Chapter 320: The Three Changes of Willow in the Snow Disaster
The coolness of autumn is always very short, and before people have finished enjoying this crisp autumn season, winter arrives as scheduled, and just after the frost falls, rain and snow envelop the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty, even the city of Tokyo.
The snow scene is certainly pleasant, but if it falls too much, it will become a catastrophe, Zhending Mansion is in this catastrophe, the heavy snow has been falling for more than ten days, the road is blocked, the grain is damp, the cattle and sheep are frozen to death, and even people are not spared.
There are no neat stones on the ground, and the poor scholar sighs slightly with the cotton clothes on his body: "Three feet flat ground, many people freeze to death!" This is a catastrophe! ”
As he walked, he tripped over a hard object in the snowdrift, and when he looked down, he saw that it was a child with a strange smile on his face, judging from his stiff smile, he should have been frozen to death, and the kind scholar took off his clothes to keep him warm, maybe he could save the poor child.
Snapping, a wooden cane struck his hand, the numb hand attracted an incomparable tingling, the scholar fixed his eyes and saw that it was an old man, and asked strangely: "Why did this old man hit me?" ”
The old man sighed slightly: "Which family are you from?" This child is already dead and there is no possibility of life, and if you take off your clothes and give him you, you will freeze to death, don't you have parents? ”
The scholar looked at the child's weird smiling face and pointed his finger.
"Not to live?"
"It's not going to live, hurry home and go home, I don't know how you got here on this snowy day, this is Futian Temple!"
The scholar asked puzzledly: "Futian Courtyard is a place where the imperial court pays to support the childless elderly and orphans, how can people die?" Root...... I've heard that every year, the charcoal money is allocated by the government from the treasury itself. ”
The old man seemed to have heard the best joke ever, and he couldn't breathe out of breath with laughter, and even a trace of heat began to rise above his head: "Oops! can't live, laughing to death old man, where did you come from? This Futian Temple has actually become a paradise in the world in your mouth? Official? The official family sits on the Daqing Palace, and there are countless palace people serving him, how can he know that the money broadcast by kindness has been filled by a bunch of brutes? See, it's Fukuda-in! ”
The scholar looked towards the old man's finger, and all he saw was the ruins and a group of small snowdrifts, and instantly understood something, and the scholar rushed over frantically, and under each small snowdrift was a child with a strange smile.
The scholar stared blankly at the snowdrifts around him and muttered, "How can this be? How so! ”
The old man smiled: "What do you say it is because of?" Our Zhending Mansion is a big mansion, and the money and grain of Futian Courtyard sent from the imperial court every year are no longer a small amount......"
The scholar gritted his teeth and said: "What a Futian Courtyard, what a purgatory on earth!" After saying that, he got up and prepared to drive, but looking at the small snowdrifts like graves, he still stopped, and pushed a chicken cart from the corner of the wall under the surprised eyes of the old man, and began to carry the dead with great difficulty, old and small.
The old man didn't care at first, thinking that it would not be long before he would give up this ridiculous act, but it wasn't until half an hour later, when the scholar came from a distance, that he believed that the man was a persevering scholar, and got up to help him.
As the saying goes, more than one monkey has more strength, with the help of the old man, the corpse in the Futian courtyard was transported to the mound outside the city for burial, the cold has frozen the ground like a hard stone, an old and a young man just kept knocking on the ground to dig a shallow pit to bury the corpse.
Perhaps it was their actions that touched passers-by, and many people in the city also came to help, and the feelings of people in this era are so sincere and pure.
After burying the last corpse, the man who helped said to the scholar: "You are a good man, it's a pity that so many corpses were buried today, and there will be more tomorrow. ”
The scholar frowned and said, "This snow has become a disaster, why hasn't the prefect released grain to help the victims?" ”
The old man before smiled: "Open a warehouse and release grain? So what is he fighting for at the end of the year? Don't forget that as long as you open a liquidation field, it will be a catastrophe, and you must quickly report to the Beijing Division! ”
The scholar shouted angrily: "How can this be reasonable! Could it be that for the sake of his own political achievements, he doesn't care about the life or death of the people of Zhendingfu? It's a no-brainer! This official is going to find him Lu Weiyuan! ”
The scholar's words surprised the man and the old man on the side, and then laughed and said: "You are so angry that you don't look like an official, why do you go to find someone else's master, or honestly mix up your fame and say such big things!" ”
The scholar shook his head slightly, picked up the blanket that had not left his side, turned his head and walked towards the hut next to the yoshizuka, and after a while, when he came out again, the cotton clothes on his body turned into a splendid official uniform, a long winged hat, a scarlet Luo robe skirt, lined with white flowers Luo Zhongdan, tied with a large belt, and then tied with a leather belt to cover the knees, a square heart curved collar, white silk socks and black leather shoes.
All this shows his identity, and the old man and the man hurriedly knelt down and called the master.
From the brocade ribbon worn by the scholar's waist, it can be seen that he is a five-grade official, not to mention that he actually has a silverfish bag that the prefect does not have, which shows his high rank.
The scholar's change of costume made more and more people onlookers more and more surprised, and many people had seen this foolish cuoda earlier, and laughed at him for his insistence on burying the dead.
Now it is the former and the latter who gather around him and say words of begging, for fear that this official will hold a grudge.
The scholar refused the people's step to carry the sedan chair, and marched one foot deep and one foot shallow in the snow, even if the official uniform was wet in the snow, he didn't care, and when he arrived at the door of the prefect's yamen, he looked at the closed yamen and shouted angrily at the gatekeeper guarding the door: "This official Duanming Hall Bachelor and Hanlin Attendant Bachelor Taizhong Doctor Ti Hebei West Road Governor Liu Yong, don't you hurry up and let your eldest master come out to visit?!" ”
A long list of names has already made the porter listen to the intermarriage, although I don't know how big an official this official is, judging from his long title, it must be not small, the eldest lord once commanded, as long as it is a famous official, the official rank must not be small.
What's more, he dared to let the master from Wupin meet him, and the origin must be very big.
At this time, Lu Weiyuan had already lost his usual calm and stable bearing, and almost trotted out of the mansion, turning over in the snow at the door and rushing out.
"Xiaguan Chao Sanlang Quan Zhi Zhending Mansion Lu Weiyuan to see the Shangcha!"
Although there is only one level difference between the five products and the five products, but the meaning is completely different, it is better to say that there is a little less on the Lu, but the rights are not the same, the previous titles are scattered official prices, and a sentence of Hebei West Road Metropolitan Supervisor is a great send, this is a new official position promoted by the official family himself, with only one purpose, to inspect the situation of the state capitals.
Lu Weiyuan was about to regret death in his heart, and he finally concealed the snow disaster in Zhending Mansion, but he was actually bumped into by this Liu Yong.
Who doesn't know that he Liu Yong is this year's new champion, the official family personally named him the champion in the court, and encouraged him with his arrogant words in the past: Although Bai Yiqing is good, he can't serve the country and the people, I give you the champion today, I hope you will remember the arrogance of the past, and act for the country and the people with simplicity and simplicity.
Now that he Liu Yong has broken through his concealment of the snow disaster, I am afraid that he will not even be able to keep the black yarn hat......