No matter how dull Li Rui is, he knows that this official has set a trap for him. What's more, he's not sluggish.

It's okay to do good deeds, but it's okay to be wronged......

No one in the Xinguo Mansion has ever been wronged. The Holy Majesty may be able to do so. But these people wanted to set him up......

Li Rui listened to Si Hu and Si Gong keep talking about where they needed money and food, and couldn't help but speak:

"Listen to the boy!"

"It's not right!"

Hey? Who made this second sound?

Li Rui looked towards the place where the voice came from, and saw a green-clothed official standing against the wall with his arms in his hands next to the door put down his arms, and Shi Shiran walked out from the side of the door.

Green clothes? Seven products?

It's a pity to have such a look, wearing this toad green skin.

Tan Sigong and Qin Sihu, the two subordinate officials, were interrupted and looked at the green-clothed officials who came out with displeasure.

"Lord Zhang, we took you to check the damage when we counted the victims when you came to warn Jingzhao Mansion because of your kindness. You are not an official of Jingzhao Mansion, how can you meddle in the affairs of Jingzhao Mansion? ”

"It's because I'm not an official of Jingzhao Mansion that I have to open my mouth even more. I can't see you persecuting a child like that. Zhang Xuan stood in front of Li Rui and glanced at him.

It's just a kid of the horn.

Before that, when everyone came out to greet the people of Xinguogong, he didn't bother to come forward to greet them, and only watched them by the door. He actually didn't care about being an official, if it weren't for the fact that he hadn't finished reading the books in Qin Tianjian, and he needed to hide from the people in Beijing who forced him to marry, he would have resigned a long time ago.

"Preparing supplies, providing rice and grain, and building shantytowns are the responsibilities of Jingzhao Prefecture. If the Xinguo Mansion intervenes in this matter, asks for money for money, asks for grain for food, and does what the Holy Lord should do first, yes, your Jingzhao Mansion has solved a trouble, so that the people's grievances will not boil, how should the Xinguo Mansion deal with itself in the future? ”

Zhang Xuan burst into the thoughts of Si Gong and Si Hu for a while. "Are you trying to frame the Shinkoku Mansion?"

When Wang Youzi heard this, he secretly took a few steps back.

"Zhang Xuan! Don't be alarmist! Si Gong pointed behind him angrily. So what do you say, what about so many victims tonight? Waiting for the Holy Majesty to order to open a position and open an account......"

Who doesn't know what kind of edict the Dao Saint has ordered those clans to pull their feet for a long time!

"That's your job, not his." Zhang Xuan said indifferently, "He is still a child. If he agrees, will the adults in the family agree? If his family does not agree, does this not put him and his family at odds? ”

"Lao Ziyun, 'contentment is not humiliating, knowing that it will not be destroyed, it can last for a long time'. Now that this little boy is willing to come out for his family to see the disaster, and he also has the idea of doing good, he has already done what he should do, and you should not force the rest. ”

"You Taoist priest is really crazy! This is the eldest grandson of the Xinguo Mansion, as we all know...... "Si Gong is the most famous, and he still doesn't say anything that he knows." "If he is willing, Mrs. Qiu will definitely agree!"

"You're still coercing. It's just that before it was coerced in the name of 'doing good', and then it was coerced in the name of 'family affection'. If Jingzhao Mansion really has been acting like this all along, I really don't know why Lu Dao hasn't caused chaos until now. Zhang Xuan is a Taoist priest, who pays attention to "guiding according to the situation" and "governing by inaction", and hates this kind of person the most.

He saw that these two subordinate officials really wanted to use everyone to achieve their goals, and all the good feelings he had for them had faded cleanly.

Although this handsome Taoist priest said "he is still a child", which made people a little unhappy, Li Rui was still grateful to this green-clothed official who spoke up.

Especially this man who is still green, and dares to contradict two officials in red robes for a white-clothed boy who has no official position, this feeling of righteousness, he remembers in his heart.

He remembered that his name was "Zhang Xuan". He decided to send his family to visit his residence in the future, and he would definitely come to the door to thank him.

"Two adults, even if this adult doesn't speak, the kid can't agree."

Li Rui bowed and said to the two Jingzhao Mansion officials:

"I was asked by my grandmother to find out if there was anyone in need. Now that the victims have no food or clothing, and no half of the tiles to cover their bodies, even if the two adults don't speak, I will go home and try to persuade my grandmother to help. That's what I'm here to do. ”

"But as Master Zhang said, our Xinguo Mansion is not Jingzhao Mansion, even if we give porridge and clothes, it is only in the period before the official mansion, and we don't want to take care of everything. We are not like the imperial court that can raise the strength of the whole country, my family has no official warehouse and no taxes, and our ability is also limited, we can help for a while, but we can't help for a lifetime, and the future of these people still has to fall on the decision-making of the imperial court. ”

The more Li Rui said, the more sober his mind became.

He knew that when he said "well-known," he was referring to his grandmother's events at the Festival of Lights.

'Old Mrs. Qiu can directly slap King Xiangcheng in the face for the sake of her grandchildren', they probably thought so, thinking that if they went back to cry, make trouble, and hang themselves, their grandmother would obediently take the money out.

These people are wishful thinking. But he wasn't just a crying little doll, and his grandmother wasn't an ordinary woman who would get away with him when she heard of his distress.

The boy spoke softly at home, and his uncle went out of Beijing again. This kind of big thing really can't be decided. I had to go home and discuss it with my grandmother. Seeing Tan Sigong's ugly expression, Li Rui comforted him again: "If the family wants to save people, they naturally have been prepared for this matter, and after the kid goes home, he will ask the housekeeper to send a batch of rice noodles and winter clothes to come over for emergency relief." ”

It's just that thousands of people were affected by the disaster, and his family donated ten pieces of clothing alone, and there was no way to make everyone wear winter clothes. The same is true for rice, it is okay to boil porridge and satisfy your stomach, but with so many mouths, I am afraid that you can only starve to death.

He's going to have to get someone to help with this.

"The little boy has a pure heart and is willing to accumulate virtue, which is enough." Zhang Xuan looked at Li Rui with a smile, and then at the two subordinate officials. "Lord Qin, Lord Tan, you should continue to discuss how to build a wooden shed in the open space ahead. Maybe the little boy's rice grain is here, and he can immediately make porridge nearby. ”

"You Zhang Xuan! It's really ......" Sihu shook his head, but he didn't look displeased, and he didn't say anything unpleasant.

This Si Hu, surnamed Qin, still had that kind of relaxed expression on his face, and he arched his hand slightly to Li Rui.

"Master Li, we have been resting in this family, counting the number of victims in Xicheng, if there is anyone who needs help in the Gongzi's help, even if you inform Jingzhao Mansion, Jingzhao Mansion will definitely do your best to help."

Li Rui smiled and nodded. "You're welcome, boy."

"Wang Youzi!"

"Huh! Adult, small one! The man came running up.

"This is Wang Siliu, the head of Xicheng who inspects public security, is the head snake of this place, and he is nicknamed Wang Youzi......"

'It's obviously Wang Daxia! Wang Youzi was indignant.

"If the eldest prince doesn't find us, just tell him something."

Li Rui glanced at this thin and capable official. I can't see it, but it has an elegant name.

"Then it's going to disturb Jingzhao Mansion." Li Rui arched his hand.

"I don't dare to say that I am bothering, it is all for the people. Hey, all the people who suffer from disasters are these poor families, the elderly, the weak, women and children. Sihu looked at the crowd of victims in the courtyard □□ him. Please don't blame us for our previous recklessness, and think of these people in everything. ”

Li Rui stood there quietly and glanced at the situation in the mansion again.

In the cold wind, these ragged clothes huddled together and shivered. The unsettling agitation was accompanied by the crying of a baby and the voice of a mother trying to soothe her baby's crying.

I need to bring some charcoal and goat's milk. Li Rui thought to himself.

"That kid quit first!"

Li Rui said goodbye to Si Gong, Si Hu, Zhang Xuan and Wang Siliu one by one, turned around and took his family to return in the direction of the carriage at the entrance of Xicheng.

Li Rui walked through the ruined street and looked to the other side of the street. There you can see people who have been digging their houses and walking towards these big families.

Many of them were walking in despair, empty-handed. Apparently they didn't dig what they wanted to dig.

Whether it's a thing, or a person.

This despair for the future makes people feel that even the air is thinning.

Li Rui showed an expression of being strangled around his neck, and he couldn't say anything.

He could only run with all his might.

Li Rui and his family ran out of the huge Xicheng very quickly, but they did not go home immediately.

He wrote a handwritten letter in the car, writing down what he felt along the way, and hoping that his grandmother would help him take it home as soon as possible.

Then he asked the carriage to stop at the Qi Mansion where the Dongcheng Guozi supervised the sacrificial wine, and went to find Qi Shao alone.

He had been a guest in Qi Mansion a few times before. Qi Yao, the younger brother of the owner of the mansion, Qi Yu, taught in the Xinguo Mansion, and the eldest son of their family, Qi Shao, was friends with him, and Yimenzi knew him all.

Seeing this stormy weather, the eldest grandson of the Xinguo Mansion suddenly came, and they didn't dare to slack off, and immediately someone respectfully invited him into the hall, and some family members rushed to find the eldest prince Qi Shao.

Qi Shao was writing poems with a few younger brothers and sisters in the mansion at this time. Today, there is a hailstorm, the sky and the earth are vast, and then the wind is fierce, which is a good subject for poetry.

Suddenly hearing that Li Rui was visiting, he hurriedly asked his younger brothers and sisters to disperse and go to the front hall to meet Li Rui.

"Li Rui, what's the matter with visiting in this weather? Could it be that it was blown by the north wind in the morning? Qi Shao came out to see him with a smile, and saw Li Rui wearing rain boots and a large pool of water stains on his pants, so he couldn't help but laugh.

"It was blown by the north wind." Li Rui didn't drink tea anymore, got up and pulled Qi Shao to go out.

"Huh, hey, hey? Li Rui, what do you do! ”

"Come with me somewhere and see something."

"Then you have to let me put on my coat and change into clothes for going out......" Qi Shao is from a family and still attaches great importance to etiquette. Let him wear his regular clothes and cloak and let his hair go out, he will not do it.

Helplessly, Li Rui had a lot of strength, Qi Shao pulled a few times and didn't pull, Li Rui saw that Qi Shao was only wearing a cotton shirt, and it would indeed be cold when he went out, so he took off the fox fur on his body and pressed it on him.

He is tall, and the fox fur itself is a big coat, so it is not too small to put it on Qi Shao.

"It's not cold. Come with me, the carriage is waiting outside. ”

"Come on, you're in such a hurry, there must be something important. I'll go with you. Qi Shao pointed at Li Rui and said with a smile: "I'll accept this fox fur, don't be reluctant." ”

This is to ask him for a fox fur to wear.

"If you can help me in this matter. No, it can help them. Take my robe. Li Ruiyi pulled Qi Shao's hand.

"Let's go."

It is said that Li Rui pulled Qi Shao out of Qi Mansion, stepped into the carriage, and let the carriage drive towards Xicheng at high speed.

As soon as Qi Shao heard that it was Xicheng, doubts arose in his heart. It was where the poor lived, and there should be no relatives or friends in a family like the Xinguo Mansion. What was he going to show him?

It was winter at this time, and it was early in the evening, although it was just past midnight, but it was already getting dark. The hail that fell at noon, by this time, the ground was full of water, and as the night fell, it became colder and colder.

Later in the day, the ground will freeze.

Li Rui became more and more anxious in his heart, and kept urging the driver to hurry up.

"Safety is paramount." Qi Shao couldn't help but open his mouth to persuade him. There was a charcoal basin lit in the carriage, and he was wearing a fox fur with fur inside and out, it wasn't very cold, but Li Rui was dressed in cotton clothes, which seemed to make him, an adult in clothes, uneasy.

"Otherwise, you'd better put on your coat." Qi Shao prepared to undress.

"No, I'm not a padded jacket, I'm a down jacket." Li Rui patted the cotton clothes on his body, opened the placket a little more, and showed him the delicate and smooth velvet clothes inside. "I wore a mink jacket and a fox fleece jacket inside."

"Huh? I can still understand the down jacket. How is this mink wool made of cloth? Qi Shao stretched out his hand and touched the hemp-gray mink coat on his body.

The tentacles are soft and silky, and they are thick when pinched. It's so dense, it should be very warm.

"This is my grandmother's fox velvet mink wool and knit it with velvet thread." Li Rui proudly tied up his placket. "This one is warmer than a jacket. I'm wearing this, plus a down jacket filled with duck down and goose down, so I don't really need to wear a fox fur. ”

I wore it and sweated.

"It's just that my family always thinks that I wear less, and the girl forced me to plug it when I went out."

Qi Shao pinched Li Rui's cotton clothes, and sure enough, the feel was completely different from the cotton jacket.

"Grandmother Ling is a strange person." Qi Shao admired, "If you can use fluff to weave clothes, isn't that a means that only the Weaver Girl in the sky has?" And this duck down and goose down, which are things that ordinary people throw away, but can replace cotton as a warm thing, which is simply ......"

I heard that Qiu Lao Taijun and Li Lao Guogong were both from poor backgrounds, and they were added to the official position in vain, even if they were developed, they would not forget their roots. On weekdays, he is so frugal, and it is even more rare that the things he makes are quite exquisite, and the same is true of the shooting Jue before, and the same is true of the velvet and velvet jackets now.

It's a pity that he is a foreign man, otherwise he must have gone every day to listen to the teachings of Mrs. Qiu.

The two discussed the velvet coat and the velvet coat, and the carriage finally drove to the West Side.

Qi Shao followed Li Rui out of the carriage, looked up at the countless toppled houses in Xicheng, and the people who were lighting fires in the ruins to keep warm, and opened his mouth in disbelief.

He was composing poems before this trip, and he had just written a few sentences describing the scene of the first hailstorm, but he felt that it was extremely exaggerated, so he put aside his pen and did not continue to mention it.

Looking at such a miserable situation now, he somehow had a sour nose and muttered......

“…… The mat is sheltered from frost and snow, and the severe cold is even more difficult to cover with wind.

The old man swallowed and cried, and the poor and sick were not fast.

The mouth can't speak, only the house, and the grandson is lying down without life.

When Li Rui heard Qi Shao's poem, his heart felt uncomfortable, he took a few steps forward and bowed.

"The Xinguo Mansion is willing to do a little bit for this group of people, and please help me with Brother Qi!"

It is said that Li Rui took Qi Shao to Xicheng, and the servant at home also borrowed a fast horse from Qi Mansion and went straight to the inner city.

As soon as he returned to the house, he went straight to the backyard and asked the mother-in-law at the door to deliver the letter written by Li Rui.

When Gu Qing looked at the letter, he was immediately shocked.

In modern times, this hail will only collapse a few rural houses, smash and kill some livestock, at most destroy some crops, and here, it will make seventy percent of the houses in Xicheng no longer able to live, and countless people will be crushed and injured.

Is this just a hailstorm, and if it is a snow disaster in the north, how many people will die?

Gu Qing began to worry about Li Mao, who had been away from home for many days, and he didn't know what complicated situation he would have to face.

"Go and ask Ming'er, how is the collection of clothes. Steward Li, I will ask you to count the rice grain, you first send someone to send half of it to the west of the city, find a big family surnamed Li, and hand over the rice and noodles to the Sihu of Jingzhao Mansion. Gu Qing thought of the corrupt officials who embezzled donations and materials in later generations, and added: "Find a few families to go over, so that the family members who sent them are not allowed to leave tonight, be sure to watch them make all these rice noodles into porridge and steamed buns, and distribute them to the victims." If you are tired, ask the family to bring things back and find someone else in Xicheng to do it. ”

Gu Qing asked again: "How much charcoal is there at home?" ”

Steward Li had already counted the supplies before he came, and because it was the New Year, everything in the house was very well prepared.

"Before the charcoal, each Zhuangzi sent a lot of cars, and there are still thousands of catties in the former warehouse. The masters used silver charcoal and rui charcoal that came in, which were in the back storeroom. "Li Da is saying to Shaoli. Charcoal is stocked in every yard, and it adds up to more than that. It's just stored in the library.

Mrs. Tai has long been at home, and Li Da is afraid that Gu Qing will take out all his brains.

Gu Qing was taken aback by the amount of thousands of catties of charcoal. What do you do with so much charcoal?

She didn't know that in this world, she had to use charcoal for everything in winter, even if the master ate a pot, there was a lot of charcoal used. What's more, the stove, the stove, the brazier and the fire pit, hundreds of family members in this house, each of them uses ten catties, and thousands of catties are gone.

There is a poem as evidence: 'A cart of charcoal, more than a thousand catties, the palace envoy will not regret it'. Each Zhuangzi sends a few cars, and I am afraid that there will be 10,000 catties.

Each village of the Xinguo Mansion has its own mountain forest, these charcoal are burned from the end of autumn when the weather is dry, this year the weather is cold, and more is burned to send, is to the house left a lot.

"Nana...... Take ...... "Gu Qing didn't know how much to take."

"Mrs., how about taking a car first? The victims are all heating in one place, and if it is only for a few nights, it will not use a lot of charcoal. Li Da hurriedly answered, "If it's not enough, send it again." ”

"Then let's do it."

In Qingcang Courtyard, Li Ming took his brother's two companions and his four servants to watch the account office at home and issue coupons.

This coupon is divided into red, white and purple, which is made of thick paper left over from the Three Kingdoms Killing, and is written with the words "someone donates a certain winter coat" or "someone donates a certain kind of cotton pants", in duplicate, one for the family as a voucher, and one for the account room as a stub. When I get back, the government will review the money and send it to the next people.

This dress can be donated or not, if you don't donate clothes, a quilt and blanket can also be donated. All are valued equally.

At first, only one or two subordinates sent something unwanted, purely to do a good deed. When he saw that there was compensation in the house, and he could make the master happy, people came to donate one after another.

It's just that most of the donations are male servants, but no one among the female servants is willing to take out their clothes.

Also, the things in the woman's house are still used, and it is a little ...... to take them out

"Sister Cangxi, do you want to donate so many winter clothes and winter quilts?" A second-class girl in Qingcang Courtyard was startled when she watched the big girl Cangxi ask someone to tie up the clothes she was going to send into a big ball.

"But you're still new!" This Cangxi and Canglan and others are all girls who came in the house later, and their winter clothes and quilts have not been more than two years. If the old one is fine, it would be too wasteful to take it out now.

"It's good to be new. New warmth. Cangxi asked the two rough girls to help her hold her things and walk to the front yard of Qingcang Courtyard.

Her hometown once moved, and it was also winter, and countless houses collapsed, so she could only take shelter under the eaves that did not fall. At that time, there were no kind-hearted people to give them quilts and winter clothes, and their family stayed up for more than ten days before waiting for the government to provide disaster relief.

These children have been born in rich and noble families, where do they know the hardships of the outside world!

After Cangxi left, the second-class girl looked at the other girl beside her inexplicably.

"Strange, you say, isn't it strange? It's just a sycophant, it's too much of a loss, it's so cold this winter, how can she live with a few padded jackets? What's more, if the clothes on the women who have not left the cabinet are given to any man...... Oh my God, I can't even think about it! The girl covered her face and said.

"What do you know, she is now the first to take out the slug, if she is good and has made a meritorious service, the house will definitely reward her with new cotton clothes and winter quilts. Where will there be less of her winter coats! You are simple, I don't know that this girl who sold the deed of sale wants to gain a foothold in the mansion......"

"I can't take it anymore. Shut your mouth! Another second-class girl named Lian Cang stood up and sneered. You talk slowly, and I'm going to get a foothold. ”

Although she is a second-class girl, she is the son of a serious family, and she is engaged to the son of Mama Sun's family in Zhiyun Courtyard. In three years, they will be married when they reach the age of twenty.

As soon as she said this, the faces of the two girls turned blue and red.

Even Nana went back to the house to rummage through winter clothes and quilts, leaving only the two girls struggling inwardly.

Even Cang is engaged, and he is not afraid to take his clothes out of the house, do they want to send some too? When the time comes, don't take it out, but they don't take it out, but they look stingy.

At most, I don't want to take pants and skirts......

The two girls glanced at each other, and they both got up and went back to the room.

In the front courtyard hall of Qingcang Courtyard, Li Ming excitedly counted the winter clothes and quilts that were tied up in the back. There are also many people who send thick socks and other things that are not used, and they don't need coupons, so they should do good.

Although there were no maids to send clothes, they were all C-C and other things sent by the old mother, purely greedy for cheap, and some of them were rotten.

But he can also understand. Men and women in the world are always harsh on women. They have scruples, and they should be.

A man's clothes can also be worn by a woman, but a man's clothes cannot be worn by a man, and the manservant gives more, so when the time comes, he will buy some more, and let the cold people go through first.

But even if he was sober, he couldn't help but feel a little sorry.

Well, the women in the house are not aware enough!

So when he saw the big girl in his brother's room with two little girls, holding a bunch of quilts, padded jackets and other things, he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Sister Cangxi, why are you?" He looked at the winter coat and quilt that were still fresh. "It's all new."

Cangxi asked the little girl to put her things next to the counted, and said with a chuckle: "My little master, I have only been in the house for a few years to live a good life, where are the old things." When old things came into the house, they were thrown away. ”

Li Ming nodded dumbly. "Oh, yes, Sister Cangxi only entered the mansion last winter."

"Then I'm leaving. Let this little girl come back and bring it to me. I have to go back to tidy up the house, and I have turned it over in a hurry. Cangxi asked a rough girl to stay here, turned around and left.

There are too many men in this hall, and they look at her like wolves, and she doesn't dare to stay longer.

After Cangxi left, even Cang also came over to send some old clothes and quilts, but there were no pants and skirts. But the padded jackets she was looking for were all long, and it was enough to shelter from the wind.

Lian Cang sent clothes, and a few little girls hesitantly sent some over. Later, somehow there were many girls in the house who were sent, and those who didn't send them were misers who were looked down upon, some girls loved to compare, and some girls were kind but hesitated, and now they saw that others had given them, and they also sent them.

After a while, Li Ming couldn't close his mouth happily.

A girl is not the same as a valet. When a man gets a piece of clothing, he wants to wear it out, and he has to support his family or save it to marry his wife. The girls compete all day long, and many people spend some of their money on new clothes and heads, this person likes the new and hates the old, and always feels that he has one less piece of clothing. I've worn it too many times in the past, and I don't want to wear it again.

They sent a lot of new ones, and there was no shortage of cloaks, cloaks, etc., which could be used by both men and women.

At this moment, the hands of several gentlemen in the account room were soft, and the room was full.

At this time, Gu Qing sent someone to ask Li Ming how much he had collected his clothes, and the house had already prepared food and charcoal, so he was waiting for Li Ming's winter clothes to be sent together.

Hearing the words of someone from Gu Qing's courtyard, Li Ming hurriedly waved his hand excitedly:

"Bring me dozens of family members, move all the things to the front for the master, and load them in the car!"

Grandma, look at how capable her grandson is, she has collected so much in one afternoon!!