Chapter Fifty-Nine: Yang Yan Goes on Patrol
"I don't know who cut out the thin leaves, the spring breeze in February is like scissors." Although February is still relatively cold, the breath of spring has come, and Qingzhou is located on the north and south banks of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, and the temperature is much warmer than that of the inland, especially the weather in Licheng.
"The clothes want to wet the apricot blossom rain, and the wind blows the willow wind." In such a day, after nearly a month of dealing with Qingzhou's large and small affairs, Yang Jun finally had free time to go out for a walk. It is said to be walking around, but in fact it is inspecting everywhere, but it is not notified in advance, and there is no purpose to look around.
"Big brother, look, the grass is already a little green." Qinghui said happily, Yang Jun wants to come out and walk around, of course he will not forget this sister, Yang Jun's concept is after all from the next generation, and he feels that such a little girl should not be tied up at home, and he should take a walk around.
"Well, it's relatively warm here in Licheng, and if it's in Daxing, maybe the grass hasn't sprouted yet." Yang Hui replied casually, unlike Qinghui's innocence, Yang Hui saw that the earth had begun to turn green, and he was thinking more about what this year's harvest would be.
A group of more than ten horsemen set off from Licheng and rushed towards Beihai County, although there was no real purpose of inspection, but they would still regard Qi County and Beihai County as the key objects of inspection, after all, the rebellion was too serious.
There were sparsely populated along the way, there was not a single village in sight for a long time, and large tracts of land were deserted. Because of this, everyone also lost the mood to appreciate the spring scenery, and only cared about hurrying, even Qinghui, a person who chirped like a pistachio as soon as he left the city, was infected and became speechless.
After an hour's drive, I finally found a village, and finally felt a little angry.
"Big brother, look, there's someone in the field over there." Qing Hui pointed to a field not far away and said, sure enough, there was a person working inside.
"Let's go and have a look." Yang Yun whipped his horse and galloped away.
"Uncle." Yang Jian rode to the edge of the field and saw that it was an old man who was nearly fifty years old, so he shouted.
"Is there something wrong?" When the old man heard someone calling him, he turned around and asked, and when he saw Yang Yun and the others riding horses, he knew which rich and noble family came out to play or passed by.
"Oh, it's nothing, I just saw the old man working alone, and I wondered, where did the strong labor in the family go? And it's not yet the spring plowing season, why did the old man start ploughing the ground? Yang Jun asked the doubts in his heart.
"Alas~" The old man sighed and said when he heard Yang Yan ask like this: "Presumably a few of them are outsiders, you don't know, this Qingzhou has just gone through a big chaos, and my two sons have been captured by the rebels and have died under Licheng." There are only two women and two grandchildren left to be fed, and there is no labor left, and if the land is not ploughed now, then it will not be able to catch up with this year's spring ploughing. ”
"I'm sorry, old man." Yang Jun hurriedly apologized.
"It's nothing, it's all fate, I have already admitted it, as long as I can let the little old man live for ten more years, ten more years, the two grandchildren in the family can almost barely be regarded as labor, at least this family can still be maintained." As he spoke, a desolate aura emanated from him.
"Big brother, let's help him." When Qinghui heard such sadness, she felt unbearable in her heart, and shook Yang Yun's hand and said.
"Uncle, I have some friendship with the officers and soldiers around here, you take this sign to find them, they will help you a little." As he spoke, Yang Jun took out a sign and handed it to the old man. It's not that Yang Jun doesn't want to help more, but there must be many more situations like this in Qingzhou, and it is impossible for everyone to help to the end.
"Thank you, but don't need it, the pavilion chief has said that there will be officers and soldiers to help during spring ploughing, but Xiao Lao'er feels that he can do a little bit and can't rely too much on others. I heard that a good prince came to Licheng, and it was he who asked the officers and soldiers to help our people carry out spring ploughing, and also exempted us from agricultural taxes for three years, otherwise our family would have to go and ask for food. After speaking, the old man didn't take the token in Yang Jun's hand, and lowered his head to get him again.
Yang Jun's hand was still stretched out in mid-air, and his heart couldn't be calm for a long time.
"Big brother." Qinghui gently shook Yang Xuan's hand.
"Hey~ Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer! Lone swore that if Lone became the lord of the world, he would not let the people live so hard, and he would definitely give the people of the world a happy life. Leave five taels of silver for this old man, we can only help him so much, and if we give too much, it will become a burden to him.
"Big Brother~"
"Lord Wang, his subordinates will definitely follow Lord Wang to death, and they want to see the scene that Lord Wang said."
Qing Hui and more than a dozen guards behind her were all moved by Yang Hui's words.
"Okay, let's continue to hurry, this is probably the case in Qi County, let's go and see Beihai County, which was also affected by the rebellion, we have to rush to Beihai County before night, otherwise according to this situation of not seeing people for dozens of miles, if you can't catch up with the post station, you can only spend the night in the wilderness." Yang Jian said, in fact, it is nothing to spend the night in the wilderness, but the most important thing is that it is not convenient to have the woman Qinghui, otherwise they have a large group of masters, and they are all murderous, and there is nothing to be afraid of.
Then they kept running along the pipeline, although it was an official road, but it had already fallen into disrepair, no wonder Qi County would be the rebels' first choice for rebellion, and what else did the government that didn't even build the road do? Then the situation of the officialdom of Qi County can be imagined, if it is not for the corruption of the government, then why can the rebels respond to every call?
The closer you get to Beihai County, the darker the sky becomes, and occasionally one or two wolf howls come, causing Qing Hui to whisper, it seems that this rebellion has affected not only people, but also animals, otherwise even if the wolf is bold, it will not dare to haunt near the official road.
"Lord Wang, the front is the boundary of Beihai County, there is a post station there, and there are lights, it seems that there should be a post guard." A guard who was looking ahead said.
When Yang Xuan heard this, he looked at the surroundings that were already pitch black, and said: "It's already dark, speed up and move forward, and go to the post station in front for the night, whether there is anyone or not, it is better to rush there to spend the night, than to sleep in the wilderness." Then he and Qinghui rode side by side, and the guards ran to the post station in front of them in the center.
PS: I forgot about the exam yesterday, and when I remembered it, there was a power outage, I'm sorry! Today's three watches, I don't want to leave a bad image for everyone.