"What's wrong? Is there anything inconvenient? Looking at the entanglement on Wang Zhenqing's face, Xiao Hao opened his mouth to ask, but his tone was unconsciously coercive, Wang Zhenqing cautiously raised his head and wanted to knock Xiao Hao, but he didn't expect to crash into a pair of dark eyes all of a sudden, and the ink seemed to suck people in.

Wang Zhenqing, a small border official, has never seen such a scene, even if he has not seen it, he still can't hear the displeasure of his boss, so he quickly asked someone to take the notebook and handed it to Xiao Hao anxiously.

Xiao Hao took the small notebook and flipped through it page by page, his face gradually became solemn, and his brows were furrowed.

Wang Zhenqing didn't dare to look at Xiao Hao, who was sitting at the top, so he had to lower his white and fat face.

Sure enough, Xiao Hao, who had finished turning over the small book, was furious in his heart, slapped the book in his hand on the table, and stared at Wang Zhenqing in front of him: "You tell me that it only took ten stones of rice to open the warehouse and put grain, what?" Those refugees don't have to eat and can survive on rice soup alone? Also, since the disaster happened, you have only opened three positions? ”

Wang Zhenqing wiped the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and felt a little weak: "Villain, villain...... It's not that the villain refuses to open a warehouse to release grain, it's really, there is really no food. ”

Xiao Hao's eyes narrowed, and he said in a deep voice: "There is no food for the affected people, but there is food to lend to others." ”

Xiao Hao spread out the book again, looked at it, and sneered.

"Yo, Governor Cao borrowed a lot, and it adds up to three hundred stones." Xiao Hao's fluttering tone made Wang Zhenqing even more frightened, and the flesh on his body trembled.

Seeing Wang Zhenqing's appearance, Xiao Hao's words were indifferent but with a coercion that people couldn't refuse: "You still don't tell me honestly? Do I have to send someone to find out myself? ”

On the other side, Hang Yidong arranged for his subordinates to clean up their things, and called out Ying Er.

Kageji knelt on the ground: "What does the master command?" ”

"You go to check, the family situation of the officials in this place, as far as the capital, as close as Anhe County, have found out to me the bottom, we are new to the city, we can't not know nothing." Hang Yidong commanded lightly.

"Yes."

In the next second, Shadow II disappeared in place.

Hang Yidong raised his eyebrows, although he had seen it several times, he was still a little unaccustomed to it.

After taking care of everything in the house, Hang Yidong wanted to go for a walk on the street, and she remembered the pair of desperate and numb eyes she encountered when she was in the house, and her intuition was a little wrong.

"Shen Yue, Meteor, go out for a walk with me."

Shen Yue just stepped forward and put on a cloak for the master, so as not to let the master get cold, but it was a meteor, still holding a fruit in his hand and gnawing, Shen Yue saw this scene and lost his temper, and pulled the meteor that was gnawing happily and caught up with the master.

Hang Yidong didn't dress up very carefully when he went out, but just pretended to be dressed like an ordinary rich family.

At this time, there are still people coming and going on the street, and it looks and lively, but it always makes people feel a heavy atmosphere.

Hang Yidong pretended to be interested and knocked in front of a rouge stall, the owner of the stall was a woman with high cheekbones and a little mean between her eyebrows and eyes, she saw the white and chubby Hang Yidong and the two little maids behind her who were exactly the same as her, and she had a plan in her heart: "Oh, madam, you are really good-eyed, this box of rouge is the last one of my stall, but it is easy to sell, it is made of natural roses, it does not hurt the skin, and it has its own floral fragrance, you see." ”

Hang Yidong gently rubbed it on the back of his hand and twisted it, the white back of his hand and the bright red formed a sharp contrast, Hang Yidong smiled with satisfaction: "Your rouge is good, I don't know what else to send?" ”

Hang Yidong whispered slowly: "For example, the news in this city. Hang Yidong deliberately lowered his voice.

After speaking, Hang Yidong took out a piece of broken silver and threw it in his hand, seeing that the rouge stall owner's eyes were straight.

The rouge stall owner felt that his tongue was directly rolled together: "Sell, sell, I sell everything here." ”

"Let me ask you, the drought in the northwest is serious and there is a shortage of food, but my husband and I went to Anhe County today to visit our relatives, but we saw many people wandering in the streets, although they are skinny, but they do not seem to be as serious as the rumors from the outside world? Also, what about the victims of the disaster? I haven't seen one in the city, and it's strange. "Hang Yidong really has a lot of doubts now.

When the stall owner heard Hang Yidong's question, he immediately approached Hang Yidong and whispered: "Madam, you don't know, more than half a month ago, there were rumors that some high-ranking officials in the capital were coming to our Anhe County, so the Cao Governor here asked Wang County to order that the people in the city should come out to do things every day, even if there is nothing to do, they must wander on the street, pretending to be a lively scene, so that the high-ranking officials from the capital know that we are living a good life now, you know, this scene has been maintained for almost half a month." ”

"But who of us ordinary people doesn't know, this year's drought has killed so many people, this Cao Governor wants to behave well in front of high-ranking officials, and he doesn't want to take off the black gauze hat on his head!"

Hang Yidong was a little surprised: "You mean, the scenes in the city are all pretended to be now?" ”

The stall owner nodded: "Otherwise, everyone can't eat enough now, and they don't want to fill their stomachs, what are they doing on the street every day?" Alas, but even if they want to find food, it's the hardest of the hardest? ”

"Why is that?"

The stall owner stopped talking, and Hang Yidong paused and took out a larger silver ingot from his sleeve.

The stall owner's face immediately became flattering: "Oh, madam, you just came to our Anhe County, I don't know, before the drought, we had about 200 yuan per stone of rice, but now, the black-hearted man of the rice shop, a stone of rice costs 800 yuan, and it is about to triple it, can the people afford it?" Moreover, in order to prevent the victims from entering, the gate has been sealed for several days, and many people who have gone to the mountains outside the city to find food are now unable to get out, and I have heard that those who have fled are now as hungry as mad dogs, not only gnawing on tree bark, but also eating people. ”

"Madam, tell me, if you can't go out of the city, and you can't afford to eat food in the city, isn't this trying to force our people to death?" As she spoke, this mean-faced woman actually cried, and it was not easy to think that her life would not be easy.

Hang Yidong got the answer she wanted, so she took down the box of rouge she had taken a fancy before, and threw the silver ingot in her hand to the rouge stall owner, who took it in a hurry, and kept thanking Hang Yidong: "Thank you, madam, thank you, madam." ”

With this money, she and her son can live a little longer.

Hang Yidong walked in the city with a heavy face, looking at these people who seemed to have no soul and no thoughts, and a wave of anger and helplessness surged in his heart.

Under such circumstances, the displaced people outside the city are eyeing the city and want to enter the city, and the people in the city are hungry because they can't afford to eat food, and in the long run, I am afraid that there will be riots inside and outside the city.

Hang Yidong frowned and was thinking about something, and suddenly, she saw the shabby old beggar in front of her approaching a thin little beggar squatting in the corner, took out a piece of white-flour steamed bun from his sleeve and handed it to the little beggar, although the white-faced steamed bun was stained with a large black stain, but the little beggar began to gobble it up as soon as he got the steamed bun.

The old beggar looked at him distressedly: "Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry." As he spoke, he coughed twice.

The little beggar looked at the old beggar, held up the remaining half of the steamed buns to the old beggar, and said weakly to the old beggar, "Grandpa, grandpa eat." ”

The old beggar touched the child's thin, sunken cheeks, and shook his head with a smile: "Grandpa just eaten, I'm not hungry, this steamed bun is all our Xiaowen's, and Xiaowen eats it himself." ”

At this moment, a man in cloth led a few fierce people to block the two beggars, which was also rare, Hang Yidong didn't see a few fleshy people all the way, and he saw several majestic men at this sight.

"Brother, it's this old guy who robbed me of the steamed buns in my steamed bun shop!" The leading cloth-clad man pointed at the old beggar.

A big man behind the man walked out and directly picked up the old beggar's collar, but maybe because the old beggar hadn't taken a bath for a long time, there was a bad smell on his body, the big man covered his nose and said viciously to the old beggar: "It's you!" Stealing my brother's steamed buns! You are an old immortal, don't you know how expensive food is now? How dare you steal? ”

But the old beggar was not afraid, but looked straight at the man who was holding him by the collar, and his eyes were bright and frightening: "I have not stolen, and I will not steal." ”

The big man was shocked by the old beggar, and some of them couldn't react, so the little beggar rushed up and kicked the bad guy who grabbed his grandfather: "Big bad guy, let go of my grandfather!" ”

But the child's strength is like scratching the boot for an adult, and he has no combat power, so he directly kicked the child to the side, and the little beggar smashed it to the ground, crawled several times and did not get up, and finally fainted.

When the old beggar saw this scene, he struggled frantically, and shouted at the little beggar several times: "Xiaowen! Xiaowen! ”

Then he turned his head and glared at a few people: "I said, even if I die, I won't steal that steamed bun, the steamed bun you lost has nothing to do with us!" ”

The big man looked at the thin old man in his hand, without the slightest compassion, and said viciously to the old beggar: "The old immortal is still hard-mouthed!" Don't toast and don't eat and drink, a few brothers will teach you how to be a good person. ”

After saying that, he smashed the old beggar to the ground, and the old beggar only felt that he was dizzy and could not see clearly what was in front of him.

At the moment when those big men surrounded the old beggar, a crisp female voice sounded from the side: "Wait a minute! ”