Chapter 31 Sheltering the Victims
The courtyard of the county king's mansion is surrounded by a Zhuangzi, the name is Shangshui Village, the people in the county palace are tenants of the county king's mansion, the land within a radius of dozens of miles is the industry under the name of Zhao Yan, the people in the county palace are dependent on farming for the county palace to make a living, and the courtyard sometimes needs to be repaired by manpower, and it is also recruited from the village of Shangshui.
In a field at the east end of Sheung Shui Village, two groups of people are nervously confronting each other, and most of the people who are back to Zhuangzi are men in the prime of life, standing on the ground with farm tools in their hands, shouting loudly for the people in front of them to leave, it seems that they are from Sheung Shui Village. On the opposite side of them, there is a group of people covered in mud, one by one, dragging their families with their mouths, the cries of the old people and the crying of the children are all together, it is estimated that they are also the people who fled from the city, and the young people in this group of victims are also full of anger, clenching their fists and wanting to rush up to fight with the people of Shangshuizhuang, but they are held by the family members around them.
"What's going on?" When Zhao Yan came here, he saw the scene above, and it looked like a fight was about to start, so he asked in a loud voice.
With the arrival of Zhao Yan, the palace guards who came with him immediately separated the two groups, and the tenants of Shangshui Village saw Zhao Yan, the main family, coming, as if they had the backbone, and looked at the opposite side with their chests up, while the people who fled on the opposite side were gloomy, and the young man who came out of the other party knew at a glance that his identity was extraordinary, which was not something they could provoke.
"Lao Fu, let each side send a person in charge to come out, I want to ask what's going on?" Zhao Yan saw that no one was injured on either side, so he relieved himself and ordered. Just now, the people from the palace hurriedly came to report, saying that the people from Shangshui Village and the people outside were about to fight, and the specific reason was not clear, Zhao Yan, as the owner of Shangshui Village, naturally couldn't sit idly by.
Lao Fu agreed, turned around and went to negotiate with both parties, and after a while, he saw a middle-aged man with a shiny face walking out of the group of young people in Shangshui Village, and ran to Zhao Yan with a smile on his face and saluted: "The villain is Wang Qi, the head of Shangshui Village, meet the county king Chitose!" ”
The fleeing people heard that the young man in front of them turned out to be a county king, and all of them were as pale as dirt, and some of them immediately wanted to leave, but they didn't dare to move their steps, for fear of accidentally angering the county king. However, there are also bold people, and in the end, Lao Fu brought an old man of fifty or sixty years old, although his expression was very worried, but in the end he saluted Zhao Yan and said: "Little old man Zhu Hong, meet the county king Chitose!" ”
"There's no need to be polite, now that people from both sides are here, tell me why you're facing each other here?" Zhao Yan waved his hand and asked the two of them to stand up.
As soon as Zhao Yan's words fell, Zhuangtou Wang Qi rushed to say: "King Qiyu, this matter is all to blame on these fleeing people, we have let people guard the village, and told the fleeing people not to enter the Zhuangzi, but these people just didn't listen, and they had to break into the Zhuangzi, so we had no choice but to call the Venerable Master to block them in the Zhuangtou......
Before Wang Qi's words could speak, the old man Zhu Hong also began to shout: "The king of the county, Xiao Lao'er and others can't do anything, our homes in the city have been flooded, but all the places in the city where there is no water are already crowded with people, we people really have no place to go, so we have to go out of the city to find a place without water to rest, but this radius of hundreds of miles, there is only one place in Shangshui Village that can live in people, so please ask the county king to be merciful, let me wait in the village to rest for a while, get some hot water to drink, the adults in the crowd are nothing, But those kids couldn't stand it! ”
When Zhu Hong said the end, tears fell, and his own two-year-old grandson was also in the crowd behind him.
When Zhao Yan heard Zhu Hong's words, he was also very sympathetic in his heart, when he went out of the city yesterday, he had already seen the tragic situation of many victims, and he was powerless to rescue at that time, but now that he has settled down, and he just opened Zhuangzi to let these victims rest, which is not a big deal for him.
"King Jun, these fleeing people are pitiful, but there are hundreds of people up and down in the Zhuangzi, if these disaster victims are allowed to enter the Zhuangzi, if anything happens in their lives, those women and children in the Zhuangzi will not survive!" Wang Qi saw that Zhao Yan's attitude was a little loose, and immediately pleaded.
Wang Qi They don't let the victims enter the Zhuangzi, not because they are selfish and cold, but they know that this flood can not be retreated in a day or two, if the victims are allowed to enter the Zhuangzi, wait until a long time, the food brought by the victims is finished, then the villagers in the Zhuangzi have food and drink, but the victims are tired, hungry and have no place to live, these victims are red-eyed, it is likely to conflict with the villagers, and the number of victims is more than the villagers, so the villagers are often the loser, this kind of thing is not unborn. A few years ago, there was a case where the village was burned down by the victims, and in the end, even the government could not do anything about it, because there were so many people involved in the robbery and murder that not only could not be identified, but even if it was found, it would not be possible to arrest everyone in the end.
"Wang Qi, apart from Zhuangzili, is there any other place nearby where people can live?" Zhao Yan sighed and asked Wang Qi, he looked at the children and old people covered in mud among the victims, and he really couldn't help but drive them away.
"This ......" Although Wang Qi was reluctant to let these victims stay, since it was the king of the county who asked, he couldn't help but answer, so he thought for a moment and said, "King Qiqi, not far from the west end of Zhuangzi is the threshing floor, where there are some firewood and grass, and a nest can be made in the firewood and grass pile to sleep people, and there are two broken kilns next to the threshing floor, which can also be used to live in people." ”
"Very good, Wang Qi, this year's rain is too big, presumably there is no harvest in Zhuangzi, this king is now in charge, so I will waive your rent this year, but you have to help these victims settle down on the threshing floor!" Zhao Yan made a decisive decision, and the old man next to him wanted to stop it, but it was too late, and he opened his mouth several times but still couldn't say anything.
Wang Qi heard that the county king had suddenly exempted this year's rent, and immediately nodded without hesitation and said yes, this year's rain is too great, the crops in the field are about to drown, and the yield will definitely be affected.
"Thank you for your kindness! Thank you for your kindness! When the old man Zhu Hong heard that Zhao Yan agreed to let them stay, he immediately knelt down excitedly and kowtowed repeatedly, although it was not in Zhuangzi, but it was already undesirable for them to have a place to live.
Zhao Yan saw that Zhu Hong was so old, and hurriedly helped him up and said: "You can stay, but this king's ugly words are in front, since you live in this king's place, then you must listen to this king's arrangement, and you must not break into the Zhuangzi, otherwise don't blame this king for turning his face and not recognizing people!" ”
"Yes, yes~, the county king is Chitose, but please rest assured, Xiao Lao'er and others are now hungry and cold, and it is already the grace of the county king to have a place to live, we will definitely not forget the kindness of the county king, let alone violate the rules of the county king!" Zhu Hong was now incoherent with joy, and when he thought that he could finally have a dry place to sleep in the past few days, he was now eager to kneel down for Zhao Yan again.
When Zhu Hong went back to tell the other victims that Zhao Yan had agreed to take them in, a burst of cheers immediately erupted among these lifeless victims, and then these people continued to kneel and kowtow in the direction where Zhao Yan was, which made Zhao Yan unable to stop it even if he wanted to.
After receiving this worship from the victims, Zhao Yan also decided to be a good person to the end, and at the moment he asked the guards of the palace to help the victims maintain order, and he also came to the threshing ground in the west of Zhuangzi with Wang Qi, this kind of threshing ground is a place where the seeds are crushed out with a stone mill after harvesting wheat or grain, and then dried for a few days before being put away and piled into the warehouse.
The area of the threshing floor is very large, larger than the playground of the general school, the field is full of wheat straw, grain grass and the like, these are the fuel used by the villagers to cook and burn the fire, in addition to the threshing floor, there are two huge soil bags, this is the broken kiln in Wang Qi's mouth, which used to be used to burn bricks, but now it has long been abandoned.
There are thousands of people in these victims, men and women, old and young, and the two broken brick kilns can't live at all, Zhao Yan commanded the guards to let the old people and children rest in the brick kiln first, and the rest of the people directly dug out the hole under the firewood and grass pile, which is very dry and can let people live in it, of course, this is only temporary, after all, these people are tired and exhausted, Zhao Yan plans to wait for them to rest for a day, and then let these people build some simple sheds, after all, just sleeping under the haystack is not a long-term solution.
After finally resettled these victims, Wang Qi took the villagers to boil hot water and sent it over, and the result was that these victims were grateful to Zhao Yan again, and they saluted Zhao Yan with hot water one by one.
Zhao Yan took Lao Fu and others back to the courtyard, it was already past noon, and the little bean sprouts were already waiting for him at the door of the inner house, because Zhao Yan's lunch had not been eaten yet, and he had not given Cao Ying a second injection, so the little bean sprouts were dying, and now when he saw Zhao Yan coming back, he immediately pulled him to the restaurant to eat.
Now that the specifications of Zhao Yan's meals have finally been improved, although the four stir-fried dishes are all vegetarian, they taste good, Zhao Yan has also been busy all morning, he has long been hungry, and he finished the meal with gobbling up, and then came to Cao Ying's room with the needle.
However, what Zhao Yan never expected was that as soon as he entered the room, Cao Ying, who was sitting on the bed, asked him very dissatisfied: "His Royal Highness the county king is really generous, not only exempted the tenants from rent, but also took in thousands of disaster victims, but the concubine wants to ask, what does the county king plan to use to feed the people in the palace?" ”
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