The most pitiful among the homeless people are the elderly and children

Some old people are so hungry that they can't walk, and they are carried forward by their filial children and grandchildren, and some children have just been born, because they have nothing to eat, and their mothers are short of water, so they are so hungry that they cry, and some children are so hungry that they don't even have the strength to cry

In his previous life, Wen Chou had seen the scenes of refugees fleeing famine on film and television, and the tragic scene in front of him was not as good as it

There were homeless people on the road, and there were starving people on the roadside

Li Xuan was young, kind-hearted, and his face was unbearable, and he said to Wen Chou: "Lieutenant, do you want to give them some of the dry food we brought?" ”

Yuan Shirong disagreed, although it was difficult to refute it bluntly because Zhiwen Chou liked Li Xuan, but he also said: "There are hundreds of displaced people in the country, everywhere, how many people can I save with this bit of dry food?" Besides, he said ......" motioned to Li Xuanchao to look at the field not far away, and said, "Do you see that group of homeless people?" Other homeless people are all supporting the old and the young, there are the old and the weak, women and children, but this group of homeless people are all young and strong,......, and then look at their side, what are they putting around? Sticks, iron hoes, and knives are obviously the most daring people among the homeless people gathered together to do illegal and misdeeds,...... Maybe we have already done illegal and bad things, and if we distribute food to the displaced people, we don't say whether the grain will be robbed by these people later, even if we are afraid that we will also be in danger."

Li Xuan looked at it, and saw that the group of homeless people indicated by Yuan Shirong were indeed young and strong, sitting in the field, staring at the pedestrians on the road, some pressed the swords beside them, and their eyes showed a fierce light that was indeed like Yuan Shirong's analysis, not so much that they were homeless, but that they had become bandits

Wen Chou frowned, strangled his mount, and touched the ring knife on his waist with his hand

Xun Yu knew what he was thinking and said, "Lieutenant." The homeless eat, the hungry are very hungry, and there are countless bandits like this who are homeless at night, and I can't manage it at all with the strength of a few people, and if we want to eradicate it, we have to cure the root cause."

How to cure the root cause? It was still Xun Yu who said yesterday: Let the county magistrates recruit the deceased to resettle the displaced people to reclaim the fields and prepare for planting. As long as there is food to eat and a place to live, there will naturally be no more homeless people who have become bandits, and even if there are still a few people who are unwilling to serve the people and would rather be thieves, it is easy to arrest and expel them without the cover of a large number of homeless people

How could Wen Chou not know the truth in this?

It's just that he is an official, from the chief of the Shahe Pavilion to the county soldier Cao Peng, under the surface of the elegant and humble retreat, he has always been the courage to fight against violence and evil, and to paraphrase the words of later generations, he is an external Confucian and an internal law. When he saw Jiān's evil people, he subconsciously wanted to capture and kill

At this time, he was persuaded by Xun Yu, he hesitated slightly, and finally gave up the idea of hunting and killing these homeless strongmen, but he didn't stop there, and ordered Dian Wei: "You go to find the pavilion chief here and order him to strengthen his vigilance." Take care of the pavilion"

Dian Wei gave the order and turned the horse away

Wen Chou and the others just beat Ma Yuxing. Just as he was about to leave and continue on the road, he suddenly saw a passerby descending from the official road and entering the field

This man was not very old, in his twenties, and he was single. With a package in his hand, although Nonaka had long since lost his wheat, he still refused to walk in the field, and walked cautiously on the ridges of the field to see its direction. But it was those young and strong homeless people who walked towards them

Wen Choufu stopped his mount again and sat on his horse to look at it

Xun Yu, Yuan, Rong, Li Xuandian, and Wei Li Dian also immediately turned to him

I saw this young man walk up to the young and strong homeless people, as if he was far away from them after a few words, and he didn't know what he was talking about, and then he squatted down and put the package in his hand on the ground and spread it out, but there was some food inside, coarse biscuits, fruits, etc., and he took all these food to these homeless people, who seemed to be very grateful, and knelt down to thank them

He helped one by one to his feet, saluted, put away his package, and turned to walk up the official road

Li Xuan was surprised and said, "Why did this person give all the food to those homeless people?" Isn't it old knowledge? ”

This young man's behavior is indeed strange, there are a lot of homeless people on the fields on the official road, he doesn't give any food, but he gives the only little food to those young people, it is inevitable that people will be puzzled Wen Chou Xun Yu glanced at each other Wen Chou smiled and said to Yuan Shirong: "Gongzai, this son behaves strangely, I will wait to ask him to see if he knows those homeless people."

They drove their horses to the side of the road to meet the young man

The young man walked out along the ridge of the field, raised his face and saw Wen Chou and the others, was stunned for a moment, and took two steps back

Although Wen Chou and all of them are coarsely dressed, they all have swords, and they all have horses, and they are all just when they are strong, and they suddenly surround them, and people who don't know the inside story may think that they are robbing the road Qiang Kou Wen Chou jumped off the horse, saluted for a long time, and said with a smile: "Please don't be surprised, we are passers-by, because there is something I want to ask about the foot, so I took the liberty to come."

Wen Chou is polite, as the saying goes, "full of poetry and books", not to mention in his previous life, in this life he has studied Confucian classics since he was a child, and he has his own elegant and literary temperament to show outside, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a robber blocking the road

The young man relieved his heart, hurriedly returned the salute, and said, "What do you want to ask at the moment?" But ask for directions? Below are Shiyi locals, don't dare to say anything else, they are quite familiar with these roads in the county and township pavilions."

When he opened his mouth, Xun Yuyuan's Rong Li Xuan and the others had different faces, but it turned out: This person is a little slurred, and I don't know if it's because of his short tongue or other reasons, in short, he doesn't speak clearly, and his tongue is not in harmony with the short sentence he just said, and he can't hear it clearly, but he still understands his words

Wen Chou's face was as usual, and he did not show any strangeness because of his slurred speech, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your kindness, although we are not locals, but we took the liberty to come here to pay respects to our feet, but not to ask for directions."

"Oh? What's that for? Please do your best to help as long as you can."

Although this young man spoke clearly, he was an old-fashioned and warm-hearted person, Wen Chou smiled and said: "Haha, you don't need to help ......, I waited here, I want to ask the foot ,......" He pointed to the few homeless people in the field, "Are you old acquaintances with those people?" ”

"They are out-of-town refugees passing through this county, and they are not old acquaintances with them, but this is the first time we have met."

"This is the first time we've met?"

"Exactly"

"Since it was the first time we met, we had just seen on the road and gave them all the rations we had brought, why is this?"

"I wanted to ask this!" The young man laughed and said. "The locals, even though their families were poor, did not run out of food, and when they saw that they were hungry and pitiful, they gave them their own rations."

"There are many displaced people on the road, but why don't you help other displaced people? Just those people? ”

The young man hesitated for a moment, then looked back, and the young and strong homeless people no longer sat on the field after taking the food he had given them, and when they went away, he turned his head and said, "I don't hide my feet, I don't help other homeless, but I am really selfish to help these people."

"What selfishness?"

"These men were in the prime of life, and they sat on the field, each with his weapon. Fearing that they would become thieves, they gave them rations."

Wen Chou recalled Xun Yu Yuan's Rong Li Xuan, Xun Yu and the three of them all showed a look of surprise Wen Chou was also surprised, turned his head, and said in his heart: "This person is poorly dressed, it is obvious that his family is not rich, and he hears his words, although his speech is slightly unclear." The speech is quite elegant, and it should be a person who has read a book." "Please ask for a high name?"

"In Xia Cen Zhu"

Wen Chou muttered: "Cen Zhu ......" is a very unfamiliar name, and I have never heard anyone in the house say it before

Yuan Shirong's face was surprised, and he interjected: "Dare to ask the foot, but is the word uncle respectful?" ”

This young man named Cen Zhu didn't expect Yuan Shirong to know his words, so he was stunned and replied, "Exactly." Don't know what to do? When Wen Chou spoke to him, he spoke Luoyang Zhengyin, that is, the official dialect, but Yuan Shirong spoke the local dialect of Zhaojun, and he hesitated and said, "Listen to the accent." Like a native of the county? ”

Yuan Rong took a step forward, got closer to him, looked him up and down, and said with a smile: "Yes, I am a member of the Yuan family, and you may have heard my name, my surname is Yuan, Mingrong"

Yuan's Rong Lejun Wei Chang is the most famous of the three young talents in Changshan Country, of course his name Cen Zhu has heard of it, and immediately saluted solemnly, and said: "The foot is famous, Zhu has heard it for a long time, I didn't expect to see the foot here today, and I am fortunate to be real."

Yuan Shirong returned a salute and said with a smile: "Jun Mingwu has also heard for a long time, long Yu visited, bitter leisure, now I see you in the road, and the unexpected joy is also" introduced to Wen Chou, said, "This Wu County filial son, his father is the late Zuo Feng Yi, and he was also a famous man in Wu County back then"

Zuo Fengyi, is one of the three assistants Sanfu is the former Han Dynasty's Gyeonggi, in today's Shaanxi Zuo Fengyi is not only the official name, but also the name of the jurisdiction, which is equivalent to the county Taishou after the county Taishou, so the son of 2,000 stones, but he is so frugal in clothes?

Wen Chou was deeply surprised, and asked carefully, only then did he know: Cen Zhu is a posthumous son, his father died in the official before he was born, his father was honest and honest in the official, and he did not heal and had a political voice, after he died of illness, the protégé of the former official and the county people sent a lot of gifts, and the county government also gave a lot of gifts according to the convention, but Cen Zhu's mother knew about these gifts of thanks, and received, and said: "The deceased husband said to me before his death: 'Life is clean and death is clean' I can't disobey his words" Alone and returned home, returned home for six months, and gave birth to Cen Zhu

Cen Zhu's father was an honest official and did not manage the family property, and his mother resigned from the county's donation, and when he returned to his hometown, he only brought a few shabby household things, a widow with a newborn child, and life was very difficult

But his mother was very ambitious, never asked for help, and no one had a gift and was not affected by his mother's mother's family was very rich, and someone advised his mother: "Mother's family is rich, why not go to your mother's family to raise her?" His mother refused, and replied, "My two sons have died young, and only this young son has survived, and he is a widow, and has never seen his father's face, and if I take him to my mother's house, I fear that he will forget his surname, and that this young son of mine is a boy even though he is still shoeing, how can a husband live in a house with another surname, and look up to others?" If I do this, how can I be worthy of my deceased husband? "Resolutely refuse to send people under the fence, and when Cen Zhu grows up a little, he sells fruit for his business, for him to study, and eats at a foot, often only eating one meal a day, but still does not change his aspirations

As a result, the villagers respected his mother

With such a family education, Cen Zhu grew up, although there is nothing out of the place in learning, but in the way of being a person, he has won the style of the ancient sages, not to taste his mother, loyal and simple, but the family has surplus wealth but can continue to be in a hurry, the county knows its name, and the county also hears that it stands to reason that his father is the last two thousand stones, and his mother is respected by the township, and he himself is also called virtuous by the villagers, and he should have been recommended by the township to be inspected in the county, but Zhao is a small country, with a population of less than 200,000, and only once in two years. The number of places that were inspected was occupied by the nobles of each county. It is because Cen Zhu has not yet been able to get the inspection of the country, and he is still serving the people in the countryside

Yuan's Rongxiao said to Cen Zhu: "The year before last, I heard that I was appointed as a county official by Shiyi County, but I was dismissed by my mother? ”

"Yes"

Wen Chou asked, "But why is this?" ”

Cen Zhu replied: "My mother said to me, 'Your father is 2,000 stones, and he is famous in the state and county, how can you be a fighting eater.'" Driven by men, shouting like a villain, so that your father is disgraced under the Nine Springs? Therefore it is not permissible to be excommunicated by the county."

Li Xuan blurted out: "Junmu is really a virtuous person!" Retreated, and praised Cen Zhu, "Jun Zhou is in a hurry to help the poor, in order to prevent the homeless people from becoming thieves, he gave up rations and gave them all, he would rather be hungry, and he is also a virtuous person!" ”

Cen Zhu is a simple person. After Li Xuan's praise, his face turned red, and he wanted to be humble, but because Li Xuan's praise and his mother finally swallowed the words, he loved his mother very much, praised him, he could be humble, praised his mother, but he didn't want to be humble

Wen Chou sighed: "'The monarch is virtuous. Jun is also virtuous', honestly! How can a virtuous person like Jun live in the countryside for a long time? What about not being motivated? Jun is the widow, the monarch's mother will raise you to sell fruit for you to learn the scriptures is not easy, have suffered a lot of hardships today Jun has chéngrén, just when it is to repay the grace of the monarch's mother's upbringing and teaching, Jun has a virtuous mother, I should make Jun filial piety! ”

He said to himself: "Since I took office, I have always focused on military affairs. In addition to the use of Yuan's Rong Guo Jia a few people, there is not much to invite the sages and celebrities of the county to be my lieutenant and the official of my lieutenant's mansion This time I went to the county, one is to inspect the geography of the people, and the other is to visit the virtuous with the meaning of being able to promote my love for the virtuous and talented, this Cen Zhu. His mother is virtuous, and he himself is a wise man, so I can't let go of this opportunity" asked Li Xuan, "Is the clerk in the secretary's office still not filled?" ”

Li Xuanying said: "Yes, there is still a lack of several people such as the main historian and the history of the book."

Wen Chou smiled and asked Cen Zhu: "The monarch's mother is not a county fighting official, so what is the history of the lieutenant?" ”

Wen Chou smiled and asked Cen Zhu: "The monarch's mother doesn't want the king to be the county fighting eater, so how is the lieutenant's history?" ”

The lieutenant has the right to open the house, and the officials in the house are the same as the prime minister's county government, and they are divided into kinds of history, "history" is lower than "Peng", but it is higher than the next book, although the rank is not as good as a hundred stones, but it is by no means the most fighting

Important: The position of "Chronicle of the Lord" is close to the officer

The main record of the record of the record of the office of the chief of the record of the history of the history of these officials belong to the "master of the room" of the main record of the office of the "master of the record of the book period of the court", is an office in charge of the record book, equivalent to a Cao record book is under the control of the master book, but as time goes by, the power and responsibility of the master book is getting bigger and bigger, and gradually becomes the post of "picking up the missing and filling the gap", and Gong Cao has become the right-hand man of the chief official, and his energy is focused on participating in political affairs, and his original "book of the master book" is transferred to the master of the book

The county magistrates below the secretary of state to 300 stones, all have five officials under the door, these five officials are all cronies of the chief, there is a meritorious Cao has a master book, there is also a master record, the main record is only the second master of the main book, the main record is so, as the main record of the deputy of the main record of the status of the history of the master is also seen

For the subordinate officials, instead of being an unimportant "Cao" of "Peng", it seems that it is better to be a master of the history of the room, which is a little lower than "Cao Peng", but can get the chief officials' cronies, Wen Chou and Cen Zhu are the first to see, just because Qiqi people respect their mothers and feel their family background, so they invite him to remember the history of the master, which can not be said to be not reused

Wen Chou looked at Cen Zhu with a smile, and Cen Zhu was stunned

He looked at Wen Chou in surprise, then looked at Yuan's Rong Xunyu and others, and said, "Lieutenant Master History? ”

Yuan Shirong said with a smile: "It's good to teach Cen Jun to know: this is Wenjun, the lieutenant of my county."

"Ao"

Yuan Shirong is a well-known scholar in this county, and it is impossible for him to tell lies

Cen Zhu was caught off guard, he didn't react for a while, he was stunned, and then he hurriedly bowed, and suddenly hesitated halfway through the worship, stopped bowing, and bent over and stopped not moving, raising his face, with an embarrassed look

Wen Chou Xun Yu was smart, and immediately guessed the reason why he suddenly stopped halfway through worship

Wen Chou said in his heart: "This Cen Zhu doesn't know Yuan Shi Rong, they haven't seen him before, so they must have suddenly thought: What if this Yuan Shi Rong in front of him is fake?" ”

Wen Chou is a private business, and it is impossible to judge whether he is a "lieutenant of Changshan Kingdom" from his appearance alone If Yuan Shirong is fake, then Wen Chou must be fake Cen Zhu thought of this, so he bowed down and retreated halfway

Xun Yu looked at the embarrassment of him bending over and looking up, smiled slightly, and said in his heart: "This person is not smart, and his reaction is slightly slow" If he is a smart person, he will test the truth of Wen Chou Yuan's glory before bowing

Xun Yu said in his heart: "This person is not a treacherous and cunning person" If it is a treacherous and cunning person, he forgot to ask before bowing, and suddenly thought of this section during the bow, but he will not stop halfway, but will definitely bow down as if it were a thing, and then find an opportunity to spy on the truth of the ugly after worshipping

Although he made such a judgment, Xun Yu did not show contempt, he respected Cen Zhu's mother as much as Wen Chou, and at the same time he was also surprised by Cen Zhu's act of giving food to the young and strong homeless people, and secondly, Cen Zhu was not able to talk about being wise and agile, but his actions showed that his simplicity is really only simple and honest people will follow the idea unabashedly, and he can think of the question of "whether Wen Chou is true or false" halfway through the bow, but he is not very dull and clumsy, much stronger than most ordinary people

Wen Chou motioned for Li Xuan to take out the lieutenant fly and show it to Cen Zhu to see that there is Yuan Shirong, there is a lieutenant fly, this should not be a fake Cen Zhu's face turned red, and he was deeply uneasy about his hesitation to bow down, and he bowed to the end, and said: "Xiaomin greets the lieutenant"

Wen Chou grabbed him and didn't let him bow down, and said with a smile: "How can the clothes of the dirty filial sons on the ground be stained by dirty soil? ”

Cen Zhu said in his heart: "I heard that this lieutenant who came to take office is a native of Yuzhou, born in Yingchuan Xun, from Bangbo to conquer several states, transferred to several counties, and made great achievements, but he was worshiped by the imperial court as the lieutenant of my county for his military merits, but I didn't expect him to be so young and so easy-going" Because he saw Wen Chou and other micro-clothes plainclothes, Wen Chou did not bring many entourages, so he asked, "Why did the lieutenant travel in micro-clothes?" ”

"The state pastor passed on the scarf, so that I could guard Zhao County in order to be familiar with the terrain of the people, so as to hit the thieves in the mountains, so I served the county"

Cen Zhu was in awe and said: "For Anwu County, the lieutenant ignored the autumn coolness, went to the county, investigated the people's situation and geography, and really made the small people admire" and asked, "Is there anything that the small people can help?" ”

"There are two things that I want to borrow from you"

"Lieutenant, please say, as long as you can do it, the small people will do their best"

Wen Chou smiled: "First, that's what I just said, I don't know if Cen Jun is willing to submit to the position of the master of my mansion to record history?" ”

Cen Zhu's face was embarrassed, he paused for a while, and said: "Zhu is a country man, has a long talent, and can actually enter the eyes of the lieutenant, and is promoted to the main history, Zhu Cheng is afraid that with Zhu's ability, it is already a luxury to get this position, and he should not refuse, but there is an old mother at home, this matter, Zhu needs to tell the old mother first, if the mother of the family agrees, she is happy to be used by the lieutenant, but if the mother does not want to leave home and does not allow it?" ”

"Jun is a filial son, if your mother does not allow it, of course I will not damage the name of Jun's filial son"

Cen Zhu was relieved and thanked Wenchou

Xun Yu watched from the sidelines, saw Cen Zhu's expression and demeanor clearly, and said in his heart: "If someone else is personally promoted by the lieutenant of this county to remember the history, I am afraid that I will be excited and excited, but this Cen Zhu has no surprise, the first thing that comes to mind is that his mother is really simple and filial piety."

Cen Zhu asked, "I don't know what the second thing is?" ”

"Most of us are from other states, only Gongzai is from this county, but I am not a local of Shiyi who is not familiar with the situation in your county, I am not very familiar with it, if you have time, I want to ask you to be a guide for us, how about it?"

Wen Chou's sentence is half-true and half-false

Most of them are out-of-state, and this sentence is true; I am not familiar with the situation in Shiyi, this sentence is that although the fake Yuan Shirong is not a native of Shiyi, but he was born and raised in Changshan Country for more than 30 years, and he is also very familiar with the situation in Shiyi and other counties, otherwise, Wen Chou would not only take him, a Changshan countryman, to travel

The reason why I say this, after all, is the first time I met Cen Zhu, although Wen Chou is strange and respects his mother, as soon as they meet, he will be used to remember history, but in the final analysis, this use is mainly based on Cen Zhu's simple filial piety and strange behavior, for now, it is related to Cen Zhu's ability, and it is more to promote his own reputation of "cultivating talents and using energy".

Therefore, Wen Chou wanted to use the excuse of "please Cen Zhu as a guide" to contact Cen Zhu more, so as to be able to understand that his ability is ordinary, then if Cen Zhu's mother does not agree to him to go to the lieutenant's mansion, forget it, and do not force it; But if this person not only has miraculous deeds, but also can be of great use, then if his mother does not want him to be a celebrity, Wen Chou will have to ask for three more invitations

"This is an easy matter, and I am willing to lead the way for the lieutenant" (to be continued.) )