After a day's journey, Ling Rui and Ouyang He had crossed several muddy paths to reach Puzhou, which looked desolate and bleak compared to the other state capitals of Shu because the normal official roads did not lead to it.

A few lazy soldiers were dozing off the city gate, and the shops on both sides of the main street in the city were open but crowded, and there were only a handful of pedestrians walking on the street, and the yellow sand on the ground was blown by the wind and carried dust, making it uncomfortable to open your eyes.

"Luckily, we arrived before dark. Miss Ouyang, let's go find an inn to stay for one night, and then hurry tomorrow morning, if you are fast, you can arrive in Chengdu tomorrow. Ling Rui used his sleeves to block the dust, and said to Ouyang He with his head sideways.

"Okay, Ling Gongzi, I see that there seems to be an inn not far away, let's go there and have a look first." As they spoke, they rode along the main street, and gradually, the wind became a little lighter, and the whole main street became very clear.

"It's you drunkard again, hurry up and get out of here, it's really unlucky!" A drunken uncle was suddenly rudely thrown out of the roadside shop by several people, and happened to be thrown in front of Ouyang He and Ling Rui.

"Uncle, are you alright?" Seeing this scene, Ouyang He hurriedly dismounted and tried to help the person up. Who knew that when this person opened his eyes and saw Ouyang He, he actually wanted to lean on Ouyang He's leg, but Ouyang He then hurriedly dodged.

"Yo, it's a young girl, I'm sorry, uh......" The drunk man burped and slowly stood up, walking away with swaying steps.

"Girl, are you alright?" Ling Rui dismounted and walked to Ouyang He's side to check the situation.

Ouyang He turned his head sideways and softly agreed, "It's okay", but her eyes were always focused on the back of the drunken man leaving, and it took a while for her to gradually come to her senses.

"This feeling, strange ......" Ouyang He seemed to have sensed something from the drunk man in the moment just now, but it was a little indescribable for a while, so he had to sort out his thoughts, get on the horse and continue to move forward with Ling Rui.

"Please, Master Dai, save my mother, my mother is really about to survive, please..." When the two arrived at the inn and were about to dismount from their horses, a cry of increasing intensity reached their ears from a distance. Ouyang He felt a little worried, so he asked Ling Rui to accompany her to see the situation.

After following the sound for a while, they saw a little girl of about seven or eight years old, weeping and kneeling in front of a grand house, dressed in tattered clothes, with dust on her face and hands. After a while, a man dressed as a housekeeper swaggered out of the door, and the little girl knelt forward a few meters and then cried and begged the man to save her mother.

"Hey, it's you little beggar again, you want to eat rice and get money, if you don't have money, hurry up and get out of Lao Tzu, otherwise Lao Tzu will ask someone to break your legs." The family yelled at the little girl viciously.

"Please save my mother, my mother has been eating the bark for many days, and now I am really hungry and can't hold on, I am willing to make cattle and horses for the master, just ask the master to save my mother." The little girl was still crying heartbreakingly as she hugged her family's legs.

"Hey, someone, hurry up and get her away, don't let the master look bad luck." Jia Ding waved his hand, and two of his subordinates ran out of the door and dragged the little girl away by force, the little girl cried and held her head with her hands, and the movement at the gate of Dai's mansion also attracted more and more onlookers.

"How can this be reasonable, even the little girls are bullied, they are simply mad!" After Ling Rui finished speaking, he jumped up and kicked the two subordinates who were dragging the little girl to the steps in front of the door with several kicks in succession.

"Hey, where did you come from, stinky boy, dare to come to the bad uncle's business." After speaking, the family Ding swung his fist at Ling Rui and rushed up, but before he could get to Ling Rui, a white shadow flew by in the crowd, and Ouyang He turned around in the air with light skills and kicked Jia Ding in the face heavily, which immediately made Jia Ding wail and fall to the ground. Ling Rui stepped over, pulled out his sword and put it on the neck of the family, and said with anger: "Don't move, otherwise, with the current anger of this son, you will soon be able to go to see the king of Hades." ”

Ouyang He carefully picked up the little girl who was still sobbing and gently helped her pat off the dust on her body, and after a while, a fat man in expensive silk clothes walked out of the gate with a group of family members, and then the family members quickly surrounded the three of them.

"Who is it, the person who dares to touch my Dai Mansion doesn't take me too seriously, right?" The fat man stared at Ling Rui with slanted eyes, and the captured family member tried in vain to get up and ask Master Dai for help, but was forcibly pressed down by Ling Rui.

"This young man, can you give this master a thin face and let this person go?" Dai said to Ling Rui in a tone that was close to an order.

"Hmph, this little girl was just to ask for some food for her mother, and she was beaten and dragged by your men fiercely, it is simply unbearable, today my son has to arrest such evil slaves into the official mansion." Ling Rui said angrily.

"Hmph, this young man, you have to figure it out, Master Ben is just a merchant who sells rice, this little beggar doesn't bring enough silver taels to buy rice, why does Master Ben give her rice? In case it spreads in the future, and all the beggars on the street come to my Dai Mansion to make trouble, do you want you to compensate me for the losses suffered by this master? Dai Yuanwai still had a high-flying and domineering expression.

"Even if that's the case, that's not a reason for you to be so humiliating!" The little girl in her arms was still sobbing quietly, and Ouyang He also said very angrily, "Isn't it just a little rice, I bought it for her." ”

"Okay, the price of Puzhou City is 100 taels and one stone, one hand pays the money and the other hand delivers, sir, I am the talker." Dai Yuanwai showed a wicked smile.

"This... The price of rice in Yuzhou is only 10 taels and one stone, you actually deceived the people of Puzhou so much, don't the officials here care about it? Ouyang He was a little surprised when he heard it.

"Hehe, it's just a little girl in the end, so let's see how beautiful you are, as long as you come to accompany Master Ben for one night, Master Ben will give you 10 Shi the best rice in the house, how about it? Ha ha! Dai Yuanwai stared at Ouyang He and said, while the surrounding group of family members followed suit.

"You... Dream on! Ouyang He said angrily with a frown, and Ling Rui knocked the family members by his sword unconscious with one palm, and with Dai Yuanwai's "take it", the two of them fought fiercely with the family members of Dai Mansion. These ordinary minions were the opponents of the two of them, and they were almost all knocked to the ground after a few rounds, leaving only Dai Yuan, who was watching all this in horror from behind. When the last family member fell, Dai Yuanwai hurriedly wanted to run into the house, but Ouyang He came up with an arrow and kicked Dai Yuanwai down, and then stuck his neck with his foot, causing him to lie on the ground and cry for mercy.

"Listen, this girl can not pursue your nonsense just now, but you have to apologize to the little girl who was bullied by you just now, do you understand?" Ouyang He said with a strong suppression of anger. Then, the little girl came over with a sob, tugging at Ouyang He's shirt and crying and begging her to save her mother. However, Ouyang He suddenly seemed a little hesitant at this time, although the great business of Yufeng Villa allowed her to easily take out the money to buy a lot of stone rice at the price of this profiteer, but on the one hand, she did not want to let Dai Yuanwai's evil act of asking for a sky-high price succeed, and on the other hand, she was worried about whether it was appropriate for herself and Ling Rui to snatch food from Dai Yuanwai by force.

In the moment Ouyang He was stunned, Dai Yuanwai pushed her away and then ran towards the door, this time Ling Rui came up and controlled Dai Yuanwai again with his sword and threatened him to hand over the rice to save the little girl's family, otherwise he would continue to teach him a lesson.

"Wait a minute, Ling Gongzi." Ouyang He stopped Ling Rui. Then, Ouyang He said to Dai Yuanwai, who was begging for mercy towards Ling Rui, "I will give you two hundred taels, you can ask people to go and fetch two stones of rice and give them to this little girl." ”

"What, Miss Ouyang, this... Ling Rui felt a little unconvinced of his ears.

"Yes, yes, follow the woman's orders, and I will do it immediately." Dai Yuanwai looked a little overjoyed, and quickly ordered one of his subordinates to bring two stones of rice to the little girl, and also apologized to the little girl respectfully.

"Hmph, you're cheap!" Ling Rui was a little angry and removed the sword from Dai Yuanwai's neck, and then Ouyang He walked over and threw Dai Yuanwai a bag of silver taels and said, "We will let you go this time, if we see you bullying others next time, this girl will never spare it!" Ling Rui looked at Dai Yuanwai's villainous face with some unwillingness, Ouyang He leaned down to help the little girl pick up the rice bag, and the two then left.

The little girl's home is in an inconspicuous corner of the city, with crumbling mud houses hanging from broken bricks that take up half of the roof. "Mother, Yun'er has begged for rice, Yun'er will make porridge for her mother." The little girl happily ran to the bedside and said to her mother, who was already dying, and then picked up the flint and ran out to light a pile of cow dung to make a fire for cooking. Ouyang He and Ling Rui were stunned when they saw the appearance of the room after they walked into the room, and the woman lying on the bed saw a stranger come in and slowly forced herself to sit up: "Who are you two?" ”

"Mother, it was these two brothers and sisters who helped me." The little girl came in and said to the mother on the bed, and at the same time, the little girl's mother also noticed the injuries on the little girl's body one by one, and asked the little girl with moist eyes, but the little girl kept saying "it's okay" or "it's okay" repeatedly, and she couldn't suppress the discomfort in her heart anymore and hugged the little girl and cried silently. Yes, how could she, as a mother, not know what kind of suffering her daughter suffered to get these rice from Dai Yuanwai's hands?

Ouyang He looked at this scene and forcibly held back the tears in his eyes, silently put some silver taels on the table by the door and left quietly, and then Ling Rui also looked at the mother and daughter with a heavy mood and left the silver two silently and followed Ouyang He, who lowered his head and gently wiped his tears with a handkerchief.

After returning to the inn, Ling Rui finally couldn't help but ask Ouyang He why he wanted to buy rice according to Dai Yuanwai's asking price, and he thought that the people of Puzhou were so poor, and Dai Yuanwai's evil behavior of raising the price of rice must be one of the reasons for this situation, so he should be taught a hard lesson to make him dare not do it again.

After adjusting his emotions for a while, Ouyang He calmly stated that the reason why the two of them taught Dai Yuanwai a lesson just now was mainly to stop them from bullying the little girl, but because they didn't know much about the real market price situation in Puzhou, if they took advantage of the danger to forcibly ask Dai Yuanwai, in her opinion, this would be no different from the behavior of the robbers.

On the other hand, she thinks that Dai Yuanwai can be so arrogant in Puzhou, which is very likely to be because of the support of the local government, if the two of them do not give Dai Yuanwai a little sweetness and get out in time and attract the intervention of the local government, it will definitely affect their trip to Chengdu, and then Meng Yan's side will be dangerous. Therefore, although she was also unwilling, even if Dai Yuanwai was so rude to her, this was the best choice in the current situation, and she hoped that Ling Gongzi would understand.