The prefect thought that he would only invite Nan Luyuan alone, so that he could control it, and it would not make people suspicious. How did I expect that the girl named Lu Cai had to follow, and she looked like a girl with a spring in her arms.

However, he didn't want to take one more with him, and he couldn't afford to provoke the power of the Zhang family. In the end, the ink came and went, and Lu Liuhui still followed Nan Luyuan to the prefect's house.

When the two of them stepped into this mansion, they already knew what it was, but they couldn't show it. Lu Liuhui whispered to Nan Luyuan along the way: "The immortal family just pretended to go to relieve their hands, and they have already informed Zhang Gongzi. ”

"Why did you come along?" Nan Luyuan pinched his throat and asked her softly.

"If the immortal family doesn't come, can you handle it? Diehard. Lu Liuhu muttered, "You are easy to deal with these in Nanshang Wangcheng, but will you cheat with others?" The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, those yin methods, even if you are the emperor, you are deeply favored by the king of Nanshang, do you think that you died here in vain, can the king of Nanshang find evidence to rehabilitate you? ”

Nan Luyuan opened his mouth, but he didn't expect anything to refute.

"You remember what the fairy family said below, I'm afraid that the fairy family will be assigned to the female dependents later." Lu Liuyu said with a straight face, and from time to time gently looked at the people on both sides, "This black-hearted prefect is called Chen Ying, and the word is Zhulang." is the second in the family, and there is an elder brother who is in charge of the disaster relief money. There is a younger sister below, and her husband is an official in charge of Yunlong Lake. The three of them control the key to this line, and you don't want to show flaws in front of them. ”

Nan Luyuan closed his eyes and briefly recalled the appearance of the person he saw that night in line with this narrative, bowed his head slightly, and said, "I remember." ”

Lu Liuhui stopped talking, just as the prefect took them to the courtyard, the prefect's wife came forward to hug Lu Liuhui with a smile on her face, and she didn't care if she wanted to, so she couldn't help but pull her to the side courtyard.

Nan Luyuan pretended to be relieved and made a gesture towards the prefect. This Chen Ying glanced in the direction of the side courtyard, as if with a little unclear meaning: "Xia Guan has been in this place for so many years, it seems that he has never seen such a young lady in the Zhang family." ”

"This official also heard from the old lady that it seems to be a friend's child who has been fostered in their family since childhood. This time, I just came to the old lady's spring. Nan Luyuan smiled calmly.

The prefect said, "Oh-", "I think so, how could the Zhang family raise such a girl." ”

Nan Luyuan watched his face change from cautious to contemptuous, disgusted in his heart, but it was not good to show on his face, but his brows were slightly furrowed, Chen Ying saw it, and thought that he was a woman who looked down on this man who was pestering men on the street.

Chen Ying arranged for him to sit in the hall, and the subordinate made tea and brought it up: "This is the best Biluochun, the emperor will try it." ”

Nan Luyuan approached and sniffed without a trace, plucked the emerald tea with the tea lid, and secretly said in his heart, he didn't dare to blatantly poison this tea.

Then he took a shallow sip, put down the teacup, and said, "The official will get straight to the point." His Majesty attaches great importance to the floods in the south of the Yangtze River, so he sent his own officials to control the waters. I hope that the prefect Chen will cooperate. ”

Chen Ying said: "This is nature. This official also cares about this land, but his ability is shallow, and he still needs people who can excel like adults. ”

Nan Luyuan squinted his eyes, pretending to be very useful, and said in a false and aggrieved manner: "Don't dare to be, working with someone like the prefect is also the good luck of this official." ”

The prefect said: "My lord doesn't know, this wind canal has always been a big trouble in the south of the Yangtze River since my ancestors. The ancestors have relied on it for generations to eat, but the ancestors have been trapped by it for generations, if the adults are not concerned about the current affairs, they may as well go to the wind canal with the lower officials to investigate. ”

Nan Luyuan's heart moved, and he was led to the wind canal so quickly?

If he came back quickly this time, Shen Ling on the other side of Yunlong Lake collided with them, wouldn't his previous efforts be wasted?

Thinking so in his heart, and remembering the plan of these people that night, he deliberately said and declined: "No, this official thinks that it is important to go and observe the refugees first." ”

The prefect made a gesture of patting his head, and immediately changed his words: "Harm, look at the head of the lower official!" When adults come to control the water this time, they should first be sympathetic to the people. Xiaguan will prepare a car to take you there. ”

Nan Luyuan smiled slightly and took a sip of the teacup, his wide sleeves covered his face, his expression moved, and he thought to himself, Shen Ling should go to Yunlong Lake at this time, right?

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Before approaching the dam, a loud roar can be heard. It was so far away from the lake, and the muddy water that overflowed up was already up to the thighs.

Zhang Shenling didn't know how far away from the dam was, and saw a slightly higher dirt slope in front of him from a distance, with a circle of people lying on it, already skinny. He climbed up the dirt slope in a row.

The people on top of it were thin and looked like they hadn't been recuperated for many days.

After one such glance, he asked, "Are you the inhabitants of this place?" ”

No one replied to him. The men cast a menacing gaze, and the women carefully hid the young behind them.

As soon as Zhang Shenling saw this, he knew that this group of victims recognized him as those bastards who ate people's fat. He coughed and tried to explain, but in the end he couldn't think of any good words, so he could only be discouraged: "I am Shen Ling of the Zhang family." I swore by the luck of the Zhang family, we are really the officials sent by the imperial court. ”

The Zhang family's reputation in the local area looks very good. As soon as those people heard that Zhang Shenling belonged to the Zhang family, their eyes softened a little, but they disdained the name of "imperial court official": "Officials are not good things!" A few came to this place, and a few of them were raised with the dogs and became raccoon dogs. ”

Zhang Shenling covered his head and sighed in his heart, and said while squeezing the water in his clothes: "This time is different, Your Majesty specially appointed the Zhang family to be responsible for controlling the floods in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

The man who looked like the leader of this group of people looked at Zhang Shenling naked with suspicious eyes: "That's a nice thing, who knows if you are really from the Zhang family?" Maybe it's a charlatan who pretends to be a charlatan who makes his fortune in the name of the Zhang family! ”

This is really dumb and eating coptis. Zhang Shenling only felt that he was not so bitter when he took a handful of bitter dices to soak in water in his childhood, so he could only helplessly take out the sign that Mrs. Zhang stuffed to him when he went out, and said: "Junior Zhang Shenling, my father is Mrs. Zhang's nephew." This is my aunt's brand, you see, our family gives porridge to the people in distress every year, you don't recognize me, you always recognize the brand, right? ”

The man took it suspiciously, passed it around, and looked at it with his mother-in-law and children before he had to believe: "Taking a whole piece of green jade to make a token can only be done by the Zhang family." Since Mrs. Zhang agreed, it should be reliable. ”

Zhang Shenling took the token back, and his slightly immature face showed a little imitation of Mrs. Zhang's expression, and said: "That's natural, saying that all kinds of bad things about the imperial court officials are all told to you by your village head, right?" ”

The men didn't nod, but they looked like they acquiesced.

"What about you village chiefs? Why wasn't he there? Since the court officials are not good, why can he come back in a glamorous manner? Why don't you see emaciation yet? If you don't go to the imperial court, who can you go to? Why didn't our Zhang family get any information? Zhang Shenling recalled the appearance of the village chief of Yunlong Lake that Lu Liuhui told them yesterday, and his mouth was like a cannon, throwing out many questions one after another.

The villagers were silent, and finally an unkempt and haggard woman couldn't stand it anymore, and sobbed quietly, and asked, "Then who else can we believe?" We're here all day long, aren't we just trying to eat to fill our mouths? If this village chief can't believe it, how can we live? ”

Her husband wanted her to stop saying this, but the women and children were touched by this, and the men did not turn their heads away and refused to shed tears in front of their wives.

The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but he hasn't reached the sad place.

Zhang Shenling said hello, knowing that the village chief came back once every four or five days, a small bag of rice at a time, and the whole village came to boil porridge, and the porridge was so scarce that the flies disdained it. The adults are young and strong, and the children and the old people are all hungry and yellow, and they are half dead. Occasionally, a fish comes up in this water, which means that God has eyes and is a great joy.

Where has this young man, who has been raised in Jinyu since he was a child, seen this kind of suffering, and he did not forget to ask the village chief how long it would take to come back.

A man with muscular bumps said that the village chief had just gone out and would come back in about two or three days.

Zhang Shenling proposed: "Then why don't you come to a few sturdy ones, and follow me to Zhang's house to have a look." It won't be much of a road anyway. According to this momentum, it will be flooded in a few days, and when you enter the water, will there be a way to live? Left and right, but the biggest is a dead end, so let's discuss it. By the way, how far is it from the dam? ”

The villagers looked at each other for a long time.

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As soon as Nan Luyuan came back, he saw Zhang Shenling smiling in the lobby, and he looked at it again, and saw the old lady Zhang sitting in a high position and a few strong villagers. At this glance, he knew that Zhang Shenling had succeeded, so he also relaxed, breathed a long sigh of relief, and moved his stiff body that was tired from fighting wits and courage with the old fox.

"Coming back? What do you think? Mrs. Zhang's tone was slightly teasing.

"I've seen the old lady." Nan Luyuan was well moved, and saluted Mrs. Zhang, "I was dragged by the prefect Chen Ying to see many so-called disaster victims, who drank wine and ate meat in front of me, and there were almost no calluses on their hands. Chen Ying said that she could only do this for the victims, and she looked extremely hypocritical. ”

"Is that water visible?"

Nan Luyuan was instructed by the old lady to sit on the edge of Zhang Shenling and said, "I went to see the wind canal." It did rise a little, but it didn't even go over the dam, and the water in the rice field was so clear that it seemed to be poured on purpose. ”

Zhang Shenling grinned and said, "I'm different. Second Brother Lu Yuan, you don't know, I'm nearly twenty miles away from the dam, and the water doesn't even go up my thighs. It sounded like thunder. Yunlong Lake is indeed the source of the flood. ”

Old Mrs. Zhang nodded, and said in a deep voice: "The people of twenty miles have suffered, this is not the time when the flood is the worst, and when it comes to the flood season, I am afraid that a radius of forty miles will suffer." ”

When the villagers on one side heard this, there were some tears in their eyes, and they couldn't help but interject: "Obviously, we are guilty, this group of people who kill a thousand knives should really let Lord Yama accept it!" ”

Nan Luyuan was trying to appease him, but suddenly thought of something, and blurted out: "Hasn't Miss Lu come back yet?" ”