I saw that Yin Duo was so frightened that he slowed down his expression: "Cheng Yin is not in a hurry, we have just heard about this, I don't know if it is true or not." I told Yin Duo about the incident of meeting Xiao Jiu in Taigu Mountain, he pondered for a moment, and said with regret: "It was my poor handling that gave the bandits a chance, and I will now go to someone to send this spring's grain again." ”

"Taigu's grain reserves plus the grain that the Zhao family transported from Xinjiang are quite a lot, but they are limited after all. How to distribute this grain and how much it needs to be calculated, as long as the time for spring plowing is not missed at the latest. ”

"Wizard ......" Yin Duo listened to me in a daze, and then raised his hands to his chest and bowed deeply to me, "Disdain, this Jinyang City Yin should be replaced by a witch!" ”

"Cheng Yin is tormented. The previous joke, Cheng Yin Mo has to take it seriously. Before Zi Huang left Xinjiang, Prime Minister Zeng praised Cheng Yin's talents, opening up wasteland, light land tax, legislation, how could the people of Jinyang City leave you. ”

"But I betrayed their trust."

"No matter how capable a person is, there will always be things that he can't think through, and Cheng Yin doesn't need to blame himself for this. It's just that the envoy sent by the Zhao family this time has been standing outside the city all night last night, so Cheng Yin should go to greet him first! ”

Yin Duo patted his head and blamed himself: "How did I forget this!" ”

"Fool of reading, you haven't changed at all after so many years!" Just as I was talking to Yin Duo, Wuxian suddenly walked in from outside the courtyard.

"You, you're — a madman who breeds horses!" Yin Duo waited for Wuxian to approach and shouted in a lost voice.

"You two know each other?" I looked at the two strange-looking people in front of me and asked.

"I don't know!" Together, they turned their heads to me and said in unison.

"Oh, so you're old acquaintances! Then the rest is much easier. I smiled and told Si'er to go to the hospital to take care of the injured first, while I crossed my arms and looked at the pair of awkward old friends with interest.

"How did you get here, you herder? The prince has promoted you to be a guard? Could it be that the head of the family sent the son of the family this time? Yin Duo tilted his head and looked up and down.

"If it rained outside the city gate yesterday as a brother, how do I think you will be a fool?"

"I didn't think it through, the sorcerer has already taught it." Yin Duo glanced at me gratefully, turned his head and asked Wuxian, "Crazy, who did the prime minister send this time, and where is the person now?" I've got to meet him! ”

Wuxian snorted lightly but didn't answer, I smiled at Yin Duo and said, "Qing attaches great importance to Jinyang City, but this time it is not the prince Bolu, it is the other son of the prime minister named Wuxian." ”

"Shirtless? Crazy, the son of the prime minister has the same name as you! Yin Duo pointed at Wuxian and laughed twice, but soon his smile froze on his face, "You, you are the son of the prime minister?" ”

"Great goodness, fools also become smart one day."

It turned out that fifteen years ago, when the Zhao family was avoiding disaster in Jinyang City, Wuxian and Yin Duo knew each other. At that time, Wuxian was still a little slave who led the horse for Bolu, while Yin Duo was a little boy who served Dong Anyu. Because of their similar age, the two teenagers often play together. According to Yin Duo, Wuxian often got into trouble when he was young, and he fought with people twice in three days, so that he had to call someone to save him every time. But Wu Xian also said that Yin Duo was dull and rigid by nature, and when he encountered a difficult problem, he would only stare at him and ask him for help.

Listening to Wuxian talk about his affair with Yin Duo, I suddenly understood why he liked to hear me tell stories about his childhood so much. It turns out that if you care about someone, you can't help but want to know what the other party did during the time when you didn't appear.

"Sorcerer?" Yin Duo saw that I was in a daze, so he stretched out his hand and shook it in front of my eyes.

"What do you command?" I came back to my senses and smiled.

"It will take a few more days for the altar to be erected, so please rest in my house in these days!" As the wizard said before, so-and-so will definitely reschedule. ”

"You didn't sleep last night, and it was raining again, why don't you go with Si'er to change into clean clothes and sleep first? I'm here! Shirtless reached out and touched my forehead.

"I'm fine, don't worry. The convoy should arrive soon, you send someone to move your things, and I'll go outside to take care of the wounded first, and we'll discuss the bandits in the long term tonight. I'll take a look around the city later, and if there's anything else that needs Cheng Yin's attention, I'll write it down. Time is pressing, let's disperse here! ”

"No shirt, the way he speaks is really similar to Tai Shi Mo back then." Yin Duo looked at me and sighed.

Wuxian smiled and patted Yin Duo: "You go quickly, my father sent a hundred craftsmen to build houses, you have to find a place to settle people down first." ”

"With you, my heart is finally steady. Well, that's great! Yin Duo smiled and bowed to me, trotted a few steps and followed the shirtless out of the yard.

In the days that followed, several of us were too busy to keep our feet on the ground. Wu Xian was responsible for supervising the craftsmen to tear down the old houses and build new ones, while Yin Duo was busy registering the casualties of the people in Jinyang City and distributing the grain for next spring by household, while I took Wuxian and Si'er to take care of the injured during the day, and calculated the amount of coins and food needed for disaster relief for Yin Duo at night.

According to the results of our previous discussions, if the victim is over seven years old, he will be compensated with fifteen coins; If an adult male in the family is killed, the land rent is waived for half a year; When the whole family died, the body was collected for it.

I took the opportunity to suggest that Yin Duo could recruit young and strong laborers among the common people to give half a grain every day, and hire them to join the team that Jinyang City was built. In this way, we can not only speed up the reconstruction of Jinyang City, but also save the peasants who lack grain and lack of grain.

On this day, the place where Jinyang City recruited laborers was surrounded by people, and in the crowd, I suddenly found a familiar face.

"Xiao Jiu—" I shouted at the crowd.

Xiao Jiu turned his head and saw me and Si'er immediately squeezed out of the crowd: "I've seen nobles, I've seen Sister Si'er." ”

"Xiao Jiu, after you went back that day, did the bandits from Monkey Head Mountain still come to look for you?" I asked.

"No, in the past two days, the people in the village have received the grain from Cheng Yinfa and rushed to the field to sow seeds."

"What about the people who went up the mountain before? Can you come back? ”

"I don't know about other villages, but there are five people in our village. None of them came back except me. ”

"Yes......" I pondered for a moment and said to Xiao Jiu, "Your body is estimated to be unsightly for those who recruit laborers, so why don't you follow me to collect medicine, and the salary is also counted as a day and a half of corn for you, okay?" ”

"Thank you." Xiao Jiu nodded happily, and then lowered his head and stuck to Si'er's side when I wasn't paying attention, and whispered with a red face, "Sister Si'er, how are you doing these days?" ”

When I heard this, I laughed, and I dared to love this meat dumpling because I fell in love with our four children.

The repair of Jinyang City was carried out in an orderly manner, but the bandits on Monkey Head Mountain never appeared again.

The black-armored warriors of the Wuxian faction searched for Monkey Head Mountain, but returned in vain. I myself also concealed Wuxian in the name of collecting medicine, and took Wuxian and Xiao Jiu to the mountain once, but except for finding traces of someone burning a fire and cooking, I didn't see a single bandit. The bandits disappeared with more than a hundred newly recruited men.

Nowadays, in this world, it is not uncommon for people who can't survive to get together to occupy a mountain and rob merchants and lonely scholars, but it is rare to do things so neatly.

Wuxian was worried that there was another mystery behind this matter, so he took Wuxie, Xiao Jiu and the black-armored warriors of the Zhao family to Monkey Head Mountain early yesterday morning, and all the supervision matters in the city were handed over to the post doctor.

That night, Yin Duo and I sat in a low house next to the granary, counting the casualties of this ground movement.

"Sorcerer, why do madmen always call you Ashi?" Yin Duo asked while sharpening the bamboo chips with a knife.

"Ah Shi is my nickname, Cheng Yin can also call me Ah Shi if he wants." I lay on the ground and arranged the planks that had been used to register the casualties these days in chronological order.

"Okay." Yin Duo stopped what he was saying and asked cautiously, "Ah Shi, how long have you known Wuxian?" You two, you know, two men, no matter how loving he is, he can't have children! ”

I was slow to move, looked up and laughed, "Cheng Yin, you misunderstood. Me and Shirtless are not what you think. ”

"I don't mean anything else, I just think it's a pity for a talent like you to be a prostitute." Yin Duo put down the tools in his hand and looked at me regretfully.

As soon as I heard this, I smiled at Yin Duo and said, "Cheng Yin, I am a woman, and I can't be a prostitute." ”

Yin Duo's face turned red suddenly, he stared at me with round eyes, and just wanted to open his mouth to speak but suddenly hiccuped: "Uh-you said you were a woman?" Uh-"

I smiled and nodded, "I thought you had seen it." ”

Yin Duo covered his mouth and kept hiccups, and I stood up and apologized, "I'm sorry to scare you." I'm going to boil you some hot water......"

"No, no, uh, I'll go out first, uh, right away." Yin Duo covered his mouth and rushed out as if fleeing for his life, I lowered my head and snickered twice, leaned down to continue my previous work.

Originally, there were 700 households in Jinyang City, but there were many casualties in this earthquake, so a new figure should be counted and reported to Zhao Ying, and the officials under Zhao Ying, who was responsible for collecting land rent, and then according to the specific situation, determined the total amount of grain, cloth and money that Jinyang City needed to hand over this year.

Ordinary scholars rely on their talents and martial arts to obtain remuneration from their heads of families and make ends meet. And Qing clans like Zhao Ying and Zhi Yao rely on the income from fiefdom mining to recruit capable ministers and wise men and expand the power of the clan. Therefore, a city like Jinyang City, which has more than 500 households, is not only an important military barrier for the Zhao family, but also a major source of economy.

Jinyang City was hit by a disaster, but this year's fields still have to be cultivated, and the tax grain at the end of the year still has to be handed over. What Yin Duo and I can do now is to report the number of surviving adult men, the number of adult women, and the number of old and young to the officials in Xinjiang, and strive to reduce the total amount of taxes and grain that Jinyang City will have to pay next year.

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