On the second day, Shen Man'er and the others had just come out of the room, and Mu Yingqiu and the others were already waiting outside.

"Lord Mu, it's early. ”

Mu Yingqiu hurriedly ordered his subordinates to bring the breakfast that had been prepared.

"The lower official knows that Lord Qincha is concerned about the snow disaster, and he has come to listen to the dispatch of the lord. ”

"Don't dare to send, today I want to check on the situation of the disaster, if Lord Mu can go with him, it would be the best. ”

"That's natural, and the lower officials will send someone to prepare. ”

Shen Man'er and the others were eating breakfast leisurely, during which all they talked about was the girl's rouge gouache or clothes and jewelry, listening to what they discussed, Mu Yingqiu looked down on Shen Man'er even more.

After breakfast, Shen Man'er and his party walked out of the inn, Mu Yingqiu walked to the end, and a person who looked like a housekeeper quietly walked to his side.

"Did you find out?"

"It's all been checked, it's still the number of people from yesterday, and there are a lot of them. ”

"Well, you'll keep an eye on it later, and you won't be able to make a mistake. ”

"Yes, don't worry, sir. ”

Every time the two of them said a word, Zhu'er was in Shen Man'er's palm, carefully writing it down.

When the last stroke fell, Shen Man'er clenched her palms violently, could there be anything else that they didn't know.

In front of a farmland in the west of the city, Mu Yingqiu pointed to a green rice field and said to Shen Man'er.

"My lord, please see, as soon as the snow disaster began, the villagers covered the rice fields with hay, and although the snow disaster was large, the rice fields were not affected at all. ”

Shen Man'er walked to the field and picked a leaf of rice, there was really no trace of frostbite at all, how did the people do it.

Shen Man'er got up and walked back, but saw messy footsteps in the rice field, deep and shallow.

"This snow disaster, the emperor is most worried about food, this food is the foundation of the people's survival, without food, even if the people can carry it this year, the people will starve to death next year.

Lord Mu has done a very good job at this point, and when the lord of this county returns to Beijing, he will definitely play a good role to the emperor and reward Lord Mu. ”

"Lord Qincha is serious, these are all things that the lower officials should do. ”

There was smoke curling in the distance, and it was already lunch time, Shen Man'er stood on the ground, and suddenly remembered the woman holding the child she saw yesterday, and she didn't know where that family lived.

"Master Mu, what village is ahead? ”

"Lord Hui Qincha, the village in front of you is called Shacun. My lord, it's not too early, so let's go back to the city. ”

Mu Yingqiu looked at Shen Man'er, feeling a little impatient, in the morning, he walked around these acres of fields, what is there to look at these fields.

"Master Mu, it's really not early, we have to go to other villages in the afternoon, why don't we go to the village in front of us to spend the night?"

As soon as Shen Man'er said this, Mu Yingqiu's heart jumped, why did this girl have so many things.

"My lord, this is not appropriate, just after the end of this year, there is not much food in the people's homes, and now there are so many of us, if we all go, I am afraid that the people's families will have nothing to eat anymore. ”

I had long known that Mu Yingqiu would come up with such an excuse, and Shen Man'er had already prepared it.

"It turns out that because of this, Lord Mu don't worry, we still have some surplus food on the carriage, and we will give it to the people later." ”

"This..."

Mu Yingqiu still wanted to stop it, but Shen Man'er had already gotten into the carriage and led everyone to Shacun.

"Mu Tian, can it be arranged over there in Shacun?"

"Lord Hui, there is no problem, as long as Lord Qincha does not go to that old He Tou's house, he will definitely not find anything. ”

Shen Man'er sat in the carriage and listened to Zhu'er say "Old Hetou", but this sand village is so big, which one is Lao Hetou's family.

In Sha Village, Mu Yingqiu had already sent the news, Shen Man'er had just arrived, and the village chief had already led the villagers to wait.

As soon as Shen Man'er got out of the carriage, a cry sounded.

"See Chincha-sama. ”

"Everyone, please get up, I'm here to eat at noon today, I'm here to make trouble for everyone, don't dislike me." ”

Shen Man'er's words made her a lot closer to the villagers, and some villagers who had been afraid slowly became less restrained.

"Your Excellency, please. ”

Shen Man'er followed Mu Yingqiu this time, and her purpose today was mainly to find more problems, not to startle the snake.

Shen Man'er looked at the food on the table, although it was coarse tea and light rice, it was very good that ordinary farmers could eat these meals.

A group of people ate and drank, talking and laughing, just like they were on a spring outing, and in the afternoon, Shen Man'er just looked at a few villages casually, and then shouted that she was tired and went back to the inn.

The moon stars are scarce

Shen Man'er was lying on the bed sleeping, and after a cat meow, everyone sat up from the bed.

"Let's go. ”

Several dark shadows disappeared from the inn like ghosts.

Shacun, Lao Hetou's house.

"Dad, you can drink some more medicine. ”

Xiurong sat in front of the window with a broken bowl with a missing mouth, and a thin old man on the bed kept coughing.

In the middle of the house, a blind old lady sat quietly at the table with a cane made of tree branches.

"I won't drink it, and the family doesn't have much money, so don't buy me medicine, keep the money to buy more food for the baby." ”

"Dad, the baby is still young, this will not be able to eat anything else, your body is important. ”

Xiurong said, and put the medicine bowl to the old man's mouth again, but was pushed away by the old man.

"Your mother is blind and can't see, I'm not blind, the baby has been two months old, it looks like there is no full moon, you don't have milk at all, the baby has been eating rice paste, you don't have to lie to me, I know." ”

As soon as the old man's words were finished, Xiurong's tears fell down.

Half a month ago, when the heavy snow just began to fall, Ryoko followed everyone into the mountain, but one day Ryoko suddenly returned home with a panicked face, Xiurong saw Ryoko go home, and not long after he was happy, Ryoko was taken away by the officers and soldiers.

There was no more news of this departure.

A few days ago, the government suddenly came to their house and said that Ryoko fell off the cliff and died, and the corpse Xiurong had seen the last time, his face was blue and purple, and his seven orifices were bleeding, and he didn't look like he had fallen to death at all.

His father-in-law and mother-in-law went to the government to theorize, but they were beaten by the government and thrown back.

Now my mother-in-law is crying blind, and the injuries on my father-in-law's body have not healed.

"He has internal injuries on his body, but your medicine only has a little effect on stopping bleeding, and it is useless to drink too much. ”

Syllable...

Xiurong was crying when she heard the voice of a strange woman beside her, and she was so frightened that she dropped one of the better bowls in the house on the ground.

Only then did he turn his head, and at some point, the room was full of men in black.

"You... We... Who is it?"