Shi Qi wanted to make a move, but Wei Yun persuaded him to return to his place of residence and let people hold him, and let a young prefect hold him, which was really more pleasant than seeking cooperation in the wilderness. Jiang Xianglian was waiting at the door of the post station, Shi Qi was not as early as Wei Yun found out, Wei Yun gently signaled down, and they walked towards Jiang Xianglian together. Jiang Xianglian took Shi Qi's hand and said: "It's almost the middle of the night, what can I do if I get cold, hurry up to the quilt for a while." She didn't care about Wei Yun's eyes anymore, and led Shi Qi to her place.

Shi Qi looked at Wei Yun, said no more, and after entering the room, he asked, "Wait for me to come back if you don't sleep?" Jiang Xianglian: "Governor Shi, you are a member of one party, how can there be no one to run around late at night?" If there is any mistake, it is not that the magistrate is not good to explain, your old lady will also be guilty, I know that you have a few efforts in your hands, but the mountains are chaotic, people are chaotic, you know where is the pit, where is the fog, when going up the mountain, no matter how good the legs and feet are not as good as a guide, when going down the river, no matter how ruthless the water nature can not not be breathed, the old lady will hand you over to me, I will be responsible. ”

After Jiang Xianglian took off Shi Qi on the side, she warmed him with her body that had been wrapped tightly, and the temperature and passion came up simultaneously, Shi Qi asked, "Can you usually eat enough?" I'm talking about when I used to be in my hometown. Jiang Xianglian waited: "Don't mention those things in the future, I have no memory, what?" When you go out, you see the poor person again, or is that Wei Yun and you up something? ”

Shi Qi stopped exerting his strength, he thought of the man who was weak and weak, and the woman who was hungry and only took a bite of the potato, they were also lying together with him now, but they couldn't start it, not only lacked passion, but also lacked physical strength. Dao Xianglian asked, "Wei Yun hollowed you out?" Rest, I can't learn from her, she wants to squeeze you dry up once, I still want to accompany you, and I want to be with other women in the future, just at home, in front of me, I can guarantee your body, don't go out with them, lose your identity, and not benefit your body. Hearing this, Shi Qi came back from his anxiety and handed over a complete homework, Jiang Xianglian no longer cherished his body, and desperately wanted to use writhing to express his happiness.

In the morning, the county magistrate surnamed Zhou arrived at the post station early, originally he wanted to stay and accompany him last night, so Shi Qi rushed back. Shi Qi had breakfast with him, and Shi Qi asked, "Not many people know about me going down to see the situation today, right?" The county magistrate surnamed Zhou: "I am willing to see the truth of the people, of course I don't dare to mess up, if I notify it, isn't it against the true intention of Darao." Also, I don't want to hide it, if the adult finds out the problem, the lower official can't solve it, and the adult doesn't just take it back, and the lower official may also drag the big blessing and end up in the name of doing things for the people. "The two of them are very happy, Wei Yun made Shi Qi unable to sleep after flirting last night, because she went back alone, because her humility left a gap for Jiang Xianglian, but she ended up walking alone, and they became pairs.

Shi Qi didn't want to stir up the people, he and the county master surnamed Zhou had two sedan chairs, under the leadership of the county official's sedan chair, and carried them together in the direction where he and Wei Yun had been last night, and the sedan chair drivers were all in high spirits. Shi Qi thought of the scene when he carried Jiang Qingyan from the Prime Minister's Mansion to the tavern in the curtain year, although these sedan chair men were not in the Prime Minister's Mansion, but in his prefect's mansion, they should have also received the benefits of the county magistrate, otherwise they would not be so energetic, and they would not be so obedient and hard-working to go straight to the place where the county lord wanted to go.

Seeing the clear haystack and thinking of those things last night, Shi Qi was a little sad, he wanted to see the man last night, but unlike last night, there were people at the door of each house, but they were all skinny, even if he stood in front of Shi Qi again, it was difficult for him to find the man who brought the potato home last night. Sure enough, after getting off the sedan chair, it was the elder who commanded last night who received him, the county official Zhou: "Lord Shi, this is Li Yuanwai, the local owner, what the adults want to see, what they want to know, just command." ”

Shi Qi looked at him, even if he asked the other party to identify, he couldn't see that this was the pair of men and women last night, Shi Qi asked: "Li Yuanwai, I just came down to see the lives of the people, what are the difficulties, see how much I and Zhou Datong solve, find a representative person to sit down." Li Yuanwai: "It's been prepared for a long time, my lord, please." "So, bring Shi Qi's Lord Zhou to the house where he cooked last night, with borrowed livestock tied to the door, the house looks quite neat, adults and children are not very full-body, but there are sixty percent of new clothes, because they know in their hearts, Shi Qi is not very comfortable to look at.

Shi Qi sat for a while, and all he heard was that after Lord Ouyang's change, everyone's life was much better than before, mostly in the vertical comparison, and there was no one who couldn't live now, and there was still a famine in the stomach. Shi Qi stood up, went to the door, fixed his position with his eyes, and walked towards the house he had been to last night, that house was in the Zhuangzi, a little far away from the road, Li Yuanwai did not dare to stop it, when he looked at Lord Zhou, the sweat of the county official of Zhou fell.

After taking a look at the place where he and Wei Yun stayed, Shi Qi entered the hall, really, look at it when there is light, it is not an exaggeration to say that the four walls of the house are not exaggerated at all, and even the four walls are not complete, Shi Qi can feel the air leakage. There was no place to sit, Shi Qi sat on the side of their bed under the gaze of the couple, there was a slight noise, the bed was old, and he couldn't support his fierce force, but he saw most of the potatoes last night, Shi Qi could see that the heroine did not peel the skin, and from the rest of the part, it can be found that it was all eaten, and there were traces of residual skin.

Shi Qi deliberately took the potato with his hand and asked, "Why don't you throw the rest away?"

While tasting and throwing the action, the hostess ignored the scene, and actually rushed over to grab it with a fierce eye, but was stopped by the sedan chair of the county official Zhou, and she cried loudly: "That is the dog bolt in the morning I couldn't agree to eat, and I was going to leave it for him until the evening, and I couldn't throw it." ”

Shi Qi frowned at Li Yuanwai and asked, "Their family is a poor household?" Why is a potato so careful? Zhou County Official: "Adults don't know, the men in this family are too lazy, and the women don't want to do some fine work, the situation at home is special, let's take a look at it in another place, there are ready to talk over there, the adults' clothes are dirty, these places are not places for adults to see." ”

Shi Qi: "Under the general, it is not the king's minister, the shore of the land, it is not the king's land, I am the emperor's local courtier, how can there be a place that should not be seen?" Go out, and I'll ask. He ordered to Lord Zhou and Li Yuanwai. Li Yuanwai glanced at the man: "If it's chaotic, I can send you an official with this stolen potato, Lord Zhou is here, if his official position is shaken, your life will be difficult first, think about your son, if something happened to you, can he still live?" ”

After the magistrate retreated, Shi Qi let his palanquin man also go down, he and the two heads of the family sat down in the same place again, Shi Qi: "I am older than their officials, they can punish you, but I can remove their officials before they start, they don't have time to deal with you." Besides, I am greater than them, so don't be afraid, as long as you do what I do, I can keep your family safe. ”

The man thought for a moment and looked at the woman who was suffering: "My lord, no, I don't tell the truth, I know that the adult may be a good official, but the good official is not useful, we also went out to beg for food, but some places are not as good as us, if I have something that is not good for Li Yuanwai, the adult will deal with him, and someone else will not be as good as him." In that way, our family will let the neighbors spray to death with spittle, we don't dare to talk nonsense, Zhou Yuan is still a good person in ten miles and eight villages, he can't let us eat, but he can still let our children not starve to death, other villages have heard a lot of starvation, our village's livestock are borrowed, and when they borrowed, they also listened, their livestock are more hungry than us. ”

The hostess heard her man talk about borrowing livestock, and knew that he had missed it, so she hurriedly stopped him, and the hostess said: "Lord Prefect, our Li Yuanwai is really good, you can't wronged him, we are like this, and the surrounding area is not just our family, listen to my man, last night there was a poor Zhuangzi like us begging for food." Hearing that the adults were coming, he prepared more than two meals for the people we went to do things, and deliberately did not send anyone to watch, knowing that we would secretly take some home. ”

Shi Qi asked, "Why didn't he take out his surplus food and let you solve the problem of food and clothing?" The woman: "He doesn't have much, only once in a while, I listen to their family and don't let go of their belly to eat, really we are all full, and their family can't last a few, and the future will be more difficult, we understand, this is fate." My lord, if you really want to help the poor and give us Li Yuanwai a year's land fee, our village will have a better life. ”

Shi Qi: "He only threatened your son, but you are kind to others, do you really need to be afraid of him like this?" The hostess: "No matter how difficult the days are, we can still survive here, if Li Yuan goes out and has no one to deal with the people from above, we will be exploited more ruthlessly, and we really have to leave our hometown." Shi Qi looked at their house and asked, "I really can't think of anything, what else can you exploit, what else do you have?" ”

The man looked at the heroine and lowered his head, and he continued: "Guo Yuanwai of Dongzhuang is a bully compared to Li Yuanwai, listen to the young woman in their Zhuangzi, in order to beg for food for her child, then Guo Yuanwai took the woman to the house, and asked her to nibble on a few mouthfuls of dry food while following him, and she was happy, so she could bring some back for the child to eat when she left." Even so, there are often men who beat women at home, blaming themselves for their uncompetitive appearance and inability to earn food for their families, and comparing with each other who has more chances to be lucky and whose sons are not starving. My lord, you can look at each other's places again, it's much worse than ours. ”

Shi Qi was in the mood to take a look again, he couldn't listen to it anymore, and when it came to don't spare the suffering, the female Rao's face actually became sunny, and she really thought that she was superior to others, and she didn't have the sadness of grabbing half a potato just now. After Shi Qichang sighed, he came out of their dilapidated house, and the county official Zhou greeted him, and found that Shi Qi's face was not right, and after looking at the two villagers, he asked in his heart: "Lord Prefect, do you want to see it again in other places?" Shi Qi asked, "How is Guo Zhuang in Dongzhuang?" Would you like to check it out again? ”

County Magistrate Zhou's face changed when he heard it, and he pulled Shi Qi aside: "Lord Shi, you have also seen the situation in this family, and you may have heard some of it, if you want to see it in Dongzhuang, I can also accompany you, it's a big deal for me to dismiss the official." But you have to think about it, this is not caused by me alone, you have to offend several officials, they are all reused in Beijing to chat in the prefect, and now they are all celebrities around Prime Minister Ouyang, if you find so many people's livelihood problems, I am afraid of you, they are not afraid of you. Adults are young, the future is immeasurable, the road ahead is very long, if adults are entangled in my place, I am afraid that it is not my problem of Rao Wusha. ”

Shi Qi could hear his words, and he didn't want to witness their current situation anymore, and he didn't have a better way to solve it now, so it was better not to see it. In the face of public, the next plan was not available, and he was even more embarrassed. Thinking of this, Shi Qi returned to his sedan chair and took out a piece of silver from it and gave it to the man: "Thank you for your cooperation, buy delicious food for the child." Got on the sedan chair seriously, and the county official Zhou said a few words to Li Yuan, asking him not to embarrass the couple.

Returning to the county office of the county magistrate of Zhou, Shi Qi sat down and asked, "Is the situation in the entire mansion like this now?" The county official Zhou also took a sip of water: "My lord used to be in the East China Sea, where there was seafood, and there was no need to collect taxes, and there was a salt industry to top, which may be better, but the inland is like this." My lord, don't make a private visit in the future, it's not safe, it's really hard work and money, and you can't hear anything, and it's useless to hear it. Can Lord Ouyang know? His sons are all distributed in various places, as long as we can ensure that people like Li Yuanwai can survive, the annual expenses can be collected, and other personnel can no longer be managed, if Li Yuanwai and these people do not contribute, we will not be able to complete the above tasks if we are tired. ”

Shi Qi asked: "Don't you need to ask about the life and death of the people?" Zhou County Official: "The people only have the motivation to live and die, let them have food, which does not know that the sun is good, which still wants to do long-term work, only when they are hungry, they can run for the next meal, our words are effective, if the stomach is full, he does not want to be so obedient." Of course, you can't be too hungry, it will rebel, just like the Guo Zhuang you want to see, where everyone wants to kill Guo Yuanwai, but they don't dare, when they hear that Guo Yuanwai has a job, they rush to do it, and find it strange and fun, and they all compete to let their women give it to Guo Yuanwai, hating it, but in fact, they all want to behave in front of him, in order to mix more bowls of rice. After hearing this, Shi Qi felt that there was some truth, but when he thought of himself and the fourth lady's childhood, he was more willing to do something for the poor in his heart, but he really didn't know how to start.