Chapter 90: The Strange Tanglin County
The woman in green led Chu Xiaofeng and the others to a broken temple, in an independent compartment, and chuckled: "This place is shabby, please don't blame a few gentlemen." ”
Chu Xiaofeng smiled faintly and glanced around, although the compartment was very simple, it was very clean and tidy, and the furniture was old but not wrong. He took a few steps forward and said softly: "It's okay, we are also ordinary people, and the girl doesn't have to mind." ”
Zhang Fei also smiled in return and echoed: "I, Zhang Fei, have never served anyone. The girl is a woman, she helps the people with righteousness, and she has the world in mind, Zhang Fei is convinced! ”
Yu Wenlang beside Zhang Fei still had a dark face, without saying a word, he walked to the table in a few steps, lifted the kettle, and drank the water with his head down, his enmity with the girl in green could not be resolved in a moment.
After hearing this, the woman in green shook her head slightly, looking a little shy, she bowed deeply to Chu Xiaofeng and the three of them, and laughed softly: "The little woman's name is Yang Yiguo, she is the thirty-fourth generation leader of the beggar gang, I don't know the names of several gentlemen, can you tell me?" ”
Chu Xiaofeng returned the salute with his fists, pointed at Zhang Fei and Yu Wenlang and said, "This is Zhang Fei, who is a member of the army in Qinghe Town. The person next to him is named Yu Wenlang, and my name is Xiao Feng. The three of my brothers had just arrived here from the Valley of Soup, and they did not expect to encounter such an evil thing. ”
"Hey! Corrupt officials in the court are rampant, filthy officials and deceive the people, how can the common people live! Yang Yiguo gently stroked the hair hanging down from his forehead, sighed, and said resentfully.
"This time the plague in Tanglin County, didn't the imperial court issue two disaster relief funds? And it seems that there are also righteous people in the people, who voluntarily donate money, goods, and medicinal materials, why is it still so miserable? Chu Xiaofeng frowned and asked. Could it be that the poison doctor had some accident on the way and did not come to Tanglin County.
"Sir didn't know, a few days ago, a pair of people came to Tanglin County, they quickly solved the spread of the plague, and I heard that the plague has been controlled. However, after the plague, food and shelter for the people became a problem again. Yang Yiguo sighed helplessly, and she slowly told Chu Xiaofeng and the others what she knew.
Three months ago, a plague broke out in the town of Huiping in northern Tanglin County. The government immediately imposed martial law and reported to the imperial court, and just when everyone in Tanglin County was in danger, a large number of officers and soldiers suddenly poured out of the nest and arrested anyone they saw. They imprisoned the captives together, insisting that they had the plague as well.
Countless civilians were forcibly imprisoned, and Tanglin County was almost cut off from life. The corpses everywhere, the crops are barren, and the slaughter is a bleak scene. The imperial court sent a lot of manpower and material resources to quell the plague at all costs, but with little success. Doctors from nearby towns in Tanglin County were forcibly requisitioned here to assist the county guard in curbing the plague.
There are more than ten orders alone, which is the first case in the entire history of the Great Zhou Dynasty. They inspected and visited everywhere, but they did not see a single living person, because the living people had already been imprisoned. As a result, the scale of the plague in Tanglin County instantly increased several times, and even the surrounding small towns and towns had to undergo strict inspections to ensure that the plague would not flow out.
Three months later, hundreds of officers and soldiers slowly drove into Tanglin County under the protection of a group of wagons, and the group brought a miracle medicine to cure the plague, and in just a few days, the plague was finally brought under control. Ordered to send them, they rushed to write a report, invite merit for this old man, and state their great achievements by the way.
However, the days of suffering of the people have only just begun. When the plague was brought under control, the people were released, only to find themselves homeless when they came out. It was as if the house had been ransacked by horse thieves, not to mention anything of value, and even food was gone.
At this time, the government finally opened a warehouse to release grain, but this grain had to be bought with money. Rich families can still use money to buy food to survive, but they, the common people, can only sit and wait for death. There was once a group of young people who went to the county government to ask for an explanation, but none of them came back. In the end, their bodies were found in the wasteland by the roadside, and from then on, no one dared to go to the government to make trouble.
"Open a warehouse and sell grain! What a Tanglin county! Chu Xiaofeng smiled coldly after hearing this, he turned to Zhang Fei and said: "You go to Qinghe Town to find Yang Hu Yang Duwei, and say that I ordered him to lead troops into Tanglin County and thoroughly investigate the officials here, once any illegal behavior is discovered, it will be killed!" ”
When Zhang Fei heard this, his brows furrowed, and he said angrily: "I said that you ugly ghost, you are the captain of Yang Duwei, I can listen to you casually?" ”
"You just do it." Chu Xiaofeng smiled faintly and didn't explain much.
"It's a mess, don't blame me." Zhang Fei said angrily. This ugly monster is too arrogant, who does he think he is! After thinking about it, Zhang Fei hugged his fists at Yu Wenlang and Yang Yiguo to say goodbye, turned around and walked out of the cubicle.
Yang Yiguo looked at Chu Xiaofeng suspiciously, and her intuition told her that the person in front of her was by no means simple. She smiled and asked softly, "Who is the gentleman?" ”
"Hehe, I'm just an ordinary person, and Gang Leader Yang is too careful." Chu Xiaofeng smiled and said indifferently. He thought for a while and said, "I wonder where the old man who healed is now?" ”
"As far as I know, the old man is now a guest in the county guard's mansion." Yang Yiguo thought for a while and said uncertainly.
"Thank you Gang Leader Yang for telling me, I want you to guarantee that in less than a month, everyone in Tanglin County will have food!" Chu Xiaofeng said with a fist at Yang Yiguo.
"With Mr.'s words, the little woman believes that the people of Tanglin County have been saved." Yang Yiguo smiled sweetly and bowed slightly to Yu Wenlang, which was regarded as an apology. Yu Wenlang glanced to the side and ignored it. It seems that that incident hit Yu Wenlang really hard.
Chu Xiaofeng glanced at Yu Wenlang and smiled helplessly: "We won't bother, we will have a meeting later!" ”
"Sir, walk slowly." Yang Yiguo led the two out of the broken temple. Under her guidance, Chu Xiaofeng and Yu Wenlang rode their horses to the county guard's mansion. For today's plan, we must first find the poison doctor and Guo Qingzheng to verify the situation here before making plans.
The two of them traveled all the way, almost without stopping, and it only took half a day to reach the county guard's mansion. It's just that the horses they sat down were so tired that they foamed at the mouth, fell to the ground and groaned, and they had been on the road for the past few days, and they had never rested at all, and these two horses had been able to hold out until now, which was already very good.
In front of the county guard's house, the lights are bright and heavily guarded. A large cauldron was placed on a row of wooden tables, and the pot exuded the fragrance of medicine, and dozens of officials were busy serving medicine to the people in line. The whole process was carried out in an orderly manner, and there were stalls distributing grain on the side, which was diametrically opposed to what they had seen on the border of Tanglin County.
Chu Xiaofeng and Yu Wenlang glanced at each other, and they both saw the doubts in each other's eyes, the form of Donglin County is so weird, which one is the real situation?