adults sent by the imperial court have arrived? ”
The old man who was sitting in the porter and sleeping little by little, and a group of people came over and came over with crutches and asked.
Tranquility glanced at the old man with dizzy eyes, and the old man with white hair who couldn't live long at a glance raised his chin and nodded.
"Where did the others go? Why don't you see anyone rescue, the bodies of the dead are discarded at will, why don't you dispose of them collectively? Tranquility did not identify herself, but threw questions directly.
The old man wiped his sweat nervously, and said in a low voice: "My lord, the small one was originally the old official of the government to guard the back door, and when the earth dragon turned over, the people in the city lost one-tenth of one-two, and the casualties after the river embankment broke reached ten **."
(To be continued.) )