Chapter 156: The Official's Mansion
If you enter Huawei Town now, you will find that this place can basically be described as full of devastation.
The sun is close to September, scorching the earth, Huazhen is in the fairy world, not in the north, but in the south, Zhou Ling can't feel the temperature here, but the people here can feel it, the high temperature is as high as 40 degrees, even if it makes people full, they will look listless, not to mention that it is already full of refugees. There were no more surviving trees or grass in the town, which had been eaten by the refugees.
The village, now only the trunks of the trees remained, stood bare, and the grass beneath it was nowhere to be found. It may have entered someone's stomach and was about to digest it, but eating these things obviously couldn't meet the people's demands.
Those refugees can only get thinner and thinner day by day, and they are more and more emaciated day by day, if you see a person who is almost skeleton, walking on the street, don't think that you have crossed over, this is the current situation, hunger makes the men here, generally not a hundred pounds, let alone women, as for those children and the elderly...... Few children and the elderly can survive the past.
Look inside the moat outside the city walls, where the river used to flow, but now that the river is broken, there is only one ditch left, but at this time the ditch is not empty, it is full of things, all people.
To be exact, all of them are corpses, more than seventy percent of them are old people or children, if you see someone suddenly falling on the street, then don't help him, because he basically has no way to live, lying there and dying quickly, maybe it is a relief.
The current situation in Huazhen is difficult to describe even if the poet with gorgeous language can see it. Except for the sun hanging high in the sky, it no longer looks like a human being, but more like hell. In the eyes of all those who are still alive, some are only desperate, they are calculating, calculating how long they can last...... At this time, in the town of Huawei, the backyard of the government is a different scenery.
The front sentence can describe the outside of the government, and the back sentence can describe the situation of the back office, although the outside is a desperate place, but at this time in the inside of the government, it is another look, and the water that is extremely scarce outside, there is something here, and it can even be used to make a fountain shape.
The bark and grass roots that have been gnawed away outside can also be made into a garden here, and in the middle of the garden there is a huge pavilion with a small ditch dug out of either side of the pavilion. The pavilion blocks out the sunlight and the gutter dispels the heat, making it a pleasure to stay in it on such a hot day.
What's more, staying in this pavilion is not just himself, there are a total of four people in this courtyard at this time. A middle-aged man, extremely obscene, with triangular eyes, eight-character eyebrows, and a very obscene two-striped mustache, looking like a mouse.
He is the parent official of the town, the mayor of the town, and can also be called the county official, but now he doesn't care about the life or death of those refugees outside, he is quite nourishing. The other three were women, one of whom was playing the harp, while the other two, one of whom had his head resting on his chest and pinching his head, and the other of whom had his leg on his thigh and knocked on his leg. The one who pinched his head also took out some seasonal fruits for him to eat from time to time. Listening to the ancient sound of Zheng Zheng and enjoying the massage of beautiful women, it doesn't matter when it comes in normal times, but compared with the hungry streets outside now, there is a strong contrast.
"Your Excellency!" At this time, the woman who was sitting opposite the county magistrate, after the song was finished, and after making a thousand blessings, she sat down next to the magistrate, picked up the fruit next to her, and fed it to the magistrate.
"Well, the little peach's piano tone is getting closer and closer, and this song is quite good to play." Looking at the beautiful woman in front of him, the county magistrate over there laughed, and at the same time stretched out his hand and touched the little peach's body.
"Adult......" Xiao Taohong was touched by the county official, and instantly made a shyness, this acting can be described as perfect, if you get into this world, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to seal a movie queen or something, maybe you can go to Hollywood.
"Actually, the little peach just now seems to be a phoenix!" At this time, the two people next to them heard the words of this county official, and they couldn't help but think in their hearts, but they were not stupid enough to say it, they just smiled there.
Now that the outside is in a recession, except for this county official, other rich businessmen don't dare to bet at this time, even if they are rich, after all, they are also afraid that the refugees outside will know that they still have money to play with women, and then rush up and tear them up.
But this county official was not afraid, because he had not only a servant in his hands, but also an army of 100 people.
In the eyes of others, an army of 100 people is a fart, but in the eyes of these refugees, an army of 100 people is quite combative, so now he dares to live in his own small world so blatantly, ignoring the suffering of the people outside.
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!" Just when this guy was secretly cool there, a figure similar to him rushed in from the outside, trotted all the way to this small pavilion, looked at the fruit over there and was not polite, and directly took one and ate it, the apple was bitten in the mouth, and it was directly broken, it was really crisp and sweet.
"You three go down first, go to my room and wait, there's an ice basin there." Looking at this guy, the county official couldn't help but curse secretly, and then turned his head to the three women and said, hearing the words of the county official, the three women didn't say anything, just stood up and made a blessing, then turned around and left the small pavilion, and walked quickly towards the wing room over there.
"If it weren't for the fact that you are my cousin, I would have quit you a long time ago." Seeing the three women leave, the county magistrate over there secretly cursed, this guy is really choking enough, he has never been so rampage.
"Hehe, cousin, I really came to you for something this time, not to eat and drink." Looking at the county magistrate here, the man wearing the master's clothes, said with a smile, hearing this guy's words, the county magistrate glanced at him.
"You, you have a, let's say, do you want to borrow money again? I tell you, the money you borrowed has been advanced for twenty years. Looking at the Chang brother in front of him, the county official said angrily.
"This time I don't want silver, I'm here to send you silver." Looking at this county official, the master over there whispered.
"Send?" Hearing this word, the county official's eyes couldn't help but light up, the reason why he can live so chic is entirely because of this word, these things are all 'sent' by others.
"Brother, do you know what is the most valuable thing right now?" Looking at the county official in front of him, the master whispered.
"Does that need to be said? Grain! "Hearing the words of this master, the county official is not stupid, now it is difficult to disaster, even if you have money in your hand, you can't buy rice, and the most valuable thing is naturally food, as long as it can be eaten, it is the best!
"Yes, I was patrolling the city gate just now, and I happened to meet a group of refugees, that group of refugees had just escaped from Canglong Mountain, according to what they said, there is rice there now." Looking at the county official, the master's two eyes began to glow.
"Canglong Mountain, Canglong Gate, is it?" After listening to his cousin's words, the two rat eyes of the county officials over there also turned green.
"After all, it's a cultivator sect, so it's not easy to do!" Although he said that he wanted those rice very much, but Canglongmen was a sect after all, not something that his small county government could move, although it was said that the mortal world in this world was still in the hands of the Han Dynasty, but which Xiuzhen sect obeyed the words of the Han Dynasty?
"Hey, it's okay, I've inquired clearly, the last head of Canglongmen, Tiefeng Zhenren is dead, and now the head is Meng Lei, who has just cultivated for a few years, and the two junior brothers are not masters, it is estimated that the foundation has not been successfully built yet, what is there to be afraid of the day after tomorrow, even if they have completed the foundation building, there is nothing to be afraid of, there are only three people in total, do they dare to go against the imperial court? Brother, I heard that it was tens of thousands of catties of grain, aren't you impressed? ”
After listening to his cousin's words, the county official's eyes turned even greener this time, and it would be a lie to say that he was not impressed!
"Canglongmen...... Well, just in case, you go and invite that one too, as long as he is in charge, it is estimated that even if they want to make trouble, there will be no problem. In the end, the county official still couldn't stand the temptation of tens of thousands of catties of grain, and directly issued an order, and after hearing the order, the master over there immediately laughed and left the county office quickly.
At this time, neither Zhou Ling nor Canglongmen knew about it, and Canglongmen was distributing food there at this time. And Zhou Ling is preparing other things, it seems that the fairy world is not very peaceful!
But it doesn't matter if Zhou Ling knows about this, who Zhou Ling is afraid of! If you dare to get it, you will directly pull out your own demon beasts in the forest, destroy these guys, and let them know what is called the emperor's anger!
Recently, Zhou Ling has been liking this name more and more, Emperor, it sounds really bluffing. However, the current emperor is dealing with the problem of vegetables, and unlike rice, this dish can be bought casually, so this money also needs a lot!
(To be continued)